You know, it's been a while since we smelt a fresh Freehold's HATE (TM) in the morning...
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So, how bada$$ is Mephisto Zoolander Meatball the Magnificent?
9:00 pm: 75 mg gabapentin. We couldn't particularly tell that he'd been dosed.6:00 am: 75 mg gabapentin. This time he was obviously completely unaffected. When he got to the vet at 8:00 am, as they described it, 'He wouldn't stop yelling at us 'til we took him out of his cage and held him, at which point he just started purring."
10:30 am: Surgery. The anaethestic actually worked, much to everyone's surprise, but...
12:00 noon: He was already awake and demanding food. They fed him a little and he had no trouble at all.
2:00 pm: After two solid hours of him bouncing off the walls and attacking everything in sight, then getting moved to the studio and doing vertical laps around the cat tree and desk ("he'll sleep after the surgery" my eye), we dosed him with 0.03 mg of Buprenorphine.
3:30 pm; He settled down into his basket to watch the world. Which is his absolutely normal behavior at that hour.
In short, they haven't given us a drug yet that even slows him down.
Terror kitty.
From what you said before, he isn't smart enough to know he should be knocked off.
That or ADHD altering his neuroreceptors.
I had a great idea today.
Ballroom Archery
I would love this dearly!
"But, Mama, I need a new dress! How could I possibly show my face with the same old frocks I've had for ages?! I would never live it down!"
... I may have to try this out next time I see my Mum, though I fear she will not find it a compelling argument.
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Some people just need to be tied up and left in a car's trunk for a day or two.
What? Why are you looking at me like that?
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I'm waiting for you to tie them up and toss them in your car's trunk.Some people just need to be tied up and left in a car's trunk for a day or two.
What? Why are you looking at me like that?
Whoa whoa whoa! Hold up a second here. We gotta think about this.
*ponder ponder ponder*
We'll allow it.
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I had an epiphany this morning: Although I was an alcoholic between 40 and 50, before then I drank very little and did no mind-altering drugs at all.
And I just realized: It was fundamentally important to me to always be in control of myself because my friends were sadistic pranksters. I give the origin of the phrase "buttweiner" as an example.
So if you want to avoid drugs and addiction, make sure you have friends who will ruthlessly exploit your helplessness.
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I'm waiting for you to tie them up and toss them in your car's trunk.Some people just need to be tied up and left in a car's trunk for a day or two.
What? Why are you looking at me like that?
Yeah, could you please hurry up? We don't have all day.
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Blacky barged out of WhimseyShire at 4:00 am, collar-free, and ran amok. At 5:30 am GothBard got up and administered the opiate. It didn't slow him down at all. It's now 7:50, he's exhausted both other kittens, and he's still rampaging around the house.
GothBard has dubbed him, "The Furminator".
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...and, for the first time in 40+ years of cat ownership, a cat has managed not only to remove his e-collar, but to hide it so well an entire family searching the house couldn't find it.
This tom is a monster. A little black deity of chaos and destruction. And purring.
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...but NobodysHome, why do you call him dumb?
Got food. Walked into the back yard. Showed the girls the bowl. They watched me put it down and head back inside. They trotted straight over to the bowl and started chowing down.
Got food. Walked into WhimseyShire. Showed the Furminator the bowl. He watched me put it down and head up the stairs. He chased after me, begging for the food he'd just seen. He got confused when my hands were empty. I had to physically pick him up and put him down next to the bowl for it to register to him.
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Mephisto Z. Meatball is a confirmed barbarian.
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I would like to RWAGE!!
Back from the session. It's been a while since I GMed... And even more since I GMed a new system (it's Legend Of Five Rings 5th edition which is vastly different than 4th edition that I GMed in previous years, no, seriously, it even uses completely different, fancy custom dice).
I had a great idea today.
Ballroom Archery
That would be good for the Asahina.
Still
MY LIFE FOR YOU DAIGOTSU-SAMA
** spoiler omitted **
...
This time I am gming the FFGs 5th edition...
Some hundred or so years before Spiders will be a thing.
So, how bada$$ is Mephisto Zoolander Meatball the Magnificent?
9:00 pm: 75 mg gabapentin. We couldn't particularly tell that he'd been dosed.6:00 am: 75 mg gabapentin. This time he was obviously completely unaffected. When he got to the vet at 8:00 am, as they described it, 'He wouldn't stop yelling at us 'til we took him out of his cage and held him, at which point he just started purring."
10:30 am: Surgery. The anaethestic actually worked, much to everyone's surprise, but...
12:00 noon: He was already awake and demanding food. They fed him a little and he had no trouble at all.
2:00 pm: After two solid hours of him bouncing off the walls and attacking everything in sight, then getting moved to the studio and doing vertical laps around the cat tree and desk ("he'll sleep after the surgery" my eye), we dosed him with 0.03 mg of Buprenorphine.
3:30 pm; He settled down into his basket to watch the world. Which is his [i]absolutely normal behavior at that hour[/b].
In short, they haven't given us a drug yet that even slows him down.
Terror kitty.
..He runs on Photonic Energy. Mazinger, remember?
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Some people just need to be tied up and left in a car's trunk for a day or two.
What? Why are you looking at me like that?
Because your car has an unusually large trunk, with excessive amounts of clothesline rope.
You know, it's been a while since we smelt a fresh Freehold's HATE (TM) in the morning...
Me? HATE?
HATE
HATE
HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE!!!
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I swear.
He was reunited with the girls. And in his pride and happiness he brought forth his mightiest trophy: His collar. After we spent $30 on a new one...
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When I came in to work tonight, I saw a lady moving some of the cones blocking off a parking space so she could park there. There were at least 4 open spots still, but I guess she thought that those cones were there to save that space just for her. If her car is still there in the morning when they go to start painting, it's gonna get towed.
We were near the Administration building and half as a joke and half to pretend we were doing something because the trucks delivering blacktop broke down (again) we started running warning tape from cone to cone. When the usual fix of beating the truck didn't work apparently, we started tying the warning tape to rocks, and tying the warning tape to the warning tape, to make a veritable cage of keep out.
Someone STILL tried to duck under the thing and (thankfully) got tangled up in the rocks and barely got a thin soled slipper onto the blacktop before I set the voice to "GIANT DUNGEON MONSTER". Because what happens with blacktop is your shoe heats up, your foot heats up, you feel the pain, you remove your foot..which is now hot and insulated inside a now just barely not burning shoe.
I don't know. Maybe everyone thinks they're the exception some of the time and some people think they're the exception all of the time. Maybe she figures she'll be out by six and the workers don't start till seven or something.
edit. Hmm. already told this one. I need to get out and almost get killed a few more times for new stories...
I swear.
He was reunited with the girls. And in his pride and happiness he brought forth his mightiest trophy: His collar. After we spent $30 on a new one...
Apparently I'm confused as to what an e-collar is. I assumed it was some form of tracking device, so was wondering why you couldn't find it.
Now I must assume it's the type of collar worn by a certain subgroup of girls on the internet. I.e. the e-girls. And e-boys, I suppose.
I think it says a *lot* about fashion that the horrific collars we put on pets to keep them from licking their wounds are called "Elizabethan collars" after the fashion of the day:
Pet Elizabethan (e-) collar.Human Elizabethan collar.
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Mieko repeatedly escaped a muzzle the vet tried putting on her last week. A cone is no challenge for her.
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Oh, good. Dumb co-worker just asked me to perform a peer evaluation for them. "Try being smarter" is unlikely to be appreciated.
One of the things that really strikes me about Global Megacorporation's approach to training is how low it sets expectations:
NobodyHome's first training job circa 2000: "Your job is 50% platform time, 25% writing curriculum, and 25% consulting. Part of that consulting is that if a customer asks you a question and you can't answer it, you need to track down the answer and solve their problem." I spent many hours in the deep recesses of the buildings of defense contractors or aerospace companies trying to resolve their exact, specific issues with our software. And if I had to bring in engineers to help, I had full authority to do so.
NobodysHome's first curriculum development job, circa 2004: "Your job is 10% training. If a customer asks you a question and you can't answer it, and you have the time and inclination, you're encouraged to find the answer. But don't let it affect your other work."
Global Megacorporation's approach: "If the student can't name the specific slide or practice page on which they have the problem, you shouldn't answer it. Tell them to go to support."
And yet the training is still consistently rated 4.6-4.8/5. If I had a question outside the curriculum and the instructor said, "Sorry, not my problem," they sure as h*** wouldn't get a 4 or a 5 out of me.
I swear.
He was reunited with the girls. And in his pride and happiness he brought forth his mightiest trophy: His collar. After we spent $30 on a new one...
Apparently I'm confused as to what an e-collar is. I assumed it was some form of tracking device, so was wondering why you couldn't find it.
Now I must assume it's the type of collar worn by a certain subgroup of girls on the internet. I.e. the e-girls. And e-boys, I suppose.
I think it says a *lot* about fashion that the horrific collars we put on pets to keep them from licking their wounds are called "Elizabethan collars" after the fashion of the day:
Pet Elizabethan (e-) collar.
Human Elizabethan collar.
I've heard some people mention baby shirts as an alternative.
I've heard some people mention baby shirts as an alternative.I swear.
He was reunited with the girls. And in his pride and happiness he brought forth his mightiest trophy: His collar. After we spent $30 on a new one...
Apparently I'm confused as to what an e-collar is. I assumed it was some form of tracking device, so was wondering why you couldn't find it.
Now I must assume it's the type of collar worn by a certain subgroup of girls on the internet. I.e. the e-girls. And e-boys, I suppose.
I think it says a *lot* about fashion that the horrific collars we put on pets to keep them from licking their wounds are called "Elizabethan collars" after the fashion of the day:
Pet Elizabethan (e-) collar.
Human Elizabethan collar.
Yes, they sell absolutely marvelous onesies for female cats, and yes, we did indeed get the Sabaton special edition for Fluffy/Lenore and it worked wonderfully.
But for male cats, the incision is, erm, right where they use the bathroom, so there's no such suit.
We gave up. We're just letting him run wild, giving him opiates twice a day and figuring his Constitution score is so ludicrously through the roof that in the end it's just not going to matter.
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I've heard some people mention baby shirts as an alternative.I swear.
He was reunited with the girls. And in his pride and happiness he brought forth his mightiest trophy: His collar. After we spent $30 on a new one...
Apparently I'm confused as to what an e-collar is. I assumed it was some form of tracking device, so was wondering why you couldn't find it.
Now I must assume it's the type of collar worn by a certain subgroup of girls on the internet. I.e. the e-girls. And e-boys, I suppose.
I think it says a *lot* about fashion that the horrific collars we put on pets to keep them from licking their wounds are called "Elizabethan collars" after the fashion of the day:
Pet Elizabethan (e-) collar.
Human Elizabethan collar.Yes, they sell absolutely marvelous onesies for female cats, and yes, we did indeed get the Sabaton special edition for Fluffy/Lenore and it worked wonderfully.
But for male cats, the incision is, erm, right where they use the bathroom, so there's no such suit.
We gave up. We're just letting him run wild, giving him opiates twice a day and figuring his Constitution score is so ludicrously through the roof that in the end it's just not going to matter.
Ah, Florida Cat.
Barely, but I managed...
To be honest I just got annoyed by Dark Souls (II) clunkiness and decided to get Atomic Heart for a change...
What are the chances a major sale for one or more of: Ghost of Tsushima, Sekiro, Rise Of Ronin, Lies Of P, and so on coming soon just to taunt my now empty PayPal?
Buahahaha!
Yup.
Called it.
Three out of those four games are at sale currently... Only Sekiro is at full price at the moment.
How much of those games can I get for $0.70?
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About 2 megabytes.Barely, but I managed...
To be honest I just got annoyed by Dark Souls (II) clunkiness and decided to get Atomic Heart for a change...
What are the chances a major sale for one or more of: Ghost of Tsushima, Sekiro, Rise Of Ronin, Lies Of P, and so on coming soon just to taunt my now empty PayPal?
Buahahaha!
Yup.
Called it.
Three out of those four games are at sale currently... Only Sekiro is at full price at the moment.
How much of those games can I get for $0.70?
That's enough to run the first level or two of DOOM!
That's enough to run the first level or two of DOOM!About 2 megabytes.Barely, but I managed...
To be honest I just got annoyed by Dark Souls (II) clunkiness and decided to get Atomic Heart for a change...
What are the chances a major sale for one or more of: Ghost of Tsushima, Sekiro, Rise Of Ronin, Lies Of P, and so on coming soon just to taunt my now empty PayPal?
Buahahaha!
Yup.
Called it.
Three out of those four games are at sale currently... Only Sekiro is at full price at the moment.
How much of those games can I get for $0.70?
I finished them decades ago.
DOOM! seemed so “cutting edge” back in the day.
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"Fun Fact" time!
The music video for "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meatloaf was directed by Michael Bay.
And in "Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through" plays young Angelina Jolie.
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You would not force an old man to suffer cold, would you?!
"Fun" decision time -- it's Farmer's Market day, and someone parked blocking our driveway, forcing GothBard to park a block away and haul the groceries here on foot.
So, if it weren't for the quasi-legal nature of our driveway, I'd have already called the police and had them towed. As it is, I hesitate to draw added attention to the fact that since we can't legally park in our driveway, we park across it all the time.
Yes, the cops did say, "We're only going to tow a car if the homeowner calls," but these days it's kind of stupid to enter into a war of escalation with someone rude enough to block your driveway.
EDIT: Well, they left before my neighbors could get back to me as to whether it was a friend of theirs, so decision unnecessary.
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You would not force an old man to suffer cold, would you?!
so.
My greatest enemy has arrived.
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Shouldn’t it be Young Lady Summer?You would not force an old man to suffer cold, would you?!
NO
Apparently, the creators of Nioh made a Final Fantasy, Souls-like game with Job system...
And it is on sale right now.
Yeah.
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Being well over 50, I feel justified in this tirade. The kids' friends range in age from 20 to 25. None of them are disabled. None of them are obese. Some of them even participate in competitive sports.
And yet over half of them cannot manage to step over our 24" kitten barrier. (OK, they sell it as a small dog enclosure, but I'm sure it was intended for kittens.)
Admittedly, I keep myself in shape. But I've never had an issue. GothBard had a shoelace catch *once*. Impus Major moves past it as if it doesn't exist. Impus Minor finds it annoying, but has no trouble.
How can so many 20-25-year-olds be so incapable of getting past a simple 24" barrier that they constantly knock is over, get tangled up in it, or otherwise can't manage a remarkably simple physical agility test?