That reminds me. I need to grind my werewolf perks. I haven't transformed into a werewolf since the first time. On the plus side, there are a few bandit caves nearby Whiterun.
Naked werewolf? that sounds about right.
HOWLS!!!
Aaaaaarrooooooo?
RUH ROH!
RA RAREROOF!!!!!!!!!
Flees in cartoon
Rampageth!!!
I now know why mammoths (and Giants) are extinct.
This thread makes no sense.
I hate Giant Golf when I am the ball.
I now know why mammoths (and Giants) are extinct.
Because I happened to stroll by.
If I live through it, it's only because a dragon didn't join the fray.
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I now know why mammoths (and Giants) are extinct.Because grand soul gems are so valuable?
Ding, Ding, Ding!!! We have a winner!!!
I have Morrowwind for the original Xbox.
I could never get a PC past lvl 2. Stupid convoluted leveling system. :(
EDIT-Which was a shame, as my younger brother gave me that game, and showed me what was possible with it. And I confess I was really looking forward to it! :P
Now a friend just a week or 2 ago gifted me with ESO, and it is much more enjoyable. Especially since my old gaming buds are playing it as well.
Sadly, I just have a really bad dislike for Online-only games. It stems from bad experiences WAY back in the early days of MMO's. (NeverQuest anyone?!?) ;P
And no matter how much I enjoy some of the new ones (Champions online, ESO, Star Wars Online, Star Trek Online, etc) I just can't get that really bad taste for them out of my mouth. :P
But when my friends are on, it is like playing NWN again! :)
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10-year anniversary of my first post, to the minute.
Nice! Gratz David! :)
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10-year anniversary of my first post, to the minute.
Here's your cane, your black socks, sandals, and a complimentary bottle of Vitalis after shave.
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10-year anniversary of my first post, to the minute.Here's your cane, your black socks, sandals, and a complimentary bottle of Vitalis after shave.
Nah, I skipped straight to buying a coffin.
Nah, I skipped straight to buying a coffin.10-year anniversary of my first post, to the minute.Here's your cane, your black socks, sandals, and a complimentary bottle of Vitalis after shave.
Cutting out the middleman. Good thinking!
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Howdy!
Sorry but I'm not even going to try with a 3000+ post backlog.
I hope everyone is doing well.
BT!
Good to see you!
Happy festival of your preference!
Rolling through my 16-hour overtime work-a-palooza
10 more hours to go! WOOO
I don't know how you do it, Patrick. I am in awe.
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I don't know how you do it, Patrick. I am in awe.
I still can't figure out how he managed to find work in the first place, much less work overtime at more than one. I've been looking for full-time work since June, and so far, nothing.
I don't know how you do it, Patrick. I am in awe.I still can't figure out how he managed to find work in the first place, much less work overtime at more than one. I've been looking for full-time work since June, and so far, nothing.
Try security work.
^This
Also, never STOP looking for work, even when you have a job. If I had decided that my hospital security job was "good enough" I'd be seriously screwed right now. Instead I have as many hours as I could choose to work.
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One hard hard lesson I learned after the military is that employers don't give a rats ass about you. Honestly.
In the last 15 years I have worked for corporations, I have worked for small businesses, I have worked for mom-and-pop shops. In EVERY case, they screwed me eventually. Usually when it was to their advantage to do so. So now, I don't give loyalty to jobs. I do a good job, because that's how I was raised. However, I expect to be paid, and I will not put up with any of the penny-ante b+~%+$+! these employers come up with.
You want to play with my schedule? Fine, I'll get another job and then you can deal when I am available. If that doesn't suit you, fire me. But you wont, because I am smart, flexible, and I do a good job. You can't let that go.
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I don't know how you do it, Patrick. I am in awe.
Sheer orneriness. I don't even drink coffee either ;)
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First shift almost done. Now just the overnight.
I have to run to the shops tomorrow and pick up some prezzies. I don't think I will have much time elsewise.
Well, I'll have the morning on Xmas Eve, but that is soooooo cliche.
Also, I'll have Monday the 26th, since dinner is that day, but I don't really want to be shopping and cooking
Christmas I'm working a doubleshift. Which is sweet, because it's also double time. So, two shifts, four shifts in the paycheck. SCORE!
And, since I got full-time status right before the holidays I get 8 extra hours from WHOI for Christmas AND New Years! Bonus!
One hard hard lesson I learned after the military is that employers don't give a rats ass about you. Honestly.
In the last 15 years I have worked for corporations, I have worked for small businesses, I have worked for mom-and-pop shops. In EVERY case, they screwed me eventually. Usually when it was to their advantage to do so. So now, I don't give loyalty to jobs. I do a good job, because that's how I was raised. However, I expect to be paid, and I will not put up with any of the penny-ante b~*~~*&& these employers come up with.
You want to play with my schedule? Fine, I'll get another job and then you can deal when I am available. If that doesn't suit you, fire me. But you wont, because I am smart, flexible, and I do a good job. You can't let that go.
I don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong or just the worst run of bad luck I've ever seen, but I've gotten laid off seven times in the last five years (a couple of times after only a few days on the job), and two of those were due to the entire company going bankrupt. Every time, it's the same cycle-- get laid off, submit hundreds of applications and resumes with no response, sit around on your ass for months of waiting as you watch your savings account get ground down to a nub, get hired by some new rinky-dink company that can't pay you for s$!%, and the whole process repeats.
I'm thirty years old, and I'm in a worse place money- and job-wise than I was ten years ago. It seems like finding work is getting harder and harder the older I get. Even just getting potential employers to give you a simple yes/no answer is like pulling teeth, and the whole process is physically and mentally exhausting. No one is even bothering to give me a chance anymore, and I'm starting to question whether or not any of this is even worth the effort.
Meanwhile, it seems like everyone I know is doing really well for themselves and it's almost like people are deliberately rubbing my face in it. It's enough to breed just a little bit of resentment. All I want is to be able to pay my f~**ing bills and know whether or not I'll be able to eat next week, and I can't even get that far? F!*+ it.
Anyway, that's my side of the story. I've said my bit, and I'm not talking about this anymore.
TL;DR: I wish I had those problems, because that would mean I had, you know, "options."
** spoiler omitted **...One hard hard lesson I learned after the military is that employers don't give a rats ass about you. Honestly.
In the last 15 years I have worked for corporations, I have worked for small businesses, I have worked for mom-and-pop shops. In EVERY case, they screwed me eventually. Usually when it was to their advantage to do so. So now, I don't give loyalty to jobs. I do a good job, because that's how I was raised. However, I expect to be paid, and I will not put up with any of the penny-ante b~*~~*&& these employers come up with.
You want to play with my schedule? Fine, I'll get another job and then you can deal when I am available. If that doesn't suit you, fire me. But you wont, because I am smart, flexible, and I do a good job. You can't let that go.
Move down to the South. We have our problems here but there are jobs in the bigger cities. Sadly it still takes looking for them.
P.S. - Tell me if I am rubbing your nose in anything. You do not deserve that at all.
P.P.S. - It might be bad luck or it might be just where you are too. Sadly "Location, Location, Location" also applies to jobs.
First shift almost done. Now just the overnight.
I have to run to the shops tomorrow and pick up some prezzies. I don't think I will have much time elsewise.
Well, I'll have the morning on Xmas Eve, but that is soooooo cliche.
Also, I'll have Monday the 26th, since dinner is that day, but I don't really want to be shopping and cooking
Christmas I'm working a doubleshift. Which is sweet, because it's also double time. So, two shifts, four shifts in the paycheck. SCORE!
And, since I got full-time status right before the holidays I get 8 extra hours from WHOI for Christmas AND New Years! Bonus!
Sweet!
** spoiler omitted **...One hard hard lesson I learned after the military is that employers don't give a rats ass about you. Honestly.
In the last 15 years I have worked for corporations, I have worked for small businesses, I have worked for mom-and-pop shops. In EVERY case, they screwed me eventually. Usually when it was to their advantage to do so. So now, I don't give loyalty to jobs. I do a good job, because that's how I was raised. However, I expect to be paid, and I will not put up with any of the penny-ante b~*~~*&& these employers come up with.
You want to play with my schedule? Fine, I'll get another job and then you can deal when I am available. If that doesn't suit you, fire me. But you wont, because I am smart, flexible, and I do a good job. You can't let that go.
Move down to the South. We have our problems here but there are jobs in the bigger cities. Sadly it still takes looking for them.
P.S. - Tell me if I am rubbing your nose in anything. You do not deserve that at all.
P.P.S. - It might be bad luck or it might be just where you are too. Sadly "Location, Location, Location" also applies to jobs.
Right now, I don't have the money to even consider moving.
Right now, I don't have the money to even consider moving.** spoiler omitted **...One hard hard lesson I learned after the military is that employers don't give a rats ass about you. Honestly.
In the last 15 years I have worked for corporations, I have worked for small businesses, I have worked for mom-and-pop shops. In EVERY case, they screwed me eventually. Usually when it was to their advantage to do so. So now, I don't give loyalty to jobs. I do a good job, because that's how I was raised. However, I expect to be paid, and I will not put up with any of the penny-ante b~*~~*&& these employers come up with.
You want to play with my schedule? Fine, I'll get another job and then you can deal when I am available. If that doesn't suit you, fire me. But you wont, because I am smart, flexible, and I do a good job. You can't let that go.
Move down to the South. We have our problems here but there are jobs in the bigger cities. Sadly it still takes looking for them.
P.S. - Tell me if I am rubbing your nose in anything. You do not deserve that at all.
P.P.S. - It might be bad luck or it might be just where you are too. Sadly "Location, Location, Location" also applies to jobs.
~winces~ Good point.
One hard hard lesson I learned after the military is that employers don't give a rats ass about you. Honestly.
In the last 15 years I have worked for corporations, I have worked for small businesses, I have worked for mom-and-pop shops. In EVERY case, they screwed me eventually. Usually when it was to their advantage to do so. So now, I don't give loyalty to jobs. I do a good job, because that's how I was raised. However, I expect to be paid, and I will not put up with any of the penny-ante b*!++@@~ these employers come up with.
You want to play with my schedule? Fine, I'll get another job and then you can deal when I am available. If that doesn't suit you, fire me. But you wont, because I am smart, flexible, and I do a good job. You can't let that go.
No doubt.
I am lucky I finally landed with a decent company. Mostly that is because the owners are foreign born and not hardcore crapitalists who put the dollar before people.
When I worked for the Big Four all they ever talked about was work life balance but it was rhetoric, not reality.
The more you have the more free s#~# you get, this society is ass backwards...
** spoiler omitted **...One hard hard lesson I learned after the military is that employers don't give a rats ass about you. Honestly.
In the last 15 years I have worked for corporations, I have worked for small businesses, I have worked for mom-and-pop shops. In EVERY case, they screwed me eventually. Usually when it was to their advantage to do so. So now, I don't give loyalty to jobs. I do a good job, because that's how I was raised. However, I expect to be paid, and I will not put up with any of the penny-ante b~*~~*&& these employers come up with.
You want to play with my schedule? Fine, I'll get another job and then you can deal when I am available. If that doesn't suit you, fire me. But you wont, because I am smart, flexible, and I do a good job. You can't let that go.
Move down to the South. We have our problems here but there are jobs in the bigger cities. Sadly it still takes looking for them.
P.S. - Tell me if I am rubbing your nose in anything. You do not deserve that at all.
P.P.S. - It might be bad luck or it might be just where you are too. Sadly "Location, Location, Location" also applies to jobs.
+1
The variation in pay scale, cost of living, and work availability even in the same state can be mind bendingly variable and wildly cyclical.
If I were younger and couldn't travel for work I'd be totally boned. I haven't worked here in Colorado in over 5 years.
My son in law has a great work ethic and is very sharp but he has had to change fields at least 3 time since college just to survive.
I hope things get better soon.
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** spoiler omitted **...One hard hard lesson I learned after the military is that employers don't give a rats ass about you. Honestly.
In the last 15 years I have worked for corporations, I have worked for small businesses, I have worked for mom-and-pop shops. In EVERY case, they screwed me eventually. Usually when it was to their advantage to do so. So now, I don't give loyalty to jobs. I do a good job, because that's how I was raised. However, I expect to be paid, and I will not put up with any of the penny-ante b~*~~*&& these employers come up with.
You want to play with my schedule? Fine, I'll get another job and then you can deal when I am available. If that doesn't suit you, fire me. But you wont, because I am smart, flexible, and I do a good job. You can't let that go.
Dave
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The Battle of Stamford Bridge 1066 AD
I had never heard of this. I guess you learn something new every day.
The Battle of Stamford Bridge 1066 AD
I had never heard of this. I guess you learn something new every day.
Oh yes. One of the reasons poor Harold Godwinson had such a bad day at Hastings. It's never easy fighting a two-front war..
As an aside, talk about a fulcrum moment. If Harold Hradratta had won, then there might have been two foreign kings squabbling over England. If the Norwegians had somehow managed to repulse the Normans then England would be a Scandinavian country today. If they had fought to a standstill, there could be two countries instead of one. One Norwegian descended and one Norman French.
And it would be equally interesting if Harold Godwinson managed to follow this victory with defeating William (though it would be tough) and keeping England an Anglo-Saxon realm...
There would be no basis for Hundred-Year war as it was, possibly completely reshaping politics of the Western Europe.
And it would be equally interesting if Harold Godwinson managed to follow this victory with defeating William (though it would be tough) and keeping England an Anglo-Saxon realm...
There would be no basis for Hundred-Year war as it was, possibly completely reshaping politics of the Western Europe.
Not to mention, keeping England firmly on the Germanic side of the European cultural divide. Which would have ramifications all down the line culturally, politically, linguistically, Etc.....
Gentlemen, take this to the alternate history thread!
No thanks. I'm interested in the subject, but some of the frequenters there are people I'd rather not engage with. Much nicer to have a discussion here.
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Gentlemen, take this to the alternate history thread!No thanks. I'm interested in the subject, but some of the frequenters there are people I'd rather not engage with. Much nicer to have a discussion here.
The thread hasn't been updated since July so I don't think it has "frequenters" anymore :3
Ughhh...
An hour spent on the phone with dad.
*sigh*