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Yard work, running, chores, and cursing the heat. It doesn't reduce the temperature, that last one, but it does make me feel better.
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"What's going on this weekend, y'all?"
Oh! So glad you asked!
But kids are back from their school trips, so we have a full house again, which is nice. I mean, it was ALSO nice when it was just me and my wife, but she got a cold, so that alone time was muted a little bit. The kids both have a week or two of their sleepaway camps later in July, so my wife and I will have another few days of just us, and maybe she'll be more considerate and not get sick!
Tomorrow, we have some friends moving back to the US after a couple years in Argentina, so us and a couple other families are throwing them a party. Parties are fun.
Sounds like a great weekend! I was totally off my game yesterday, so thanks to Andostre for keeping the fire burning!
We were supposed to play today but one of the group (and the host) was in Africa for work and was going to have to play over Zoom but the test run showed the connection sucked. Plus he was 8 hours ahead of us. So, next week, then!
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Our house is now officially on the market - sign in the yard and everything.
Our first showing is this afternoon.
Apparently it's considered super uncomfortable for the owners/residents to be present during a showing, so we've been asked to vacate when people come around. So we'll be going to do stuff this evening, probably go bowling and grab dinner somewhere, along with me seeing if I can find a place to get my ears pierced at a reasonable price.
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I was totally off my game yesterday, so thanks to Andostre for keeping the fire burning!
I'm pretty much a hero.
Crossing my fingers for next week, Cal!
Apparently it's considered super uncomfortable for the owners/residents to be present during a showing,
I can confirm that it was a little bit awkward looking at houses when the owner was still there. I always got the impression that the owners were watching us out of their peripheral vision, curious about our reactions to various parts of their home.
I've never sold a house, and I don't think I'd even want to be around when people come to view it.
Yeah I can understand that. It's thankfully not going to be much of an issue, as the realtor's going to block out daytime visits while I'm working.
Found a place that does piercings that's open on Sundays, apparently the commonplace schedule is Tues-Sat but this place is Thurs-Mon. Reasonable prices and good people who were fun to chat with while they worked.
Piercings done and new studs in. Considering going back with Scint sometime soonish to get another, as a wedding pair in place of rings.
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And we did it! Got little three-pronged stud earrings with a mix of our birthstones, aquamarine and alexandrite, both in our left ear. \o/
We're making another stab at gaming on Saturday, so cross your fingers! I'll be joining via Zoom again as I don't have a ride to the game and I can't drive in "the big city" of Little Rock without panicking anymore. Plus my car needs some automotive love and I'm trying to not kill it by driving it in this heat. I've been a bit under the weather some this week, fighting dizziness and headaches. Most of the time my head has felt like there's a very angry monkey trying to open a very stubborn coconut with it.
What are youse guys doin'?
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Trying to open this g*@&!!n coconut, if you’d just hold still!
Last Friday of work. NWN thing tomorrow. PnP game IRL on Sunday. Last week of work starts Monday and last day is Thurs the 3rd.
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Just got home from a friend's birthday party, and am decently full of samosas and Dunkel. My wife has a gig tomorrow as part of a local music & arts festival, so we shall all be going to that.
What are we Yanks doing this holiday weekend? I....will be doing nothing and loving it, though I'm getting closer to the debut of my new campaign and I will most likely keep tinkering with its finishing touches.
How about everyone else? Big plans? Big games? Fireworks and random finger removal?
Happy Independence Day and all that patriotic stuff!
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I have a family thing to attend. Not complaining. I actually have a pretty great family.
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My car is in the shop, so I'm not going anywhere. Will do some reading, maybe some TV/movie watching, some clanning (playing Clan Lord, a sort of MMORPG, though we're lucky if we get 50 players on line at a time, so maybe just MORPG).
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What are we Yanks doing this holiday weekend? I....will be doing nothing and loving it, though I'm getting closer to the debut of my new campaign and I will most likely keep tinkering with its finishing touches.
How about everyone else? Big plans? Big games? Fireworks and random finger removal?
Happy Independence Day and all that patriotic stuff!
Well, I'm borrowing a trawler and heading over to Boston harbour to try and get all that tea back out.
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Hiding from the fireworks and playing video games.
Thursday was my final day of work so I am completely free for the next two weeks. The Big Move is on the 22nd.
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Well, I'm borrowing a trawler and heading over to Boston harbour to try and get all that tea back out.What are we Yanks doing this holiday weekend? I....will be doing nothing and loving it, though I'm getting closer to the debut of my new campaign and I will most likely keep tinkering with its finishing touches.
How about everyone else? Big plans? Big games? Fireworks and random finger removal?
Happy Independence Day and all that patriotic stuff!
Wot’s all this then?
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Wot’s all this then?Well, I'm borrowing a trawler and heading over to Boston harbour to try and get all that tea back out.What are we Yanks doing this holiday weekend? I....will be doing nothing and loving it, though I'm getting closer to the debut of my new campaign and I will most likely keep tinkering with its finishing touches.
How about everyone else? Big plans? Big games? Fireworks and random finger removal?
Happy Independence Day and all that patriotic stuff!
CHEESE IT THE COPS
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Well, I'm borrowing a trawler and heading over to Boston harbour to try and get all that tea back out.What are we Yanks doing this holiday weekend? I....will be doing nothing and loving it, though I'm getting closer to the debut of my new campaign and I will most likely keep tinkering with its finishing touches.
How about everyone else? Big plans? Big games? Fireworks and random finger removal?
Happy Independence Day and all that patriotic stuff!
*Takes a sip of coffee and remembers that where I live was part of the Spanish Empire back in 1776.*
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I've been visiting my in-laws in Rhode Island all week. On the 4th, we saw the 4th of July parade in Bristol, RI, which is the oldest 4th of July parade still running.
We fly home tomorrow, and I can't wait.
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Well, I'm borrowing a trawler and heading over to Boston harbour to try and get all that tea back out.
I saw Whitesnake in concert on Saturday, July 4th, 1987. They were opening for Mötley Crüe, so it was an insanely great party atmosphere with a packed auditorium. David Coverdale strode onstage and grabbed the mic, and in that unmistakable voice shouted, "Happy Birthday, you traitorous bastards!" Cue crazy happy concert mayhem.
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*deteas*
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It's an all-sports weekend round Quibble Acres. Got Wimbledon AND the Tour de France. Hours of sitting on my couch and watching people work out. Exhausting, but this is what I've trained for...
And probably there'll be some more Ent-hewing. The yard gets out of control so fast in summer.
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The leader of the rock band my son plays in has the last name deFrance (it's also the name of the band). I keep a list of their tour dates on my PC entitled "Tour deFrance". I kill me.
We're gaming tomorrow, the season finale of my friend's PF game. Then he'll probably take a break and I'll run the first game of my new campaign in August. I've got everything pretty much ready to go except for the writing and scribbling part.
What's everyone else doing?
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The leader of the rock band my son plays in has the last name deFrance (it's also the name of the band). I keep a list of their tour dates on my PC entitled "Tour deFrance". I kill me.
*snort*
Well played...
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Indeed…
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It's an all-sports weekend round Quibble Acres. Got Wimbledon AND the Tour de France. Hours of sitting on my couch and watching people work out. Exhausting, but this is what I've trained for...
And probably there'll be some more Ent-hewing. The yard gets out of control so fast in summer.
I dub thee Saruquibble.
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I dub thee Saruquibble.It's an all-sports weekend round Quibble Acres. Got Wimbledon AND the Tour de France. Hours of sitting on my couch and watching people work out. Exhausting, but this is what I've trained for...
And probably there'll be some more Ent-hewing. The yard gets out of control so fast in summer.
Oi! Don't make me fire up my weedwhacker!
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YOU SHALL NOT GRASS!
Well, as is the pattern for most of my friend's games, it was a combat from beginning of the session to the end. 8 hours of combat, probably a dozen rounds all told. This is what happens when almost NONE of the spellcasters bother to plan the next round after the current one ends and do not know what their spells do when it's their turn. There were five spellcasters in the party and only one of them was prepared each round. The GM's girlfriend basically plays because it's a thing they can do together and she has to have everything explained every round. Everything. Every round.
All that aside, there were some pretty fun moments. We ended up fighting who we thought was the BBEG, former Indiana Jones' foe Mola Ram. My character, being a good aligned character who is not a Paladin but always admired them, charged him and after surviving the heart extraction attempt stole The Hand of Kali from Ram. While the rest of the players then took turns doing their best to bring him down, HIS boss, the little kid prince from "Temple of Doom" morphed into a Rakshasha. My character dashed toward him and, using the Hand of Kali, NEARLY tore out his heart but he made his save by 1 point. Then my character got his butt handed to him in a to-go box by being dropped from 72 HP to -5 in one round. The next round he was healed up enough to get back in the fight but was then overcome by a mental attack causing him to experience his worst nightmares, collapsing to the ground screaming it terror, where he stayed the rest of the fight. That left ONE full-time combatant, the Ranger.
But, eventually the heroes prevailed and we found the object of our quest and got the hell out of the Rakshasha's Playboy Mansion of Doom. And thus endeth Season One of "The Quest for The Black Unicorn".
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That entire post sounded like a fever dream. I'm glad you had fun!
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This is what happens when almost NONE of the spellcasters bother to plan the next round after the current one ends and do not know what their spells do when it's their turn. There were five spellcasters in the party and only one of them was prepared each round. The GM's girlfriend basically plays because it's a thing they can do together and she has to have everything explained every round. Everything. Every round.
*cracks neck*
And I had two weeks left till retirement...
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*de-beverages
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While fighting the Shambling Mound that has tried to envelope my house this morning, I looked up and saw an enormous bald-faced hornet nest on the front of my house. So... that's exciting. It's cool because I can watch it through the window up close--I've never been able to get that close safely to a hornet nest. Fascinating.
I read up on that species and I guess come winter they'll all die except the queen who will go into hibernation underground or in tree bark. Then I can pry the abandoned nest off the side of my house, no harm, no foul. Right now they're up high enough that they're not going to mess with anybody and they'll eat aphids, yellowjackets, and other pests, as well as doing pollinating, so I'm all good with a symbiotic tenancy. Plus, watching a hornet's nest through a window is more entertaining than, like, 98% of stuff on the streaming services.
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Wasps like to build nests under the eaves of my house. They get annihilated because of aggressive behavior.
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While fighting the Shambling Mound that has tried to envelope my house this morning, I looked up and saw an enormous bald-faced hornet nest on the front of my house. So... that's exciting. It's cool because I can watch it through the window up close--I've never been able to get that close safely to a hornet nest. Fascinating.
I read up on that species and I guess come winter they'll all die except the queen who will go into hibernation underground or in tree bark. Then I can pry the abandoned nest off the side of my house, no harm, no foul. Right now they're up high enough that they're not going to mess with anybody and they'll eat aphids, yellowjackets, and other pests, as well as doing pollinating, so I'm all good with a symbiotic tenancy. Plus, watching a hornet's nest through a window is more entertaining than, like, 98% of stuff on the streaming services.
The fact that there are bald-faced hornets means that, logically, heavily bearded hornets must also exist.
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The fact that there are bald-faced hornets means that, logically, heavily bearded hornets must also exist.
Yes... they call them...
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hairnets.
I'll show myself out.
Bearded hornets come in two varieties. There's the regular ones what show up on the sun-blighted surface from time t' time, and'll occasionally sting a dwarf they cross paths with but're ultimately harmless.
The others, o' course, 're the ones what show up from the Depths, where their exoskeleton is made o' molten lead an' their beards are livin' chains drippin' with flesh-meltin' venom.
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I remember I had to take care of a wasp nest on my back patio. I tried to cover every part of my body with clothing, including gloves, something tied around the lower part of my face, and a ski cap pulled down low. My wife said that I looked like antifa.
The fact that there are bald-faced hornets means that, logically, heavily bearded hornets must also exist.Yes... they call them...
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hairnets.
I'll show myself out.
I needed that. LOL
Bald-faced hornets used to be really common around here. As a kid I remember seeing nests all over the woods where I grew up.
Sorry I wasn't here to get the weekend party started yesterday. Wednesday required a trip to the ER. I finally feel strong enough to get out of bed and do a few things around the house today.
Oh no! Sorry to hear it, Cal!
Jeez, Cal. Glad you're okay. No apologies necessary.
The fact that there are bald-faced hornets means that, logically, heavily bearded hornets must also exist.Yes... they call them...
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hairnets.
I'll show myself out.
I needed that. LOL
Bald-faced hornets used to be really common around here. As a kid I remember seeing nests all over the woods where I grew up.
Sorry I wasn't here to get the weekend party started yesterday. Wednesday required a trip to the ER. I finally feel strong enough to get out of bed and do a few things around the house today.
Glad you're recovering!