Randomness XVII: The Madness of the Quorum

[redambrosia]

7 minutes ago, Colonel Kane said:

ok it worked.... I am not as tantrumy as I was. I might have eat another bowl of chili... as when it is gone I can close up shop. eatting the sons prfits... but I am ok with that. lol

 

 

Remember, next time you want to throw a tantrum, you have to throw your hands in the air dramatically, throw your head backwards while screaming, then flop face first onto the floor. Try channeling a Spanish soap opera actor to achieve the appropriate level of drama. 
 

Yes, Sephy is getting very good at tantrums. It’s possible we make it worse for her by laughing when she does so.

[Rob Dean]

5 hours ago, Loim said:

I am a self professed introvert. This is the third week I've been back in the office training the newbie, and it's really telling how much people drain me. Constant interaction...ugh. The good news is I'm almost ready to just let him fly free little bird, and ask me questions about the things that cause him confusion. Last week I started working half days from home, and I'll be honest, if I can swing it even after Covid season I will try my hardest to work from home full time. I'm so much more productive, even if I do tend to work longer hours because it's easier to keep working sometimes than shut down a project when I'm already right where I'll be for the rest of the evening.

 

We have gone back to the office two days a week with ~40% of our team.  After two recent retirements, our team now consists of six veterans, and three relatively new hires, so I have two of them with me two days a week, and the boss has the other one two days a week, and the other four veterans are on 100% telework.  So, yes, I get it.  I’m starting to think about doing a couple of weeks of retreat in a monastery someplace, preferably one with a vow of silence...

 

I am still waiting to see what they have to say about telework after this is “all over”, because our organization was resistant, and it will be hard going forward to claim that we can’t do the work when we went four months with 100% telework across the board, and are doing more at home than in the office as we approach 7 months since we bugged out.  If they do, well, I’ve been retirement eligible for several years, so perhaps it will be time to pull the plug.

 

Speaking of bugging out, I put together a Tiny Library today (not a Tiny Free Library, although that would be a good idea too), just to see what it would look like.  This is one layer in a milk crate; there’d be room for some additional mass market paperbacks or whatever around the edges.  This version is similar to what I used to evacuate from floods with, but would be suitable for a cabin sabbatical (preferably with some other gamers) or living in a tiny house or RV.  It’s also similar to what I pulled together at our most recent move, when I wasn’t sure how long it would take to get to setting up shelves and unpacking books.

 

 

Not part of this package, but implied, is a Tiny Miniatures Hobby package, with 1/72 fantasy mostly already painted, and Greeks and Persians to work on...

 

 

 

 

[ManvsMini]

4 hours ago, Kuroneko said:

**shouted from kitchen** "Ah'm gettin juice, ye want some?"

 " Ok"

 "What kind?"

 Fizzy, please"

"Which one?"

 "Fizzy black"

 "Skinny or fat?"

"Full fat, please" 

 ***massive crashing noise***

 "Loki, No!"

 

 In a normal, same country someone would just ask for cola, but where's the fun in that?

 

I totally want to have such conversations. No detail left out! At my house, I can't even get a detailed grocery list; it says "veggies", I ask what kind do you want, answer is "you know, veggies." I'd have clearer answers rolling with a d20 and a list.

 

@Glitterwolf and @Kuroneko, Molly both send our thanks! Though I have a feeling I am going to have to pry all 98 lbs of her out of the backseat tomorrow morning. She's going to hate me, especially when she doesn't get fed in the morning.

[Pegazus]

Just had to talk my wife down from going ballistic and reporting one of her Etsy buyers for extortion.

Buyer bought a similar, but wrong, item. Buyer wanted the one with the name added, $5 more. Wife said no problem and sent a Paypal invoice for the difference. Three days go by, so my wife contacts her again. Buyer now says she doesn’t want the item and to give a full refund. Wife’s store policy is no refunds, as all her items are custom made items, so the buyer says if she doesn’t get a full refund she will pull Paypal into it, drag things out for a month, and leave negative feedback (which is extortion per Etsy policy). Wife didn’t want the customer to “win”, so was super upset and was looking at how to report the lady (I guess, that’s in a very loose definition at this point).

 

I seriously doubt Etsy would have done anything of consequence to the customer based on reading things on the internet, Plus, the buyer probably would have tried to get my wife’s store banned, which is the majority of her income right now. Luckily, that was the lever I used: “Do you want to risk your store just to score a win on this horrible person?”

 

But, to give her a small win, the wife issued a full refund by simply declining the purchase. And then she blocked the buyer, both on the account she used to buy the item and the one she was messaging from (her husband). Hopefully this washes the sting away some, and frustrates the KancerousKankerKaren* if the buyer tries to gloat. 
 

*KancerousKankerKaren used out of sympathy to those individuals with a perfectly pretty name that’s been attached to a horrible subset of human-like trolls**
 

**Apologies to any fantasy trolls that do not want to be associated with any KancerousKankerKarens.

[Green Eyed Monster]

8 hours ago, FaekiasDracon said:

Several YouTube channels started out using their cell phone camera as their only source of video.  DaVinci Resolve is a free video editing suite that is very close to Adobe's offering in work flow.

You might want to check out Shotcut, which is an open source cross platform video editor.  Works with Windo$e, Mac, and Linux.

GEM

[Green Eyed Monster]

1 hour ago, Rob Dean said:

 

We have gone back to the office two days a week with ~40% of our team.  After two recent retirements, our team now consists of six veterans, and three relatively new hires, so I have two of them with me two days a week, and the boss has the other one two days a week, and the other four veterans are on 100% telework.  So, yes, I get it.  I’m starting to think about doing a couple of weeks of retreat in a monastery someplace, preferably one with a vow of silence...

 

I am still waiting to see what they have to say about telework after this is “all over”, because our organization was resistant, and it will be hard going forward to claim that we can’t do the work when we went four months with 100% telework across the board, and are doing more at home than in the office as we approach 7 months since we bugged out.  If they do, well, I’ve been retirement eligible for several years, so perhaps it will be time to pull the plug.

 

Speaking of bugging out, I put together a Tiny Library today (not a Tiny Free Library, although that would be a good idea too), just to see what it would look like.  This is one layer in a milk crate; there’d be room for some additional mass market paperbacks or whatever around the edges.  This version is similar to what I used to evacuate from floods with, but would be suitable for a cabin sabbatical (preferably with some other gamers) or living in a tiny house or RV.  It’s also similar to what I pulled together at our most recent move, when I wasn’t sure how long it would take to get to setting up shelves and unpacking books.

 

 

Not part of this package, but implied, is a Tiny Miniatures Hobby package, with 1/72 fantasy mostly already painted, and Greeks and Persians to work on...

 

 

 

 

I see what is obviously a well loved "White Box" of D&D.  does this contain the original supplements as well as the original 3 booklets?

GEM

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

Eddie Van Halen passed away.

[Froggy the Great]

I have a happy cat stretched out beside me. Is good.

Had a good job interview yesterday, should hear back this week.  Is good.

Have a Genesee Cream Ale.  Is good.

Have a celtic jam session tonight, socially distanced in the hostess's front yard.  Is good.

Haven't yet destroyed my finger callouses from playing Mandolin yet today.  Superglue callous assist is good.

[Serenity]

Crow's Nest is on now.  See announcement below:

https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/93289-crows-nest-updated-weekly-with-guest/

[Chaoswolf]

 

19 hours ago, ManvsMini said:

 

Molly not quite two weeks after she came to live with us. It was Valentine's Day, so a box of chocolate was appropriate.

She's a cutie! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you both.

 

 

Edited October 6, 2020 by Chaoswolf

[Sylverthorne]

You know that feeling when someone asks a question with an obvious answer, and it's so completely infuriating that for a couple of breaths, all you can do is just .. not eat them feet first?

Someone just asked one of those. And I'm just so *redacted* done with the whole lot of them.

*sigh* 

 

But there's tea. So there's that.

And I'm not sneezing up both lungs, my spleen and all remaining traces of my dignity. That's good.

[OneBoot]

8 hours ago, Kangaroorex said:

Sorry to hear that, welcome to my world.  It is unfortunate that my company, and apparently yours, shares the "you touch it, you own it" philosophy of management.  the things that I do that are not the job im supposed to do far outweigh the number of things I do that are my job.

 

Unfortunately someone has to do them

 

This is gradually becoming my team at work as well.

 

At the beginning of September, Covid testing numbers were slowing down (at least, at the place we process the paperwork for), plus we finally had the staffing we needed back at the beginning of July. This resulted in a few weeks of me and my coworkers being intensely bored at work and bugging just about everyone to give us something to do (partly because nobody wanted to get in trouble for not working). Our Medical Records Manager took pity on us and gave us some crates of paperwork from other healthcare providers to organize. This had two unexpected side-effects: 1) She didn't properly explain HOW she wanted them organized, and 2) There was apparently some big miscommunications and she thought we were taking over organizing those forms going forward.*

 

Meeting were had, procedures were created (then changed, repeatedly), workflows were explained (several different ways by different people), and definitions of who was appropriate to request extra work from was emphasized.

 

This went on ALL OF SEPTEMBER. 

 

By the time everything got sorted out, not only were testing numbers back up, now my team is responsible for literally sorting out every piece of paper that comes off the fax machine (a substantial amount) and getting it to the right team or individual. Except who gets what test result or medical chart keeps changing, and people keep getting upset that we can't read minds and know that they need all test results from X place pulled and given to Y person, except no one knows what those results will look like, nor what to do with them after they've been looked at.

 

*The third result was that now our little file room has been collecting crates of paperwork like crazy, since we also now are apparently the ones who will organize and file everything once people are done with it. So yes, all of this stemmed from those first few crates of paperwork MRM gave us. 

 

We no longer tell ANYBODY when we're bored.  

 

Huzzah! 

--OneBoot :D 

[ManvsMini]

1 hour ago, Chaoswolf said:

She's a cutie! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you both.

 

Thank you very much. We'd also appreciate it if you would keep them crossed for my other labrador, Dixie. I got home from the store a few hours ago to find that our family vet had called with the pathology results of a mass on Dixie's chest we had checked out last week. It's definitely a cancerous tumor (unlike Molly's suspected lipoma), so it will also need removed, but she'll need screened to see if it's spread. I have to make her an appointment at the animal hospital tomorrow while I wait to hear about Molly.

 

Not been a good evening.

[Crowley]

8 minutes ago, ManvsMini said:

 

Thank you very much. We'd also appreciate it if you would keep them crossed for my other labrador, Dixie. I got home from the store a few hours ago to find that our family vet had called with the pathology results of a mass on Dixie's chest we had checked out last week. It's definitely a cancerous tumor (unlike Molly's suspected lipoma), so it will also need removed, but she'll need screened to see if it's spread. I have to make her an appointment at the animal hospital tomorrow while I wait to hear about Molly.

 

Not been a good evening.

No... not good. Keeping my fingers crossed for you.

 

Work was... well it was work, and I got a lot done. Dinner was tasty, and now I have a mug of hot cider with a splash of whiskey.

 

Cheers!

[Rob Dean]

4 hours ago, Green Eyed Monster said:

I see what is obviously a well loved "White Box" of D&D.  does this contain the original supplements as well as the original 3 booklets?

GEM

Oh yes, all four plus Chainmail and Swords and Spells. This is my original 4th printing set received for my birthday in 1976. As my son pointed out, carrying that set along looks more like prep for an evacuation than for a retreat; if I were to run a game today, I would save the wear and tear on the originals and use the 2013 reprints. The next D&D game I run, though,  will probably be an exploration of the original books and Chainmail without Greyhawk, a style I didn’t actually play back in the day.