Chronovore'd!

sparksol @ 2013-06-06T13:37:00

2013-06-06T20:38:50Z

The next time I find myself in an argument about the facts of something, I'm going to stop in the middle and ask if they're trying to get to the facts, or just win the argument. When they respond that they're trying to win (which so far appears to have been the case every time) I'll say right there, "Fine, you win the argument! Here's your prize: Go find me someone smarter than you so they and I can find the facts, and then you go and win against an earthquake."

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Gyah, that...

2013-05-11T18:36:55Z

...that friggin' hypocritical over-reacting gamer-friend.

Any campaign - heck, any given session - where he gets too bored, he has no qualms with acting out, distracting everyone with all manner of in-character nonsense, from disrupting the events at hand all the way up to screwing over the campaign or the setting. This includes his own campaigns if it's a dual-GM thing and he's not actively GMing at the time. (He usually finds a way for things to continue for a while, unless it was at the end of what he had planned anyway.)

But if anyone else so much as points out to him ways that someone might be able to do something he doesn't like the idea of in his game that he's running, he gets angry and demands proof you can do it. And if you actually find any, he blows his top because he doesn't like rules not working the way he thinks they should.

He does this even if the person brought it up to suggest a fix for it or restrict or ban the problem rules. And if someone actually meant to cause trouble in his campaign? Best hope the game isn't going on at his place, or that he's your ride home.

I got lucky, I got to point out four different things in Pathfinder he had no idea were dangerously broken.

I wonder if I'll be gaming there ever again.

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It's the little things that sting the most.

2013-02-28T01:36:19Z

Having a chat with my sister's kids when I was driving them to their home from school last week, they started talking about things each of us could do. When they got to me, they said that I could do anything. "Well, not anything," I said. Then nephew 2 added, "Yeah, he can't keep a job."

I didn't pay much attention to them the rest of the trip home.

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Today, in Saving Money this-isn't-news

2013-02-06T12:11:31Z

My mother asked me to get her some new oven knobs, as the writing on the ones she has has worn down enough to be effectively invisible. I took one with me so I'd get one that would fit, not having checked first (and thus would have known that most of the available ones would fit.)

Two stores have some. Store one has a complete set for $25. Store 2 has a set for $18, and also sells individual knobs for $6.

This isn't high-impact fancy plastic, it's cheap knobs for an oven.

I take another look at the one I've got with me. Other than being nasty with years of caked-on oils/grease/yechhy stuff on it (seriously? Does no one wash these things?) it's in fine condition.

So I buy a silver-colored sharpie marker, wash and clean the things, spend about fifteen minutes with a magnifying glass to see where the numbers and "off" markings had been, and write the info back on.

Total costs: I probably spent $6 in gas driving around, and another dollar on the marker. So, saved about $11...unless we start accounting for time, with which I'm not going to bother for this one.

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Apples and allergies

2013-02-01T06:53:55Z

In my late teens, somehow or other I developed an allergy to many varieties of vegetable matter. Fairly mild stuff, a bit of airway restriction mostly and itching all over my head, and only when I ate the unprocessed stuff. Apples, bananas, carrots, broccoli, spinach, you name it, I probably couldn't eat it.

The processed type, I could usually eat. Apple juice, sure. Banana chips. Canned spinach (it's been in the cans and is so soaked it's almost like eating lawn clippings with poor flavor.) Apple pie, if the apples were overdone.

Some say it was the pesticides, others blame pectin. Every few months, I'll try a bit of one variety or another and see how it goes. The allergy has never been close to life-threatening, so I take my chances because my odds have been good.

A couple weekends ago, I tried an apple slice for the first time in...about eight months, I think. It was so unbelievably tasty and juicy my mouth was unprepared for it. I didn't even care about the upcoming allergic reaction, it was worth it.

Best part: the allergic reaction didn't happen.

In the last two weeks, I have now tried a few different different types of apples - which would have amazed me last time I could freely eat apples. Back then, I only knew about two kinds of apples: red and green.

I've now tried Granny Smith (very tart, not my thing most of the time,) Fuji (these things are made almost entirely of tasty,) Red Delicious (there's flavor in the skin, but otherwise not very delicious,) Golden Delicious (is quite delicious,) and Braeburn (kind of dry compared to the others, and somehow very hard when cutting or biting into it, yet get mushy almost immediately when chewed. Not bad flavor.)

I've kept my eye on other names in the grocery stores for more to try. On my list are Pink Lady, Gala, Opal, Pink Princess, and Royal Gala. Mostly because they're what I've seen at the nearby markets.

In a couple more weeks, I'll try oranges again. How will it go? Don't care, I've got 16 years of no apples to catch up on.

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