Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Rinel]

@Auspice

Oh, if you're chronically hyperkalemic, a few bananas a week won't cut it. Start gnawing on potatoes and guac.

[Ganymede]

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I should probably just start taking a potassium supplement. Every ER visit, surgery, hospital stay....has involved them fussing over how low my potassium is.

Might want to have a doctor look at your thyroid.

[Auspice]

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I should probably just start taking a potassium supplement. Every ER visit, surgery, hospital stay....has involved them fussing over how low my potassium is.

Might want to have a doctor look at your thyroid.

I'm already on thyroid meds. Have been since I was 18.

[Ganymede]

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I'm already on thyroid meds. Have been since I was 18.

Have them check those levels again, or get someone else to. My partner trusted her endocrinologist a little too much, and a short stomach virus put her in the hospital for four days.

[mietze]

I have found that drinking pickle juice helps when I'm depleted and having a lot of calf cramps. It doesn't happen too often these days. And I really think it's gross except during that time, in which case I crave it like whoa and I can chug it like lemonade. However, there ARE potassium supplements!

[Auspice]

@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I have found that drinking pickle juice helps when I'm depleted and having a lot of calf cramps. It doesn't happen too often these days. And I really think it's gross except during that time, in which case I crave it like whoa and I can chug it like lemonade. However, there ARE potassium supplements!

Cravings are so weird like that.

I go through cycles of absolutely craving peanut butter. I think it's a low-iron thing since I haven't been able to afford meat in a while (and I do eat iron-rich veggies, but... gotta balance how I eat 'em since iron + thyroid med = possible conflict). I'll have evenings where I just snack on a few spoonfuls of it.

[BetterNow]

The only thing that ever worked for me when I had growing pains as a kid was Vitamin E gelcaps. An inexpensive option that has many other uses if it doesn't help with the cramps.

[Ghost]

New X-Men character announced.

She "Rasputin" has:

• Colossus' skin
• Magik's sword
• Shadowcat's phasing
• Unus the Untouchable's force field
• Quentin Quire's telepathy

I dont know what her first name is, but if it isn't yet defined, I have a few suggestions...

"Mary Sue MU-OC a.k.a. a concept made by the one major problem player in Ghost's RL TT group" Rasputin. (1)

"Mary Sue Everything Bagel" Rasputin.

"Hope 2.0 But Isn't a Summers, is a..." Rasputin.

(1) True fact. I once had a player who wanted to make the son of Magick and Nightcralwer. When their Mutants and Masterminds sheet was done they presented me with a teleporting, kinetic energy-throwing, soul-sword wielding Lord of Limbo who, by proxy of being Lord of Limbo, was immortal.

[Auspice]

@Ghost You know, I'd be cool with two of these. Colossus' skin and Magik's sword? OK, make her a sister of the two and she inherited the sword from Magik.

Hell, I'd also take 3:
Daughter of Colossus and Shadowcat, inherited auntie Magik's blade.

But the last two (force field & telepathy) bring it into the realm of 'how many people are gonna scramble to play her on comic games just to have that power set'

[Ghost]

Hrm.

My company doesn't understand a few basic concepts.

One year we had an egg-tossing competition during a food drive for needy people. The parking lot was covered in broken eggs. Each was a potential meal for a hungry person.

Soon? A water drive. When it's 115 outside water is important and plenty of people die each year from lack of water or shaded places to hide.

So after a "food tossing game to drive in food for hungry people", I'm sure you can guess what kind of event we are having for a "water drive"...

...ice bucket challenge.

I swear to fuckin god one year we're going to have a cupcale eating contest to raise money for diabetes research.

[Auspice]

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I swear to fuckin god one year we're going to have a cupcale eating contest to raise money for diabetes research.

cupcale
\/
Cup o' Kale

THERE YA GO.

Companies are sort of terrible, in general, at 'what's gonna be fun for our employees and show awareness?!'

Company I used to work for tried to get people to go, on their day off, to pick up trash in a park. That was their big team building / bonding thing that month. They went the opposite direction of your company.

it's like........ why not allow them an hour off during the workday to go? Or make it a family picnic also? C'moooon.

[Ghost]

@Auspice Yeah, I 100% do not partake in company charity events, save for the occasional "company talent show" where ticket sales go to charity or "popcorn and watch movie at work".

I view it as a conflict of interest to assist them in lowering their tax rate, especially in ways where they get the donation for my time put into charitable causes.

[Ghost]

Oh, sorry, I got something wrong.

It's not an "ice bucket challenge" while driving to raise bottled water for homeless people.

It's an "Ice Bucket Challenge" AAAAAAND a water balloon fight.

[Auspice]

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Oh, sorry, I got something wrong.

It's not an "ice bucket challenge" while driving to raise bottled water for homeless people.

It's an "Ice Bucket Challenge" AAAAAAND a water balloon fight.

I was expecting the water balloon fight more than the ice bucket tbh.

But yes, companies that have special 'PTO' for volunteer work? That's how it should be done.

[Alamias]

@Auspice My company has that.

[Auspice]

@Alamias said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice My company has that.

If I were an employee and not a contractor, I'd have it. But alas.
(That also means I don't get the 30% discount in the store boooooo)

[Ganymede]

@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Yeah, I 100% do not partake in company charity events, save for the occasional "company talent show" where ticket sales go to charity or "popcorn and watch movie at work".

Our charity is a combination of Office Cat and local animal shelters.

I always give, of course, but I wuv all da kitties.

[Tinuviel]

Okay, body? If I'm swallowing, it goes into the stomach not my airways. Okay? Okay. Good talk.

[Auspice]

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Okay, body? If I'm swallowing, it goes into the stomach not my airways. Okay? Okay. Good talk.

Here I'd have pegged you as a pro at swallowing.

[Ganymede]

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Here I'd have pegged you as a pro at swallowing.