Posts made by Auspice

@tinuviel said in RL things I love:

@auspice said in RL things I love:

I hate snow. I hate it so much. 26F in Austin is just wrong.

Trade you. It's 97 here.

Gladly.
I like it hot.

@darren said in RL things I love:

@auspice said in RL things I love:

I hate snow. I hate it so much. 26F in Austin is just wrong.

That said.
I love adaptive all wheel drive.
And seeing kids making snowmen and throwing snowballs was p damn heartwarming.

Meanwhile it's 57 and sunny here in Southern Maryland. It's as if our weather is reversed.

@macha said in RL things I love:

@auspice And here I am, in what is usually one of the snowiest places in the country... and there's nothing. We've had practically no snow.

I've been hearing this sort of stuff from so many people today.

@Darren as someone who grew up in Rockville and Laurel (former as a kid, latter as a teen): this is exactly like some MD winter bs. Freezing rain all night, snow all day so far. It's gross out there.

Unfortunately, this is a southern state. We have no salt trucks, no plows, etc. So it's just all that much worse. The only reason I went out to begin with is my power went out for a while and I didn't want to sit in a cold, dark apartment.

I hate snow. I hate it so much. 26F in Austin is just wrong.

That said.
I love adaptive all wheel drive.
And seeing kids making snowmen and throwing snowballs was p damn heartwarming.

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

As a former child

lies.
you entered this world a crochety old man.

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

My third-grade kiddo's principal just called and said he drew a bunch of naked women in his math book.

I am completely at a loss. He is really into art, draws all sorts of things, but I have been really careful as to what he's exposed to in terms of age-appropriate content in shows and movies and I have no idea where this would come from. (Just curiosity, I guess?)

I also have no idea where to go for guidance on this stuff...I know my super conservative fam would go the shame route and I really, really don't like that and won't do it.

Just sucks feeling like I am fumbling around in the dark on this one...this is a subject that seems very easy to fuck up.

One option:
Museum (I know covid, but many many museums have virtual visits and collections digitally) trip showing classical art. There's nudity in equal measures presented tastefully. Make it educational, make it 'hey I'm embracing your hobby, but there's a right way and a wrong way so we're going to discuss and learn which is which'

Today I'm grateful for:

Season 2 of Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist has begun.

Batman TAS is on HBOMax.

I appreciate that I found a free clinic that's helping me take care of stuff (and can give me my meds free).

I don't appreciate hearing that the reason I never heard back on the x-ray for my knee (that I DID have to pay for, out of pocket) was because 'everything was normal.'

This is the problem with everything being telehealth right now.
One look at my knee and you'd know it's not normal.
It's swollen to the size of a grapefruit.
I struggle to walk.
The pain keeps me up at night.
I have been doing the elevation, ice, etc. since APRIL.

Something is, in fact, very wrong with my knee and I guess I just have to wait until insurance for my new job kicks in.

It's not often a scene makes me crack up, but having my bounty hunter on Cresh chatting with the guy he's putting in restraints about how damn weird another PC is.

It's a small thing. It's two poses of banter. But it has me giggling madly because I can so easily visualize it and it's perfect.

@too-old-for-this said in Critters!:

@auspice Yours look almost exactly like mine! XD One big fat white/tabby and one skinny black (well dark brown in my case). And yes, the 20 lb asshole wants me to hold and cuddle and scritch his butt all day long. And if I do not, he will go loudly complain to my housemate.

Both my cats want cuddles almost 24/7 but the boy will settle for screaming at me until I let him go out on the balcony.

@badger said in Critters!:

@auspice

WHOA YOU'RE RIGHT.

That explains why our grey boyo is turning orangey.

Hey if human hair can sun-bleach so can cat fur and they spend hella time lying in the sun if they can get away with it

@badger said in Critters!:

My black cat is turning into a striped tabby. I don't even know.

( Yes. I have tried turning the cat off - and then back on again. Cycling this way just makes the cat more HONGRY - which then follows the chorus of chirps, wheezes, and mimed meows. )

I will get a picture of this when I get better light.

Black cats can rust.
I mean, it sounds funny, but

The more time a black cat spends in the sun, it basically bleaches their fur and they start to turn brown. So black cats 'rust.'

@lifebird said in RL things I love:

Me: A sodastream? wtf is this crap. Worst gift ever. It's the thought that counts /I guess/.

Me (later that day): 3 liters of sodastream should be enough for one day right? Haha. Jk. I'm making another one. God I really need to pee

(Fucking love my sodastream)

I've been wanting one of these for ages. I love carbonated drinks but I know soda is bad for me....but not cuz of the carbonation. And most of the flavored water shit is twice to three times as expensive!

Every day when I wake up, my cat runs in to cuddle and purr at me.

It's nice having someone who is happy to see me awake.

@saturna said in MU Things I Love:

@lifebird said in MU Things I Love:

@reversed said in MU Things I Love:

@lifebird said in MU Things I Love:

"...waggles brows" is never not a funny pose.

I use it as often as possible for my stoic, poker-faced, terminal-stage-four-Resting-Bitch-Face character because it never stops delighting me to picture someone having an expression like they want to stab someone but also doing this

@gamerngeek said in Food!:

@auspice Wait, wait. You never told us if the black garlic worked. This is need to know info!

It did!

Honestly it could've used even longer in the instantpot than recommended; some of them came out more v. dark brown than black... but I got impatient and wanted it NOW.

I gotta say: black garlic butter IS amazing on steak and it's also good just smeared (w/butter or w/out) on toast.

Highly highly recommend. Black garlic is expensive but if you have an instantpot and don't mind not being able to use it for a couple months.... this is totally worth it.

New job is due to start on Monday.
I've done all the paperwork.
I'm in the payroll.
I've done the background check, drug test.
Contracting agency said the 4th.

Last Monday I emailed to say hi, yes, I start in a week, but: how? Am I working on my own equipment, are they providing equipment, if so do I need to pick it up... aka WHAT AM I DOING COME MONDAY MORNING

Reply: they're sending the equipment!

Thursday: emailed recruiter AND my new boss to say hi, yes, I start Monday, I do not have the equipment, please advise.

New boss gets back to me today: Wait, you start this Monday? I thought it was next Monday!

I have NO ISSUES with the company I'm doing the work for, but the communication abilities of the recruiting agency leave much to be desired.

long story short: if the equipment shows up this weekend (tomorrow), I start Monday. If not, I start the following Monday. NBD, but at least now I know.

Those aren't bad ideas, @Songtress, but it does feel like it moves a fair ways away from what I'm looking at doing.

When people think 'period' game, they don't think 'roman fantasy with magic'
It could be a cool game! It's just not THIS game.
(I also think it'd be done best outside of Ares. Maybe using the opensource stuff from Arx with modifications? But I plan to use Ares if I do this project because I'm lazy and sticking to a more 'pure' Regency concept would work.)

Also: I do think if I go ahead with this, we'll focus on the higher classes and not bring in commoners. That doesn't mean it'll be JUST nobility. There may be some other important figures (like really wealthy business owners, military figures and their families, etc) in there too.

I just wanted to note (since I know some folks have been missing Space Gamez) that the space system is now in place on the game.

@cobaltasaurus said in A Regency MU (Conceptual):

Oh yeah, I meant to add I'd be happy to write up families/noble houses.

Sweet. If I roll forward with this (we'll see how much energy I have in me once I settle into the new job lol), I will absolutely reach out

@cobaltasaurus said in A Regency MU (Conceptual):

Meredith Durand--

I don't know this specific reference but I am always always down for court intrigue

(Tho I will note: I make people play that shit out. If this game happens and anyone ever puts in a +request that's all 'I want to roll to force X to Y' my response will be Nope. You gotta at LEAST put in the legwork.)