Double-posting.
Deal.
The company just contacted me. They have a couple other candidates further along in the process, but they're interested enough in me that they want to push me along, too.
So I'm being given Stage 3 (the test) now, rather than after my 2nd phone interview on Friday.
@Lisse24 said in RL things I love:
@Auspice
Sounds like you ran into some of these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Mission_Society_Church_of_GodThey didn't even begin to scratch the surface of crazy that they have going on.
Ahhhh! Yes, that's them!
Just... wow. So very wow.
More 'RL things that amuse me,' but...
Around 8:40pm, roughly, there was a knock at my door. Kinda 'wtf,' but thought- ok, I've been playing games with buddies for a couple hours. I may be laughing loudly and keeping someone's kids up. The walls here are pretty thin (I hear the guy above me snore at night).
Open the door to two women. Asian. Dressed modern. Ooooookay.
Then I see the bibles in their hands. Double oooooookay. They don't seem Mormon. Or Jehovahs.
Lead lady then goes: "...Have you heard of God the Mother?"
...
Turns out they follow a branch of Christianity (that I've never encountered before) that has interpreted the bible to mean there is a second God (God the Mother) and/or a female aspect of God.
I may need to dig out my copy of the bible just so I can mark down those verses for my own amusement in the future.
I can be a bit obsessive over my tea and the preparation of it. I just honestly don't often like oolongs. There are a few I do, but most just aren't to my taste. Greens (esp. cirtrusy ones, mmm) and whites are my favorite.
Made it through my phone interview only stumbling over my words a couple of times. However, I think I managed to play it off as just being too excited. >.>
Either way! Did well enough that she scheduled the 2nd phone interview with me at the end of the call.
...unfortunately that's stage 2. Of 5. I'm gonna spend a lot of time on pins and needles over the next few weeks. >.>
I think a lot of games explain away the Green infertility as being due to eating firestone.
I don't really care. The idea of greens with clutches is horrifying. 
Never liked green tea. Tastes like grass.
I have a similar issue. Most oolongs taste like dirt/twigs to me.
I will say, my friend who is on Staff... loathes those sorts of situations. The 'sekrit' gold, the 'oh em gee the gold Impressed someone in the stands!!!!111,' and the 'colorless' hatchings (where they fake some sort of reason that no one can see the color of a hatchling until after the impression).
We have mocked the 'twin gold' situations (they've happened more than once) on channel a few times.
@Apu said in Tea!:
@Apu said in Tea!:
Oh. I forgot to mention. Lipton's green tea is nice and their green tea with jasmine is a particular fave of mine. This does nicely for when I want jasmine green tea but can't afford the dragon pearls which is expensive af due to the leaves being hand rolled.
Admittedly, I've never gotten to try dragon pearls.
Someday
If you want to try it I suggest getting a sample of it from Adagio. The last time I did that I got enough for more than a few cups of it and it was not very expensive.
I may just do that. I usually get a sample of this or that when I do my Irish Breakfast order.
@Apu said in Tea!:
Oh. I forgot to mention. Lipton's green tea is nice and their green tea with jasmine is a particular fave of mine. This does nicely for when I want jasmine green tea but can't afford the dragon pearls which is expensive af due to the leaves being hand rolled.
Admittedly, I've never gotten to try dragon pearls.
Someday
@ThatGuyThere said in Threads of Pern:
If I ever played a Pern game and had a Dragon I would so have it as an object and just tool around in that thing like a 'dyne back in the old days on DM.
I now it is really unnecessary but for some reason I always thought vehicle code was neat and fun to play with.
There's sky rooms and such just for that.
@Kanye-Qwest said in Tea!:
Loose, I buy Rishi: green/white with jasmine or peach. Republic of Tea is pretty good, too.
Rishi. That's a new one to me!
To the Google!
(I feel like there should be a gif for this)
I live for Earl Gray tea, with a bit of honey (orange blossom). Sometimes a bit of cream, but usually that's at night. Morning I want it without cream, the sharpness helps wake me up a bit.
I'd like to say I'm a snob about it but I'm totally not: laziness wins out every time. So, Twinnings keurig cups.
I have this blackberry honey right now that is just gloooorious.
@TNP said in Threads of Pern:
I've always wanted to play a dragon rider. But the problem is, I don't want to 'play' the dragon and that always seemed kind of expected from what I saw. These dragons are created with more attention to detail than most player characters with in depth personalities. I don't like puppets. I want my dragon to be in the background and mostly just 'there'.
Eh, I've generally just had them in the background and used as RP fodder more than anything. I know it was big to have someone actually puppet your dragon for a while... But that tapered off in the early 00's for the most part.
@Arkandel said in Threads of Pern:
@Auspice http://fantasynamegenerators.com/dragon_names.php ?
Could see it being used. Usually, when making a dragon for a candidate, you try to build a name that 'fits' the dragon. But M'kel was an insta. I just pulled the name out of my ass and decided I liked it.
I'm so torn on Teavana.
I got my amazing tea pot from them. Went to the mall, saw awesome teapot. Asked about it/price. They only had the display model left, sold it to me for $20. Got home, looked online... shit sold retail (at that time) for $80-120. Booyah.
But then I've heard stories from Teavana employees of tea not being kept properly and getting too humid and thus moldly and... sigh
I've been a big Adagio fan for years. Most of my tea comes from them.
Speaking of Stash- get their White Christmas White. Seriously. I'm not usually a fan of bagged teas (and thankfully now they have it in loose leaf!), but holy shit that is my favorite, favorite seasonal tea.
Yeah, Threads is not going to do the 'You can't use dragon names from other games.' It's been over two decades. The names were getting downright ridiculous. My bluerider's dragon is Halzyth. I bet it's been used before. I don't care.
If anyone says Red Rose, I will fucking cut them!
Red Rose is good for making big pitchers of iced tea. That's about it.
