I mean Ares is nice because the web portal makes it super easy to take part. Not to mention I can have multiple scenes going at once, especially if some of them are slow.
Posts made by Macha
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RE: Searching for Star Wars RPI
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RE: Taking a Hiatus
@Runescryer I hope you find what you need. All the best.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
My adderall is backordered, and has been for a while. So I have been trying to function without even the small amount it helps. I called the doc last week about the suggestions the pharmacy gave me on stuff not on backorder. Still nothing.
Still fighting with my PCP . Asked one of my doctors with another health org, for a referral to a PCP in their org. I have had more than enough of this BS.
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MU Sads and Glads
Glad: Seeing a game someone started, really seeming to have some healthy growth.
Sad: Wanting to offer understanding and some sympathy to another someone because theirs didn't, but.. it would be AWKWARD.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
My PCP is a jackass. I had to go to the ER because HALF my tongue was swollen. I knew why it was swollen. (I had been a dumbass and eaten a bunch of lemonheads, but only on one side, because I had bitten the other side of my tongue. Yeah yeah, I know) And my tongue was irritated when I went to sleep. ER told me to not take this one med I take the next day while I follow up with my PCP, because it can cause this. Only when THAT happens, it's the whole tongue, and the lips, and the mouth area. Not just half the tongue, which went down on all it's own.
I followed up with my PCP's office the next morning...and didn't hear back for over a week, by which time I'd started taking the med again. No issues. So he was like "Well, if you have any..."
Next, I asked to go back on a med I'd been on previously for some pain issues, and he's giving me something else altogether.. that didn't work. I called on Tuesday... still haven't heard, after following up twice. Looks like I call again Monday.
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
@Derp Holy shit. I thought she was immortal.
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RE: Diversity in the SCA
Yeah. I've been on the SCA adjacent angle for.. most of my adult life. I have/had a lot of friends that played there. I know some Kingdoms/Baronies are completely trash. I also know some that welcome transfolks in their new personas, and so on.
A decade ago, I was learning to Heavy Fight (My then SO was in, and a heavy fighter). There were several other women in the kingdom who did, so it wasn't SO unusual. I had to have serious surgery a few months in, and couldn't practice/go to lessons for months. I still went to some events (As did my SO's ex wife, who had spread the word that it was somehow my fault their marriage fell apart, when it was something with their children and her child from a former marriage). One event, some friends were helping me set up my tent, when someone I knew from years before walked up. As my friends were called away,
This person from years before (I had gone on a couple dates with, blah blah blah), was a known womanizer in the kingdom. He wasn't old, but he was known to sleep around while his lady(not yet his wife) looked the other way. He felt it appropriate to see if I was wearing underwear beneath my garb, and undid the zipper and stuck his hand into my skirt while I was unzipping the net door thing on the tent. And thereafter, every single event, find a way to call me a whore. slut, etc.
I'm sure you can guess I quit showing up to that shit when I went public with what happened, and because he's a shiny hat, I was not believed. And then he expected me to take down said post, because he could lose his job.
Yeaaaaah.
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
@Derp That's sad. But I did see that another comic managed to get her yellow door, to hold onto for when she has her house.
Jesus, 3k sq ft. I can't imagine. I know my parents' house, which is a duplex, with like.. 4 bedrooms, 2 and a half baths, isn't even 2k.
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
@reimesu It really is. Very sad. I remember watching him dance.
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
@ZombieGenesis Oh man. I watched a lot of boxing with my dad, and I'll never forget when I watched Celebrity Deathmatch and they had him in there as ref. He had some big fights he ref'd for. I had no idea he'd had a stroke. I just thought he'd retired.
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
@LittleLizard This one makes me pretty sad.
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
Speaking of songs stuck in my head...
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RE: 2022: A New Year, New Dead Celebrities
@reimesu I just saw this. And now the song is stuck in my head.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
Back the end of July/beginning of August, the complex was refurbishing the apartment above ours, and caused a water leak in the kitchen, which came down into our kitchen ceiling. Water in the light fixture, you could see the lines darkening etc.
They replaced the light fixture with a new one. The new one has had water leak into it. The ceiling in one section of the kitchen was clearly more damaged than the rest, and has started to sag, etc. I also suspected mold, when about late August I started getting symptoms I'd had when a previous apartment had black mold. (Migraines getting worse, more intense allergy symptoms, etc)
The apt management had CLOSED the ticket about the damage in our ceiling, and did nothing. So, after 3 months, I called Code Enforcement - as had a friend in the next building over, for the SAME ISSUE - Water damage in the kitchen ceiling, and they weren't fixing it, and other issues that he had and we do not.
Code enforcement let it slip they had a LOT of calls for this complex as of late. I am not hating on immigrants, here, I want that to be clearly stated. But the guys they send around to replace flooring, and do the refurbishment - they speak pretty much no English, and my Spanish is not good enough to keep up. I also know no Portuguese, and a couple of them speak that. But they do not have the knowledge to do this work, do it correctly and in a decent time frame. The vinyl flooring they installed in the hallways, is not flat and even. It has little rises and falls, like waves on water. They all seem to be nice, pleasant guys. But they're clearly super cheap labor, and that's why they're here.
So after Code came, they sent a couple of the crew leads to look at the ceiling. And after I explained the sagging happening over the stove, where there is heat and steam, etc, was concerning, and that I suspected mold - they said they would cut out that part of the ceiling, check the beams for mold, and replace it. Great. That was all I could have asked for.
Then they turned around and said Code only said they had to paint, since the leak was 'long ago fixed'. (then why has there been water in our NEW light fixture? they don't seem to care that there was/may still be leaking along the electrical. like.. wtf?) I called Code, the guy laughed, told me they have until Monday to fix the issue, and he'll be here on Monday.
They sent 3 guys to put primer over the water damage. this is a job I could have done in 10 minutes, with an extendable roller and paint pan. Took them like an hour plus, all told. Told me they'd be back Monday to paint it. Well, while looking over their work.. we found mold growing through the ceiling, near where they had been painting over the stove. So, we took pictures. I sent an email, and BCC'd code guy, showing we've found mold growing through where I said we would, and repeating my request to cut out and replace the drywall after checking/treating the beams. We'll see how it goes.
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RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
@hedgehog I can't imagine 25 years of watching that. I am so sorry for your loss. I hope both you and your stepmom can maybe remember some good previous birthday shenanigans with your dad.
I know how hard it is, and I am terrible at words. My heart breaks for you.