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Ache everywhere from doing the lion's share of cleaning and organizing at record speed.

Still not even close to even unboxing the new computer yet.

Somehow, in spite of me being the small, frail, 'not supposed to lift things' part of the equation, I have hauled all the heavy crap around there has been to haul for several days now.

My aches are starting to collect pet names, and I think my tailbone is actively planning to murder me while I sleep. (I remember always sitting on the floor and working on stuff until about 10 years ago or so. My mother would always wince and I had no idea why. Now, I know. Getting older blooooooooooooows.)

Times I have almost died in a craft-supply-avalanche: +1.

The last few days have been a comedy of (t)errors.

Actual conversation that occurred:

Bri: "So how did things go at the Apple store? Were you able to get the stuff to hook up the old monitor?"
Me: <just starts laughing desperately and maniacally>
Bri: "...this is gonna be good."

...this just came up in an image search for 'I'm tired'.

I don't know why, and I don't care why, but I had to share it immediately.

In part because... wtf, google image search. Truly.

@rnmissionrun Many thanks! I will have to do that from the next comp when it's set up. (Probably useful in general for the thread, too.)

@rnmissionrun OK, that is the one I have -- I just wanted to double check since I'd heard repeated mention of 1.X here and, me being me, I can miss things like 'the very obvious place to get <thing> now'.

...can I ask where the most recent download is available, pretty please? I'm not sure I'm running even 1.0; I think I'm on a 0.X or thereabouts.

It may become relevant once The Great Migration occurs (aka 'over the course of this week') as I keep hearing High Sierra is a fussy bitch.

@arkandel I know, but that's so painful!

...further, we're expecting another storm tonight. Anybody wanna start placing bets on 'how many minutes it will be up and running before the power goes out for another 2 days'?

'Before it even gets set up', also a legitimate option in the pool.

OK, so, this should have been a post in 'Things I Love' because OMG new computer! Coming today!

The reasons it's not there:

1. We really didn't plan to get it now, and had to mad-ass-scramble to get funds together for this.
2. The earliest it was going to be coming was the 9th -- but they really expected it to be more like 'shipping on the 21st'.

This all sounds like 'ok, hassle, but still good, right?'

The reasons it's not:

1. It's coming today. Why is this a problem?
2. We have a shit-ton of desk cleaning to do before there's a place to put the fucker.
3. We thought today, I misread it, it was supposed to be tomorrow, we eased down on panic for roughly 30 seconds before... it's early, nope, today.
4. We planned to clean out the space for it last Fri-Sat, so we'd be prepared in case it did arrive on the 9th! ...but the power was out and this room is a pitch-black maze of needles and power tools and tangled yarn in the dark. You could literally trip and die in here at least a hundred different ways with all manner of embarrassing things to have been impaled to death on (from metal t-squares to giant creepy dolls to yarn swifts to... everything, because this studio is fucking chaos) in your obituary.
5. This room is full of fussy little shit.
6. Last night's 'brief nap' at early o'clock ended with sunlight.
7. I just saw the tracking information: I have an hour before the thing gets here, tops.
8. It will be hours before we can even move shit enough to get to the goddamned double-protected outlets to plug in the necessary new power strip.

Ffffff....

@ganymede said in RL things I love:

@arkandel said in RL things I love:

The Shape of Water.

Get out.

You must work for the CW.

I'm sure they're pissed they missed out on the unexpected success of 'My Boyfriend is a Sea Monster' after 'My Boyfriend is a Vampire' (editions 1&2, 'My Boyfriend is a REALLY OLD Vampire') did well, 'My Boyfriend is a Post-Apocalyptic Survivor' did pretty well, and 'My Boyfriend is a Witch' and 'My Boyfriend is an Alien' not so much.

(I'm still convinced they're pissed at MTV for 'My Boyfriend is a Werewolf'.)

ETA: I know these shows have real titles, but since I am reasonably sure at least 80% of the forum knows them by those descriptors alone speaks volumes.

...or my husband. The skinny asshole.

@thenomain I don't think you're being antagonistic, fwiw.

It's just that it doesn't seem like the idea of house rules/table rules/etc. came into being with WoD. They've always been a thing at the tables I've played, and it seems weird to me to think that's atypical, since I've never... not seen it.

Ultimately, that's all Rule 0 is: 'house rule things as necessary'.

I half recall things like 'optional rules' and such for AD&D 2nd (which is mostly what we played) in the source material, and that sort of thing being fairly common. (That stuff's all packed off in storage, so I can't really flip through to double check, and I may be mis-remembering.)

@faraday Yeah, I will agree that I think they're the first ones who said it up front -- or at least the first big name game. (Who knows what tiny games that came and went did while none of us ever noticed.)

Did Ars Magica have it also? I know WW was working on that line at the same time. (Ars Magica had the most entertaining merit that I still want to steal. 'Dead'. As in, 'everyone thinks you're dead'. You can't get by on fame or your name or your great deeds because... everyone thinks you're dead, so you can't be that person, that person is dead. This would translate in very big and potentially amusing (and whoa tricksy, thx bureaucrazy!) ways in the modern day.)

I don't necessarily think the game had to say it was OK for it to happen. I mean, I don't recall a single session of a game any of us ever played without something, somewhere, getting tweaked. Sometimes it was for humor, sometimes for narrative, sometimes for 'this just makes more sense', sometimes for 'this person is brand new so we'll tweak things a bit while they learn and they don't die on roll three after spending 4 hours learning what the game was and writing up their first character', and so on.

@thenomain It always was at any table I was at in high school before them, in D&D and so on.

'GM fiat' was always a thing -- maybe that was just cultural with my group, but 'if it doesn't make sense, do something else' was always common sense to the table and everyone I ever played with (even when sometimes we really wish they had some other, saner standard... alas, this even applies to crazypants GMs... ).