The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread
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Q1: Maybe, depend on how the genes assort during meiosis & a few other things. Sorry, my bio degree is 30 odd years old and rustier than my memory.
Q2: Varies, by the fantasy author/artist/game dev you ask & whether they believe Retconning is a legit fiction writing style. If you ask the Tootsie Pop Owl it's "...crunch!!! Three."
Q3: That reminds me...is there an elf ear morph in the starter essentials? Oh, wait, I have a G9 elf character, so I have at least 1.
Complaint/s: A 5 day deluge of rain, thunderstorms, & worse is coming to an end. It has made our 2 dogs miserable. Especially Gilligan the ditzy border collie, he doesn't deal at all well with bad, noisy weather. Just lays on the end of the mattress & shakes, neither of us can coax him up where we can pet or hold him. Poor thing. Our older Lab/Belgian Bear doesn't like the weather but is mostly okay. We think Gilligan's problem is that he was a stray for at least a few months before he was rescued & then adopted by us, so he must have been out in some terrible weather.
Also yesterday a tree fell across our narrow rural road. So when I was nearly home from work I had to turn around on that supposedly 2 lane road, actually more like 1.5 lanes, & take the long way around. I will have to take the same way to work this afternoon as there is no way to find out if it's been moved. SO tempted to call out & hang with the dogs while playing with Daz.
...ah forgot, you are on Mac not PC.
Apologies, messed up with the suggestion. On mine "@" is on the [shift] ' key (I'm in UK set).
This is the part of break I like the least. Time to get up and back on the clock.
No, I am not on a Mac but an iPad. My computer is a Lenovo Win 11.
...ah, iPads like iPhones have their own specific OS which yes is different from MacOS..
So a bit confused, Is the keyboard issue on the Lenovo or the iPad?
It is just on my iPad but only with Bluetooth keyboard.
I was thinking it might be good to just be stuck as a 14 year old girl forever. Because I like the number 14 and such a person can just fit into anything.... travel bag, trunk of a car, refrigerator, secret door... whatever you need to fit into. On the other hand, I thought it might be nice to be stuck at 22. Because you can dance around forever singing "I don't know about you... but I'm feeling twenty-two..." and you can dance over to your cake and flip the numbers around and you're still 22. But women don't reach their peak at 22. Maybe it would better to be 32 or, believe it or not, 42. Or beyond that.
I don't know. Maybe life is something meant to keep on moving forward, not being stuck at any point.
Generally speaking, if the mother was human they'd be considered 1/4 elf. But when you think about it, a child only gets half the father's genes, and half of the father's genes are human, so it would be vanishingly possible that by some quirk of chance the kid only got the human half. Equally unlikely, but they could get all elf genes from the father and also be 1/2 elf. It's also not super likely they'd get exactly half from each side of Dad's heritage, so the 1/4 isn't likely to be perfectly accurate either. But unless elves have some way of doing genetic analysis, there'd be no way to tell, so just going with 1/4 averages it out and is simpler to wrap one's head around.
How elf-like the kid looked would depend not only on how many elf genes kids got, but whether the traits associated with those genes would "beat out" the human counterpart from the mom or not, or blend with it, and if blend, how strong?
What about 27? You're still young, you're past basically every age restriction besides US president, and no matter what you do you're in the 27 club when you die.
The problem with the 27 Club is the entry restriction.
I don't want to be USA president. There is too much pressure and can't satisfy everyone.
non-complaint: Kiddo's second top front tooth finally came out! So now we're past the worst. He hates that they're gone and that bothers him a lot, but at least he's past the painful part of them being loose/crooked and getting bumped. And he's eating more than just cocoa (thank you Carnation Instant Breakfast for making it a somewhat healthy sweet....) so that's good. And I got a little time to play in Daz. Holy cow the ROG Red Crow Inn renders fast, and it looks fantastic! I'm loving this so much!
complaint: Bedtime is now noonish, which is when it's finally getting warm enough to go out for a walk. The day's high does us no good when it happens after we're asleep. Argh.
I prefer pancake mix over frozen pancakes.
Drizzled or spread?
Regards,
Richard
And do you wait for them to thaw, or do you just hit them with a hammer, and crunch them?
(Suggestion: don't put them on a ceramic plate.
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Clearly it's been a day... the first time I read that, I thought you meant your topped your frozen pancakes with powdered pancake mix, and my first reaction was "huh. well, that's different..."
My avatar cat Albert caused a complaint once.
Complaint At 2am sometime in spring 1991 he woke us up crunching at the end of the bed. He had half a frozen chicken he was crunching on. He'd popped into someone's kitchen through an open window & swiped the chicken they'd put out to defrost for the next day, carried it home, up onto our conservatory roof and then in through our bedroom window. As it wasn't yet defrosted, he was crunching on it, which woke us up.
Wretched cat.
Regards,
Richard
Small Complaint: Snow: Not a lot but enough to require sweeping from my porch & steps. Will probably be gone tomorrow.
Non-complaint: Upcoming mini-adventure tomorrow. 8:00AM Ancient-Person Bus to eye doctor on far side of the city, then bus or short Uber ride to WalMart to look at (or buy) new spring jacket, then a short toddle to Olive Garden or Applebee's for lunch, then toddle another block to dying mall and to check JCPenney's (only department store left in this area) for spring jacket, and to catch regular city bus to a proper grocery store on near side of city(to minimize Uber costs), then Uber Home. Wheee, a multi-stop mini-adventure.
Non-complaint: Security camera: Neighbors had a temporary scare of package theft from our porch. Neighbor in other side of house has "Ring" security cameras on front and back door, but not on my side porch door where all packages are dropped off(it's covered from weather). So I bought one of those cheap screw-in "light-bulb" shaped cameras for the existing dual socket porch light. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was. Has a 2K image, saves 3-days in "the cloud", and also as much as can fit on a local memory chip, motorized tilt & pan, and automatic people follower.
Complaint: Camera system works when tested inside, but the porch light socket doesn't let the camera system screw in far enough to make contact with the inner electrode.
Will pick up a short extender soon. I hope nobody unscrews and steals my camera.
Complaint: It's a shame that I felt compelled to get a security system. Back in the '50s & '60s when I was a kid in this town, nobody locked their house or cars, windows were left open(with screens), nobody stole mail, kids played outside, dogs and kids wandered the town & fields & creeks freely & safely, people knew where the kids & dogs lived, and you could buy chemistry sets with real chemicals that could burn, maim and explode. It was a different time. People were civilized.
Wow. That is a cat with some determination! He won that chicken fair and square!
Reminds me of the time I was thawing the turkey in the tub for Thanksgiving (as one does) and didn't realize the stopper no longer sealed properly. I walked in to use the can at 2 AM and found one of my cats had taken advantage of the water's disappearance. Hewas standing on top of that 25+ pound bird with a giant chunk of both the plastic and the turkey missing on its top, and a look on his face for all the world like Olaf in that Frozen short with Anna's birthday where he gets caught eating the cake.
It was partially thawed by then, though, and he didn't have to go in anyone else's house to get it, so I think your bandit still wins.
@SilverGirl, love your story.
Back to dear old Albert: That was not the worst thing he stole. One day in our last house he came back with a rack of lamb (6 ribs) so hot he had to put it down every 5 yards, and another time with a barbecued sausage that was almost sizzling. He couldn't cope with catching live food, though. He had a fish in our pond suck the end of his tail, and stayed inside for 3 days after that.
Regards,
Richard.
I'm waiting for my ride to my doctor appointment. I'm supposed to be there by 9 am. It is a little after 8am now.
A WHOLE RACK OF LAMB?!
I know Maine Coons are big, but wow!
Albert weighed 16 pounds, but was just a general domestic mog. He just had eyes about the size of his stomach - HUGE! In truth, when he got wet he looked like a normal big cat with a soccer ball where his stomach should be. He was.. unique. He was the fleabag who attacked our neighbour's Doberman/GSD cross dog just for fun.. He once split a claw and poked the finger bone out with the force of his hit on a fence post when he missed an intruder he was pummelling. Some cat. We had to have a 'fighting fund' to pay the vets for his wounds after fighting.
Regards,
Richard
I got to my appointment on time. Hopefully my new internet devices will come today
Non-Complaint: I figure that I saved at least $520 today. Wheee...
Yesterday I got a call from my eye doctor warning me that my insurance was "Out of Network" so they'd have to charge me $100 for eye exam. Bummer!
But when I got there this morning they decided to only charge me $40 for prescription exam. But then I was told that since my insurance was out of network it wouldn't cover new glasses from them, and that their price for what I wanted would be about $600. Double bummer!
So I declined to get my glasses there.
Took a short Uber trip to WalMart, did my grocery shopping there. Looked at jacket/hoodies there but did not get new spring jacket (about $50 more saved). Picked up two footlong subs from the WalMart in-store Subway, then stopped at the in-store vision dept. at WalMart to check price of glasses from there. They did accept my insurance plan and I was able to get new glasses lenses ordered for my existing frames for only $90. I got Progressive and Transition lenses. Yay no more sunglasses or clip-ons to carry around.
So I celebrated by having lunch at Applebee's. I got their special two full meals and an appetizer for $25 deal. Had a margarita, ate one half of one meal, and took the rest home in a doggie bag. Also, did not continue on walking to the dying mall and JCPenney's (my knees were giving out, carrying two grocery bags), so I have not yet bought a new spring jacket. And I took an Uber directly home from Applebee's, not stopping for more grocery shopping on the near side of the city(which would have necessitated a 3rd Uber to get home). So, I figure that I made out like a bandit today. And I'm still $40 in the black with my monthly budget and only one more week to go before my SS deposit. Happy, happy, joy, joy!
It's 2 a.m., time for me to be awake for no reason at all. Thank you.
Complaint: Side effects of mini-adventures: As much as I wallow in the momentary pleasure of my mini-adventures, sometimes the side effects come back to haunt me. e.g. Dietary extravagances: I love a good margarita, but the alcohol and the salt on the rim is something I don't admit to my doctor.
And speaking of excess salt, restaurant meals, especially in this area are very salty. Yeah, it tastes wonderful, but is the undoing of many heart patients.
And the next morning when I weigh myself on the bathroom scales, I've always gained 5 pounds.
e.g. Body aches: I'm not unfamiliar with body aches, I was, after all, a bodybuilder for much of my life and would often willingly and with gusto exhaust my muscles and joints, and require two or three days of recovery. But lately, grocery shopping and a short toddle across the WalMart parking lot to the Applebee's restaurant carrying two bags of groceries, laid me up for the rest of the day, and this morning going down stairs was a painful experience... ow, ow, ow.
e.g. Financial Realities: Despite still being $40 in the black with my monthly budget I wasn't able to put anything into savings this month. My mini-adventures into the city are fun and cathartic, and Ubers are easy and reliable but expensive
and I really need to take more advantage of the in-city regular route buses. And more careful planning on my destinations, or more use of the on-demand services of the Ancient-Person's bus. But the trouble is, there are only so many places in this city that are worth going to, and between, and easy to get to by public transport efficiently. And as mentioned before, if I want to use the bus to and from my home in the boondocks, I only have one bus leaving in the morning at 8:00 and one bus arriving in the afternoon at 3:00. But by noon, I'm exhausted from all the toddling and associated mini-adventure-ish activity.
I got to say I do like our public transit system. Mostly reliable, mostly clean, and mostly safe. Not perfect, but the subway's dedicated tunnel can get you across town faster than a car, everytime, and you don't have to wrry about parking fees.
Yeah, I'm 76 now, but 30 years ago when I lived in Washington, DC I loved the Metro system. An entrance just a couple blocks from my house, access to most of the necessary and interesting parts of the city, and I didn't have to futz around finding parking. Although I did still have a car and was 30 years younger, and would run up the long Metro escalators for spur-of-the-moment exercise.
(*Sigh*) Youth is so wasted on the young.
And when I lived in Florida 40 years ago, one simply had to have a car. Public transportation was a joke unless you wanted to take a scummy taxi around town, or a rare Greyhound bus to another city. Now at least there are Ubers, metroropolitan area commuter trains, a few Ancient-People type bus lines, and tourist trollys. And there's even a high speed train from Miami up through the metropolitan areas along the east coast to Cocoa and then west to the Orlando airport. Although 20 years ago when I lived in Florida again for a few years, I didn't have a car for a few of those years but did have a bicycle and it served me well for 10 to 20 mile travel around the boringly flat, but easily biked, city of Melbourne and along the beach roads & bike lanes, but I was 20 years younger ...
Just glad I have had those experiences to remember during my recent phase of disintegration.