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Post by Sargai on Sept 11, 2014 20:41:25 GMT -5
The clerics have all died. The unfortunate accidents have been piling up a bit lately.
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Post by ShadowOfSouls on Sept 11, 2014 21:37:54 GMT -5
Clerics somehow refuse to heal me... Something about a "Dark malevolent aura" and their gods wanting them to smite me if anything...
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Post by Kaytin on Sept 12, 2014 13:58:39 GMT -5
Fever finally broke but the pain is still there and as a parting gift it's giving me a nasty case of nausea... Ah well... At least I'm concious now Get this man a cleric, stat! BAH! Just give 'em some holy water and he'll be like new!
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Post by ShadowOfSouls on Sept 12, 2014 22:38:46 GMT -5
Holy water?!? Are you mad?! Or trying to kill me! That stuff burns!
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Post by Kaytin on Sept 13, 2014 1:36:44 GMT -5
Holy water?!? Are you mad?! Or trying to kill me! That stuff burns! Eh, maybe a bit of both? Depends on whether I spike it with my delicious Gutbuster! BWAHAHAHAHA
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Post by Kaytin on Sept 20, 2014 20:31:18 GMT -5
You know what's awesome? Not being sick. Which I am right now. Seems like the flu or another bug, and it is generally horrible. You don't truly appreciate health until you're not feeling well.
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Post by ShadowOfSouls on Sept 20, 2014 22:29:36 GMT -5
Slowly moving towards healthy but still getting pains in my hands and wrists... Hope it goes away before I have to take a medical to join the national guard... Needs some work...
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Kammi
Journeyman
Buffalo Herder
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Post by Kammi on Oct 1, 2014 13:27:03 GMT -5
Figured I'd post a quick update. Not much has changed, wasn't able to brew as much as I liked this summer, but may still get a few in before it's really winter up here. I'll be attending Yakima's Fresh Hop Festival this weekend, which is a pretty big beer festival showcasing some of my favorite styles. Seriously, (beer geek talk here) fresh from the harvest hops in a beer change that beer's taste and aroma so much, it's amazing.
On another note, my kid is recovering from her first concussion. It's been a week and she's finally "symptom free" which will start her 4 step return to action program that the school advises.
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Post by Sargai on Oct 7, 2014 11:22:46 GMT -5
It is tough not really having a community to belong to these days.
I was a member of the SFF community for years as both a fan and a reviewer, but declining interest and growing cynicism forced a slow descent into apathy. The amount of books I read dropped dramatically and I just couldn't stand running into the same conflicts over and over again in the news, blogs, and social media. For a while there, I thought I would be saved by my returned interest in horror, but the shape of that industry--small-press dominated and slow to transition toward e-books means high prices and less accessibility--turned me off of it. These days, I rarely read and few books even gain my attention.
After years of various parties trying to lure me into anime, they finally managed to succeed in creating a monstrosity. Unfortunately, the most vocal of the online anime community seem to be made up of the worst of humanity (/hyperbole). I have been tempted to start reviewing or at least discussing anime, but my attempts are always stymied by me not knowing jack about the medium. I can at least pretend with books. Other media is out of my wheelhouse.
And, of course, I don't write anymore so that is out the door.
At this point, I am just kind of wandering about aimlessly.
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Post by belwar on Oct 7, 2014 15:43:53 GMT -5
I figured since this is one of the only threads that has moved since I joined, that I would chime in as well.
So essentially, I'm just trying to get out of the Army and get my education going again. It's high time that I put the work ethic I gained in the service to work for an education and then a career afterwords. Or during, I'm not picky.
Also trying to finish The Last Threshold so that I can read the Companions Codex and finally get to the newer books getting released. I feel like I'm pretty far behind. I actually started re-reading the entire Drizzt series mid deployment to Kuwait, but these last few books are really difficult for me to re-read. I find myself skipping past the mindless violence.
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Post by Kaytin on Oct 31, 2014 20:13:31 GMT -5
Well, I've been pretty absent over the past week or so due to a new job. Working in the local school district as a learning support aide. It's a good job, if mentally draining. I'm getting used to it, so hopefully I'll be back in full force soon.
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Post by Sargai on Jan 4, 2015 3:40:39 GMT -5
I'm sick. It is the worst thing ever. In other, somewhat related, news... (Note: Because this involves work and I prefer to be vague, I am using the gender-neutral pronoun they instead of he or she. Just avoiding any confusion.) Management decided to promote one of our accounting office associates because they were failing at the job (the associate came from a supervisor position and was returned to it) and decided to hire a seventy year old immigrant with no previous experience handling money. It doesn't matter how old an associate is or where the associate is from as long as they are able to come in, learn the job, and do the job. I don't even care if they do the job well, as long as they are coming in, doing their best, and not screwing everything up. So here's the problem: this person has been in retail for over twenty years, with our company for over twenty years (and therefore in our country for that same length of time) and knows jack all about money, does not have a solid enough grasp of English to understand even minor complexities in instruction, and does not retain what has been taught/trained. - For the first few weeks, they were unable to tell the difference between coin denominations and had to repeatedly ask how much money went into bundles and straps... even though it is listed on the wrapper. Though are doing better at this, but still make stupid mistakes.
- When asked to do a task that they were trained in several times, this person would stare at you, dumbfounded, and say that they had never done it before.
- Instead of doing things how they were taught, they instead do things however they like and then insist that it was how they were taught. They weren't. There are only two of us and we both do it the same way.
- When caught having made a mistake, they either blame the person they are working with or say that they have never done this before (even if they have, several times).
- They requested that we help with their computer based learning because it was too complicated, despite it being nothing more than reading through standard operating procedures and clicking through to the next.
- They don't understand that we have a time limit and that we are consistently failing to meet it, though we have explained this to them many times. Our inability to meet that deadline isn't completely their fault, rather it is the fault of having an extra hour and a half of work dumped on us with none taken away and no change to our deadline. However, having to hold their hand the entire way after more than a month isn't helping us.
- They refused to learn the computer part of the job for more than a week and was only briefly trained in it because of this. They have made no further attempt to learn this part of the job and we don't have the time to spare for it because of the above. They don't even have the ability to get to the parts of the program we use. When asked what they would do if they had to work alone, the standard response was always, "I no work alone. One of you will always be here."
- Also, "I no answer phone." and "I no use walkie." aka "I don't want to help customers or perform necessary communication with associates and management."
At this point, over a month in, this person is incapable of doing the job by their self. It takes this person until noon to run coin when forced to sort money or clean up bags (generally, those of us putting the money into the computer do this because we want to finish, but sometimes my other coworker is just lazy and that means they don't finish until nearly two in the afternoon) and I would guess that putting the money into the computer and finishing all the small finalization and deposit steps would take another four hours. Our work day is from 4am to 1pm.
Which brings me back around to my point: I'm sick. Whatever I have has taken a turn for the worse over the past twelve hours. I'm lucky that I don't work today, but I do work the next two days and I am starting to doubt my ability to make it in. If that happens, the associate will be alone and no one else in the store is trained for our position... not even management. So I am stuck calling in and dealing with the consequences of the inevitable hellish mess or going in and being angry and miserable and sick.
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Post by Robillard on Jan 4, 2015 17:46:03 GMT -5
Feel better soon, Captain.
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Post by Avelyn on Jan 4, 2015 21:27:39 GMT -5
That sucks. Hope you get to feeling better soon.
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Post by Robillard on Jan 5, 2015 14:43:09 GMT -5
After 5 years of no cuts, I donated my hair to charity~ That is all.
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