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I was going to arrange an intervention for Miss Warwitch. Her not so new fad is astral projection...however shes in Pocket D with her magical cup of never ending booze. Seriously....unless she has Bladder Control or her Magic prevents her from charfing...what ever it is that she drinks off of the side of the railing, then I think we need to really sit her down.
I called Dr. Phil, and he said to bring her on the show.
But we map servered, so Witch...well, her intervention is on hold now.
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I wasn't let go, i quit on my own. And on good terms, as i'll be going back there in my new job to fix their instruments.|
Originally Posted by Twisted Toon
At least you got something on your last day.
I got shoved out the door, after just half a days warning.  Fortunately, my new job is less stressful and more enjoyable.  |
Which reminds me, i'm grateful for the 50% increase in salary
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Once I win the lottery (pshh, right!) I'll quit on my own too. Can't guarantee the good terms part, at least with some of the people involved. |
Originally Posted by Sapphic_Neko
I wasn't let go, i quit on my own. And on good terms, as i'll be going back there in my new job to fix their instruments.
Which reminds me, i'm grateful for the 50% increase in salary |
Contract security (Burns, Pinkerton, Allied Barton) is a thankless job.
There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
I'm grateful for the middle-aged woman in my class who got the new job she was looking for all the way out in Chicago. Even though it does mean she will have to drop my class to move out there--and she was such a great student too!
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
So that's where the I13 PvP changes came from
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Shenanigans
LotD - JaL - POWT/SMD - SoCo - AJs
YaY, Overtime!
Now I can pay for another year of CoH/V/P for a single account.
I don't really like working overtime though. It cuts into my playing time.
There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
Is it Friday already?! When did that happen?!
I laughed when I read the "Now I know you're one of us" comment -- was it the "grade 7" or the "runners" that gave it away?
So since this is my thread and I get to make (and change) the rules as I like, let's talk about some of these odd sayings in Canada. How many Canadian words need American translations? If you ask my husband, who's been with me for over ten years, he'll tell you "Plenty!"
So I'll start a dictionary for you. We'll see where it goes from there. (Hopefully not a bad place! Keep it positive, peeps!)
Chesterfield - not only did I sit on one each night watching "The Beachcombers", but I lived on an Avenue of the same name.
Butter Tart - best. dessert. ever. (Think of it like a mini-pecan pie without the pecans)
Chocolate Bar - what is this "candy bar" you speak of? My favourite all-time chocolate bar is (ironically, since I hate coffee) Coffee Crisp.
Nanaimo Bar - originated in the lovely town of Nanaimo - it's crazy sweet and rich, but very yummy. (There's probably a recipe on the internets for it somewhere.)
Pop - I don't drink soda, I drink pop.
Smarties - these are like M&M's but they do melt in your hand...and on your fingers...and probably will smear stains on your clothes if you're not careful. But they're very yummy. (And I don't actually eat the red ones last, I usually make a SmartieBurger with my brown meat, beige buns, red ketchup, yellow mustard, orange cheese, green lettuce and toss the whole mess into my mouth.)
Housecoat - it's what I wear around the house over my pajamas. You may think of it as a robe.
Track Pants - I never wear them here in California, but I used to in Vancouver when I'd be running around for PE. (Think sweat pants.)
Deke Out - leave quickly, take off, slink away. It's like this, "Hey, look, I know we're halfway through the Sewer Trial, but I gotta deke out. My Mom's calling me." Or, more likely, "Let's deke out of C Block and head on over to Mac's Milk for a Slush Cat."
Okay, enough of that, though it was fun! I never get to speak my native tongue anymore. I'll re-focus:
This is what I'm grateful for, other than the other stuff I was grateful for:
- I always manage to find something good in a challenge (sometimes it takes a while, don't get me wrong, but eventually I get there!)
- City of Heroes has been my home away from home for over 9 years and it's safe to say, this is the longest-running job I've ever had (before that, I think the longest was 5 years)
- Shortest job was cleaning stalls at an Equestrian Center in the middle of a cold Canadian winter - I lasted two weeks
- Toughest job was tree planting in MacGregor (east of Prince George)
- First job was at a Taco Bell knock-off in North Vancouver
- That people showed up at my game night last week! (It was great fun! More on that in a second.)
- I got to hang with the EU Community this week (even though we spent much of our time face-down musing at the cement rubbing at our noses)
I was very happy to see a huge amalgamation of Designers, Coders, QA, Production, etc. mingling together over the "snack foods" I promised to provide. Chips, chips, and more chips, and Hot Tamales, and cookies, and I bought a meat and cheese tray, and I made a spinach dip. Doc Delilah, bless her, brought a veggie tray and a fruit tray. Television and his wife brought some nummy cucumber cream cheese sandwiches. Black Pebble brought Korean fried chicken, which was crazy yummy.
Positron, Second Measure, Black Scorpion, and others brought either video games (like Rock Band 3) or board games (like Pandemic, Munchkin Quest, or Jungle Speed).
So we took over the kitchen table with many rounds of Chrononauts, which I bought just a few days before the party because Television said it was fun. (Wow, see how that happened? Television made me buy stuff and I didn't even know I needed it! I see how it is!) The card game happened to arrive on game day. I think they played a round of Pandemic at some point and probably Dominion.
In the livingroom, Positron, Protean, Dr. Aeon, Arbiter Hawk, and others were slamming away on the Xbox 360/Kinect on either Rock Band 3, Bowling, Dance Central, or Boxing. Protean was unstoppable at boxing by the way.
In my office, we had a small table that fit four so this was where I got my first taste of bloo-- uh, Jungle Speed. Wow, what a fun game! I lost. If the purpose of the game was to grab everything, even the things you're not supposed to grab, out of turn, and in complete contradiction to the cards, I'd win every time. Black Scorpion was the master and schooled us all. Repeatedly. Without shame.
So this is my biggest appreciation for the week: Spending time with co-workers outside of the office where (yes, it's fun to make games, but it's also at times stressful and challenging) we could step away from our roles and just hang out with each other socially, relax, kick some ****, and have fun.
I'll probably have another one sometime when it's a bit warmer. Ironically, we didn't play Poker!
So have a great weekend, everyone!
War Witch
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
(Jim Rohn)
I was really givin'er last night.
Just watched ***** II
Edit: Really? Really? It gets bleeped?
Obviously, the board is not maintained by an Albertan.
SPARN.
Friday. Oh. Right. Let's see.
1) Dear Universe, thank you for getting my state refund to me as quickly as you did (a week, thanks to e-filing and direct deposit).
2) Also, thank you for pointing me in the direction of a fantastic artist who for a VERY reasonable price is going to do the cover of THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE II. SQUEEEE!!!
3) And thank you for the divine inspiration of FINALLY finding the right song for a TCoSR video for Posi and Tava. I can't believe it took this long, but thank you for the idea. Now I just have to carve time out of my days to make it.
4) Thank you also for the inspiration for the last two missions of my War Witch Task Force AND for the music for the video. Much better than what I'd originally planned.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
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Originally Posted by War Witch
Chesterfield - not only did I sit on one each night watching "The Beachcombers", but I lived on an Avenue of the same name. |
"perhaps a Chesterfield or an Ottoman..."
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| Chocolate Bar - what is this "candy bar" you speak of? |
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| Pop - I don't drink soda, I drink pop. |
http://popvssoda.com:2998/stats/ALL.html
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| Smarties - these are like M&M's but they do melt in your hand...and on your fingers...and probably will smear stains on your clothes if you're not careful. But they're very yummy. (And I don't actually eat the red ones last, I usually make a SmartieBurger with my brown meat, beige buns, red ketchup, yellow mustard, orange cheese, green lettuce and toss the whole mess into my mouth.) |
The plastic tips at the end of shoelaces are called aglets. Their true purpose is sinister.
--The Question, JLU
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Chrononauts is an awesome game|
Originally Posted by War Witch
So we took over the kitchen table with many rounds of Chrononauts, which I bought just a few days before the party because Television said it was fun. (Wow, see how that happened? Television made me buy stuff and I didn't even know I needed it! I see how it is!) The card game happened to arrive on game day.
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http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes#
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No love for the tuque? |
Originally Posted by War Witch
Okay, enough of that, though it was fun! I never get to speak my native tongue anymore.
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You should spend one day a week and embrace your inner Canadian self, and also cause mass confusion for your staff. It's fun.
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Where I come from, we called sodas coke. We all knew what the others wanted. So, when the question "you want a coke?" was asked, we'd say sure. and I'd receive a Dr. Pepper. I only called it a DP once. I stopped right after I was given a Diet Pepsi. |
Originally Posted by War Witch
Pop - I don't drink soda, I drink pop.
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Originally Posted by War Witch
I[*]That people showed up at my game night last week! (It was great fun! More on that in a second.)
... I'll probably have another one sometime when it's a bit warmer. Ironically, we didn't play Poker! |
*That was just the short, short, short list. It would probably be easier to list the jobs that I haven't had as opposed to the jobs that I have had.
The good thing about having a wide range of job experiences is that I can do most anything.
The biggest problem with a wide range of job experiences is that I haven't held the same job for more than 5 years at a stretch.
That makes getting jobs where they want 6 or 7 years experience rather difficult.
There I was between a rock and a hard place. Then I thought, "What am I doing on this side of the rock?"
I'll add some some western-Pennsylvania-isms for your enjoyment:
Pop - we too called that sweet, fizzy liquid "pop" rather than soda.
Redd-up - that's what you do when you have company coming over and you don't want them to see what a slob you are - you redd-up the house.
Crick - that's those little streams we played in as kids. Fancy people called 'em "creeks."
Gumbands - yunz "creek" people call 'em rubber bands.
Yunz - that means you, and you, and you. Kinda like that weird Y'all thing southerners say.
Nebby-nose - someone who couldn't mind their own business, like they would drop in unexpectedly and then want to know why your house wasn't redd-up.
Jagoff - a jerk. A nebby-nose could become a jagoff by telling yunz I don't redd-up my house.
Slippy - the condition of an unsalted sidewalk in the winter.
Chipped ham, or chipchopped ham - ham that has been very thinly sliced.
Dippy eggs - sunny-side-up to you.
Hoagie - like a sub sandwich, only... well, no, it is a sub sandwich. Or a grinder, or a po'boy, or whatever else you call them.
I have weaned myself off using most of these, but typing out this list took me back to my childhood when we all said stuff like this and mispronounced words like worsh for wash, or kolbossy (which I still use) for kielbassa. And for that I direct my gratitude this Friday to War Witch for her reminder of a simpler, and yes, happier time of life.
(Sometimes, I wish there could be a Dev thumbs up button for quality posts, because you pretty much nailed it.) -- Ghost Falcon
The oddest job I had was when the local Galleria mall brought a giant Garfield balloon from the Macy's parade to inflate in the big atrium at the center of the mall. They needed holders to keep the thing from bashing into the glass roof while it was inflated. (A process that takes a total of around eight hours, by the way.) They did it while the mall was closed on a Sunday night, so from around 8:00pm one Sunday night until almost 5:00am early Monday morning, I and around eighty other people held onto ropes to hold the balloon down. We had to schedule our bathroom breaks to make sure that we always had enough people holding the ropes.
Yes, for eight hours one night, my job description was "balloon weight."
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
Friday already. I was fascinated to read your Canadian translations, though. Perhaps mostly because I'm in the UK, so what you translate to sounds odd to me as well.
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I actually had no idea what this was you were talking about.|
Originally Posted by War Witch
Chesterfield - not only did I sit on one each night watching "The Beachcombers", but I lived on an Avenue of the same name.
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| Butter Tart - best. dessert. ever. (Think of it like a mini-pecan pie without the pecans) |
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| Chocolate Bar - what is this "candy bar" you speak of? My favourite all-time chocolate bar is (ironically, since I hate coffee) Coffee Crisp. |
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| Nanaimo Bar - originated in the lovely town of Nanaimo - it's crazy sweet and rich, but very yummy. (There's probably a recipe on the internets for it somewhere.) |
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| Pop - I don't drink soda, I drink pop. |
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| Smarties - these are like M&M's but they do melt in your hand...and on your fingers...and probably will smear stains on your clothes if you're not careful. But they're very yummy. (And I don't actually eat the red ones last, I usually make a SmartieBurger with my brown meat, beige buns, red ketchup, yellow mustard, orange cheese, green lettuce and toss the whole mess into my mouth.) |
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| Housecoat - it's what I wear around the house over my pajamas. You may think of it as a robe. |
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| Track Pants - I never wear them here in California, but I used to in Vancouver when I'd be running around for PE. (Think sweat pants.) |
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| Deke Out - leave quickly, take off, slink away. It's like this, "Hey, look, I know we're halfway through the Sewer Trial, but I gotta deke out. My Mom's calling me." Or, more likely, "Let's deke out of C Block and head on over to Mac's Milk for a Slush Cat." |
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Originally Posted by Derangedpolygot
The UK says 'Mars Bar'.
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I drink Pop, also, even though I get made fun of for doing so by all my friends.|
Originally Posted by War Witch
Pop - I don't drink soda, I drink pop.
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Also, everything I know about Canadian slang (not much), I learned from Bob and Doug Mackenzie. I still use tuque and hoser and eh in everyday vernacular, even though I live in Ohio. Close enough.
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I'm grateful to Mousedroid for reminding me about "jagoff". That's a term I haven't heard in decades.
"Deke" I've only ever heard in hockey, for some reason. As in "he broke wide open with that sweet little deke to the left".
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Even after all these years, I still love the Dance Gun. 
And even more importantly, even after all these years ... I still want one ... even if it has a Recharge Time of 20 hours ... 
It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...
It's Friday! Woo!
I had great fun yesterday both on the EU and North American servers hanging out with you guys, playin' some Incarnate Trials - some we won, some we lost, but in both, my hair looked perfect.
Kidding! (Well, it did, but that's not the point.)
So that is what I'm grateful for. Spending time again with you guys. It was a pleasure meeting many of you and talking to you and it was also a pleasure seeing some familiar faces. I also really enjoyed seeing some amazingly creative costumes! (Can I just say how FUN that is to see???)
You guys have this stuff down to a science! Right down to the costume change emotes! Perfect!
I will be out next Friday so no report from me and, I know, I keep saying this is my last one, so it may very well be. We'll see.
So thank you for showing up, thank you for all those wonderfully helpful people who had their Helper! status on, and thank you for spending time with myself, Zwillinger, Beastyle, Arbiter Hawk, Avatea, and your bud in the powered armor, Black Scorpion. (Man, I hope I didn't forget anyone. I probably did. If so...you, too!)
Have a wonderful day and I fantastic weekend!
War Witch
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
(Jim Rohn)
I'm thankful to finally get a FPARN!
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Was good seeing you last night on the EU test server. Hope you enjoyed my pumpkin head outfit/lightning transformation (David Pyrons)
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Originally Posted by War Witch
It's Friday! Woo!
I had great fun yesterday both on the EU and North American servers hanging out with you guys, playin' some Incarnate Trials - some we won, some we lost, but in both, my hair looked perfect. Kidding! (Well, it did, but that's not the point.) So that is what I'm grateful for. Spending time again with you guys. It was a pleasure meeting many of you and talking to you and it was also a pleasure seeing some familiar faces. I also really enjoyed seeing some amazingly creative costumes! (Can I just say how FUN that is to see???) You guys have this stuff down to a science! Right down to the costume change emotes! Perfect! I will be out next Friday so no report from me and, I know, I keep saying this is my last one, so it may very well be. We'll see. So thank you for showing up, thank you for all those wonderfully helpful people who had their Helper! status on, and thank you for spending time with myself, Zwillinger, Beastyle, Arbiter Hawk, Avatea, and your bud in the powered armor, Black Scorpion. (Man, I hope I didn't forget anyone. I probably did. If so...you, too!) Have a wonderful day and I fantastic weekend! War Witch |
I'm thankful for the chuckle I got seeing that Black Scorpion was a fire/thermal controller. Not what I expected after taking him down in the STF.
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I'm grateful that our devs come and get direct feedback from us.
I'm slightly less grateful that both my laptop and desktop decided that they needed at least 6 hours to patch for the EU test server last night, so I couldn't come along.
I'll keep lobbying for our Community guys and gals and the Developers to just drop by the EU servers randomly sometime (Come on - our peak playing time is your LUNCH HOUR! FOOD IS NOT IMPORTANT!) and say hi. It'd be funny as all heck to have someone drop by the Galaxy Girl statue as one of the signature characters... but then I'm an inveterate roleplayer.
I'm grateful to my wife for being so wonderful and awesome that she lets me randomly join TF's while she looks after our baby boy, and I'm grateful for my baby boy for being the most wonderful, beautiful, cute little gurgle-beast I've ever met.
And at this time of year, I'm grateful that I knew the most honest, loving, hard-working man in the world. Love you, Dad, still think of you. I'm sure God likes having you there.
The wisdom of Shadowe: Ghostraptor: The Shadowe is wise ...; FFM: Shadowe is no longer wise.
; Techbot_Alpha: Also, what Shadowe said. It seems he is still somewhat wise 
; Bull Throttle: Shadowe was unwise in this instance...; Rock_Powerfist: in this instance Shadowe is wise.; Techbot_Alpha: Shadowe is very wise *nods*; Zortel: *Quotable line about Shadowe being wise goes here.*
Canadian, I mean.