July 15, 2021
Meanwhile: At Work
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<i>Despite my having gotten "the poke" twice, I still have to wear masks at
work, in part for liability reasons because we don't have a high enough
percentage of people vaccinated yet. </i>
Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. By luck, my profession has been pretty insulated from the Covidiocy (I can work from home a lot). It bothers me that in the critical physical jobs that make our world work, the workers are underpaid, overworked, and treated like shit. It's not good, it's not smart, and it's one of the reasons why I'm "off-libertarian" these days. It seems to me like market forces aren't really fixing these problems, and how society really decides how to reward people have little to do with them, and a lot to do with caste systems and social dominance games.
Machinists and engineers are the example I'm most familiar with. The caste divide, and the devaluation of their critical work bothers me.
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I'm not particularly underpaid and the company I work for tends to treat is personnel pretty well. But we are working unbelievably hard right now and the inability to get help is causing a cascade effect as people, especially young people get to the end of their rope and let go.
The 'caste' divide you mention, while not as applicable to me, is quite real though and getting worse. It gives a sobering look at the neo-feudalist arrangement many of out anointed are trying to bring about.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Jul 15 15:41:40 2021 (5iiQK)
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Corporate is making a lot of Sam's Club fresh department employees continue to wear masks in states that are mask free. After jab. So people complained, and suddenly corporate starts leaning on everyone to wear masks again! So. Freaking. Dumb.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Thu Jul 15 16:32:24 2021 (sF8WE)
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Those girls in the foreground need to watch out, because surely there is a pot of petunias incoming.
Posted by: Mauser at Thu Jul 15 23:04:10 2021 (Ix1l6)
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I don't know how you manage the shift. When I work on any projects like making garden footpaths, planting, or even making a knife at my workbench, it's 2 hours and a long break.
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May 27, 2021
Side Effects Update.
As mentioned a few posts back, yesterday morning I got my second restraining order against Coronachan.
I think I now have every non-respiratory flu symptom.
I misspelled 3 words in the previous sentence.
I have not, thrown up yet, but I foresee it in the near future.
It's 03:30 and I cannot sleep.
Hololive should not be watched while running a fever.
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Hope you feel better soon.
As they say, Fubuki a cold, Haachama a fever.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu May 27 07:50:57 2021 (PiXy!)
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And that's why I had Hipster Corona in January 2020; I was so over it before it went mainstream!
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May 26, 2021
Poke!
Banality is below the fold. The pic is just a placeholder, but some of you may glean more from it.
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Well, hypothetically, spending the body's resources producing more antigens, etc., for something you are already immune to because you already had it without symptoms might leave those resources unavailable for fighting off routine exposure to the ordinary run of freshly mutated versions of the usual strains.
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April 10, 2021
Status
Just a brief rundown of various IRL issues. As usual at such times, the picture is unrelated and the banality is below the fold .
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We can only assume that some generations ago, one of your ancestors violated the tomb of a vengeful ancient god, urinated in the sacrificial bowl, and then threw it through a mirror. That might possibly explain your luck.
May your boxes be light and easily moved, your stones likewise small and easily passed, and your wrist free of pain as soon as possible!
Posted by: David at Sat Apr 10 21:37:54 2021 (t/97R)
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A Tornado paid a visit Friday, but was kind enough to only leave limbs in the yard.
As long as your own limbs are still attached, that's probably the best outcome.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sat Apr 10 22:09:32 2021 (PiXy!)
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Arghhhhhhhh.
Hope you are feeling better soon.
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January 26, 2021
My Baby Sister Just Had a Heart Attack
She's 40 and has 2 kids.
I've let work know I'm going down to look after the children.
UPDATE: Well she's been released on her own recognizance and has a series of stress tests and such today and tomorrow. I called work while at the gas station and told them I can come in but they said that staffing was fine and I was already listed as off for the day. My FMLA application is obviously on hold. I'll know more tomorrow.
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Sorry to hear that! I hope she recovers well.
Posted by: madrocketsci at Tue Jan 26 06:06:49 2021 (hRoyQ)
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Thank God she's doing better. Prayers for here and all of your family.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Tue Jan 26 09:48:08 2021 (64mWt)
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Hope everything's okay - as much as it can be.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tue Jan 26 15:34:55 2021 (PiXy!)
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Yikes,
that's no fun for anybody. Kinda wish she'd stayed at the hospital, though,
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December 06, 2020
Programming Note
If I die of a heart attack buried under a mountain of boxes, blogging at this url will cease.
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That image is awesome, I can imagine whole stories based on what is shown there.
Oh, and please don't die buried under a mountain of boxes.
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November 18, 2020
On the Wisdom of Grip Safeties
So, one of the trees in the front yard had grown to where it was in the same time and space as my roof.
This was not readily apparent from the ground. However, during the weekend windstorm, I heard it dragging against the roof and after closer inspection realized what was going on.
So I borrowed a polesaw from my brother-in law, got on the ladder, and, after determining both that I wasn't underneath or in the swinging path of the branch, and that said branch would not damage my roof or my car, I started chewing away at it. The polesaw is like a chainsaw greave, and as I cut away at the first, and then second branches, I could not help but imagine how awesome this would be as a polearm in a minimally realistic martial arts film.
At this point in the process, the tree decided that it had had enough and that physics did not apply to it and the branch fell, not directly down, not to the side that I was cutting on, but, as near as I can tell twisted the cut out towards me, swung towards me and swatted me off the ladder. The polesaw made a long arc through the sky before deciding on the ballistic trajectory that would place it on me. I caught a gimps of it just before it impacted. My heart skipped a beat and I now have a much greater appreciation for the final moments of Elric of Melniboné. However, because I was not holding the grip safety, it was not running, thus I was not disemboweled; escaping with some scrapes bruises and a coating of sawdust and dirt.
Nothing of value was lost.
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October 29, 2020
Oh.
You can get it on Amazon.
The last time I tried to get a Japanese beverage off Amazon it was 212 dollars a bottle.
I demurred.
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Amazon? There are two Ramune flavors in our local Kroger in middle-of-nowhere Newark, Ohio. I always made them a treat for my girls when they did someone reward-able.
Posted by: Clayton Barnett at Fri Oct 30 14:11:34 2020 (ug1Mc)
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Years before The Dark Days Cometh, there was a "World Market" store here in Duckford. Not only were they the very best source for rubber ducks in the world, but they also carried foreign beverages and snacks.
Pocky, of course, was plentiful, but they also sold Ramune by the bottle in at least half-a-dozen flavors... for $1.00 each. I know this price exactly, because in Pond Central's fridge are three bottles of some melon or lemon (I just realized those are anagrams!) flavored thing that are a dreadfully unappealing yellow in shade. AND in taste, I might add, which is why they're in the fridge after many years.
Why haven't I tossed them out? A fine question, that.
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October 15, 2020
Worry.
Banality is below the fold. As a contrast to that, here is some cheesecake rendered by
Jun (
@navigavi).
He's taking commissions on Skeb.
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Best of wishes to your family; thoughts and prayers your direction, Brick.
Posted by: Jim Long at Thu Oct 15 07:40:50 2020 (arhpx)
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Hope everything's okay with your dad.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu Oct 15 08:54:31 2020 (PiXy!)
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Yikes! Glad it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Good luck and good health to you and your family.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Thu Oct 15 10:56:15 2020 (qiiLN)
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Dang. Sorry this happened, and prayers have been sent.
Posted by: Rick C at Thu Oct 15 15:56:51 2020 (eqaFC)
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Holy flippin' catfish, a chicken salad???
Glad dad didn't have a heart attack, sorry he had any heart incident at all though.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thu Oct 15 21:07:17 2020 (vNkOW)
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I had a bad heart pain a couple of weeks ago too, and doctors found nothing. Didn't send me to any stress test or anything.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Thu Oct 15 22:03:43 2020 (LZ7Bg)
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Thanks for the update, glad to hear it!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Fri Oct 16 12:07:04 2020 (PiXy!)
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Pete, don't let that get away from you, get it looked at!
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Fri Oct 16 13:38:27 2020 (5iiQK)
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Best wishes to all concerned, and glad to hear Corona-chan wasn't involved.
I paid attention to the heart noises, and after demanding *just one more* test in the ER, they *finally* detected the markers saying I'd survived the first attack, and the blockage at fault was known as a "widowmaker".
So yeah, never ignore the chest pains, particularly when the rest of the Four Horse...err, Symptoms...are riding along.
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June 22, 2020
Wait. There's a TAG for That?
Someone sent
this J-List link to me saying, "I found that game you got that cute snake girl from!"
Uhh? What?
Oh.
Actually, I've never played the game and got the image from Danbooro, which was how I was able to credit the
artist when I used
Hygieia the cute snekgrrl as a reaction image or something....
years ago.
But that's not important now. We live in a world where there's actually a category for Tsundere Lamias. I don't know how to think about that.
Note: November Sierra Foxtrot Whiskey
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June 01, 2020
Various Things
Do I stop and film the many many clusters of many police cars with their blinky lights on, or speed away?
I've consistently chosen "B".
Last night was the first night since Thursday that I haven't heard prolonged gunfire, including automatic gunfire, near my house so that's a plus.
Internet's been better today though.
I was on vacation this month, but I'm only taking today and tomorrow, because we're working basically double shifts and are shorthanded at work.
Here, have a sack of cute:
Cheer up. This too will pass. And there's now a dinosaur on the space station
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May 10, 2020
Dispatches From the Shipping Industry
I'm frequently working more overtime than straight time. Our building has been consistently breaking its all time record for volume. On a personal note, I'm handling over 10,000 parcels a day. This is problematic due to the fact that both my plantar facitis and kidney stones have been acting up in a big way, though I have not called out since the
10th of April.
With higher than Christmas volume and what was initially March level staffing, work has been rather hectic. Eventually the company became convinced that this was a long term issue and began hiring new people about a week ago. 12 people have been hired for our building over the last two weeks of which four lasted one full day and three are still with us. This has not caught us up from the attrition of those who quit due to the workload.
We have the worst economy since the great depression and jobs starting at ~$16.00 with annual pay increases, full medical coverage, actual sick leave (
unlike some places) and opportunities for advancement can't get filled because people come in and are horrified by physical labor...or they cant past the drug test or background check.
What is wrong with these kids today?
What is that? It's a CLOUD! DAMN YOU STUPID CLOUD GET OUT OF MY SKY WITH YOU'RE SMUG WHISPY CUMULUS FACE!!
Anyway, I got the grass cut. I have to be to work in 6 hours so I should probably eat or go to bed or something.
Blogging may remain spartan for a bit.
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Years ago, when I was even poorer than I am now, I did apply to Big Brown for a position, and got an interview. However, the HR person doing the interview was so dismissive, if not borderline insulting, that I refuse to ever choose Big Brown for anything that I have a say in to this day.
Also, I had former co-worker who had worked for Big Brown before and then went back part-time a while later, to earn a little extra cash. One of the politest, well mannered, even tempered person I personally know - who quit Big Brown after two weeks into his second go-around with them because his supervisor was a massive jerk.
God knows I seen too many terrible new hires come and go at work, and a lot of people are not going to cut it in the working world. But I do not think all of them are...
Posted by: cxt217 at Mon May 11 21:24:20 2020 (4i7w0)
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My thanks to you and your colleagues. I wave at my neighborhood's UPS driver whenever I see him.
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April 10, 2020
It Ends
Just a quick update on last night's post. In lieu of actual content here is something pleasantly disturbing by
Tokyo Gensou. Buy his art book
here.
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Good news. Rest well, Brickmuppet!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Fri Apr 10 23:31:09 2020 (PiXy!)
Posted by: Rick C at Sat Apr 11 00:00:38 2020 (Iwkd4)
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Yay, glad to hear you're improving. That kind of thing is scary, especially when you can't run screaming to the hospital to get properly treated.
Posted by: David at Sat Apr 11 03:48:37 2020 (UmjNG)
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Yeah. I confess I was a bit concerned. There are other things it could have been, most of them bad, and normally this would involve a battery of x-rays, tests, and a urinalysis rather more comprehensive than "Yep! Blood. Lots'o blood. That ain't right." What's even better is that having the worst of the bleeding taper off a day and a half after I started the antibiotics is entirely consistent with an infection. The arm is a scrape, the stones are just pain, the knee and ankle can be dealt with via ace bandages, but all that blood, with everything else going on, that's just not fair. Knowing what it is is a relief. Having the arm finally stop bleeding is just icing on the cake.
That healed remarkably fast. It's current lack of severity does not bear any relation to the amount of blood I had to clean up in the kitchen sink.
As an added bonus, I just now found my Moleskin, which I REALLY wanted Wednesday morning. Even so, in the future I need to figure out a technique to apply a dressing one-handed and not make a birds nest of bandages and waste a bunch of gauze, pads, and tape. If that cut on the elbow had been deeper, I'd have needed to do a stitch and I couldn't even apply adhesive tape one handed without looking like a fool.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sat Apr 11 08:55:57 2020 (5iiQK)
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Glad to hear you're doing better, keep it up! Rest well and recover. Happy Easter.
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Sat Apr 11 12:19:38 2020 (045dC)
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Well, that was quite a scare.
Dressing wounds one-handed may be pretty awkward. The guy who cut out his own appendix in Antarctica had both hands available. Still, a backup can come useful.
On that note, I relayed our gracious host's tale of woe to my wife and she said, "Why is he living alone? He's not married?" She forgot how she went to ER by herself because I was in Japan.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sat Apr 11 18:29:57 2020 (LZ7Bg)
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April 08, 2020
Perhaps Surviving in Post-Apocalyptia is Going to Prove More Challenging Than Video Games Have Led Me to Believe
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Yikes! Careful out there and feel better soon!
Posted by: StargazerA5 at Wed Apr 8 16:33:48 2020 (045dC)
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Ouch.
A job that requires you to work until 2AM but doesn't actually require you to
move has certain advantages right now.
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February 01, 2020
Adventures in Boomerism
Last night, I finally got my
twitch,
Discord, and
Steam accounts to sync up in both
Epic, and
New Moon.
No big feat that, however, in keeping with established theories regarding the Dunning-Kruger Effect; this morning, thus emboldened by this junior varsity facsimile of "productivity", I resolved to sync and tether the
Kyocera Smartphone and my iMac.
Well, that was non-intuitive.
Most every online guide I found turned out to date from before Mojave and 'Grea' is using the newest iteration of Android. I get the impression that Apple and Google really don't want you to do this.
That aside, Holo and Grea are now talking to one another, ALL of my pictures from the old Blackberry's SD card are saved and I can begin the process of deleting unwanted/obnoxious apps, and possibly installing new browser.
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December 31, 2019
The Plumbers Have Left
This is the second time (the first time they had to have the city come in and do some things on the city side of the line). They've all left again now, but THIS time everything flushes. The bathroom is now clean and the poo smell is leaving.
I'm letting the nominally clean tub soak in bleach water for a few more minutes, but soon I will take a shower for the first time since Saturday.
This, has been hell.
Out of consideration for our readers the picture is unrelated to the recent unpleasantness and instead looks forward to a brighter tomorrow.
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December 24, 2019
It's Over
This young lady exquisitely exemplifies how I and most of my coworkers feel this evening....
Art by is by Itou,who understands what Christmas is like today.
I believe I personally lifted over 10,000 parcels today, mostly in 50 pound bags of small packages. This was a light day compared to previous weeks. I got home, sat down in the chair to take off my shoes and...suddenly it was six hours later. I am SO tired of all the winning, but can take solace from the fact that the hurting will soon fade.
Blogging will resume shortly.
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Bit late to the party here, but I note with interest, Amazon has a brand new delivery facility in a former warehouse here in Houston. I estimate 50k internal sq.feet, and that's assuming the original single-floor arrangement still exists. There is plenty of room for them to have modded a second floor for personnel offices. Dozens of vans are parked there, and they appear to be hiring. Next Xmas might be less strenuous for you...
Posted by: ubu at Thu Jan 2 14:24:56 2020 (SlLGE)
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Oops. Cant edit.... I was waaaaaay off; forgot the second part of the building and was only counting the original showroom floor... make that 175k sq ft. Also, the Google Map pics are way out of date; the large covered marshaling area for the vans that got added isn't shown.
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December 14, 2019
A Few Christmas Anecdotes
I've been an employee at U.P.S. for 27 years. In all that time I've never seen a Christmas like this one. I've seen it get heavy, but I'd never seen every day for over a week be higher than our peak day last year, nor heard the belts grinding from too much volume all day for three days. I have never, ever, until Tuesday, seen a 53 foot trailer come onto our lot bulging like a can with botulism. The other day one of the drivers from one of the big sort hubs came in to help after dropping off a load. He said that the hub was so packed that it took him 25 minutes to get from the bay door where the trailer was parked to the guard shack at the gate.
Young lady who understands what Christmas means to me is by Itou.
I honestly don't think I've been this sore every day since basic training.
Frankly, this is not any failure on the company's part, we're just experiencing the biggest Christmas EVER and our physical plant wasn't designed for an economy this good. It does bring a smile to my face to see all the Amazon packages coming through though. It seems that after declaring that they didn't need us and were never going to ship with us again...well... it looks from my modest vantage point that the Bezos brigade completely choked, as we've been getting trailer upon trailer of Amazon boxes that Amazon couldn't handle, and, despite this unexpected surfeit of cardboard, at least at my building, we haven't rolled anything over to the next day yet. Everything's gotten delivered. The hours are quite insane though.A few years ago I worked some double shifts and still didn't make as much overtime as I have this week. Today was odd, we actually finished early, however, as a result Monday's start time has been moved up to Sunday.
Monday's gonna suck.
On the other hand, I've lost 13 pounds and my pants are threatening to fall off.
Meanwhile, my current mastery of basic household chores, web-presence and Christmas preparations can be described thussly...
Blogging may remain light for a bit.
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There must be a way to blame this on the orange man!
Wait.....
Posted by: Ubu at Sat Dec 14 15:09:46 2019 (UlsdO)
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October 11, 2019
If I Vanish Mysteriously, Please Avenge Me
When I got in from work this morning,
there was part of a dead animal on my porch. I think the parts used to belong to a rabbit. I'm not sure,
I'm not an important member of the blogosphere, haven't posted anything involving actionable evidence about the Clintons, and in any event, there was no note attached
So for now I'm going to blame a hawk or coyote.
Why on my porch though?
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You been feeding a stray cat?
Posted by: Rick C at Fri Oct 11 10:19:05 2019 (Iwkd4)
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Wild animals love porches, as long as they come without cats or skunks. Porches are great vantage points, workbenches, and tables.
The sidewalks in my apartment complex are constantly covered in fall with the remnant of black walnut shells, and the resulting black stains.
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September 30, 2019
A WinRar is Me
Last week I received an E-mail apologizing and informing me that me that my confirmation
E-mail had gone to spam and that the snacks were in the mail.
Allow me to explain...
BILLY VERSUS SNAKEMAN is one of the many less than productive slices on the time allocation pie-graph of the Walter Mitty LARP that is my life.
It's a fun little anime themed browser game where one vicariously lives the life of a text based ninja living in a text based ninja village working with one's fellow ninja villagers to protect the village from attacks by other ninja villages, rampaging Kaiju, zombies, snowstorms, petitioners, sketchy peddlers, gambling schoolgirls and renegade tattoo artists, all the while going on quests and missions (to other anime genres) that pit you against the malign elder deity that is The Random Encounter Table. There's
a TV Tropes page for it.
The game is actually surprisingly well designed. It's fun and despite the limitations of a text based browser game, it affords considerable freedom and a surprising ability to cooperate with other players in your village, and occasionally others villages as well.
It's run by
Hammergirl Anime in Rochester New York which is relevant to this explanation because on the very day I had it confirmed that I'd graduated from college, I was informed that I had won "25 Dollars in Weird Japanese Snacks From Hammergirl".
And today...
Huh...
This box from
Hammergirl Anime contained a whole bunch of 'Weird Japanese Snacks'.
But that's
exactly what was promised!
"So. As a video game company Hammergirl is already way ahead of Bethesda."
Indeed!
If you're interested, you can play
Billy Versus Snakeman here.
Pixy and I are in
Snowflake Village. Which is...totally
not for snowflakes.
Hopefully, we will be accepting memberships again this evening or tomorrow.
Update:
Snowflake Village is accepting new members. Thanks Pixy.
Anyway.
Now I must deal with these Weird snacks.
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I have no idea what sort of snacks are in the
Love Live Sunshine!! box, but it's gotta be good.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Mon Sep 30 17:44:26 2019 (7cxC9)
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Snowflake Village is open for new members!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Mon Sep 30 18:32:22 2019 (PiXy!)
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I do hope you used that code before giving it to the Internet.
Posted by: Rick C at Mon Sep 30 19:20:49 2019 (Iwkd4)
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A buddy of mine has had Hammergirl as his friendly local shop for ages and ages. I remember when I was playing BvS and told him about it. "Oh, it's that game that (11DB) made!"
I learned to play hanafuda AND mahjongg from that game.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Tue Oct 1 01:37:36 2019 (v29Tn)
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So, what is the "Mini Bromaid" Pizza-taste Snack with a picture looking like corn?
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tue Oct 1 17:05:39 2019 (LZ7Bg)
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The "Mini Bromaid" was a puffed cheese thing with a taste that is not
quite mozzarella but very close. It wasn't bad at all.
The "Umai" (The Doremon themed confections) came in three varieties:
Tonkotsu, which was a crunchy thing that one might be persuaded under duress to describe as that of pork Ramen.
The Cheese variety was surprising as it was the most cheddary thing that ever cheddared. It as more cheddary than Cheese-Its. I never encountered cheddar in Japan and was quite surprised to see them get cheddar right.
Both the above would likely go well with a soda or sweet tea.
The chocolate "Umai" was an amorphous cookie-esque thing wrapped in chocolate. I can't overstress how non-dense the cookie part of this is. I imagine that eating an aerogel coated in chocolate would be similar. The chocolate was, well, perfectly serviceable chocolate. The effect is similar to eating a chocolate KitKat if the cookie portion had the same tensile strength, but the density of cotton.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tue Oct 1 19:43:00 2019 (YUAc9)
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tue Oct 1 22:03:29 2019 (LZ7Bg)
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"a chocolate KitKat if the cookie portion had the same tensile strength, but the density of cotton."
A few decades late to help Milo Minderbinder.
Posted by: Rick C at Wed Oct 2 09:12:05 2019 (Iwkd4)
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