#ooc

August 14th, 2024

shadylady 6:48pm

shadylady 7:38pm

On the subject of possessive apostrophes for words ending in "s" - I had a wildly stodgy Latin prof at Dartmouth who’d wave away grammarian stuff like this. “Pedantry. Bullshit. This is English, the shower drain of languages. Entrepreneur and schadenfreude are words. ‘Set’ has 35 definitions. Intelligibility is the only rule. Do as you please.” (*Nick *
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earldebuke 7:43pm

Sorry, have lost all sense of time today

shadylady 7:48pm

earldebuke 7:49pm

My friend was supposed to get her shunt/stint out today, but because she has an infection, she showed up, got charged, and told not today. next week

shadylady 7:49pm

shadylady 7:49pm

Oh, that pisses me off for her.

earldebuke 7:50pm

It makes sense, health wise, and they won't charge her for the procedure, just the visit.

shadylady 7:50pm

STILL! I mean... the infection was documented, but they made her show and charged her for that? BS....

shadylady 7:50pm

earldebuke 7:51pm

I tend to agree, but I guess it needed a doctor's official refusal to count sigh She's very disappointed but accepting it with grace

shadylady 7:51pm

Better woman than I am. I'd be massively cranky and plotting vengence.

earldebuke 7:59pm

I maybe letting my OWN biases in the way there. How are you?

shadylady 8:01pm

Eh. Still slow going at work, learning and onboarding. Frustrating but I know it's necessary. Things are foot-dragging on duties.

earldebuke 8:03pm

Neither is surprising but you have my sympathy

robinrahne 8:03pm

earldebuke 8:04pm

robinrahne 8:06pm

Shady, remind me what the new job is, again?

shadylady 8:09pm

"Enterprise Communications Coordinator" - basically the same job I did at the CU, but for a 🏥

robinrahne 8:10pm

Right, I recall now. 🙂

earldebuke 8:34pm

Sorry for delay... tension in the household. Seems on low simmer now

robinrahne 8:36pm

Can pause if you need to.

earldebuke 8:38pm

All good now. Housemate's daughter called. Weird combo of needing help but being too proud to ask for it until now, and then kind of blaming her mom for that... the mother was not amused and they disagreed over a past event which got dug up etc.

earldebuke 8:40pm

I love my god niece, but she tends to think she is very open minded when she actually can be very black and white about stuff

robinrahne 8:41pm

How old is niece?

earldebuke 8:45pm

In her early 30s now

robinrahne 8:50pm

Hang on, AFK a sec.

robinrahne 8:51pm

robinrahne 9:08pm

Hmm...I want to say a dice pool of 7 or possibly 8, with explode on Charisma. Does that feel appropriate?

earldebuke 9:11pm

robinrahne 9:19pm

Ruzgala's strategy makes me think of Trump.

earldebuke 9:20pm

earldebuke 9:20pm

Definitely not the way I hoped to present her

robinrahne 9:25pm

Oh, she doesn't make me think of Trump, but the strategy of preemptively accusing her opponent of doing exactly what she does.

earldebuke 9:35pm

She got dictumed and is surly about it 😉

earldebuke 9:38pm

time to see if word gets out and the local lord sends someoen to pick up HIS pooka

earldebuke 9:39pm

25 percent chance sounds fair

earldebuke 9:39pm

Roller 9:39pm

@earldebuke rolls 1d100

earldebuke 9:39pm

Oh the dice like that idea

robinrahne 9:39pm

robinrahne 9:40pm

This could get interesting.

earldebuke 9:40pm

Let me see who is sent

earldebuke 9:40pm

Roller 9:40pm

@earldebuke rolls 1 dice (diff 6)

rae 10:16pm

rae 10:16pm

7 hours of travel today for a 4 hr drive

robinrahne 10:17pm

Oh dear. What happened? Just bad traffic?

rae 10:17pm

went through a big tstorm system which slowed the freeways, then had to change max during the storm and couldn’t find anywhere with a changing table so begged a US Cellular to borrow a corner of their carpeted floor with my changing pad

rae 10:18pm

Made it to a rest area and changed MYSELF out of soaked clothes