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Oh, that dry wit! https://gizmodo.com/ben-franklins-daylight-saving-time-proposal-was-writte-1456363759

Ferengi actually pay their debts.

Which may be really important for Halflings in a Dark Sun campaign.

Hello Muddah, hello Faddah Here I am at Camp Grenada Camp is very entertaining And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining I went hiking with Joe Spivey He developed poison ivy You remember Leonard Skinner He got Ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner All the counsellors hate the waiters And the lake has alligators And the head coach wants no sissies So he reads to us from something called Ulysses Now I don't want this should scare ya' But my bunkmate has Malaria You remember Jeffery Hardy They're about to organize a searching party Take me home, oh Muddah, Faddah Take me home, I hate Grenada Don't leave me out in the forest where I might get eaten by a bear Take me home, I promise I will Not make noise, or mess the house with Other boys, oh please don't make me stay I've been here one whole day Dearest Fadduh, Darling Muddah How's my precious little bruddah Let me come home if you miss me I would even let Aunt Bertha hug and kiss me Wait a minute, it's stopped hailing Guys are swimming, guys are sailing Playing baseball, gee that's bettah Muddah, Faddah kindly disregard this letter

Some of my watches will auto-update, but I'll have to manually change most of the clocks in the house.

That would be a Hobbes--nasty, brutish, and short.

And The Orville has just been renewed for a second season: http://ew.com/tv/2017/11/02/the-orville-renewed-season-2/ From the article: So far this season, Fox’s sci-fi series has been averaging 6.7 million viewers and a 2.1 rating among adults 18-49 on Thursday nights. That might not sound like very much, but in a fall where so many new shows have struggled, it’s enough to rank Orville as the second highest-rated new hour-long show of the fall behind ABC’s The Good Doctor. Plus, Orville is keeping Fox alive in what’s long been a very tough timeslot for the network.

Sinister!

One of These Days?

Had about 50 kids trick or treating on Halloween, and the Hot Wheels cars* (and full-size candy bars) were a big hit. Had one person dressed as a mime, and she used ASL to thank me, which was extremely cool. *I buy them on sale throughout the year, usually in batches of about 10 or so. They don't expire, so any leftover cars become ones to be given out the next year.

If I have to reply in kind to my "enemy", then I've already lost.

There are a lot of flavors of conservative*, and I really don't expect everyone to immediately denounce everything that sets folks off. Likewise, "but they did it, too" didn't work so well on the playground, won't get you out of a speeding ticket, and probably shouldn't be used in politics, either. *Feel free to substitute liberal here, as well. Heck, there's often so much noise, it's really hard to get the signal straight from either side.

They had a Prius with an "alien" license plate parked on the street. Now I know what my car will be for Halloween.

In one of my FH (1e) games, I had an item, Roddenberry's Ring of Parallel Development, which gave the wearer the equivalent of a Universal Translator.

According to NBC News, George Papadopoulos already pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI three weeks ago, from the article: Manafort's transactions include wire transfers from foreign accounts to pay for his personal expenses, which means that he avoided paying taxes on the money. The Feds are seeking asset forfeitures for several of his properties. Trump's tweet response, from the article: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/paul-manafort-rick-gates-told-surrender-special-prosecutor-probe-n815536

Diana Darko?

My Amazon order was supposed to arrive today, but ended up arriving yesterday around noon. It took me a little bit of fiddling to get everything installed, but now the new Ryzen 7 tower has a Blu-Ray writer in the full size drive bay, and a WD Black NVMe 512GB SSD card in the M.2 slot. The OS has been cloned onto the SSD, and it's awesomely fast. Booting is much faster than my old i5 with a SATA III SSD, and most applications load in a fraction of a second.

"With a Little Help from My Friends" (5.1 mix) by the Beatles.

One of my favorites:

I almost thought that you were my co-worker for a minute, then the diazepam took effect, and I didn't care anymore.

I asked my co-worker to read all of the notes on a trouble ticket, and then tell me what the next step should be. He read the header, and a little bit of the initial request, and then decided (wrongly) what was needed. I asked him to fully read all of the notes. THREE. MORE. TIMES. He had a switch name and a switch port, and was asked to locate the computer connected to it. He knew that the cable was 4 to 5 meters long, and that the computer needed to be within the IDF where the switch was located. Off he went to the other property. I then got the first call, where he told me that it was some sort of equipment belonging to a telecom vendor, as that was what was connected to the patch panel. Switch, I told him. What is the name of the switch that you are standing in front of? He rattled off some ID from the telecom vendor. I corrected him, and asked him to give me the name of the switch he was looking for, and then reminded him that he needed to trace the line from the port on the switch. Second call, he told me that he had to go to a different IDF closet, and that the item hooked up to the patch panel was some sort of other equipment. I repeated the conversation again that he was looking for a port on a switch, and to trace the line from the switch to the device. Third call, he told me that it was some sort of computer that was hooked up to the patch panel. Repeated conversation again. Fourth call, he told me that he was having difficulty finding anything hooked up to this patch panel. I got a little testy, and told him that he's looking for a switch, not a patch panel, and that I had told him that on the other three calls, and that's what it said on the notes in his hand. He said he'd go back and look again. Text message, giving the ID of a computer in our AD (the target device wasn't in our AD), I pinged the computer, found a different IP address than the one he was looking for, and sent that information back, with a message to please verify. I clocked out and started to drive home. Cell phone in my pocket fires off the clown horn (incoming text message), then fires it off again. I get home. Look at the message, and he's located a different device. I send a message to write everything up, and I'll review it when I get in tomorrow. Longish gap, then he sends back that the original opener of the ticket has confirmed that it is the correct device. The thing is, it's like this almost every time he attempts to troubleshoot anything. He's been with the company almost 5 months now, and there's literally no progress whatsoever. He spent a couple of days with another tech at a different location last week, and I received an email from that tech saying that "he f***ing doesn't listen". Unfortunately, this scene comes to mind whenever I deal with him. After tomorrow, I'll be on vacation and out of the office for 9 days. He'll have several projects, and end of month, and whatever stuff comes in, and I'll be dreading coming back to whatever mess he's left.

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