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mlooney
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Here is Seems that over using magic makes you sleepy (see Grace in the not for Ashley party) Either making a spell book takes more energy than you would think or Hope is very underpowered by Immortal standards. Or Jay's book is massive, which also seems to be the case.
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mlooney replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Based on the price of a side of beef, less than a car. Well, maybe not a used rust bucket. <google> Damn, a side of beef is ~2000 USD, that means 4000 for a whole steer/cow. And that is US farm belt prices, direct from a ranch. It's been a few years1 since I've had anything to do with buying beef in bulk. 1Well, OK decades. Not this century. -
“The Human is moaning today. He hurt his knee when he went out walking to see those cats in the book place in the rain. I can smell them on him! He petted cats that aren't me! Serves him right for doing that. I'm still taking care of him, though, he's my Human and I need to help him, even if he's being unfaithful.” - Explorer the Cat.
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Appointment made for getting Explorer, my cat, fixed. Soonest they can do her is Feb 26, which is a little longer than I wanted, but I can live with that.
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Ouch. Most man portable missiles cost as much as a luxury car, at the least. -
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To be fair, most of the egregious posts on WarThunder have been from non-Americans. Which is not to say the US hasn't contributed some. -
Here is I did not expect that to be the difference between a marked mage and a wizard's spell book. Looks like Hope has issues with making Jay's book. And it seems rather thick.
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The phone thing was his idea, and his responsibility to insure training. The CO was just making sure it happened. The army as a whole didn't have a requirement to do this, but Maj. Neely (I think, it's been too many years) sort of freaked out when he was assigned to a unit with nukes in Germany. He wasn't ready for that. He had been in an armor unit before 2/1 ADA. He was sure that there were Soviet spies everywhere. Not the most parodied officer I met there (that would be my last battery commander) but a close second. -
<zoom> The reference going over my head. The only character I know from that show is Daisy, and that's because of the shorts.
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Last time my right knee felt like this, it got a lot worse and I ended up getting a steroid injection in it after about a month and a half of intense pain. I hope this isn't the start of that.
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There is a difference between “intelligence” and “military intelligence”. They have vastly differing meanings. Sort of like “organic” has three unrelated meanings. -
Yesterday it was headaches. The day before, the left side of my body from a fall. Both days nose issues. Today started well, but, like an idiot, I went walking right before a rain and the arthritis I get from storm fronts kicked my Lilly white ass. I'd like to have a day when I don't take close to the lethal dosage of acetaminophen, with or without aspirin. The caffeine stays constant, it's in both versions of the pills. Explorer is being as helpful as she can, but that often means I'm typing with only one hand.
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I just stood up to go take a whizz. My right knee told me, and the horse I rode in on, to fuck off and die. Back in bed, using the crappy keyboard and waiting on the new dose to kick in.
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mlooney replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
No, the whole battalion, regardless of rank, apart from the command officer, got trained by the S2. CO's orders. The S2 was less than thrilled by this, as he had to travel to 3 isolated sites (plus one colocated with other army units) and give the training. Due to manning requirements, he had to give the training on 2 different days, in 3 locations per site. He was a very unhappy major when this was done. Pretty much brought the S2 shop to its knees for a week and a half. Fortunately, a Nike Herc battalion in peace time really doesn't need an intelligence shop to function. -
I checked Weather Underground. Not due to rain until 2:15ish. Went for a walk. I got rained on halfway to the Books and Cats café. I got back. WU now reporting “rain shower”. Forecast to end any time now, then pick up again around 2:15 for 30 minutes or so. Walking does not help weather induced arthritis. In bed keeping knees straight with no weight on them. At least my nose is clear and I don't have a headache.
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Oddly, merriam-webster.com has a definition of “Wazoo”. I don't understand why LanguageTool barfs on it. By itself, it means “anus”. “Up (or out) the wazoo” means “in excess.” If I really used it more, I would add it to my personal dictionary for LT. Meh. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wazoo
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You say that, but I heard the Command Sergeant Major of the Battalion get chewed out by the S2 (intelligence officer) for not answering the phone right. We got training on the correct way of answering the phone later that week. Yes, the army had a class on answering the phone. That took an hour. With attendance sheets and everything. I'll grant that a BN CSM isn't really all that high in the over scheme of things, but it is the highest enlisted rank and takes a direct appointment by the Secretary of the Army to get promoted to. He retired soon after that. Good riddance, he had other issues. -
Feeling optimistic that I can get some writing on Project X, or maybe even my Space Fantasy game, done today. I need to name that something. The current name “Edge of Imperial Space” really doesn't fit it anymore. Took antihistamines with my normal morning drugs and no current headache. Going to finish breakfast and my cat photo stuff, then may dive in.
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“The Red Dot came out today! It's not it's normal day, but I'll swat it anyway! Yay!” - Explorer the Cat.
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I doubt that Bishop even owns a kazoo, although the buzzing sound is kind of snaky. She seems more like a brass cymbals kind of gal. But to your point, yes, ulterior motives seem to ooze out of all her orifices, including her wazoo, that is to say butt. <snerk> I used “kazoo” there because “LanguageTool” didn't know what “wazoo” was, and I was amused by the options it gave me to replace it with.
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I have a hard time dealing with the idea the top security people are using unsecure services to communicate ANYTHING, much less war plans. The fact that they were able to send them to a reporter is why you aren't supposed to use them. Back in my day, you would get into deep shit if you discussed anything even touching on OpSec on a telephone line that wasn't secure. In fact, we had a spiel that we used to answer the phone that ended with “this line is not secure”. You would get in medium level shit if you left that out of your means of answering the phone. -
It seems apparent to me that Bishop is being prepared to take Arthur's place in DGB. The odds of that level of an agent in DGB not being a mage of some sort is slim. Don't forget that Wolf is supposed to be one of the most powerful wizards in the Midwest, and we haven't seen him do any magic either. On the other hand, yeah, Bishop has ulterior motives out the kazoo.
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It's a bit odd that Jay would think she knows more about Diane's spell than Diane does. Of course, Diane: Doesn't have a spell book. Didn't know she had a spell. Not using it as much as Jay seems to be. I suspect Jay has been using a lot of magic (at least the smoke spell and Diane's spell) enough so that she is getting her own spells.
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Fuck. Now my left ear is bleeding. Not from the eardrum, which I have had happened, but from a zit like thing right before the ear canal,
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Jay I suspect. I'm willing to wager half a vanilla wafer that she has a number of her own spells. And, yes, that's a much bigger book than Justin's and Hope seemed to have issues with creating it. This leads me to think it has numerous spells in it, with complete descriptions.
