I don’t think I’ve mentioned quof’s cognitohazard yet. During Superchain Theory I, for the second orb, we get into light party stacks. Light debuffs go on the left, dark debuffs go on the right, except the people with the laser debuffs do the opposite (light laser goes right, dark laser goes left). ...
They say sleepy driving is as bad as drunk driving in terms of impairment. Now imagine completing most of an important work project while drunk. 3:45 am: Project complete!! I didn’t send it in immediately because it’s gauche to be sending emails at nearly 4 am, and I always do a final proofread in t...
Running off my fourth day of sleep deprivation, one might ask: If it was impacting my raid performance that severely, what’s it doing to my work performance? Well, at this point, it can’t be helped. I stayed up past 4 am last night working on my project before admitting that I had no hope of finishi...
My favorite wipe: During reductive rhomboid, newbie was supposed to step in a tower but he stepped on Carbuncle instead. Apparently they were both glowing so he couldn’t tell the difference?? With Saturday’s Themis reclear, we are officially done with Themis forever. Unfortunately, my play against A...
I missed newbie’s Hokma suppression clear. He was streaming near midnight on Tuesday, and I figured he could potentially be there for hours, and I had better sign off and start preparing for bed. Then he cleared half an hour later and I MISSED IT nooo. Apparently he got green midnight. All my homies...
The term “Chinese fries” does not exist. This is mindblowing. I’ve called them “Chinese fries” all my life and it turns out my parents just made the term up. Apparently, as a small child, I was like “what’s this?” and my parents were like “Chinese fries!” because it was something an American kid wou...
Mom’s kind of a big deal now, work-wise. I already knew this, but it still feels weird. On Friday she was going to meet Dad and me for lunch, and she pulled up her scheduling spreadsheet and was like, okay, I cleared time from noon to 2 pm. A scheduling spreadsheet?? Who does that?? Then one of her ...
Visiting family this weekend. I’m taking the afternoon train down on Thursday, working remotely on Friday, and then on Saturday we drive back up and possibly my parents do some cleaning. My parents are very gung-ho about this cleaning thing. They’ve been talking about it for literally months. They k...
It’s time for the hit new game of 2023, World of Warcraft. GGG is apparently getting together a raiding crew. Dante and HGR spent Saturday evening and most of Sunday leveling up their characters, which meant I got to hear all about the adventures of Chillmonger and Aioniopyr. (The name Aioniopyr was...
Trying out this homestyle chili I bought on a whim. Turns out “homestyle” means watery and tomatoey. It’s not bad—makes a decent soup—but not really what I want from chili. Guess I’m going back to my usual after finishing this batch.After last week’s heat wave broke, we had a nice cool week for Flam...
The weather finally caught on that it’s Flameforger’s month instead of Thundercrack month. Wednesday has pivoted to being the hottest day of the week. 95 degrees out today, with a heat index of 111. Boss texted that we could work from home due to the heat, but I was considering going down anyway—I w...
numbers declared Friday night to be a drunk night. We played Fake Artist Goes to New York and Codenames. The most memorable Codenames moment: HGR was spymaster for the opposing team and gave them the clue “ground.” They were like, maybe a pool? You can have a pool in the ground? But they eventually ...