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Post by Batflunkie on Nov 20, 2021 11:12:12 GMT -5
So we've finally moved, thank god!
Internet is none existent, but I've been getting by with comics, tv, and video games (I've gone without internet for weeks at a time before, but I cannot ween myself off of the glorious boob tube). Also took a six day off-period from work to prematurely celebrate my birthday, and it's been nice. Haven't done a whole lot, but it's been enjoyable. Hopefully we can get the internet fixed soon (I'm typing this at our old house to while I take care of a few things)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2021 12:09:14 GMT -5
Well got my flu shot in my left shoulder and my COVID booster in my right shoulder this morning, so I am all vaxxed up for the season.
-M
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 20, 2021 12:58:45 GMT -5
Well got my flu shot in my left shoulder and my COVID booster in my right shoulder this morning, so I am all vaxxed up for the season. -M
I got a flu shot a week ago, but decided to push my Covid booster off until after Thanksgiving-- mainly because I usually take all shots in my right arm and I didn't want to double up in the same visit.
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Post by kirby101 on Nov 20, 2021 13:05:24 GMT -5
Got my flu shot at the Dr's. Mild fever for 4 days. Got my booster the next week, a bit sore in the arm and that was it. Glad I got both.
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 21, 2021 18:07:53 GMT -5
Thanks for the wellwishes, everyone, I appreciate it! I'm hopeful that this won't be too bad - staying off my feet for a couple weeks and going back for more x-rays. Hopefully by then I'll be able to walk in a boot without the help of a crutch, we'll see. 🤞
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 22, 2021 6:37:47 GMT -5
Roy the boy Thomas turns 81 today.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 22, 2021 7:47:54 GMT -5
Roy the boy Thomas turns 81 today. Intellectually it only makes sense, but emotionally I can't get my head around the fact that Roy (or Neal Adams, or Barry Windsor-Smith, or Jim Starlin, or any of the young creators from the bronze age) might be over 60. It's like the past 20 years went woooosh just like that. Happy birthday, Roy, and thanks for all the hours of fun and wonder!
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Post by impulse on Nov 22, 2021 9:00:16 GMT -5
Got my COVID-19 booster yesterday, and my wife is getting hers this week. We stagger them in case the shot K.O.s one of us so someone can manage the kids. Thankfully no issues. The headache I already had got slightly worse, but that may well have had nothing to do with the shot. I think I forgot to drink half my coffee yesterday which is what did it.
So my wife gets her booster this week. My daughter gets her second shot in a couple weeks. My son is still too young, but we are getting there.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2021 15:07:53 GMT -5
Curating the Secret Santa event made me notice that a few former regulars have been MIA recently, and since then I have noticed more such missing regulars. I am hoping it is just the pandemic blues that has kept them away and the chaos it has caused, but I am hoping the festive nature of Cei-U!/Kurt's Twelve Days of Classic Comics Christmas brings some of them back for a return visit, even if only briefly. I am excitedly awaiting the reveal of this year's topic (usually just after Thanksgiving, hopefully that true this year as well...) It's still one of my favorite parts of the holiday season and perhaps the one I look forward to most! -M
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 22, 2021 18:26:51 GMT -5
Roy the boy Thomas turns 81 today. Two reactions. 1) Yikes! 2) Man, am I old!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 24, 2021 13:30:19 GMT -5
Had a bit of a kerfuffle at a restaurant last night. The bill came and the waitress brought the little card reader around for me to pay. The service had been marginal. Not actively bad but not particularly attentive and they weren't very busy. Add on to that that most of the side dishes came out somewhere between lukewarm and almost chilly and I wasn't in the best of moods. So the reader gave me an option of 20%, 25% or 30% tip. I looked for a way to give a custom tip and there wasn't one. So I asked and was told those were the only options. So I checked my wallet and all I had was a twenty and that was not happening. I grudgingly hit the 20% and then when when she gave me a look I asked to see the manager. She said she'd get him...and I waited. So eventually I went up to the front and stared her and him down until he came to see me. He told me he had another reader up front that would allow me to customize the tip. I told him that their readers weren't acceptable to me and that I would be unlikely to come back unless it changed. I was polite to everyone and tried very hard to avoid going full Karen. The thing is, I'm a good tipper. But I want the options to be in my hands.
But really it just was the culmination of a growing irritation with the U.S.'s tip culture. It feels like everywhere I go (except the grocery store) the first thing I see at check-out is whether I want to leave a tip. I ran in to a local convenience store and grabbed a pre-made sandwich and it asked if I wanted to tip. FOR WHAT?
Pay your damn employees a decent wage. Then maybe we won't have to hear the whines from business owners about how "nobody wants to work anymore." Pay a decent wage and then if someone goes above and beyond the call of duty and I want to slip them a few bucks it's because they did a hell of a job instead of because their employer is a cheapskate and we, as a nation, have built entire industries on a business model that is a charade.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2021 14:12:55 GMT -5
Had a bit of a kerfuffle at a restaurant last night. The bill came and the waitress brought the little card reader around for me to pay. The service had been marginal. Not actively bad but not particularly attentive and they weren't very busy. Add on to that that most of the side dishes came out somewhere between lukewarm and almost chilly and I wasn't in the best of moods. So the reader gave me an option of 20%, 25% or 30% tip. I looked for a way to give a custom tip and there wasn't one. So I asked and was told those were the only options. So I checked my wallet and all I had was a twenty and that was not happening. I grudgingly hit the 20% and then when when she gave me a look I asked to see the manager. She said she'd get him...and I waited. So eventually I went up to the front and stared her and him down until he came to see me. He told me he had another reader up front that would allow me to customize the tip. I told him that their readers weren't acceptable to me and that I would be unlikely to come back unless it changed. I was polite to everyone and tried very hard to avoid going full Karen. The thing is, I'm a good tipper. But I want the options to be in my hands. But really it just was the culmination of a growing irritation with the U.S.'s tip culture. It feels like everywhere I go (except the grocery store) the first thing I see at check-out is whether I want to leave a tip. I ran in to a local convenience store and grabbed a pre-made sandwich and it asked if I wanted to tip. FOR WHAT? Pay your damn employees a decent wage. Then maybe we won't have to hear the whines from business owners about how "nobody wants to work anymore." Pay a decent wage and then if someone goes above and beyond the call of duty and I want to slip them a few bucks it's because they did a hell of a job instead of because their employer is a cheapskate and we, as a nation, have built entire industries on a business model that is a charade. Pre-pandemic, there was a movement without some of the higher end restaurants in big cities like New York to eliminate tipping altogether and simply rate the wages of waitstaff to a level where they are not dependent on tips for income. They simply raised menu prices 15-20% to cover the extra salary costs without raising the out of pocket expense for the typical customer who would tip in that range anyways. It met resistance from employees who worked for tips (who felt they could make more in tips than they could even with a substantially above minimum wage and who could hide some of their income form taxation by not declaring the cash tips only those on the books by being on the cards), from other restaurant owners who felt raising their prices would drive customers away because it looked like they were charging more for the same thing even if they were not, and from customers who did not like the option being taken away from them (the same sentiment that causes customers who reserve tables for large parties to get upset when the gratuity is automatically added for such large parties). I can understand the servers concern to an extent-at the family restaurant I was working at a good server on a busy weekend night could walk out with $400-500 in tips alone (plus whatever salary they would make, and they would only have maybe 6-8 tables at one time if we were short staffed, 4-6 if fully staffed) for a six hour shift, a number they could not come close to achieving at their hourly rate even if they were getting $50 and hour, but there were slow nights where they were lucky to take home $50 for the same length of shift, so it evens out a bit, but they see it as ending tips puts an arbitrary cap on their earnings rather than guaranteeing a minimum they will always make no matter what the circumstances. However, I do think the movement has merit overall, but needs to be tweaked or its execution rethought before it could be successfully implemented on a larger scale. -M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 24, 2021 14:23:03 GMT -5
Hurrah!!! After being rejected for science journal covers again and again, these images finally made it to a science symposium!!! Granted, decorating a bag or a t-shirt isn't the same as gracing the cover of Cell... but hey, they're still technically in print!!!
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Post by wickedmountain on Nov 25, 2021 0:48:01 GMT -5
Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends here that's everyone
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2021 1:10:32 GMT -5
Aye a hearty Happy Thanksgiving to all my American brethren who are celebrating today and a Good Thursday to all those who are not!
-M
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