Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-06-30T22:13:13-04:00
You'd be surprised, but the thing about your campaign was that virtually every supporter was a personal friend, so you'll be able to personally tell them it's back on, which helps a ton. I don't have any worries, really, I'm just too much of a realist for my own good.
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Any updates on the new goal, or is it still on to be $1,000? That should be a perfect goal for it if it's enough.
Lord Zombitten 2016-07-01T11:36:53-04:00
Yes, it's still going to be $1k, which should actually help get more pledges than the previous campaign. That will eliminate the problem of people not pledging just because it doesn't look like the project will get funded.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-01T11:41:13-04:00
Welp, just saw my brother off to the airport. In just a mere 60 hours, he will have taken planes, trains, AND automobiles to get to Leipzig, Germany. In fact, 1 car ride (to the airport), 4 flights (all standby and free- his last hurrah from working for Delta), and 3 trains.
He'll study German in a comprehensive course there for 2 months (starting July 4th even) before hopefully getting everything arranged for a job he's been offered in Bern, Switzerland!
He's the first of our family to move out of the country! Really, of anyone in the last 4 generations to actually move to a full other country!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-01T11:44:39-04:00
Speaking of which, while going over family records with my grandmother a few days ago, we figured out my great^5 grandfather was Swiss, from just a few miles from where our former exchange student/good family friend/virtually family is from, so we might be related! (as in 13th cousins 4 times removed or whatever) If he was the only Swiss in our family (we didn't have time to check), that makes us 0.78% Swiss! Funny that.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-01T11:45:17-04:00
Hooray for sauce!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-01T11:48:12-04:00
Oh, and just got news that the very same exchange student is finally marrying his girlfriend right now! Took him way too damn long (really, like 10+ years of being very close) and a pregnancy scare (false positive) to finally convince him.
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Wow, it's been a very eventful day! All centering around Switzerland... I'm sensing an Illuminati-level scheme here...
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-02T10:40:59-04:00
Even if we found most of the people who left, the weekends would still be dead.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-07-02T16:58:11-04:00
Just popping in to wish a Happy Belated Birthday to Canada. 149 years old but doesn't look a day over 50.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-02T23:20:29-04:00
Also, yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
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This morning, after the day I had the last 2 days, especially how long I was up, I slept like 12-13 hours! I woke up at 4 am because that was a normal night's sleep, but went to sleep again over half an hour later.
Yeah, I was pretty awake today!
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Also saw Finding Dory. It's a pretty good one.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-03T18:08:40-04:00
I'm rereading the Silmarillion, one of the best books ever, the ultimate history to Middle Earth. I'm halfway through now and got to one of my favorite and the most badass characters, Huan the dog that actually killed Sauron! Well, his body; you can't kill the Maia themselves.
BruceP - Chameleon Prime 2016-07-03T19:42:44-04:00
Just popping in to say "Hey!". Haven't been in in awhile, so hello to the kittens. :)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-03T20:42:50-04:00
So it would seem my brother is no longer "in-continent". ;)
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-03T20:44:25-04:00
Chameleon!!! How've you been?! We've missed you! (and several other people, but you prominently)
Ooh, that table looks really nice! Even though I'll never be able to afford that, I'm definitely going to take a look at it.
BruceP - Chameleon Prime 2016-07-03T22:13:15-04:00
Hi Micah. :)
Been good. Very busy, but good.
Yeah, nice table. It's so much cheaper than the custom, one-off ones you'd get from their (or other) websites. :) Too bad I have to wait until next year to get it, though...
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-03T23:55:07-04:00
That is a nice table! Man I wish I had $559!
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Too bad you've been so busy. Several people's lives just got in the way of them being on here regularly, and many just forgot entirely to even check in. Kinda sad, but such is life. Down to about 4 or 5 of us regularly now.
Join us! Come back to the dark side!
Happy 4th of July to all of you south of the border.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-04T13:03:00-04:00
Morning, GM. Happy 4th of July to you north of the border! I mean, it's not a day reserved for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Fireworks (does that mean this is the busiest day for the ATF or the biggest holiday off? Do they care if it's just fire and not firearms?), but that doesn't mean it can't be happy.
I love how nobody that puts things in the freezer at home labels them anymore...what looked like pork loin turned out to be tuna steak...guess I get to go buy lunch...when trying to save money. -.-
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-04T15:36:10-04:00
I got to play a game on ultra-high settings! Sure, it's fallout 3, an 8 year old game, but it's something!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-04T17:24:14-04:00
Guess what we're eating? That's right, corned beef and cabbage, typical fourth of july food! And one of my favorites! No mashed potatoes though. What kind of Irish holiday is this without potatoes?!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-05T04:46:55-04:00
Stupid Fallout 3 keeps crashing, but hey, it works most of the time. Only like 6 crashes in 10 hours, one by my computer.
It's because it's made for Windows XP and Vista, which for obvious reasons, I'm not running. There's a specific driver it wanted me to turn on, but I couldn't get it to work at all, so I'm stuck with this.
Hopefully today doesn't mentally drain me as much as yesterday...I literally got home, and sat there staring at a black TV screen...I didn't even turn it on for 20minutes.
Lord Zombitten 2016-07-05T12:41:49-04:00
I hope it's not so physically draining for me. I hiked to Timpanogos cave yesterday. About 1.5 miles from the trail head to the cave entrance, with over 1k foot change in elevation. It's steep and strenuous. At one point, my heart rate was 175. I thought I was going to die.
Aaaaand...I'm officially done with people....it's not even noon on Tuesday...and I am done with people for the week. -.-
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-05T13:57:51-04:00
I have all week to do nothing. Unfortunately, detasseling starts likely friday. This year, instead of waking up at 4 and feeling like shit to start off every day of the worst job anyone there will ever have, we're going to wake up at midnight and have a few hours, then sleep after we get back, when we feel tired.
It's such a simple and logical solution, yet we never thought of it before in my 8 years now of doing this!
Still going to suck ass, but it's much better than it was. There's nothing good to say about detasseling except that you're paid. $15/hour for me now too! Though that's the limit unless you become a supervisor.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-06T08:36:41-04:00
We're pulling an all-nighter today to reset our bodies over 12 hours in preparation for detasseling, to sleep whenever we get back and wake up around midnight. Thankfully, though, detasseling start was pushed back a full day to saturday!
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Darn you, Fallout 3, you're taking all my time for youtube and other games!!!
Well, that was a waste of tax payer money. Someone pulled the fire alarm for our building(and being downtown, there is zero chance of the fire department not showing up). Ended up with two ladder trucks, and two other engines outside the building. It was definitely NOT a drill. The firemen looked PISSED!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-06T21:55:46-04:00
I've never understood why people do that. Once, during a school concert, a baby saw a bright red handle and couldn't resist (you have no idea how awkward it is to sing with an alarm going off and the principal waving you to keep going), but that's the only time the person had a legitimate reason, even if it was that they couldn't think for themselves.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-07T06:17:12-04:00
I'm more of a lightweight than I thought I was, I guess. Then again, I haven't eaten or even drank anything in several hours. Quick confession, I snuck a bit of vodka into some RC I had, but given the morning I just had, you can't blame me. If you want to know how bad, here goes:
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Our house has foundational damage, so when it rains, there's way too much leakage in the basement. Until recently, most of it was caught by a huge bucket down there, in what was formerly a cellar, but it cracked recently and spills the water out. We have a drain in the floor on the other side of the basement though, so that helps. We just have to bail the water out of that room and bucket and mop/water-vacuum the water out of that and the other room in the basement (thank God we have concrete flooring down there).
Anyways, the drain decided to clog, so neither pouring it into the large sink or letting it flow into the drain really helped much; it was really slow and backed way up. So I was vacuuming out of the other room down there and just as it was dry and done, the water in the main room backed up so far it flooded into there causing another 1 1/2 hours of REALLY hard work getting it out.
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I know it's hard to get across just how much of a hell 2+ hours of that every time it rains is, but trust me, it's worse after the clog that made life ABSOLUTE HELL for dozens of reasons. Now, in addition to major foundational leaking damage, we have that to deal with.
We'd fix the damage, but obviously that's several thousand dollars easily, way more than we have. And after doing that shit from 2-4:30 am, I deserve a small amount of alcohol to get me through the thousand-yard-stare portion of severe mental AND physical trauma that shit entails.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-07T06:17:56-04:00
Sorry that was long, but I needed to rant really badly.
Also, it wasn't that much at all, but I can definitely feel the effects right now. And it's SO nice after dealing with that shit!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-07T07:00:29-04:00
Hmm, after two cups of that 2/3 RC 1/3 vodka mix, I may be a bit past being able to drive, if you know what I mean. Otherwise, I likely wouldn't be putting this shit on here, would I? ;)
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Also, if what I said below didn't get the hell across well enough, know that of what we did that entire time, 1/2 was wasted because of the backed up drain that spat up half of what we bailed into the sink because it was clogged downstream and could only drain a small amount at a time. So the level only really started going down after we decided to throw the water outside instead.
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One thing, though, is that now I couldn't really play Fallout 3 well, so I'm taking a break, giving me a chance to catch up on being 6 days behind on youtube because of Fallout 3. So I got that going for me, which is nice.
Lord Zombitten 2016-07-07T13:32:54-04:00
Sorry you have to deal with that, Zem. You definitely deserve that drink.
@Zem: I've never had a basement flood, not entirely at least. We did have a sewer back-up one day...right before dinner too. My brother, dad, and myself were dealing with it as best we could(ended up calling a plumber).
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-07T17:35:39-04:00
Hey, guys! Also, I failed at trying to shift my schedule about 15 hours, but thankfully if I stay up for 24 hours (again), then I should be about right. Which will be hard on the 3 hours of sleep I got after being up for 30 hours straight...
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GM, we're definitely calling a plumber for that problem. Hopefully he'll have it fixed before the next time it rains heavily.
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LZ, one thing I will say is that it sure as hell helped out then! That and the full pizza I ate with it.
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Hey, Creeper! How've you been? Come back more often! Don't forget to write!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-07T17:42:16-04:00
Dang it, I just now realized all the missed opportunities to make a comparison to a sinking ship! We were bailing the water as fast as we could, but it just wasn't fast enough!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-08T01:39:45-04:00
Almost 8 hours straight of Fallout 3 and I finally had to quit to go eat and do human things. Dang it!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-08T11:49:29-04:00
Good morning kittens.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-08T15:12:50-04:00
Good afternoon, BaKhan. And a good night from me; this is pretty much 10 pm or so for me.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-09T01:49:26-04:00
Guess whose detasseling start date was pushed back yet again to the 11th? That's right, Elkhorn!
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Oh, and us too I guess.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-09T01:49:29-04:00
Also, you wanna know one of the most awkward things ever? Going shopping for detasseling food at Sam's Club only to realize (at the checkout aisle when you already put everything on the belt) that you don't have your mom's membership card and she's currently in Guatemala at my uncle's wedding.
Thankfully the people there are kind and understanding and allowed us to get the food. Which is really nice because at that time the start-date was today, the 9th, so we needed the food and I was NOT in a condition to deal with that after 30 hours awake, 3 hours of sleep, and then 10 hours more awake at that point.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-09T11:32:14-04:00
"... Good morning Sergeant?"
Really, though, is nobody here? Maybe it's earlier than normal, I haven't been on in the morning for some time, but it is 10:30 here, so someone should be here about now.
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First!!!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-09T23:56:46-04:00
No! Don't remind me of amazing things I can't have!!!
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Well, at least today wasn't ONLY me, there was one other comment. Well, yesterday to me. Gah! This new schedule is so confusing!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-10T05:53:18-04:00
Wow, it's only 4:51 right now? It really feels like 6-7 am! Which to a normal person would be afternoon, and to me normally would be around 5 or 6 pm.
@Creeper: Don't remind me about that. I would have to do a work around to get the files onto my phone to play since the Canadian servers aren't even operational yet.
None at all. Especially since, as per status quo, I don't get all the information I need. There are about 4 of them(out of 13) that didn't have pay rate information in their packages, or anything about what position they were hired for. So...not my fault if they don't get any pay.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-11T14:31:54-04:00
Well, the first day of detasseling (much more commonly known as hell) wasn't bad, but then again it was the first day, training for first years. Just wait until we get the nice, 10 foot fields with 1 foot ruts, soaking wet and 50 in the morning, 120 in the afternoon, working until 9 pm (we get out there at 6 am), uphill both ways in the snow kind of fields. ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-11T14:32:53-04:00
@GM, no pay rate info = volunteer as far as I'm concerned... ;) Oh, they're not volunteers, oh, weird, I didn't see any info regarding their wages in their file? ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-11T14:36:05-04:00
@Zem, how many hours a day are you guys out there?
@BaKhan: Pretty much. And I will enter their hours into the system(if I've actually received their info to actually have them in the system), and send off the files for the admins to approve...if they have a problem, well, I need the proper paperwork. Otherwise those zeroes will remain where they are.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-11T14:45:17-04:00
@GM, I have a design form that I give my customers to fill out, it has all the info I need to do my designs (I made that form after all...). I have two instructions at the top, two, and they hardly ever follow them... So any info they don't include, I go worst case (most expensive) scenario. Its not my problem. If they need the design re-done, they can pay for it a second time. Thats how I roll. I'm professional, if they're not, its ok, its just going to cost them... ;)
I'm not sure I understand how things are being done out in the field...
We have a guy who has been working for us for two weeks now(he has hours submitted and all), but he hasn't been in the office to fill out the new hire paperwork....
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-11T15:56:54-04:00
BaKhan, from 6 am to most often 1-3 pm, though we've gotten out by noon, earlier for rain, or worked as long as we legally could, until like 5:30 or something a few times. Regardless it sucks. Then again, even for this really short, easy day I earned upwards of $85. If we work to 3, say, I'll get around $150 in one day, which for just a summer job is really good, and that for up to a month straight.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-11T16:11:42-04:00
@GM, he sounds like a volunteer! ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-11T16:13:08-04:00
@Zem, those can be some long days! But, you're right for temp work, that is good money, detassel while the sun is shining I guess eh? ;)
@BaKhan: And I just found out, he won't be in the office to do the paperwork until Thursday....and I have to submit the payroll by 1pm(our time) Wednesday to get it paid on time. My head hurts trying to understand the field people(terminal managers included).
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-11T16:42:05-04:00
@GM, sounds like he and or his terminal manager have a problem then... it definitely has nothing to do with you if they can't get their poop in a group. Deadlines are deadlines, and paperwork must be filled out properly, or else. I guess they should find out what, or else, means... ;) or have some sort of a temporary provision for these things if its something that happens regularly. Either way, I don't see it being your problem. ;)
Unfortunately, it ends up being my problem since the people end up calling me and yelling at me for stuff that is WAY out of my control.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-11T16:58:55-04:00
Detassel while the sun is shining? Well, I guess we do usually get there just as the sun rises (did I mention I leave home around 4?), but then again, I'd rather work in the late evening; it's not so hot out! Today wasn't bad, even better it was dry in the morning so we didn't all get soaked and gross, but it gets nasty hot out there, and we're all wearing long-sleeves and blocked from the wind by the corn!
Anyways, I could rant for hours, as I'm sure you can tell, but now time for bed. Waking up at midnight is the weirdest schedule I've ever had.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-11T17:01:01-04:00
Yeah, GM, as I've said before, thank you very much for showing me thousands of reasons for never going into an entire line of work. Your job is especially fun because of the irony of people chewing your ass out for things they fouled up in the first place! I'm sure you see the irony and laugh along as it happens, right? ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-11T17:12:23-04:00
@GM, I'll never understand people who freak out at payroll... you know they control your money right? ;) I'd give them one chance to stop yelling, and then click. If they call back, transfer the call to your manager. Its all you can do. Sometimes people just need an ear, and I'm fine with that, but when they're looking for a whipping boy, they called the wrong guy! ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-11T17:22:43-04:00
@Zem, its a play on the saying "make hay while the sun is shining". It means make/save money while you can during the good times, as the good times never last... ;)
...Holiday pay is a pain in the ass! It throws so many curve balls that make my head spin, especially when things go wonky.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-12T02:27:40-04:00
Especially when they go wonky? You mean they don't every time, especially around holidays?!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-12T02:34:00-04:00
Oh boy, a morning of my favorite thing followed by my second favorite thing. I woke up just as a huge storm started going over us, luckily, so it hadn't even begun flooding yet, but as fast as my brother and I worked, it still piled up all too fast. When is that plumber getting here? It's supposed to do the same tomorrow all freaking day on and off, but we'll be gone and asleep, so I really hope my parents get back today and don't work tomorrow.
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-12T11:48:19-04:00
Morning, GM. It was one of the shortest days ever today. 4 buses, one field, took less than 2 hours! But later this week it should pick up and suck more.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-12T11:48:49-04:00
Morning kittens!
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-12T11:49:20-04:00
@Zem, I hope they make it worth your while, that sounds like a lot of bs for only two hours of pay. To me anyways... ;)
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-12T12:18:39-04:00
The new expansion is up for pre-order, but it won't ship to Canada. Sad kitten... (^;_;^)
covex 2016-07-12T12:25:33-04:00
Hey, what about Canada, we want Kittens here as well!!!
Philip Kearney 2016-07-12T12:27:32-04:00
Hello...Theyre is countries outside of US...Europe????
Philip Doyle 2016-07-12T12:27:38-04:00
Amazon obviously want to Sell EK. Every page I've been on today being Prime Day in UK, it's offering me EK on offer.
Tom Motli Müller 2016-07-12T12:29:30-04:00
I'm just exploded because the new expandable deck can't ship to Germany.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-12T12:32:41-04:00
Maybe one of my US kittens can get it for me? Looking at Geist and LZ! ;)
Cal "crblackhawk" Rasmussen 2016-07-12T12:57:18-04:00
Oats said on Facebook they are working on getting the shipping for outside the US fixed. Hopefully by the end of the day he said.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-12T12:57:58-04:00
@Cal, thanks for the heads up! Cheers!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-12T13:15:33-04:00
Whoa, what's all this stuff?! New expansion? Shweet! Also, maybe this'll bring some old Corps members back 'round for a visit!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-12T13:23:54-04:00
Well, I preordered it before I even looked at the description. I guess I must really love EK! I mean, I am one of the still-daily Corps members, but still, I'm just like "Expansion? Almost certainly a modified version of the test-deck we already got with The Crate? Heck yeah!"
Michaël Zweers 2016-07-12T13:24:59-04:00
Will the new expansion be available in Europe? (Like in Amazon.de or (for now) Amazon.co.uk?)
Gregory Care 2016-07-12T13:37:24-04:00
Ordered!!! WooHOOOO!
Guillaume L 2016-07-12T13:37:27-04:00
Will the new expansion be available in Canada? :( On amazone it says it cannot be shipped to my current address :,(
I wonder what people would think if I just broke out into singing "I'm a Little Tea Pot" at work...think they would send me to an institution?
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-12T13:41:16-04:00
For those kind people who actually read the comments before posting a question:
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Cal "crblackhawk" Rasmussen 43 minutes ago
Oats said on Facebook they are working on getting the shipping for outside the US fixed. Hopefully by the end of the day he said.
rustythorn, swordsman of Valoria 2016-07-12T13:55:03-04:00
woot great stuff, now is the phone app ready for windows phones yet?
Ren 2016-07-12T14:10:02-04:00
Imma give you another comment/request for Implosions here in Canada. Git 'er done! ;)
Trueflight Silverwing 2016-07-12T15:27:27-04:00
I'm guessing that not many people here follow Inamn's social media posts. He mentioned that the US only shipping was a mistake by Amazon and that he hoped to have it fixed by the end of the day. In the least, it doesn't even come out until October, so there is plenty of time for international shipping to get added/fixed.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-07-12T16:07:18-04:00
OK kittens. I need your good vibes prayers. I got something good that might happen and if it does, then not only will I be there for the Kitten Con but I can bring lots of goodies with me.
@Geist: Here's hoping everything goes good! Just remember, we have your back.
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-07-12T16:10:24-04:00
@BaKhan: I'll be happy to order a deck for your and GM. From the looks of it, even if I choose the overnight option, it might not get to me under after I've flown to Canada. I could see if I can send the decks to your house
Geist de la Muerte Gatito 2016-07-12T16:10:50-04:00
Thanks GM. I've got my fingers crossed on this one.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2016-07-12T16:43:25-04:00
@Geist, sending positive vibes your way! Oh and if you hear Marky Mark, its not my fault! ;) Best of luck, you deserve some happiness! ;) Oh and theoretically the pre-order will be changed to ship to outside the US, so lets just wait and see... I doubt we'll have it by Kitten Con, but fingers crossed!
Micah "Zem the Mattress" Philson 2016-07-12T16:49:38-04:00
I got some vibes I can spare, but first, what kind of goodies are we talking about? That might affect how good of vibes are sent your way.
Moonbasetaylor 2016-07-12T17:06:10-04:00
I know I know, I invested - I held on their every word - I rejoiced in being part of it - hell I even own it ( mioaw box an all) all of it! - I played it with friends - they loved it - I promoted KS because of it - they ordered it - they own it - we all love it!
Then
Amazon day
US only?
Really?
Really really?
Little note - remember who got you here - we still love you - just a little p#ssed right now!
You'd be surprised, but the thing about your campaign was that virtually every supporter was a personal friend, so you'll be able to personally tell them it's back on, which helps a ton. I don't have any worries, really, I'm just too much of a realist for my own good.
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Any updates on the new goal, or is it still on to be $1,000? That should be a perfect goal for it if it's enough.
Yes, it's still going to be $1k, which should actually help get more pledges than the previous campaign. That will eliminate the problem of people not pledging just because it doesn't look like the project will get funded.
Welp, just saw my brother off to the airport. In just a mere 60 hours, he will have taken planes, trains, AND automobiles to get to Leipzig, Germany. In fact, 1 car ride (to the airport), 4 flights (all standby and free- his last hurrah from working for Delta), and 3 trains.
He'll study German in a comprehensive course there for 2 months (starting July 4th even) before hopefully getting everything arranged for a job he's been offered in Bern, Switzerland!
He's the first of our family to move out of the country! Really, of anyone in the last 4 generations to actually move to a full other country!
Speaking of which, while going over family records with my grandmother a few days ago, we figured out my great^5 grandfather was Swiss, from just a few miles from where our former exchange student/good family friend/virtually family is from, so we might be related! (as in 13th cousins 4 times removed or whatever) If he was the only Swiss in our family (we didn't have time to check), that makes us 0.78% Swiss! Funny that.
Hooray for sauce!
Oh, and just got news that the very same exchange student is finally marrying his girlfriend right now! Took him way too damn long (really, like 10+ years of being very close) and a pregnancy scare (false positive) to finally convince him.
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Wow, it's been a very eventful day! All centering around Switzerland... I'm sensing an Illuminati-level scheme here...
Even if we found most of the people who left, the weekends would still be dead.
Just popping in to wish a Happy Belated Birthday to Canada. 149 years old but doesn't look a day over 50.
Also, yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Somme.
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This morning, after the day I had the last 2 days, especially how long I was up, I slept like 12-13 hours! I woke up at 4 am because that was a normal night's sleep, but went to sleep again over half an hour later.
Yeah, I was pretty awake today!
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Also saw Finding Dory. It's a pretty good one.
I'm rereading the Silmarillion, one of the best books ever, the ultimate history to Middle Earth. I'm halfway through now and got to one of my favorite and the most badass characters, Huan the dog that actually killed Sauron! Well, his body; you can't kill the Maia themselves.
Just popping in to say "Hey!". Haven't been in in awhile, so hello to the kittens. :)
Has everyone seen the gaming table project by boardgametables.com? It looks to be a great table for a good price. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1296268806/the-duchess-a-gaming-table-from-boardgametablescom/description
So it would seem my brother is no longer "in-continent". ;)
Chameleon!!! How've you been?! We've missed you! (and several other people, but you prominently)
Ooh, that table looks really nice! Even though I'll never be able to afford that, I'm definitely going to take a look at it.
Hi Micah. :)
Been good. Very busy, but good.
Yeah, nice table. It's so much cheaper than the custom, one-off ones you'd get from their (or other) websites. :) Too bad I have to wait until next year to get it, though...
That is a nice table! Man I wish I had $559!
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Too bad you've been so busy. Several people's lives just got in the way of them being on here regularly, and many just forgot entirely to even check in. Kinda sad, but such is life. Down to about 4 or 5 of us regularly now.
Join us! Come back to the dark side!
Morning kittens.
Happy 4th of July to all of you south of the border.
Morning, GM. Happy 4th of July to you north of the border! I mean, it's not a day reserved for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Fireworks (does that mean this is the busiest day for the ATF or the biggest holiday off? Do they care if it's just fire and not firearms?), but that doesn't mean it can't be happy.
Happy fourth to all my American kittens!
I love how nobody that puts things in the freezer at home labels them anymore...what looked like pork loin turned out to be tuna steak...guess I get to go buy lunch...when trying to save money. -.-
I got to play a game on ultra-high settings! Sure, it's fallout 3, an 8 year old game, but it's something!
Guess what we're eating? That's right, corned beef and cabbage, typical fourth of july food! And one of my favorites! No mashed potatoes though. What kind of Irish holiday is this without potatoes?!
Stupid Fallout 3 keeps crashing, but hey, it works most of the time. Only like 6 crashes in 10 hours, one by my computer.
It's because it's made for Windows XP and Vista, which for obvious reasons, I'm not running. There's a specific driver it wanted me to turn on, but I couldn't get it to work at all, so I'm stuck with this.
Morning kittens.
Hopefully today doesn't mentally drain me as much as yesterday...I literally got home, and sat there staring at a black TV screen...I didn't even turn it on for 20minutes.
I hope it's not so physically draining for me. I hiked to Timpanogos cave yesterday. About 1.5 miles from the trail head to the cave entrance, with over 1k foot change in elevation. It's steep and strenuous. At one point, my heart rate was 175. I thought I was going to die.
Aaaaand...I'm officially done with people....it's not even noon on Tuesday...and I am done with people for the week. -.-
I have all week to do nothing. Unfortunately, detasseling starts likely friday. This year, instead of waking up at 4 and feeling like shit to start off every day of the worst job anyone there will ever have, we're going to wake up at midnight and have a few hours, then sleep after we get back, when we feel tired.
It's such a simple and logical solution, yet we never thought of it before in my 8 years now of doing this!
Still going to suck ass, but it's much better than it was. There's nothing good to say about detasseling except that you're paid. $15/hour for me now too! Though that's the limit unless you become a supervisor.
We're pulling an all-nighter today to reset our bodies over 12 hours in preparation for detasseling, to sleep whenever we get back and wake up around midnight. Thankfully, though, detasseling start was pushed back a full day to saturday!
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Darn you, Fallout 3, you're taking all my time for youtube and other games!!!
Well, that was a waste of tax payer money. Someone pulled the fire alarm for our building(and being downtown, there is zero chance of the fire department not showing up). Ended up with two ladder trucks, and two other engines outside the building. It was definitely NOT a drill. The firemen looked PISSED!
I've never understood why people do that. Once, during a school concert, a baby saw a bright red handle and couldn't resist (you have no idea how awkward it is to sing with an alarm going off and the principal waving you to keep going), but that's the only time the person had a legitimate reason, even if it was that they couldn't think for themselves.
I'm more of a lightweight than I thought I was, I guess. Then again, I haven't eaten or even drank anything in several hours. Quick confession, I snuck a bit of vodka into some RC I had, but given the morning I just had, you can't blame me. If you want to know how bad, here goes:
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Our house has foundational damage, so when it rains, there's way too much leakage in the basement. Until recently, most of it was caught by a huge bucket down there, in what was formerly a cellar, but it cracked recently and spills the water out. We have a drain in the floor on the other side of the basement though, so that helps. We just have to bail the water out of that room and bucket and mop/water-vacuum the water out of that and the other room in the basement (thank God we have concrete flooring down there).
Anyways, the drain decided to clog, so neither pouring it into the large sink or letting it flow into the drain really helped much; it was really slow and backed way up. So I was vacuuming out of the other room down there and just as it was dry and done, the water in the main room backed up so far it flooded into there causing another 1 1/2 hours of REALLY hard work getting it out.
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I know it's hard to get across just how much of a hell 2+ hours of that every time it rains is, but trust me, it's worse after the clog that made life ABSOLUTE HELL for dozens of reasons. Now, in addition to major foundational leaking damage, we have that to deal with.
We'd fix the damage, but obviously that's several thousand dollars easily, way more than we have. And after doing that shit from 2-4:30 am, I deserve a small amount of alcohol to get me through the thousand-yard-stare portion of severe mental AND physical trauma that shit entails.
Sorry that was long, but I needed to rant really badly.
Also, it wasn't that much at all, but I can definitely feel the effects right now. And it's SO nice after dealing with that shit!
Hmm, after two cups of that 2/3 RC 1/3 vodka mix, I may be a bit past being able to drive, if you know what I mean. Otherwise, I likely wouldn't be putting this shit on here, would I? ;)
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Also, if what I said below didn't get the hell across well enough, know that of what we did that entire time, 1/2 was wasted because of the backed up drain that spat up half of what we bailed into the sink because it was clogged downstream and could only drain a small amount at a time. So the level only really started going down after we decided to throw the water outside instead.
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One thing, though, is that now I couldn't really play Fallout 3 well, so I'm taking a break, giving me a chance to catch up on being 6 days behind on youtube because of Fallout 3. So I got that going for me, which is nice.
Sorry you have to deal with that, Zem. You definitely deserve that drink.
Hello my loves! Just stopping in for a quick hi!
@Creeper: Hello there! Life seems to be keeping you extremely busy! Hopefully you're still finding time for play, and not all work.
@Zem: I've never had a basement flood, not entirely at least. We did have a sewer back-up one day...right before dinner too. My brother, dad, and myself were dealing with it as best we could(ended up calling a plumber).
Hey, guys! Also, I failed at trying to shift my schedule about 15 hours, but thankfully if I stay up for 24 hours (again), then I should be about right. Which will be hard on the 3 hours of sleep I got after being up for 30 hours straight...
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GM, we're definitely calling a plumber for that problem. Hopefully he'll have it fixed before the next time it rains heavily.
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LZ, one thing I will say is that it sure as hell helped out then! That and the full pizza I ate with it.
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Hey, Creeper! How've you been? Come back more often! Don't forget to write!
Dang it, I just now realized all the missed opportunities to make a comparison to a sinking ship! We were bailing the water as fast as we could, but it just wasn't fast enough!
Almost 8 hours straight of Fallout 3 and I finally had to quit to go eat and do human things. Dang it!
Good morning kittens.
Good afternoon, BaKhan. And a good night from me; this is pretty much 10 pm or so for me.
Guess whose detasseling start date was pushed back yet again to the 11th? That's right, Elkhorn!
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Oh, and us too I guess.
Also, you wanna know one of the most awkward things ever? Going shopping for detasseling food at Sam's Club only to realize (at the checkout aisle when you already put everything on the belt) that you don't have your mom's membership card and she's currently in Guatemala at my uncle's wedding.
Thankfully the people there are kind and understanding and allowed us to get the food. Which is really nice because at that time the start-date was today, the 9th, so we needed the food and I was NOT in a condition to deal with that after 30 hours awake, 3 hours of sleep, and then 10 hours more awake at that point.
"... Good morning Sergeant?"
Really, though, is nobody here? Maybe it's earlier than normal, I haven't been on in the morning for some time, but it is 10:30 here, so someone should be here about now.
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First!!!
Pokemon go will be the death of me.
No! Don't remind me of amazing things I can't have!!!
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Well, at least today wasn't ONLY me, there was one other comment. Well, yesterday to me. Gah! This new schedule is so confusing!
Wow, it's only 4:51 right now? It really feels like 6-7 am! Which to a normal person would be afternoon, and to me normally would be around 5 or 6 pm.
Morning kittens.
@Creeper: Don't remind me about that. I would have to do a work around to get the files onto my phone to play since the Canadian servers aren't even operational yet.
Morning kittens!
I knew having Friday off was a bad idea....so much paperwork.
@GM, sorry to hear that, no rest for the wicked it seems... ;)
None at all. Especially since, as per status quo, I don't get all the information I need. There are about 4 of them(out of 13) that didn't have pay rate information in their packages, or anything about what position they were hired for. So...not my fault if they don't get any pay.
Well, the first day of detasseling (much more commonly known as hell) wasn't bad, but then again it was the first day, training for first years. Just wait until we get the nice, 10 foot fields with 1 foot ruts, soaking wet and 50 in the morning, 120 in the afternoon, working until 9 pm (we get out there at 6 am), uphill both ways in the snow kind of fields. ;)
@GM, no pay rate info = volunteer as far as I'm concerned... ;) Oh, they're not volunteers, oh, weird, I didn't see any info regarding their wages in their file? ;)
@Zem, how many hours a day are you guys out there?
@BaKhan: Pretty much. And I will enter their hours into the system(if I've actually received their info to actually have them in the system), and send off the files for the admins to approve...if they have a problem, well, I need the proper paperwork. Otherwise those zeroes will remain where they are.
@GM, I have a design form that I give my customers to fill out, it has all the info I need to do my designs (I made that form after all...). I have two instructions at the top, two, and they hardly ever follow them... So any info they don't include, I go worst case (most expensive) scenario. Its not my problem. If they need the design re-done, they can pay for it a second time. Thats how I roll. I'm professional, if they're not, its ok, its just going to cost them... ;)
I'm not sure I understand how things are being done out in the field...
We have a guy who has been working for us for two weeks now(he has hours submitted and all), but he hasn't been in the office to fill out the new hire paperwork....
BaKhan, from 6 am to most often 1-3 pm, though we've gotten out by noon, earlier for rain, or worked as long as we legally could, until like 5:30 or something a few times. Regardless it sucks. Then again, even for this really short, easy day I earned upwards of $85. If we work to 3, say, I'll get around $150 in one day, which for just a summer job is really good, and that for up to a month straight.
@GM, he sounds like a volunteer! ;)
@Zem, those can be some long days! But, you're right for temp work, that is good money, detassel while the sun is shining I guess eh? ;)
@BaKhan: And I just found out, he won't be in the office to do the paperwork until Thursday....and I have to submit the payroll by 1pm(our time) Wednesday to get it paid on time. My head hurts trying to understand the field people(terminal managers included).
@GM, sounds like he and or his terminal manager have a problem then... it definitely has nothing to do with you if they can't get their poop in a group. Deadlines are deadlines, and paperwork must be filled out properly, or else. I guess they should find out what, or else, means... ;) or have some sort of a temporary provision for these things if its something that happens regularly. Either way, I don't see it being your problem. ;)
Unfortunately, it ends up being my problem since the people end up calling me and yelling at me for stuff that is WAY out of my control.
Detassel while the sun is shining? Well, I guess we do usually get there just as the sun rises (did I mention I leave home around 4?), but then again, I'd rather work in the late evening; it's not so hot out! Today wasn't bad, even better it was dry in the morning so we didn't all get soaked and gross, but it gets nasty hot out there, and we're all wearing long-sleeves and blocked from the wind by the corn!
Anyways, I could rant for hours, as I'm sure you can tell, but now time for bed. Waking up at midnight is the weirdest schedule I've ever had.
Yeah, GM, as I've said before, thank you very much for showing me thousands of reasons for never going into an entire line of work. Your job is especially fun because of the irony of people chewing your ass out for things they fouled up in the first place! I'm sure you see the irony and laugh along as it happens, right? ;)
@GM, I'll never understand people who freak out at payroll... you know they control your money right? ;) I'd give them one chance to stop yelling, and then click. If they call back, transfer the call to your manager. Its all you can do. Sometimes people just need an ear, and I'm fine with that, but when they're looking for a whipping boy, they called the wrong guy! ;)
@Zem, its a play on the saying "make hay while the sun is shining". It means make/save money while you can during the good times, as the good times never last... ;)
...Holiday pay is a pain in the ass! It throws so many curve balls that make my head spin, especially when things go wonky.
Especially when they go wonky? You mean they don't every time, especially around holidays?!
Oh boy, a morning of my favorite thing followed by my second favorite thing. I woke up just as a huge storm started going over us, luckily, so it hadn't even begun flooding yet, but as fast as my brother and I worked, it still piled up all too fast. When is that plumber getting here? It's supposed to do the same tomorrow all freaking day on and off, but we'll be gone and asleep, so I really hope my parents get back today and don't work tomorrow.
Morning kittens.
Morning, GM. It was one of the shortest days ever today. 4 buses, one field, took less than 2 hours! But later this week it should pick up and suck more.
Morning kittens!
@Zem, I hope they make it worth your while, that sounds like a lot of bs for only two hours of pay. To me anyways... ;)
The new expansion is up for pre-order, but it won't ship to Canada. Sad kitten... (^;_;^)
Hey, what about Canada, we want Kittens here as well!!!
Hello...Theyre is countries outside of US...Europe????
Amazon obviously want to Sell EK. Every page I've been on today being Prime Day in UK, it's offering me EK on offer.
I'm just exploded because the new expandable deck can't ship to Germany.
Maybe one of my US kittens can get it for me? Looking at Geist and LZ! ;)
Oats said on Facebook they are working on getting the shipping for outside the US fixed. Hopefully by the end of the day he said.
@Cal, thanks for the heads up! Cheers!
Whoa, what's all this stuff?! New expansion? Shweet! Also, maybe this'll bring some old Corps members back 'round for a visit!
Well, I preordered it before I even looked at the description. I guess I must really love EK! I mean, I am one of the still-daily Corps members, but still, I'm just like "Expansion? Almost certainly a modified version of the test-deck we already got with The Crate? Heck yeah!"
Will the new expansion be available in Europe? (Like in Amazon.de or (for now) Amazon.co.uk?)
Ordered!!! WooHOOOO!
Will the new expansion be available in Canada? :( On amazone it says it cannot be shipped to my current address :,(
I wonder what people would think if I just broke out into singing "I'm a Little Tea Pot" at work...think they would send me to an institution?
For those kind people who actually read the comments before posting a question:
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Cal "crblackhawk" Rasmussen 43 minutes ago
Oats said on Facebook they are working on getting the shipping for outside the US fixed. Hopefully by the end of the day he said.
woot great stuff, now is the phone app ready for windows phones yet?
Imma give you another comment/request for Implosions here in Canada. Git 'er done! ;)
I'm guessing that not many people here follow Inamn's social media posts. He mentioned that the US only shipping was a mistake by Amazon and that he hoped to have it fixed by the end of the day. In the least, it doesn't even come out until October, so there is plenty of time for international shipping to get added/fixed.
OK kittens. I need your good vibes prayers. I got something good that might happen and if it does, then not only will I be there for the Kitten Con but I can bring lots of goodies with me.
@Geist: Here's hoping everything goes good! Just remember, we have your back.
@BaKhan: I'll be happy to order a deck for your and GM. From the looks of it, even if I choose the overnight option, it might not get to me under after I've flown to Canada. I could see if I can send the decks to your house
Thanks GM. I've got my fingers crossed on this one.
@Geist, sending positive vibes your way! Oh and if you hear Marky Mark, its not my fault! ;) Best of luck, you deserve some happiness! ;) Oh and theoretically the pre-order will be changed to ship to outside the US, so lets just wait and see... I doubt we'll have it by Kitten Con, but fingers crossed!
I got some vibes I can spare, but first, what kind of goodies are we talking about? That might affect how good of vibes are sent your way.
I know I know, I invested - I held on their every word - I rejoiced in being part of it - hell I even own it ( mioaw box an all) all of it! - I played it with friends - they loved it - I promoted KS because of it - they ordered it - they own it - we all love it!
Then
Amazon day
US only?
Really?
Really really?
Little note - remember who got you here - we still love you - just a little p#ssed right now!