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My parents and aunt insisted my cousin and I take a bath together once. To this day I still can't figure out what the hell they were thinking. I didn't want to, but they wouldn't take no for an answer. Basically forced us to do it. I was like 7 or 8. So damned weird. My cousin wanted to, for whatever reason. But I'm not mad at him, he was like 5 or 6.
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Runes of the Earth by Stephen R. Donaldson. Couldn't even finish it. Loved some of his earlier books, which I read when I was much younger. Not sure if he changed or if I did. But what I read of Runes was truly awful.
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It's been a while since I've watched him. You're probably right. I hope so, that makes it funnier.
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He's funny in small doses, but the traditionalist gatekeeping thing gets old.
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So much easier.
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DM: I'm sorry there's really no good place to hide in here.
Rogue: You know how good my stealth is. At least let me roll.
DM: sighs Fine. But to make it all the way across the brightly illuminated room unseen, you we will need to roll 4 times, OK?
Rogue:
- Nat 20
- Nat 20
- Nat 20
- Nat 20
DM: Yeah, I'm going to need to see that d20.
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Glad you sorted it!
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Not 100% sure, but these come to mind.
- Science Fantasy
- Dying Earth
- Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy
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I hope it gets better for you.
A few more tips came to mind.
Flonase works better for me, but some people respond better to Nasonex.
Also, sometimes switching to Allegra instead of Claritin often helps me when the Claritin isn't working. It costs more, so I always switch back.
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I have allergies and they suck.
Most of the year, a daily dose of OTC Claritin takes care of it for me. But sometimes in the spring or fall, the pollen counts get too high and the Claritin isn't enough. Doesn't help that I'm allergic to multiple types of pollen. What helps me a lot is to start taking OTC Flonase. It makes a huge difference. The thing with allergies is, the medications work better if you get out in front of the allergic reactions. You can catch up after they start, but it takes longer.
One tip that helps some folks is to take a shower before you go to bed. This can reduce allergens building up on your pillowcase. Obviously, launder your linens regularly.
Also, vacuum the house (wearing a mask) and replace your HVAC filters frequently. Consider getting better filters that are good for allergies (but note they are expensive).
Don't forget the cabin filter in your car.
Finally, the absolute best allergy therapy that I personally know of is immunotherapy AKA allergy injections. This regimen is a major PITA, but it works really well for some folks. It basically trains your immune system to stop freaking out and tolerate the allergens. I did it as a kid and it completely eliminated my allergies until adulthood when I developed new ones. I have considered doing it again, but I'm making do with the OTC regimen for now.
I hope this was at least a little helpful. You have my sympathy. Allergies are no joke, they can be miserable.
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I'm never leaving the house again. I mean, I kind of wanted to do that anyway, but this is the excuse I needed.
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Duluth Trading men's "Buck Naked" boxer briefs are pretty good.
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The DeDrm plugin and the most recent Calibre worked for me just yesterday on a brand new book. Something that's easy to miss is that you need to put in the serial number of your kindle device and make sure you download the e-book for that same device. Otherwise the plugin won't be able to decrypt it.
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I feel like Walz's answer re: The ACA is his best response so far.
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"Guns don't kill people, weak windows kill people...or...something."
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Yup. He's very slick and relaxed up there. Completely full of horrible ideas and deception, but he's unfortunately doing better on the optics and sound bitey-ness.
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Me: Opens wallet. Moth flies out.
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Cool. It's mostly older stuff but here's some info:
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Do you like swords and sorcery? Sounds more like that genre than high fantasy. Not that I'm the genre police.
This is not an anti-Kindle rant. I have purchased (rented?) several Kindle titles myself. However, YSK that you are only *licensing access* to the book from Amazon, you don't *own it* like a physical book. There have been cases where Amazon deletes a title from all devices. (Ironically, one version of "1984" was one such title). https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html There have also been cases where a customer violated Amazon's terms of service and lost access to all of their Kindle e-books. Amazon has all the power in this relationship. They can and do change the rules on us lowly peasants from time to time. Here are the terms of use: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201014950 Note, there are indeed ways to download your books and import them into something like Calibre (and remove the DRM from the books). If you do some web searches (and/or search YouTube) you can probably figure it out.
I feel like an idiot for not knowing about these. Every 2-3 months I have to snake out our shower drain with a 25' snake. Giant PITA. After some web searches, I stumbled across these hair trap devices. They come in both external and internal configurations. Many different types to choose from. I purchased an internal one, installed it, and am going to give it a try. In theory I can just pop it out and clean it instead of snaking the pipes. Folks tell me they work well. If this one doesn't work I'll try another type. They are fairly inexpensive.
We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on. But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.
Not asking for tech support here, just wondering if in theory it would be possible to create a plug-in or even a complete browser that blocks ads in a way that's impossible to detect. One model that comes to mind is a quarantined / containerized non-blocking virtual browser which queries the web server directly, then the UX filters the content from that container and presents it to the user ad-free. As far as the web server can tell, the containerized browser is just vanilla Chromium.
Has anybody gotten this to work? If I set up multiple MFA devices with my IAM accounts, they all work flawlessly. But if I set up multiple MFA devices with my root account, only the original MFA device works. No matter how carefully I set up and synch a secondary device, it simply will not work with root. As the linked article says, this should be possible with either root or IAM (though in the past this was not the case). Thanks.
Some of the satire on there was gold. Had a wonderful lampoon vibe.