Oh come on. A mm covering of snow in this country is enough to send kids home from school and cause our entire transport next work to grind to a halt. People can get stuck in their cars for days on our major motorway network. People have to go out to them with flasks of tea so they can survive their ordeal......
Meanwhile, here in Minnesota we get 2-3 feet of snow, and classes may be delayed long enough for the plows to clear the road. Well pre Covid19 and online classes for most school. We are still expected to go to work. Luckily I could work from home before they set us to semi permanent work from home.
5 hours of shoveling our short driveway and I've finally got one of the cars out. The problem with the driveway is the grade, it's pretty significant but only about 15 or 20 foot distance of a hill. The driveway is probably 60 or 70 feet long. I want to say it's 45 degrees for most of it then around 60 degrees for 1 foot. Of course then the town plow comes through and builds a 2 foot wall on top of the hill which is a little slippery when it's dry.
You need a snowblower. You have my sympathies. 5 hours shoveling! Wow.
You need a snowblower. You have my sympathies. 5 hours shoveling! Wow.
Get swole af doing that. Who needs a gym membership?
You need a snowblower. You have my sympathies. 5 hours shoveling! Wow.
The only thing a snowblower is good for is making snowmen happy.. 
StackOverflow is famously unfriendly at the best of times, but the subsection of it devoted to table-top RPGs is cartoonishly unpleasant.
StackOverflow is famously unfriendly at the best of times, but the subsection of it devoted to table-top RPGs is cartoonishly unpleasant.
You should see our board gaming thread.
fenomas wrote:StackOverflow is famously unfriendly at the best of times, but the subsection of it devoted to table-top RPGs is cartoonishly unpleasant.
You should see our board gaming thread.
Monopoly is a Christmas Movie.
Monopoly is a Christmas Movie.
but for now let me say
without hope or agenda
just because it's Christmas
Holiday Fund matures—Receive $100
(and at Christmas you tell the truth)
You have won second prize in a beauty contest–Collect $10
to me, you are perfect
Pay poor tax of $15
Mixolyde wrote:Monopoly is a Christmas Movie.
Spoiler:but for now let me say
Spoiler:without hope or agenda
Spoiler:just because it's Christmas
Spoiler:Holiday Fund matures—Receive $100
Spoiler:(and at Christmas you tell the truth)
Spoiler:You have won second prize in a beauty contest–Collect $10
Spoiler:to me, you are perfect
Spoiler:Pay poor tax of $15
Everyone sings All I Want For Christmas is You and goes directly to jail without passing “go” nor collecting $200.00
ClockworkHouse wrote:fenomas wrote:StackOverflow is famously unfriendly at the best of times, but the subsection of it devoted to table-top RPGs is cartoonishly unpleasant.
You should see our board gaming thread.
Monopoly is a Christmas Movie.
Not sure it's a table-top RPG though...
(I think board games are covered by the "gaming" stack exchange, which is a different thing. I haven't used that one much but it seemed okay.)
Ranger Rick wrote:ALSO Chicago is still definitely in the Midwest and is Midwestier than other big cities, but it is also not of the Midwest.
Clear things up?
hmm...
Chicago is either the most midwestern of the eastern (culturally, not geographically) cities or the most eastern city of the midwest?
which category you put it in depends on your experience of it.
Robear and I lived in Chicago for a year. Being from the East Coast, it was very Midwestern to us 
Mixolyde wrote:ClockworkHouse wrote:fenomas wrote:StackOverflow is famously unfriendly at the best of times, but the subsection of it devoted to table-top RPGs is cartoonishly unpleasant.
You should see our board gaming thread.
Monopoly is a Christmas Movie.
Not sure it's a table-top RPG though...
(I think board games are covered by the "gaming" stack exchange, which is a different thing. I haven't used that one much but it seemed okay.)
Any boardgame can be a TTRPG if you give your player token a backstory
Today I happened across the most cursed of all cursed knowledge, so I'm sharing it with you lot:
There is a site called "wikifeet.com", and it is exactly (and unironically) what you think it is.
Is there a wikiteats?
Today I happened across the most cursed of all cursed knowledge, so I'm sharing it with you lot:
There is a site called "wikifeet.com", and it is exactly (and unironically) what you think it is.
It was successfully predicted 15 years prior to its creation by the King of the Hill episode "Transnational Amusements Presents: Peggy's Magic Sex Feet".
Is there a wikiteats?
Yes, but it's called "onlycans."
That's a joke for four people and I regret nothing.
Robear and I lived in Chicago for a year. Being from the East Coast, it was very Midwestern to us ;)
I moved here from Southern California. And yeah, people are nicer here than there, but that's about it for me.
We lived downtown, and nearly everything besides nightclubs shuts down at like 8pm, downtown. Bizarre. East Coast is not like that at all.
What, like West Loop? Most regular-ass bars in Gold Coast, Wrigleyville, Lakeview, Lincoln Park, etc are open until 4am. Some until 5am.
Source: Me, a former bartender.
We lived at 9th and Wabash, South. I worked at Board of Trade. Virtually nothing in our area outside of, say, hotel bars, nightclubs (Buddy Guy’s was nearby) and a few restaurants were open after 8pm. I mean, where I live outside Baltimore, I can go to the freaking *mall* until 10pm lol. And downtown Baltimore shuts down at like 1am...
If we wanted to go party with friends, the list that you provided were the usual suspects. But the entire business district just... died.... at night. Very little mixed use, at least 30 years ago.
It was just a change.
It really isn't like that anymore. Yes, there are fewer things to do late at night in the parts of the loop that are primarily business-oriented, since most of the population vanishes after 5pm, but yeah, there are plenty of restaurants and whatnot running normal business hours south or west of the river.
Lots over by the Board of Trade now, too, what with Millennium Park having brought in Park Grill and then other restaurants and shopping growing up around that section of Michigan Ave.
The Loop is dead after happy hour. Everyone who works there leaves to have fun elsewhere.
BTW, this is not a loathe for me. I *love* Chicago. I have taken extra days on business trips just to get a little time there. But I was really puzzled by the dearth of even night-time shopping. I mean, a lot of people live in the Loop and have to go elsewhere to have fun.
We did live across the street from a movie theater, and the building had a video store, so it was bearable. But we ate a lot of delivery food there for a while. 
That's why I went with which category you put it in depends on your experience of it. For me, nights are (well, were) for small bars and independent music venues. A lot depends on what slice of a city you tap into.
As far as days, Chicago seems like it's got the same kind of neighborhoods you'd find in east coast cities but less so in places you'd call the midwest. If seems like you could more easily transplant a lot of people from Chicago to east coast cities than to somewhere 'midwestern'.
Was making Carmel for millionaire shortbread. First time i tried making it a while back I was missing half the ingredients and substituted a lot of stuff. And it worked perfectly. Made me cocky I guess and I screwed up on of the ingredients putting twice as much, and wound up burning it a lot. Oh well shortbread plus chocolate is still tasty.
Bought a bunch of BLM stickers and came across a ALM sticker. Personally I find ALM movement that only exist to oppose BLM. So finding a all lives matter sticker rubbed me the wrong way.
I originally gave the stickers 5 stars on amazon but reduced it to one after noticing the sticker. Then I went back to ask seller why that sticker was included but then noticed my review was taken down. hmmm correction it might have never been posted.
T-Mobile.
My wife and I signed with T-Mobile six months ago. At the time, she was the primary account holder, but we were assured that we were eligible for the military discount since I was the veteran. A few months later, we discovered the military discount had been removed from our account. When we called, they told us that as the veteran, it was required that I be the primary account holder. So, we had to set up a brand new account under my name, transfer all four lines to that new account, and close her old account. Annoying, but fine. However, the bill seemed a bit low on the new account. When we looked into it, we discovered that while they'd transferred the individual lines over successfully, they'd left the balance for the phones on the old account, marked it as an early termination, and sent Jen a bill for nearly $800.
We called last Thursday, and they apologized, and said they were transferring the payment plans for the phone to the new account. Probably foolishly, we assumed that was the end of it. But Saturday morning, we woke up to discover that they'd automatically pulled the full balance for those phones out of Jen's bank account. Six days before Christmas.
I called, furious, and they apologized profusely, promising that they'd expedite a refund, and that it would be back in our account by Monday at the absolute latest. Monday came and went, no refund. I spent 45 minutes on hold with them today, and now they're telling us that the refund wasn't processed properly, and with the holiday, it will most likely be next Monday or Tuesday before that money is returned. That's the bulk of our holiday budget.
Even if the money was returned now, we're screwed. The shipping deadline for Christmas has passed for most retailers. Jen has to work today and tomorrow, and we're not super thrilled about braving the pandemic on Christmas Eve to try to salvage some of this disaster. Our current plan is to see if I can return the gifts Jen got for me, which will give us a few hundred to buy food for Christmas dinner and get some stuff under the tree for our daughters.
TL:DR- T-Mobile stole the majority of our Christmas budget from us six days before the holiday, and won't give it back until it's well after too late.
Call your bank and ask to do a REG E dispute, chances are they will provide a courtesy credit, while the matter is researched, or at least they do at the bank I work at.
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