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Well, next week we'll actually be using Algebra, so... From Education World. |
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I do wonder whether it's like this for teachers when they take professional development courses. From Bored Teachers. |
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Well, next week we'll actually be using Algebra, so... From Education World. |
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I do wonder whether it's like this for teachers when they take professional development courses. From Bored Teachers. |
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As of September 18, 2025. |
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Nothing says "fun" quite like quenching your thirst in the middle of an ogre cave. Lens flares are a perk. |
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On the bright side, you can mine for ore outside. Even on a somewhat gloomy evening in the Arathi Highlands. |
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Courtesy of Wikipedia. |
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Danger, Wil Robinson! Don't come inside! From imgflip. |
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Can't have a bunch of robot memes without bringing up mechagnomes in Retail WoW. From Pinterest. |
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Heh. A robot smoke break. From Memedroid. |
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Again, you can't have a bunch of robot memes without engaging with Philip K. Dick (the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, also known as Blade Runner). From Memedroid (again). |
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Okay, this one is a bit obscure, but this TikTok is a character in L. Frank Baum's Oz series. From Cheezburger. |
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The map and box of my copy of the game, which I bought back in the 90s because I felt guilty about playing via email when I didn't have my own copy. It's been a while since I played face-to-face. |
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My copy, which I bought back in the mid-80s for the princely sum of $3.50. |
A deeply religious man, whom I will call Dave, finds himself in dire financial trouble. He prays earnestly to his God to help him out of his predicament. "God, I'm about to lose my car. Please help me. Let me win the lottery." Lottery night comes, but sadly, Dave is not the winner.Things go from bad to worse. Without a car to get to work, Dave loses his job. Without a job, his mortgage is foreclosed on, and he loses his home. Without a home, his wife leaves him, taking the kids. After each horrible step in the mounting crisis, he pleads with God to let him win the lottery, but he never does.Finally, broke, hungry, living on the street, he tries again. "God, please, my life is a wreck. I have no car, no home, no family. Please let me win the lottery just this once so that I can turn my life around. I beseech you."Suddenly, a flash of light rends the sky, and the voice of God echoes down from the heavens. "Dave, meet me halfway. Buy a ticket."
**The late North Carolina University head basketball coach Dean Smith built a culture that emphasized teamwork. After one of his players would score, that player would turn and point to his teammate who passed him the ball. It was a visual acknowledgement that the basket was a team effort, not simply an individual one.
***No, I don't play games on my phone. To me, my phone represents the 24x7 on-call nature of my work, and I try to use it as little as possible. However, my kids are far more used to utilizing their phones for keeping in contact than I am, so I've grown used to smartphones in my life more than I'd like. Although I primarily use a smartphone to listen to music and/or podcasts when I can't have access to my stereo or PC.
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There have been times when I've discovered that simply doing things randomly throw other players off their game. From that social media site that whats-his-face owns. |
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I'd like to have the one on the left, but frequently things deteriorate into the one on the right. From that same social media site. |
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Uh... When you get really into board games as a hobby, that is SO much a lie. From Instagram. |
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That's a truism of playing board games. The most dastardly ones are the "cute" looking ones. From that social media site again. |
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Okay, TECHNICALLY it just said "games", but I saw that and I immediately thought of Eurogames. From Thunder Dungeon. |
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We don't have a cat, but... Yeah, I get it. From Memedroid. |
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One of many little visits to Stormwind by Teremus. |
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The listings are as of September 4, 2025. |
Your eyes do not deceive you. There are two Tauren there. |
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As of September 2, 2025. |
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As of September 2, 2025. |
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As of September 2, 2025. |
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Again, as of September 2, 2025. |
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As of September 2, 2025. |
Well, I pulled off another "Not Quite a Blaugust" Blaugust.
No signups, no fanfare, no topics. Just writing for 31 days.
Things turned out better than I expected. I didn't have any real annoyances that kept me posting multiple times a month --nothing earth (or Azeroth) shattering, really, just the usual stuff-- so I just kind of leaned into my various interests to keep the posts coming.
Oh, and I got some fiction written along the way, too. Nothing ready for posting yet, but stuff that's been needing to get done and I'll be sending drafts along to my beta readers for feedback soon.
It felt good to get this past month's posts done, especially getting the radio stuff off of my back. I'd been thinking about it for a while, but Shintar gave me the impetus to finally write it up and post that part of my past. I've got other topics that I can write about that are geeky in nature but not strictly gaming related, so those might begin to make an appearance here as well. Nothing quite as fascinating as Wilhelm Arcturus' posts about his employment history with telecom, that's for sure, but they're something to get off my chest.
Speaking of things to get off of my chest...
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From eBay. Of course. |
My old 1989 Who concert t-shirt has likely bit the dust. I no longer fit into it anyway (it was an XL and I now wear a 2XL size), but I'd been using it as a shirt I wore when I painted rooms in my great-aunt's house back in the early 90s, so it had splatters of paint all over it. I recently became curious whether some enterprising soul (likely The Who's management) had decided to reprint old concert t-shirts, and I came across this entry in eBay.
I suspect that they're knock-offs of the originals, but the shirts do look correct at first glance.* I mean, it'd be nice to have a reprint to wear around the house again --no, I'm not wearing it to paint or work on the car or something-- but I won't be torn up about it if I don't manage to find one.
Now, I need to find some old D&D t-shirts from the 80s...
*I saw them in Cleveland on July 19th, and the story behind that road trip is worthy of a post.
#Blaugust2025
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My boss doesn't play WoW, but I understand this one. From Memebase/Cheezburger. |
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Bus driver is a job, you know. My school bus driver had a "no talking" rule, and he could be a real ass about it sometimes. From Reddit's DNDMemes. |
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Technically a nurse meme, but I find it applies to IT as well. From Nurselabs. |
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Oopsie. This is from Linkedin of all places, which I find funnier than the meme itself. |
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And then there's the people to whom gaming IS their job. From Memedroid. |