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  • told by HR that maybe after 6 months they would consider bringing me on FT.

    Oh honey.

    You should talk to the manager about it, but I suspect they will hem and haw, and say something vaguely about looking into it without providing you with any specifics.

    Companies hire temps and dangle the “well maybe we’ll hire you some day” out there to string them along.

    Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after “x” time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

    If I were you, I’d start tuning up your resume and sending it out now. If your current job comes through then nothing really lost, and if your job isn’t actually interested in making you an employee then you should spend this employed time to look for a job without the stress of no income.


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    Oh those. I meant the Gillette Fusion razor heads. They are supposed to be disposable, and I do eventually get rid of them, but I extend the lifespan by a lot with a squeeze bottle of alcohol on them to clean them. A head that should last weeks will end up lasting me months with just a little care.


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    Reverse osmosis filter, you can just get an under the sink one of you don’t plan on drinking your shower water. Kind of pricey up front, and you have to replace the filters every so often, but it gives good taste and peace of mind for filtering.

    I am telling you from first hand viewing that bottled water plants use the same kind of filtering.











  • This reminds me of a DM who did a setting with an extremely bureaucratic kingdom. We had to get an audience with the king, but the process required jumping through hoops with different paperpushers.

    Eventually we were nearly at the hall to meet the king when the guards turned us away for wearing the wrong ties. I got us in by going through the Lionel Hutz “I’m not wearing a tie at all.” routine, which intimidated the guards (not what I was going for, but my table rendition apparently included crazy eyes) .








  • The “Bond is a codename” theory is something that very organized people come up with to try and make sense of things, when really the theory crumbles under scrutiny.

    The old movies and most audiences were much more accepting of a kind of floating timeline where Bond seemingly operates from the 1960s to the 2000s without aging. The movies had some continuity but didn’t really concern themselves with details.

    I think it is hard for modern audiences to wrap their heads around that. Nowadays we are so used to franchises at least attempting to be coherent and internally consistent. A new Bond outing would probably benefit from using the codename theory from here on out for the sake of modern audiences.


  • I think also older audiences were more forgiving of the fuzzy, sometimes contradictory continuity between the older films. Somehow Pierce Brosnan and Sean Connery were the same guy and everyone just kind of rolled with that.

    The future of Bond should tighten up continuity from here on out, because for better or worse I don’t think modern audiences are as able to just fuzz away discrepancies.

    My idea would be to pull from the “James Bond is a codename” fan theory- which currently doesn’t work, but to say Daniel Craig is the original James Bond and all the Bonds after him take up the name as a code name. This can open up some possibilities and just make it easier to keep things straight. Old Bonds don’t necessarily even have to die, they can retire or be moved out of the roll. You can bring them back as villains, or make one into the new Q or something.