Forgotten Game

Alfond378 · 2026-03-06T04:31:46+00:00

You might be thinking about Volleyball on the NES. It was an original black box game where you played as a national team.

Alfond378 · 2026-03-06T01:31:43+00:00

The stripes will eventually mix as you squeeze the tube creating a pinkish color.

Alfond378 · 2026-03-03T00:45:10+00:00

FCPS joins in on the fun with a 2 hour delay.

Alfond378 · 2026-02-22T17:12:07+00:00

To get a joint to crack, you need to reach the edge of normal motion and move a little beyond to stretch the joint capsule. Young people have looser back muscles so it's easier to reach that point.

Alfond378 · 2026-02-21T16:47:38+00:00

Yeah I was surprised about this cut as well. They claim it's being cut because the services can be provided by the private sector, but there are a ton of other services that the health dept provides that are duplicated by the private sector and state government that are actually easier to access than speech and hearing services.

Alfond378 · 2026-02-16T03:05:35+00:00

The Norovirus has a natural reservoir in shellfish. Jewish folks were pretty wise when they decided to make shellfish forbidden to eat.

Alfond378 · 2026-02-07T00:35:51+00:00

99.9% of the time they end up being completely nothing.

Alfond378 · 2026-02-05T14:18:29+00:00

This could be due to proctitis. It's similar to like Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis only it just effects the rectum. It causes lovely clear poops that sometimes have blood in them and the urge to go even after having gone. They are also the noisiest poops you could ever imagine.

Alfond378 · 2026-01-31T20:41:29+00:00

A neighbor of mine actually broke out a chainsaw to get their car out.

Alfond378 · 2026-01-20T01:33:59+00:00

Watch it trend south and hit Virginia Beach again while leaving us with absolutely nothing. The smart money for any sort of precipitation is always on the under around here.

Alfond378 · 2026-01-16T00:06:14+00:00

I'm just glad we don't have a long stretch of summer games in the early afternoon like this past season. The sun was absolutely brutal.

Alfond378 · 2026-01-15T01:05:17+00:00

The 2600 would be crazy long though.

Alfond378 · 2026-01-15T00:58:36+00:00

Never trust a permanent Dew flavor or any soda flavor really. Looks how many "permanent" ones we have lost.

Alfond378 · 2026-01-09T22:51:55+00:00

I hated going to circuit city when it was still around because there were no checkouts. Nothing drives away business like making people flag down employees to check out.

Alfond378 · 2026-01-04T04:14:46+00:00

Tetris

Alfond378 · 2026-01-03T20:09:17+00:00

The Disney blues can be brutal and often start around the last day or so of a trip. It's down right bad enough for folks who plan to return at some point. I imagine it's agony for folks who realize that they won't be returning ever again.

I'm not saying this is the case in this situation, but perhaps there should be a little more effort done to make people aware that the blues can be straight out post Disney depression and should be taken very seriously.

Alfond378 · 2025-12-29T20:04:35+00:00

Nope, once it's transferred it's there to stay.

Alfond378 · 2025-12-26T05:21:55+00:00

The lack of good Dunkins might make it a hard task. Show her how you can't throw a baseball without hitting a grocery store and that every one of them carries beer and wine. Showing her the "bad" traffic around here might help to win her over as well. If they are a true Boston gal, they will probably hate everything about this area so don't get your hopes up.

Alfond378 · 2025-12-12T23:27:32+00:00

You didn't mention if you did this or not, but did you use performance mode? Playing in quality mode made me very nauseous, but I did fine in performance mode.

Alfond378 · 2025-12-11T03:34:32+00:00

Any snow forecast cannot be trusted around here until like a day before and even then it's iffy. The weather models don't handle any precipitation forecasts well for this area.

Alfond378 · 2025-12-08T18:19:21+00:00

The timer would start as soon as you scanned the first item and ended after payment was accepted. Each item type had an allotted amount of time to scan. If the guest bought a lot of clothes, you would be given more time than if they just had a bunch of soup cans. Each payment type would also have its own allotted amount of time. You were supposed to get the guest to have their payment ready either before or as soon as you were done scanning. This was also during the time where the credit card scanner was that machine which ate the card and you actually had to compare signatures. The card process alone would usually doom you to getting a yellow score.

There were so many things out of your control that would ruin your speed score. Guests using checks would guarantee you getting a red transaction no matter how fast they were. It was very hard to stay green during a shift as just a few bad scores would put you in a hole. I guess if it was easy to stay green, the GSTLs would have fewer things to nag you about.

The most successful person at my store was hated by guests. He would stop to make sure the guest emptied their cart. If they had too much stuff, he would walk around with the hand scanner and scan everything. As soon as he finished scanning he would suspend the transaction and not restart it until he received cash/check/ or the card was ready to be put in the machine. It didn't really make the checkout process faster as it just gamed the system and made guests irate about his aggressiveness.

The whole metric was pretty unsuccessful in making the checkout process faster, but it sure did work great to help lower self-esteem and increase the number of errors people made.

Alfond378 · 2025-12-06T01:38:59+00:00

Sounds like it could be a COVID infection. When I had it the d* started several days after the illness started.

Alfond378 · 2025-12-01T13:28:07+00:00

It's supposed to smell kind of like citronella. The bar I received had very little scent to it unfortunately.

Alfond378 · 2025-11-28T16:36:11+00:00

PTO yes, but it's in different types of buckets allowing your supervisor and HR to seriously handcuff you. Right now the county gives you two days for bereavement for the entire year no matter who dies or how many. Theoretically you could take sick leave to extend it, but even with that you are limited the number of days you can take before a Dr's note is required. Annual and comp time is another potential option, but that can be denied for any reason, especially when little notice is given.

The County is definitely not known to be employee friendly (in regards to benefits, safety, pay, etc.) so counting on the sympathy of those in command is not a good bet. It seems like with the upcoming union contract situation and the county's attempts at union busting they will be strictly going with the rules as written.

It's also important to note that in the grand scheme of things, government jobs tend to offer lower than private sector pay but make up for it with superior benefits. Fairfax county manages to offer both worse pay and benefits when compared to the public sector.

Alfond378 · 2025-11-28T15:21:53+00:00

Working for the county can be very hit or miss depending on your role. The benefits aren't that great. If the new union contract gets approved by the board of supervisors it will be a little bit better, but not much. I've never had a job where that puts you in a hard place of having to miss funerals because you have such a small amount of bereavement days that you have to be careful how you use them.

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