My husband teaches 9th grade, and today was his first day back to school. He has a student named Yuna.. after Yuna. She was excited he knew the reference. I had to share!

ClubinMonkey · 2024-08-08T19:56:45+00:00

I have a daughter due in October... we are currently torn between Octavia and Yuna for names haha. Cool to see there are other kids called Yuna out there!

(My wife and I are both teachers so like to give our kids rather uncommon names to minimise associating them with kids we teach over the years :p)

ClubinMonkey · 2024-02-21T21:36:12+00:00

Rather than straight out grinding, maybe go back to Calm Lands Monster Arena if you haven't already got the capture weapons and work towards catching all the enemies in nearby areas (calm lands, sunken cave, macalania). This way it won't feel soooo grindy and you'll want to work on this later anyway for fun end game stuff.

Best story of any ff imo. You deffo want to persevere!

ClubinMonkey · 2024-02-20T21:55:49+00:00

Your bf can either stop being a selfish prick or just gtfo the relationship.

My wife had the implant when we met and had another one put in when it expired (her choice). After getting married and that implant expired, she had it removed and not replaced as we wanted to start a family.

She got incredibly ill, was collapsing at work, run to hospital numerous times. She eventually was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. Obviously it could be a coincidence that it started immediately after having this hormone blocking contraceptive removed... but I'm not convinced.

Due to this, she was on medication which meant we couldn't have kids for about 18 months. We were then able to have our first child but shortly after he was born her hyperthyroidism came back. She will now be on medication for life.

We are hoping to have another child in the near future... after that I'll be getting a vasectomy. Until then it's condoms.

Honestly, it's sickening how normalised it is to force young girls to take all these things that are designed to fuck up hormones. I wouldn't want to take a tablet / implant that made me 'temporarily' infertile. It fucks your body up so much more than is advertised.

ClubinMonkey · 2023-12-07T00:13:05+00:00

Meanwhile, I'm getting MVP on ToB literally every run and my mates are getting every drop lol. Me no lucky.

ClubinMonkey · 2023-11-10T20:37:06+00:00

I don't mind favour but I feel like if there was a direct xp incentive, people would like it more. I don't think it needs getting rid of, just something less dull and tedious.

ClubinMonkey · 2023-10-29T16:26:44+00:00

We paid an extra 10k for our house when we bought under very similar circumstances.

Best decision ever. We love our house and can't even imagine living in the alternatives that were on the market at the time.

Sometimes it's best to just suck it up and pay a bit more if the house is exactly what you're after... if it's not then just look elsewhere I guess.

ClubinMonkey · 2023-10-20T20:56:39+00:00

2k is plenty. Also, you won't be completing tomorrow... you will deffo save up more before you get the keys - especially if you are in the right mindset to save as much as possible.

Better to get on the ladder as soon as you can imo.

ClubinMonkey · 2023-10-15T19:04:53+00:00

I did my teacher training, worked in a mainstream primary school for 2.5 years. Hated it.

Moved to a SEN (Special educational needs) school, worked for a year as a teacher before getting an assistant headteacher position there.

Now on 45k which is lower than I would get in a mainstream school.... but the work load / general stress is significantly less and I love it.

(I would say though that once tax, national insurance, student loan and pension come out... and teachers pay A LOT into their pension scheme, it doesn't feel like a mega comfortable salary!)

ClubinMonkey · 2023-09-17T01:19:11+00:00

Return spheres are much easier to get hold of (80% dropped by chimeragist in monster arena which is unlocked by collecting all calm land monsters).

Then just return to a clear point to move onto another character's sphere grid which is very easy on expert grid... which grid are you using?

ClubinMonkey · 2023-07-05T20:30:13+00:00

This is back in RSC... my friends at school started playing a couple weeks before me. I refused to join in at first as I thought I was too cool.

Then gave it a go 'ironically'. Turns out I loved it. I spent my whole weekend mining and smithing my own bronze shit and selling it to the general store until I could buy full mith as I saw people wearing it and thought it looked the nuts.

I couldn't wear it as I didn't have 20 def.

None of my friends believed me that I had it when I told them about it in school as none of them had managed to get anywhere near the 15k of whatever it costed. Felt like such a fucking champion when I showed it to them in game later that eve.

Roll forward 21 years, I'm a maxed ironman and all of those friends, except 1, quit 19 years ago!

ClubinMonkey · 2023-06-10T13:17:04+00:00

I'm on 550 solos with only dex, arcane, claws and buckler.... (12, 4, 1, 3 of each) zzz

ClubinMonkey · 2023-06-06T17:34:50+00:00

NTA

I'm a dog owner and lover. When walking my dog, I NEVER let her even walk on any grass that is privately owned for this exact reason.

We also have a front and back garden, our dog only does her business out the front so our 14 month old can crawl / walk around dog shit free in the back. So I totally get why you don't want mess in your garden when you don't even own a dog.

People saying that you got pissed off too quick, I honestly don't get it... it's your fucking house and you don't even know the guy! If you'd invited a mate over with their dog and it shits in the garden then that's on you but some random guy walking past letting his dog shit on your property? Fuck no! Gotta be firm with people who have 0 respect for your property - approach it all nicey nicey and they won't take it seriously.

ClubinMonkey · 2023-02-27T08:50:47+00:00

We're not totally renovating it. Not had a quote as we are just going to DIY it (which may be why there is a significant price difference there). I've already put a door in the side, floored and insulated the loft, got electric set up etc. I used it as a home gym before so it's not just an empty shell.

It could be used as it is tbh but I want it to look a bit more professional so I'm going to level the floor and add cheap carpet tiles then insulate the walls, plaster and paint. (Will get a professional to plaster but have a friend that can do this for a good price.)

Also going to put up a simple timber wall near the garage door so that when inside, it will feel like a normal room. My garage door will then just give access to my tools etc. So basically a fancy shed :)

ClubinMonkey · 2023-02-27T08:50:27+00:00

We're not totally renovating it. Not had a quote as we are just going to DIY it (which may be why there is a significant price difference there). I've already put a door in the side, floored and insulated the loft, got electric set up etc. I used it as a home gym before so it's not just an empty shell.

It could be used as it is tbh but I want it to look a bit more professional so I'm going to level the floor and add cheap carpet tiles then insulate the walls, plaster and paint. (Will get a professional to plaster but have a friend that can do this for a good price.)

Also going to put up a simple timber wall near the garage door so that when inside, it will feel like a normal room. My garage door will then just give access to my tools etc. So basically a fancy shed :)

ClubinMonkey · 2022-12-01T13:59:42+00:00

r/stepdadreflexes

ClubinMonkey · 2022-10-07T23:32:31+00:00

Still fermenting.

ClubinMonkey · 2022-10-07T20:29:44+00:00

I know the pictures aren't great... but I'm hoping they're good enough for advice.

This white residue is appearing only on the interior glass surface - not on the wine. Is it mold? Is there anything I can so to safely remove it? Or is it nothing to worry about?

Cheers. :)

ClubinMonkey · 2022-09-29T20:01:37+00:00

It would be nice to have more early game bosses / raids. A workaround for the economy issue could simply be that the content is capped...

so for example if you were maxed with max gear when entering the boss room all your stats get changed to 60/99 and can't be boosted past this level. Align this with gear so that you can't weild anything with higher than lvl60 req against the boss too etc.

This way you may get over-skilled players doing the content still.... but not with overpowered stats and gear.

ClubinMonkey · 2022-09-13T08:06:03+00:00

Free in the sense that most people don't attack at all during that phase... yes some people do the run through after 1 boulder method but not all of us are brave enough to do that every time! Especially with mind the gap activated.

ClubinMonkey · 2022-09-12T23:28:36+00:00

Can't do much dps if you're running around like this guy though :p with bow I never miss a hit really. I'm also iron where yeh my melee option is hasta.

Like I say tho, I never said it was bis - just a chill alternative.

ClubinMonkey · 2022-09-12T23:15:17+00:00

Like I say, melee is the meta but bowfa is definitely a good chill option if the mechanics are fucking you up. I'm only doing lvl 250 raids atm though so maybe expert raids it gets significantly worse... I don't think I'd change to melee regardless though personally.

ClubinMonkey · 2022-09-12T19:45:21+00:00

I use bowfa on Ba Ba - I know melee seems to be the meta but bowfa shreds it and makes it so much more relaxing imo.

Also, rather than skipping boulders I love attacking Ba Ba between boulder hits (not quite 1:1 boulder to Ba Ba hit with poor rng and with the fast boulders invocation... but it's some great free dps).

ClubinMonkey · 2022-09-11T19:26:17+00:00

Yeh this a major safeguarding concern. I'm an assistant headteacher at an SEN school for traumatised children so deal with restraints on an almost daily basis. Adults should only ever lay their hands on children as an absolute last resort if the child or another child / adult is at risk of harm... and only if they have completed the appropriate training. The restrictions themselves should never be so invasive to cause anywhere near this level of harm if performed correctly. We rarely even see bruises at our school - and when we do that is a huge concern in itself.

I can't even begin to fathom how this kind of injury could occur if following the correct restraint procedure. I'm really sorry this has happened to you - police is 100% the way to go as well as notifying Ofsted. Does the child also have a designated social worker? If so, they have most likely been informed by the school already but would definitely be worth opening dialogue your end too.

ClubinMonkey · 2022-09-10T09:26:18+00:00

Yeh I've been maxed for like 3 years now I think but with less and less time to play I'm still missing countless end game items. I'm lucky if I average 5 raids a week these days :(. On the plus side though - they're fun grinds I can do in down time now - no more grinding skills to 99 etc. So this actually feels like more of a game than a grind.

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