#I still have 1 hr 45 min screen time

[wewontbesleeping]

found my phone. longest I’ve ever been without a cell phone in my entire life. I think 8 hours. I should get an award fr.

[character-fan19]

So I calculated the exact screen time for the love square ships in season 5...

I'm back again with the latest season of Miraculous and it's definitely different but not as much as you would expect. But firstly for the newcomers...

Some Ground Rules

Both characters of the ship must be present in the scene to count. So none of that kissy kissy meow meow talk.

At least one of the characters must be interacting with or reacting to the presence of the other character or both characters must be doing something together for it to count.

If one of the characters believe that they are talking to the alter ego of the other character, it will be counted as screen time for that ship so Adrien and Marinette talking to each other through the wall in the sewer will be counted as Ladynoir. The scene with Adrien holding Ladybug will count as Ladrien though, since Ladybug isn't conscious.

In case of group interactions, the screen time will only count if the interaction is specifically between the two characters.

If you want to check out my previous post, you can find it here. Now onto the distribution.

Screen Time Distribution

Despite all the Adrienette we had this season, Ladynoir was still able to come out on top, even a season which is supposedly Adrienette-centred, although it still took a huge hit took a huge hit in terms of percentage of screen time, having had 56.4% of the love square screen time this season rather than it's usual range of around 70% and Adrienette had a huge increase in screen time this season as well both in terms of percentage and actual screen time, having 37.4% of the total love square screen time rather than it's usual range of 18-25% which is a total of 45 min 57 sec when it usually remains under half an hour ever season.

Maricat this season got a pretty fair 5.8% of the screen time while Ladrien got the short end of the stick as predicted with not even 1% of the screen time which is even worse than last season.

In terms of its effect on the overall screen time, Adrienette has increased from last season by a good 3.6%, Ladynoir decreases by a slightly less 3.2% which is percentage than it has ever decreased before, Maricat increases by a small 0.3%, and Ladrien decreases by 0.7%.

This leaves Adrienette with a total screen time of 2 hr 34 min 8 sec, Ladynoir with a total screen time of 7 hr 28 min 54 sec, Maricat with a total screen time of 30 min 59 sec and Ladrien with a total screen time of 23 min 11 sec which around the same length as an episode of Miraculous itself. This isn't their final total screen time though, at least not for Ladynoir, 'cause we still got the Paris Special. But in the mean time, let's move on to the screen time trend.

Screen Time Trend

Ladynoir started off strong this season with 7 min 50 sec in it's first episode. It never reaches this high again but it remains pretty high until the Adrienette part of the season starts after which it remains under the Adrienette screen time for the most part and only got more screen time than Adrienette in 6 episodes most of which are only by less than a minute.

Adrienette had a handful of episodes in the first third of the season giving it a good amount of screen time but nothing compared to Ladynoir but it starts getting screen time in every episode from the Kwamis' Choice two-parter onwards aside from "Representation" and "Conformation" which were the first ever episodes in love square screen time history to not include screen time for any love square ship. After "Perfection" though it only seems to get no more than 3 min of screen time every episode with "Protection" being an exception that is aside from the final three episodes it is a part of, those being "Revolution" and "Re-Creation" and "Action".

Maricat and Ladrien, not being the major ships this season, only got spikes of screen time in 2-3 episodes, Maricat predictably having the larger spikes with its largest spike being it's designated episode of the season "Elation" and Ladrien having two small spikes of a few seconds in "Passion" and "Deflagration".

Conclusion

Well, that about wraps this up. Well, almost, since like I said before, we still got the Paris Special, after which we will get the final screen time distribution for all the love square ships, at least until we get more seasons and that changes up the distribution. Feel free to make your own observations based on this data. Until next time!

[expression-in-its-essence]

The Goldfinch movie.

7 min 26 secs in : Why the fuck did they start the movie like that. Why didn't the explosion take place? Theo's mom's apartment? His anxiety? Also.. why do they keep cutting the scenes abruptly? They ain't tweets... No limit.. then??

8 min 2 sec in : Okay they went to the apartment. Audrey's sweater deserved more screen time. The lipstain on the mug in focus *chef's kiss* poetic cinema!

9 min 19 sec in : Do you see what I see? Tom Cable's face has a stark resemblance to Boris's face. Did Theo have a crush on him?

9 min 54 sec in : Mr Barbour's hand is shaking. I like that they put it in there. He was sick. Nice. (I'd imagined Audrey's apartment building entrance like they showed the Barbour's apartment building entrance. Wild.)

11 min 8 sec in : Don't shove it into his face that y'all are fancy okay? He's not used to that life style. He didn't have maids making his bed. ARE YOU GIVING HIM DRUGS, MRS BARBOUR? But you just glared at your husband for offering him the same sort of thing?? Oh God. Poor child. "it's perfectly understandable" my ass. You gave him meds just because your sleep was getting affected.

14 min 39 sec : Woah woah woah Theo wtf you're so smol how'd you do that? Also... Again. The frame of Theo and Tom standing close and Theo and Boris standing close when they kissed, Theo is wearing the same damn sweater.

16 min 58 sec in : Ayyyy Jeffery Wright!

20 min 33 sec in : "He drank a lot", Theo about his dad. Honey just wait up, you will too. (The grilled sandwich and the cute lil smile 😍 also this is the first time since the movie started that Oakes' voice isn't deep.)

23 min 54 sec in : Wizard of Oz poster, I see you!

24 min 19 sec in : I love how Oakes is expressing being caught off guard. Theo knows he did something bad and every time he's dealing with something he didn't expect to deal with, he's like OMG THEY KNOW ABOUT THE PAINTING AND IM FUCKED even if no one knows.

25 min 1 sec in : The glasses made a difference. He went from mature to cute. Angry bird to angry birb.

25 min 44 sec in : Another sweater? Or was this THE sweater of Audrey? (Off topic but Oakes is hella cute. I could murder anyone who hurts him.)

29 min 9 sec in : Pippa doesn't remember or doesn't wanna remember? There was something in her eyes that was hard to read. Also, why doesn't anyone say 'I'm sorry about your mom' to Theo? Do Americans not care? It's weird to see no response when he tells people that Audrey is dead.

31 min 17 sec in : "The Goldfinch, destroyed"? Then why is Theo upset. Good riddance. Oh yeah. I know why. It's Donna Tartt we're talking about.

32 min 39 sec in : Hobie just casually predicting the future. "It's only fake if you pass it on as an original". Theo's like, "noted, gonna do exactly that".

34 min 16 sec in : Why does Theo write like a five year old child? That's toddler handwriting! And omg all the Andy-prom-dress memes are making sense now. (Also did I mention that Mrs Barbour seems more selfish in the film than she does in the book. Like hey I'm putting up with this kid because he helps my kid. He's serving a purpose for me. What the hell.) (How old is Andy anyway? He looks younger than Theo. I think he's different. Didn't grow up like other kids. That was mentioned in the book right?)

35 min 20 sec in : Ayyy Hobie's earring!

35 min 49 sec in : He shopped for himself? Nice! Didn't know kids could shop without adult supervision in the West. (Because they can't in the East.)

35 min 50 sec in : Ayyyy Sarah Paulson! Damn she's hot. How can you dislike her? *heart eyes*

37 min 30 sec in : I can't bring myself to hate Luke Wilson since Skeleton Twins but SHUT THE FUCK UP LARRY! AUDREY DESERVED BETTER. Look at how Larry and Xandra are looking at the place like they're vultures.

39 min 34 sec : They got the airport scene right. STOP GIVING HIM DRUGS WTH IS WRONG WITH THE ADULTS IN THIS MOVIE!

41 min 12 sec in : Ayyy Popper!!!!!

43 min 27 sec in : It just dawned on Theo that he's alone. Oh god. My poor baby.

45 min 12 sec in : Let me take this moment to say that Ashleigh Cummings is pretty. And I finally get why y'all were pissed at the non linear storyline and the weird voiceovers. Guess I'd been prepared for that so it didn't really suck that much.

49 min 30 sec in : I'd imagined Boreo reunion like the Platt Theo reunion. In the day. Dang it. Also... Adult Platt Barbour was not supposed to be good looking? In the book?

55 min 34 sec in : Without context, none of it could make sense. Apologies to whoever didn't read the book beforehand. Crowley fucked this up.

58 min in : Ayyyy Finn Wolfhard! BORIS IS HERE AND IM SO EXCITED IDK WHY

1 hour in : It's such a Boris thing to leave the bag unzipped.

1 hour 3 min 20 sec in : Slumdog Millionaire's Jai Ho (2008) is playing in the background. The only song that I've recognized so far. Wow. Lets me know about the time setting. Nice.

1 hr 3 min in : Someone gif " That cost twenty dollars!" *Stare* "That would have cost twenty dollars!"

1 hr 8 min in : So Boris's room is exactly like I had imagined but Theo's room isn't. Boris just mentioned Kotku though.

1 hr 9 min 14 sec in : Isn't it hella hot in Vegas? Why are they wearing sweaters? Or does drug intake make you more vulnerable to the environment?

1 hr 10 min 15 sec in : Xandra Theo argument : gold. "Cocktail sausages that you like." I wanna laugh in Crowley's face. What was he thinking?? Omg I'm dying.

1 hr 11 min 17 sec in : The slap sound didn't work??

1 hr 13 min 53 sec in : I like serious Boris better.

1 hr 14 min in : The slum house Audrey dream thing was not in the book. That's an entirely new addition.

1 hr 18 min 26 sec in : The Welty Theo scene is awesome. The sound effects work. I feel suffocated. The ambulance noise fiasco is also nicely pulled off. (also Theo's Yellow bag was dirty af then how did it get all clean when he didn't even do anything to it?)

1 hr 20 min 57 sec in : Shhhh Potter.

1 hr 22 min in : Holy shit he got slapped twice!! Ouch! And Larry's audacity to tell Theo to stop with the crying?? Good thing he died. Asshole.

1 hr 25 min in : "You don't tell me a lot of things but that's okay". I see what you did there, Boris. Which was of course, I love you.

1 hr 26 min in : "Act normal" - Theo knows his way around drugs pretty well, doesn't he?

1 hr 30 min in : "No family No friends" line punched me in the face. (Also awww popchik's excuse was the last resort for Boris to make Theo stay.)

1 hr 31 min 17 sec in : That pause after "What do you have to tell me?". You can clearly see Boris struggling to hold something back. Which was of course, I love you.

1 hr 31 min 34 sec in : What the fuck is that music? Oh heyyyyyy they kissed!-- he fucking runs away?? Also what kind of a kangaroo runs like that? (Yes, the taxi driver watched. I don't have to wonder anymore.) (They didn't address why he took the bus instead of flying?)

1 hr 33 min in : I didn't imagine Welty's room like that at all. Also why doesn't Hobie seem happy to see Theo again?

1 hr 35 min in : Longer stretches of one storyline are kinda bearable. From drugs in storage unit to waking up beside Kitsey. We got Vegas and Young Theo. Nice. (Also, who the heck puts jewelry in shoes? Is Theo that dumb? And now I can't think of anything else than Boris piercing his ear for the emerald earring. Tumblr has fucked it up bad.)

1 hr 43 min in : They nailed the Kitsey Theo confrontation.

1 hr 44 min in : Ayyy Ozma of Oz!

1 hr 48 min in : I noticed it before but I wasn't sure... Now I am. Pippa has Welty's ring. On her finger. At all times. (also, is NYC always that noisy? Must suck to walk on the roads.)

1 hr 52 min 23 sec in : They nailed the Theo Pippa date. What's that song playing in the background? I want the name. It's almost like two hours and I still haven't seen Aneurin Barnard once. Why! (Jerome's mentioned in the movie btw.)

1 hr 52 min 51 sec in : Complained too soon. Boris is sat in the dark doing god knows what. My man Aneurin is here!

1 hr 53 min 37 sec in : BOREO REUNIONNNNNN - no don't look at me like that I only watched it thrice.

1 hr 56 min in : Boris saying "it's someone else" with a knowing look and Theo looking at him. The frickin yearning.

1 hr 57 min in : Boris is like you're unhappy, I'm here, we're both rich, let's f*ck. "We could"... What are you suggesting dude he's repressed!

1 hr 58 min in : "you unwrapped it and showed it to me." So many meanings. The heart, the love the soul... Wow. Good for you, screen play writers! ( It's kinda hilarious how Boris got mad at Theo for never quote unquote fucking opening it.)

2 hr 1 min in : I'm calling it. They're going to fuck up the Theo Hobie confrontation. They put it on the wrong time. And they also fucked up the text from the book.

2 hr 5 min 48 sec in : Even Platt is saving his sister's face. Also where did Todd go? Did he never grow up? I wish Mrs Barbour didn't use Theo like she did.

2 hr 7 min in : The frame where Boris is between Kitsey and Theo. Chef's kiss.

2 hr 10 min 54 sec in : *intense music playing* Boris put his leg up on the table and I burst into laughter THOSE ARE THE FAMOUS FUCK ME PUMPS.

2 hr 11 min in : AAAAA THE FOREHEAD TOUCH AAAAAAA (Theo just knows without looking that Boris is close enough to touch? Theo are you sure you don't feel feelings for him?)

2 hr 12 min in : Theo is so worried that I'm not sure if it's for Boris or for losing the painting again. Omg he just murdered a man. Oh god.

2 hr 14 min in : Theo is spiralling. In the movie they imply that Hobie played a part in him attempting suicide. So wrong. Poor Hobie. In the book that wasn't the case.

2 hr 15 min in : The transition of the Goldfinch into Audrey, wow. Also, is it the first time we're seeing her? The movie started so long ago that I've forgotten if I saw Theo and Audrey in the museum. Boris following right after Audrey? That's a subliminal message. Boris is here to rescue y'all.

2 hr 16 min in : No shit Boris is freaking out right now.

2 hr 17 min in : The diner scene. They're both crying. "Happy Christmas, Potter" - which was of course, I love you.

2 hr 18 min in : No don't you dare compare Audrey and Mrs Barbour. Audrey would never drug her child or use him for her benefit.

2 hr 20 min in : Poor kid bumps into his mom lol. I found it funny.

On the whole

The movie was nice if you'd read the book beforehand. The first hour was steak, The second hour was Korean BBQ and the rest of the twenty minutes were minced beef. If you get what I mean. Weird analogy. It could have been much better. But it was really very nice in some places. Most places I'd say.

I didn't like how the pop songs ruined the mood of certain moments. I didn't like how you couldn't hear the conversation over the music playing. For example in the engagement party when Platt and Theo talked. Or in the diner scene.

Both Borises killed the accent thing. They tried their best. Cut them some slack.

Oakes deserves an Oscar for holding up this movie on his smol shoulders. I was shook at how a kid could act that well.

Popchik deserved more screen time. I'm still pissed they didn't add the Popchik Boris reunion. But then they couldn't make it chronological, what were we supposed to expect anyway.

Ansel Elgort y'all. Theo sure improved his handwriting lol. Ansel's writing is nice. He was actually good in this movie. Better than he was in The Fault In Our Stars. The internet is just mean. The critics too. I will never understand the hate.

All in all, it could have been a better adaptation but it didn't suck as bad as everyone made it out to be. John Clownery should be punished nonetheless. Special shout-out to Roger Deakins for making it work.

[prorevenge]

Sergeant DGAF 'Bout Your Emergency

So this started more than a decade ago, but I remember (most of) it like yesterday. It is my own story, and I tell this from my perspective. This is a long story, but I promise you will be staring at the screen, thinking “dafuq?” by midway through.

Background

Early 2000s. I was in the military, mid 20s, stationed somewhere in Europe. Rank E-4. It’s a bit different when you’re stationed overseas, and your squadron basically becomes your extended family. The Mission is always priority #1, but everyone tries to go the extra mile to make sure their people are taken care of. This was my second assignment, and my second overseas assignment.

I had just gotten married when I was on an extended leave back in the States, during my PCS (Permanent Change of Station; officially changing your assigned base) to this new location. I became an instant father overnight, now having a wife and a 3-year-old (step) daughter when I had none before. My wife became pregnant with our son about 5 months later.

My new supervisor was a Master Sergeant, who I will call Bastar(d) Sergeant [sic], or BS, for the rest of this. Bastar-Sergeant the Master Sergeant.

BS was a family man, married for a while (about ~15 years or so) and had two kids with his wife, as well as two kids of his own from a previous marriage, with his wife ALSO having two kids from a previous marriage. This is relevant because BS, being a family man with six kids ages 4 to 17, often would have stuff going on with his family and need to cut out early, miss morning briefings, and so on.

It was no big deal if we weren’t working on mission critical stuff. It’s rough when the nearest military hospital is 30-45 mins away at another military facility and you can only depend on your own immediate family and fellow military members. Just about everyone, BS especially with his larger family, had to cut in and out of work fairly frequently when we didn’t have big things going on. But hey, take care of your people, they’ll take care of the mission.

Now, BS and I got along really well at first. He and his wife were both quite the “socialites” and would constantly – damn near every weekend – have parties at their house and invite people over. It was fun at first, but it really grew tiresome. Being a new family man myself, and really just starting to figuring it all out (translated: how to keep your wife happy and not both be miserable, while still trying to be a functional adult in the military), and I just could NOT keep up with the party-every-weekend lifestyle.

BS and Mrs. BS drank a lot at those parties, too. You could tell it took a toll on their health. I guess that might be tempting with that many kids, and a 17-turning-18 daughter that had just gotten pregnant with her foreign boyfriend, but I digress…

Like I said, I just couldn’t keep up, not every weekend. I slowly fell out of favor with BS and his “Good ol’ Boys Club.” He wasn’t hostile per-se, but there were times he would just get mean, and with increasing frequency. He would call me into his office for tiny things, like thinking I had shown up to work late, when I could prove that I had been logged in on my terminal 10 minutes before start time – meaning I was at least 15-20 mins early due to walking times, putting my coat and stuff in lockers, etc. But my terminal’s clock, synched with the atomic clock, didn’t matter compared to his clock on the wall.

I was also called out for attending big medical appointments for my wife’s pregnancy, like being there when they determined my son was a boy – I was called out specifically when everyone else was doing the same thing.

The assignment was slowly turning into hell. Meanwhile, the members of the Good ol’ Boys Club would often be very late (without phoning), constantly going to appointments, and so on. There was definitely some favoritism going on. But in such a small unit, overseas, what can you do? The guy was even buddy-buddy with the First Sergeant, and they had been friends since bootcamp.

Anyway, enough background. Onward!

​

The Main Event

This is where things got crazy. My son had just been born, healthy and at a good weight, not even two weeks earlier. I came home from work after a very long day, about 13 hours on a normal 8 hour shift, due to some stuff breaking.

My wife was exhausted because she was still healing from the birth, and our son had gotten really, really cranky and irritable through the day. He was non-stop fussing and feeling slightly warmer, but not quite running a fever.

I let her go to sleep, and to give her peace, I tried to sleep in the chair downstairs with the kiddo bundled up on me. He got worse and worse through the night, and at about 0300 hrs, I noticed that his diaper smelt really strange (sorry to gross you out), with just pee. It was a sickly smell, not at all what anything from a human body should ever smell like. He seemed hot, so I went to take his temperature. He had risen to 103.5 F – VERY dangerous for an infant.

Fuck.

I immediately wake up my wife and rush him to the hospital. She stays behind at home with our daughter, since the ER is no place to keep a young kid and we didn’t know anyone that could watch her at that late of an hour.

Since it would have taken longer to wait on an ambulance out in the countryside, I sped to get him to the military hospital’s ER in about 20 mins. They immediately put him on fluids and call in the on-call pediatrician. They move him to the ICU, and after a few long hours, I get told that they believe he has a urinary tract and kidney infection, and while they had gotten his temperature down to a safer spot, we weren’t out of the woods yet.

While waiting, knowing that my regular work day was coming up, I tried calling everyone’s phone number I had, but nobody answered. At the gym probably. After leaving some voicemails, I gave up and decided to wait until people roll in at 0700 hrs. I kept trying to call the unit phone number, but no one answered until 0720. I get asked by one of the guys where I was, I let him know I’m at the hospital due to an emergency with my newborn, and he gets BS over to the phone.

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BS: OP, where you at?

Me: I’m at the hospital. My son is in the ICU, had a fever of 104 and a serious infection. I’ve been up all night and haven’t slept.

BS: Well you should be at work. You missed PT, and you’re late.

Me: *pausing, because, WTF?* … I need to come into work? My son had to go to the ER, he’s in the ICU…

BS: I don’t want to hear it. You’ve already been late multiple times. [but not really, as I mention above] *angrily* Get your ass down here!

Me: … Uh, well I’m not in uniform. I will have to stop by my house. One parent is required to be here, so I need to see if one of my neighbors can give my wife a ride to the hospital, and our daughter has to be dropped off at school because children can’t be in the ICU.

BS: Just get here. *hangs up*

​

I was completely floored. What. The. Actual. Fuck.

At no point in my entire military career, before and since then, have I EVER heard of anyone being forced to come in to work when an immediate family member was in the hospital for an emergency. I was half confused, half outraged, and wholly beside myself.

My wife shows up, I take the car home after updating her and making plans to take care of our daughter while we rotate shifts at the hospital. I did a very quick SSS – shit, shower, shave – and drive over to the shop.

BS ignored me when I arrive, other than a sidelong disapproving look. I start my usual routine, but I am exhausted, worried sick, and pretty fucking angry all at once. Some of my coworkers heard what happen and are concerned, but BS the tyrant seems to be angry himself and no one wants to approach him.

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Revenge, Part 1

A few hours went by, with me keeping in touch with my wife on the status of our son. I tried approaching BS a few times, but he was having none of it.

One of the other Master Sergeants in the squadron, part of a different unit, but whom I had worked with before, came by and noticed me probably looking distraught. We’ll call her Hero Sergeant, or HS. She pulls me aside to one of the quiet corners of the shop.

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HS: OP, are you okay? You look terrible?! Is something wrong?

Me: [I tell her about my son being sick and in the ICU – I was barely able to hold my composure in at this point, I was so angry yet so worried and downtrodden about my son, and I’m fighting to keep it together through the exhaustion and lack of sleep.]

HS: WHAT?! Why the hell are you here?!

Me: I’m not sure. BS ordered me to come in when I tried to explain. He won’t talk to me.

HS: Fuck that. Hang tight.

HS then quickly walks off. Now, our unit is on the other side of the base from the main squadron: about 15 minutes later, just enough time to drive to the squadron and back, HS appears – along with our unit Captain, and the squadron’s Major (XO to our Lt. Colonel CO).

The Major storms toward the unit office section, pauses and looks right at me, and says in an obviously angry but soft voice…

Major: OP, get out of here. Your place of duty is the hospital until your son is discharged. Don’t step foot in one of these buildings until then, I don’t care how long it takes. Take care of your family. Are we clear?

Me: *as I start to scramble* Yes, sir.

Major: *yelling* BS, GET YOUR ASS IN THIS OFFICE RIGHT NOW!

​

I proceed to quickly gather my shit together, all while seeing BS head toward that same office door and he gives me a glowering look on his way in.

As I leave, there is no possible way to doubt that everyone in the area, probably the whole building, could hear BS get absolutely reamed and raked over the coals by the Major as I departed. The Major was always a quiet and fair man, I had never seen him anywhere even approaching angry, so it was absolutely terrifying to behold.

I have to admit, it felt good to know that he was getting some of what he deserved.

My son did clear up eventually and was discharged from the hospital 5 days later, healthy and no harm done, thank God!

I know this first part’s “revenge” isn’t quite revenge, but it was sweet, sweet karma to see that asshole put in his place. Still, as good as it was, it made things worse between BS and I much, much worse.

​

Fallout

Well after all that, BS hated my guts. Obviously, it would be career suicide to openly retaliate against me, so he found little ways to do so at every opportunity. That wasn’t to say I didn’t have my faults, I certainly did, and I made mistakes no doubt, but what he did was particularly underhanded.

You see, it wasn’t until he PCS’ed to his new assignment that I learned what he had done. My new Sergeant (NS) was awesome, highly relatable, and knew BS from previous deployments together - he indicated on more than a few occasions that he wasn’t exactly fond of BS.

In the meantime, I had gone to training to become a Sergeant myself and graduated at the top of my class with honors. I then went on to another deployment to the “sandbox” and came back with some major kudos from leadership there, working my butt off every day wanting to prove I was more than what BS tried to paint me as. It was after my return to home station that I learned what BS had been up to - completely behind the scenes.

Remember how even the First Sergeant was buddy-buddy with BS? Well the FS had also PCS’ed while I was deployed. Our new FS went through everyone’s Personnel Information Files (PIFs) and discovered that I had a massive - and I mean massive - stack of Letters of Counseling (basically, you got a “talking to,” and the LOC is documentation proving it) and even a Letter of Admonishment (LOA), a more serious version just under a Reprimand.

I found out from NS that when he and his boss were talking with FS, he was wondering how the hell I hadn’t been kicked out of the service with such a track record. But then he also noted how suspicious it was that every single one of the LOCs and the LOA lacked my signature - something that is required by regulations, acknowledging your reception of it (though not admitting guilt).

I had never been shown these, nor had any idea they existed. The majority of them were very minor infractions, almost none of which I had committed in any fashion. Even more strange, NS caught onto details that there were four of them dated for the same time I was in training (at a different base / different country), and one during a short deployment I had gone on earlier. It didn’t add up, and all three sergeants found it rather confusing and shady.

Thankfully, my performance once I was out of the shadow of BS was more than enough to convince all three sergeants that I was not the dirtbag that BS was trying to paint me as. I don’t know the details, but I do know that his pseudo-forgeries (he could just claim they were “incomplete” and not meant to be filed) caught up to him and he caught some flak for it. He retired not long later, and I hope that it was a black mark on his record.

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Revenge, Part Two

So this is where it gets interesting again. Fast forward about four more years. I had gotten out of the service by then, finishing my second enlistment, and I moved back to the States to take advantage of the GI Bill.

It’s also worth mentioning that I’m an IT guy, and I’ve always got at least a dozen boxes of parts, tools, and hard drives. It’s also what I was in college for at the time.

I’m going through a stack of old ATA hard drives to see what I could salvage for a lab projects (we basically needed a bunch of “victim” machines to test against, and a few of us had old ATA motherboards hanging around). I’m checking them before I scramble/wipe the drives to make sure they’re working fine, and to make sure I’m not deleting wanted files/archives.

I’m flipping through this drive’s old files, nothing much beyond typical Windows folders, until I hit a buried directory with a bunch of images in it. I can tell they’re of the X-rated kind from thumbnails - not surprising, I’m a guy, and who didn’t have a sizeable porn stash in their single days, right?

But then I realized… these weren’t porn shots. These were homemade. It definitely wasn’t anything I had ever done. But I recognized something almost immediately - a unique lower back “tramp stamp” on the woman in the photos (faces were never shown). A tattoo I remember clearly: one of the wives of a guy in my old unit was showing it off after she had gotten it.

And the guy she’s on top of? Far, far too pasty of a skin tone to be her husband. It was then that I realized that this was one of the drives I had salvaged from a broken old PC that BS had given me for parts, back when we were still on good terms.

BS had been cheating on his wife with one of his subordinate's wife. Looking at the background of the photos, it was obvious that this was in the home of BS, too - if you remember, we had all been there many times.

Time to extract some revenge. I would like to tell you that I did some cool scene out of Mr. Computer or some crap like that, but really, simple efficiency won out here.

I knew BS, Mrs. BS, and the other couple were all on Facebook (they’d often come up as recommended friends-of-friends). I created an account that vaguely sounded like someone we could all know, and had military work history to match the assignment, in order to protect my own privacy/identity. I sent a few messages each to Mrs. BS and the husband of the tattooed wife. Once I got responses asking, basically, “Who is this?” I just pasted a number of select photos from the private photo shoot.

Mrs. BS, obviously recognizing her husband’s body and their old home in Europe, kept saying “WHAT THE FUCK?” - I said I was just the messenger, and to do with the photos what she pleased.

The husband of the tattooed wife first thought my new identity was the man in the photos and started to threaten me, until I told him to pay special attention to the background. He realized who the man in the photos was, having also been in that house countless times, and thanked me for telling him the truth. While we weren’t close, I do feel really bad for him. :(

(I didn’t feel too bad for Mrs. BS because she turned into a snob when BS got mean.)

I heard through my buddies from the unit that both couples were divorced, roughly a year later. All the old crew knew exactly who had cheated with who. I also heard that the divorce of BS and Mrs. BS was particularly bad. Nobody knows who leaked the photos, though.

​

Closing

This is the first time I have admitted to what I did, just for the sake of revenge and getting back at the bastard who did so much to personally attack me, even in a time of need, and who very nearly ruined my military career. Part of the reason I decided to get out of the service was because of him - I never wanted one person to have that much control over my life again.

I hope you enjoyed my story, sorry it was so long, but there was just so much that happened. I could add even more crap that he did, too.

​

And to Bastar-Sergeant, if you ever read this someday, I’m sure you will have realized who I am. I only have one thing to say to you: Fuck you - you deserved it.

(source) story by (/u/Celesae)

[bookmovietvworm]

Girl Meets Screen Time - the Tell Tale Tot

Welcome back to Girl Meets Screen Time. This time we will be focusing on the Tell Tale Tot, as well as season and series totals for each individual.

If you missed the last post about Girl Meets Mr. Squirrels, and wish to check it out, here is a link: https://bookmovietvworm.tumblr.com/post/160722789553/girl-meets-screen-time-mr-squirrels

*Please Note: I am human so the numbers might be off by a few seconds, but I tried my best to be as accurate as possible. I have decide to focus only on the hive five for the time being. I will add Smackle to the total by popular demand, so if you would like me to add them, please let me know.*                                                    

Here are my parameters for the experiment:

Time is based on when a character is in frame, regardless of whether or not they have dialogue.

They have to be recognizable enough that the audience knows who they are.

The only exception to the first parameter is if a character has dialogue over the shot and they are not in it.

Obviously the theme song appearances DO NOT count towards the total.

The statistics and random observations about the 27th episode, Girl Meets the Tell Tale Tot, as well as series totals, below the cut.

This episode focus on two story arc threaded by the same plot, giving us only one plot line this week. It was also very heavily lead by our two female leads, with little to no appearance from the boys. The episode was 23:17 total, so let’s get to it.

Riley Matthews: 12 minutes, 43 seconds

Riley has the most screen time this week, and her story arc was the lesson arc of the week as we deal with Riley struggling with her conscience after sneaking out to a party. There is some good character growth here for her.

Maya Hart: 11 minutes, 28 seconds

Maya’s story arc was the dramatic one. Her story arc focuses on her relationship with Josh, the catalyst for the whole plot. Some major character development, and the beginning of the change that we see later, in my opinion.

Farkle Minkus: 1 minutes, 39 seconds

Zay Babineaux: 0 minutes, 46 seconds

Lucas Friar: 0 minutes, 0 seconds

Farkle and Zay only appear to help explain the lesson of the week, and Lucas makes no appearance at all, the first of the season.

Totals for Season:

Riley Matthews: 1 hour, 0 minutes, 8 seconds Maya Hart: 47 minutes, 13 seconds Lucas Friar: 22 minutes, 20 seconds Farkle Minkus: 19 minutes, 19 seconds Zay Babineaux: 7 minutes, 58 seconds

Riley hits the hour mark while Maya hits the 45 min mark with a 13 min gap between them. Farkle gains on Lucas, but all the boy remain 25 min away from the girls,

Totals for Series:

Riley Matthews: 4 hours, 13 minutes, 51 seconds Maya Hart: 3 hour, 27 minutes, 46 seconds Farkle Minkus: 1 hour, 38 minutes, 22 seconds Lucas Friar: 1 hour, 23 minutes, 59 seconds Zay Babineaux: 7 minutes, 58 seconds

Riley stays 46 mins ahead of Maya, while the girls stay 1 hr, 49 min ahead of the boys. Farkle increased the gap between him and Lucas to 15 min.

Random Observations:

This is the beginning of the change in Maya (her becoming like Riley) for me. We definitely see shades of it during the episode, and will continue to see them throughout the series. I think her choosing to have a conscience was the first step.

Riley’s conscience telling her “Everything bad in the world is your fault” “That’s for later” show foreshadowing towards season three and the regression arc in my opinion.

Isn’t it a bit odd that the “moral compass” of the group is missing from an episode about the conscience? This would have been a great episode for Lucas character growth or reveal.

Thanks for putting up with the length of the post! If you have any suggestions of how it can improve, please let me know. Feedback is appreciated. I hope you are still enjoying the series! Look for Girl Meets Screen Time - Rules coming soon!!

[c2bend]

Emerald City Comic-Con 2017

So I drove to Seattle from my little city Bend, OR on Thursday, about a 7hr drive there (7.5 hrs on the way home :/)  I stayed with @ninaf who lives just outside of Seattle.  We hung out that night and didn’t go to bed until after 1 a.m. 😳The Panel:  Our plan was to get to the Convention Center by 8:30/9:00 a.m. which we did. It was interesting that there didn’t seem to be much ‘security’(I could have taken my flask :/), we entered from across the street where we parked in a public parking garage and entered in at the 3rd floor.  We probably could have gotten in Sat. no problem even without a Sat badge!  Anyhow quickly found the line for the Outlander panel – SO many people!  They let us in at about 10:45 and me @ninaf and 2 of her friends (that are 'normal’ fans) found some seats – we were second row far left of the stage – right where the fan questions were left of the stage.  I wanted to ask a question – Sam could you please sit back I can’t see CAITRIONA!? In front of us was a slew of moms with their babies – so cute – one started fussing and Cait actually looked over to them with her awe concerned face – she clearly LOVES BABIES! ♥  You can just see it in the video briefly at about 14:32 min. I am a huge Cait fan so I was Screaming and standing when she came out and thought we were doing pretty good there, then Sam came out and omg decibels! They sit down and Sam won’t sit all the way back on the couch, I don’t know why, and he was blocking my view of Cait, I could only see her on the screen or if she moved forward or back. 😒 I didn’t take any pics, cos I just wanted to be present and absorb the experience, (one of @ninaf ’s friends did though so we’ll post as soon as we get them). One observance is they both looked tired, but ready to 'do this’.  I loved the panel, I thought they were very comfortable, there to have fun and engage with us, I liked the questions asked and quite a few of mine were answered. Caitriona was taking the lead quite a bit but I think her wit is a bit quicker than Sam’s (I’m a taurus and we tend to slow think sometimes) but it gave him a chance to play off of her which I feel they do quite a bit probably. They seemed very in tune with each other.  Next on the agenda was the autograph session.  We got there @ about 12:15 for the 12:30 and were turned away- too full come back at 4.  Well cool, we can at least eat, since we didn’t have any breakfast so we had lunch and drinks. Met up with @ourrubygirl and her daughter (normal fan), nipunad on twitter – sorry don’t know your tumblr and with ninaf and her 2 friends (side note – they were so funny before I even got to Seattle they were concerned that ninaf would invite someone from online who she had never met to stay at her house.  By then we had talked on the phone and friended each other on facebook so they had to facebook stalk me to give their approval – whew, glad I passed). 😘Photo Op!  Ugh, okay this is where we realized that this poor little comic-con was absolutely NOT ready for this Outlander fandom and where everything really started to get behind schedule.  I envy the Sat photo op participants, looks like it was more relaxed and not as rushed as Friday's– READY click NEXT! I know people have been dissing the posed photos, but after being 'there’ this is what I feel, I think SamCait enjoy the poses somewhat, cos’ otherwise the way it was with many of us on Friday we just walk in, stand next to them, click and we’re out, so I could see that for sure getting tedious AF for them, they seemed to have more fun on Sat with it – because they were allowed to also.  Anyhow the Friday photo op was close to being a complete clusterfuck, but the gestapo staff pulled it off.  There were other people there, apparently there was more than just OL there 😉 that would be like “What is this line for with all these people?” And we’d be like Outlander, and they just go off mumbling wtf is outlander? Funny. I walked in for my 'Team Outlander’ photo and I was wearing opal earrings from Mexico and Cait says to me “oh I love your earrings” Me: thank you – and I’m beaming so fucking hard I can hardly breath! So I’m 5'1” - yeah – I’m holding on to them for the photo mumble thanks or something I fecking don’t remember, patted Sam’s back turned and looked up OMFG this guy is TALL! I have a friend that is 6'7”, but Sam seemed much taller than that, I think it’s his massiveness or something IDK. His leather jacket is really soft btw.Okay NEXT – while I go back in line for my Cait only photo, ninaf goes downstairs to get in line for the autographs – good thing too since they almost turned me away by the time I got down there!  STEP OFF BITCH I WILL GET MY CATRIONA EFFING BALFE AUTOGRAPH!!!!  So by this time we are beyond hot – it was so hot in this place which wasn’t even at the convention center, everything but the panel was at the Sheraton next door.  Note to self Bring water bottle, we learned a lot of should'ves…. So there was quite a wait for this, mainly because Caitriona was still upstairs READY click NEXT! And they could only do the Sam only autographs which there weren’t a ton of apparently😁

The way they had it set up Cait first then Sam, so we had to wait for Cait to appear.  We were in the 'overflow’ line outside of the main autograph room, but could see in there a bit, we saw the lights go out, didn’t hear the comments @sileas84 mentioned, but too funny.  When we finally got to the 'room’ wow, so I am a diehard Caitriona Balfe fan, I like Sam but am not an over the top fan like most… I have to say seeing him up close and personal I COULD NOT take my eyes off of him, he was so 'cute’ doesn’t do it justice, I seriously have no word/s for it.  He was so funny and gracious and flirty with the women and NICE, very tan too, yeah, I kept running into people as the line snaked around trying to just watch him, I even almost got kicked out trying to sneak a pic – damn gestapo staffers.  So finally get up to Caitriona, um effing goddess.  She had quite the stash of gifts, I had considered giving them something but didn’t want to burden them with too much stuff and if they truly just give it away well… So I opted to give her a love letter as I call it, from me.  I didn’t know what to 'say or ask her something’ so I mentioned that I have a head shot autograph of Simon (her friend Simon Kassianides) and I can add hers to it now and she smiles and says “oh cool, I just saw him a couple of days ago!”  Me: heehee. JHRC I’m such a dweeb.  I didn’t get a Sam autograph cos’ they had sold out by the time I got online to purchase, I coached ninaf though to make sure to smell him so we could report back, since we both forgot to at the photo op :P  So we float out of the room and out into the main area and I finally just started screaming I was so excited – I got to talk to Caitriona Effing Balfe (even if it was brief)  I am so so glad I did this! 

After this was all done it was getting close to our dinner plans for meeting up with other tumblrs, so we eventually got to the restaurant.  How fun to finally meet some of us.  As we came into the room I immediately recognized @rainmanjdog and @mommydog67, we had been chatting while in line for our Cait only photo and didn’t know that we were part of the tumblrs, so funny and we all almost asked each other but didn’t want to risk it – so sad.  Great night hanging with everyone, best story goes to @valkyrie1969 I still chuckle just thinking about it.  So where is the photo of us pointing at the 'Meet and Greet’ room @pentwhistle ?

Overall impression of SamCait – they are two of the most genuine, engaging, fun, cool, nicest people.  

Overall impresion of our tumblrs – we are some of the most genuine, engaging, fun, cool and nicest people.  

[eachdressiown]

Development of the screentime

While Liz showed a steady screen time in S1 and S2, (3 hrs 38 min in 1A, 3 hrs 42 min in 1B, 3 hrs 26 min in 2A, 3 hrs 31 min in 2B), we now see a constant up and down. (2 hrs 25 min in 3A, 1 hr 50 min in 3B, 2 hrs 29 min in 4A, 1 hr 48 min in 4B.) While 3B can be explained, the fall in 4B is a mystery. Not that I want her to have more screen time, but it’s weird that there is no room for the MC in her own (ridiculous) story.

Red shows a quite steady screen time through the seasons (3 hrs in 1A, 2 hrs 26 min in 1B, 2 hrs 35 min in 2A, 2 hrs 4 min in 2B, 2 hrs 37 min in 3A, 2 hrs 31 min in 3B, 2 hrs 12 min in 4A, 2 hrs 23 min in 4B.)

Ressler, instead, shows a steady decline--except for 3A when he had something like a “storyline.” (1 hr 53 min in 1A, 1 hr 33 min in 1B, 1 hr 27 in 2A, 1 hr 10 min in 2B, 1 hr 41 min in 3A, 1 hr 14 min in 3B, 1 hr 1 min in 4A, 50 min in 4B.)

Cooper’s screen time also goes rather down than up. (53 min in 1A, 56 min in 1B, 43 min in 2A, 1 hr 6 min in 2B, 29 min in 3A, 1 hr 7 min in 3B, 44 min in 4A, 37 min in 4B.)

Samar saw a little decrease of her screen time in 4B, but she still has more screen time than Ressler. (44 min in 1A, 44 min 1B, 53 min in 2A, 45 min in 2B, 1 hr 10 min in 3A, 1 hr 12 min in 3B, 1 hr 14 min in 4A, 52 min in 4B.)

Aram’s screen time shows a steady increase, only in 4B a little decrease. (18 min in 1A, 30 min in 1B, 39 min in 2A, 30 min in 2B, 49 in 3A, 53 min in 3B, 57 min in 4A, 52 min in 4B.)

Tom shows a wild up and down--probably because he doesn’t have a real storyline. (40 min 1A, 1 hr in 1B, 14 min in 2A, 54 min in 2B, 45 min in 3A, 1 hr 43 min in 3B, 50 min in 4A, 17 min in 4B.)

Dembe shows a very steady screen time with a steady decrease. (14 min in 1A, 14 min 1B, 17 min in 2A, 18 min in 2B, 20 min in 3A, 30 min in 3B, 34 min in 4A, 39 min in 4B.)

Mr. Kaplan never had, in fact, a story nor a bigger role, until the writers decided to retcon the whole story and make her the big bad. (3 min in 1A, 2 min in 1B, 2 min in 2A, 5 min in 2B, 5 min in 3A, 10 min in 3B, 32 min in 4A, 1 hr 8 min in 4B.)

Just in order to remember: newcomer Gale had 25 min in 4B.

[amour-fo-u]

1-104 ;) hahaha enjoy

1. You woke up naked next to the last person you texted, what would you say?

-i’d cry bc i have no interest in him at all

2. What’s going on between you and the last person you kissed?

-we dont talk

3. If your boyfriend or girlfriend was into drugs, would you care?

-yes

4. Is your last name longer than six letters?

-yes

5. Was your last kiss drunk or sober?

-well i was 13 so sober

6. Have you ever wanted to have someone but you messed it up?

-yes

7. What does your last received text say?

“thanks :) yeah, i was up until 4:3o writing lyrics lmao”

8. How many times have you kissed the last person you kissed?

-once

9. Where was your last kiss at?

-my friends yard at her old house

10. When is the last time you saw your sister?

-like an hr ago

11. What do you drink in the morning?

-water

12. Where did you sleep last night?

-my bed

13. Do you think relationships are hard?

-not if they’re w the right person

14. If you could go back and change something in the past 5 months, would you?

-yes

15. You’re locked in a room with the last person you kissed, any problems?

nah

16. Would you rather it be sunny or rainy?

-sunny

17. Do you know anyone with the same middle name as you?

-yeah

18. Are you wearing jeans,sweatpants,or pajama pants?

-none of these, i’m wearing undies lol

19. Do you think you will be in a relationship 3 years from now?

-i hope so 

20. Does anyone like you?

-ye it’s cute

21. Have you ever kissed someone with a name that starts with an S?

-no

22. Is the last person you kissed gay?

-no idea

23. Is there a person you CANNOT stand?

-yes

24. Have you ever considered getting a tattoo?

-i have

25. In the past week have you cried?

-like 30 mins ago fam

26. What breed was the last dog you saw?

-it was my boy Duke!!! so pitbull

27. Do you dry off in the shower or out of the shower?

-out of the shower

28. Have you ever kissed a football player?

-no

29. Do you think you’re old?

-nah lol

30. Do you like text messaging?

-yes

31. What type of day are you having?

-a v boring one 

32. Have you ever thought about getting your nose pierced?

-ye

33. Do you prefer warm or cold weather?

-cold

34. Is there a person of the opposite sex who means a lot to you?

-yesssss of course

35. Would you prefer a relationship or a fling?

-relationship

36. Are you a simple or complicated person?

-i’ve been told many time that i am simple so i guess i am simple

37. What song are you listening to?

-nothing rn but the last thing i listened to by Pentatonix version of Hallelujah

38. When you say you’re sorry do you mean it?

-of course 39. Is there a girl that knows everything or almost everything about you?

-yes, a couple actually 40. What made you start liking the person you like now?

-uhh hes a blessing and the sweetest ever and smart and everything he does is cute and he’s handsome af. just came along all perfect while i mindin my business man41. When did you last receive a text message?

11:51 PM42. What is wrong with you right now?

-im stressed 43. How well do you know the last female you texted?

-super well 44. Does anyone disgust you?

-insert long list of politicians here 45. Would you date someone right now if they asked?

-like someone specific? yeah46. Are you in a good mood right now?

-its an alright mood47. Who was the last person you talked to in person?

-dad48. What color shirt are you wearing?

-white49. Has someone recently told you something you didn’t want to hear?

-yeah50. Anyone you’re giving up on?

-yeah51. Do you hate the person you fell hardest for?

-NO i love him bunches 

52. Have you ever thought about giving up on someone but couldn’t?

-yeah, but then i eventually did it53. Do you like rain?

-YES 54. Do you care if your boyfriend/girlfriend drinks?

-as long as they’re responsible, nah 55. Have you ever liked somebody and never told them?

yeah 56. Do you like to cuddle?

-yes57. Are you shy?

-yes 58. Do you get along with girls?

-of course59. Have you dated the person you texted last?

-hell no 60. What do you carry with you at all times?

-uh idk man, my wallet 61. If you were paid 1 million dollars to spend the night in a supposed haunted house, would you?

-fuck yes i would62. Do you think you can last in a relationship for five months?

-absolutely 63. Think back to October, were you in a relationship?

-nope 64. The person you like kisses you on the forehead, do you find this cute?

-yes cause everything he does is cute af65. Did anything “cute” happen in the last week?

-yes

66. How old are the last three people you kissed?

-i’ve only been kissed by 2 ppl, and idfk

67. Would you rather pay to get your nails done or do them yourself?

-do them myself     68. Which do you like better- Zebra print or leopard print?   

-neither lol  69. Do you have any stickers on your car?    

-I have an NSCS sticker on my rear window70. Would you rather listen to Luke Bryan or Lil Wayne?    

-Lil Wayne I guess71. Blackberry, Anroid, or iPhone?    

-I have an Android, I’ve never had a Blackberry or iPhone so i guess i’ll go w android  72. When’s the last time you had pizza from Pizza Hut?    

-umm, its been years73. Do you like diet soda?    

-no74. What color are the walls in your room?    

-white75. Are you 16 or older?    

-im 19 yo76. Do you watch Pretty Little Liars?    

-no77. Do you have a job?    

-no  78. What are your initials?    

-R.A.G. 79. Did you ever have braces?   

 -no but i need them so bad ugh80. Are you from the south?   

-no 

81. What does your last status on facebook say?    

-”The cashier told me to have a good day and I almost said ‘Thanks, I love you too’”82. Do you still talk to the first person you ever kissed?    

-no83. Are you closer to your mom or your dad?    

-both!84. Have you ever done cheerleading or gymnastics?    

-nope85. What’s the last movie you saw in theaters?    

-can’t remember tbh86. Do you smoke?    

-no87. Would you rather wear heels or flip flops?    

-listen pal i wear flip flops literally every day88. Is your phone touch screen?    

-yes89. Do you normally wear your hair straight or curly?    

-straight90. Have you ever snuck out of your house?    

-nope91. Would you rather swim in a river, lake, or pool?  

-lake!  92. Have you ever made out in a car?    

-no93. …Had sex in a car?    

-no94. Are you single or in a relationship?    

-i’m def super committed to someone rn so 95. What were you doing last night at midnight?  

-uhhh, falling asleep probably  96. When’s the last time you saw fireworks? 

-4th of July   97. Do you like the camera on your phone?    

-yeah98. Have you ever had a friend with benefits?    

-kinda i guess?? 99. Have you ever passed out from drinking?    

-nah lol100. Are you friends with people on facebook that you actually hate?  

-yes  101. Have you ever had a pregnancy scare?    

-nope102. Name your favorite Kesha song:    

-THE CLASSIC Tik Tok103. Do you have any tan lines right now? 

-nope   104. Would you ever wear cowboy boots with shorts?

-fuck no baby 

[ciathyzareposts]

The Journeyman Project – Justice – Won!

Written by Reiko

Agent 5 Journal #5: “My work is finally done here. Sinclair is neutralized and the timeline should be back to normal now. He’ll be imprisoned, I’m sure, and justice will be done. After all, if I hadn’t stopped them, his robots would have killed thousands of people. It’s sad that such a brilliant mind turned out to be so unstable.”

Last time I finished the third time period and returned to the present to find that all of the temporal rips have been resolved. I exit the time machine and start looking around for what to do next. We’ve got to stop Sinclair from carrying out his final plan to assassinate the Cyrollan ambassador, but where is he?

Oddly enough, I find that if I go back into the Control Center and check the computer, it still identifies the same discrepancies as before, even though the timeline shows no temporal rips. You’d think that correcting the timeline would make the current history the same as the previously recorded history again.

The objective files make it clear that the source is Sinclair…

Well, there’s nothing more to be done at the agency, so I go back down the hall to the transporter to see if I can go anywhere. When there were temporal rips left, I wasn’t even able to access the transporter, but now I can. After I enter it and put my transport card in, it gives me the same four transport options as at the beginning of the game. However, this time, if I try to select anything except returning to Caldoria Heights, I just get a message saying, “Agent 5: You must discover the source of the temporal rips.” I guess it isn’t really a choice, then.

Back I go to my apartment complex. Surely my apartment isn’t interesting, and I can’t access anyone else’s apartment. The only interesting place remaining is the rooftop area, which is still closed for the alien procession. But, hmm. The door has a slot on it. (The transporter seems to have eaten my transporter card this time, so it’s no longer in inventory and can’t be tried on this slot. It doesn’t do anything even if you try it at the beginning of the game, though.)

Sinclair should have shot me here when he had the chance.

I have something else that can fit into a slot and affect electronics: the access card bomb. I drop it onto the slot and it blinks a few times and then abruptly explodes, destroying the door and punching a large hole through the wall. Through the hole, I can see a man, Sinclair, holding some kind of gun. He turns to look at me and warns me not to interfere. Instead of shooting me immediately, he goes back to lining up his shot, which gives me a moment to act. I pull out my stun gun (having to painstakingly scroll all the way to the bottom of the inventory to get to it) and stun him before he can shoot the ambassador.

Final Score (non-peaceful)

And that’s all there is to the endgame. Sinclair crumples, and abruptly I’ve won. The game dumps me to a screen with an ending message and a final score.

Winning message: “Congratulations, agent five! You’ve stopped Dr. Sinclair and assured humanity a place in the Symbiotry of Peaceful Beings! A promotion is surely in the works for you. But a Temporal Protectorate agent’s job is never done…”

My final score was 114187, with only one time period considered as having been solved peacefully (Mars). That was after crushing the NORAD robot in the high-pressure room, which is apparently the violent solution. It seems to have done more damage to the robot itself, anyway. I don’t know why, but the game seems to think I visited 2310, the rally level, twice. I don’t know if there was a glitch somewhere, or if it was because I saved after getting the antidote and reloaded, or what.

Final Score (mostly peaceful)

I also replayed the endgame from the other NORAD ending with the loader arm. Everything’s exactly the same about getting to the rooftop and stunning Sinclair. For some reason, my final score there is a little lower, though: 106729. But my total energy remaining was actually slightly higher, so the penalty is all from the fact that now it thinks I tried the NORAD level twice as well. I didn’t do anything except reload and use a different solution on the robot though. So I have to wonder if somehow the game is tracking when I restore a saved game? But I saved and restored at multiple places in the Mars level (the ore crusher is the most critical point) and it only counted one attempt for that level.

So I’ve finished the game, but I haven’t achieved a fully peaceful ending. To do that, unfortunately, I have to replay almost the whole thing again, because I did the time periods in the wrong order. But since I know what I need to do, this doesn’t actually take all that long.

I restore back to the point where I’ve done the comparison with the record disk and am ready to start dealing with the three main time periods. This time I go to Mars first. I make sure to pick up the maintenance key and the wire cutters in the transport, and I quickly dodge the robot, fill the oxygen mask, disarm the access card bomb, and thread my way through the mining maze. I carefully ride the ore crusher and chase the robot down in the extra shuttle, being careful to capture it rather than destroy it.

Last time, the rally level gave me Mercury and the Mars level gave me Poseidon.

This time, when I get the Trace and Optical Memory biochips, the memory biochip contains the Ares Objective file. I never got that in my previous playthrough. I think there must be some glitch with the memory cards if you do the levels out of order. I noticed originally that the memory biochip was supposed to originate from the Mars level, so that’s a hint about that. The Ares objective is pretty straightforward: Sinclair gloats at how clever his plan is to destroy both the Mars colony and the alien ship and make it look to Earth like the aliens did it and to the aliens that the colony did it.

Shorting out the robot with the fire controls.

Next up is the rally level. I analyze the tranquilizer dart and synthesize the antidote as before. This time, when I face the robot, I use the wire cutters from the Mars level on the padlock for the fire control access cover. I open it and poke at the controls, which I think causes sprinklers or something to come on, again shorting out the robot but without doing as much damage as electrocuting it. I carefully pull all the biochips, including the Retinal one. As before, the memory biochip is updated with the Mercury Objective file.

Collected all objective files.

Finally, I redo the NORAD level. I use the shield chip against the robot’s plasma shots, and then the retinal chip to bypass the retinal scanner on the Alpha station door. I play the minigame to deactivate the nuclear silos and thwart the launch. Then I use the loader arm to neutralize the robot. Its biochips are duplicates, but the memory chip gives me the Poseidon Objective file, so this time I have all three.

Final Score (peaceful)

I’m nearly done. As before, I transport back to Caldoria Heights, ride up to the rooftop level, blow through the wall with the access card bomb, and stun Sinclair. I win again, and this time I get the best result: all levels are peaceful and have one attempt (I was really careful, so I never had to reload), and I get a 25,000 point bonus for the peaceful finish. Mission accomplished. The replay only took about 45 minutes total, which means that, once you know what you’re doing, the full game would only take about an hour to play through.

Credits with photos

Credits with names and titles

Each time, from the winning screen, I get an option to view the credits instead of the buttons to restore, restart, or go back to the main menu. However, the credits button from the winning screen very briefly takes me back to a screen that looks like the game screen but with a warning message about being out of energy. It’s so brief that I couldn’t even get a screenshot of it. Then it dumps me back at the main menu, which also has a credits button, and this one actually works properly. You can see Michel Kripalani, the originator of the Journeyman Project, in the bottom-middle slot. His friend Greg Uhler, the programmer, is next to him.

Final Maximum Score: 132827 Session Time: 1 hr 15 min (including 45 minutes for final replay) Total Time: 8 hr 30 min

Deaths: 1 (total: 20)

In the crosshairs of Sinclair’s gun

There’s one more death available in the endgame: if I wait too long to stun Sinclair, he shoots the ambassador and then turns and shoots me. The ending is called “Shot by Sinclair”. The message reads: “In killing the Cyrollan delegate, Sinclair felt he was ensuring the continued existance [sic] of humanity. You may have disagreed. If only there had been some way to stop him.”

Next up will be the rating. We’ll take a look at what this game did well and what it didn’t. For one final opportunity for bonus CAPs, see if you can figure out what band produced the songs whose titles became my post titles for Journeyman Project. (The first one, Time Distortion, was just too perfect for the situation, so I ran with it from there.)

source http://reposts.ciathyza.com/the-journeyman-project-justice-won/

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AdaComply Review Discount And Huge Bonus

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How to Make a Web Site ADA Compliant? (Part 1)

If you are reading this blog post you have most likely obtained some questions or possibly also some solicitation about making your web site AdaComply Compliant However, we have started to speak with numerous small company proprietors who have actually gotten what LOOKS like a complaint or a potential lawsuit. What you require to understand is these problems COULD BE originating from "legitimate" or licensed lawyers-- while still not being legitimate problems.

Within the last fiscal year hundreds of ADA complaints have been E-FILED (online) definition that some litigation-hungry lawyer's are merely filing claims against any type of and every internet site they locate that isn't ADA Certified with actually little-to-no intent of in fact ever going to court. (Translation, they are seeking a negotiation.) Issue is if you "clear up" you still have to do what it takes to make your web site certified.

This page is EVERYTHING you would like to know or DON'T would like to know regarding this problem as we know it at this time. While it may be wordy, there is some good intel here.

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Let's Look at the Complexity of "What it Takes" to make your web site AdaComply Compliant.

Most likely to this website: http://wave.webaim.org and also get in YOUR website into it. The resulting screen will show you all of things that need to be attended to ON THAT PARTICULAR ONE web page to make it correctly ADA Compliant. If your site resembles THE MAJORITY OF, it would certainly take about 30-40 mins or more to obtain that a person web page up to standards.

CURRENTLY go web page by page and do the exact same for EVERY web page on your site. By the way, make sure to include every BLOG SITE, every gallery picture ... everything. To provide you an example, LOTS sites are hundreds and also even THOUSANDS of pages that have actually been built up over time to help them rate well. To highlight this more plainly, I just examined a REALLY little B&B customer of ours and also their website is 296 web pages of web content. If EVERY page takes even 45 mins to bring it as much as ADA requirements, we would certainly need to invest 13,320 mins or 222 hours to "repair it". Also at $60 a hr, you're considering over $13,000 to make those modifications as well as edits for a tiny site.

Just like everything else on the internet, you can already locate intended plugins or companies that are asserting that for $200 they can make your website ADA certified. Don't drop victim to that. It does not work this way.

If you have a small, 4-5 page site, after that your cost may be less than $200-$ 300 to repair points, however, if you have a well-ranked site that has been constructed over time with great deals of pages, lots of items, and so on. there is no substitute for what needs to been done. Basically, a reputable company will certainly have to go page by web page to fix points.

WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS?

CHOICE ONE:

You COULD simply have us develop a brand-new web site that is 10-15 pages that is 100% AdaComply compliant. Prices? Possibly $4000-$ 5000. The issue with that it suppose your current site is placed for countless search terms based upon countless archived web pages like POST, SEO pages, items, and so on. If you lose all those pages, you shed all the positions. Rankings = web traffic = customers.

ALTERNATIVE TWO:

You COULD just not do anything and also wait and see if the Us senate ultimately addresses points.

OPTION THREE

You COULD just overlook any type of problem you receive and also they MAY just vanish (you might have to ignore two or three efforts. (This might not be the wisest appearing guidance, yet we understand individuals that have actually done just that.).

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It's a 'very first to market' SaaS platform that assists site owners boost their site ease of access in mins and be ADA Conformity.

AdaComply Is 'First To Market' Software Makes Your Site & Client's Internet sites ADA Certified In Minutes. Avoid Lawsuit, Ranking Greater On Search Engines & Take Advantage Of A $650B/Year Untapped Market ...

Is Your Internet Site ADA Certified? The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) needs businesses to make accommodations for people with impairments. Internet material need to come to the blind, deaf, and those who have to browse by voice, display readers or various other assistive modern technologies.

Benefit of having an ADA compliant/Accessible Internet site:

Avoid claims (Over 10k websites have actually been sued this year alone for not being ADA certified ... and also this number will skyrocket in 2020.

Rank higher on internet search engine. (Google enjoys easily accessible internet sites)

And also used the $650 billion annually untapped disablity market.

AdaComply That Fixes A $400 BILLION TROUBLE

A historic high court judgement in 2015 created a rise in web sites owners being demanded non-complaince with ADA.

1,500+ lawful situations connected to non-accessibility conformity in New York City alone in 2018

Greater than 10,000 websites taken legal action against in 2019 for their web site not being ADA compliant

This number is expected to strike 100k by following year - 2020

Unlike GDPR, The ADA law calls for no notice before a claim is filed versus a company for non-compliance.

The law provides no time at all for a business to act prior to a suit is filed, and it supplies no real protection to a firm after a claim has been submitted.

A lot of business/website owners took legal action against pay between $20 - $200k as out of court negotiation. A recent negotiation was $6m.

Businesses have spent an average of $3k - $50k to obtain their site dealt with. (HUGE POSSIBILITY - You can bill above $k per customer). $1k per website x 400 million web sites online = $400 billion

Final thought

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Ps: If you have any kind of concerns you wish to ask me regarding AdaComply or you simply want to offer your sensations and also thoughts concerning it. Please do not hesitate to relay your remarks, pointers or corrections., I will certainly address you wholeheartedly as well as attentively. Many thanks!

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TGIWednesday - Clearing Ghosts and Goblins

TGIWednesday News

Ok, so here we go it's officially the creepiest day of the year! ​Hey don't get me wrong... I love October, and I like pumpkin spice everything, and the Fall leaves and hayrides etc..... it's just that some of the stuff that goes along with it gets a little icky especially on this day. Though I have to admit.. sometimes good stuff DOES happen just before Halloween... because last night my youngest son Hunter and his wife Katie had a brand spanking new baby girl Blake Ramsey!!! Our new little Scorpio is the younger sister of Charlie Blythe who is the star in all of our newsletters and the one who when asked about what to name the new baby said, "Pineapple".   I couldn't be more thrilled that our little Pineapple has arrived!!  Thankfully, this joyful occasion will really lighten up this time of year for me :)  

But still, for those folks who like to dress up like evil characters, know that often - on some level - they take on those characteristics and when you add drugs and or alcohol, you’re heading for disaster…and that can be really creepy because they could be inviting in spirits that are not of your own choosing so consider that as well.………..ABC Liquors' sign nationwide says, "Beer, Wine and “Spirits” instead of liquor.......just sayin'... So when you watch the video below, we're going to clear out a bunch of terms and word tracks and get the ickyness off of you now. And here's a fun fact..... Sandy pointed out to me when she was uploading the video that it's odd how if you watch the video from the 2:45 mark - it begins to cut out just as I talk about clearing haunted houses - and again at the 4:00 min mark when I talk about being unclear. And oddly the video is jumpy on the screen which it NEVER is.  Folks.....  that's just us clearing all the negative evil energies out & it's even caught on film. Oh and don’t forget to play this one November 1st so you can undue the creepy from the night before!!! Also to go deeper get my audio MP3 Dark Energies as this will really get you cleaned up energetically. Also watch my Halloween Clearing video w/Marla on YouTube

TGIWednesday Download

~ CLEARING GHOSTS & GOBLINS ~ Everyone who listens, reads or watches this now is clear. Entities known and unknown, named and unnamed, tagalongs, waywards, dark clouds of all shapes and sizes, curses, hexes, charms, psychic leeches, the fallen, all lost souls, return soul fragments, psychic hooks that drain me, vows of celibacy, vows of poverty, fealties, contracts, aliens and alien probes and anything that's known and unknown, named & unnamed outside of that we are releasing it, resolving, deleting & erasing it, disentangling it all off now. That we've learned all the lessons we needed to from all of this & are released from the service to it now.

For those who aren't familiar, here's the list of ALL clearing MP3s available. Find a topic that addresses your issue(s) & click on the link to read more. 

Abuse Addiction Body Scan: Head to Toe Daily GPS Reset Dark Energies/Fears Decision Making Diet & Exercise Education & Learning Family & Relatives Healing Physical Body Healing Mental Stress Holiday Stress

Increasing Intuition Love & Romance Money Mindset Moving Forward Pain Relief Pet Healing Sales & Success Sex Sleep Traveling w/Ease Work & Career Weight Loss

Fish Food 

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell The Fish: 365 Daily Inspirations & Affirmations  

OCTOBER 31st - "Today I will keep in mind that tomorrow will be All Saints Day. I will fulfill my destiny, healthy, whole and filled with joy and glory. I will set a new standard for myself, my family, my world."

Live Shows and Replays

SOUL TALK LIVE WITH PATTY MALEK  TOMORROW November 1st 2018 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT Jimmy will be the guest on Soul Talk LIVE hosted by Patty Malek "Freeing Yourself from the Emotional Component of the Pain Cycle" Soul Talk is a gathering of amazing folks and I'm honored to be one of the featured guests. Experience live readings, session work healing, clearings, activations, & energy transmissions,heart openings, and shifts in consciousness from an amazing line up of guests that will change, transform, inform and elevate your life to higher levels of awareness and higher vibrating dimensions. Tune in and come and explore new experiences and possibilities.   Click Here to Listen    SPIRITUAL INSIGHTS RADIO WITH CHARLOTTE SPICER  November 7th @ 3:30pm EST  Call in at (347) 934-0751 or Listen Here online JIMMY MACK HEALING SHOW  Tuesdays at 9pm ET/ 6pm PT Call in LIVE (713) 955-0594

Imagine getting FREE intuitive messages and healings LIVE!  Well, it happens every week on my radio show with some of the best psychic readers & intuitive healers on the planet!  Tune in weekly for the FREE live show or replay and YOU will receive changes & healings just by listening!  To listen online, click the date links below. Listen here to Yesterday's Replay - Rev. Debbie Dienstbier, HALLOWEEN SHOW - Our resident Transmedium who has practiced for decades and  specializes in communications with your loved one’s in spirit. Profound readings about any question that you may have regarding any topic, now or in the future. UPCOMING GUESTS FOR NOVEMBER Listen Here Nov 6th -Shelley Hofberg, Psychic, Pet Communication, Healing Radio Host of The Psychic Horizons Radio Show http://www.psychichorizon.com/index.html   Listen Here November 13th - Judi Thomases, World Renowned Astrologer, psychic healer and channel for over 4 decades Contributor to Del Horoscope Magazine  https://www.wisdompath.com   Listen Here November 20th - Mark Hernandez, An intuitive healer helping people and their  pets! http://www.peopleandpetsenergetics.com/about-us   Listen Here November 27th - Rev Debbie Dienstbier, Our resident transmedium with decades of  communicating with your loved ones in Spirit (and your pets in spirit too) https://www.facebook.com/Wings-of-Grace-Spiritual-Center-875388225837766  

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Where Have You Seen The Fish?

"This picture I took myself - those are my feet at the bottom of the photo. It's funny because I go to the movies often on Friday nights to the same place and on this particular night, I looked down at the carpet and I saw the fish right there." - Jimmy Mack  

Do YOU have a picture to share of where you saw the fish?  Send it to info@jimmymackhealing.com and we'll have some fun with it!

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Tampa Bay area locals can book a live session with me EVERY WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY from 10-2PM Call Kodawari's front desk directly to schedule (813) 773-4017 and pay at the concierge desk... 15 minutes 33$ or 30 minutes 65$. UPCOMING SCHEDULE 10-2pm: Wednesday:  Oct. 24th, 31st  | Nov. 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th Friday:  Oct. 19th, 26th | Nov. 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th  

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Come see me Monday December 10th ​@ ​​Swann Holistic Health Solutions ​from 10am to 5pm at my good friend Charla Tempone's office in Tampa. Please call their office directly at (813) 873-7773  in order to get on the schedule for 15-minutes 33$ - 30-minutes 65$ 39 A DAVIS BLVD Tampa, FL http://www.ctholisticsolutions.com

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I will dial into you daily in the wee hours and make certain that you are a CLEAR YES,UNCLEAR to NO and RUNNING FORWARD before you start your day. You will send me a list of the members of your immediate household, and yes even pets, and I will add them to my daily prayers. I will arise daily before you are even awake to start my prayers and also run my intelligent computer software 24/7 deleting the negative and increasing the strength of the positive creating a higher probability of outcomes for you and the family.  Each comes with a one-time email analysis print out via the intelligent healing software that I use on your behalf.  Most clients have had amazing results and outcomes and I get emails like this one each and every week!

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All members must first complete the Mastery Program then, if qualified, they can choose to move on to Level II where many advanced teachings & nuances are shared through the "Healing A-Z" book & includes 3 more clearing audios to help strengthen your business and finances. The exclusively written "The Practitioner's Handbook" is the cornerstone of the program & cannot be purchased individually.  It outlines some of the inner workings of how I handle my own practice including topics like; managing unrealistic expectations, having patience, pricing, time isn't always equal to outcomes or results, having limits, legal and ethical questions, advice on supplements, marketing, promotion, and sales, daily rituals for you and your clients/patients. The Level II course was designed and is dedicated to those who practice in the healing arts; Psychics, Healers, NP, AP, DOM, DO, MD, DC, Massage Therapists, Physical Therapists, RNs, Nurse Practitioners, PhDs, and Physician Assistants or currently practicing another modality, technique or method that includes natural healing in your home office or office setting, phone and or Skype.

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So I calculated the exact screen time for all the love square ships in season 2...

Yep. I'm back and I've completed season 2. But first, I'd like to thank all the people here for all the support on the last post. It really means a lot. For the uninitiated, let's go over...

Some Ground Rules

What I did and didn't count as love square screen time. For those of you who have seen my last post, there's a new rule as well that I've added so here we are:

Both characters of the ship must be present in the scene for it to be counted as screen time and by that I mean the real versions of the characters so no nightmare Adrien from "Sandboy".

At least one of the characters must be interacting in some way with the other character or at least working with them because we can't have Maribug and Adricat acting like background characters and call that love square screen time.

If a character believes that they are interacting with the alter ego of the other character, it will be counted as screen time for that ship because it's the dynamic that matters. So scenes like Marinette and Adrien interacting with each other through different sides of the sewer wall in "Mayura" will be counted as Ladynoir screen time rather than Adrienette.

In case of group interactions involving the two characters, it will not be counted as screen time for that ship unless the interaction between the two characters are given special attention in the scene. So Marinette and the rest of the fencing classing watching Adrien fight Kagami will be counted as Adrienette screen time as we are getting special focus on Marinette's reaction.

If you want to check out the previous season, you can go here. Now on with the statistics.

Screen Time Distribution

Compared to last season, Ladynoir has significantly decreased a bit in screen time, although it still dominates, having 71.5 % of the total love square screen time of season 2. Adrienette follows behind with a bit of boost with 19.7 % of season 2 screen time compared to last season's 18.5 %. Ladrien made a significant increase in screen time this season, having 6 % compared to last season's 2.5 % with Maricat having less than half that screen time.

Combing the screen time of this season and last season we have Ladynoir on top with 73.6 % of the screen time, that being exactly 3 hr 36 min 56 sec, 1 hr 53 min 26 sec from season 1 and 1 hr 45 min 22 sec from season 2. Adrienette in second with 19.3 % of the screen time, that being 56 min and 53 sec, 27 min 34 sec from season 1 and 29 min 19 sec from season 2. Third we have Ladrien with 4.3 % of the screen time, that being 12 min 33 sec, 3 min 47 sec from season 1 and 8 min 46 sec from season 2. Finally, we have Maricat in last with 2.9 % of the screen time, that being exactly 8 min 33 sec, 4 min 29 sec from season 1 and 4 min 7 sec from season 2.

Now onto the trends.

Screen Time Trend

While last season had "Gamer" as the sole episode where Ladynoir wasn't the ship with the most screen time, this season Ladynoir took a beating, having not 1 but 6 episodes where either Adrienette or both Adrienette and Ladrien having more screen time than it, one of these episodes, that being "Style Queen", having no Ladynoir at all. However this season had an episode that gave Ladynoir the most screen time it's ever gotten that episode being "Mayura". There were a string of episodes in the middle with solely Ladynoir but other than that, the other ships got some pretty good chances to shine, well most of them but we'll get to that later. On average, it had a screen time of 4 min 7 sec per episode.

Adrienette took a few episodes to get on it's feet but once it did it got some pretty good screen time. "Gigantitan" surprised me with how little Adrienette there was, considering the whole episode was about Marinette and her friends making a plan for Marinette to go on a date with Adrien but as it turns out, it was mostly Marinette's friends acting on the plan rather than Marinette herself watching Adrien. On average, it had a screen time of 1 min 7 sec per episode.

Ladrien made a huge comeback this season compared to the last one where most of it's focus episodes were concentrated at the end of the season and other than that there just being the 38 sec scene in "The Bubbler" where Ladybug tried to stop Chloe from dancing with Adrien and that 5 sec scene in "The Mime" where Ladybug and Adrien were staring at each other. This season it had multiple episodes to shine such as "Gorizilla", "Riposte" and "Style Queen" even surpassing Ladynoir in those episodes giving it an average screen time of 20 sec per episode.

Maricat though got the short end of the stick this season, only having a 33 sec scene in "Befana", the 3 sec scene of Cat Noir staring at Marinette with her family in "Santa Claws", the 3 sec scene of Marinette reacting to Cat Noir protecting her from the titular villain in "Anansi" and it's designated focus episode of the season "Glaciator" which wasn't even able to surpass Ladynoir like Ladrien did givng it an average of 10 sec per episode.

Conclusion

That's it for season 2. Next one of these won't take long because I'm gonna just be doing the Shanghai special so see you then!

[gendermesenpai-blog]

5:38pm

Looks like I didn’t do an entry last night. Work was pretty busy-ish. I went through and added it up actually cus I was rolling nonstop most of the day and I wanted to see how much I did but I haven’t been using Strava to record my rides. So after adding it up it was only 7 drops but around 35 miles. Not bad. 

After work I went to Z&B’s, everybody was there including D’s weird brother who I once talked to at the deck for almost an hour, mostly about politics. I think he was trying to make Joe Dirt play through his shitty netbook connected to the TV but it never ended up happening. 

Tolerated them playing Settlers of Catan for a while until I got drunk, then they started setting up a game of Risk and I dipped. Irish goodbye’d the fuck outta there. Got home, smoked, fell asleep without doing shit. 

Started Uber Eats today. I’m proud of myself for managing to avoid app-based courier work for as long as I have. It’s exploitative and drives wages down for all messengers. But money is money and they approved my dumb ass so fuck it. Went online around 9:30 am while I was still in my house and immediately got sent a run. Ended up doing 3 total and clocking out at 11am cus it was starting to rain. 

Got home and realized I actually had an appointment with my therapist that I had forgotten to write down. Had to text her and ask what time. So I figured well shit, as long as I’m suited up in all my rain gear to go see her, might as well do a few more runs. So I saw her at 1 and was rolling again from 2 to around 4:30. 

Total for today was 7 drops in 3 hrs 45 min of online time. Around $40 dollars in just under 4 hours. Not terrible, not great. $40 is an 8th of weed, so there’s that. Total mileage according to the Uber app is around 11 mi, but that doesn’t include coming back into town after a drop or when you’re on your way to the pick up. It only counts the trip to the recipient. Also doesn’t include me rolling down to see the therapist without the app on, or back up to the house from my last drop. So I probably did more like 20-25. Legs feel a lil DOMSy. Kinda nice, we’ve been so slow the last couple months that doing 50 or 60 miles across yesterday and today feels really good. 

I’m reminded of how accomplished I felt when I first started doing those kind of numbers back in NY. Fitness was so new to me and I was so proud. I didn’t even know what DOMS was when I started lol. I had never worked out hard enough to feel it. Over time courier work has become a normal part of life so I don’t tend to put a lot of thought into how insane it is but occasionally I still manage to impress myself. This is a great confidence boost since my muscles have been feeling so weak lately and we have Valentine’s coming up next week. It will probably be our busiest day of the entire year. [nervous gay sounds]

What else. Talked to the therapist about bikes for most of our appointment today lol. Explained a bunch about my job, how fixed gear works, why some people ride brakeless and why I don’t, the difference between different kinds of skids, yada yada. She was like “I never realized riding a bike could be so complex” and I was just like “nooo it’s the simplest thing in the world” lol. Showed her a video from Instagram of one of the flower bois in NYC carrying what looks like 12-16 flower orders without a rack, all on his bag. On a brakeless track bike with BMX bars lol. I was just like yep, this is what we do. I can’t carry as many as him though. Or not that I can’t, I just would rather not lol. I’ve never done more than 6-7 before so Valentine’s will be very interesting.

At one point we were talking about hyper-vigilance, not sure how we got onto that but I admitted it was definitely something I deal with on a daily basis. I recalled the way I used to set up my room when I was an pre-adolescent/teenager, how I would never face my desk in such a way that my screen was visible to someone who had just walked in the door. My mother used to just barge into my room at any moment. So I would usually put the desk against the same wall as the door, with the screen angled away from the door, or I would put it on the opposite side but have my chair against the wall so the back of my monitor faces the door. 

I haven’t intentionally thought about that in years. It stopped as soon as I stopped living with my parents but I would always remember it whenever I was setting up my screens as an adult and just ignore it. Instead of being worried about people seeing my screen, I learned to set them up so the sunlight from the window doesn’t cause glare. I’m not one of those “oh let’s put a big sheet with celtic crosses on it over our window” kind of stoner. I like light, it’s good. I always feel prettier in the sun.

It’s only 6 and I’m so dead from those Uber runs lol. Ima just play some Pokemon and pass out. G’night <3

edit: lmao you can’t go to bed at 6pm, you haven’t even taken your estrogen yet you silly goose

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Nursing gone wrong

Starting my day at work 

A typical day 

I come into work an hour early so that i’m able to actually read through my patients’ charts and write down all the meds they are going to need because once I clock in, it’s going to be a rat race.  It’s  now 7 AM and I am looking for the nurses who had my patients the night before so that we are able to do bed side report. They are nowhere to be found. They are finishing up med passes that were due at 4 AM but they didn’t have time because they had 4 people  admitted from the ER between 1 and 3 in the morning and they are trying to find out what kind of diet these people are supposed to be on, what fall risk they are, what medications they take at home and the last time they took them, and their history. As i’m walking down the hall looking for someone, I hear a patient yell “help me.” I go in and they have slid off their bed pan and have a mess in their bed. I slip on gloves, look for their wipes only to realize they don’t have any. So I take the bed pan off them, slip off my gloves, run down the hall to get into the supply room, and grab the wipes. Now I have to get them fresh sheets and a new gown. As i’m heading back to their room, two nurses are waiting for me so that they can give me report and go home. I know this patient isn’t going to die from dirty sheets. So I go in and explain to them that I will be back in to clean them up in a short while. I wipe them up and remove the dirty chuck pad underneath them so that they won’t be uncomfortable. They then tell me they need fresh water as well. --so I think “ok, I need to get report, change these sheets, and get fresh water.. check” 

I get a patient report on one person and they tell me that they have not been walked and want to get up and stretch their legs. -- I write it on my sheet and think, “ok, so I need to change sheets in room 910, get her fresh water, and then I need to pass my morning meds, do my assessments, look at my telemetry reading at 8 for my four patients and make sure their heart rates aren’t doing anything whacky, chart that info, and then i’ll come back around and hopefully the techs will have vitals done and be starting on the bed baths..after that is done, I will get up and walk this patient.”  

I walk down the hall and a bed alarm goes on. I go running and a patient down the hall in room 915 has now gotten up and knocked their entire bedside table over and there is water all over the floor and they have ripped off their telemetry monitor. I put them back in bed, call telemetry to tell them that this patient is ok, and go to put their monitor back on and realize that they have taken their chest pads off as well and there are none in the room. Back to the supply room I go. I  I walk by the nurses station and hear the phone ringing and call lights going off but I just ignore it and get packs of telemetry pads and go back to attach the monitor to them. 

I walk past two rooms with IV alarms going off. I will come back and check them or someone else will. 

It’s now close to 8 and I haven’t been back in patient 901′s room to change their sheets yet. I’ll just have the patient care tech do it because they will be going around doing vitals, checking blood sugars, and asking the patients if they want their baths. 

Next report taken, this patient is a stroke patient and requires neuro checks every 2 hours and must have blood pressure checked manually on the hour to make sure it is controlled because they have a bleed that is currently being controlled. They are on a nectar thick/pureed diet and can only be fed by staff. They are bed bound as well.

---Ok so now four of my patients are all accu-checks- which means I have to make sure their blood sugars are tested when they order breakfast. If it is high, I have to cover them with insulin when their tray comes. One of them, I have to feed or have the tech feed them and I have to make sure I stay on top their blood pressure every hour and check their neuro status every 2 hours. 

It’s 8:15. I haven’t seen a tech yet, patient in room 910 is still dirty, I still have a mess on the floor in 915, and I have to go look at the telemetry screens and chart their current rhythm and rate, which is already 15 min late. We chart rates every two hours. 

I still haven’t seen a tech. Four alarms are going off, nobody is at the nurse’s station, and the phone is ringing. My pocket is ringing and it’s dietary, telling me that two of my patients now have their breakfast trays and I look on the board and none of their sugars have been checked. 

I find out we don’t have a tech. I am now responsible for my vitals, which are to be taken every four hours (except for my one patient, who I have to do manually every hour), my own accu-checks, administering insulin to cover them, giving my own bed baths, walking my patients that do not have an order for PT, checking my telemetry screens every two hours and charting, completing all assessments and charting,  rounding with physicians, and checking charts to see if any new orders have been put in or if lab results have came in. 

Lab results are in- 2 of my patients have low potassium, nothing in their med rec shows they have potassium ordered. I have to page the doctor. 

Room 910 is still laying in a dirty bed. 

I have a family for one of my patients wanting to know how their mother is doing today.. I don’t even know what to tell them.. I haven’t assessed her yet. When they say her name I don’t even know who she is, give me a room number.

Two doctors have just arrived to round with me on my patients. 

Two of my patients have eaten breakfast and have not received their insulin. 

My patient keeps calling wanting to know when he can get up and walk. 

My other patient calls and wants their bath in the next half hour because their family is coming up. 

I haven’t charted anything. 

My 8 oclock meds are 45 minutes late. 

I page the doctors again about my lab results

I call pharmacy twice because my patient’s levemir isn’t in their bin and it was due a half hour ago. 

One of my patients has to go for dialysis and they are ready. Did they get their bath? I have no idea.  

We have two more admits coming from the ER. Now each nurse will have 5 patients. 

One of my patients needs a blood transfusion. 

910 is still dirty, at least I think they are. Someone may have cleaned them up, I haven’t been back. 

I’m passing meds and my patient starts talking about his love of camping and telling me about all the trips he and his wife go on. He is answered back with,  “how exciting” .. I honestly haven’t heard everything because I see in his chart he’s tested positive for influenza and we have no precautions set up. Everyone is going to need masks for his room now. I don’t have time to talk to him. I need to go page the Doctor to make sure they are aware of his results. His wife starts asking questions about when I think he’s going to be discharged. 

I can’t even remember why he was admitted or what he is here for. 

910 is still dirty. I haven’t charted anything. 

My patient in room 918, who was just admitted an our before shift change, has a heart rate of 165 and radiology is trying to take her for a cat scan so I have to run and stop them. I look on her chart, nobody has reconciled her meds so nothing is ordered. Radiology is pissed at me. I don’t care. She’s not going anywhere.  I page her doctor. I call his office and find out he is out of town. I call the doctor who is handling her doctor’s patients.. no answer. I page him.I tell radiology she’s not going to have the scan until her heart rate is controlled, she is going to be having a pacemaker put in tomorrow but I refuse to send her because she needs to take her amniodarone that she should have had but she forgot to take it last night. I know she’s drank all the contrast for her scan and is on limited time but her HR is now 180. The physician calls me back. I am going to give her a cardizem bolus of 10 mg  and run a drip. If that works I  can call radiology and let them know they can come back and get her. It works. her heart rate is now 110, going down.  The Doctor tells me to update her entire med list, that means I have to go through and put in each medicine and order it through pharmacy for him. I can fight him on it but I don’t because it needs to be done and i can’t be sure he’ll do it right away. 

Shit, I am a half hour late on my blood pressure check for my stroke patient and guess what? 910 is still dirty. 

My mouth is so dry and I have to pee.. keep moving. 

The cardiologist is here to round and I have a nurse run up to me telling me that pharmacy is on hold for me and case management wants to know if one of my patients is ready to go home.  Oh, and my patient who had the stroke’s family is all in the room wanting to see me because he hasn’t had his bath yet and his food is just sitting there because nobody has fed him. 

I hear a nurse getting yelled at by a doctor for not knowing that the patient had converted back to a-fib. 

Shit, I need to check my telemetry. 

I need to check blood sugars because lunch is coming up. 

Who had the crackles in their lungs? Was it 903 or 904? 

Another nurse stops me, 905 needs their catheter emptied and needs fresh water. She has to get her patient ready for his heart cath so she doesn’t have time to do it. She’s super sorry. 

My phone continuously vibrates in my pocket. I am told by the charge  nurse I need to take a lunch. 910 is still dirty. I tell her I’ll take my lunch later, let someone else go... knowing I won’t eat lunch until 3 and it will probably be nothing more than a snicker bar and milk. My urge to pee has passed, I’ll slip in the dietary area and get a small drink of water when I go to get fresh water for a a patient. 

I still haven’t charted. I hope 910 isn’t still dirty. Surely her nurse took care of it . 

This is every day. I did not sign up for this. I became a nurse because I truly love people and wanted to help and make a real difference in this world. If I take the time to talk to my patients, I am late doing something that could effect the outcome for another patient. There are times I can’t even remember what patient is what or what they were even here for. All through nursing school, we are told that our job is to be advocates for our patients and tend to their needs, not only medical but spiritual as well. I can’t advocate for my patients when I don’t even have time to talk to them.