Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Artifacts album) Puns

Obviously once Gilead finds out what June did they are going to be furious and want to punish her to the max. But once Canada and the rest of the world finds out what June did she will be considered a hero and Gilead wont know what to do

Basically, it's a fantasy story, the main charachter is a young woman, who is of higher-middle class status. She despises the thouhgt of marrying for business reasons, let alone having to raise kids out of duty, as her status would demand (her family owns a printing press, a rather successful one), so as a way of late teen rebellion, she hangs out with lower class kids and goes along with their drunken vandalism. Buuut that world also turns out to be not for her when the gang goes in to violent crime territory.

She is stuck between both worlds, not fully belonging to either, then she discovers here magical talent ( using it for defense instinctually when a gang member wants to shank her), that is her way out. She is taken in by the academy that trains mages.

Thing is I feel like this is... not earned. This story was originally a modern day slice-of-life thing, there, she decides to leave high society expectations and drunken life wasting behind on her own, after above mentioned shanking happens. There, she gets out of her situation through a shock and a realization. In the fantasy story, the opportunity just flies to her on a silver platter.

Would this be weak? It really feels like instead of solving her own problems, she is just thrown a rope by fate. I do plan to emphasize how grateful she is for the opportunity, in later chapters, her wanting to succeed actually being a source of anxeity for her, but I don't know if it's enough.

Just seeing what's everyone's opinion is about this. I'm forever grateful for what best buy has done so far, I don't want what I say to take away from that. But I feel like, and I've heard from others, that we're almost stuck between a rock and a hard place if you didn't get furloughed. They want to have us do in-home installs now, I don't feel comfortable doing that knowing how easy it is to spread, but if I were to refuse and take the furlough, then I'd be voluntarily doing that meaning I may not be able to apply for unemployment... To me it's almost, risk getting sick, or risk not having any income for who knows how long... Any thoughts? Again, this isn't a "hate best buy" rant, but definitely feel concerned about everything.

Edit: So I just got some updated info that this is supposed to be voluntary work for the in-home stuff only. I will talk to my manager and if there is any new stuff I find out I can try to let ya'll guys know so you know for yourselves.

Time to visit some new places...

Hey guys, a lot has happened since my last post.

Obligatory apologies because I’m on mobile and if anyone wants some background info, please feel free to check out my previous posts.

No More Nonna has moved out of my sisters home and taken my brother with her (awesome!) the problem now comes that she doesn’t have my sister as a moral compass (for lack of a better metaphor) and is now trying her luck with me.

She’s now made my DD a plushy unicorn, which I know DD would lose her mind over but she won’t be getting it, (this is the hill I will die on) that woman will not buy her way back in.

What I need help with is how do I go about politely and quietly shutting this shit down.

I unfortunately cannot go scorched earth (I want to so badly) because my dear sister is getting married at the end of this month and I really don’t want to have ANY negativity tied to her wedding, I mean we’ve gone through so bloody much, she deserves the best wedding, some normalcy, anything that’s not a constant reminder of the shit show we come from.

I will make a separate post about the mess I’m unpacking at the moment in the next few days (I’m not sure yet how to put it into words) but what I really need help with is this NMN situation, the absolute last thing I want is her pushing her way back into our lives but I also absolutely cannot skip this wedding, my sister and I have always been there for each other because we had parents who weren’t.

Asking her to not invite the family is also not an option because she’s still floating in that cloud where she believes they offer some form of value to her life, so she still cares about them and wants them included in the big moments of her life and it would be incredibly selfish of me to rob her of that.

I’m sorry if this seems disjointed or broken up and illogical... I’m not in the best place emotionally speaking.

I love Artifact. Plain and simple. I tell myself I won't play and I somehow still manage to squeak in at least one game a day. It gives me a thrill that no other game I've played has given me, especially in close-cut situations. I love improving and learning, watching and drafting.

It's sad to see the game's player base just shrivel up. It doesn't make any sense to me. I haven't spent a cent past the initial $20 though I do plan on spending once I got the hang of drafting and board awareness. I still have a ton of fun and plan on playing the game for a very long time. I would love to have the game with all its cards for free but I see why Valve went with a marketplace system. I would love to reduce RNG but that would also mean every red/black deck I go up against will be awfully brutal. I would love to get some new cards or a new event but we have more pressing matters at hand. Everything I think would improve Artifact has some downsides to it, and I don't see a way to satisfy everyone or more importantly, bring back the player base. Can anyone think of a plan that works?

OK, I have a remote site server. An HP DL320e Gen8. It has a P222 RAID controller with 4 drives. Simple RAID 5. Nothing fancy.

It's running ESXi 6.5. It has 2 VM's. An ADDS, File Share, and Print server and a SCCM secondary site server.

The performance of these is ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. Even when I power off the SCCM site server the DC lags to the point of being almost unusable. I've checked CPU/Memory. They're fine. I've checked readiness, it's fine. (all VM and hypervisor performance indicators look ok.) I strongly believe something is wrong with the storage controller (it is running an older firmware and I suspect a bug.)

So, easy idea is flash it right? And if anything goes wrong restore from backup. Easy peasy.

Well... So our backups of that server failed and corrupted. (fuck) I know this because I tried doing a test restore prior to doing the flash and discovered this.

So if I do a flash, and something goes wrong, I lose the RAID. When I try to run a backup, the I/O is so horrible it won't finish.

Just a side note, none of the drives are encrypted. (VM or datastore)

I'm basically out of ideas and open to suggestions on how to un-fuck this situation.

Thanks hive mind!

I met my significant other 11 years ago. As you can guess she was INCult. We dated, I went to church, went to bible study, and became a member. I thought to myself wow I found God again (I am Catholic). We married 3 years after we met, had 2 kids 2 years later. I finally found the courage to leave December 2019. Told the wife how I felt and didnt want the kids to go anymore. To this day she still goes to church against my requests. I have not attended church cold Turkey and cut ties with anything or anybody related to INCult. I love my wife and our kids but where do I go from here? It kills me she still brainwashed. Her parents are INCult. My entire family is Catholic. Anybody else in this predicament?

Me and my girlfriend met in our office. After a couple of years of dating, we decided to break the news to our parents about our marriage. My parents love her and are fine with our marriage but her parents aren't so happy. They don't mind the alliance but they have been very critical of my lifestyle and earning. After working for 7 years, I take home 12lpa in hand. I'm going to change the job soon and it looks like I will probably take home more than 15 lakhs. She's from a upper middle class family and her father wants to maintain that status even after his death. My girlfriend is his only child. He initially didn't want his daughter to work after marriage but we somehow convinced him that she'll do some freelance working while sitting at home. This way, she won't have to go to office and she will be able to take care of our future kid. Now, here comes the difficult part. My parents are against any form of dowry, not even gifts but as my girlfriend's dad wants to maintain his status(he also wants to show off to his relatives how much he spent on his only child's wedding)and he's willing to give us a car, some jewellery, a 2bhk apartment in Mumbai and 2 crores. After hearing this, my parents refused the alliance as it goes against their moral principles but my girlfriend's dad is stubborn.

What am I supposed to do in this case? My parents and her dad aren't talking to each other and I'm almost 30. I don't want to break up with her because of this stupid matter. What steps should I take next?

I have no idea what to do. I feel guilty for feeling this way and every time we talk I just feel worse. I asked for help in a dark time and you answered. You helped me when I couldn’t help myself. But now that I’m not feeling that way, I’m becoming annoyed with your constant presence. I just want time to myself, but you’re always there. Your intentions are good. You make sure I’m ok every day. And when I don’t respond, you ask if you did anything wrong, or if I’m feeling alright. Once I didn’t respond and you acted like you had failed me. What am I to do? I asked for your help and now I can’t be alone. You’re a nice person with good intentions and I don’t want to make you feel bad by telling you to go away. You’ve become attached to me and I don’t know if I’ll ever get out. You talk about how we’ll talk for a long time, and how we will always be there to support one another. And while I’m always happy to help, I have my own life to live. You are younger than I, so maybe that’s why you have a idealistic vision of the world, thinking that we’ll stay in touch for years. I’m sorry my friend, but that’s not how the world works. I feel awful for saying this, but I want space. Please, take a few steps back and let me breath

On one hand, I really really need to call off work today. My anxiety is spiking, I'm stressed beyond all belief, and I've been working 8 hour shifts since Tuesday. It's now Monday.

I have a thesis that needs to be completed tomorrow. Being at work is doing crap to my completing the work, especially with this stupid shoe sale going on. I'm so close to finishing, I want to be done with school, but right now I can't handle the stress.

The problem is... how the hell do I call in without ya know, coronavirus scare going on? I'm not exactly a fan of proclaiming to the world, "I have an anxiety disorder I am medicated for!" and my workaholic upbringing taught me to go to work through sun and snow.

Truck's tomorrow, I will not be in work due to my thesis presentation tomorrow. The shoe freight is a lot (probably most of it backstock), and I just feel trapped. Sorry for the info dump, I just needed to vent my frustration and feeling helpless in this situation.

I suffer from severe gout ever since I donated a kidney. My body doesn't rid itself of enough uric acid, so I have gout flares almost daily to the point I have permanent joint damage. I don't know how many of you have experienced gout, but the pain is excruciating. Ironically, I can't take NSAIDS or other medications to treat the gout because they are damaging to my kidney, so my only relief is found in opiates. I hate it, but it truly is a stuck between a rock and a hard place. I guess no good deed goes unpunished. It's an ironic world we live in!

Hey r/gaming! Through all this quarantine I'm itching for something mario specific to play. I'm just curious if I should get Odyssey or Mario Maker2, I've borrowed Odyssey from a friend a couple of years ago, but never beat it, would the first half be worth replaying, or should I just go with MM2 and play an unlimited amount of new content?

I work for big 4 in a tech consulting type role. I was recognized as a high performer as an associate due to my strong technical skills. I got promoted to senior associate last year and now im expected to be a leader mentor type figure to new associates helping train and develop them. I had a mid year assessment where they told me I need to focus on this area or it could affect my performance like promotions, compensation, etc.

The problem is I have basically 0 interest in mentoring or developing associates and would rather just do my work and focus on developing my technical skills. I know it would affect promotions and compensation and things like that but I spent two years chasing that carrot for a senior associate promotion and I'm so over it at this point. I don't mind not getting promoted because I don't think it's worth the hassle and stress and jumping through hoops at this point. I felt like telling my coach that but wording it more diplomatically but I don't even know if there's a way to do that without communicating the message that I'm mailing it in and put a target on my back to get PIP'd.

Should I try to communicate this somehow or is tbhetter to just start looking for a new job?

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so im currently downloading rainbow six siege but my storage only has 59 gigs of free space and the remaining download still has 41 gigs left to download will this be a problem? before i downloaded the game it showed the disk space required for the game and my disk space available, and it says that my game can be still downloaded, but after researching about the game, ive found out that Rainbow Six Siege PC requirements state that you will need at least 61 GB of free disk space to install the game. Can i still play the game after its download???

Yesterday a friend called me about a problem he has at his workplace.

For some context: he's now a supervisor and the office works for just bought a competitor. he noticed some irregularities coming from them.

The thing he's afraid of is that they botched their inspection and he want me to basically act as some kind of one shot consultant on a building they have contract with (a tech from the former competitor took him less than 3 hours for fire inspection with sprinkler inspection while it took him 3 hours just for extinguishers). He told me they cannot pay me the same kind of salary i get with my current job but would still make it worth for my time and it would be basically doing a quick survey of the building to check if they actually missed stuff.

The thing I'm wondering about it is: should i mention this to my employer? Would it be something that may put my current job at risk? Currently i don't have all the infos as the signal was breaking (i was shopping at Costco)

I really need some advice here (43m). I'm not sure if this is the correct sub reddit to ask in but I can't think of any other one to ask in at the moment. There's not much of back story for context but this is it, I met a girl through mutual friends on Facebook last April. We went on a date and it went well. We talked the next day and she said that she maybe wasn't ready yet to date as she was 3 months out of a 7 year relationship. We decided to spend time together with no pressure and see if anything came of it. We went out 2 more times and had fun both times. I was really nervous about her being so fresh out of the long term relationship and got cold feet. I messaged her a day or so after and asked her plans for that Saturday night. She said she was spending time with her friend that just got dumped by her boyfriend and needed to be with her. I said I understood and suggested another time. She said ok and I waited 3 or 4 days to see if I would hear from her and I didn't. So I chalked it up to her not being interested and left it at that. But I always wondered if I should have messaged her again to see if she wanted to get together again. So around July I reached out to her to see how she was doing. We talked and both apologized for dropping off each others radar. She had said that at that time she felt kind of a mess and wasn't ready for dating, and I said that I kind of got the same impression and told of my insecurities with just getting out of a 7 year relationship. She had said that she was now seeing somebody which stung to hear but I was okay with it. We would have conversations off and on over the next couple of months.

Around October we started really talking a lot right up until today. We talk everyday about everything. I've never gotten to know somebody this well and I've never opened up to somebody like this ever I don't think. We don't go a day without talking and I love our conversations. We've both told one another a couple of times how important we are to each other because we've also been there for one another more than once helping each other get through some things. If I message her I get a response back almost right away and the conversation never stays casual. We don't talk about anything romantic or anything. I've always been respectful of her seeing somebody and have never pushed that boundary with her. The frequency of how often we talk and how deep our conversations have got me feeling very strongly about her. A lot of times i

Lets start off by saying the title says it all. Ive (23 M) been single for 3 years now and i finally got a chance to get back in the game last year when a friend introduced me to her friend (20F). Naturally we hit it off, ive been crushing on her for a few months by this time. For the sake of time ill shorten this bit, but we talked for a few months most we did was kiss. After a few months shes back and forth not sure if she wants to put a title on it for a number of reasons like her ex (27 F) and i were co workers and slight friends. We stopped talking because she was between me and this i told her she should be with someone she can commit to and if its not me im not playing games. We stayed friends throughout and still are to this day and i still crush on her heavily because lets be honest here... shes the girl of my dreams. My heart longs for her always and id rather have her as a friend than not.

Fast forwarding to 2 months ago girl A (20F) is dating someone different from before and Ex (27 F) and i become way better friends. Ex introduces me to one of HER friends (27 F as well, Girl B) while I'm still crushing on girl A i decided to give girl B a shot because A was dating someone and we had our chance. Girl B and i have been talking, sex, dates, etc since we met and its been amazing. About a month ago Girl A texts me and confesses she made a mistake andis sorry for letting me go and she wishes she would have chosen me etc etc. We talk it out and i pretty much told her i cant just abandon Girl B because you JUST decided this. Its not fair to her, me, or you. We came to an understanding and mended our quarrels Nd now were friends again. Except ever since then my brain has been back and forth between the two. Why cant i just be happy with Girl B and stay friends with Girl A. What do i do? What is this feeling? Whats going on? Im stuck at what im even thinking right now because youd think a girl whos all about me would be a no brainer but yet here i am stuck on girl A. I know its a jacked situation and impossible due to her ex and i being friends she would hate me. Please help me sort my thoughts. TL;DR Fell hard for a girl, stopped talking became best friends with her ex who then introduced me to new girl. Original girl confesses she has feelings causes me to be confused.

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When I came to, the first thing I heard was the howl of the storm.

Wind pressed against my face as I carefully opened my eyes, then I saw the damage that had been done.

We were upside down. Natalie was dangling with her seatbelt on. Glass was scattered all across the roof along with everything else we had carried with us. Jim was injured but breathing, blood gushing from his side as he pulled out a piece of shrapnel and checked on his boss.

"Paul, are you okay? Paul?" Laschar said as he checked the old man's pulse and head. "He's unconscious," he muttered. I crawled slowly across the broken glass to where Natalie was at. The whole front window was busted open and more dust and debris was being pushed in toward us by the second.

Out across the train yard I saw the tornado continuing to wreck havoc, smashing up stray train cars and sending them flying in every direction. Besides that, there was the threat of the creatures themselves; and while I lay there trying to get my breath back I counted at least half a dozen.

They were skittering about the tops of the long metallic trailers, shrieking in the air and searching. Searching for us.

"Are you okay?" I asked Natalie as she opened her eyes slowly.

"I think I'll make it," she muttered as I helped her unbuckle and slowly crawl down to the roof of the camper. "We need to get somewhere safe," I told Jim as I scanned the train yard again.

"How about that?" I was pointing toward a large metallic building that looked like it was used as a switch station for some of the tracks.

"It's better than nothing," he agreed as he pushed the heavy equipment out of the way and gently pulled Paul up to a sitting position.

"Jesus, he's heavy... I don't think I can lift him alone," Jim said. "You're also injured," I pointed out as I turned my head toward Natalie and muttered, "Do you think you could help?"

She nodded and got her breath back, helping pull Kearny toward one of the side doors on the camper and kicking it open. Wind pushed her hair in her face and Natalie looked

In this case the ‘rock’ is a sewer and the ‘hard place’ is a near by powerline (approx 5 meters high). I would like to plant a reasonably fast frowning shade tree into some clayish soil. I’m in Canberra so it will need to be both frost tolerable and drought resistant, with the added constraints of being dog friendly.

I am open to all and any suggestions. Am I asking the impossible?

(*24th Day of the 9th Moon, 439AC.)

(Location - Fair Isle)

Lady Ella Farman

Was she worthy of the title?

She supposed she was going to find out.

Following the events of earlier in the day, Ella was drained, emotionally and physically. She had all but taken her cousin as a hostage, and his fellow Ironborn representatives too, asking that they not leave while she tried to treat with the West and prevent anyone from dying. In just a few short hours the happy bubble she had been in since her wedding and the subsequent fortnight of celebrations had been burst, and now the very real threat of the destruction of her house was imminent, if she made the wrong move in either direction.

It was irrefutable that her cousin, Harras Goodbrother, had written a letter to Tysane Lannister threatening to unleash war upon the West unless the money promised them was paid to the Ironborn. Ella had vaguely recalled the treaty made involving the lions gold, but Ella still couldn’t believe that her cousin by marriage would make such a threat while in the West, and worse, while under her Guest Right. She hoped dearly that the gold was worth the threat to her house, and the ties that may well be broken for it now.

It would have been easy, so easy, to simply burn the letter that Tysane Lannister had sent, ordering the imprisonment of all Ironborn on Fair Isle. Ella had thought about it, when she had first read it. She had thought to simply drop them into the burning brazier and pretend she had not received them. She had thought to urge Harras to leave immediately, head for the safety of Hammerhorn, and the Farmans would be rid of any wrongdoing. She would simply say they had left before she had received the letters, and no one would have been able to refute it.

Except perhaps Lady Genna, and Ella’s own conscience.

Ella tried, as lady by proxy, to make decisions that she believed her father would make were he capable. And she knew her father to be too patriotic, too dutiful, to do such a thing. Perhaps Lord Endrew would have known another way, a simple and expedient solution to the problem, but if he did, he was not saying, and Ella did not know it. And so she had turned to her family, trying to receive help and advice and contain the situation. She was going to bring it up as an option then, too. That perhaps the Ironborn departure was best for Fair Isle in the long run. But her morals wouldn’t allow it.

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After 10 years of being single due to "commitment issues"? I, (M)27- found the term solo poly online about a year ago. I identified with it 100%! But live in a small town in the midwest and really have not had the chance to honestly explore it with emotionally intelligent women.

What I have been doing is just telling women I'm interested in; "hey btw, I don't do relationships" off the bat and not going much deeper than that in fear that FWB is more socially acceptable than "coming out" as poly to my partners (Also it's just the most ethical way I've been able to go about it since I'm new to all of this and still struggling to fully commit to the lifestyle I have no guidance for)

The big downside to all of this is that FWB can only take you so far with emotional intimacy which is what I crave the most. Aka, ive been reduced to a fuck buddy with aspirations for more.

Well, recently, I've become mentally more ready for a relationship (either monog or poly) and it just so happens that I met this girl (F/24) (my (M) coworkers' girlfriend) hahaha. She asked me out after my co worker introduced us and we HIT IT OFF. I've never met someone so emotionally mature in my EXISTENCE and she's been guiding me through poly in such a caring way that I feel SO spoiled and understood. This is important because in my 10 year journey of non-traditional (but semi-undefined) dating lifestyle I've always felt guilty for not wanting to be monogamous which has translated into me hyper caring for my partners and avoiding any leading on whatsoever. This honesty she's bringing to the table, however, has clearly communicated "Hey, poly means I can take care of myself and you don't need to worry about fulfilling all of my needs" and I. AM. pleasantly. SHOOK.

Plot twist is: an old and very compatible fling has ALSO simultaneously burst into the picture with aspirations for a (monog) relationship with me.

Dilema: At this point I'm sincerely down to try either monog or poly happily. But there are pros and cons to my 2 options:

A) Poly girl- The emotional maturity and tender knowledge and care I've craved from a girlfriend my whole life but I'm not comfortable being openly poly yet dute to the judgement form my conservative surroundings, work, family etc (Especially since her bf and I share work/friend circles although he and I are more acquaintances than close friends.) This would mean I wouldn't be comfortable showing her off :(

B) Monog girl- We're compatible and great together