I am shipping a 1.12 ounce parcel. The parcel is made up of a 5 x 8” envelope, a postcard, a packing slip and one small teabag.
When I buy postage for this, it comes out to $1.50.
The post office contacted me and said that I have to ship this as a package and therefore the cost would be around $5.20.
There reasoning for this is that there is a small bump in the package. The small bump in the package which is the teabag is less than 1/4 of an inch. They said the whole package needs to be flat and cannot be thicker than 3/4 inch.
To me this doesn’t make sense. The package I’m shipping is flexible. It bends and is a half inch less than the maximum thickness which is 3/4 inches.
Does anyone know of a way to get this 1oz parcel in the mail for $1.50 without any hassle from the post office?

Was on metro north this morning and the conductor was harping that CT is cutting something like 50% of the express trains through Fairfield County and to remember that when you vote.
Pretty sad if you ask me - the busiest rail line in the country, in a state that touts connectivity & interconnectedness both locally and with the surrounding metropolises, yet we’re cutting routes

I’m mostly looking for the stuff listed, but show me your list.
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Stuff that I have:

• Pokémon SoulSilver (Loose) Pics
• Pokémon Emerald (Loose) (Please note that the sticker is not the original but the game itself is authentic. Dry battery) Pics
• Nintendo Switch Lite (Grey) Pics
• Record of Agarest War Limited Edition (Switch) Pics
• Loop8: Summer of Gods Celestial Edition (Switch) (New)
• L.A. Noire (Switch) Pics
• Metallic Child (Switch) Pics
• Shantae (Switch) (New)
• Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion (Switch) Pics
• Ultra Age (Switch) Pics
• Playstation 5 DualSense Edge Controller (PS5) (Used - It will come with a 3-year protection plan) Pic Pics
• Alice Gear Aegis: Concerto of Simulatrix Collector’s Edition (PS5) Pics
• Elden Ring Launch Edition w/Steelbook (PS5)
• Valkyrie Elysium (PS5) (New)
• Tormented Souls (PS5) Pics
• Dark Devotion Limited Edition (PS4) Pics
• God Eater Off Shot: Scene Alisa Pics
• Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth- (PS5) Pics
• Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Steelbook Edition (PS5) (New) Pics
• Shining Resonance Refrain Draconic Launch Edition Pics
• Code Vein Steelbook (PS4) Pics
• Hero Must Die Again Limited Edition (PS4) (LRG) Pics
• Bayonetta & Vanquish Steelbook Edition (PS4) Pics
• Resident Evil Code: Veronica X (PS2) Pics

I’m looking for an FEA workstation for my new job and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-workstation-z8-g4-tower-p-643w4ut-aba-1
$4900 for 16 GB memory, 512 GB storage, Xeon processor half as fast as 13600, and a gpu less powerful than 3080? Am I missing something about the professional workstation market?
Any suggestions for a 12-20 core system with 128 gb ram that doesn’t cost 10 grand?

hey everyone, please remind me how it’s (scientifically/psychologically) called when you speak and other person don’t listen to you and you have to repeat yourself and they probably still don’t listen and you feel like you’re talking to a wall and ignored. there was a word, starting with D if i’m not mistaken but not sure. thanks!

It's been awhile since I played this so this post is quite delayed, but I'm here now with my deeper dive into setting the Golden Vault adventures in Wildemount.
Anthology Conversion (original post)
I'll be covering the following sections — Location, Lore, Experience, Future, and Resources — for the 1st-level adventure, The Murkmire Malevolence.
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“You’ve got to steal the Murkmire Stone and bring it back so I can save the city!”

Location

I like the Varkenbluff Museum of Natural History being in a big city — it makes sense for them to then have the resources available to magic-ward the building in the various ways we see in the adventure. A smaller city could have such a museum, but a large or small town definitely not.
For examples of such cities, I recommend Rexxentrum, Zadash, Nicodranas, Port Damali, Rosohna, or Uthodurn.
My personal preference, as well as where I set this the two times I ran it, is Rexxentrum. I just like how having it in the Empire opens up the possibility of tying Cerberus Assembly stuff into it, including Dr. Dannell's involvement and the museum's arcane traps and workings.

Lore

With that in mind, this section isn't necessary, but if you're looking to give some flavor to the adventure to make it feel more immersed in the world, as opposed to just a drop-in module, then there's a lot to work with.
Dr. Cassee Dannell, first of all, could be an archaeologist who works for the Soltryce Academy, Hall of Erudition, or the Marble Tomes Conservatory, both being arcane universities. I would say the Cobalt Soul Archives don't work in this case since they're not as much an arcane-focused organization.
Curator Alda Arkin could just be a freelance fence working independently, but she could also be a Myriad fence, using the museum as her cover.
If you're not using the Golden Vault as your group's patron, mages who're interested in the Murkmire Stone — such as Doolan Tversky, Yussa Errenis, Vess deRogna, or Essek Thelyss — could either be hiring the party to grab the stone for them or could be the ones funding the stone's safekeeping for the gala... and then perhaps Alda sneaks it away after the gala to be delivered directly to them. Who knows!

Experience

I ran this adventure twice with two different groups. It was pretty straightforward, hence why this post is on the shorter end compared to my other conversion posts. A lot of the additions I made were simply flavor ones, having the PCs know certain NPCs already or being familiar with the museum using the given hooks or expanding on an NPC's written personality to include a brief backstory that helped make them feel less one-dimensional (especially for an adventure that has so many named NPCs).
The two groups I ran were for a oneshot with 5 players and for an anthology series side campaign with 2 players. Both were set in Rexxentrum with the same NPCs quirks and backstories.
The oneshot group was first, so I learned from all of my mistakes with them. Party was warlock, monk, Draconic sorcerer, artificer, and rogue.
I had had their meeting with Dannell in the morning, as the book said, but since the gala was at night, they took that as an opportunity to go around the museum during business hours (the Gemstone Wing was, of course, closed and cordoned off). That let them get the layout of the museum before the gala, as opposed to having to attend the gala and plan at the same time.
Hilariously, the warlock kept trying to get in with the guards as a new hire but wouldn't back down even when the guards told her that Alda hired guards directly herself, so there was no such "job posting" asking for new hires. This almost busted their recon period since Alda got suspicious when one of the guards came to her office saying that the warlock was claiming to be a family friend, too, but eventually Alda got busy and ignored this after telling the guards to shoo the warlock off.
The party left themselves an escape rope hanging from the skylight (the rogue had climbed the building from the outside during the recon portion) and then hid in the bathrooms or the supply closets after the gala.
I accidentally skipped over the part where the animatronic doesn't attack anyone and just jumps downstairs to wreak havoc. Sureth died in this oneshot because she was standing 5 feet away from the animatronic when the artificer activated it from the other side then quickly backed up. The animatronic crit on her, but she got revived at the end of the story by the Golden Vault cleaning things up.
The warlock also was knocked unconscious because (since I hadn't sent the animatronic downstairs and the party was in hiding watching Maryam and the guards fight it) she fled downstairs to create a distraction, and the guards down there knocked her out. She was arrested but I had their Golden Vault handler come by and talk her free.
On the bright side, the artificer did end up in a relationship with Dr. Dannell, who he came into the adventure having an established crush on, so that was cute.
In the wrap-up, we established that the party convinced Dannell to quit her association with the Soltryce Academy and go do research and similar work for the Golden Vault. The museum was shut down for investigation by the Cerberus Assembly and the Crown, and its future of ever being open again was put into question because of the havoc that'd been caused by the animatronic killing Sureth.
In terms of runtime, that group did 6 hours with 1 hour debrief, 3 hours prep, and 2 hours heist/combat.
The anthology group was second and only had two players, so I extra scaled everything down (removed half HP from everything). Part was Clockwork Soul sorcerer and rogue.
Same thing happened with the "early meeting" and "late gala" prep time — they wanted to go in during business hours to recon because there was still a whole day to kill. I've been recommended that, perhaps, the DM should skip from the meeting to the gala immediately, but I think that players might still say "hey, we had all of those hours to kill, we could've been doing recon then, too". In that case, maybe it'd be for the best that Dannell meets with them shortly before the gala so that there's no time to really do separate recon.
The sorcerer and rogue pretended to be on a date, and since this is an anthology connected to my campaign, we had a lot more stuff to work with. (The players were controlling NPCs-turned-PC-sheets that they've met before and are allies with in the campaign; the anthology is basically "what were these characters doing while y'all were not with them?") My favorite part being that they were both nobles, so I played off the idea that everyone knew them... which then made them have to work around the fact that people knew their faces so they couldn't be too suspicious since it'd be too easy to catch and identify them.
The rogue was the eldest child of Watchmaster Brunda Gleshin (and the black sheep of their family), so I had them know Maryam as a former Watch captain who'd retired to take on private museum security (it pays better than law enforcement). There was a lot of snarky back and forth between the rogue and Maryam because of that once they had gone up to scope out the second floor. This was my favorite interaction:

Micha: We'll leave you alone, but nice to see that you've taken up this... position.
Maryam: Mhm.
Micha: I'm sure my mother is very proud of you.
Maryam: Can't say the same for you.

They also set the skylight up for later, mingle at the gala (Watchmaster Gleshin is there, much to the rogue's chagrin), and then make their leave. But they don't actually leave and go in through the basement, fight the mimic, go into the records room and Alda's office and kill Marigold. Then they leave again and head up to the attic to wait for the museum's closing.
They'd previously tried to talk up some guards to see who they could maybe flip during the heist... but then when it comes time for them to come out of hiding, both of them discover that the guards have all changed positions so now the guard set-up they'd lifted is useless.
(This was fully because they chose to come in early and Maryam saw the rogue walking around during normal business hours, so she went and tipped off Alda right before the gala. I thought it was a nice touch since the rogue was acting real cocky and it further emphasized their bad reputation for being a troublemaker around town, that any Crownsguard who knew them would automatically think they're up to something.)
At the end of the day, both heists were successful, although the oneshot group definitely had more chaos going on, likely due to the number of players and the fact that I'd missed the line about the animatronic not causing real people damage. The oneshot group swapped the stone for the replica while the anthology players swapped the stone for a sack of ten pounds of adventuring gear... because it was "more fun". When I pointed out that that meant they'd probably know that the sorcerer and rogue did it since they were the only adventurers casing the museum earlier in the day, the rogue replied, "Yeah. We want them to know! They can't catch us. With what proof?"
I also found that Cassee was popular to flirt with. I mean, she's a dorky archaeologist, so I guess that was written in the stars already. In the oneshot group, as aforementioned, the artificer ended up dating her, but in the anthology group, the rogue tried to flirt with her and ask her out for dinner... but she declined because they were way too boisterous and high energy for her. (In comparison, the artificer from the other group was also shy and quiet like her, so she appreciated that... and his starting hook was knowing Dannell through academics, so there was that.)

Future

There's already future hooks discussed in this adventure, so I won't repeat those. However, I think because of the huge amount of named NPCs in this adventure, there's a lot of opportunities to reuse them later on, especially if you're running the adventures as connected like I am for my anthology group. Could be a nice callback.
The museum guards, if the museum is shut down, could reappear as guards in a later adventure, showing that they had to find somewhere else to work.
Alda Arkin, if her fencing was never discovered, could rise up to do bigger work and be involved with a later heist, such as Masterpiece Imbroglio.
Even Dr. Dannell herself could reappear in a later adventure that has to do with arcane magic or weird creatures (perhaps Markos Delphi has correspondence with her about eldritch horrors?).
I'm currently playing with the idea that Franceena, who the anthology rogue gave the business card of their dueling academy they run to, could have gone and taken those dueling lessons and become stronger over time, reappearing in a mid tier adventure (Vidorant's Vault?) as part of a rival crew. I haven't implemented it yet since I'm also considering using the Thieves' Gallery from Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves as a rival crew, but who knows! It's fun to think about, regardless.
As a side note, I also love that Dr. Horthnar Stonecrusher shares a name with Torgja Stonecrusher of the prewritten rival crew. It could be that it's just a happenstance of having the same name, especially since they're both dwarves... but I think it could also be fun if they're related — maybe he's her father and he mentions at the gala how his daughter has run off with some 'petty thieves'? And then she appears later as part of the rival crew!
In addition, I didn't get to implement this because I thought of it after I'd run both games, but I had the idea of dropping foreshadowing objects in the displays to hint at later Golden Vault adventures (similar to the museum episode of Black Mirror, iykyk). These obviously can't all be the MacGuffins of the adventures because those MacGuffins have to be somewhere, but maybe they could be allusions to characters the players will encounter or locations they'll go to.

• a casino chip from Afterlife for Stygian Gambit
• a plaque about the Celestial Codex or the actual book itself (donated by Vasil and later stolen by Markos after the events of this adventure because so many of the guards quit and he was able to sneak in easier) for Reach for the Stars
• tools that were used to build Revel's End, a painting of Revel's End, or the needles/original tech that was later used to make Prisoner 13's magic tattoos for Prisoner 13
• a bunch of automatons or clockwork trinkets for Tockworth's Clockworks
• a replica of the Constantori's Portrait for Masterpiece Imbroglio
• an exhibit of things donated by Froderic Dartwild before his death for Axe from the Grave
• an exhibit of a master thief whose identity is unknown and their many exploits, including stealing the ruby diadem of the Goldenbeard family for Vidorant's Vault
• a mural about Xeluan and his friends' heroic deeds for Shard of the Accursed
• an art installation of glasswork from Ghalasine for Heart of Ashes
• a model automated train replica of the Concordant Express that educates viewers on how the Outer Planes work OR plaques talking about all of the cases Ignatius Inkblot has solved for Affair on the Concordant Express
• a plaque talking about a Shard Solitaire, the many rumored variants of it, and how Varkenbluff has tried to acquire one from a famous adventurer, Zorhanna Adulare, but she hasn't been willing to part with it for Party at Paliset Hall
• and finally an exhibit/plaque/mural about the efreeti tyrant Vrakir, his long reign of terror destroying cities, and his unknown whereabouts now for Fire and Darkness

Resources

No third-party supplements were used in either of my runs of this adventure.
My Playlists: Gala / Heist / Combat

Conclusion

My rating for this adventure doesn't change from my original conversion post of the book.
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8/10 - simple, effective, and meets all of the three pillars. The anthologies usually don't miss with the 1st-level adventures. I docked points simply because the flavor and setting was a bit predictable, but it makes sense to start an anthology with a classic museum heist.

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Overall, it's still very fun, and both groups loved it when I ran it for how 'classic heist' it feels. It's got a lot of potential for future hooks
Hope you enjoyed, thanks for reading, and happy gaming!

Hey everyone. Just finished season 1. I’ve got some questions. I don’t mean to nitpick, if these are just oopsies, everyone is human, but I’m more wondering if I’m confused.
First question - The timeline for Daughter Dooley. In episode 6, it’s said that she was allowed to reach her 20th year and then stopped aging. The timeline on the OGoA website says she was born in 1756, though, and met Horned Head in 1779. I had assumed that she had stopped aging as a result of her deal with him, kind of like Cletus staving off the black lung as a result of his deal with the voices. But she would have been 23 by the above timeline before ever meeting HH. Does her agelessness actually just have to do with her being a witch, so she has already stopped before she met HH? Still, I thought she’d been an adolescent when they met?
Next question - The Barlow storyline. I thought that Sarah was in her home when the wolf things and the wasp man had gotten there because earlier in the season the narrator mentioned Sarah finding her mother hanging in the morning and being mad but not sad or scared and running from the things. But then later in the season, in the episode where Carol Ann is talking to the wasp man and we learn about her curse, we learn she’d sent Sarah to a friend’s house knowing something was going to happen. Which is it? Did Sarah come home later..? Is this ever addressed..?

Hey everyone just curious how other console players are feeling with COH3? I picked it up for seriesX and I gotta say I’m enjoying it a lot. Haven’t run into too many bugs I can think of during matches, more frequently I’m running into freezes or glitches in the giant Italy overmap view. The performance is also a bit rough, frequent stutters or fps drops. But overall I’m enjoying it quite a lot a few glitches here or there haven’t ruined my overall enjoyment.

I was going to link a video showcasing this but for whatever bizarre reason, videos are apparently not allowed here 🙄 so please feel free to test it for yourself. It is most noticeable on legendary trace rifles, especially retraced path and path of least resistance. It is extremely bright and intrusive and puts me off using them honestly as I can’t even see the damn target I’m aiming at. Hope this gets fixed ASAP.

I am shipping a 1.12 ounce parcel. The parcel is made up of a 5 x 8” envelope, a postcard, a packing slip and one small teabag.
When I buy postage for this, it comes out to $1.50.
The post office contacted me and said that I have to ship this as a package and therefore the cost would be around $5.20.
There reasoning for this is that there is a small bump in the package. The small bump in the package which is the teabag is less than 1/4 of an inch. They said the whole package needs to be flat and cannot be thicker than 3/4 inch.
To me this doesn’t make sense. The package I’m shipping is flexible. It bends and is a half inch less than the maximum thickness which is 3/4 inches.
Does anyone know of a way to get this 1oz parcel in the mail for $1.50 without any hassle from the post office?

Any advice is warmly welcomed. I’m a 35 year old mom of a 2 year old lovely daughter. Im overweight and im trying to lose some of it for my health and well-being. I’ve always had a bit of a difficult relationship with food and my body. I’ve done a lot of work on the body love part and have arrived at a place where I place less empahasis on looks and more on how I feel. Food, however, continues to be a difficult area and my habit of emotional overeating is at an all time high. I’m trying to lose weight now by watching my intake all the while showing my daughter that I eat regularly and enough (I don’t want her to get the same weird body and food issues I got from my mom). I guess the question is, how does one navigate being a mom with really bad food issues while losing weight and most importantly while not f*cling up your daughter’s relationship with food?

My anxiety is debilitating. I am unable to drive on the highway at all—I can’t even be in a car as a passenger. I have a hard time with back roads as well, but it’s not as bad. I keep asking to work from home to avoid driving. I also struggle with work. I feel like I can’t handle it. I am 2 months into my new job and have called out once already for anxiety. I don’t want to call out anymore, but I physically couldn’t handle anything yesterday.
I suffer from panic disorder. I’m working with a psychiatrist. I’m doing everything I can. I can’t even sleep. I take sleeping pills, and they don’t work. I’m at my wits’ end. I haven’t slept in two days. Please, if anyone has any advice or can offer some support, I need it.

Suntok nanaman sa buwan itong pagpost ko but eh, there’s no harm in trying haha
I’m looking for a constant someone because I just really miss having someone to talk to everyday, go on dates with, and the like. I know that I have friends I could do this with, but I’m just looking for something else you know. I’m open for something serious but for now, let’s get to know each other first and see where it goes <3
About me: 22, qc, big 4 (if it matters to you), graduating, petite, morena, slim
About you: 21-25, I don’t have a strict type but I prefer if you have a slim to slightly dad bod type
Message me a detailed intro <3

I’m imagining the color would be the primary indicator. Knowing that ambient light affects color it would need to be based off of a known light source such as the phones light. So a flash on type of video or photo with low ambient light.
Just a thought of how awesome our technologies are and where they might be going. I’m not an app builder and can’t try it.

We had to rehome a dog we rescued because she was displaying increasing aggression toward our other dog. She was good playing with friends’ dogs in our yard but just seemed like she needed to be the only dog in the house. Our older dog was pretty miserable after we got her. He loves toys but we had to take all the toys away because the younger dog had resource guarding issues. We gave it a year of loving her, training her with the help of a trainer and getting her through heart worm treatment. We finally came to the devastating decision that we needed to rehome her. We spent over 4 months finding the right home for her while my older dog lived with my parents. We found a family who would be home with her 5 out of 7 days a week and who had the time and resources to give her an amazing life. They have a social media account where they post pictures of her truly living her best life.
The new owner texted me a question about something and also mentioned that they’re starting e collar training with a trainer because they’re struggling with her prey drive when outside. I feel so sad because I’ve read a lot about the negative consequences of e collars and how it can make a dog fearful or aggressive in unintended ways. I know they truly love this dog, so I tried to gently say why we personally decided not to use one. However, I feel like the owner probably took it as me telling her to parent (which I semi-get because I might feel the same way) and she hasn’t responded.
I haven’t stopped crying for the past day thinking about her being shocked, or worse, her becoming fear aggressive and then them not wanting to keep her. She is the sweetest dog with people and I miss her every day.
I don’t know why I’m posting this but basically just hoping someone will say she will be okay with the e collar training and she won’t be hurt and hopefully won’t become very fearful 😞

I just moved to Orlando from Texas and I couldn’t find anyone there that would do my surgery with my bmi over “normal”. Does anyone have recommendations for surgeons to check out in the Orlando/Tampa, FL area? I’m willing to drive if they’re really good but probably not further than a couple hours. I’m an hour from Lakeland and an hour from downtown Orlando. Please help. I just want smaller boobs. 🙃

I wish that people wouldn’t use ADHD as a pop-psychology self diagnosis because I feel like that takes away from people who truly struggle with it in a way that makes daily life harder.
Before med school I never really had a problem with it, and even during pre-clinical years things were manageable. But in the clerkship phase, the time blindness which can manifest as severe procrastination really hurts me. Deadline after deadline makes everything seem like it’s right there on the forefront, yet simultaneously comfortably far away, so that it creates the perfect storm of stressing about how much there is to do, yet being complacent enough to not get started on doing it.
I know all the things that I have to do, but for whatever reason I can never muster up the energy to start doing them until the urgency of knowing there’s not enough time kicks in. I wake up hours before I’m supposed to leave for the day but I still find myself in a time crunch. I get lost reading about extra info on my patients and have to scramble to turn in notes when my seniors ask for them. I put off studying thinking there’s more time, until there isn’t. In situations where my team doesn’t have time to get to know me, they just think I’m lazy and don’t care.
I’ve been on medical therapy for it since grad school, but I don’t think it’s helping very much tbh. Is there anyone else who can relate to this? How were you able to fight through it and perform well?