(The last Blockbuster in the US south of Alaska located in Bend Oregon)
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Tweets from the Last Blockbuster @loneblockbuster: If you think you can stroll in here the day of the Pride Parade and get your hands on a copy of Brokeback Mountain you’re an idiot. I’m sorry.
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(The last Blockbuster in the US south of Alaska located in Bend Oregon)
(The last Blockbuster in the US south of Alaska located in Bend Oregon)
Saturday, June 29, 2019
A calming 50 cents
50 cents spent at a yard sale. A few minutes taking a part and putting back together. Add rocks from the alley and some water. Boom, calming little water fall decoration for the wifey's lady lair.
Retro Find!
Today, as usual for a Saturday off this time of year with the wifey, we went to a few yard sales. We came across a awesome find, a FC Twin clone console! It will play NES and Super NES games. One little bonus for me though is... I had one of the Super Game Boy NES cartridges at home. It allows me to play my vast Gameboy collection on a NES. Got home, hooked it up, and poof it works! Just another way to play some of my old classics. $2.50 well spent!
Friday, June 28, 2019
New stamps for the collection
Got ahold of a full sheet of the new Sesame Street stamps. These characters bring back such memories from growing up. Can't wait for the wife and I to add them to our album.
Thrifty Racers
New remote control car set for me and the wife. Thanks to my dad for eyeing this awesome find. Thrift store finds are so awesome and if keep an open eye you can find that diamond in the rough. Now to get ready to get our race on!
Moths before light...
What did moths do before light?
Moths were the dominant predators before Thomas Edison created light bulbs in defiance to the moths. Moths need complete darkness to grow to their human eating size. The history books won't tell you this because the government wants us to believe we are untouchable.
Party Receives 13,000-gp Invoice For Out-Of-Network Healing
(Permanently barrowed from Dungeon Master's Workshop... just had to share)
WATERDEEP — An adventuring party set to retire after a significant windfall in Undermountain was left in distress when they received a large invoice from the insurance company providing their group plan, which claimed the healer they used in the infamous dungeon was not in their network.
“Had I known when we met Saer Bairns that he’d foist upon us this shameful bill, I would have let him rot on the second level, not taken him on in our escape with our treasure”, said Aramis, a half-elf ranger who received a potion of healing. “The priest had the audacity to not only charge us fivetimes the going rate for that potion I didn’t need, but also charge an administering fee just to place it in my hand. Would that I had relieved myself of it in his bedroll that night!”
The invoice, which The Sending Stonehas obtained, reveals numerous methods in which excessive charges were calculated, including octupling the typical cost of material components and consumables, as well as charging handling and application fees for their use. A single greater restoration spell was billed at 2,000 gp, including 1,000 gp for the divine power needed to perform the magic, 100 gp to carry the diamond dust that focuses the magic, 100 gp to apply the dust to the spell recipient, and 800 gp for the dust itself. All of this was subject to a 35% surcharge for remote services outside of a temple, meaning that the cost to undo the temporary loss of a small portion of the fighter’s vitality amounted to 2,700 gp—more than four times the average yearly earnings of a skilled tradesman. The bill’s total was 12,994 gp.
According to the party’s insurance carrier, Greater Restorations, the adventurers were covered for services received from many churches, including those of of Tymora, Lathander, Corellon, Chauntea, and Ilmater. The services of The Honourable Trabbar Grayson Bairns, a priest of Waukeen, were out of network.
“It is of utmost importance to us that our customers obtain appropriate and timely care”, said Galbrath Donnar, a tiefling attorney representing Greater Restorations in a statement from the company, “but it is the responsibility of our customers to ensure that they obtain services that are in-network.”
“Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon occurrence”, explained Seraphina Blanche, a retired aasimar adventurer who founded and leads the Predatory Adventurer Liability Allocation Dispute Information Network, or PALADIN, an organization that raises awareness of these market risks. “The large insurance carriers primarily do business with churches that generally provide services at cheaper rates or which are willing to offer reduced prices to the insurer’s customers, saving costs to the company. At the same time, independent customers are frequently targeted by predatory financial practices, such as inflation of charges, often in a completely arbitrary fashion.”
PALADIN also connects those victimized by these practices with barristers possessing the necessary skills and abilities to contest predatory healing bills.
“About 200 years ago, large insurance carriers and churches conspired to pass cosmic laws requiring that disputes on these bills must be raised in the same jurisdiction as the provider”, added Blanche. “This means that to contest your co-pay, you have to make your way to the City of Dis on the second level of Hell, where the carrier’s head office got moved, or go to the plane of Arvandor to dispute the cost of a resurrection by a cleric of the Seldarine. While you can’t seem to swing a dead cat in the Forgotten Realms without hitting a legendary archmage, not many of them have the time, inclination, or expertise to travel the planes on such a matter. We maintain contact with experienced litigators who have the means to make such journeys.”
In the case of the bill received from the Church of Waukeen, the adventurers must travel to the Grand Forum of the goddess’ realm, the House of Barter in the Marketplace Eternal. Alternatively, they can seek out the headquarters of their insurer, Greater Restorations, in the City of Sigil.
The adventurers, who recently reached 10th level, have started a crowdsourcing campaign on GoHealMe to help cover their monthly instalments while retaining the services of an archmage-attorney to handle the contract dispute.
I got the Clue.
Just got home from work and my dad was here. He knows my love of the board game Clue. I have several versions including one of the 1950's editions in mint condition. He handed me a small box with a Ebay label on it. Opened it up and... dad had picked me up a set of the clue character pieces! Woohoo!
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Tweets from the Last Blockbuster @loneblockbuster: We no longer rent Inception (2010) to anyone over 70 years old because last time we did the guy lost half of his memories.
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(The last Blockbuster in the US south of Alaska located in Bend Oregon)
(The last Blockbuster in the US south of Alaska located in Bend Oregon)
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Tweets from the Last Blockbuster @loneblockbuster: The new sidewalk patio will be closed until we can find the patio furniture.
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(The last Blockbuster in the US south of Alaska located in Bend Oregon)
(The last Blockbuster in the US south of Alaska located in Bend Oregon)
Monday, June 24, 2019
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Celebrating the wife's birthday
Had a ton of fun celebrating Saun's birthday today. I made her a cake, had her a surprise cookout, and got her a set of yard darts to play like her and her dad did growing up.
(Sorry the pictures are a little out of order, silly phone lol)
(Sorry the pictures are a little out of order, silly phone lol)
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