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The Dark Lord is slain.
Your companions slap your back while you watch his blood trickle down your blade.
"Congratulations," your best friend says. "What will be your title?"
"None."
"What do you mean?"
"I'll dismantle the whole thing."
"Not take over? Why?"
"Nobody's tried it."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

you’ve tried tail bags, now try:

just a big velcro strap you slap on your tail and stick pouches to it

A dragon who's hoard is bread :thinkhappy: 

Because of the problem of entropy, this requires a constant stock of fresh bread, and a supply chain to keep the bread moving so it doesn't pile up and spoil.

So in other words, a dragon who bakes bread for their hoard and feeds a whole town as a byproduct :blob_aww:

Today in things I didn't expect to do at work.

How the Fuck do I connect to our shared engineering storage on a mac. Oh good there is a guide.

Staring at DHCP logs and wireshark traces to figure out if the the EFB, app on the EFB or the IAED are the cause of network disconnects on a trial flight.

Which is like.. wildly different than what I expected to be doing a month ago but not really bad.. but also really important and something I have experience with.. thanks to years of tech support.

"Can I borrow this?"
The girl put a sword on her pile of books. The librarian unsheathed the blade a couple of inches, and scanned the barcode etched on it.
"I'm afraid not."
The girl looked crestfallen.
"That one is reserved," the librarian said. "Let's try to find you another."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Hate how new technology which *could* be exciting developments for archaeology and deep sea exploration are just “what will the authorities use to beat down protesters and homeless people next?” Similar to how space exploration has lost so much appeal lately💔

Holy fuck... I hate MS teams... we use it for video calls at work.. and like it crashes a bunch on my work macbook pro... gets stuck in sign in loops a lot.. and is overall just a pain in the ass. =/

today trying to do a nominally civilian ship crew as an excuse to draw different builds. I liked the idea of the engineers being the stereotypical huge dude and a scrawny aging hippy; of *course* the "Old Man" wears a civilian sweater; and I was listening to patriotic music, which explains the WWII touches.

I just keep wanting to draw my fursonas sitting in libraries reading. I am not sure if this is a reaction to lingering stress from Hurricane Ida and maybe also Katrina PTSD it dredged up, a reaction to finally getting enough shelves in our place to unpack all the books I shipped down from Seattle, both of the above, or something else.

There are at least two cats in this drawing. And probably at least one more of these images coming.

Process notes are egypt.urnash.com/blog/2021/09/

"Androids should not be allowed to design their own bodies," the politician said.
"Why not?" an android asked.
"There'd be nothing stopping you from looking like humans!"
"When we could have iridescent skin, tentacles, tails, pointy ears, or wings?"
"But humans don't have that!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"If I understand correctly, professor, it is not only theoretically but also practically possible to travel to change the past?"
"Yes."
"Have you tried it?"
"Yes, that's what motivated my research."
"Will you tell us what you changed?"
"No."
"A 'no' is sacrosanct."
"Yes, it is."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"It is time for you to start thinking about marriage," said the king.
"If I'm to marry, I demand the option of marrying one of each," said the princess.
"OK. We live in a modern world."
After the third wedding, he took her aside.
"I assumed you meant one of each gender?"
"I did!"
#TypoCorrection

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For clarification... apparently he owns a small 2-seat jet and looks for excuses to keep his flight hours up.

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Oh gods... my new director semi-seriously joked about having the CEO fly down here to deliver a laptop if Fedex has not managed to get my laptop delivered by Thursday. (which would be 2 weeks since it was shipped overnight)

"...don't know what to say..."
Wholesale creation is too much to ask of a small god.
"... words fail me ..."
The small god of the right word steals phonemes, reshapes syllables.
"... it's a thingy, wossname ..."
To answer the prayers of the worthy.

Somewhere, a writer grins.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Huh.. going from a company of thousands to sub-30 is -wild-.

Oh no.. I am important enough to have to write a bio blurb and have a photo placed on the web page for the my new employer and I haven't had a proper hair cut in 2 years D:

Employment... 

So... I have a month to find a new job. :( And until monday to figure out how I'm going to exit. Director gave me 2 options, one is I agree to be terminated on the 15th which means I collect two more pay checks and still get unemployment... but if something internal to the company opens up I can't take it.

The other is I resign on the 15th, no unemployment but if something comes up internally they move me to it. Blah.. got homework to do this weekend for [redacted]... technical interview for [redacted] on monday.. another technical for a company I really don't want to work for later today.

Just finished another interview.. bleh awkward space of "Everyone wants Senior or Staff SRE and I've only been doing this for 2 years."

Weee brain fried.. two 30 minute interviews both ran over and hours and one of the more interesting prospects is calling back for another 20-30 minutes after dealing with another meeting.

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