<![CDATA[Forums - Issues]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:33:16 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Greg vs PGE]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8881 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:25:25 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8881
About the time I bought the back-up battery I noticed a change. My balance was starting to decline rather than gradually increase. I was also notified that I would have a bill come August called the True-up bill. I'm not exactly sure what that means. I guess I'm signed up for a minimum charge and what accrues over that is all paid in August. My True-up has always been zero. 

I was thinking the new charges might have to do with the new battery back-up. Maybe when those were installed, some switch was thrown that didn't send juice to the grid. But according to my control panel on the batteries, it showed I was sending plenty of juice to the grid.

I went online and looked at my yearly bill and all it showed was me buying energy from the grid for the last six months. Blue bars mean I buy from the grid.

[Image: yearView.png]

Now, that can't be right. According to my app for the batteries, I sent 789KwH to the grid and I bought 183KwH from the grid. I bit the bullet and called PG&E in order to get to the bottom of the mystery. I talked to a young lady and she had me go to myPage on the PG&E website that gives really granular detail on my bill. We looked at the month of March and this is what I saw.(Pic Below) Green is what I sold. Blue is what I bought. Just looking at the chart all I could think was how was it possible I owed PG&E money. There are way more green bars than blue bars. And the green bars are big. I was raising my voice to the girl, not yelling but more agro, for her to explain to me how I owed if the green was so much bigger than the blue. If you hover your cursor over the bars on the website, you are given the actual amount of energy for each day. Each bar corresponds to a single day. Naturally I added them all up and I got 466 KwH sent to the grid and 29.2 KwH used from the grid. Like I said. I felt like I'm on crazy pills. 466 is much bigger than 29, right?



[Image: march.png]
The young lady put me on hold for a minute to go ask a question. That's when I did the addition while she was gone to show I had sold more energy than I bought according to the chart on her website. She came back to say I can't really go by the monthly chart. I needed to go to the hourly chart and look at the hourly numbers. Fine. Let's go to the daily. For reference I pulled up Mar 15 as an average day.

[Image: mar15.png]

Once again, I saw a lot of big green bars and a bunch of small blue bars. I did the hover. I got the numbers. According to PG&E's own chart, I sold 25 KwH and I purchased 6 KwH. I asked her to explain. She sent me to the bill where it said I only sent 192 KwH to the grid and purchased 249 KwH from the grid, which is why my bill showed a deficit to which I owed money. I needed to pay for those 57 KwH. The next chart is another day that shows green but in a smaller amount.
[Image: mar23.png]

Again, I did the math and it says I sold 19 KwH and bought 15 KwH. All the green bars showed this. Every day I was selling more than I was buying except for those three days. The crazy pills were really starting to kick in. What wasn't I seeing?  The woman from PG&E kept to the company line that their numbers showed I owed. I felt like I was uncovering some weird conspiracy. It's starting to look to ease my mind, I might have to go through every day and show the actual discrepancy between bought and sold, which is a completely crazy idea. But I am leaning towards it.

Regardless, I do believe the charts on the page are misleading. On the monthly bar graph, each day should show blue and green on each bar and the pop up should both bought and sold amounts, because that is how they are doing their calculations. At the moment, the numbers shown on the monthly don't accurately reflect what is going on.

Another problem is one my representative briefly mentioned but we never focused on and that I think that is where the big discrepancy lies. When I sell my money to the grid, PG&E uses the wholesale price. When I buy from the grid, I get the retail price. I can only assume I am paying much more for energy than I am buying. It would be better if the price for buy and sell were the same.

Still feeling crazed. Still feel like a mistake is happening somewhere and I just can't find it. Probably time to get a cork board, a bunch of yarn, some thumbtacks, and make a design to connect all the clues.]]>
About the time I bought the back-up battery I noticed a change. My balance was starting to decline rather than gradually increase. I was also notified that I would have a bill come August called the True-up bill. I'm not exactly sure what that means. I guess I'm signed up for a minimum charge and what accrues over that is all paid in August. My True-up has always been zero. 

I was thinking the new charges might have to do with the new battery back-up. Maybe when those were installed, some switch was thrown that didn't send juice to the grid. But according to my control panel on the batteries, it showed I was sending plenty of juice to the grid.

I went online and looked at my yearly bill and all it showed was me buying energy from the grid for the last six months. Blue bars mean I buy from the grid.

[Image: yearView.png]

Now, that can't be right. According to my app for the batteries, I sent 789KwH to the grid and I bought 183KwH from the grid. I bit the bullet and called PG&E in order to get to the bottom of the mystery. I talked to a young lady and she had me go to myPage on the PG&E website that gives really granular detail on my bill. We looked at the month of March and this is what I saw.(Pic Below) Green is what I sold. Blue is what I bought. Just looking at the chart all I could think was how was it possible I owed PG&E money. There are way more green bars than blue bars. And the green bars are big. I was raising my voice to the girl, not yelling but more agro, for her to explain to me how I owed if the green was so much bigger than the blue. If you hover your cursor over the bars on the website, you are given the actual amount of energy for each day. Each bar corresponds to a single day. Naturally I added them all up and I got 466 KwH sent to the grid and 29.2 KwH used from the grid. Like I said. I felt like I'm on crazy pills. 466 is much bigger than 29, right?



[Image: march.png]
The young lady put me on hold for a minute to go ask a question. That's when I did the addition while she was gone to show I had sold more energy than I bought according to the chart on her website. She came back to say I can't really go by the monthly chart. I needed to go to the hourly chart and look at the hourly numbers. Fine. Let's go to the daily. For reference I pulled up Mar 15 as an average day.

[Image: mar15.png]

Once again, I saw a lot of big green bars and a bunch of small blue bars. I did the hover. I got the numbers. According to PG&E's own chart, I sold 25 KwH and I purchased 6 KwH. I asked her to explain. She sent me to the bill where it said I only sent 192 KwH to the grid and purchased 249 KwH from the grid, which is why my bill showed a deficit to which I owed money. I needed to pay for those 57 KwH. The next chart is another day that shows green but in a smaller amount.
[Image: mar23.png]

Again, I did the math and it says I sold 19 KwH and bought 15 KwH. All the green bars showed this. Every day I was selling more than I was buying except for those three days. The crazy pills were really starting to kick in. What wasn't I seeing?  The woman from PG&E kept to the company line that their numbers showed I owed. I felt like I was uncovering some weird conspiracy. It's starting to look to ease my mind, I might have to go through every day and show the actual discrepancy between bought and sold, which is a completely crazy idea. But I am leaning towards it.

Regardless, I do believe the charts on the page are misleading. On the monthly bar graph, each day should show blue and green on each bar and the pop up should both bought and sold amounts, because that is how they are doing their calculations. At the moment, the numbers shown on the monthly don't accurately reflect what is going on.

Another problem is one my representative briefly mentioned but we never focused on and that I think that is where the big discrepancy lies. When I sell my money to the grid, PG&E uses the wholesale price. When I buy from the grid, I get the retail price. I can only assume I am paying much more for energy than I am buying. It would be better if the price for buy and sell were the same.

Still feeling crazed. Still feel like a mistake is happening somewhere and I just can't find it. Probably time to get a cork board, a bunch of yarn, some thumbtacks, and make a design to connect all the clues.]]> <![CDATA[Great Ideas Start Here]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8808 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:19:35 +0000 thatguy]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8808
STROLLER DERBY
Like a demolition derby, but with strollers. Little tikes in protective gear. Death Race 2000 style strollers, moms with Roller Derby-esque nicknames like: Bad Mamma Jamma

--tg]]>
STROLLER DERBY
Like a demolition derby, but with strollers. Little tikes in protective gear. Death Race 2000 style strollers, moms with Roller Derby-esque nicknames like: Bad Mamma Jamma

--tg]]> <![CDATA[NTTG 2026]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8728 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:18:52 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8728
I'm burning. I'm burning for you. Burn level is still at 1000' so I am good to go. Probably the last burn day until we get some more moisture.]]>
I'm burning. I'm burning for you. Burn level is still at 1000' so I am good to go. Probably the last burn day until we get some more moisture.]]> <![CDATA[Yeti Blood Oaths]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8508 Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:23:06 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8508

Quote:The Pillar, a journalistic outfit covering the world of Catholicism, recently published a wild story about a group of Denver-based seminarians that, in early 2024, went on what should’ve been a wholesome ski trip with their vice rector. It grotesquely morphed into a midnight initiation ritual featuring a yeti costume, a bloodied cloth, taped mouths, a fake dagger, and a whole lot of screaming.

Seminarians were woken up in the dead of night and led, one by one, into a trailer where they were greeted by Fr. John Nepil, a senior seminarian, who was dressed as a yeti. After a mock ritual involving “grizzly blood” and ominous warnings like “if you enter into this family, there’s no going back,” seminarians reemerged with bloodied hands and taped mouths.


Sounds like a nightmare, but Nepil insists that it was just all in good fun. C’mon, guys! I wasn’t actually going to blood oath you dressed as a yeti! It was a goof—a common yeti blood oath goof!

FAKE YETI BLOOD OATH BROKE A SEMINARY IN DENVER

Videos of the “ritual” circulated. It became immediately apparent to everyone who watched them that it wasn’t so much a harmless prank as a surreal nightmare that those people should not have been subjected to. 
The archdiocese launched an investigation but determined that no canonical crime had occurred. It reassigned Nepil—but only briefly. Despite being removed as a formator, he resumed his duties as vice rector until the end of the year and remains on the faculty.

Despite what the archdiocese of Denver called “a deeply imprudent and inappropriate prank,” Nepil got a slap on the wrist, punished with only a cool-off period where everyone was told to take five before being thrown back into the mix with each other.
As if the story up to this point wasn’t surreal enough, the archbishop later called in an exorcist who “prayed over them, and they made a formal renunciation of this blood oath that they had made.” 

Everyone agreed that it was just a misguided, albeit harmless, prank that had gone awry. But just to be safe, they brought in their friendly neighborhood exorcist to expunge any evil spirits that the yeti blood oath might have left behind. You know, just in case. 
You can’t be too careful with yeti blood oaths.
]]>

Quote:The Pillar, a journalistic outfit covering the world of Catholicism, recently published a wild story about a group of Denver-based seminarians that, in early 2024, went on what should’ve been a wholesome ski trip with their vice rector. It grotesquely morphed into a midnight initiation ritual featuring a yeti costume, a bloodied cloth, taped mouths, a fake dagger, and a whole lot of screaming.

Seminarians were woken up in the dead of night and led, one by one, into a trailer where they were greeted by Fr. John Nepil, a senior seminarian, who was dressed as a yeti. After a mock ritual involving “grizzly blood” and ominous warnings like “if you enter into this family, there’s no going back,” seminarians reemerged with bloodied hands and taped mouths.


Sounds like a nightmare, but Nepil insists that it was just all in good fun. C’mon, guys! I wasn’t actually going to blood oath you dressed as a yeti! It was a goof—a common yeti blood oath goof!

FAKE YETI BLOOD OATH BROKE A SEMINARY IN DENVER

Videos of the “ritual” circulated. It became immediately apparent to everyone who watched them that it wasn’t so much a harmless prank as a surreal nightmare that those people should not have been subjected to. 
The archdiocese launched an investigation but determined that no canonical crime had occurred. It reassigned Nepil—but only briefly. Despite being removed as a formator, he resumed his duties as vice rector until the end of the year and remains on the faculty.

Despite what the archdiocese of Denver called “a deeply imprudent and inappropriate prank,” Nepil got a slap on the wrist, punished with only a cool-off period where everyone was told to take five before being thrown back into the mix with each other.
As if the story up to this point wasn’t surreal enough, the archbishop later called in an exorcist who “prayed over them, and they made a formal renunciation of this blood oath that they had made.” 

Everyone agreed that it was just a misguided, albeit harmless, prank that had gone awry. But just to be safe, they brought in their friendly neighborhood exorcist to expunge any evil spirits that the yeti blood oath might have left behind. You know, just in case. 
You can’t be too careful with yeti blood oaths.
]]> <![CDATA[Bank Fraud Resolution]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8473 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:39:08 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8473
I am glad that is over. Time to go buy more pallets.]]>
I am glad that is over. Time to go buy more pallets.]]> <![CDATA[Threads]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8447 Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:35:32 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8447 <![CDATA[Lynch Castle Estate Stories.]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8286 Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:07:21 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8286
Well, guess what is happening on Monday? E-waste curbside pickup. The pile on the curb is going to be massive. I even brought a bunch of stuff from home in anticipation of having someone else come by to pick up my personal e-waste. It makes me happy.

What doesn't make me happy? Elder sister spying on me through the cameras. She saw I brought a necklace home for the Queen and asked that it be returned until she has had a chance to look at. Granted, that is her right. But still. I'm a little bit cranky at the thought of the cameras being used against me. Although, I've gone and put a picture of my mother in front of each one.

I'm about to go clear out a shelf section in the garage that is nothing but my father's old business folders.]]>
Well, guess what is happening on Monday? E-waste curbside pickup. The pile on the curb is going to be massive. I even brought a bunch of stuff from home in anticipation of having someone else come by to pick up my personal e-waste. It makes me happy.

What doesn't make me happy? Elder sister spying on me through the cameras. She saw I brought a necklace home for the Queen and asked that it be returned until she has had a chance to look at. Granted, that is her right. But still. I'm a little bit cranky at the thought of the cameras being used against me. Although, I've gone and put a picture of my mother in front of each one.

I'm about to go clear out a shelf section in the garage that is nothing but my father's old business folders.]]> <![CDATA[Nose to the grindstone 2025]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8263 Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:11:21 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8263
I got up at 4 for a very quiet dog walk. I will dog walk 2 when it gets a bit brighter. Then it will be a tedious day of aligning titles to the right frame. That project should only take three or four days.]]>
I got up at 4 for a very quiet dog walk. I will dog walk 2 when it gets a bit brighter. Then it will be a tedious day of aligning titles to the right frame. That project should only take three or four days.]]> <![CDATA[Mortality Updates]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8181 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:33:43 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8181
On the drive home, I started getting group text chats about a different classmate whose husband fell off a ladder and landed on his head over the weekend. They took him off life support today and he passed away.

I thought we agreed no more dying?]]>
On the drive home, I started getting group text chats about a different classmate whose husband fell off a ladder and landed on his head over the weekend. They took him off life support today and he passed away.

I thought we agreed no more dying?]]> <![CDATA[Pleasant "day in the life" from Yeti liked peeps]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8161 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 06:33:18 +0000 Drunk Monk]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=8161
Lessee now, since my last post on the Sheltering in Place thread (post 4755 but who's counting? http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...4#pid73604):

Saturday morning was a return to Kung Fu practice after a few weeks off. I remembered my forms well enough, even practiced them from a slightly freshened perspective, but gassed out early. Then I went to San Rafael for a birthday party of 2 Kung Fu cousins. It was a long ride, but I had to show face. One was my partner in crime who did the choreo for AtLA. The other showed me his impressive collection of antique swords and other assorted weapons. It was a potluck and I brought Toki. Some weird chick was hitting on me hard, trying to get me to 'crash at her pad' instead of the long drive home. It was flattering but also annoying.

Sunday was yoga and work. Monday was more work. 

Tuesday was work then Santana at Shoreline.

Wednesday work plus a telemeet with Immortal Comics. That went well. We're going an unexpected direction - tabletop game development. 

Thursday was work then Santa Cruz Shakespeare - Hamlet.

Friday was yoga, work, and the TotW:WI screener (online) and launching this thread. 

Tomorrow the Kung Fu Academy is closed. I have a telemeet with the lightsaber group. 

I need to write this weekend.]]>
Lessee now, since my last post on the Sheltering in Place thread (post 4755 but who's counting? http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...4#pid73604):

Saturday morning was a return to Kung Fu practice after a few weeks off. I remembered my forms well enough, even practiced them from a slightly freshened perspective, but gassed out early. Then I went to San Rafael for a birthday party of 2 Kung Fu cousins. It was a long ride, but I had to show face. One was my partner in crime who did the choreo for AtLA. The other showed me his impressive collection of antique swords and other assorted weapons. It was a potluck and I brought Toki. Some weird chick was hitting on me hard, trying to get me to 'crash at her pad' instead of the long drive home. It was flattering but also annoying.

Sunday was yoga and work. Monday was more work. 

Tuesday was work then Santana at Shoreline.

Wednesday work plus a telemeet with Immortal Comics. That went well. We're going an unexpected direction - tabletop game development. 

Thursday was work then Santa Cruz Shakespeare - Hamlet.

Friday was yoga, work, and the TotW:WI screener (online) and launching this thread. 

Tomorrow the Kung Fu Academy is closed. I have a telemeet with the lightsaber group. 

I need to write this weekend.]]> <![CDATA[chatGPT and DALL-E]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7439 Sat, 14 Jan 2023 17:55:29 +0000 cranefly]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7439
How will DALL-E (currently at version 2) impact artists?]]>
How will DALL-E (currently at version 2) impact artists?]]> <![CDATA[Shut Up and Write]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7357 Tue, 13 Dec 2022 18:11:35 +0000 cranefly]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7357
LCF and I went to a SUAW yesterday on Middlefield at a coffee shop.  But I wasn't focused very well.  I kept thinking of TQ.  The whole hour and a half I kept thinking of TQ.  We were seated outside in a very good spot, but sitting near us, and not part of SUAW, was a young couple.  Well, not a couple.  She was married to someone else, and he was newly divorced.  He was telling about all the problems he was having with his ex, and she was offering advice, or just lending a compassionate ear.  Their conversation wandered. covering relationships of other friends.  It was a major soap opera.  And their voices were loud.  We could have moved, but ours was a very good table.  LCF suffered the worst of it, because her hearing is more acute than mine.  Still, it's surprising how much I heard.

And I kept thinking of TQ.  Of TQ sitting there where we were, armed with her stenographer equipment, and taking it all down.  Then, after an hour and a half, getting up and walking over to those two and saying, "Excuse me, I'd like to read something back to you."  Then launch into a verbatim account of everything they'd said for the last hour and a half.  I even imagined them bailing, jumping in their respective cars to flee, but TQ, unfazed and relentless, following one of them to climb in the back seat to continue the account.

As for my writing, my standup routine is coming along very nicely, thank you very much.]]>
LCF and I went to a SUAW yesterday on Middlefield at a coffee shop.  But I wasn't focused very well.  I kept thinking of TQ.  The whole hour and a half I kept thinking of TQ.  We were seated outside in a very good spot, but sitting near us, and not part of SUAW, was a young couple.  Well, not a couple.  She was married to someone else, and he was newly divorced.  He was telling about all the problems he was having with his ex, and she was offering advice, or just lending a compassionate ear.  Their conversation wandered. covering relationships of other friends.  It was a major soap opera.  And their voices were loud.  We could have moved, but ours was a very good table.  LCF suffered the worst of it, because her hearing is more acute than mine.  Still, it's surprising how much I heard.

And I kept thinking of TQ.  Of TQ sitting there where we were, armed with her stenographer equipment, and taking it all down.  Then, after an hour and a half, getting up and walking over to those two and saying, "Excuse me, I'd like to read something back to you."  Then launch into a verbatim account of everything they'd said for the last hour and a half.  I even imagined them bailing, jumping in their respective cars to flee, but TQ, unfazed and relentless, following one of them to climb in the back seat to continue the account.

As for my writing, my standup routine is coming along very nicely, thank you very much.]]> <![CDATA[Eugene lives matter]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7221 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 17:21:47 +0000 Drunk Monk]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7221
There's Popeye

(02-21-2019, 09:50 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Almost as annoying as Eugene the Jeep in Popeye.

WTH man...


There's Tangled

(12-02-2010, 11:04 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Back to Tangled, the 'prince' (thief really) is named Eugene.  But he changed his name to Flynn Rider because he didn't like Eugene.  My kid and my mom thought that was hysterical.  More on the 'Eu' name prefix on the Dawn Treader thread.


There's Martial Law

(09-17-2020, 10:33 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: There was also a snitch named Eugene. Eugene’s get such a bad rap.


There's Preacher

(08-01-2016, 03:22 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: It gets better.  And I don't just say that because there's a character named Eugene.  With an ass for a face.  


There's Shazam

(10-20-2019, 07:52 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: I do have one semi-complaint. Eugene. WTH man.  Why are characters named Eugene always nerds?  And this kid was Asian, with a reggae hat (although that seemed unintentional). He was a videogamer, which I am not, so it wasn't that close to the mark, but still...really?  I would've been rather upset with him had the film not ended up like it did.


There's iBoy

(01-25-2021, 11:30 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: The most annoying villain was named Eugene. 


And now She-Hulk

(10-06-2022, 07:59 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Hold the phone…

Another nerdy Eugene?!?

Wtaf?!?!?!
]]>
There's Popeye

(02-21-2019, 09:50 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Almost as annoying as Eugene the Jeep in Popeye.

WTH man...


There's Tangled

(12-02-2010, 11:04 AM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Back to Tangled, the 'prince' (thief really) is named Eugene.  But he changed his name to Flynn Rider because he didn't like Eugene.  My kid and my mom thought that was hysterical.  More on the 'Eu' name prefix on the Dawn Treader thread.


There's Martial Law

(09-17-2020, 10:33 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: There was also a snitch named Eugene. Eugene’s get such a bad rap.


There's Preacher

(08-01-2016, 03:22 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: It gets better.  And I don't just say that because there's a character named Eugene.  With an ass for a face.  


There's Shazam

(10-20-2019, 07:52 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: I do have one semi-complaint. Eugene. WTH man.  Why are characters named Eugene always nerds?  And this kid was Asian, with a reggae hat (although that seemed unintentional). He was a videogamer, which I am not, so it wasn't that close to the mark, but still...really?  I would've been rather upset with him had the film not ended up like it did.


There's iBoy

(01-25-2021, 11:30 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: The most annoying villain was named Eugene. 


And now She-Hulk

(10-06-2022, 07:59 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Hold the phone…

Another nerdy Eugene?!?

Wtaf?!?!?!
]]> <![CDATA[home security alarm]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7200 Sun, 18 Sep 2022 18:35:37 +0000 cranefly]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7200 803 Long Wharf Road, Rhode Island, was deacrtivated at 12:18 pm.  Note that this is EST.  This would be a good time to burglerize the place.

I will notify you when the alarm is activated again.

I get countless of these email notices, have tried repeatedly to notify XFINITY that one of their customers incorrectly entered my email address.  But you can't reply to emails, and you have to provide an account number to communicate with them.  As it stands, for years i known when this customer purchases a service, when they're late on a bill, etc.

I could probably find a way to communicate with XFINITY, but they make it so damned hard.]]> 803 Long Wharf Road, Rhode Island, was deacrtivated at 12:18 pm.  Note that this is EST.  This would be a good time to burglerize the place.

I will notify you when the alarm is activated again.

I get countless of these email notices, have tried repeatedly to notify XFINITY that one of their customers incorrectly entered my email address.  But you can't reply to emails, and you have to provide an account number to communicate with them.  As it stands, for years i known when this customer purchases a service, when they're late on a bill, etc.

I could probably find a way to communicate with XFINITY, but they make it so damned hard.]]> <![CDATA[Car Crash 2022]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7087 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:31:08 +0000 Greg]]> http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=7087
The Queen had headed off to Oakhurst to get me a birthday lunch from South Gate Brewing Company which has the best garlic fries. On the way home, coming down Road 600/ Grub Gulch, she was probably going a little too fast when some creature darted out in front of the car. Not an unusual occurrence. She swerved, lost control of the car and did a 180º spin. The momentum from the spin caused the car to flip up on it's side, driver side down.

She tried to call me but there are a lot of dead spots for cell reception in the area. Although she couldn't call, she could text which was how she contacted me. I asked here where she was. She had no idea. Fortunately she spotted an address on a nearby house and gave me that number. Oddly, she was right next to one of the houses we wanted to buy.

I quickly drove to where the Queen's little civic rested on it's side next to the road. The more I looked at the car, the less I understood how it was possible for the car to have to rest in that position. With the momentum, the car should have ended up on it's roof. But no. On it's side. The Queen had to climb up through the passenger side door to leave the car. She hoped with my help, we could push the car back on to the wheels. Yeah, no.

She called AAA or texted them. Their time of arrival was indeterminate. Fortunately, our neighbors in the military industrial complex were home and immediately came out to help. It is good to have neighbors that have all sorts of heavy equipment in their yard. But all we needed was our neighbors big pickup truck and some heavy duty slings. He also brought some traffic cones to block traffic on the road.

All sorts of people did drive by. Without fail, they all stopped to see if we needed help.

Quickly, we were able to get the car righted. I was afraid the tires would explode when the car fell to the ground. But the car just bounced. However, the car door locks all closed upon impact with the ground. The Queen's keys were still in the ignition so I had to run back the five miles to the house to get our other set of keys. 

The Queen started up the car and with the exception of a lot of grey smoke from the exhaust, the car seemed to run fine. The only damage were some scuffs on the driver side panels and the destruction of the side mirror. The side mirror might be what kept the car from tipping all the way over.

In the end, the Queen was unharmed except for some stiffness. However, two hours in the car did not help the meal from South Gate Brewing Company.]]>
The Queen had headed off to Oakhurst to get me a birthday lunch from South Gate Brewing Company which has the best garlic fries. On the way home, coming down Road 600/ Grub Gulch, she was probably going a little too fast when some creature darted out in front of the car. Not an unusual occurrence. She swerved, lost control of the car and did a 180º spin. The momentum from the spin caused the car to flip up on it's side, driver side down.

She tried to call me but there are a lot of dead spots for cell reception in the area. Although she couldn't call, she could text which was how she contacted me. I asked here where she was. She had no idea. Fortunately she spotted an address on a nearby house and gave me that number. Oddly, she was right next to one of the houses we wanted to buy.

I quickly drove to where the Queen's little civic rested on it's side next to the road. The more I looked at the car, the less I understood how it was possible for the car to have to rest in that position. With the momentum, the car should have ended up on it's roof. But no. On it's side. The Queen had to climb up through the passenger side door to leave the car. She hoped with my help, we could push the car back on to the wheels. Yeah, no.

She called AAA or texted them. Their time of arrival was indeterminate. Fortunately, our neighbors in the military industrial complex were home and immediately came out to help. It is good to have neighbors that have all sorts of heavy equipment in their yard. But all we needed was our neighbors big pickup truck and some heavy duty slings. He also brought some traffic cones to block traffic on the road.

All sorts of people did drive by. Without fail, they all stopped to see if we needed help.

Quickly, we were able to get the car righted. I was afraid the tires would explode when the car fell to the ground. But the car just bounced. However, the car door locks all closed upon impact with the ground. The Queen's keys were still in the ignition so I had to run back the five miles to the house to get our other set of keys. 

The Queen started up the car and with the exception of a lot of grey smoke from the exhaust, the car seemed to run fine. The only damage were some scuffs on the driver side panels and the destruction of the side mirror. The side mirror might be what kept the car from tipping all the way over.

In the end, the Queen was unharmed except for some stiffness. However, two hours in the car did not help the meal from South Gate Brewing Company.]]>