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There is a bonfire/BBQ organized by some of my acquaintances today but I don't feel like going. There will be people there. I can't people today.


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Treppa wrote:


EDIT: You know, looking on the positive side really does help. Also grateful for anesthesia.

It really does. And hey, maybe your poison glands are a spitting attack! How cool would that be? You get to spit on people, and then they die!


Patrick Curtin wrote:


I can just see it now ...

The carriage slowed as it entered Bad Ewigkeit. The night was foggy, a deep silver shroud wrapping the simple stone and lath houses. Justin peered out of the fogged carriage window shivering

"What's the matter boss?" His Mimir companion Memnon asked from his velvet-lined carrying case.

"I know this inn we are going to supposedly has a portal hidden somewhere in it according to that tome I found in Strahdstad, but this place is creepy even for this world." Justin replied as he scanned the dark village

The carriage clatters to a halt in the courtyard of a large square inn, brick and lath work looming over the muddy yard. Two young men run out to tend the horses as Justin snaps Memnon's case shut and opens the door

"Try and keep quiet, bonebrain" He quips

The muffled rejoinder is faint, but audible. Justin pretends he didn't hear it

Justin walks past the carriage and towards the Inn's main door. The creak of the inn's sign shatters the stillness. A fierce lion snarls from its wooden plaque. As he approaches, a tall figure fills the door way

The man is well over two meters tall, with a shock of salt-and-pepper hair framing a corpse-pale face. A scar runs down from his forehead to chin, intersecting with one milky eye and turning the corner of his mouth into a sardonic clown's grin. He is dressed in simple worker's clothes, surmounted by an apron that had once been white, many years ago

"Welcome to the Zum Löwen Inn, Herr Case". The man intones supulchrallly.

OMGosh I luvit!

:)

And the pics are cool, Only been to Germany/Europe once. I love the history and architecture. I like that some of those original buildings are still there!


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Drejk wrote:
There is a bonfire/BBQ organized by some of my acquaintances today but I don't feel like going. There will be people there. I can't people today.

I would recommend you go, speaking as an older person who let my unwillingness to people at times limit his life. Sometimes you go, even if you're not 100 % psyched for it. Gatherings like this are nodes of potentiality. Your future wife could be eating potato salad on the lawn. Your new best friend could be playing frisbee and looking for a partner. A great Pathfinder player might have moved into town and come with his roommate. You never know until you go.


Patrick Curtin wrote:
Treppa wrote:


EDIT: You know, looking on the positive side really does help. Also grateful for anesthesia.

It really does. And hey, maybe your poison glands are a spitting attack! How cool would that be? You get to spit on people, and then they die!

Ooh careful!

If she's like me she might be really tempted to experiment!


Drejk wrote:
Urgh. They can't make a biopsy with a puncture?

Believe me, that was my first question. But this thing is apparently filling up (and expanding) the neurovascular canal in the mandible, which means it's entwined with the nerve and blood vessels. They don't go poking around in there with needles.

On the positive side, the biopsy will effectively be an excision of the entire mass. The only followup needed will be if it's cancerous andwe'renoteventhinkingaboutthatokay.


Patrick Curtin wrote:
Drejk wrote:
There is a bonfire/BBQ organized by some of my acquaintances today but I don't feel like going. There will be people there. I can't people today.
I would recommend you go, speaking as an older person who let my unwillingness to people at times limit his life. Sometimes you go, even if you're not 100 % psyched for it. Gatherings like this are nodes of potentiality. Your future wife could be eating potato salad on the lawn. Your new best friend could be playing frisbee and looking for a partner. A great Pathfinder player might have moved into town and come with his roommate. You never know until you go.

This. So much this.

And if you don't meet anyone or have a ton of fun, at least you get food!

Silver Crusade

I have a policy to always say yes when invited to do things. Sometimes it leads to over-commitment (which I usually discover too late to do anything about it), but in general I rarely regret saying yes.


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Hey, CH, wanna come over and BBQ and swim and play cards tonight?

Silver Crusade

Yes. Do you have my plane tickets?


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What?! I provide BBQ, you provide transportation. :P


Moving my Steam and GOG and other game libraries from my tower to my 1TB removable storage device today. And probably tomorrow. And most of this month.

And possibly into August.

Gotta test one first, though. I'm not sure the USB connection will be sufficient. Might need that backplane speed for some games.


Patrick Curtin wrote:
Drejk wrote:
There is a bonfire/BBQ organized by some of my acquaintances today but I don't feel like going. There will be people there. I can't people today.
I would recommend you go, speaking as an older person who let my unwillingness to people at times limit his life. Sometimes you go, even if you're not 100 % psyched for it. Gatherings like this are nodes of potentiality. Your future wife could be eating potato salad on the lawn. Your new best friend could be playing frisbee and looking for a partner. A great Pathfinder player might have moved into town and come with his roommate. You never know until you go.

Nah, I don't think there is anyone whom I don't know there. Also, it's not only my misanthropy speaking but also a lingering not-yet-a-headache-maybe-it-will-pass. Mere thinking of spending over an hour of travel by tram (it's almost exactly on the other side of the city) makes me feel sickish already, and even more when thinking of noise and crowd that will gather there.

Anyway it's late now, and they'd eat everything edible by the time I'd reached them, and proceed to consumption of alcohol which I have no interest in.


Aaaand, the headache is creeping in...


Treppa wrote:

Moving my Steam and GOG and other game libraries from my tower to my 1TB removable storage device today. And probably tomorrow. And most of this month.

And possibly into August.

Gotta test one first, though. I'm not sure the USB connection will be sufficient. Might need that backplane speed for some games.

Still good as a backup!

Even if you need FULL sped for some (a lot?) of the online-games, I have discovered the hard way you can never have too much backup!

Makes recovering from the inevitable PC crash SO much easier! :)

(Speaking of, I'm WAY behind on organizing the wife's holiday family pics and backing them all up to the portable drive. And i haven't even started backing up my games and such,... SO much to do on my supposed summer 'off'.) ;P


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Treppa wrote:

So more good news. They decided the "venom glands" in my lower jaw need to come out because they are eroding the jawbone from the inside and need to be biopsied. They're going to do something called a BSSO mandibular surgery to expose the nerve/blood vessel canal, dissect away the growth, and wire the jaw together again. 2 days in hospital, 2 weeks at home, 6 weeks of chewing nothing. Sleep sitting up, ice packs, yada yada.

The damned finger won't even be healed by the time the jaw gets broken! o_O

And in keeping with Patrick's ♪♫ always look on the bright side of life ♫♪ theme, I'm grateful they found these things before any symptoms cropped up and that they can do something about them before nerve, blood vessel, or more bone damage occurred.

Yay?

EDIT: You know, looking on the positive side really does help. Also grateful for anesthesia.

Crap. I'm all for actual science when it comes to science fiction shows, and I think Treppa will do a bang up job as the lead. But I have to say, this is the worst plotted pilot episode to the Bionic Woman reboot. C'mon showrunners, can't this part be montage-d up or something?! And get the network to kick in some real bucks; the lead actress isn't supposed to pay for the special effects out of her own pocket!!!

Ugh, Treppa. You are handling this much much better than I would be. I'm glad your hand seems to be healing well, and I hope your jaw surgery is a textbook case that is completely complication free. I also hope you have a local fast food place that sells fantastic milkshakes.


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Ancient people lost to time.


Presto


One Man Band


Ecumenopolises


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Ridley Scott's Alien: typography & science fiction


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Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
You are handling this much much better than I would be. I'm glad your hand seems to be healing well, and I hope your jaw surgery is a textbook case that is completely complication free. I also hope you have a local fast food place that sells fantastic milkshakes.

Thanks, Amby. Really, what can you do? After the "you're joking" moment, I decided to look up what other victims patients said about recovery and prepare accordingly. Now that I can get the broken finger wet again, I can cook and clean up, so will start stockpiling homemade soups. That and protein shakes with fruit/molasses should keep me nutritized. Ordering a fancy bed bolster thingy so I can sleep sitting up (because of the jaw/face/throat swelling) and one of those pocket organizers so I can have things at hand without fumbling. Got my ebooks, laptop, table, Xbox, and TV all within 10 feet. I will have plenty of entertainment nearby while I sleep, because it sounds like that's what one does for 2 weeks.


David M Mallon wrote:
Ridley Scott's Alien: typography & science fiction

Some of the best nerd fights ever in those comments.


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Took a real bath tonight - got my left hand completely wet for the first time in almost two months, washed my right arm good and proper, scrubbed my hair with both hands, didn't fumble or drop anything because my left had was bagged. Sat and relaxed and soaked the sore muscles in that hand for a quarter hour... ahhhh...

It was wonderful, glorious, fantastic!


I'm glad you're healing up well and have had a chance to enjoy true luxurY that we have all taken for granted for the first time in a long time. But you are taking the jaw thing waaaaay better than I would. I would have demanded to become a Jaws-like cyborg at that moment.

RPG Superstar 2012

Patrick Curtin wrote:
Got the callback on the tow truck job. I think I have it, I just have to go in tomorrow morning and get set for training hours. I'll make some money if it kills me...

I hope it doesn't come to that. :)

RPG Superstar 2012

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Celestial Healer wrote:

My mind works in strange and disturbing ways.

I saw a car with those little decals on the back window of the family: man, woman, 2 babies (crawling to the left), and dog (also on all fours pointing left). I couldn't help thinking about how much I wanted to move the babies and dog closer together so it would be husband, wife, and their human centipede.

"My human centipede is better than your honor student."

RPG Superstar 2012

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A day-late monster.

It's not as cool as Treppa's unhinged jaw and spitting venom.


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Lord I have fallen into the Downton Abbey hole. Ora pro me


I tried Downton, but I couldn't get into it. Do you have Netflix, Patrick? If you do, check out Peaky Blinders.

Silver Crusade

Patrick Curtin wrote:
Lord I have fallen into the Downton Abbey hole. Ora pro me

I love Downton.


Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
I tried Downton, but I couldn't get into it. Do you have Netflix, Patrick? If you do, check out Peaky Blinders.

I will!


Celestial Healer wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
Lord I have fallen into the Downton Abbey hole. Ora pro me
I love Downton.

Yeah I dig it. I must have been English in a previous life, I find English period pieces fascinating


GOOD MORNING TREEFORTNAM!!!


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Well yesterday was an exercise in sybaritic excess. I blew off all my exercise (except the obligatory dog meander) and went yard saling, followed by Chinese food with a friend. I then followed up with chips and dip and five episodes of Downton Abbey.

I regret nothing


I do have to clamber back on the wagon today though. This fat isn't going to walk away on its own. Feeding it salsa con queso isn't going to convince it to leave either


At least you are doing something about it. Keep up the good work.


Sharoth wrote:
At least you are doing something about it. Keep up the good work.

Thanks! :). It's not that bad you need a day to just blow off once in a while. I have a pretty rough schedule this week, with training for a new job and doing my other two.


Not that the other two have done me a lot of Justice with hours :/

Scarab Sages

Celestial Healer wrote:
Patrick Curtin wrote:
Lord I have fallen into the Downton Abbey hole. Ora pro me
I love Downton.

So does my mother in law, except she bought a "Downton Abbey" hat, took a picture wearing it, and made it her Facebook profile pic. Naturally, I mock her for this.

Scarab Sages

taig wrote:
Celestial Healer wrote:

My mind works in strange and disturbing ways.

I saw a car with those little decals on the back window of the family: man, woman, 2 babies (crawling to the left), and dog (also on all fours pointing left). I couldn't help thinking about how much I wanted to move the babies and dog closer together so it would be husband, wife, and their human centipede.

"My human centipede is better than your honor student."

NIGHTMARE FUEL!


Yesterday, I finally took advantage of having enough floor space in the other room and no witnesses and started exercising (a little bit) again.


Drejk wrote:
Yesterday, I finally took advantage of having enough floor space in the other room and no witnesses and started exercising (a little bit) again.

Keep at it! I regret the decade I took off from exercise. It gets no easier as you get older


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I think I'm going to write a story arc in my new game involving the servants of a huge mansion in the Lady's Ward


Patrick Curtin wrote:
Drejk wrote:
Yesterday, I finally took advantage of having enough floor space in the other room and no witnesses and started exercising (a little bit) again.
Keep at it! I regret the decade I took off from exercise. It gets no easier as you get older

I make no promises about keeping it up.

The last time I stopped because I energy usage consumption involved was too high comparing to the very limited amount of money I had to sustain myself.

Now, I will need a job or other source of revenue soon... *sigh*


Hmmm... I wonder if a company has a job opening listed in both English and Polish and they both have application e-mail that leads to the same e-mail but with different topic (one in Polish and one in English) and I have sent an application to the English one over a month ago and haven't got any reply, can I send an application in Polish via the other application? Does it end in the hands of the same person or is reviewed by different people?


Crap. I checked where they have office here in Cracow and it's perfect... Twenty-thirty minutes by tram. Less than a hour on foot for a nice walk back home when the weather is beautiful...

*sigh*


Do EET! If they ask why you applied for same job twice, just explain you thought it would be a novel way to demonstrate your cunning linguist-ness. Anything that gets you that interview where you can dazzle them with your awesomeness.


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The Many Voices Of Gaia (campaign idea)


Ambrosia Slaad wrote:
Do EET! If they ask why you applied for same job twice, just explain you thought it would be a novel way to demonstrate your cunning linguist-ness.

Or they will think that I am desperate... I am not yet desperate for at least two months...

Quote:
Anything that gets you that interview where you can dazzle them with your awesomeness.

I don't know if I will dazzle them or blind them...

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