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‘Tis a pain. But these are the quirks that make this site unique

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10
Treppa wrote:
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Agreed.


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Ah Monday. Thanks BTW CH for the excellent game last night. I’m psyched with Dave’s new character in the mix

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Patrick Curtin wrote:
Ah Monday. Thanks BTW CH for the excellent game last night. I’m psyched with Dave’s new character in the mix

It definitely changes the dynamic!


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It was very engaging. I’m bummed I’m going to miss next Sunday’s game

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Patrick Curtin wrote:
It was very engaging. I’m bummed I’m going to miss next Sunday’s game

That will just make it easier when the PCs have to decide which of their companions they want to sacrifice to Hastur.


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To Uncle Fester in his fetching human-skin ensemble?


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Ah. Last day of work tomorrow, then vacation


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Happy Fourth of July my friends!


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Ugh. Trying to get resettled with things.

I am thinking about starting moar games too. I need to check myself, LOL


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So I have interesting news that I will share here since I have been asked to refrain from social media. I have started a new relationship! Love during COVID. Only I would find a girl during one of the most difficult times to meet new people. Lol just my luck.

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Sweet!


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Yes, please. Dungeon Master Player 15/Dungeon Master 13/Monk 2(I'm out of practice!)

HUZZAH!


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I also just wrapped up a very satisfying turn as DM running the Decent into Avernus module for 5e. It’s always gratifying when you finish a module with a fitting climax


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Yes, please. Dungeon Master Player 15/Dungeon Master 13/Monk 2(I'm out of practice!)

I wish people could come to NY and hang out.

But we can't do that.


Yes, please. Dungeon Master Player 15/Dungeon Master 13/Monk 2(I'm out of practice!)

I hunger.


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I wish I could get to NYC as well. I was hoping to hit NYCC in October, but that ain’t happening.

Soon though. Eventually we will arrive at normal


Hey all!

This thread is so far below the radar, that I keep forgetting it is here!

:)

How is all doing?

I just finished dodging a hurricane, (raced it north, and I won) ;)

But I am still stuck in Oklahoma, cuz my son ended up in the hospital.
>_<

He'll be fine, but it gonna take a few days.

;P

More details when It's not midnight here, and I am semi-conscious.
Is actually funny.(ish)

Laters!
~Rags


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Hi Rags!

Yeah my thought of hiding this chat thread has worked a little TOO well, lol.

Well, lesse what’s been going on in Monkeyland:

I have begun to enter into a pretty serious relationship. As a ..ahem... member of the advanced middle age set, I am quite surprised that this Fall affair has occurred. I am hopeful this will ripen into a relationship that will bring me into the final stages of life with companionship and love.

Work has been busy, as COVID has brought the grifters out of the woodwork. I am constrained from discussing particulars, but I’m sure your imagination can fill in the blanks. People are shameless when it comes to making a buck off the fears of their fellow citizens.

I have been running a very well-received meat game of 5e. They went through the module Descent into Avernus, and now I am transitioning them into a restructured Vortex of Madness module from the closing days of 2e. The switchover is pretty seamless.

I am now attempting to get a new job, as my current one runs out in two years, but I have already been in DC for three. Time flies. I just applied to one yesterday I have high hopes for.

My quest for weight loss has suffered setbacks, but it isn’t from lack of trying. I’m just home a lot more, and my apartment’s gym just opened a couple weeks ago. The larger gym I was going to is open, but I refuse to rejoin their facility as they have no mask mandate in place. The place is full of heavy-breathing meat heads, it’s a f##%ing Petri dish. Plus they closed the lap pool down and that was the main draw for me.

So that is me.


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Yes, please. Dungeon Master Player 15/Dungeon Master 13/Monk 2(I'm out of practice!)

Jesus christ man you arent THAT old!


LOL!

'Advanced middle age' my wrinkled wizzie hienie! ;P
Ya young punk. Ya still got game! ;)

(Good luck! I'm VERY fortunate that my second relationship/marriage has been much more blessed than my first. But I entered my first both young and stupid. A really bad combo) ;P

Yeah,
Bad news- grifters suck

Good news, You have job security! ;)

Glad to hear your doing well. :)


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Jesus christ man you arent THAT old!

I think ‘advanced middle age’ is a fair description. After all if I was ‘middle aged’ , I’d be living to 106. Possible, but not probable. I’m not a senior yet, and I’m young at heart and strong of limb, so I got that Going for me.


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Whew! When you disappeared from your pbps, I figured it was something really bad or something really good. Glad to hear it was on the really good side of the ledger! :)

And this thread is not counting unread updates for me.

Grrrr.


Same here, its not showing up on my 'list' like the game threads.
(And I've noticed recently that they only update AFTER I've actually posted in the main PbP thread, until then the OOC threads dont update for me either)

Well, the numbers they are watching on my son are going down now. So hopefully he will be released from hospital as early as tomorrow. (I Hope!)
;P

See ya all! (Sooner or later,...) >_<


Geez, that's a long time in the hospital. Criminy.

And here's how to get this to show up in your campaign list.


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Yeah it’s pretty much dealing with a lack of free time. Naturally. But I am still lirking, I just need a solid 6-hour stretch to untangle and organize all my threads

Silver Crusade

Male Celestial Cleric of Myself 10/Radiant Servant of Me 10

Glad to hear things are going well, Patrick!


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FYI- Update (I keep forgetting which threads I have posted this in, so I'm informing all my peeps)
Son is out of hospital, (Still has some protein-enzymes or something that he needs to get rid of, but the dr said he can do that at home.)

(They literally pumped gallons of IV fluids into him over the week to flush all the bad stuff from his blood, kidneys and liver, no exaggeration) O_o

AND we are back home! :)
My messy, long-neglected home,... >_<
With the piles of unanswered emails from work,... :(

<Sigh> yeah, I'm back, but only physically.
MENTALLY is another story, between the stress of dodging the hurricane, the son having to go in the hospital, and (edit for cursing) everything else, I'm gonna be a couple of days getting the home cleaned up and caught back up on both work and play.

But I will! :)

EDIT- Sorry you are getting this message so many times Pat! I just realized that you are the common denominator in most of my hanging out in this virtual world. ;)

Happy Labor Day! (BarBQue. You have to add 'BarBQue' to the end, or it isnt the same) ;P


Ah-Hah!
I have successfully 'posted/deleted' in the 'game' thread, and NOW it shows up on my list of active threads!

Sweet!

Thanks for the tip, (which was WAY up above, and I just got around to trying it) ;P


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Man, I am unused to having a 'honey-do' list. I made a shelf yesterday.

It was a serious Man Project

Trying to get all my other stuff taken care of too, and I REALLY want to get my games set.


Sheesh, yeah it looks like a 'man' project!

What are you gonna store on it? Your pickup? O_o


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Lol. It’s my girlfriend’s shelf. I just assembled it and had to lag bolt into garage ceiling joists via ratchet wrench (ow). She is storing a huge fake Christmas tree and assorted other stuff on it. She loves it so much she wants to buy another ... :/

This weekend I got to landscape her yard. It’s been a while since I sunk that many plants in the dirt. I enjoy that kind of work, but I am awfully sore today. Although on the up side I did get my games updated. So check out any you are in.

I did let my zombie one ... die. Too many things going on, and something had to give.


Yes, please. Dungeon Master Player 15/Dungeon Master 13/Monk 2(I'm out of practice!)

Work is working me.


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Work is working me.

Aye. It tends to do that.

I hate grifters. Especially rich grifters who make their cash off the poor.

It always reminds me of a William Gibson quote from the book Count Zero:

“They scooped up the meager bank accounts like sharks cruising a swimming pool thick with caviar ”.


Patrick Curtin wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Work is working me.

Aye. It tends to do that.

I hate grifters. Especially rich grifters who make their cash off the poor.

It always reminds me of a William Gibson quote from the book Count Zero:

“They scooped up the meager bank accounts like sharks cruising a swimming pool thick with caviar ”.

Oy,

'Grifters' are all fun and dandy when they're on TV shows or movies. But the RL version of them STINK.

GET'EM MONKEY! GET'EM ALL!!!!
;)


Patrick Curtin wrote:

Lol. It’s my girlfriend’s shelf. I just assembled it and had to lag bolt into garage ceiling joists via ratchet wrench (ow). She is storing a huge fake Christmas tree and assorted other stuff on it. She loves it so much she wants to buy another ... :/

This weekend I got to landscape her yard. It’s been a while since I sunk that many plants in the dirt. I enjoy that kind of work, but I am awfully sore today. Although on the up side I did get my games updated. So check out any you are in.

I did let my zombie one ... die. Too many things going on, and something had to give.

LOL, yeah, my 'garden was fun,... until it wasn't. I finally had to throw money at it. (A LOT of $$ that I didn't really need to be spending, but there you are) NOW< several hundred $$ poorer, but with gutters on the front of the house, a some of my clay carted off, the rest leveled out and piled over with actual 'dirt' (really compost) I was finally able to get the plants RE-planted, and we (Meaning my wife) have an actual garden now.

Well, MOST of a garden, I dont think the Frost-proof gardenias liked the whole being buried in clay, dug back up, being replanted very much. Cuz 1 is toast and the other looks,... not happy ;P

But then some we found some lilys sprouting by themselves in a previously empty pot on our back porch, so we planted them just for giggles, and THEY are fine? Some look better than the same plants that we paid for! ;P

RL is so much stranger than fiction. O_o


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Plants are odd that way. I find if you treat them like pets they fare well. Give them the right food, room to grow, and water they’ll usually be ok. As a landscaper I saw several errors repeated over and over:

*People attempt to make a ‘full’ garden by cramming a lot of plants into one spot. This never works out after the first year. Plants need room.

*People dig a hole just big enough for the plant to go in the ground. Always dig wider, and mix the native soil with potting soil or compost.

* Every third year with flowering perennials you should pull the plant up and cut it into quarters. Plant one quarter in the hole again, and either plant the other quarters elsewhere or give them away. This will keep your plants small and will encourage blooming.

*When sinking a plant cut the roots. Most plants have been sitting in a pot for a while and their roots look like a tight ball. Take a knife and score the visible roots. Tease out the larger ones from the root ball. If you don’t the plant will choke itself

*Research what sun a plant likes. A Rose or peony won’t grow well in shade. A hosta won’t grow well in sun. Proper placement precludes piss-poor plants.

* You can’t just plant and forget. Water when needed, and mulch. Amend the soil regularly with compost. This will also make the soil better to dig in. Clay becomes lighter, sand becomes denser.

* If you can, find a spot in the yard to make a compost pile. Pile grass, leaves, old pumpkins, vegetable ends, eggshells, and coffee grounds into it. Turn it over every so often. Ideally have three piles : one fresh, on once turned, one twice turned. This makes the best compost and saves you money both in buying compost and getting rid of vegetable matter.


Thanks for the tips
(I have many skills. I never claimed that gardening was one of them!)

We did (a little) research, and got the 'proper' plants for the sunny and shady spots. Confirmed by the guy who knows a lot more than me at the plant shop. (But I LUV your quote, 'Proper Placement precludes Pi$$-Poor plants' That is going in my 'book of quotes') ;P

The primary problem was that we were planting in solid clay. No amount of mixing that with compost/soil (which I did) was going to help. ;P

Now they are planted on TOP of the clay, in 'good soil' (primarily compost it looks like) where they can get a good start growing, and then eventually work their way into the clay below. I think the poor frost-proof gardenias were just too traumatized by the planting in clay, digging up, replanting, and whatever else they endured. They just gave up which made me sad, cuz when we replanted them they looked very happy at first.
(Our research on Frost-proof gardenias said they LIKE sun, and they are in the sunny spot out front, So it shouldnt be that?)

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of dealing with a compost heap, it just looks like a big, smelly trash pile to me. But then I havent had to deal with a garden either, not since I lived with my parents, and even then only When I was VERY young (They gave up the garden stuff, too much work!) ;P

But, as I know that the provided compost/soil will settle eventually (it already is down to half its original piled height) I should be planning on ways to keep replenishing that around the plants.

I got rid of MOST of the piles of sawdust from where they ground down my tree stumps in the backyard, I had like 11 trees back there, and its NOT a big yard!) But I got tired of shoveling bags and carrying them to the curb, so there is still a large pile or 3. Mostly growing black mushrooms now (?!?) I was going to shovel and bag and toss the rest, but since its here, and I do have a far back corner, that wouldnt be too obnoxious, maybe I should start a compost heap. :P

And the tip for cutting the large plants into quarters? I had never heard of that! cool. Although as mentioned, several of the smaller 'nile lillies' (of some sort) that we planted were from her departed grandmothers porch plants. (So they had been on our back porch for at least 4 years or more) I separated at least 5 or 6 individual plants out of that tiny pot. most of which I thought were going to die, cuz their roots were so tiny once they were untangled/broken apart. And THEY are some of the best looking plants we have so far! As good or better than the same plants that we bought. ;)


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Lillies love to be separated. They are rhisomatic, which means they spread out many roots you can easily break the roots off, and presto - new plant. It's pretty obvious where they breaks should be.

As for compost, you want it aerated (turned over so oxygen gets at it). Piles of leaves or grass smell because they rot and fester anaerobically which makes a gross smell. Think of a compost pile like a verrrrry slow fire. You want the various plant bits to oxidize. But, to do that, you need to get oxygen into the pile. It is also why you should put a bunch of small branches at the very bottom (I forgot that bit). This will keep the pile from clumping up, and the sticks will get crumbled down quite quickly.


I have noticed in the neighborhood (since we started trying to get our garden up, we started noticing OTHER peeps gardens) ;P

That others garden that have our same lilies, are VERY Clumped together, I guessing that the never separated theirs?
For the record, in spite of seeing clusters of lillies everywhere, We planted ours with a good amount of space between. (I had a lot of garden, and wanted to spread them out to fill it up) Our garden is starting out with lots of room for all to spread out.

If they dont spread out by next year, (if I have any time) then they get new neighbors. :P

Compost,. grm, I really dont wanna deal with it,... but I know its a good idea,... >_<

Ah well, I gotta do SOMETHING with all of that mushrooming wood chips in my backyard. Might as well compost it as bag it. :P

SIGH, and add ANOTHER thing to my list of 'Things I need to do. Soon. And will actually get around to when I get around to it' ;P


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Another hint: dig about six-twelve inches into the soil under the compost. This will allow the good bacteria and worms access. Oh, and when you put stuff in try to balance green and brown. Brown is leaves and wood. Green is grass clippings and vegetables

One bonus: if anyone in the family likes fishing a compost pile attracts night crawlers of amazing size.


Heh, flashbacks, O_o

Back when I was in high school, my parents had a pool installed.
I loved it, but they hadn't yet learned that it was easier to keep the pool clean and running through the winter, than to 'shut it down' and have to pay for broken pipes to the pump and clean it out in the spring.

So. EVERY spring, we had to drain the pool ($$ on a big rental pump) all the way down. It was a vinyl liner pool, so the water table under the pool would float it up once the water was drained, :) And all of the slime, mud, dirt, muck, leaves and whatever else had blown or washed into the pool over the summer we washed down into the very bottom. And then one of us (usually Dad) would slog through that, and shovel it into a 5 gallon bucket, and the other person, (Usually my skinny-@$$ High School self) had the fun job of hauling it up out of the pool, and dumping it into the corner of the yard.

The point of this ramble? (Yes, there IS a point!) ;P
I had to deal with the most interesting collection of creatures that should never be found in a swimming pool. Including but not limited to, bugs, frogs, crawfish (crawdads if your from Louisiana), and the largest, longest worms that I have ever seen. THOSE monsters are the only ones I ever saw that deserved to be called 'Nightcrawlers' O_O
I swear I saw at least one that was as long as I am tall. I don't mind putting a worm on a hook, but that was creepy. :P


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Lol. These night crawlers aren’t that big, but they are fast and fierce. A different breed than your garden-variety worms. They love eating compost. They’ll break down the vegetable matter into ‘castings’ which is to say worm poop. Which is the circle of life, and the best compost for your garden.


Hm, there is actually a fair bit of one ground stump in one corner of my yard, (they couldn't grind it as good cuz it is IN the corner of the fence.) It not my first choice for a compost pile, as it would be visible from my dining room/backdoor, but that way the stump would degrade faster,...

Hm, decisions. ;P

LOL, I actually havent gone fishing in YEARS, It was never really my 'thing', But I didn't Hate it or anything, and dad liked it, and it was fun doing that with him growing up.
Mom didn't mind being drug out occasionally, but it was much easier to use me as an excuse 'Gotta take the boy fishing!' than getting her to go. So most of the 'fishing trips' were just dad and I. ;)


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Yeah I'm not a fishing guy, at least not since I was a kid. ALways thought it was kind of cruel. But, those worms were about six inches long and FAST.

Yeah the stump would be gone in a couple of years. Just dont pile the compost against the fence or else that will be gone too ....


LOL, thanks for the warning!
I dont think the neighbors would appreciate that! ;P
(Since they paid and installed the fence) ;)


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This came across my FaceBook feed today, a shot of my compost bays from 11 years ago.


Wow. Thats a LOT of compost.

What was all that used for? Are you a major vegetable gardener on top of all your other cool qualifications? :)


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I did garden quite a bit. The compost would get top dressed every Spring onto my beds. I had pretty good soil.

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