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I apologize for my absence of late - this year has really been wrecking me with a neverending string of cold, a few days of the flu and general unhealthyness. I hope things for you all go better. By the way, I heard the bonfire and campfire elementals around here know to incinder April-fools-pranks at first sight.
Yay! Have fun!
You seriously don' want to know... After two weeks of cold related illnesses and migraines, I started the day with my DSL router gone for good and got stuck on the customer hotline for more than 3 hours because of that.- automatic replacement is disable due to maintenance [in queue] - I explain to customer service guy 1 what the problem is, why it is pretty clear that it is a problem with the router, customer service guy agrees and sets up a replacement [content for now] - cellphone rings - customer service guy 1 explains that technical service found a possible problem that has to do with the line, not the router, need to hand me to customer service guy 2 - I explain to customer service guy 2 what the problem is, why it is pretty clear that it is a problem with the router, customer service guy disagrees because of tech guy and initiates that the line is checked instead. - customer service guy 2 finds out he can't check the line by himself due to maintenance, asks me to hold the line while he calls tech support - customer service guy 2 thinks it may be easier to replace my router, sets up a replacement [semi content] - cellphone rings - tech guy explains that customer service guy 1! told him that he needs to check the line and asks me to wait - tech guy tells me that the test said that there line could not connect to my port, aks me about my hardware. - tech guy is pretty sure that a routers leds should't all be blinking irregularly but needs to be convinced that neither restarting nor factory-resetting the router did any good. Tech guy finds out that a broken router actually can keep a line from connecting to port. Tech guy sets up a replacement [irritated, yet content] - cellphone rings [headdache gets worse] - Customer service guy 1 doesn't believe that tech guy set up a replacement and thinks I must have tricked him somehow. Asks me to hold the line. - Customer service guy 1 calls tech guy, then apologizes and sets up a replacement Sorry for the longish absence from the boards (and finding it re designed somehow) I hope everybody had a better or even great weekend.
Only two I can think of, that haven't been mentioned yet.
The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers which I try to rewatch, but I am not sure I can handle the level of 80's involved.
I think he just dropped the Squatch for a while. Quick, drop the shotgun, you look too much like an investigator!
Seems the same thing happened to James Jacobs in his questions thread - might be some wonkeyness going on with the boards.
I seem to have surpassed that mark, then.And, that's a good thing, because, once again I've learned that I will not be getting relieved. At which point does a farce become a tragedy?About the same time that you lose both your sense of irony (and black(ish)) humor. Unfortunatly this is your answer then :-(
*offers hugs*
Sigh, why isn't he writing lyrics anymore?: Thinking Allowed
Skyclad My mind was a time bomb That was set to explode So I packed up my cares Into the sunset I rode A path to hell that's paved With good intentions Well I guess you and I Will never see eye to eye But if there's one thing I'll be Glad to know when I die It's that I never entertained your 'Can't conventions' Two men gaze from behind Their prison bars One man sees dirt The other sees stars I'm just thinking aloud Isn't thinking allowed? Just let your mind wander It may never come back Set off on a new train of thought On life's track I'm just thinking aloud Isn't thinking allowed? Why is nobody thinking? How can you call me a failure Or a social defective When to find your own mind You'd need a private detective? I'm not a statistic or A regular family man. I don't give a damn about public relations I'll never live up to Your great expectations You can take or leave me Just the way I am Your straight jacket emotions Only stifle and kill The spirit within us all I call free will. I'm just thinking aloud Isn't thinking allowed? Two men gaze from behind Their prison bars One man sees dirt The other sees stars I'm just thinking aloud Isn't thinking allowed?
Apart from Greek and German mythology and a lot of SF for kids (from German writers mostly) that did get me interested in Science Fiction, Biology, Ecology and Lif Sciences in general, the first fantasy books were actually the Dragonlance Chronicles. How did they change me? Well... I am posting on the messageboards of a a producer of a fantasy rpg...
I see now, not a tradition I knew (and none we have an equivalent to, in 'my' part of Germany), I was in a hurry when I looked it up and it showed me only 'bringing a toast'. Still, Prosit meant 'May it benefit', which isn't too bad - so I keep the Prosit here and raise a Wassail!
The week has taken an unexpected turn - when I checked this morning for some small but significant (for me) payment I expect (that is in fact long due), it still wasnt there. This month was...rough and I knew I could hardly scrape enough together to pay my bills being left with little to none to pay for food (and that close to Yuletide) - an hour ago a little more than that amount turned up from an unexpected source (a seldom used lottery ticket). Thank you, godesses and gods of good fortune!
I have quite a bad nightshift, right now. I have suffered from an achillodynia for a few days now and it decided that tonight is the right time to enter the 'burning agony' phase. Also, online connection for our card terminal brke down 1 hour after I started my shift - cash only means a lot of discussions with a lot of unhappy customers.
Carcassonne is simply one of the best strategy based games I have ever played. It might prove inaccessible to your younest nephew, though.
The Mass Effect games are indeed the first games that come to mind, as are the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republik games. Older games would be Albion and Anachronox. Darker and more human-centric games buth with an intriguing approach to magic are Mars: War Logs and The Technomancer Star Crawlers is a neat SF/Fantasy Dungeon Crawler. JRPGs that come somewhat close are the excellent Star Ocean: The last Hope (perhaps the other Star ocean games, too, but I have never played any of those), CrossCode and Cosmic Star Heroine.
*slowly recovering from the grrrrr time*
I received news last week that my great-aunt had a stroke and probably won't recover. While she is 99 years of age, so this isn't completely unexpected, it still did a great deal to make a bad week even worse. To add to that, I probably won't be able to see her anymore, as she lives in England and I don't have the time or means to get there in a short notice. *offers hugs*
Edited for spelling.
My mother collapsed again. This time she broke her nose when she hit the floor. When she woke up this morning, her blood sugar was 79. She took her four units of Humalog after she ate some fruit. Then her sugar dropped to 51 in the span of about 3 hours. The doctor at the ER dropped her Lantus from 22 units to 18. Of course, I had to call off work to take her to the Hospital. *sigh* This isn't how I wanted my day to go. If she is on Metformin, too, have her Doctor check if the combination of Metformin and Lantus is Ok for her - for some they can do funky stuff to each other. *hugs*
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