Hello,.....
well, my new computer won't boot according to my wife, so if I'm missing for the next while that's why.
Update,
Mrs Ragadolf is home now, sans 1 kidney. She will be fine, (and is already walking around, like the doctor told her too) she'll need 2-3 weeks healing and all will be well.
Thank you all for the well-wishes, they were and are appreciated.
I, On the other hand, am about 1 thread short of snapping right now, ;P
RL continues to kick my heinie. I'll keep up as best I can, but ask forgiveness in advance if I simply do not post for a couple of days.
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Good luck again;
guess I'm back on.
Hello,
My box at home works really on and off so I'm putting my games on hiatus until such a time as I have some sort of decent connectivity.
Sounds like my sanity,.... :)
Cool heathy, good luck :-)
I'm connected good.
I'm hip deep in a renovation gone wrong. If I don't reply to a post just drag me along
Oh, dear! We tend to do our renovations very gradually. Are you doing the work? Or are you heating up the tar for your contractor?
The pros did my shower. I get the rest. Tore up from the floor up. Such a mess
A few years ago, we tore out a bathroom and changed every surface. Tore out the shower insert, built-in cabinets, linoleum, and part of the ceiling. Put back in a walk-in shower (a near-crippling car wreck gave us a new appreciation of such facilities) and new custom cabinets. The cabinets and plumbing were done by the pros and a family member with experience helped with the new concrete floor for the shower. We did the tile on the floor and the walls as well as rebuilding the wall and ceiling and put beadboard and a fan on the ceiling.
All in all, it was very educational, very worth it, and very, very slow. We literally started deconstruction on the last Saturday of February that year and the last piece was installed with our guests (that were going to use it first) sitting in the next room - for a Christmas visit.
Hang in there, it will definitely be yours when you are done and no one can take it from you - even if you sell the house later.
Thanks AinvarG. It is looking a bit daunting at this moment,
Make a plan and take it one step at a time. And, considering it took us ten months, this may not be a surprise, but don't be afraid to step back and take a walk if things aren't quite coming together the way you think -- just like if you are doing anything else creative.
It's funny, the bathroom we did is relatively small, but I'm not sure that didn't make it more of a challenge since we had physical constraints to stay within. I don't necessarily recommend your first use of a jackhammer being in a floor that you intend to keep part of, by the way. Just sayin'.
Meh. A lot of my headaches is dealing with the pipes in place, and the rotted subfloor. It makes for tight quarters.
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I can see that. We have been fortunate - none of our room redos have required tearing up a floor, just a floor covering. When we get to the front hall and the kitchen, however, I think the subfloors are coming up. If only so I can install a pit trap for door-to-door salesmen.
On another topic, I have had time to review some of the cool books I have purchased and I found this feat. What do you think?
You can use your weapons to protect you as well as armor does.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Dex 15, Dodge, Combat Expertise, Weapon Focus, base attack +1.
Benefit: When you are not flat-footed, wearing light armor or no armor, and have a melee weapon you have Weapon Focus for in hand ready for use, you gain an armor bonus to your AC. This bonus is equal to 1/2 your character level +2. Any circumstance that would cause you to lose your dodge bonus also causes you to lose this armor bonus to AC. Like any armor bonus, it does not stack with other sources of armor.
Is that tailor-made for a Kensai, or what? Emrael has bracers of armor +5 right now, so it would only improve her AC by four, but still! What a cool feat! Which probably means that my excitement blinds me to the fact that it's probably too good.
It's from a Super Genius Games product. What do you think of it?
On another topic, I have had time to review some of the cool books I have purchased and I found this feat. What do you think?
You can use your weapons to protect you as well as armor does.
Prerequisites: Int 13, Dex 15, Dodge, Combat Expertise, Weapon Focus, base attack +1.
Benefit: When you are not flat-footed, wearing light armor or no armor, and have a melee weapon you have Weapon Focus for in hand ready for use, you gain an armor bonus to your AC. This bonus is equal to 1/2 your character level, number of hit dice, or combination thereof +2. Any circumstance that would cause you to lose your dodge bonus also causes you to lose this armor bonus to AC. Like any armor bonus, it does not stack with other sources of armor.Is that tailor-made for a Kensai, or what? Emrael has bracers of armor +5 right now, so it would only improve her AC by four, but still! What a cool feat! Which probably means that my excitement blinds me to the fact that it's probably too good.
It's from a Super Genius Games product. What do you think of it?
I've addended the feat and approve it wholeheartedly.
So since I have not used my 15th-level feat (Empower Spell), can I take Web of Steel instead? It's too cool not to ask...
That's fine.
Yay! It's done.
Sorry for the silence guys, RL kind of crash landed on me.
Be back soon(ish)
And HAppy Easter!
Off to kill a chocolate Bugs Bunny for the kids baskets,...
Nice work with the feat - perfect for Emrael given her display before the Great Ones of the Pen.
Nice work with the feat - perfect for Emrael given her display before the Great Ones of the Pen.
I know, you know?
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Um, is this thing alive again?
Sorry about my lack of posting recently. I was led to believe that I was a mortal lock for a very nice job - certain enough that I was talking to a realtor about buying a house there - and all of a sudden they pulled the rug out under me. I've been in a pretty foul mood lately.
Yeah; it's alive......I been working a whole lot so I'm not in a hurry. I did 9 hours today.......
Just kinda seeing what you guys want to do; I have a bit of building to do and whatnot, so I'm not in a major hurry.
Um, is this thing alive again?
Sorry about my lack of posting recently. I was led to believe that I was a mortal lock for a very nice job - certain enough that I was talking to a realtor about buying a house there - and all of a sudden they pulled the rug out under me. I've been in a pretty foul mood lately.
Wow. Ouch.
Yeah, that would do it. Sorry Vatt. Their loss.:)
Sorry so slow myself. Crazy week, wife is recovering from surgery well, but gonna wait till next week to go back to work. 'Just to be safe' ;)
So,... What'd I miss?
Nothing really.
I worked my ass off this weekend, and I'm doing tomorrow and Wed til 9:30 pm at work; I'm off this coming weekend though.
Just tired.
Amen brother, A-freakin-men! ;)
You know what they say, 'No rest for the wicked!'
:)
That,.... explains a lot, actually,... :/
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,...."
I've been working like a dog lately; I have some f#!~ed up ideas but I just need time to build.
Time, which is soooooo fleeting.
I worked til 9 pm tonite, will do the same tomorrow; so I'll get around to doing tis stuff some time after that anyhow.
Right on; have a good time!!!
Cool, have fun Vatt!
Yeah, enjoy yourself, sir. Have fun and be safe!
Oh, Phoenix reminds me - any of the contributors to this thread have any advice for someone with a small layover in Flagstaff? It won't be for a bit yet (like - over a year), but I'm expecting a trip there and I'm always open to advice from someone that's been there.
Aye, been pretty busy mysen. Sorry about the job Vatnisse, that's painful. Glad you're getting a break.
Yah, jet lag sucks. Not as bad as a looooooooooong day at work on salary, but it sucks. ;P
Travel safe Vatters!
Myself, I have some extra work tomorrow with an AV company, so I might actually be able to buy something next week! :)
Not much, but something,... ;P
OK. I need some advice from the more crunchtastic folks in the group. Pip's got like 150K in assorted treasure in his bag O' holding. What items should he buy to get the group prepped for a Negative Energy jaunt? Or for that matter, the sanity-trying jaunt to the triple-lobed friary? Anyone have any good ideas?
Ooo yeah, I lost track of all the money that Elgan hasn't spent. Yet.
Being a shapeshifter means I don't think about spending near as much on weapons. :)
I needs to peruse the newer PF books, see what's new on the magic store shelves. :)
Hi ho;
wifey ate some bad stuff; little food poisoning. I'm gonna recuse myself of pbp for a few.
Heath
Take care of the important stuff, we'll wait.
Oy! BAd stuff is,... bad.
Go take care of the wifey, we'll be here. Trying to come up with new and interesting ways to derail your carefully plotted plots.
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Food poisoning sucks and takes precedence.
Oh, Phoenix reminds me - any of the contributors to this thread have any advice for someone with a small layover in Flagstaff? It won't be for a bit yet (like - over a year), but I'm expecting a trip there and I'm always open to advice from someone that's been there.
Almost forgot about this. The most important thing first - how long are you there for?
Not long - I believe we will have bookend days around a trip to that big hole in the ground to the north. That is, an evening before we head north and another after we get back. None of the schedule is very firm this far in advance, of course. The Canyon is the priority, but I thought it would be worth asking if you had a suggestion for the downtime.
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The thing (besides that big hole in the ground) you MUST do is to visit the Lowell Observatory. Besides that, go for some walks in the forest.
Frankly, Flagstaff is a bit of a dump. Half the town is student housing and Northern Arizona University buildings; the other half is trashy Route 66-themed biker bars. In between those are some ramshackle houses. Unless you like overpriced tat and drunk people peeing on corners, there's not all that much to see in the town itself.
Foodwise, I really like the Taverna and the Dara Thai restaurants. Flagstaff gets a lot of tourists, so I'm sure there are other good ones as well. There are also several good coffee/pastry places in the neighbourhood south of Route 66.
That was over quick at least.
Good thing my kids didn't get it.
F!#$!!!
Oy! BAd stuff is,... bad.
Go take care of the wifey, we'll be here. Trying to come up with new and interesting ways to derail your carefully plotted plots.
;)
Heh heh......guess I got you hornswaggled.
Carefully plotted, indeed.....
Oy! BAd stuff is,... bad.
Go take care of the wifey, we'll be here. Trying to come up with new and interesting ways to derail your carefully plotted plots.
;)Heh heh......guess I got you hornswaggled.
Carefully plotted, indeed.....
Heheheh,...
I'm not sure at this point whose better at making up things as we go.
I still think your ahead the majority of the time, but this group is getting VERY close at times to derailing plots almost as fast as you can make them up! :)
RESPECK MAH ATHORITAAAAH!!!
We respect it!
We just,... tend to ignore it,... ;P