Pip should be totally updated.
Family a bit ill, will post when things calm down a touch.
Aw, that stinks, hope all get better soon!
I think I updated Elgan correctly, but no promises. (I was doing 4 characters all late last night!)
man....just came home yesterday, did some stuff, totally crashed and went to bed.
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Heathy I'm on holiday from Friday until Tuesday 19th, at first staying with relations and hopefully it will not affect my posting. But Friday 15th to Monday 18th I will be out of touch because I've got a gang of mates coming over for solid gaming. Look after Oso.
Happy Star Wars Day to you all.
Cheers
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I'm going home to Norway for the summer - I'm leaving this Sunday. I'll probably be out of circulation for a day or two recovering from jetlag; after that, I'll be back online, but I'll be on Aubreytime rather than on my current Arizona schedule.
Also, I watched the new Wolverine movie yesterday. I thought it was a cool time-waster. Recommended for anyone who likes mayhem and explosions.
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She'll be joining us for two weeks for my sister's wedding in August. Until then, I'll be by myself - my plan is to get a job and get some work done on my dissertation.
She came over for Christmas three years ago. I don't think she was too impressed - it was cold and dark and she had never met any of my family before. Good thing we all speak OK English... I'm sure she'll like it better in the summer.
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She'll be joining us for two weeks for my sister's wedding in August. Until then, I'll be by myself - my plan is to get a job and get some work done on my dissertation.
She came over for Christmas three years ago. I don't think she was too impressed - it was cold and dark and she had never met any of my family before. Good thing we all speak OK English... I'm sure she'll like it better in the summer.
So are you planning on staying in Norway, or just going to get a temporary job to tide you over?
And yeah, one of the places I've always wanted to visit is Scandinavia. Too much watching The Vikings with Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas. I hear Norway has better scenery (fjords and all) but Sweden has better weather.
On Star Trek, even the Financial Times gave it the thumbs-up, though they said that Kirk wasn't really right. (I can't really see Kirk without Shatner and his weird diction - anything else is a bit wrong.)
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No, he talks normally (he is described in the review in the Financial Times as a "corn-fed thug" or something like that). Which is part of the problem for me, though of course only Shatner can really do Shatner - anyone else doing it would probably come across as a piss-take. (Though I saw a stage version of Star Trek - more a pantomine version if anything, though very funny - and the guy playing Kirk had the Shatner vocal mannerisms off to a T. Totally brilliant.)
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She'll be joining us for two weeks for my sister's wedding in August. Until then, I'll be by myself - my plan is to get a job and get some work done on my dissertation.
She came over for Christmas three years ago. I don't think she was too impressed - it was cold and dark and she had never met any of my family before. Good thing we all speak OK English... I'm sure she'll like it better in the summer.
So are you planning on staying in Norway, or just going to get a temporary job to tide you over?
And yeah, one of the places I've always wanted to visit is Scandinavia. Too much watching The Vikings with Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas. I hear Norway has better scenery (fjords and all) but Sweden has better weather.
On Star Trek, even the Financial Times gave it the thumbs-up, though they said that Kirk wasn't really right. (I can't really see Kirk without Shatner and his weird diction - anything else is a bit wrong.)
Best. Movie. EVAR.
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She'll be joining us for two weeks for my sister's wedding in August. Until then, I'll be by myself - my plan is to get a job and get some work done on my dissertation.
She came over for Christmas three years ago. I don't think she was too impressed - it was cold and dark and she had never met any of my family before. Good thing we all speak OK English... I'm sure she'll like it better in the summer.
So are you planning on staying in Norway, or just going to get a temporary job to tide you over?
And yeah, one of the places I've always wanted to visit is Scandinavia. Too much watching The Vikings with Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas. I hear Norway has better scenery (fjords and all) but Sweden has better weather.
I'm just staying for the summer, so we'll be going back together to Arizona on August 8 or so. Having said that, this is part of my bigger project to sell the virtues of Norway to my wife. So, with any luck at all, we'll be back sometime.
Sweden's nice enough, but unless you have a thing for wheat fields, there's not much to see there. Norway has all the scenery, but it's always pissing down with rain on the west coast (they easily get 1200 mm of rain per year in Bergen), and my hometown regularly has temperatures drop to -30 C or so in the winter. I don't mind the cold, but it's not for everybody.
And, yeah, The vikings was an awesome movie.
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So you’re leaving in a few days Vatters? Have a good trip! What do you thik your chances of getting work will be, how are things in Norway with the global financial thingy and all?
The economy's not great, but it beats southern Arizona. All things considered, it is still one of the world's best job markets, even though it's slowing down now as well. If all else fails, I can probably sign on with my old job building stages and hauling sound equipment. So I'm confident I'll find work, but I'm not optimistic about finding a good one.
BTW, how's architecture in Australia now? My wife's firm's doing OK, but that's because they mostly do government work. The house-builders are really struggling here.
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Commercial and residential work has slowed down a lot. I’ve got quite a few friends who work for other firms who have either lost their jobs or have been cut down to three or four days a week. Firms who do stuff like government work, schools, food retail are still doing well.
We do mainly residential and food retail. Our large scale residential projects are mainly dead, there’s still a reasonable amount of small scale residential (houses) surprisingly, and we are doing A LOT of fast food work (we design KFC stores and Hungry Jacks – the Australian franchise of Burger King). So much so that we’re actually super-busy right now. When the economy is bad, fast food joints tend to do well, and they have money and incentive to build new stores.
Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day!
It's fun when everybody but me is sick...
Oh, and one of my kids isn't sick. Don't remember which one. Oh yeah; the pissed off one that can't do anything because everybody's sick.
Hmph! <Sputter>! ROFLMAO!
(Sigh) ok, THAT's a classic! :)
I'm afraid to look at what you guys did to my character.
So it turns out that my sinuses are now hypersensitive to coffee AND alcohol, when consumed. And I quit smoking weed 12 years ago.
What's left?
I'm so married. It's like only being able to drink vodka for the rest of your life.
But... errrr... I can't drink vodka anymore.
<Gropes himself for a metaphor.>
sex
Or was this a reply to my first post.
... you guys had sex with Stiggy?
So it turns out that my sinuses are now hypersensitive to coffee AND alcohol, when consumed. And I quit smoking weed 12 years ago.
What's left?
Reaquaint yourself with the noble herb? I know I haven't had a drink in about a year now, and I don't miss it a bit. Always thought alcohol's taste was overrated, but it's a great social lubricant.
The coffee though, that's a biotch. I don't like the taste of that either, could I reccomend my caffeine ingestion method of choice, Vivarin? Those little yellow 200 Mg pills are a lifesaver if you hate the taste of burnt bean water. Plus the pills will circumvent your sinuses ...
Right on....
I think Stiggy still needs to level up; the group has....
1)joined the pirates, (after a fashion)
2)fought Gittik's daddy and some buddies on a dead man's chest match on a sandbar duel style
and is now
3)putzing around the pyramid at the behest of dungeonmaster railroading by way of the behest of Sencho the pirate prince.
I've pretty much been modding down for Stiggy's absence, and said he quits trying to quit drinking, his DT's go away, and he catches up to the party whenever you feel like coming back.
They're in between rooms in the pyramid now;
about to descend into a pit into the next room down if you feel like popping back in at some point.
HUZZAH!!!
I think it's okay if it makes sense. ;)
So it turns out that my sinuses are now hypersensitive to coffee AND alcohol, when consumed. And I quit smoking weed 12 years ago.
What's left?
Reaquaint yourself with the noble herb? I know I haven't had a drink in about a year now, and I don't miss it a bit. Always thought alcohol's taste was overrated, but it's a great social lubricant.
The coffee though, that's a biotch. I don't like the taste of that either, could I reccomend my caffeine ingestion method of choice, Vivarin? Those little yellow 200 Mg pills are a lifesaver if you hate the taste of burnt bean water. Plus the pills will circumvent your sinuses ...
Herb.
Well, there are the strict drug laws and uncomfortable Chinese prisons to consider.
Remember I'm Canadian. Prison without a driving range? Pish!
Well, there are the strict drug laws and uncomfortable Chinese prisons to consider.
Remember I'm Canadian. Prison without a driving range? Pish!
Ah yes ...China .... Well, my reccomendation with the Vivarin stands.
JUst out of curiosity, WHY are we exploring/clearing out the pyramid for the pirates?!?
I thought that the reason we came to this lil island was to git RID of the pirates!?!?
I'm,... just,... Cornfuzzled,... in RL too,... but that's another story
The big round Mayan calendar looks like it moves; not sure that made sense from my previous description...
oh, and the lizardmen/force from Saltmarsh was along to take on the sahuagin....the pirates were just a glitch in the plan whatnot.
They found a secret cove and they exploited it.
Just checking,
After all, we went off expecting to pillage some lizards, and ended up saving them instead! Just wanted to make sure that we weren't getting a rep as the biggest pushovers in the adventuring world! (Yes, I know we're greedy, bloodthirsty pirates, but could you big, bad adventurers pleeze take care of teh scary temple for us?!?!?!) ;P
Oh,...this is my homage to C1 Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan with the ogre mage and all......welcome to the Grognard Schmorgasbord.
Kill the pirates enemies and get the XP they would have got. Make the pirates our b@**@es. Makes total sense.