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HAPPY EASTER/PASSOVER/I THINK THATS ALL FOLKS!
You forgot Ostara :p
In related news: Convincing family that you celebrate the holiday via sacrificing virgin rabbits to the Dark Gods of Chaos is hilarious.
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HAPPY OSRARA ALL WHO OBSERVE! MAY YOUR RABBITS BE DELICIOUS AND JUST SWIFT ENOUGH TO ENJOY
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We don't have a lot of variety in terms of easily-spotted wildlife:
(1) Raccoons
(2) Skunks
(3) Deer
(4) Opossums
(5) Crows
(6) Seagulls
(7) Mourning Doves
(8) SparrowsI'm sure that's an abbreviated list, but on a one-day hike you guys did pretty well!
Over three days to be exact. First day only pea hen - since we went to only built up areas. Second day wasn't so good, since treetop walk on a public holiday and there were tons of people + some jokers who go running go play their music from an ipod, without earphones. What?! Now I know you like music while you're running but could you bring a earpiece so only YOU get it?
I didn't count the pigeons, crows, sparrows and mynahs. Too common to be mentioned on the list. Not the dawg either. There was also this sun lizard.
I heard there are deer in Mac Ritche, but never spotted one. I always thought crocodiles were a fancy tale rangers told to impress clueless tourists(and laughing at the what to do if you see a crocodile sign) until Hi pointed me that one in Sungei Buloh.(You know... That patch of pink on a mud flat?)
Raccoons, Skunks, Opposums we don't have. We have otters but easier to see them along the Bishan Kallang trail but even so, it's a sometimes thing.
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I'm pretty sure deer still out number people in Wisconsin, or they would if we didn't let 4 year olds handle a rifle.
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HAPPY EASTER/PASSOVER/I THINK THATS ALL FOLKS!You forgot Ostara :p
In related news: Convincing family that you celebrate the holiday via sacrificing virgin rabbits to the Dark Gods of Chaos is hilarious.
JOYOUS EGGSTIVAL TO ALL, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.
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Bonnie! What are YOU doing here?!
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Venison is good eating! You allowed to hunt them? Then you wouldn't need to buy meat!
There's a limited time during the year when they're safe to eat. Plus, we don't want to go from underhunting to overhunting. Otherwise, we'd eat them much more often where I am.
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That's not even two weeks. O.o
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We've got guns and they haven't.
For now...
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HAPPY EASTER/PASSOVER/I THINK THATS ALL FOLKS!You forgot Ostara :p
In related news: Convincing family that you celebrate the holiday via sacrificing virgin rabbits to the Dark Gods of Chaos is hilarious.
Lol
I missed Ostara celebrations with Mrs. Sunrise's coven last weekend.
GOOOOODS, I can't wait to get out of this hospital.
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Venison is good eating! You allowed to hunt them? Then you wouldn't need to buy meat!
My father killed both a very large deer and a rather small car when I was a kid, and we had venison for a year. I remember thinking it was ok for the first couple of months, then I got sick of it. I would like to try it again though.
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Crookshanks has been booby trapping the house all evening.
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Venison is good eating! You allowed to hunt them? Then you wouldn't need to buy meat!My father killed both a very large deer and a rather small car when I was a kid, and we had venison for a year. I remember thinking it was ok for the first couple of months, then I got sick of it. I would like to try it again though.
Ok, but how long did it take for the family to eat the car?
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My maternal grandparents lived near a timberline out in rural eastern Illinois, not far from the Indiana border. One night their horse...err...dog (Great Dane/German shepherd mix) started going nuts. Bark to the west of the farm...run to the north and bark a bit, run to the east and bark a bit, then the south, bark a bit...repeat until Grandpa got curious, pulled out his .22 rifle and a flashlight. The door to the house faces east. The first thing he sees reflected back at him from the flash light is about 80 pairs of glowing eyes. A herd of deer had come all the way up to the farm proper from the eastern field. He goes north. Loses count after 100 glowing pairs of eyes. Over 50 to the west. Another 60 or so to the south. The whole house was just surrounded by deer.
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Name: Thorne Greenleaf
Race: Male Gnome (Halfling-raised)
Classes/Levels: Verdant Sorcerer 6
Adventure: Shiro's Campaign
Location: A Fortress
Catalyst: Love (or loyalty) and amazingly bad dice
So, the fight itself was pretty pathetic. We opened the door and the caster in the room hit us with a prepared Create Pit, dropping the inquisitor and Thorne (the paladin and the rogue saved), but the rogue's choice of Major Magic was Feather Fall, so she saved them from taking any damage, then used her entire round to hook a grappling hook to an outcropping on the wall and toss a rope down. The caster had also prepared an illusion of a great beast in the doorway, and the paladin failed his Will save and spent the next few rounds doing his best to avoid the pit while still lashing out at the creature. Thorne had previously cast Monkey Fish on himself, so he climbed the wall and let the inquisitor use the rope. The caster had only one target and hit the rogue with a Lightning Bolt in a sure-to-fail ploy. Nope. One low roll and the rogue lost half her hit points. So, since it seemed like the rest of the party would be there soon (the paladin eventually managed to hit the great beast and realize it was an illusion), she jumped across the pit to take on the caster face-to-face. The paladin tried to follow and fell into the pit. The inquisitor tried to follow and fell into the pit. Another Lightning Bolt, another failed Reflex save, and she was lying bleeding to death on the floor.
With no one left, Thorne bravely moved in to try to save the rogue. He managed to make his first Reflex save against the first Lightning Bolt, but the caster's fourth Lightning Bolt put him to negatives as well.
At this point the inquisitor managed to jump across and take on the caster face-to-face. It should have been an epic battle. Instead the inquisitor kept missing and the caster failed about half her concentration checks to cast defensively. Since the rogue was right there, the inquisitor managed to use a wand of Cure Light Wounds to stabilize her. Thorne was much farther out of reach, and as the only conscious PC in the room, the inquisitor felt she couldn't risk letting the caster get off a free high-level spell just to stabilize him.
To give an idea as to how slow this fight was, the pit lasted SIXTEEN ROUNDS, at which point the caster had 4 hit points left, the inquisitor went down the very round the pit vanished, Thorne had already bled out, and the rogue was unconscious and stable on the floor. The paladin could finally enter the room and channel, preventing the caster from coup de gracing the other two PCs. All three PCs surrounded her, all three missed, and she made the single-most important Concentration check of her life to Dimension Door away.
After tracking her now-spellless self down and killing her, the party buried Thorn in the graveyard of the beloved home town he'd died trying to reclaim.
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My maternal grandparents lived near a timberline out in rural eastern Illinois, not far from the Indiana border. One night their horse...err...dog (Great Dane/German shepherd mix) started going nuts. Bark to the west of the farm...run to the north and bark a bit, run to the east and bark a bit, then the south, bark a bit...repeat until Grandpa got curious, pulled out his .22 rifle and a flashlight. The door to the house faces east. The first thing he sees reflected back at him from the flash light is about 80 pairs of glowing eyes. A herd of deer had come all the way up to the farm proper from the eastern field. He goes north. Loses count after 100 glowing pairs of eyes. Over 50 to the west. Another 60 or so to the south. The whole house was just surrounded by deer.
O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O O_O
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Deerie deerie me.
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My maternal grandparents lived near a timberline out in rural eastern Illinois, not far from the Indiana border. One night their horse...err...dog (Great Dane/German shepherd mix) started going nuts. Bark to the west of the farm...run to the north and bark a bit, run to the east and bark a bit, then the south, bark a bit...repeat until Grandpa got curious, pulled out his .22 rifle and a flashlight. The door to the house faces east. The first thing he sees reflected back at him from the flash light is about 80 pairs of glowing eyes. A herd of deer had come all the way up to the farm proper from the eastern field. He goes north. Loses count after 100 glowing pairs of eyes. Over 50 to the west. Another 60 or so to the south. The whole house was just surrounded by deer.
Oh man, I'd be thinking The Bir-, I mean, The Deer
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Hey gran did you know their is a reddit for front desk hotel workers?
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Easter was less than stellar due to everyone not feeling well.
And I ruined the only dress I own that wouldn’t be appropriate to wear at a funeral.
Then we went to see Ready Player One. I have regrets. And rage. Like Freehold levels of rage. One star ( because mechagodzilla appears at one point... not a spoiler, that was in the preview), do not recommend. Will include abridged rant later. The full rant would take too long.
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It had very little to do with the book. It seemed rushed as well but it was kind of fun. Visually impressive anyways. I feel like they would of done bettr to make it a 2 - 3 parter.
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I don't normally. However their is some relate-able stories.
Especially the "How do I connect to the wifi one"
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you would think that would go without saying however if you think that you clearly have not worked with the public.
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o_O!
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Fur a minut dar I done thought you waz talk'n bout somethin else.
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COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
What is a merry widow?
Freehold, how can you of all people not know that a merry widow is a type of corset/bustier/shaper thingie?
I also had never heard of Just a Mort's merry widows fishies before. Neat!
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COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
What is a merry widow?
Freehold, how can you of all people not know that a merry widow is a type of corset/bustier/shaper thingie?
I also had never heard of Just a Mort's merry widows fishies before. Neat!
I always thought a Merry Widow ~coughs~ err..., covers something to prevent pregnancy. That is how it was referred to in one of RAH books.
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A woman whose rich husband died while she was still young enough to enjoy the money.COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
What is a merry widow?
I could use attention of a merry widow or two right now...
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Ah yes, spring in Wisconsin, when our weather forecast calls for 1-8 inches (of snow).
Forecasts like that really show you how little we still know about weather.
And that I'm so glad I didn't take the harness off the sled yet.
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Ah yes, spring in Wisconsin, when our weather forecast calls for 1-8 inches (of snow).
Forecasts like that really show you how little we still know about weather.
And that I'm so glad I didn't take the harness off the sled yet.
And Illinois either has no road salt left or, more likely, since we're in a new fiscal quarter, has no budget to run the trucks (because who needs to budget for snow/ice issues in April/May/June outside of ANYBODY WHO LIVES NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER).
We got a couple inches of snow yesterday and this morning it's 15 degrees. I got my new car in late February and it comes with summer tires. Oh joy.
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When Crookshanks was in elementary school she organized a spy ring to steal the door codes so they could get in and out as they please.
It's still going on.
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Tequilia - are you getting better sleep in the hospital and have they managed to diagnose what's causing your sleep issues?
Ugh, my doctors are clueless about my insomnia. My two 'favorite' things I've been told are: 1) "Well I'm sure the prednisone you're on isn't helping you sleep" (It is.) and 2) "Well you'll eventually fall asleep when you get exhausted enough." (I won't. I've been exhausted literally to the point of wanting to die, and still couldn't get to sleep.)
After learning a bit of meditation -- the hipsters in my life are so proud, does this make me a hipster? hmmm -- I've realized that 1) my insomnia seems to flare up when I get lung infections, and 2) specifically, it seems to be a matter of my nasal passage getting obstructed and/or my lungs simply losing capacity. There are things I've figured out I can do to help these things, but I still have no simple and consistent solution. Which sucks, because honestly this insomnia is the worst thing I've ever had to deal with -- as I said when it gets bad, I get suicidal.
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Have you considered weed, my brother used to use it for his insomnia.
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Does being propped up help with breathing?
Merry widows are actually quite common here but again different species for different places, we don't get Neon Tetras
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I want to go see A Quiet Place.
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Another job interview Thursday.