Nonsense! I’ll have my Eggos whenever I darn well please! Hrmmmph!!! Grumble grumble!

X8


Also; wanna join me with some , Acadian?

As long as you don't mind that mine's iced, sure.

You can have your coffee iced and Khajiit can have his waffles out of season, all up to you

Woke up this morning, drank some coffee and now on my PC in the mancave.

Waffle season is a LIE.







La vida buena

X9


Also; for anyone who wants

Remember, my guess is lucky 13.

I'm going to be up all night.

We have double digits, gais! Will Acadian's prediction come true?

X10


Also; for anyone who wants, of course

X11


To quote OhMyGirl; Closer, and closer.....


Also; of course

Crow's getting there!

I'm actually tie with last year now!

No, that a

Ok now 5 more!

Final report.


They have stopped selling these amazing things now so I simply cannot get any more. So no lucky number 13 I'm afraid

Well, 11 for the season's pretty good I figure.

And your guess was pretty good

Hey guys, Uleni here.

How’ve you been? Doing good, I hope.

Me? Well. Life… is beautiful. So much pain. So much joy. I’m so thankful to be alive. To be alive in the same time as you guys. Thankful that I met you all. Present friends and old friends, future ones too.

Guys, next Monday I’ll be the CEO of a company here in Japan.

Uleni! Congratulations!

Well, hi there, Uleni! Great to see you again!

Yup, lots of nice friends always here at chorrol.

Wow, congrats on your corporate success!

*pokes head into room*

Ummm, hello?

I know it's been a while since I was last on, let alone posting here.

Been up and down, mostly down, the past few years, but working through it.

Getting back into writing again, I remember how much I enjoyed sharing my creations with y'all.

*slinks out of the room*

"Sometimes you wanna go
Where everybody knows your name
And they're always glad you came
You wanna be where you can see
Our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows your name"

Ah, gotta love a classic



I'm going to take Acadian's wow, and raise a wowser! Congratulations on all your hard work!



Slink your way back in here! ! Great news about getting back into writing again! Look forward to seeing some new creations hopefully shared again in the not too distant future

Rider, great to see you! Don't be a stranger.

Hi Rider!

Hi, Uleni and Rider!

What the flippin heck did I just see??


I was looking out my window where a row of trees are when I noticed something weird; part of one tree's trunk was yellow. Yes; YELLOW. A bit up from the ground it looked normal, then a sharp, straight edge and it was yellow upward to where the first branches grow. The other trees all looked normal; dark grey bark.

Here's the weirdest thing. As I was watching the tree, I could see it "filling in" the yellow area. It started from the bottom and to the right and slowly but surely the yellow part of the trunk filled itself in until it looked like the other trees. It couldn't have been the sun because at this time of day it's not shining there, and none of the other trees right beside it looked like it.

Never seen anything like that!

A reflection of some sort maybe? Glitch in The Matrix?

Sounds like you need to update your window to the newest version. If not, could be your graphics card is going out. On the other hand, if you have a lot of mods installed outside, it could just be a missing mesh.

Glitch in the Matrix sounds fun, but it must have been simply some sort of illusion. Did look weird foh sho tho!


Or this!

Yeah, I go with this

Heading out of town in a couple hours for a week. Taking Mrs Acadian on a pilgrimage to visit the kids and grandkids in Australia. Back the 4th of July.

Safe travels!!!

You’re only going for a week? Minus the thirty-two hours of flight time, that hardly leaves any time for jet-lag.

Having done a one-week business trip to South Korea from the East coast, I know how it feels.

Yes, a week for me - I've traveled all my life till I retired and now I love being home. Mrs Acadian is staying a month though.

I'll still miss the Chorrol ESO guild meeting for July though.

Acadian, I hope that you and Mrs Acadian have a marvelous trip!

So I see this a day late and a dollar short.

Have a great trip, Acadian! Watch out for the spiders - I hear some of the most poisonous arachnids in the world reside in Australia.

When Acadian "heads out of town" he goes to Australia. When I head out of town I go to the cottage


Safe travels and don't forget to fuel up the Phantom!

When I head out of town, I go to Walmart (or a medical appointment).

Back from a land down under. Mrs Acadian will stay a few more weeks. Australia does indeed have an abundance of things poisonous. As the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs folks used to brief my Marines before we did training in Australia, "The good news is that the salt water crocodiles and great white sharks aren't poisonous."

QFT!

It is funny because I know of some Australians now living in the US who say the same things about the wildlife here. America has bears and mountain lions. What are a few foot long spiders compared to that?

I think its one of those cases where what you are used to does not scare you. In your experience, that is just normal.

That's the spirit; gotta stay positive!

Welp, I'm having a bit of struggle these days. Had to leave my job of 12 years last November due to progressive health issues, and now I'm dependent on oxygen supplementation almost 24/7. The poor air quality days experienced end of August/beginning of September has really done a number on my lungs. At least my eyes and vision are currently stable.

It is making me less motivated to do things, such as play games or write. Hopefully I can get some mojo back and find joy in these things again. Restarting my gamma globulin infusions Friday should help. I hope.

Oh, Rider, so sorry to hear that! I wish you the best and sure hope you can find some joy and mojo.

I am so sorry Rider. Hopefully the new gamma infusions will help. Just so long as you do not turn into a giant green rage monster afterward...

So sorry that you are having so much trouble Rider. I hope that your procedure brings you some relief.

Very sorry to hear that, rider


Like the others I do hope you get some relief soon and can regain interest in your hobbies. Best wishes indeed!

I join the crew in hoping for a successful recovery.

Aw Haute, I was wondering if the pollen would be bad up there; I so hope the doctor can ease this up some so you can have a more comfortable retirement. I am so very sorry you aren't feeling well!

Thank you everyone for the well wishes! It's a journey to find a new normal, and every time I think I've found it, something else happens. The next step for me is to get that chest CT scan done so my pulmonologist can figure out the next step.

A couple of months ago I reconnected with my best friend (since fourth grade, so 50 years) after we lost touch with each other about ten years ago. It was great to be able to pick up our friendship like we never lost touch, though we did have a lot of catching up to do! So now we connect every three weeks for a couple of hours, and it's been fun. That helps brighten my days, as well.

I've not been writing - this particular part of A Wood Elf in Windhelm has been super tricky for me because I've never been satisfied with how it was presented in the game. So I'm exploring its potential as I'm writing, and I may end up scrapping the entire chapter (each day is a chapter in this particular story) and starting over as I get new ideas. We'll see.

SubRosa, thanks for your kind words. Your final comment made me laugh - I won't turn green, or begin raging, but I've always been a monster so . . . In any case, I knew I could count on you to say something appropriately humorous.

Acadian, Khajiit, 'Rocu and mALX, thanks for the hugs and well wishes.

Decrepit, I think of all of us you might understand what I am going through best. I have days when I feel pretty decrepit myself!

The cough is already subsiding since the first infusion on Friday. I'm looking forward to the next one in a month - I've found it takes two infusions to make me feel noticeably better. Fingers crossed!

Again, thanks to all the hugs and well wishes from everyone.