Treydog!!!! Bahaha!!

Heeey, Liz!

Whatchya doin´ homegirl?

Just woke up, lol. It's ten am here. And you?

5:46PM and I´m just having some food

...uh-oh..

I think Kobby heard the F-Word!

*takes plate and runs away in panic*

Sorry. Still too nauseous to be hungry...

Well, the bad storms bypassed us, Knoxville went ahead with their fireworks display because it was all done remotely (our area didn't have theirs, but Knoxville went all out this year for a change).

When the thunder was rumbling outside I unplugged everything, and (luckily) it bypassed us to the Northwest. So I went to plug back up and one prong of my plug was gone. It was inside the outlet still.

I didn't want to wait till my husband got up to see if it was safe that way, so plugged the rest of the plug back in and tried to boot up the PC.

It turned on weird, wouldn't boot up. When it finally did half my desktop was gone - literally gone, there is 40 gig of stuff I had on there missing from my hard drive. The Icons were all bunched in an upper corner. I tried rebooting and the icons became giant sized. Turns out I had a virus.

So I cleaned the virus and did maintenance on my PC - took almost all day yesterday for the maintenance. Icons still messed up. Found out the virus had messed with my resolution settings - reset it and rebooted.

Finally everything working this morning, and the storms they predicted for the 4th finally hit us. Had to unplug again. URK!

Anyway, we just got a break in the weather and I booted back up. My account on here wasn't open, had to dig up my password to log on. Now it is starting to rain again.

This can't be my week, I am about to pull my hair out!

I need to back up my documents/mods/and pictures to make sure I don't lose anything, but other than that I don't care what I lose. (haven't done it yet, just so glad to be on here!)

Hello Chorrol world, I am BACK!

So glad you're back!!!!

mALX, so glad you weathered the storm and puter problems and are back with us!

Welcome back mALX!

Hope you're okay....and hopefully those storms pass by soon...

Yeah, those weather people need to learn how to read their radar or something. The week prior they said we'd have clear beautiful days and we had the worst storms of the year so far.

Then they scare the living hell out of everyone predicting terrible storms - get everyone cancelling their 4th of July celebrations - and we got nothing but a steady rain and some flooding!

The thunder came close to us on the Northwest side, but didn't make it to us. We never had a bad wind, just a steady downpour - they terrified the whole state out of celebrating the 4th for nothing!

So glad to have you back mALX! What a crappy few days it's been for you.

Also, I don't believe the forecast farther out than 24 hours.

I should have known better than to let them scare me like that, but after those bad storms we had the week or so before I was trigger happy, lol.



@ Thank you all for the well wishes before and warm welcome back!

I'm so sorry to hear this man didn't make it, knew you felt a strong connection to him and his wife. Like you, I hope his passing was a peaceful one. Some people are just meant to touch other people's lives, it sounds like he was one of these.

** Good luck on your trip, and enjoy your friend!

What a wonderful tribute to your father Bill made! That was so nice that your father made such a strong impression of all the thousands of people he must have had on his show! Awesome, Treydoggie!

BWAAHAA! I really think those weathermen were just flexing their muscles, trying to prove they could disrupt a major holiday by scaring us, lol.




I had to find something apropos to go with that story, lol.

Hope everyone's Fourth was Awesome (mine wasn't, lol).

What a few people on here already know is that (despite fireworks are illegal here) our neighborhood gets into a battle every 4th for the best fireworks display.

My husband loads up on an armory full of fireworks and Budweiser beer and sets up in our yard directly across from where our neighbors behind set up their display - about 2 acres between them. The neighboring Cop on the corner (about 7 acres away) has joined the competition, and has tried to outdo us - he was getting close last year to being in the running.

Well, my husband hits the beers plenty before darkness falls and he can start setting off these bags and bags full of rockets (etc) he gets. Drinking beer and setting up fireworks displays is not the best combination, (or my husband is just uncoordinated with gunpowder, not sure which) - and every year something happens.

One year he thought up trying to set off a bottle rocket in an empty Budweiser can. The impact tipped the can over and all our guests were chased through the yard by the bottle rocket.

One year he set off a rocket and tripped over the board, knocking the trajectory so it nose-dived into the neighbors roof and then went "KABOOM!" The fireworks were like a giant sparkler coming out the ass end of the rocket. The roof was damp, (thank goodness), but the next day we could see the bright orange body of the rocket wedged neck deep in the man's roof. We had to pay repairs.

Another year my husband had the bright idea of using a sparkler to look inside a huge bag of fireworks and see what was in it. We could hear our neighbor in the back laughing when the bag caught on fire and fireworks started blowing in every direction. Dogs were barking and yelping, running for shelter; cats inside and out were getting under cover.

We still have holes in our siding all down that side of the house, and a dent in the shower where a rocket is still stuck in the wall on that side of the house. I was afraid the house would burn to the ground.

So when the weathermen cancel 4th of July, they are killing our neighborhood's entertainment for the year - my husband's big show, lol.

And maybe saved your house for another year.

mALX...oh wow XD

ROFL!! I’m so glad you’re back!

Good grief, your husband’s fireworks! Gah, the bag and sparkler!! I felt bad for laughing, but I couldn’t help myself. Is he going to hoard this year’s load until next year, or will you get a surprise show some clear night?

My husband didn't buy yet, since they said everything was going to be canceled till the 13th. The Cop didn't either, but the neighbor behind us did and was all by himself in the contest. We enjoyed it from the dry of our living room while he and his family got soaked. It wasn't one of his best years, I think he held out when he saw Bob wasn't participating. Kind of kills the fun when the competition drops out and you are just entertaining them for free, lol. We're waiting to see if he yanks them back out on the 13th, lol.

No fireworks for me. I got to work all night on a 16 hour shift.

Folks, I’m looking at another week of intermittent disappearances. Once again I’ll be reading from my phone, but I can’t predict how often I’ll be able to post. (Everything is fine. Just don’t want to seem rude with my very slow replies. )

mALX, those are some phunny phourth of July stories!

Grits, thanks for the warning. I have visions of you as a secret spy, subject to disappearances as you skulk around secret enemy installations, alternatively snapping pictures and reading fanfics with your cel phone.

Grits, I want you to remain calm. If the crawdads have you, just text the word "jambalaya".

No, wait- that's kind of a long "safe word" to have to text.

Let me think... man, I never do well in these "Abducted by crustaceans during a family outing" situations.

@mALX- Your fireworks experience sounds lot like ours. I used to do a big show (Sevier County- so no legal issues) with a friend. Until someone built a house on what had been the vacant lot next door.

That year, we did our usual bang-up job and were feeling pretty good until a deputy knocked on the door at 7 the next morning.

"Your neighbor says you all shot of A LOT of fireworks last night and some of them hit his house. He would like you to come and pick them up."

Thus ended the days of the "Treydog and Friend July 4th Extravaganza- with bonus summer punch" (ingredients below). The good news is- as more houses have been built, apparently most of the new residents are pyromaniacs. So, even though I don't even send one bottle rocket on its erratic way- the area looks like a war zone, usually starting the weekend BEFORE the 4th and running into the week after.

Punch (non-alcoholic):

One large can pineapple juice
One quart ginger ale (or Sprite if you prefer)
2 packets lime Koolaid

If anyone wants to add a... little something else- my motto is "What goes in your drink is your business." (That includes stray mosquitos, crawdads, remains of fireworks falling from the sky....)

Re: fireworks - haha, that story is kind of familiar. Everyone shoots off fireworks at midnight on New Year's Eve in Germany - it's even legal, bar some restrictions like "no setting off fireworks within 300 metres of a half-timbered house" (i.e. not in the inner cities - fire risk). My family generally just watches, but some of our neighbours set off fireworks, especially the... uh... I think the closest concept in English would be fraternity?? house just down the road. We generally end up finding a rocket in the garden or on the roof the next day (although there hasn't been damage as yet, thankfully), and you definitely don't want to drive anywhere until the roads have been cleared of possibly-explosive detritus.

So glad to see mALX back among us! The weather just south of you in the Heart of Dixie ( that would be Alabama for all the nawthuners ) has been bad as well, but without harrowing storms. Just a lot of rain...wait...I meant A LOT OF RAIN! Although we have not had to endure a crustacean invasion, other life forms have become refugees...palmetto bugs and slugs

@ Grits - I'm with Acadian on this...I think that some clandestine government agency has you in their employ. Is that you I hear when those NSA clicks happen on my cell phone? Of course, Trey's version of being held captive by the crawdad overlord is funny too! Hang in there girl...we'll be here when you need us!

Our punch is:

1 (2 liter bottle) Canada Dry ginger ale
1 large bottle Ocean Spray Cranberry juice cocktail
1 box lime/orange sherbet (frozen, just drop it into the punch bowl and pour the two drinks on top to mix)

The sherbet chills the punch, and even children drink this punch and love it. (and everyone's kidneys work better for the next week from the cranberries, lol).

Here's my punch recipe:

1 1/2 parts 151 proof rum
1 part Malibu® coconut rum
5 parts pineapple juice

Wait that isn't punch, it is an alcoholic beverage. Nevermind guys.

WOO HOO! Pina Colada!

I think I like Kiln's "punch" the best.

I don´t drink punch. I deliver them.

Oh, yeah

That's not punch- that's a body slam!

And has anyone noticed Grits has not denied being a supersecret spy? Makes one wonder....

Hang on- someone knocking at the door....

DON´T OPEN IT!!

Fear not. Trey is under my protection. Got this "UPS Delivery Man" in my crosshairs. He doesnt fool me. UPS doesnt deliver on Sunday!

*Fires tranquilizer dart with combination of sedative and laxative.*

Oh, wait. Yes they do..I'm thinking of the Post Office...crap. Well thankfully noone knows I'm here. Trey will just think it's a new take on the flaming paper bag trick...I hope.

To the shadows I return!!

Did you have to include the laxative!??

Crucial to the set up of the jest. Are you unfamiliar with the flaming paper bag? It typically contains the results of laxative in hopes that one use theeir shoe...

This is actually the way we tell someone from East Tennessee's boots from other cowboy style boots. In ETN, the BS is all on the outside of the boot (unless someone launches a laxative missile at them, I assume).

What is this..."punch"?

Some kind of alcoholic beverage?

A juice?

A smoothie?

A fist?

Nectar of the gods, my friend.

Juet don't try mine. Target was having a sale on...nevermind. Lets just say my mix is crappy...

I don´t drink alcohol. I´ve tried but even the stuff that was good never got me hooked. And I don´t drink beer, that´s for sure! *yuck!*

Besides, you can´t be drunk and still play computer games and be good at it!

I exist as an antithesis to your statement sir. I mean sure, I may have killed *everysinglelivingthing* that walked in Kvatch when one or five arrows missed thoer mark, but the point is, they didn't kill me...not one reload.

I play xbox drunk XD

Spoken like someone who hasn't tried!

Ok that's mostly right.

I dunno, I swear that there is a level of drunkeness in which my twitch reflex is awesome and I can play fps games.

I'll get drunk and play games with people and do really well. Then I sober up and people are like "dude what happened to the guy we were playing with yesterday?!?" so I hold that there is a perfect level of intoxication that improves your reflexes.

It is that period of time between "I'm getting a buzz" and "Where the hell am I?!?".

Relevant

That is relevant!

I love this because I was one of the poor saps that got suckered into Win ME at The Gateway Store...what an absolute POS that OS was...

SPEW! Now that is more truth than joke, but still funny!

I´d be happy to play against anyone drunk with meself sober. Anytime.

Don't do that in CS:S,you'd actually be at a disavantage.