Man there's been so little going on here recently, wake up forums!

*Kiln slaps forums*

Its odd that its summer time and everything is so slow here, this is one of the quietest times I've ever seen the place and summers are usually when everything picks up.

You never know, some people might be traveling. We all know how RL likes to interfere with us too. But it is kind of strange. I didn't think RL and traveling could take that many people off of Chorrol.

Well some of us have to work, and that could really interfere...sometimes anyway. My holiday starts week 32, and I can't wait...I'm going to Germany as usual for good three weeks...YAYYYYY

I've been working long hours, and was in Flagstaff, Arizona, this weekend playing an ultimate frisbee tournament. Busy.

Just seems like alot of people don't stop by anymore which sucks because this is still a site I check every day.

Me too, Mr Oven!I'm here everyday...

Me too, I'm here everyday.

every other day-ish

I check this site nigh every day, but I'm busy enough that I've had something of a creative drought.

I check into this forum as well as #chorrol chatroom nearly every day, but most of the time I'm too apathetic to talk. Not even bad mood anymore, just 'meh' and then I stare at the feet again.

I stop by here now and then. I just tend not to say anything.

I've been stuck offline. I'm sort of online now though the connection is dreadful and it's through a 12" monitor which is older than me and has a broken red cathode so distorts colour horrifically. So not a joy to use.

I've just moved house (by bicycle, this was unwise) but the internet is yet to catch up (I'm with my parents until the 29th so using their's just now). Then I'm going to be away a lot, cycling up North, then canoeing, more cycling, and probably off to Ukrane or perhaps Algeria for August. So I'll be intermittantly passing though but not really on much until september when uni starts again. I've always seen the internet as more of a winter passtime.

Yeah I stopped using the chatroom long ago, usually nobody there.

We're there, we just don't talk that much.

I don't stop by here as often as I used to. I get notifications if any of my favorite stories are updated, but even then sometimes I just read the email rather than coming over here to read and comment. My summer is a bit weird; I'm teaching a Saturday course in Anatomy and Physiology, which takes a lot of prep time and means getting up at 5:30 on Saturday mornings. Sometimes I think I dislike being in class at 8 am as much as my students do! We got finished a little earlier today than usual, but I needed to hang around for a bit, so I figured I'd stop on by here. I've read a bunch of stories today, but because I'm brain dead from the mind-numbing lecture (that I gave!) on the bones of the skull, I didn't have any great comments to post. Thanks again to all those who take the time to share their stories with us.

One of those disappointing discoveries that comes with getting older- teachers/professors have to work AT LEAST as hard as the students- especially if they really care about the material. Of course, the students generally only see the 3 hours a week of classroom time, not the amount spent preparing, reading and distilling.

I can't really say why I have been less active- I check in every day, just have little to say....

Some forums just naturally sort of ...fade away.

But whether or not that happens really is dependent on us, and the amount of interest we maintain in this place.

I tend to check in hre at least once a day... I just rarely have anything to say.

Alhough one thing I have to say now is that I got the results from my exams the other day, and successfully passed, and so at the end of september I'll be entering my 3rd year of university

Congratulations Wolfie! Bet it felt good to see that you passed.

Bones of the skull... hey, um.



Okay... This is a bit random to be asking of someone I don't really know over the internet, but hey. Whatever, right?

So, the higher mark there on that skull (provided by Wikipedia) is approximately where on my head there's this... flat spot, where it feels like one 'plate' slides under another, leaving this bump. It's sore sometimes and it doesn't really fit with the picture on the spot where the pieces are supposed to fit together, always creeped out a bit by it.

And the second red mark (probably a bit lower on the skull in real life) is where I can feel... a 'bundle.' It's like this bump of sensitive something. It's harder than skin/muscle but it's not bone, and it usually hurts when I rest my head on it even for a second. It's only on the left side though, there's no mirror of it on the right.

Am I entirely screwed up head-wise or is this just normal and I'm paranoid?

Snap, it's a pleasing feeling isn't it... You might have said but what subject?

Alright, enough talk of inactivity. For the first time since February I've posted an update to The Dark Operation. So there---trying to resume my normal level of activity best as I can.

Thinking of driving up to Great Basin National Park in Nevada for 4th of July weekend.

I didn't mention. The exams were in Geology, Geography and Biology (I started out in a general Science course) but if I get my first choice, I'll be doing Geology on its own next year.

In other news, I found out today that on Wednesday I leave for England for a job interview on Friday.

Good job, Wolfie! Geologists know what rocks. Sorrry, couldn't help myself. My dad was a geologist...

Best of luck on the interview.

I was in the geology club in college, and was probably one course shy of a geology minor. [I was already a biology/environmental studies double-major, so I can't say I regret not taking on the additional workload.] But as I was starting to say and meant to say, we in the geo club had no end of bad puns. Gneiss chert, anyone?

I've heard most of the puns regarding Geology... and most of them are awesomely bad

And as regards the interview, it's actually next Friday now, so I don't fly out till next Thursday.

Good luck on your interview Wolfie hope all goes well.

Well I finally got my Oblivion disc back from a friend so I can play! Plus I can get all the dialogue I need for my DB fanfic. Oh and I bought an Evanescence cd so I've been listening to that obssessively .

Ah, good to hear that you'll be working on that fic again. Stilted as I find much of the dialogue and plotting with the DB, it does allow for some excellent improvisational opportunities for those who wish to make it live a little more. Obviously having a character like Al helps my lot (he sometimes writes himself), but there are a lot of clever situations to build off of.

We've got a nice run of canine avatars in the Coffee Shop, now. I like it. Think I'll celebrate with a fine beer.

I thought I'd go dog...
Yeah, er. Puppies.

Seerauna, a teenage girl, listening to borderline Emo Rock, writing about angsty gothic wrapped-in-leather-or-black Assassins?

**Shudders**

(I'm only kidding Seer~ You know I love your work! Do write that asap!)

Oh yes, the goth assassins... definitely agitates part of my brain. I've been compelled to amp up Al's already acerbic nature. He gets irritated and then starts doing crazy things like throttling corrupt town guards. Very stressful.

Wouldn't it have been nice if they'd have toned down the Dark Brotherhood just a little? Just a bit? There are points in the game where it gets campy, esp. when Lucien LaChance speaks (the Dark Brotherhood) and late in the questline, of course. Gets campy, breaks the immersion... unfortunate, because there's a lot of imaginative stuff in the DB--it's very enjoyable but the excesses make it hard to go beyond that point.

I just came here because I actually bothered to go through all my email. Apparently I'd either missed the setting, or it got reverted, sending me an email every time that I receive a PM. I'd had a couple of Emails letting me know I had PMs... Which turned out to be spambot messages back in April.

In all honesty, I'm surprised to see a semblance of activity here. Scarier yet is that I RECOGNIZE some of you.

There's quite a bit of activity right now, and usually we have more.

I'm sure some of our older members remember you. Might even find it scary too .

Crazy right? Guess we're just that memorable.

Gotta love being an old member

Hey now- I resemble that remark!

Somehow guys like you always manage to make me feel ancient. You're good.

Ohh nice! hehe i remember you..does that make me ancient? oh well in fact I AM ancient ...uhhhh

I think it's crazy how long some of us have been here. It's really crazy to read some of your old posts and see how your views and opinions have changed. Especially since I was a wee lad when I first joined.

And I just now realized that I've been strangely absent from the coffee shop lately.

Anyway, I've graduated college now (woo!) so virtual coffee and cake for everyone on me.

I don't think I've changed a bit; I'm just as cynical as always. And my over-usage of a certain smiley to demonstrate a degree of tongue-in-cheek tone hasn't changed.

Congratulations Dantrag on graduating college! Lots of congratulations have been going around lately hasn't there?

Congrats Danny! Hope youwill have a good summer...Ans as a matter of fact I've always considered you as very mature even back in the old days...

7 days. 50+ work hours. W32:Vitro infection that made me reformat twice and consider wiping all of what I had on D partition [well, most of it is pretty much gone tbh, bulk of those works I made once upon a time is gone for good]. Wrecked nerves from the stress at work, less than day and a half for weekend and poor chances for summer vacation.

At least I got chicken. With mushrooms.

IIRC, we were both born on the same day, eh NTQ? Welcome back.

Dang, I don't think I qualify as an old member. I've been here three years (doesn't feel that long at all). It's been a great few years though.

Congrats, Dantrag.

Another thing i realized is that some of our join dates aren't accurate. Remember the forum switch a looooong time ago? I love how our banner is still W4O, though. Old school is the best school.

And Revan, I think you still qualify as old. Three years is a long time to visit the same website regularly.

Oh, I remember you, NTK. I remember you.

Three years... yeah, guess I'm an old member. And I also lurked around here for at least a couple of months before I joined, too.

4th of July here in the U.S., and I'm relaxing away the day. I've got beer and ice cream (the ice cream being very important in the Mojave Desert, which is where my current city is located, more or less) and no desire to brave holiday traffic to go elsewhere. I prefer to do my traveling in the tourist off-season. Listening to The Black Keys, doing a little writing, thinking about whether or not I want to add more memory to my PC... yep.

It didn't work. I had to reformat D partition in the end. That was about 96 GB of data, movies and music lost, in total. I regret the loss of music most. -_-



...looking back at it, I think I would hate the person who made Win32:Vitro just a little bit less if it wasn't some idiot with too much time on his/her hands, but a full-blown misanthrope.

All the celebration I've had is eating an Amwerican cheeseburger and fren... FrEEDOM fries at the country club my father and I play tennis at.

Right now I'm trying to walk off the bloated feeling.

it's probably both, unfortunately.

i just don't understand the need to screw up other people's things and make their lives more difficult.