Ye gods, that was NOT pleasant X( I woke up to abdominal pains and shivering after only 4 hours of sleep; it turned out I had the attack of runny poo. Afterwards, several people decided sunday morning was a good time to call me on the phone, which made me lose temper and yank the cable out. "It's the damn sunday, for ***** sake, let me sleep" - some people just don't understand that concept.

Now I still have aching and I have to eat. Dang. I'll also have to vacuum the flat tomorrow, since it's 14:30 now.

Ladies, Gents, hows it going?

Long time no talk. So far its been about a month and some change into my tenure at this military college of Vermont. (odd place to have a mil college) Life's been hard, but so far rewarding. Never thought I could run six miles straight but by god I'm doing it.

Well I'll be stopping by on occasion being that we've been giving full internet access now.

Later

I've been switching my phone off overnight for years ... because of situations like this.

Yanking the cable every day will wear it out, best to switch the phone off or at least switch the ringer off.

Channycat! Good to see you! I see military college...mmmm I´ve always seen you as an officer of some kind..now way to go Chann!

Mil, hope you´re feeling better now! And that nobody telephone-terrorizes you during night time!


Bleh...off to work soon.....

Hehe, you go off to work, while I go off to sleep soon! Gotta love time differences!

Hopefully sleep will combat this stuffy nose cold I got. I would like to breathe normally once again!

Minkey: Slack more
Mallet: Sleep MORE!
Channler: If you can run 10 kilometers [~6 miles], you're twice the man I was once - meaning, I nearly died when I run 5km straight when I was in the army. Go, muscleman!

Right now it's a beautiful sunny day outside and I'm about to clean the flat in an hour or 2... yay vacuuming!


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Remember how I've told ya you're not getting pictures of my sis if you're not a wealthy batchelor? Well, I lied. Since I've shown this to some immature idiots yesterday [long story] might as well share it with you here, too. You're a much nicer bunch.

Sis and her friends, married couple, at recent jazz festival in Toronto

She's the skinny one on the right.

Oh your sister is very pretty, Milanius. I see why you want to keep the unworthy bachelors away from her. And enjoy your vacuuming.

I just cleaned the entire condo; well, I did kitchen and bathroom - which was atrocious due to the fact that workmen just finished repairing a ceiling hole above the bathtub that had been jarring open for a prior month and a half.

Cain cleaned the livingroom, bless him; since he had his entire computer guts spread all over during a complete changeover of motherboard and vid cards, etc. and a reformat. So now he is able again to watch movies and burn CDs. More than I can do actually. My CD burner, scanner and color printer all seem to work only with w98 and I'm running 2000. May have to go back to the doubleboot; but for now I've got Cain's b+w printer and am doing ok without the rest.

Wow Channler, your military school there is tough. At Lackland during AF basic training, all the WAFs had to run was the aerobic mile ... one mile within 3 minutes - I think that's what it was. And you could walk it, which is what many of our lazier waf's did. I was tied for 2nd fastest place between 2 sister flights. Best shape I was ever in besides exotic dancing, tahahah!

I barely got any sleep last night. Stupid Chihuahua.

My partner in crime wasn't here today, so I was bored for most of school. The guy who asked if I wanted to go to a movie sometime was there, so I think I might remind him of that offer.

I probably sound desperate, but that's because I'm desperate for some human contact. I have no life outside of school, practically.

Well... **** I was going to say 'join The Club", but that's awful. Go see that movie, by all means. Humans crave contact[s].

Anyway, how the hell am I supposed to sleep now, when Arcanum character generation awaits?? Woes, woes is me! There will be no sleep now.

Mil, if you were as tired as I am, you'd go to bed.

hah, call of Arcanum is stronger

Sound sleep & sweet dreams, dear.


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Sweet Hesus, don't ask me anything. I said to myself, this morning, when I was trying to get up at noon [I went to bed at 6AM, approx.] this: "Don't immediately sit down in front of the PC, don't play that accursed game, and definitely DON'T remake your character character"... haha.

Bloody "Arcanum". My indecision as to whether I should be gunslinger, close-quarters melee fighter, gunsmith or one of those, combined with 1-2 schools of magic will eat me alive.

All, being effectively cold turkey from roleplaying games other than DnD has its benefits.

god damn it, I am NOT going to sit 2 nights until morning in succession. Not even for dexterity & melee skill increase.

[just came to say "Hi, I'm Lv10, there are few dozen levels more to go, WHEE"]

Jesus Christ Super Star, Mil.

Stay away from the game. STAY AWAY!

Too late. Now I need to develop engineering skills. Damn the pursue of arcane magic, let the steel springs rip!

Did someone say "cyberpunk?"

One of my CIS buddies let me look at his sweet HR Giger book. He got it for ten dollars, so I'll be looking for it next time I go to Hot Topic. HR Giger is one of my favorite artists. Transgressive art ftw.

Alien, huh? I like the one of the lady with all the braids in blue called 217 ELP I (Brain Salad Surgery)

Odd that his paintings keep getting stolen. Wonder what's going on there?

I blame japan, Ibis. If it's masterpiece artwork, stolen and worth double digits with 000000$ behind it, it's a sure bet some Japanese tycoon has it stashed in dark corners of his/her stronghold.

Anyway, it's not raining now, it's pouring and my folks have to prepare to come back from zeh village. I just hope it's not raining there. Last thing they need after 3 weeks of work is to come back soaked.

Well, people keep on stealing paintings period, so it probably has something to do with how cool it looks.

Right now I'm really hungry. I'm hoping my mom comes home soon too. (those two are related)

I just did homework that's due Friday. Yep. Now I'm totally bored. That's what happens when I do homework ahead of time, but oh well.

I recruited one of the dudes from my CIS class into my DnD group. ASSIMILATE! Ahahahahaha!

Resistance is futile

Things are only futile when I say they are! I had to do a bunch of lunges yesterday, and my thighs were almost normal afterward...... until I woke up this morning. I've had to carefully ease myself into chairs and walk like a man twenty times my age, sheesh.

Another bloody rogue... sheesh. Paladin would've been be a nice change of pace. Oh well, I'll remember them well once we get owned by clerics of DUUM.

It became very cold last night. It is cold now. My feet are freezing, and I am considering taking 1 more pair of socks.

ARCANUM is treating me like a cheap hooker with AIDS at times. Today I got a LOAD ERROR: FILES CORRUPT and my game just went... insane. I ended up naked, outside the world map. I was so relieved when I restarted the game and saw savegames intact. Bloody RPG's, always come with bugs included.

On a more humorous note, my folks made their own lives miserable and I was woken up this morning by yelling and quarrel. I was nuts for 3 weeks, no one to talk to, and now the same old **** starts all over again. When I'm not worried to my [future] ulcer for their health, I'm stressed out by my father's constant problems with me, mom, entire world. Whoopie.

Anyway, I'm off to do some 30-60 more minutes of quality escapism. Good night folks, may you all [but especially Zarrexaij] have a nice, tranquil day tomorrow.

roflmao

A padalin wouldn't last very long in this campaign. This is just a little bit like Ravenloft. A little bit.

My day was pretty good, I guess. Lots of LULZ. And tomorrow I have an academic team meeting!

Not much homework tonight. Just some editting crap. *sigh*

I know you'all aren't talking about Oblivion, but Cain has made a mod for Oblivion that is an Orc boxer = he uses nothing but his fists, no armor+no weapon, and punches out guards right and left. The only problem with downloading one of Cain's saved game mods is that all the guards in Vvardenfell have a price on your head ... no dead or alive; just DEAD = because of all the guards he attacks when trying out his weapons n enchantments. So I get the new mods fresh off the CD disk he makes and create my own 'virginal chickensh1t characters who don't kill guards".

He is right now making a mod that involves noble personas playing what he's calling "Royal Golf" but it involves 'sleeping tight 4ever' so he's up to some new devilry over there. *Can't wait to download ..

Whoo! Had an academic team meeting. That was fun. Free drinks and pizza for the win!

So looking forward to the rest of the year!

Me too! Big project´s coming my way....I´ll be a contractor on another NPP.....doing big business, having a lot of fun doing what I am best at...waaay to go!

Epic Win.

I had a moderately decent day today, watched some tennis in between insane sessions of ARCANUM. I'm already Lv18 and soon I'll be able to make a Tesla Rod [in theory - in practice, I can't find a bloody Normal Staff now, since I ditched the last one at the starting village :rofl: ].

We're going to do some heavy duty worm tomorrow morning. I am already way overdue to sleep. >_<

If so many guys at school have crushes on me, why haven't any of them asked me out?

Shy/don't think you would be interested in them.

Well, that's a sudden (and I'm guessing welcome) change of pace, Zar. Some of the girls at the school party tonight kept greeting me as I walked past them from the gym to the cafateria (the same ones did this last year). But I don't ever stop to talk to them even though I'm pretty sure they want me to.

I'm one of the wierd guys that for reasons that other people can't explain hasn't ever dated a girl ,and refuses to until High School (and even then only if I find one I genuinely like, not just a pretty one).

There's a number of them, then.

My experience (from mumble-mumble years ago) is that most high school guys are quivering puddles of insecurity. They have trouble talking to females (alien creatures, after all) esp. if they like them.

Find someone who makes you laugh and makes you feel good about being you. Those are the things that matter and that will last.

Because of this:

Add the fact that there were only 3 girls in my HS classes, throughout the entire 4 years of electrotech, and you'll get the picture of just how lonely it was. But **** highschool and entire 90's, in any case.


We finished that tomato juice/sauce/whatever. Only did 7 bottles of it, but it'll be enough for winter. Now, back to tennis, Arcanum and loneliness.

When I started teaching my new American Lit. I class, I didn't get the textbook until the first night of class. So I have been kind of winging it, trying to read just a little ahead of the students so as to have something useful to talk about. Mostly been doing the explorers, the Puritans, etc. It bothered me that I did not remember much about these writers from the class I took in my university days.... I worried that my dachshund memory was slipping a few cogs....

Anyway, I dug my old class notes out (yes, I am an uber-geek- I saved notes from some of my Lit. classes)--- and discovered that the professor had skipped the Puritans, the entire 18th century, and jumped right to Hawthorne and Melville. In other words, I am reading most of what I have been teaching for the first time, myself.

In other English news, I plan to discuss "Our Friend, the Comma" with my writing class. I am sure a grand time will be had by all....

Woah treydoggie! That´s pretty impressive I´d say. I´m sure you´ll do great...

I´m waiting for supper now..gah I´m hungry. Went to town today with my son and bought him a truckload of clothes. Have to grasp the opportunity when he´s willing to go shopping......heh, men are all the same...

Worm?? I like worms .. at least I did before swedish meatballs, kott .. , hmm ... forget the name! How am I ever gonna order more??

Trey, maybe your teaching will have the fresh edge they can relate to since you are learning the material fresh yourself.

Zarr - hs guys are very insecure. That was my experience and I dated alot. Alot of different guys cause I never went steady and didn't put out .. tehehe (dating myself with that terminology.) Anyway, the best way to set them at ease is to be interested in their activities and let them tell you about it. How many times did I hear about shotput and track and oh, I really liked hearing about the highjump bar. You can tell I dated mostly jocks.

*Long pause* I've just realized something: as of late, if the person that posts right after me doesn't comment reply, then no one does........ *Grumbles*

Huh?

And Ibis: work. Yes, I made a funny typo again, silly me.. If I did worms, now that would be... awkward. Not to mention disgusting.

In other news, Tesla Rod is REALLY underpowered and hard to use
[for now?]

Ohohoh!! Got ya in a typo, I did, aye? I usually do that to Pisces just to be mean. What I really thought that worm was some sort of computer terminology like snaking a circuit (I obviously have no idea what I am trying to talk about ...) but it did make me hungry!! So much for hanging around with birds, huh?

Lord Revan - *short pause* I do believe that the whole discussion about hs boys being shy was a direct result of Zarr's reply to your statement that you are waiting until hs to date (which I think is exemplary btw ... nice that you can see clear like that and not be overcome by angst, hormones or following the crowd philosophy)

Hullo everybody, Tellie is officially back in buisness, trying to be shinin as always (sorry if I seem a bit hyper and in a good mood right now, got promoted on my job a few days ago). Anyways the last months I've been absent I've been either sick, or when I was healthy I was completely bogged down beacuse of RL...(thank the maker for coffe, I'd never have been able to survavie the last months without it)

Hah....yes I understand you perfectly. Getting a boy to go with you on shopping is more diffucult than getting a drivers license I'd say (before someone ask yes I did flunk my examination...TWICE :emberassed: )

So have everyone...oh an coffe of course

Mil, I'm afraid I can't trust you with a Tesla Rod. That's like giving Nyarlathotep more phamplets on extremist movements.

I'm just waiting for the guy who appears to like me to ask me out. I'd like to the guy to take initiative for once....

I like 'im and all, I'm just lazy.

Oh my gosh!!! Tellie! So glad to see you back here again ...was wondering where you'd gotten off to, but RL does creep in now and again doesn't it? (if you don't click your heels when you leave your front door there's no tellie-ing where it'll take you!) tahaha

Wonderful to have tellie-cakes and coffee again. It's like a wonderful Chorrol unbirthday party. Who needs a mad hatter - we've got Tellie back.

Awww thanks Ibis, and btw it is correct, there truly is no telli-ing where it will take you.

However with my new job I have more free time...it kinda takes up all your time trying to run all the carpenters on a large construction project, and I used to have about nine different project at a time, so I had to visit all the places each day...I mean I have practically lived in my car the last months *shudder*

Hey there Tell, long time no see sad to hear that job is keeping you busy, but look at the bright side - you're not dead bored!

\o\ hillarity ensue!

Make him ROLL FER INITIATIVE!

[it's a D&D thing, don't ask]

I'm about to tear me a soul apart of an 18 year old boy who failed to show up for a DnD game and who seems to be avoiding me pretty well.

Zarrexaij no likey that. That make Zarrexaij sad.

Sad or mad? Aw, fudge. I would gladly send you chocolate mini-waffles now, if I was in vicinity. STUPID OCEAN.

There is nothing wrong with shy boys, if a guy isn't nervious about asking you out then either he doesn't like you or he has the philosophy, "if I ask out a ton of girls then eventually one of them will say yes", and probably has the same attitude towards sex.

If you don't want to ask him out just make sure he has opportunities to catch you by yourself and he knows you like him (done by telling him you like spending time with him). When I've been persued a common trick of girls is to invite me out to a movie (which I would like) with a bunch of her friends then either forget to invite any friends or make sure none of them turn up. I always saw through that trick because it is never a movie their friends would go to and they seem to have no idea about it when we accidentally meet. I perfer coffee invitations, then they just need to buy me a fair trade coffee and talk about art/music or something traditionally not associated with women like games or sport (even though I don't like sport) then they have me.

I think he's avoiding me.

Yeah! More coffe and cake to everyone! Gotta celebrate our heavy duty building-constructor-norwegian-Tellie is back on track again!

You've been missed in both Role-Playing and Fan Fiction, Tellie. Welcome back to the community!