We got new mattresses for family bed, which also transforms into family living room comfy couch. Hopefully now my parent's spine will have less troubles and they will be able to sleep better.


Weather outside resembles my mood quite accurately. -_-

Public service announcement

Howdy everyone. I just wanted to advise you that starting today we're trying a new way to prevent spambots from signing up. Since those suckers are obviously equipped with OCR functionality, the CAPTCHA stuff where you enter the number from the image into the box doesn't work anymore. We could make the image harder to read, but then people would fail at it too

So what we're doing is to have a little bit of math on the image and new users have to type in the result. I'm not sure how well this will go, so if you see any spam stuff anywhere, please let us know ASAP.

Thanks.

Works for me (math illiterate though I am). I like the "community" feel we have here, and look forward to real new members accidentally stumbling in.... So it's a disappointment when they turn out to be robo-spammers (although the user names are usually a gave-away).

I will now return to my dormant (working 6 days a week) state and write an essay exam for my American Lit. students. If they didn't already hate me for making them read the Puritans, they definitely will after next Thursday....

And back to the point- Thank You, Stargelman for all of your efforts.

ok... I'll try to help and report anything funky... that is, if I see it. And I'll gladly eat the tasty spam, too.

Essay exam... good times. Fortunately I never had to write such a thing for my composition students last year. And now I'm teaching (the lab portion, anyway) a basic physics/chemistry/astronomy class, so I don't need to read much student writing at all--instead of writing-averse students, I have math-averse students! (Never, when I was struggling through calculus II, did I ever think I would be helping college students with their math.)

Oh...do not worry dear Planty! You see the NPP I´m to clean up has been shut down, one reactor since 1999, and one since 2006! it´s gonne be used as an education-mock-up! And then it´s a really good thing we´re cleaning it, so the guys who will spend time there will have a good environment with low doserates. This decon-project is by far the biggest one ever performed in Sweden, we´re going to decontaminate the reactor-pressure-vessel and all the primary systems, and a few more additional ones....at each of the two reactors at Barsebäck NPP. I´ll be there november, a good deal of december, for the decon at Barsebäck 2, then january-february next year for Barsebäck 1. We will use a chemica decontamination-method, licensed by AREVA .....a smart method which yields a minmum of secondary waste! I´ll have a team of six guys, together with a shift-leader who will cooperate with a bunch of german guys from AREVA....a winning concept, used a numeral times before....It´s gonna be sooooooooooo fun!



Oh....I love you too, Mil!




Noooooooo.....ehhh but if the opportunity arise....I´ll most certainly will go down into the Reactor vessel!


Hmmm gonna check that out...yup I will...



Sounds really good....even if I do not really understand..but if Starge says it´s good...then it is good....

Been a while since I've posted here, what with college and all. Lucky me has approximately 25 or so hours of lectures, labs and tutorials a week >_>
So far it's pretty good though, although to date chemistry lectures have been a fight to stay awake as it was a recap on stuff most of us have already done to bring people who didn't do chemistry prior to now up to speed.

This is another of those days XD

After having no sleep last night, due to me eating myself over something and having few... minor... issues today with my family, we have had a moderately large flood here, when our radiator in the bathroom decided to start leaking [spraying lukewarm water all over the bathroom is more like it, actually]. Thanks to our quick thinking and swift intervention of city's Heating Co. mobile plumbing unit a more serious disaster was prevent. Radiators and heavy duty repairs are their area; unfortunately, we have to purchase a new bathroom radiator now and it's likely to cost 40-50 euros. At least 3 apartments below ours aren't soaked in water.

When I felt enough adrenaline went away to sit down and type, I though "I wouldn't be surprised if my PC explodes " - and then the PC reset itself for no visible reason. Karma is killing me today... either that or someone's using voodoo on me.

I just got back from a scientific conference, where the poster I presented won a best poster award!! That's never happened to me before, and it feels pretty good. Too bad it won't help me when I have to find a new job.

We placed second at a district academic team meet. We could have won if they had put me in the third round...

There were only three other teams. All had human calculators on them that answered almost every single question. Ugh. If only we could do complex math in our heads...

But at least we have more than one player who answered questions. At regionals, if I actually get put in we might win.

But I'm mad because I was promised I would go back in and I didn't. We also could have won if I was put back in.

The meet was yesterday. Afterwards we ate at Golden Corral.

I got plenty of sleep last night. Today was pretty average though.

Hey, it's been a while since I popped in around here. Life has been incredibly crazy, and to be honest, interest in anything Elder Scrolls related has dropped to almost non-existent, seeing as I have many more troubles, what with social life, housing issues, and planning out my enrollment in college. It's nice to see that so many of the original forumites still frequent the place. So to any of those who remember me, hi again!

Good to see you around again. Sorry to hear that RL is so busy. I'm sure we all have had times like that. I hope things slow down a bit for you in the future.

Oooohh Chaos,

I am sooo happy to see you! Have been wondering how you've been doing? Enrollment in college sounds excellent. What are you majoring in? Have a great time, enjoy your college experience; you'll always look back on it fondly later.

Oh midterms/finals. How easy you've been so far. I have a hunch that won't last very long though. Next semester might prove to be a bit more difficult...

Operation "Sledgehammer" is nearing it's completion, as all the papers, including official translation to English, are now in the hands of my sister's friends parents who are going to Toronto next week [Tuesday].

In the process of the operation, total amount of money spend was ~130 euros [around 160$]. But, it'll all be money well spent if my sister can use those documents for further education. If she doesn't, I'll just do what I did last time on Skype - slam the connection down [like a real phone] and leave without a goodbye.

...or not. Turns out scholarship and [living] expenses for whole year of studies would total to ~20.000 canadian dollars. "Bah" is an understatement at this point.

There's these things called grants and scholarships.

Yes. Sadly, she can't get them, being 38 and foreigner and also finishing Uni in a land under wrong educational system, with a bunch of courses that mean exactly panda bear in Canada.

p.s.: PANDA BEAR?!!1 this made my day... well, early morning at least, before I go to sleep

I have a question to those who've watched hellraiser after 1 and 2.

I liked 1, thought 2 was pretty crappy, but I'm curious if the other movies are any good, and if they are, which ones?

Also if anyone knows of any really good horror flicks, I'd like to hear what they are as I can't go partying this halloween cause I could raise enough money to take they greyhound back up to Ashland and want to supplant that by getting urine freeingly scared.

Ach. I only read HELLRAISER [the book] and I remember watching the first movie only.
Only thing I remember from entire movie is the scene where Frank, near the end of it, gets to say "Jesus wept" right before hooks rip him to pieces :shrug: it was a decent movie, a bit gory at times; I can't say anything for sequels since I haven't watched them, but people don't speak very highly of them. Meh.

Also, welcome back IntestinalChaos, tis nice to see you again o/



edit: panda bear? Just checking nothing to see here, move along

Don't ask me, I'm not the horror-type. My nerves are too fragile for that.

Oh, and another welcome back. Hope things work out for you.

As in today's news, I signed up for the Nanowrimo. My name there is jack cloudy. (Yeah, what else did ya expect? )

Blockhead, since you have been around there for longer, I've got a question for you. Where the hell is the search button?

Me neither. I don't like horror.


Yay!!!!!!! Congratulations!

I'm there as "lokken" (blockhead was already taken). I do not think there is a search button! That site is a train wreck of bad web design. :/ It is also slow as molassis: slower even than DeviantArt!

To fake a search, I guess google your question, making sure to put "nanowrimo" as one of the search terms? I have not tried this. I'm a newbie at this but you can PM me (here, not there) with your question anyway: I might have already stumbled onto the answer.

Two ironic realizations regarding Nanowrimo.

• I'll be using a text editor called nano!
• The finishing date for Nanowrimo is my birthday.

Maybe I (or anyone) should start a Nanowrimo thread here on these forurms (kinda like they've done over on Bethesda's forums)? Opinions, anyone?

I'm quite sure there was a search button half a week ago when I was searching for tips on how to write fight scenes. I got like six useful threads for swordfights, though mine will be gun/unarmed/big bad mecha brawls mostly.

Oh, and I sent ya a message. Hopefully it can serve as a link instead of the damn missing search button.

And something else you might want to do, check out the stats on this thing. 400+ users online a while back, plus 79.000 participants last year. In 1998, it started out with a meager 21. Talk about popularity booming.

Please feel free to do so Blockie! I´ll sign up myself!


The 5th of November I´m going away...for my big project, but I´ll bring my Mac, and there will be WLAN at my hotel so....I´ll be around..Maybe I´ll have time for some writing...hopefully

Hey. Today is my sister's 18th birthday. in my country, she's now adult. And.. I have no idea, what present I should give to her. any ideas?

Wait... you're not going to blow up the English parliament by any chance?

Anyways, the patron saint day madness is now officially over. We've moved all the furniture back, cleaned up, mom has washed 200 dishes in the meantime and now we're all beaten like eggs >_< and yet, I will have to stay up. Reason? D&D night!


p.s.: I really wish we had Star Trek transporters, that way everyone would get cake and chocolate cookies. Since my relatives barely touched the stuff we have a ton of it left, and now it'll probably be feast for neighbors and yet, you people can't get any of it. WHYYY?

Sheogorath Day?

Mmmmmmm, cookies ... and cake. Drool.

Nah, this lady.

Now, before you start thinking I *am* a religious nut, let me calm you down 'slava' is a day when any Serb orthodox family honors their patron saint and calls the wider circle of relatives and friends [or, alternatively, only godfathers] to come down & chow some tasty meals. It's become more of a gathering, although there are church sermons and certain religious customs. But, in the end, for me it's mostly about honoring a woman who had enough courage to devote her life to her ideals, whatever they might be. I respect that.

Nanowrimo sounds like a brilliant idea, my user name is Ramaudio.

I signed up....as minque99, but I have no idea how to proceed....

Sorry, I've been busy working on a mod of The Elder Vaults Island = adding some houses for a few members and myself. What is Nanowrimo? Is this a fiction writing site? Just guessing there ..

NaNoWriMo is apparently interNational Novel Writing Month - so hell yes, anyone can join and even write in own language - how cool is that? Now, I have joined, but that doesn't mean I can pull off 1670 words/day. Hell, I can't pull off 50 when I have no inspiration.

Thank you for the link. I did not mean to offend or to start any religious controversy. Your mention of "madness" and "saint" just made me think of a certain daedra prince, that's all.

I can respect with this as well.

minque:
Oh minque, it'll be OK. FAQ link: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/basics - You can do it! You've already written in excess of 50000 words in your fanfic (you've actually done 80000, according to my software) .

I don't want to know how many words I've written over all the fanfics lingering here.

Thanks sweetie...I´ll certainly try it out! Good that you started a NaNoWriMo thread! Then we can encourage each other!

Well, I just woke up (at 2 pm) because I was up at the emergency room until 5 am. I passed out a couple times last night and fell. I had to get stitches in my chin (from falling on the sidewalk) and I had to get hooked up to an IV for several hours, get x-rays, a CT scan, and they haad so much trouble drawing my blood that I have needle holes in my arms. I'm feeling fine now though. The hospital wasn't so bad, though, except that I was really bored and couldn't sleep.

In other news, I got off work today!

We're glad to hear that you're feeling fine now. It sucks to spend time in the ER; I hope that whatever it was doesn't rear its ugly head again anytime soon.

Speaking of ER, I went to the A&E the other day, luckly I managed to skip it though. What happened is I broke my left wrist when coming off my bicycle, went to the closest doctor who I knew didn't have a xray but got a referal to an xray place, which happened to have its xray machine broken, they offered to plaster it up there and come in tomorrow for xray or I could go to A&E, I decided for the later. At A&E I managed to skip going to the doctor since I had been seen by 2 already and went straight to orthopedics, by which stage my wrist had been in constant pain for quite a while with no painkillers and I had to wait a couple hours longer to go through the whole process, damn A&E.

Awww Danny! Are you OK now? What is the matter with you? What did the doctors say? I sincerely hope it isn´t a really bad thing? Maybe you´re anemic? I´ll keep my fingers crossed for ya.....

Get bettter really soon now ya hear?

Nah, I'm not anemic. It was a bad combination of dehydration, not eating enough, and smoking. I'm fine, just a little tired.

One of my professors is suggesting that I try to publish a creative non-fiction essay I've been working on--so that's kind of an interesting life development. And my uncle is seeing about job opportunities within the environmental consulting firm he works for, so depending on how that goes I might be moving to the El Paso area in a couple of months. Interesting times, interesting times.

And...

I just changed my avatar.

Sounds like good prospects for you Canis and I love that new avvy!

Ah...I´m glad to hear it wasn´t that bad! Heh currently I´m quite tired as well, after working for 15 hours, not eating properly and too much coffee...oh yeah and too many cigarrettes..I kinda just about feel like you did...only I haven´t fainted...yet. Tomorrow will be my last day at "my" NPP for a while....On monday I´m going south to another, shut down NPP to perform my "big thing"...Wish me luck guys!

Pisces that sounds really painful! I guess it's good that it was your left wrist; I'm assuming that you're right handed.



Did you finally get the pain pills? I'll tell you .. I have muscle relaxer pills from the V.A. just because I had a slipped disk a few years back and sometimes at work it just gets so strained that I need some relief. Luckily they are not addictive. Gettin' old bites!

Yeah, I had some at home from a previous injury, that didn't stop me from stocking up on the perscription so I can have some ready for the next year.

You take care of yourself, Danny. I know it's hard to remember to find time to eat.... but do it anyway. (I'm a grandfather; I get to say stuff like that ).

Meh. Crappy day. Crappy week. Crappy month. Crappy year.

The world hates me. And fook it.

Sums me pretty much, my dear. Oh, and I owe you dark chocolate from TESF. God knows I'd be glad to shower you with it - if I only could.


There's a hurricane on the Atlantic coast of Canada. I just hope it eases to strong wind when it hits Ontario...

edit: and I forgot, the shame. Good luck Minkey <3

So did they lift the restrictions on topics over 11 pages now?

Anyways I see life is continuing on here as normal. Thats good, I'm tired of change for the moment. Also I get to go back home in 1 week and 4 days! First time since early August!!!!!!!

Na, we just tied the staff up with rope to their chairs and threatened them with mid day TV. Its an anarchy now...I mean democracy.

Latin water diety aside, Rane was feeling generous and let us continue...... when was he last on-line to check our progress?