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More good stuff.

Posted by bigbadron
DarkwindStriker
member, 485 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Mon 23 Jul 2012
at 19:31
  • msg #39

Re: More good stuff.

It is not nearly hot enough today for the cold shower I just took on account of not having hot water in the house right now to have felt refreshing intsead of annoying.

This was initially going to be a vent. However...

It is not nearly hot enough for the cold shower to feel good. And I'm *totally* okay with it not being that hot.
wyldchild
member, 303 posts
While I breathe, I hope
Fri 27 Jul 2012
at 01:37
  • msg #40

Re: More good stuff.

*cheers*  Hurray for being so insane about the care of my own teeth that I might actually make it the four years I need to wait for treatment without any serious repercussions (I hope.)
SomewhatOperational
member, 50 posts
60% of the time
I work every time
Fri 27 Jul 2012
at 04:59
  • msg #41

Re: More good stuff.

My son can roll over.
My son can roll over.

I can say it one million times, I can see it one million times and it never gets old.
GreenSerpent
member, 121 posts
Casting darkness at the
Magic Missiles!
Sat 28 Jul 2012
at 16:18
  • msg #42

Re: More good stuff.

Got my laptop infected with a nasty piece of scareware. Managed to remove it.
Brygun
member, 1410 posts
RPG since 1982
Author, Developer
Sat 28 Jul 2012
at 23:38
  • msg #43

Re: More good stuff.

The parachuting Queen of England.

Q E 2 my kinda gal.
XxSoulReaper97
member, 1 post
Mon 30 Jul 2012
at 04:33
  • [deleted]
  • msg #44

Re: More good stuff.

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 05:49, Mon 30 July 2012.
Utsukushi
member, 1038 posts
I should really stay out
of this, I know...but...
Mon 30 Jul 2012
at 16:29
  • msg #45

Re: More good stuff.

Yay!  My thrift-store box of Dungeonquest does have all the pieces!

Well, it's missing a d12, apparently, but we have those.  And one of the characters has lost his feet, but he can be replaced, too.  I've got a box full of pewter miniatures that would love to have his job, for half what we were paying him.
Serrational
member, 132 posts
Ponies! Trees! Hooray!
Hee hee hee. Smile!
Mon 30 Jul 2012
at 23:28
  • msg #46

Re: More good stuff.

Discovering that you can work twitch-shooters slightly better than you thought. It's kinda yay. YAY all over.

'specially when Avernum has been wearing thin recently.
facemaker329
member, 5014 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Tue 31 Jul 2012
at 07:40
  • msg #47

Re: More good stuff.

It's nice to have friends who know you well enough that you can make potentially awkward jokes and have them take it as a joke, rather than as awkward (telling a woman half your age that she makes you feel like a dirty old man sometimes is definitely a risky thing to say...)
facemaker329
member, 5019 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Fri 3 Aug 2012
at 08:01
  • msg #48

Re: More good stuff.

Man...I can't believe how fast this summer's gone.  Seems like yesterday, I walked into an audition.  Two months later, and we're a week out from performances.  Been awesome, watching this stuff come together...and I feel incredibly lucky/blessed/what-have-you for the cast I'm working with...for a community theater production, they're remarkably professional about stuff, and everyone has been very good-spirited about changes being made, rehearsals sometimes running long, rehearsing out in the heat of the day, etc (the one complaint I've heard consistently is from the guy playing Treville...his teen-aged daughter is in the cast, and it's been REALLY hard on him to watch her flirting with a guy twice her age, even though it's just part of the scene...)

I'm both excited and just a little scared at this one...I've never played a character important enough to appear on the show's promotional posters, before, and if this isn't the largest role I've played on stage, ever, it's definitely in the top 3.  I feel like I've got the general gist of everything that needs to happens...I just need to get to the point where I'm not struggling to remember all my lines.  There's just one or two scenes where the word flow of my dialogue gets unwieldy and I'll say what I remember and as I'm saying it, think, "Now, I KNOW that's not the way that line goes, even if I'm saying the same basic thing..."

Four more run-throughs...We can do this!  (After that, there's an audience...)
facemaker329
member, 5023 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sun 5 Aug 2012
at 07:06
  • msg #49

Re: More good stuff.

I know, I know...I post these things in clusters.  What can I say?  A lot of good stuff happens in my life...

A friend of mine hired me to help her figure out what to do for her role as the Witch in Into The Woods (for those unfamiliar with the story, she starts out hideously ugly...partway through the show, a curse that she cast gets broken, and she goes from being the ugly old hag to being young and beautiful...and the change happens in a few seconds, on-stage...)  She was having visions of having to put makeup on and take it off and all kinds of stuff that would make the process far more challenging than it needed to be...

I came up with a simple, cheap, extremely effective option that didn't require gluing anything to her face.  When she made her first entrance of the show, the lady sitting next to me gasped in surprise...'cause she was REALLY ugly--a mass of gray hair with a massive hooked nose and a long chin that poked out past in, when she stood in profile to you.  It looked even better than I thought it would...and she had NO trouble with it at all.

I love it when plans work out smoothly.  I love it even more when those plans are the cheapest, simplest option and they work as good or better than some really elaborate, time-consuming, expensive, laborious options would.
SomewhatOperational
member, 65 posts
60% of the time
I work every time
Sun 5 Aug 2012
at 07:10
  • msg #50

Re: More good stuff.

The owner of our apartment building didn't tell us it was being forclosed on. We have to be out in 90 days. Why is this good news? Bank just offered us $2,500 to be out by the 17th. We had already saved up to move and signed on another place anyways.
Brygun
member, 1442 posts
RPG since 1982
Author, Developer
Thu 9 Aug 2012
at 19:15
  • msg #51

Re: More good stuff.

TCM channel is doing one of their dedicated to actor days.

Today is:

Toshiro Mifune!

Wooo! Samurai overdose!

*goes play Shogun Total War 2 while watching*
This message was last edited by the user at 19:15, Thu 09 Aug 2012.
Malakhon
member, 1981 posts
Fri 10 Aug 2012
at 05:13
  • msg #52

Re: More good stuff.


<GOOD>

I have been permitted to become a volunteer author on Christwire/Daily Bleach and write humorous articles for them!!




</GOOD>
TheDemonIslington
member, 176 posts
RPoL's UN
Peace keeping you to Hell
Fri 10 Aug 2012
at 06:20
  • msg #53

Re: More good stuff.

Got made redundant at work...

Already had a job lined up anyway.

BOOM!
facemaker329
member, 5032 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Fri 10 Aug 2012
at 22:38
  • msg #54

Re: More good stuff.

Just got a chance to read the review from our opening night.  Granted, theater around here is pretty tight-knit, so reviewers aren't terribly cut-throat...after all, most of them are theater folk, themselves, and it would be really awkward to end up auditioning for someone who you tore apart a week earlier in a review...

But, even with that consideration in mind, we got a great review!  Nice to know that, while we're having fun on stage, the audience is enjoying what we're going, as well.  That's what it's all about!
Bigun Eagle
member, 55 posts
Sun 12 Aug 2012
at 00:20
  • msg #55

Re: More good stuff.

Last night I had a bolt of lightning hit very near my house. It ruined my fathers car, badly damages my mother's minivan, destroyed the phone connection box, threw 10+ pound rocks over 20 feet, likely killed a 50 foot tall hickory tree that stands less than 30 feet from where I was sitting at the time, and dug an 8 inch deep crater.

Yet everyone at my house is alive and well, including the outside dogs that usually sleep on the porch right less that 6 feet from that crater.

Makes you get real humble real fast when you see the power of nature.
facemaker329
member, 5061 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sat 1 Sep 2012
at 18:48
  • msg #56

Re: More good stuff.

I woke up sore and stiff this morning.  Why is this a good thing?  Because I got sore and stiff helping execute a show the likes of which have never been seen in this area.  And, all things considered, it went off pretty smoothly (there were a lot of things that I noticed that went wrong, but I was 'in the know' and on the inside...the audience didn't notice anything hugely problematic).

What's so special about this show?  Well...first off, we didn't ever get to do a full rehearsal (or even group read-through) of it.  It was at a public pool, and the producers couldn't afford to rent the venue for more than the one night.  It had high-divers, mermaids, aerialists performing from an anchor that was raised above the pool during the show, pirates, singers, dancers...

Man, when I start describing it in those terms, I feel kinda like I'm doing the initial pitch that leads into 'Spectacular Spectacular' (from Moulin Rouge)...

And I got to go swimming for the first time in years (and it was even intentional).  Found out I'm in better shape than I thought, but in worse shape than I'd like to be...
Killer Rabbitt
member, 296 posts
He's got huge sharp fangs
Run away! Run away!
Sat 1 Sep 2012
at 23:27
  • msg #57

Re: More good stuff.

I found out yesterday that I don't need surgery. While thAt's good news to begin with for most people, it's especially good for me. I have a congenital heart defect, and at 26 years of age have already had 5 open-heart surgeries. Since last October they've been tracking some findings on various tests that were pointing to the possibility that my valve is calcifying, which would mean replacing it. While valve replacements are, at least as heart surgeries go, fairly routine, because of the number of other replacements I've had there would be a lot of very troubling complications. In particular there's a good chance the heart's electrical regulators could fail, requiring the additional installation of a pacemaker; and the surgeons would have to cu into the base of where the coronary artery branches from the aorta (itself more than a little risky without all the other problems). So anyway for the past year they've been running a battery of tests to determine what's going on, and evidence was piling up that it was as we'd feared and I'd need surgery. So yesterday they did a cardiac catherization and flouroscopy - short of opening up the heart the best way to see what's going on inside. And turns out there's nothing to worry about. There is some calcification, but it's minor and no more than what's typically to be expected. Oddly enough I don't feel super elated. I guess I was so prepared for bad news that the good news hasn't really sunk in yet.
This message was last edited by the user at 23:28, Sat 01 Sept 2012.
cero1
member, 81 posts
Sat 1 Sep 2012
at 23:37
  • msg #58

Re: More good stuff.

It was my birthday recently and over two days the Landlord of my local has been really cool, on the day I got a free pint on the house. I was out last night and he was equally accomodating.
I enjoy my local immensely, I really feel like I'm becoming a regular, even though I only really pop in every other day for a single pint. Really good people who have been great to me since I first popped in on an off-chance after a job interview to get rid of the post-interview butterflies :)
shady joker
member, 1456 posts
Sun 2 Sep 2012
at 00:25
  • msg #59

Re: More good stuff.

I had a deepfried oreo sundae. With a beer. COOKIES AND BEER! it was so cool.
Pyrate
member, 98 posts
Excellent! Now I can
attack in all directions.
Mon 3 Sep 2012
at 10:27
  • msg #60

Re: More good stuff.

They're saying that the weather this weekend is going to climb up over 15 degrees! ^_^
I'm so taking my friends to the beach.
PushBarToOpen
member, 612 posts
Mon 3 Sep 2012
at 10:52
  • msg #61

Re: More good stuff.

i think i can touch type. this msg is done using the skills a lifetime of gameing using a wsad setup. so although i can just about write this msg without looking at the keyboard its quicker if i do and i keep getting the first hit of anything on the left hand side wrong for the first couple of strokes

still writing all this without looking at the keyboard has to indicate that without training i can just about touch type.

however i am starting to feel the strain in my hand from using my odd 6 finger touch typinf skills. (my little fingers still refuse to type)
nuric
member, 1697 posts
Love D&D,superhero games
Not very computer savvy
Tue 4 Sep 2012
at 05:27
  • msg #62

Re: More good stuff.

This is the first official rpol post on my brand new computer!!!
It's a laptop that's not exactly top of the line, by any estimation, but it's better than the one I'd recently broken, and even though I need to get used to it, it's a darned sight faster than posting on my phone.

Now, if I can just get caught up with everything that I fell behind on.
facemaker329
member, 5070 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Wed 5 Sep 2012
at 07:45
  • msg #63

Re: More good stuff.

One of my best friends has turned to me as a kind of 'brain trust' for ideas on what to do with her Star Wars game.  It went from me being an occasional player (she lives an hour and a half away, so being a regular at a weekly game just wasn't an option), to me making up some characters for her to use as NPCs, to me creating several pivotal NPCs that she's now running the entire game around (not that they're part of the group, they are serial bad-guys and mysterious former Jedi Masters that keep crossing the group's path for various reasons.)

Now, without any input from me at all, she's stumbled across a way for the bad guys to be working for the good guys, while still working on what they were doing as bad guys...and she's picking my brain for input on what each of them would do with the situation.  In the last 48 hours, I think we've exchanged about twenty emails, some of them rather lengthy, about motivations and attitudes and contingencies and what-ifs, and plot ideas for the party that may or may not be even remotely connected to what the rest of the NPC discussion was about.

Got another email message from her tonight, thanking me for all of my help.  Apparently, from what she said, I have, in two days, given her enough material for her to run her game for the next year or so.  (Now, if I can just muster up that kind of creative energy for my own game...I need someone to start asking me the right questions, I think...)
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