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Posted by bigbadron
Andrew Wilson
member, 74 posts
A cunning Rogue
HP 6/14
Fri 21 Dec 2012
at 06:34
  • msg #138

Re: And here we are at Chapter One...

ikr im a beefy bum too *high fives* :D
bobbofeet
member, 37 posts
Fri 21 Dec 2012
at 17:35
  • msg #139

Re: And here we are at Chapter One...

No zombie-pocalypse on the West Coast yet...
pitademon
member, 690 posts
hi all
Fri 21 Dec 2012
at 18:13
  • msg #140

Re: And here we are at Chapter One...

been to California....Zombies have been there since the 1960's.  how can you tall if it has apocalypsed or not?
RedWizard
member, 398 posts
http://dgsforum.freeforum
Sat 22 Dec 2012
at 03:00
  • msg #141

Re: And here we are at Chapter One...

Old Faithful hasn't Super-Erupted yet.  So I got that going for me.
ginny
member, 70 posts
Sat 22 Dec 2012
at 03:09
  • msg #142

Re: And here we are at Chapter One...

East Coast is still here :)
ShadeTheFallen
member, 177 posts
Where the tongue slips,
it speaketh only truth.
Sat 22 Dec 2012
at 06:23
  • msg #143

Re: And here we are at Chapter One...

Just passed the biggest exam of my life :)
Diurnal Lee
member, 29 posts
Into indie storygames
TSoY, PTA, DitV, BtI
Wed 2 Jan 2013
at 13:46
  • msg #144

More Good Things

In 2012, I reduced my debt by 21% of my net pay. We're not fooling around anymore. *Happy dancing.*
ginny
member, 73 posts
Wed 2 Jan 2013
at 13:47
  • msg #145

Re: More Good Things

The kids went back to school today  ^_^
bigbadron
moderator, 13340 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Wed 2 Jan 2013
at 20:20

Re: More Good Things

Elite: Dangerous is going to be made.  Now I just have to survive until next year to see it.
facemaker329
member, 5245 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Fri 4 Jan 2013
at 23:12
  • msg #147

Re: More Good Things

It just dawned on me that I'm trying to make prosthetics for the first time in about 6 years...actually, more like 8.  Considering how out of practice I am at it, it's been going pretty well, thus far.  We'll see whether I come back to edit this point and exult in having managed to get my first attempt right, or if I wind up venting about how I screwed it up...*grin*

But part of me is kinda tickled to just be getting back into it again, even if it's for a project that isn't paying me anything.

EDIT: (I warned you this was gonna happen...)  It took me a few attempts (lucky the stuff that I'm using is quick...well, relatively quick, anyway), but I finally got the right combination of release agent, mold temperature, compound ratios, etc etc etc to come up with two usable Klingon foreheads and a set of Andorian antennae.  Now, I just need to make them up (and figure out how to attach the antennae to the wig...) before the video shoot tomorrow.

Have I mentioned my procrastination habit?  *grin*
This message was last edited by the user at 08:01, Sat 05 Jan 2013.
facemaker329
member, 5251 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Wed 9 Jan 2013
at 02:14
  • msg #148

Re: More Good Things

A couple of things...

Went to put the Christmas money Mom gave me in my wallet last night, and discovered a check from one of my pre-Christmas freelance gigs that I had not yet deposited.  This is a two-parter...first, YAY for unexpected money! (over $200 worth of it!)  Second, it's nice to FINALLY be in a place, financially, where I don't feel like my first stop after receiving any check MUST be the bank, for the sake of covering expenses.  I still regard myself as living from paycheck to paycheck...but at least I've got a little bit of a safety net in place (how long that will last, we'll see...I've got a dental appointment at the end of the month and have a bill to pay off with the dentist on top of the new bill that will come from that...)

I also heard back from my 'boss' at my new freelance-writing job.  Considering the fact that I had very few of the reference materials that she told me to use in the style-guide for my last project (stuff the client hadn't bothered to provide for us), her one big note on it was some stuff that she had to change to make it match up with a layout decision that nobody ever told me about (and, yes, she acknowledged the fact that I was never given that information, either.)  She also asked me if I'm ready for my next project with this client.  I must be doing something right...

And, because of the timing of the first paycheck from said freelance job, I finally decided I could afford to buy the drywall stilts I've been thinking about getting for a couple of years, now.  These may open the door to still other freelance gigs, as one of the people I freelance for regularly hires stilt-walkers for corporate events, and the ones that she uses are popular enough that it's sometimes difficult to get them--and some of the alternates are not-so-reliable.  So, if I can get myself to the point of being confident moving around on these things (they should get here Friday), I could find myself getting some additional phone calls for work in front of a crowd (something I really enjoy, but don't get to do very often.)

2013 is off to a good start, I have to say...
Dottie_V
member, 12 posts
Wed 16 Jan 2013
at 05:39
  • msg #149

Re: More Good Things

Yay~ My professor fixed my grade and now I have the GPA to apply for my school's nursing program. On a side note, that also means I finally spoke up for myself and got things taken care of by MAHSELF! Woo! +10 Confidence! :D
Mustard Tiger
member, 228 posts
Wed 16 Jan 2013
at 18:26
  • msg #150

Re: More Good Things

I work from home, so never see my boss. And I only ever talk to my boss during monthly phone calls, or if I've screwed something up. Today I got a call from her, and NOT for our monthly call. Naturally I thought I'd botched a job or something. Quite the opposite: I received a 15% pay bump, totally out of the blue.

Cha-ching!
facemaker329
member, 5276 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Sun 20 Jan 2013
at 09:32
  • msg #151

Re: More Good Things

Needed a third to round out the pattern here, got one tonight.  Call it silly, call it vain...even call it pathetic, I don't care.  But I went to my friend's gig tonight (she's one of the singers in an 80's band), and while sitting there, enjoying the music, I noticed a woman on the dance floor looking at me.  And, for about the next ten minutes, she kept looking at me...even when she was dancing with some guy (or with the girl she came to the bar with).

No, I didn't go look for a hook-up.  Didn't even go looking for a phone number.  (For one thing, she was pretty obviously drunk.  For another thing, I didn't go to the bar to hook up with some stranger...never really been into that kind of scene).  But it was good for the ego, I must say, to have some stranger giving me smouldering looks from across the room.  I don't get that often.
Spuddies
member, 43 posts
Tue 22 Jan 2013
at 02:13
  • msg #152

Re: More Good Things

Haven't been in this thread before, but seeing as how this is freakin exciting news for me, I figured I'd share with the lovely RPoL community.  I found out over the weekend that I'm going to be a father! Been trying for close to two years now, and finally the time is here! I'm' over the freaking moon and can't stop smiling.  Cheers!
Stix4armz
member, 41 posts
Tue 22 Jan 2013
at 02:42
  • msg #153

Re: More Good Things

Spuddies:
I'm' over the freaking moon and can't stop smiling.  Cheers!


Last Friday I asked my girlfriend to marry me and she said yes! I can't stop smiling either!
Noxatrum
member, 78 posts
Tue 22 Jan 2013
at 04:23
  • msg #154

Re: More Good Things

Got a new roommate. He's a good person. He is quiet, respectful, and doesn't find every excuse to blame us for his issues and problems. The house is peaceful and we're not behind on bills because our new roomie is responsible. I feel relaxed for the first time in a very, very long time. My migraines are not being triggered by 'broken' doors that are slammed day in, day out. Not one door's been slammed since he got here - proving that the 'broken' argument was yet another lazy excuse to not be a decent human being.
CrazyIvan777
member, 70 posts
Tue 22 Jan 2013
at 04:58
  • msg #155

Re: More Good Things

Getting a non-bad roomie is truly awesome. Congrats on that!

I'm gonna brag on something for myself, and something for a friend. For myself, I'm finishing up a bunch of freelance writing for a game company in Texas. It's nothing huge, but in the end, if I told my younger self, "You'll be writing RPG stuff professionally," I'd have been over the moon!

As for my friend, she, until this point, has been the soux-chef in one of the high-end restaurants in Chicago. She's not anymore... She got picked up by a different high-end Chicago restaurant as executive chef! I'm so damn proud of her!
Masamunekaigen
member, 1169 posts
In Soviet Russia, quests
pay you to go on NPCs.
Thu 24 Jan 2013
at 07:51
  • msg #156

Re: More Good Things

Not really huge or anything, but I thought I would share a crowning moment of awesome I had in a DnD 3.5 game recently.

We were using Tome of Battle stuff BTW.

Anyway, we were having a 'diplomatic' meeting with the leader of an enemy guild. Essentially it was a bring a party of 5 and we'll bring 5, we can talk this out and if that fails fight it out. It was agreed that we would meet on the top of a neutral guild's tower so that no snipers or shady hijinks could happen.

The enitre time I am playing around with on end of my signature "double grappling hook" (just a 50 ft rope with a grappling hook on each end) while every other person there has a weapon drawn for safety. The enemy guild leader is clearly a bad guy and cops an attitude. So I start taunting him, poking him with the tool in my hand and then hooking his tie to pull him close and get in his face about his attitude.

Talks go officially sour (though they were already souring) and initiative is rolled. I go first and use a maneuver that let's me make a trip attempt and if successful throw the target 10ft and prone him. I succeed and throw him off the tower with my grappling hook still hooked to his tie and me still holding the rope.

The turn continues, the enemy guild leader spending his turn falling down (next round on his turn the rope will go taught and he'll get the chance to stop himself but he'll take falling damage from the hanging and I'll have to make a Strength check or be yanked off the wall. So on my turn (which is right before his BTW) I toss the other end of the double g-hook to his second-in command. Enemy leader's turn comes around and the rope goes taught, and he swings to the wall... but starts falling the second his feet touch in an almost cartoony way as his second rolls a 1 on his strength check to not get yanked off the roof and falls, taking the other end of the rope with him.

Both fell to their deaths. :)
This message was last edited by the user at 07:52, Thu 24 Jan 2013.
facemaker329
member, 5278 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 24 Jan 2013
at 09:05
  • msg #157

Re: More Good Things

I was nervous about agreeing to design this show...I mean, right away you have the almost insurmountable task of trying to find period-appropriate firearms (that will actually fire blanks!) for nine characters, from the 1860's to the 1980's (luckily, it's only one or two per era, and not all nine in the different eras together...)  But it's a show that's intrigued me since I first heard about it, and friends of mine run the theater company producing it, so...I caved, and said yes.

Went home after the first production meeting and started looking for rental options, and the VERY first place I checked out had a couple of pages dedicated, specifically, to listing prop weapons for this same show!  And they had options in stock (not great options, but better than I'd be likely to find anywhere else at the budget level I've been asked to work with!)  So, feeling reassured, I pressed on.  Started getting nervous about some other very specific stuff...like a 70's-vintage Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket or cans of Tab soda.  First two places I went (after ransacking my own inventory, which got me surprisingly far) had almost everything I needed.

And, thanks to the freelance writing job I started last month, when I was looking at the gun-rental place and noticing that I really didn't like a couple of the options they had available, I was able to find a place that had some good alternatives for sale...at a price I could afford.  So, I'm expanding my own 'arsenal' by two blank-firing pistols, which I'm renting to the production for the same price that it would have cost to rent the sadly-inadequate-options from the other place (which will add up to be about a third of the purchase price!)

Stuff like this is why I feel so certain that I'm where I should be, doing what I should do...too often, really ridiculously large problems just kind of seem to evaporate as I wade into them.  Makes up for those other occasions when I feel like I'm barely hanging on by my fingernails and just scraping by.  I keep thinking I want to start my own production company...or, rather production design studio.  Stuff like this just gets me that much closer...I've had a lot of that happen over this winter.
Grimmond
member, 61 posts
Antler-care by LIV THATCH
"RALPH" The Wonder Llama
Thu 24 Jan 2013
at 18:37
  • msg #158

Re: More Good Things

I am getting married tonight in Seattle ... and I stayed at a Holiday inn Express last night ! Pretty cool either way !
TheWarriorPoet519
member, 1320 posts
Resident porch-squatting
stick-shaker
Fri 25 Jan 2013
at 04:30
  • msg #159

Re: More Good Things

I'm going to be a guest lecturer at an International Swordsmanship Symposium next month, doing a panel on writing Medieval Martial Arts in fiction.

That I'm getting to a point in my career where people want to have me stand in front of a room and talk is beyond bizarre to me.
ginny
member, 75 posts
Fri 25 Jan 2013
at 14:50
  • msg #160

Re: More Good Things

So after getting an eviction notice due to a busted pipe, a week before Christmas, taking the next 1 1/2 months looking for a new place and being turned down by everyone, we finally found a place this morning.  My husband and I sign the lease tonight with the new landlord and can start moving in anytime  ^_^

*Does a happy dance*  :)  I feel like the world has been lifted from my shoulders, I can finally start to relax and calm down.
DarkwindStriker
member, 504 posts
Better known in many
places as Gatewalker.
Fri 25 Jan 2013
at 16:59
  • msg #161

Re: More Good Things

TheWarriorPoet519:
I'm going to be a guest lecturer at an International Swordsmanship Symposium next month, doing a panel on writing Medieval Martial Arts in fiction.

That I'm getting to a point in my career where people want to have me stand in front of a room and talk is beyond bizarre to me.


It's not quite as bizarre to the folks who've watched you progress over the years.

-------------

Anyway, as for my own bit of "yay", this may not seem like anything to be happy about, but I accidentally popped a filling out while flossing last night. The good thing, that I'm quite happy about, is that it doesn't hurt and isn't preventing me from eating normally. So I can basically just carry on as normal until I get to the dentist next week.
Dottie_V
member, 14 posts
Sat 26 Jan 2013
at 06:05
  • msg #162

Re: More Good Things

I only need to wear my retainers at night now! I'll be rid of this horrible lisp that has plagued me since I started wearing braces! *happy balter*
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