yep zob..RL/Family first..

I  worked  around Daughter  and   grand daughter from NC for 10 days... i'm supposed to have to drive to Pittsburgh  next month  to  pick  her and the little one   up at the airport, and babysit  her  for  10 days, and then drive again!..not looking forward to the driving stuff...

Anyway?  we're doign good,  Nikki would have  helped liven up  Lizzy and Izzy's   weddign talks..... Roy would ahve    added to  some   planning   and perhaps some interaction with Dusk.

 we are posting well?   we are just used to a bunch of posts...our 'slow' , is some other game's  'fast"

I'm just moving us along a bit Madison cause Boss man said he was getting ready to move us along sometime today.

We can move. There is only so many ways to write about energetic dancing. The question is where to move to.

OK?...

  for  'the next day' ( i post here  when we move for that)

  The Hanger Dec   will be in play

 Officers  quarters wil be  in play as   people move ...but can be used for Flex if needed

 Rec Dec  , after the Send off will be in play

  Med tech will come into play, after the send off. As   Harry is taken care of

other places  that  PCs  are ( henry's Lab, SEC  ect ect..can all be used  'tomorrow' as well.

.....

 i will be putting the   'ending the  night' for   the NPCs shortly..PCs  can   pace thier RP  as  they will

 Just a note, for new folks.

 1... you need to have your   awards on your CS..i won't put them on for you..they do serve tp  help with  Charisma ( one way or the other)  when we have dress unifrom.

2... Since Earth is  considered  a hostile, we still wear the awards that were  designated  'Earth"  ( earth   Bronze  star   ect ect)....But he ESN   Bronze star   is the 'new ' version'..so? you can either   lump them together on your sheet... or wear them since there would be some slight  differance.. it would show  how look you were out here...

....................
 I will be moving us to 'next day', shortly

Moving on..'Flex' any close outs  you have...

Boss am i on Honor guard again?

yeah..I have to roll to see who else..But you're in For  Sure..Lyri will 'command it' this time. her and Shoey take turns

There's a thing...
This message was last edited by the player at 03:32, Sat 02 July 2022.

i figure this  is  the weekend of the 4th?... I don't know ifd  we'll be doign much. My  Town is having its 125th anniversary .

 Oldest grandaughter took part in the   5K (  the cross country team had to do it)... parade  is  in a bit, i'm taking the little ones  down.

  tomorrow is some stuff, but   i'll play football in the morning and see what  happens after.

 anyway.... I don't expect alot of posts, but i will answer  any  that i see, when i'm on.

From your post:

4  guardians   escorted a Hover  cart with Harry   strapped to it.  Shadow moved to  Follow, Stefi was  right on his tail...

This made it sound like they were going with her.    At least the way I read it;  from the character's perspective, I think it would be visual;   They were either about to board with her, or not.   (not, apparently)

::chuckles::  yeah? Shadow saw  Harry..he was pushing   for 'the long walk home"

seeing her   on the hvercart, with Guardains meant ( to him) she was  getting  Medical leave...

 Stefi and Captain Morris   had to   straighten him out, else wise there may have been a 'bagless body"

Stefi  went after him, because she 's been on the ship as long  as he has...she knew something Bad  Might Happen...but... Captain Morris was there.. your  disrespect Captain Morris, you loose  almost any and  all 'friends' you might have made.

saw this..wondering if its on a course  Roy plays on?

 https://golfweek.usatoday.com/...arby-swimming-pools/

Wow...miss a few weeks, and it's almost overwhelming catching back up! (I'm not caught up yet...just finally got through the rest of the E-1 scenario, still getting through the post-mission stuff, but I also have to post something to another game that I've been neglecting for even longer than this one...)

Very sad to hear about Robyn's passing.  Glad that Lizzy's got someone to take over, she's been a definite force in this game and I'm glad that her energy will not just vanish.  Nancy, welcome to the game, and I hope it helps you process her loss.

I had hoped to be back to the game sooner, as I usually manage to get back to things as soon as we open shows...but opening day spun into other challenges, and next thing I knew, all of June had passed without me so much as looking at RPOL.  I feel like things are settling down a bit... *knocks on wood*

Yeah, I bought a motorcycle.  I had one in college, I've been telling myself I wanted one for years (pretty much every summer since I stopped riding my old one).  I finally felt like I was in a situation where, financially, I could manage it...and then gas prices kept going up and it stopped being a "this would be fun" idea and became a "just think how much better gas mileage they get!" idea (I haven't calculated my exact fuel efficiency yet, but it's somewhere above 50mpg, which beats the hell out of the 16mpg my Pathfinder gets).  Plus, I needed to have work done on my Pathfinder (round one has been the alternator and battery), but I needed transportation while it was in the shop.  The cycle's a 2004 Honda Shadow 750 Aero, and it's a pretty nice ride, so far.  I haven't taken it very far yet, but it's a world of difference from the '81 CM400 I had in college!

I've also gotten back into theater outside of the park (which hasn't happened in a few years, at least during the summer!)  The city produces a show every summer as part of the Independence Day festivities...this year, they're doing Shrek, and apparently the director started asking around for suggestions for makeup artists, and my name kept coming up.  It's also apparently the summer for Shrek, in northern Utah, because a week after they asked me to do it, another city contacted me about helping with makeup for THEIR production...and then a regional theater asked me if I could help with theirs, as well.  I'm only doing the one, however, because...

I got cast in a show.  The surprising thing is, I never auditioned for it or even expressed any interest in it...Footloose is not on my (very short!) list of musicals I'd like to do.  But I've worked with the director before, and with several of her kids through the high school where I've been doing makeup for years.  One day, out of the blue, she messaged me and said she'd had someone drop out of her show and would I be available and willing to take a role?  It's short, I'm only in a handful of scenes and only have lines in two or three, I don't have any 'real' dance choreography (unlike all the kids!), and I don't have any solos as far as singing...which is the biggest reason I even considered saying yes.  Then I listed all of my conflicts for the summer (and there are a LOT!), and she got back to me a day later and said, "Yep, we can work with those."  So, I'm missing Footloose rehearsals to do Shrek, and then I couldn't do Shrek again because of Footloose...*laugh*

Anyway, I'm hoping to finish catching up over the next day or two, and be back to my semi-regular posting.  Happy Independence Day, to all of us stateside!

It's good to see you Roy its been a hot minute.

Roy! Nice to see you!...check oout the utah  mose  thing  above!

Happy 4th..or  Happy Monday! ( are there Happy Mondays?)

 Hi Roy ty for the warm welcome and your condolences. I will do my best to play her characters the way she wanted with a little bit from me.

Happy fourth everyone!!
Welcome back Roy!!

 shortly we are going out  and doing some  modest fireworks  with the kids, should take    30 minutes or so,, then, not sure.

 when it  gets  dark  we'll do 'night time' fireworks... we just got some stuff  from the 'tent sales' ..not like the good old days, my kids were young.

 anyway.. I pop one when i can..post when you have time,  I;ll catch yp, regardless, tonight.

Many happy returns of the anniversary of your ancestors telling mine to get lost in some of the most beautiful language ever used in diplomacy!

Just saw on the news page, today is  Steve Rodger's  104th  Birthday..Captain America!

I forgot to respond to the moose thing...I have not played that particular course, but I know where it is.  Green fees there are a little rich for me.  I have a friend who lived in an apartment co.plex just below the course on the hillside there...his complex may have had the moose-pool.  I'm not surprised that there's wildlife roaming the course...a few of the courses around here have "resident animals".  Sun Hills has a family of foxes, Valley View has several deer...they're both lower in the valley and have a lot more housing around them...(well...Sun Hills doesn't.  But it's bordered on two sides by Hill AFB and the terrain along those fences isn't conducive to roaming wildlife).  Eagle Ridge (I think that was the name of it) is at the base of the mountain and only has development to the northwest and west of it.

The surprising thing, to me, is that there are actually enough moose in Utah to have wandered that low into the valley.  Moose are incredibly scarce in Utah, or were when I was growing up...I was into my 30s before I heard of anyone who'd actually seen one in the state.

In more somber news...our local parade was cancelled shortly after starting today.  A young girl that was part of one of the groups got run over by a Hummer towing a float...the rumor mill went crazy.  I initially heard it was a little girl from the crowd, then heard it was a cheerleader from one of the nearby schools.  I also heard, initially, that they were calling in Life-Flight to airlift her to a trauma center, then heard later that the vehicle crushed her skull and killed her instantly.  Latest news reports have settled on her age being 8, and that she's in critical condition at a local hospital (where she went by conventional ambulance.)

All the confusion aside, part of me is absolutely heartsick for her, her family, the driver, the people in charge of the float, the people in charge 9f the parade, and anyone who saw the incident.  Terrible way to kick off a holiday...

Man.. that would be devastating.

Windber had  its  125th Jubilee  this weekend  ( we just had Miners memorial weekend  two weeks ago!)

  one of the grandkids  went with me to see the parade ( mostly firetrucks).. throwing candy at the kids..i was surprised  no one was run over. I hope she  can recover!

Well, there's some comfort in the realization that her condition, grave as it is, is still a whole lot better than the worst-case-scenario that was explained to me this afternoon.  "Critical" is a damned sight better than 'Instantly killed on the spot'.  But I'll freely admit, I'm glad I wasn't there to see it.  I think part of what clenches my gut about the whole thing is realizing that there were people who saw what was about to happen, realized how serious it was going to be, but there was nothing they could do to stop it at that point.  I really don't like the sensation of being powerless to stop bad things from happening, and that would be among the worst I would have ever seen, if I'd been there.

I'll also admit, I was relieved to a certain degree to learn that it wasn't one of the kids along the parade route.  They try, every year, to get people to keep their kids out of the road, even to the point of painting a green line and putting signs up warning everyone to not cross the green line...but kids are easily distracted and, unfortunately, there are parents out there who think the saying 'it takes a village to raise a child' absolves them of any significant responsibility.  When I first heard the report about the incident, I was sure it was someone's kid that ran out into the street to grab a piece of candy someone dropped, and the driver just never saw them...

There's also a lot of people around here who can't really decide whether they're Trumpublicans or Libertarians, but either way, they like to think that the rules don't apply to them or it's just some 'nanny state' bureaucrat trying to tell them what to do or some such similar BS, and I could (far too) easily envision such a parent telling their kid to run out and grab the candy without any thought about the fact that the 'restrictions' along the parade route exist to prevent accidents like that...

I'll leave it at that.  I generally avoid discussing politics, but I've had a few too many things happen over the past couple of weeks that have brought my political leanings out like a raw nerve, and if I poke at it too long, it just hurts more and gets me more agitated.

  Yeah... lots of distressing stuff the last couple weeks..., for me..it makes  hiding in here alot  more fun!