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I was already running a little behind this morning, and a little plumbing
problem set me even further back. According to our friendly neighborhood
plumber, the pipe to the radiator in our second-floor bathroom, which had
apparently been rusting for years, finally failed, causing a (thankfully minor)
flood in the basement. Turns out this is sort of good news that this finally
came to a head, as he says this was impeding the heat on the second floor as
well as my office above, so having the pipe repaired may well help us keep our
house warmer.
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I found the best way to put some gaming-time aside is to suggest she go out with her girlfriends. They usually goto the gym once a week and occasionally out for a meal.
She has Bunco once a month and a "Girls Night Out" with 2-3 friends for dinner or a movie, but I watch our little guy those nights, so it doesn't net me much time to play.
Twin sons - wow. One is enough for now. He's just now starting to sleep through the night more than 3 nights a week or so, but there's still a lot of 2 am trips to his bedroom....
Edit - spelling.
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Werewolf?
There.
What?
There wolf. There castle.
This comment was edited on Nov 23, 15:18.
Have I lied to you? I mean, in this room? Trust me, leave that thing alone. - GLaDOS
Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away? - Ripley
The worst was when the trash pump began to cavitate. The plant operator opened the chamber while the pump was running. He was coated in hot steaming stuff.
This is an idea from just what you said and pictures.
A power auger, but place the auger in a metal pipe just barely bigger than it. Make sure the auger has plenty of horse power and it will just turn into a conveyer pulling everything up. Just attach your waste receptacle outside/around the top of pipe/auger and it will just dump the majority of the stuff in that. Naturally you do not want to turn it fast so it does not fling stuff around, but go slow so it just spills over.
A couple of passes would at least loosen everything.
That seems a lot easier and safer for everybody (let’s face it, there is a substantial health risk doing that kind of work….how many shots do you have to get a year?).
I obviously have no real clue as to the troubles of it, if that is possible, ect. But it was just the first thing that came to my mind.
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That’s a deep kiss too, like the Europeans. You know the French they have to unhinge their jaw to show love.
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Is it possible to get the links bar (under the address bar) to show on more than one line? I have 15 or so but I'd like more without putting them on the menu or the pull-down button as happens by defauly (yes lazy ;P) and Firefox is the sort of browser where you can do these things, I just don't know how.
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My wife doesn't like computer games. Just doesn't like them. She's pretty anti-violence and anti-gun (she's a Kinder teacher and doesn't like the effects of some real-life stuff like this on kids, as well as had a cousin die in a gun accident when she was young). I've tried things like NFS and others as well to no avail.
Sims? Sims 2? Myst? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
She doesn't even play solitare more than once a year. Her mom likes Myst, but she didn't get into that, either. She doesn't like SimCity. Haven't tried Sims, but I doubt she'd care for it. If she's not checking e-mail, doing a little on-line shopping/browsing, or doing something for work, she doesn't spend any time on the computer. She reads even more than I do and likes to watch those House Hunter/Clean Sweep/home makeover shows when she gets to sit down for a few minutes.
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* Warhawk *
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Werewolf?
There.
What?
There wolf. There castle.
Have I lied to you? I mean, in this room? Trust me, leave that thing alone. - GLaDOS
Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away? - Ripley
Wow, thats pretty much my life story too. The only difference is that I have 3 year old twin sons. I'm up at 6am get home from work at 7pm and spend time with the kids then the wife. I usually don't get to start playing computer games until 10/10.30.
My wife prefers thinking/logic style PC games over FPS (e.g. Bookworm, Gem style flash games). She has tried HL and Quake but didn't like them. We also have a PS2 and a GC which sit, unused, in a corner.
I found the best way to put some gaming-time aside is to suggest she go out with her girlfriends. They usually goto the gym once a week and occasionally out for a meal.
My wife prefers thinking/logic style PC games over FPS (e.g. Bookworm, Gem style flash games). She has tried HL and Quake but didn't like them. We also have a PS2 and a GC which sit, unused, in a corner.
I found the best way to put some gaming-time aside is to suggest she go out with her girlfriends. They usually goto the gym once a week and occasionally out for a meal.
My wife doesn't like computer games. Just doesn't like them. She's pretty anti-violence and anti-gun (she's a Kinder teacher and doesn't like the effects of some real-life stuff like this on kids, as well as had a cousin die in a gun accident when she was young). I've tried things like NFS and others as well to no avail.
Sims? Sims 2? Myst? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
So...er...which server? Can anybody play on any servers or is it sectioned off by time zone?
North American people can play in any NA time zone. We are trying to gather in the central time zone. I don't know how that will work for you and your
Look to our little chatbear board below for server names in the central zone.
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Campbell sounds like an interesting guy. I think, though, that the basic idea of a person with great powers slowly coming to terms with just how they should use those powers has been around for quite a long time, as far back as humans were ever creating literature.
You have just restated Campbell's thesis in that book, more or less.
George Lucas is said to have studied Campbell's book before writing Star Wars...
Is it a problem for you to stay up past the time your spouse goes to bed to play HL2?
Of course, we don't have kids so this frees up quite a bit more time to do stuff
Another thing I did, was to get my spouse excited about HalfLife herself.
This is usually about the only time I do play. I'm usually up at 5:30 in the morning and don't get home from work until 5 or 5:30. We have a 21-month-old son, so evenings are pretty much taken up with dinner, taking him and the dog for a walk, and getting him to bed after playing for a while. He usually doesn't go down to 9:30 or so. Doesn't leave much time. Sometimes I play a bit when she's giving him a bath.
My wife doesn't like computer games. Just doesn't like them. She's pretty anti-violence and anti-gun (she's a Kinder teacher and doesn't like the effects of some real-life stuff like this on kids, as well as had a cousin die in a gun accident when she was young). I've tried things like NFS and others as well to no avail.
Edit - I've also been trying to complete several outside projects around the house before Christmas (laying paving tiles, making a planter/garden area, leveling some ground behind the garage to build a small shed) and spent last weekend cleaning out the garage. I worked a 14-hour day yesterday. I'm also trying to design a house floorplan for us if we decide to build a house in the next couple years (using one of those floorplan software programs).
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* Warhawk *
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Werewolf?
There.
What?
There wolf. There castle.
This comment was edited on Nov 23, 15:02.
Have I lied to you? I mean, in this room? Trust me, leave that thing alone. - GLaDOS
Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away? - Ripley
- w00t
- Now that is a Collector's Edition!
- YAY for labeling customers pirates. Sure, I can spend $80 on a game, but heaven forbid I spent $150 on a DVD-/+R/RW. The game will not install at all on that drive; thank gosh I have a backup DVD-ROM.
- So...er...which server? Can anybody play on any servers or is it sectioned off by time zone?
- I will give it a whirl, but I do expect to be crying very shortly. DAMN IT COMCAST, WHAT IS THE FREAKING HOLD UP?!?!
Waving my paw; commanding the little people to carry on,
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Campbell sounds like an interesting guy. I think, though, that the basic idea of a person with great powers slowly coming to terms with just how they should use those powers has been around for quite a long time, as far back as humans were ever creating literature. I could be wrong, having no real concrete evidence I can reference, but it seems to me to be a natural way to attempt to answer one of those basic human questions..
OK, I'm in on WoW now and have created a Gnome Warlock (name: Sandusk) on the Blackhand (Central) server (that and Alleria were the only ones with low server pops). Seeing as Bronc is going Priest, I thought I'd go Warlock for primary with herbalism/alchemy professions so I can teleport you guys to make it easier for grouping and distribute potions, etc.
Whatever you make and whatever professions you take, remember to not to sell any profession based items that the guild can use that you don't use yourself. I'll see you guys online.
"Now, my Woody Allen impression: I'm a neurotic nerd who likes to sleep with little girls."
- Rainer Wolfcastle
Whatever you make and whatever professions you take, remember to not to sell any profession based items that the guild can use that you don't use yourself. I'll see you guys online.
"Now, my Woody Allen impression: I'm a neurotic nerd who likes to sleep with little girls."
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"And then, suddenly and without warning, it turned into a real-life case of hungry, hungry hippos."
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The worst was when the trash pump began to cavitate. The plant operator opened the chamber while the pump was running. He was coated in hot steaming stuff.
Ick. Just... ick.
Mirsky and Warhawk, I'm just curious about the troubles you guys are having with getting "free" time from your spouse to play HL2.
Is it a problem for you to stay up past the time your spouse goes to bed to play HL2? For example, for awhile I had an arrangement so that I wouldn't play any games while my spouse was awake in the evening and would focus my attention on her. Then, when she went to bed, I would get an hour or two to play Counterstrike, Halo, etc.
Another thing I did, was to get my spouse excited about HalfLife herself. I had her play through the first game, and to get over any objections that it was wasting time or that she wasn't interested, I offered to do any housework that needed to be done while she played.
Of course, we don't have kids so this frees up quite a bit more time to do stuff, but since "interactive" entertainment is important to me, it provided an impetus for her to at least take a look into it. Now I always look for cooperative games for us to go through together. Halo worked out great, since having a coop player in that really makes it a lot easier, so she felt that she was needed by me to get through it.
Anyway, I was curious about what arrangements aren't working out for you guys. Maybe the rest of us can help you brainstorm new arrangements
Is it a problem for you to stay up past the time your spouse goes to bed to play HL2? For example, for awhile I had an arrangement so that I wouldn't play any games while my spouse was awake in the evening and would focus my attention on her. Then, when she went to bed, I would get an hour or two to play Counterstrike, Halo, etc.
Another thing I did, was to get my spouse excited about HalfLife herself. I had her play through the first game, and to get over any objections that it was wasting time or that she wasn't interested, I offered to do any housework that needed to be done while she played.
Of course, we don't have kids so this frees up quite a bit more time to do stuff, but since "interactive" entertainment is important to me, it provided an impetus for her to at least take a look into it. Now I always look for cooperative games for us to go through together. Halo worked out great, since having a coop player in that really makes it a lot easier, so she felt that she was needed by me to get through it.
Anyway, I was curious about what arrangements aren't working out for you guys. Maybe the rest of us can help you brainstorm new arrangements
Perhaps fortunately, the pictures are not very detailed.
Is that yellowish stuff called by a bad word that rhymes with kit? If so, ugh.
And is that you standing there? The other person with the boots on has the right idea...
I'm taking the pictures, when I go in there I wear boots.
The yellowish stuff is grease.
It got a lot worse when we built a lance using ridgid conduit and fitted it to their utility (2") water line. We jammed it down into that stuff in an attempt to break it up. All we managed to do was create a 'milkshake'.
The worst was when the trash pump began to cavitate. The plant operator opened the chamber while the pump was running. He was coated in hot steaming stuff.
Not good times.
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I gotta say, the whole "guy finds out he has some great power, becomes too prideful and uses it for evil, then mends his ways" plot is not exactly original to Ursula K. LeGuin..
"His first, full-length, solo authorial endeavor, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Bollingen Series XVII: 1949), was published to acclaim and brought him the first of numerous awards and honors--the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Contributions to Creative Literature. In this study of the myth of the hero, Campbell posits the existence of a Monomyth (a word he borrowed from James Joyce), a universal pattern that is the essence of, and common to, heroic tales in every culture. While outlining the basic stages of this mythic cycle, he also explores common variations in the hero's journey, which, he argues, is an operative metaphor, not only for an individual, but for a culture as well. The Hero would prove to have a major influence on generations of creative artists--from the Abstract Expressionists in the 1950s to contemporary film-makers today--and would, in time, come to be acclaimed as a classic."
http://www.jcf.org/about_jc.php
More on the Monomyth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth
These ideas are also used in computer games, of course.
Almost every heroic narrative of the 20th century probably owes a debt to Campbell's study of mythology.This comment was edited on Nov 23, 14:12.
From Best Bi...
nin dual disk version - check
nin SACD - MIA
Vampire - check (hidden behind the preorder boxes - sneaky!)
Pirates! - MIA
Seinfeld - decided to pass...
I need Pirates and the SACD by the weekend, dammit...
edit: Oh, and 3 BILLION copies of WOW and that Nirvana boxed set...
http://tds.nin.com/
This comment was edited on Nov 23, 13:59.
nin dual disk version - check
nin SACD - MIA
Vampire - check (hidden behind the preorder boxes - sneaky!)
Pirates! - MIA
Seinfeld - decided to pass...
I need Pirates and the SACD by the weekend, dammit...
edit: Oh, and 3 BILLION copies of WOW and that Nirvana boxed set...
http://tds.nin.com/
This comment was edited on Nov 23, 13:59.
Warhawk, you're pretty close to aquiring the grav gun. Like you I can only play for limited amount of time between kid and spousal tantrums but I'm a bit further on, in Nova Prospekt. I'd like to say that, and I'm pretty sure this isn't a spoiler, the Antlions are at the same time the biggest pains in the ass and the coolest damn thing in the game.
I know it must be worse than it looks, and just looking I don't even want to contemplate the composition of that pillar-of-filth.
We took a little field trip to the local WWTP in college for one of my classes (Environmental Engineering, maybe?) and saw a pile of the stuff they are cleaning out in the photos. I remember condoms and tampon applicators being prevalent (along with everything else people can flush/dump in the drain), along with a very nasty smell...
I'm sure that since this stuff had been sitting around (with grease globs, etc., noted) so it was probably 10x worse than my experience. Yech. You are a trooper, my man.
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* Warhawk *
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Werewolf?
There.
What?
There wolf. There castle.
Have I lied to you? I mean, in this room? Trust me, leave that thing alone. - GLaDOS
Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away? - Ripley
I gotta say, the whole "guy finds out he has some great power, becomes too prideful and uses it for evil, then mends his ways" plot is not exactly original to Ursula K. LeGuin..
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