I'm so sorry to hear about your son, Ally. That sounds like it was terrible, I hope everything goes well for him. It sounds like you're in pretty good humor about it though. :]
It's been so hard to come back to England's weather after Idaho's. Idaho is colder but it's the crisp dry brilliant sunshine kind of cold. England is slightly warmer but it's the damp chilly fog-wrapped solid grey clouds sky kind of cold, the sun's only up from 9 til 4. I feel like all my energy has just vanished. This happens every winter, I just shut down til like February. :[
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I've always wondered what Female Shepard was like. And after watching this, I hope I never meet someone like her in some dark alley…
Mass Effect 2: Shepard is a *****
Somehow, even though my boss has hired two new employees, I'm still the one who ends up taking shifts when people can't come in. I don't mind giving up my days off when someone is sick or has an appointment or whatever, but one of the new girls has asked me to take a shift at least once a week since she started. She told us she hired the new girls so that we'd have more flexibility, but I still feel like if I got sick or something there wouldn't be anyone else to take my shift most of the time. Which is stressful on days like today when I wake up feeling like garbage(for no apparent reason).
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Ayes: Sorry about your son's injury. We've gone through similar things with my little sister, although not nearly so bad. She dislocated her arm when she was just a toddler and we had to keep her away from monkey bars etc for a long time. It's really hard to keep a kid from playing and roughhousing, so she dislocated it a handful of times in the next few years.
And then, a couple years later, a dog bit her on the face and we had to keep her away from water…right in the middle of summer, too.
She's none the worse for all that, though…I think it was always more stress for my parents than it was for my sister.
@Hippie- it's Ally Haert's boy, not Ayes ;)
I too hope the recovery is not to onerous on the little chap! :(
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Oh gods, so booooorred a work… I have two projects to work on but since my brain and body are so amazingly tired I can't bring myself to concentrate on them. I'm just waiting out the minutes till I can go home and have a nap.
Thank goodness I did all my DD stuff earlier in the week so I don't have anything to do for the site… My feature and newspost will go up by themselves and I can go straight to bed for a while.
I have to wonder weather I have a physiological problem of some sort. I've never been this tried before as I have been for the past few weeks, even when I've not had enough sleep and not eaten enough, and I AM getting enough sleep (pretty much) AND eating enough, but in the afternoons I'm frequently ready to collapse. -Like I've been doing hard physical labour for hours…
True Evil is entirely too subtle to ever show itself to the likes of a conspriacy theorist. The demonic entities they purport to see and fight are merely the effects of human mental illness.
Real evil entities always slip right by them because they have such limited definitions of things as Good and Evil. There is law and chaos but even chaos is ruled by law.
Wrap the inside on the outside and it's the real fig newton.
Lonnehart wrote:Kind of obvious; female Shepard is Ivanova from Babylon 5. Long live Ivanova and never question Ivanova because she is always right.
I've always wondered what Female Shepard was like. And after watching this, I hope I never meet someone like her in some dark alley…
Mass Effect 2: Shepard is a *****
@Hippie Van -
Thanks for sharing your story (as I remember, I liked a bear story you shared awhile back :-).
I think you might be right about it being harder on the parents. As a generality, parents hope to preserve that short-lived innocence for as long as possible (which I think means kindergarden) and when there's a trauma, there's a little heart-break to see an innocent hurt. I experienced something like that when my daughter's arm was broken at age 1-1/2 (altho today you'd never know).
Very young kids themselves don't have the perspective of "what might have been" or "what should be". For good or bad, they are at the point of "what is". With that framework, and with the amazing recuperative powers of the very young, they're generally OK.
But when the cocoon most parents want to keep their little ones cracks, there are so many emotions to deal with in addition to the task/s at hand.
I really trust that Ally Haert's little guy will be OK. He's not the one who will be full of worry and angst, which too many times are such useless distractions. But sometimes if you can channel the energy from going into worry and into the needed assertiveness to get through the medical/insurance stuff and the nonstop challenges of the day, it'll smooth out. I firmly believe Ally has the spirit to get through this, and probably better than most. I so decree it.
No big deal. It's when adults do that when it really stinks. Especially for an over night security guard who wants to work on his comic.
But then I do that ever since that service station job. I habitually get up at 3 AM. Except I just creep off to the computer.
Give him a bugle and hand him over to the army.
Well I have an annoying family that have only recently moved in next door to me. They have 3 very young kids who scream like retarded monkeys every morning and evening, So I cannot sleep in on weekends at all and if I have a nap in the afternoon (on any day), I'm rudely awakened.
The problem is facilitated by the fact that my bedroom is on the side of the house that faces theirs, my window is always a bit open for my puss-cat to come through, but worst of all is the fact that their crappy house doesn't keep its sound in. The people before them partially knocked it down (was all double brick) and rebuilt it with plywood and chipboard among other things. It looks like a very stylish building on the outside, but its thin wood walls make it like the sounding body of a guitar.
They're just renting short term though so I'm pretty sure they won't last more than a year.
Ugh… shopping for a new video card. The sales guy keeps trying to convince me that the more expensive cards are better for gaming than the one I'm looking at; the GeForce 520. Now I'm just a casual PC gamer. I'm not looking to play a game at resolutions higher than 1024x768 as my monitor won't support anything too much higher than that (right now it's at its max resolution of 1280x1024). I've been told that the GeForce 520 will do decently at my chosen resolution for games, yet this guy keeps telling me that it's better to get the more expensive cards despite me telling him my budget for video cards isn't that big. Right now I'm looking to get an AMD system with a CPU running at 3.2 GHZ and 4 GB RAM, and maybe a 500 GB hard drive before those (so I have lots of storage space whether I really need it or not). I guess it must be one of those commission things…
It's usually always best to either get a mid-range card or the second or third from the best… you get more bang for your buck that way. The best usually always cost waaay more than even the secon best but only ever has a teeny perfornace increase.
Almost every Nvida card I've ever bought had to be replaced in about 2 years (sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less), whereas A couple of ATI cards I have have been running for ages… I still prefer to get Nvidias though because they're pretty and green. ^_^
What Ozone said, also ignore sales guys they will always try and upsale.
@Ozone, all kids scream like retarded monkeys… wish I could gag mine at times. Still the simple solution is to keep them occupied enough that they don't burn of their energy running around screaming first thing in the morning. But it isn't something you can do.
get an air rifle and snipe them when they are being noisy.
Lonnehart, you might want to try checking a website like newegg.com for reviews of the graphics card you're about to buy. Usually they have a lot of people who have tested the thing and are more honest than a salesman. Then, even if you don't buy it at newegg, you can walk into the store a more educated person.
For most of the time I've used the Nvidia graphics cards and had no trouble. But just recently I switched to an ATI card. It works fantastic for games, but there are a few minor visual annoyances in Windows, and probably stemming from the fact that I have two monitors and they are different sizes. It's not even really a problem.
I do miss Nvidia's easy updates and support, though.
Hawk wrote:I'd buy from NewEgg if I could, but the shipping rates to U.S. territories can be… expensive. And that's if they even ship to the territories at all (I know Amazon.com won't ship anything but DVDs and other small things to this place). Still, it's better to make an informed choice than jumping into the unknown…
Lonnehart, you might want to try checking a website like newegg.com for reviews of the graphics card you're about to buy. Usually they have a lot of people who have tested the thing and are more honest than a salesman. Then, even if you don't buy it at newegg, you can walk into the store a more educated person.
For most of the time I've used the Nvidia graphics cards and had no trouble. But just recently I switched to an ATI card. It works fantastic for games, but there are a few minor visual annoyances in Windows, and probably stemming from the fact that I have two monitors and they are different sizes. It's not even really a problem.
I do miss Nvidia's easy updates and support, though.
Hmm…
*notes Terminal's post*
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Nichijou: Passing a crow
speaking about cars. I rode the bus; like I usually do 'cause I´M cheap but that's not really the story, and I saw three orange pickups in row, all with a mini crane on their back and a guy driving every single one in a yellow west.
I'm sure it means nothing but was kinda strange sight…
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