lemming

On 3/31/2019 at 2:05 PM, Chris Goodwin said:

I talked about how the session went in the other thread.  I got home a couple of hours ago and am decompressing and going through post-con letdown right now.  This might very well be the first GameStorm I've played in any Hero games at all, and it's probably the first convention in at least 10 years I've played in more than one.  

 

I'm going to run something Hero again next year, and I think I'm going to start prepping for it sooner.  Like, tomorrow.

Yea, I'm writing down my notes and getting some other things ready for the next time.   I had a hell of a schedule the last couple months that kept impacting my prep work, but starting earlier will help.

And thanks for playing in my game Chris & Tom!

And on the medical front, blood tests perfectly normal, so today we go for an EKG.

A slightly different issue is being checked by eliminating a lot of types of food for a bit.  Though it's looking like I've gotten much worse on processing dairy recently.

On 3/31/2019 at 12:32 AM, tkdguy said:

Today, I brought my cat to the vet for a distemper shot and flea medicine. Everything seemed fine until after an hour after we got home. Then I saw her foaming at the mouth! I had to rush her back to the vet. She wasn't happy; she resisted to the best of her ability. The vet didn't find anything wrong with her. He thinks she was hypersalivating because of today's stress. She was fine after that.

 

All's well that ends well, I guess. But God, what a scare!

Yikes.   We had a cat that foamed and expelled noxious fluids everytime he was put in a carrier.   We really limited his travel times...

Shots can cause a reaction, though usually it's just lethargy and a possible low grade fever.   (Out of > 1000 kittens i had experience with, two had reactions.  One was fairly serious in that I had to give him fluids and cut out of the adoption event early.)

And I need to read up on the latest going ons with flea meds.  (Best thing about living at 5000' and a dry climate was cat/dog fleas didn't survive.  So far, we haven't had any flea issues, but it's just a matter of time that one hitches a ride into the house)

18 hours ago, Old Man said:

This calls for a bloodletting!

That's what the kitten is for.

For me, Frack, Feldercarb, [expletive deleted] in writing, and Hurm.

My wife will sometimes say "Dear Lord of the Rings"  (which I think is from someone on Project Runway)

Nothing like doctor tests that don't show anything abnormal, but you feel like crap.

Definite imbalance of the humours.

2 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

It looks like the Kree have weapons that can crack the planet open like an egg, so why don't they? Earth is certainly annoying enough. And if there are all these powerful entities seeking to destroy the Earth, eventually one of them is bound to succeed.

 

It's like the Coyote problem. The Roadrunner can beat the Coyote time and again, but the Coyote need only win once.

So, paint a mural at the edge of the solar system showing nothing here.

Saw the film yesterday.  I enjoyed it, though parts of the story didn't make as much sense after thinking about it.

I didn't see Larson's acting as wooden; She was playing someone who was having her emotions tamped down for the last six years.

In my own rankings, it's a solid in the middle of the pack of films for the MCU.

Where we have our house parked, the main house needed to be repiped due to old decaying pipes.  (And I got to point that out to the landlord since we were having some work done to make our house legal to park)

During the results of inspections etc..., the plumber and inspector were quite fascinated in the water heater in the garage.  It dates to sometime in the 80s according to them.   It was still OK, but apparently the work nudged it out of whack, so the house people are mentioning very short hot water time.  They're trying to get it replaced, but apparently that is being difficult.

Doesn't really impact me since we have a tankless for the tiny house, but I seem to be the "responsible" person who can talk to plumbers/etc... while the landlord's son isn't around.  (He lives there, but is on an extended trip)

On 12/12/2018 at 4:10 AM, Christopher said:

Uh, NOPE.

 

If you take a single point of damage past defenses (wich are based on Active Points and/or the defense powers), a single power is lost.

Complete loss of all powers in one attack requires something like Defenses + Body damage in one attack.

 

At least that is how it is in 6E and the 5E book I have.

Single point of Body might be a good clarifier.

And the text for Breakability between Champions 3e and Champions 6e are nearly identical in function.   (I remembered a player writing up a Foci killer slot on his gun.  Area Effect, Penetrating back in the mid-80s...)

And yea, similar text for 4th & 5th.   (1st & 2nd do mention how many defenses breakable foci have, but don't go into the details)

Now, did most of the GMs and myself pay much attention to breakable foci?  Not really

Looks like one of the beasties from Stranger Things in the lower right, though possibly it's what ST referenced?

Looks like this might be a link to the original, plus other like: https://hcgart.com/

On 11/11/2018 at 5:24 PM, Duke Bushido said:

He already has that one.  He needs the second one now:

 

Unknown Eagles: Special Ops.   I don't know anyone who has it.  One guy who claims he had both, disliked them, and deleted them, but I find it hard to believe: I've got tons of stuff I don't really like, simply because there is always an idea or two I like to keep around.

Yea, that's odd.  I'm going to double check my storage area, but I'm pretty sure I pulled all my data from any floppy disks I had from then.

I wonder if it was an announced product, but not much follow thru?  It was in the midst of the Fuzion release area.

Woo, at least one was done as a joke

3 hours ago, Cygnia said:

I was considering putting this in "Neat" pics too...

Should be in "And now, for your daily dose of cute..."

Went to the Multnomah Library sale and picked up 23 CDs for 50 cents each.  Some that I didn't have and some replaced some stolen CDs that I never ripped.  Though I need to start bringing my wanted list with me.  (picked up a couple I already had...)

I clearly remember Superman falling into trap doors on Superfriends.   It's a homage!

On 10/27/2018 at 6:49 AM, Duke Bushido said:

I'll double-check the artist when I get back home (I don't remember off the top of my head), but yes, this book was really good.  So good that i'm going to make a permanent digital back-up should it ever go the way of my Western HERO and turn into yet another copy of 4e Ninja HERO.

 

And thanks!  Just wish I still had Photoshop to help me clean it up pristine.  Oh well.  I'll have 1200dpi scans; I can clean them up any time after that, right?  

 

 

It's a bit different to work with, but GIMP has been my photoshop for many years.   (I was surprised a couple years ago finding out how easy it was to switch between using the two, which was much harder back in the 90s)

I was wearing my Dead Kennedy's shirt and was admonished for it because what if a child saw it.  I told them that the child would learn the proper use of the word.

5 hours ago, Cancer said:

I am beginning to think more and more that my folks had the right idea about that.

 

(Scatter their ashes illegally, and without any marker, up in some mountain meadow a few miles upslope from their place that looked good at the time.)

 

(I already know my wife disagrees.)

Part of my mother in law is in a glass figure, but the rest of her ashes went overboard on our Alaskan cruise.   My mom I scattered near where she grew up since she was happiest there.  My grandmother got dumped somewhere in the desert...

Olivia got her stitches out this morning and is much happier.  Especially not having to deal with the cone or donut of shame.

On 9/28/2018 at 11:55 AM, Hermit said:

Dealing with old people who have a growing dementia is ..difficult. I feel for them.

Dealing with a manipulative hag with narcissism disorder so you can't tell when it's the dementia and when it's just her being a grade A b**ch can be a nightmare. But my Housemate can't trhow her mom on the street and I spend more time here soooo....

 

And sorry, folks. Just needed to vent. No, we can't afford to get her in a home, yes we've checked vet benefits, no she can't afford to get a nurse care herself, and when left along she would fall down a LOT partially because she doesn't take her meds on time. This isn't a request to fix the situation, we've explored that. This is just a vent and a need to blow off steam because telling a 76 year old woman to **** the next time she makes a passive aggressive play or underhanded insult is against my upbringing.

 

 

 

 

 

That describes my mom in her final couple years.  Thankfully there was still some money and she had alright benefits to be able to put her in a home, but it was a struggle.

CathyCat, Olivia, and Ava relaxing on the couch.   I'd say the kitten is feeling at home.

I found a behr color: https://www.behr.com/consumer/ColorDetailView/390D-4

(Geez, they make it difficult to save the image.  Almost as if they don't want you to take it to a shop for mixing)

I agree with Old Man, I think someone messed up at the store.

On 9/16/2018 at 5:52 PM, Ternaugh said:

 

I had to re-read that, I saw honey badger instead of honey beige the first time.

That would be a very aggressive color.

Latest addition to the household is Olivia.  Possibly hit or tossed from a car, or had been in the engine compartment.  She was found by the road and taken to a vet clinic who was able to hold her for a few days.  We drove down to pick her up. She did have a dislocated hip and some bruising on her chest.   Also was blind and her eyes were completely non-responsive to light.  However, she does seem to see at least light & dark currently, though I think there's been improvement over the last couple days.   Odd thing is, unlike any Siamese I've known, she doesn't get red eye.  One of our other cats who is also a Siamese mix gets red eye without any flash involved.  I think that may have to do with how much light gets thru her pupil.

She she's another vet on Wed to have an x-ray to make sure she can be spayed safely and we'll have another look into her eyes.