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  1. Musings on Random Musings

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    I've been meaning to post this for two weeks.

     

    last week we rented "Porco Rosso" and "The cat returns"

     

    I loved them. I liked them better than Spirited away, or Princesss mononoke, or any of his other stuff I've seen.

     

    Not by a HUGE margin, but...

     

    SO this week we bought both of them and the new release of Nausicaa at costco, and are sending in for the freebie of Totoro.

     

     

    :)

     

    And I got the Incredibles and The long Kiss Goodnight this week. Life is getting better. :)

    Totoro is pretty good. I liked it, but it's odd. We showed it for our cat shelter movie benefit.

     

    I need to check out "The Cat Returns".

     

    And thumbs up on Incredibles and Long Kiss.

  2. A Thread for Random Musings

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    Good day for jobs. Jenn got a position at the new Z Gallery. Nice bit of news on her birthday. Decent benefits and a slight raise in pay. Though we're betting the job that Jenn really wants will materialize just before she's supposed to start. That should make it interesting.

     

    On my end, the hunt continues. Month 8.

     

    I did talk with someone about a contract that while I could probably do the work, I don't have the experience they wanted. :( The guy thought the recruiter might have something for me next week.

    In the meantime I finished up a mini-contract (10 hours) with the possibility of some more. If I can pull in just a week's worth, that's one month of mortage. This month we've stopped paying the credit cards, last month the mortage gets paid. Interesting talking with the Bankruptcy attorney. I may have to retain them just so I can refer the credit card companies to the lawyer. I've already told them, no money. Still they call every day. Citicard is the worst. They call constantly. Today, five times. Unethical as heck, but I want to figure out how to pay off the student loan with the Citicard. There's enough room on it... Then we declare bankruptcy. (Not sure if that would actually work. Figures there's some sort of closed loophole there)

     

    That and the stress of someone who's very important to the cat shelter went in for heart surgery. The doctor saw her last week and said "you need surgery next week"

    There were complications, but she pulled thru. Her heart stopped while she was in the recovery room and restarted itself 20 seconds later.

    I'm hoping she listens to her doctor and doesn't exert herself, but it's probably going to take a rope and the rest of the volunteers.

  6. Longest Running Thread EVER

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    Thanks, Skaramine. :)

     

    As for "taking better care of myself" -- I didn't do anything to "deserve" getting this. My best guess, since it came on me on Monday, is that I was exposed to it on Saturday when I went to a big gem & mineral show in Kansas City.

    It was probably from one of them meteor rocks.

  7. Odd 2x Stun rule

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    Yeah' date=' this ruling is kinda nasty. Of course, I don't like the idea of down people taking x2 damage to begin with. Why wouldn't everyone, always hit someone who is down, just to make sure they don't get up? Icky. My group doesn't use this rule, so the ruling won't effect us...[/quote']

    Yea. I was already ignoring the 2x stun anyway. Generally if the villian gets knocked out, I let them lie there. I just thought it an odd enough ruling to point it out.

  10. Longest Running Thread EVER

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    Finally got to the doctor this morning. The visit was supposed to be my quarterly check-up' date=' extension of my diabetes mediction prescription, and so on. I just [i']happen[/i] to be very ill at the same time. :rolleyes:

    Yow. I hope you are drinking lots of water now. Sinus infection as well. Take it easy and hope you feel better soon.

  11. HERO system observations and beefs

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    Hate to nit-pick too much' date=' but 4th was really intended to be universal, the focus on Champions being really if you bought the bundled product which included both Champions and the HERO core rules. Wasn't there also a Fantasy version that did much the same?[/quote']

    Nope. But there was a soft cover that only covered the Hero Rules that came out later.

  13. Musings on Random Musings

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    I've found that 1000 miles seems to do the trick nicely, for me.

     

    I've managed to stop hating my mother, after all . . . ^ v ^

    Yea. Once my mom lived in another state, it was much better. And that was just 250 miles. Though my mom causes me stress in about 10 minutes, but I can deal with it for a weekend. Any longer than that and I start having problems.

     

    What's interesting is that most people find my mom to be very nice, which she is. However, if they spend longer than a certain amount of time, they start going insane. My wife didn't understand until my mom came by to visit for a week.

  16. Longest Running Thread EVER

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    Actually' date=' shouldn't that be "PS: Pissing off people, NCC"? Having an NCC KS means you'd have occassion flashes of [i']how[/i] to do it, but you wouldn't necessarily follow through. A PS with NCC seems to me more like a way to model "Whoops...did I just do that?"

     

     

    ;)

    I suppose so. But maybe you also have a disad to use said KS?

  19. Jack-Jack Parr

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    No evening is complete without a chainsaw.

    I thought it was standard fare. The one time I babysat I actually had a chainsaw that I was sharpening. (Neighbor's kid and the neighbor and I were cutting down all the eucalyptus that ringed our properties...)

  24. Longest Running Thread EVER

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    Try harder. OpenOffice is wonderful but it's not exactly the same as MSOffice so it's going to be an unpopular switch for the clueless users. You have to sweeten it for them by offering new laptops with the saved money or something. This also gives the IT manager a way to keep his annual budget from shrinking due to "disuse".

    And this is probably close to the tact I would use. I just need to get the lay of the land first before making suggestions of disrupting the current situation. From what I know of their current setup, there's a lot of cruft, but since it's a non-profit, they may have some special deals. We'll see.

  25. "So, Thor hits Superman with Mjolnir..."

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    Since I'm not as familiar with the New Gods, I was wondering how Superman does with them. At least there we have a bit more history to go with and I figure they're closer to what Thor is like. (Not quite, but they're both Kirby at their beginning)

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