What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Flake]

Smile: There's this guy I play in Warhammer 40K almost weekly. He has beaten me seven times in a row. The last two games were draws. Today I finally beat him. Barely.

Frown: Finally got the defective mother board out of my new computer. Back on the old rig for time being.

[BoringSupreez]

Smile: There's this guy I play in Warhammer 40K almost weekly. He has beaten me seven times in a row. The last two games were draws. Today I finally beat him. Barely.

That's the best sort of player to play against. You'll learn more strategy lessons being thoroughly beaten than you will trashing weaklings.

[Flake]

Smile: There's this guy I play in Warhammer 40K almost weekly. He has beaten me seven times in a row. The last two games were draws. Today I finally beat him. Barely.

That's the best sort of player to play against. You'll learn more strategy lessons being thoroughly beaten than you will trashing weaklings.

There were very many lessons to learn. His beatings drove me back to the rule book and codex almost nightly, trying to figure out how to squeeze the most value out of my army. He's definitely better than me still but I gained a lot of confidence today.

[elmagicochrisg]

Big smile: Just finished the Dreamcast vs link cable schematic!...

Still need to double check everything, but that's going to be for another day. After that I need to find the right ICs, make a printboard version schematic and finally try making one for real. Hopefully I did everything right...

[BoringSupreez]

Uh, I ate at a Chinese restaurant today. And watched a good episode of Regular Show.

Where to begin? The start is a good place. First I woke up to hear my sister have a seizure. I spend the next few hours babysitting. I take one of my younger brothers to sell some walnuts, who apparently forgot how to get to the place they are sold. Every street I started down, he'd go "This is the street! I remember now!" He did that four times before I found the place. I get home, and have to drive to the hospital so that my dad will have a car to come home in. Then my sister is transferred to a different hospital in another city, so I have to drive there too. I was then treated to sitting around while doctors discussed medical histories and a TV played the all-beach and classical music channel. By this point, I had a growing headache and was starving since I had only had a bowl of pudding for breakfast and nothing for lunch. I went grocery shopping after my part in the hospital stuff was over, and ate, but my headache only kept getting worse. When I came home, I discovered that an issue I was having with some buyers wasn't going the way I wanted it to. I sold two games at the same time, and shipped each to the wrong person. I refunded their shipping costs and asked them to ship their games to each other, and one cooperated, but the other has fallen off the face of the earth. I ended up refunding one of the buyers, who, of course, was the one who bought the more expensive of the two games. Argh.

[Luke]

Did the doctors give you any answers, or has your sister always suffered from seizures? Either way, best of luck and keep thinking "things can only get better".


Smile: Was able to make an estimated 5 hour road trip in 4 hours without speeding like a maniac. Traffic was moving at a good pace and no jams whatsoever. I guess that happens when you're driving at 5am on a Sunday morning.


Ticked/But not really: So great to see family, but I spent more time driving than visiting. It's been a few rough weeks, and I'm pretty sure I'm in for another few weeks that won't be easy. My Grandmother can't seem to keep water out of her lungs, and my parents family pet doberman is literally turning into one big tumor. This is life, and they have both had long and happy lives, but for my parents I just hope there is some time between their collective passing. You can prepare all you want, but when a loved one dies, preparation goes out the window.

[BoringSupreez]

Did the doctors give you any answers, or has your sister always suffered from seizures? Either way, best of luck and keep thinking "things can only get better".

She's never had one before, and all the doctors found is that she has influenza B.

[Luke]

Did the doctors give you any answers, or has your sister always suffered from seizures? Either way, best of luck and keep thinking "things can only get better".

She's never had one before, and all the doctors found is that she has influenza B.

That's scary. I've only seen one seizure in person* and it wasn't pleasant. Hope you get some clearer answers soon.


*A few friends and I went to DC about 6 years ago, and right in the front of the Lincoln monument a guy riding a bike froze, dropped, and starting convulsing. You would think with security measures the way they are someone would have come to his aid, but even with us shouting out for help, no one came to aid. We called 911, but before anyone showed up the guy just kind of snapped out of it.

[CFFJR]

It lasted a good 7 hours, and it was fucking awesome. Best birthday ever!

Awesome, a good party in your honor always does good. Good to hear you had a good time. Any good stories from the event?

Nah, there wasn't anything specific that stood out a whole lot. Though there were a couple of people who were taking beer pong waaay too seriously. Its beer pong, the object is to drink. If you're playing it for any other reason, you're doing it wrong.

It was a great time overall though, and you're right, it definitely felt good.

[vlame]

there is a smell in my room i can't find, my gf thought she saw a mouse but i call bs. we smell it immediately when we come come and only then. this room is actually the den/gameroom i rent out.