LadyCrimson

Jeez, I saw on the news the day before that she'd been in an accident, but they thought she was ok. Those head injuries where you seem ok but actually aren't can be hard to detect until it's too late. Poor Liam.

I'd agree. Sounds like you'd be at each others throats before long and that is rarely good for "for investment" opportunities... Does he have some personality-compatible friends he could do it with, instead?

Yup. It has nothing to do with which sex...we're all farked up somehow, someway. It's a matter of whether you find someone who is farked up in a way that compliments you. Or something. Haha. Seriously...when I hear stuff like this, my thought is "you aren't meeting the right women/men for you." Either because of where/how you meet them, or because, just like women, men can have unconscious patterns of being attracted to personality types that isn't what they really want/is good for a LTR...and all that other pscyho-babble stuff.

Looked at a used van hubby was interested in, that was almost identical to the one he currently has and really likes. Decided not to get it and he's tired of looking, so just giving his old van a paint job instead (it's completely wasted, that paint). Went to a rock/gravel place for large river stones, because I'm tired of the dirt patch in the front yard between the front door/concrete porch area and the curved concrete walkway that connects to the driveway. It's like a half-oval, humped area of tanbark/dirt that just collects weeds and cat poop. Going to fill it with rocks and maybe a small tree later. But I had to spend a couple hours weeding/shoveling that dirt/tanbark to increase the empty depth and level it out - so rocks won't spill out onto the walkways - and move the extra dirt to another spot in the yard. My arthritic hands didn't like it much, but I think I did ok. Now we just need to fill up the back of hubby's van with 400-500 pounds of rocks and bring them home. hehe

I'd estimate I've finished about 30% of the games I've bought. Many I might get about 3/4 of the way through before being distracted by something else, get burnt out because I'm afflicted with the 'constant restart/fiddling' syndrome, or sometimes, find it too hard/irritating for my liking towards the end (shooters/linear strategy campaigns). And these days I tend to choose games that don't really have a final act. The act of finishing isn't why I ultimately play games. But ones I wanted to at least try again/play more but never did might include: Sacred (didn't love it, but I did want to go further than I did) Roller Coaster Tycoon1 (loved it, but never finished the last few missions) Casear4 (ditto) Half-Life2 (a shooter I actually liked...but not quite enough)

I'm not sure that one would deal with a muddy dirt road very well either. Or at least, one would be constantly upset at dirtying up the tires/paint. So do you guys like the shortened/squished windows some cars have these days, like that? I don't mind the looks, but the reduced visibility might bother me. Sitting in my mom's Prius, I feel like I can't see anything to the sides/back. She's complained about it too and since she has old-lady driver syndrome, I worry.

How come the Fallout screenshots all come out lookin like the player got their faces dusted by an anus of a coal mine? There's a lot of incredibly weird stuff going on with skin tones in FO3. I spent some time working with different faces but after a while just gave up and took the best I could get with a small amount of work. SOme of the charcter skins in the game are bright gold, almost as much as the HIgh Elves in the ES games. I would be curious if that was intentional on Bethesda's part? Or if they just didn't do a very good job. Maybe the population has to deal with a lot of bizarre skin diseases/conditions/discolorations caused by all the .... fallout? Sorry, couldn't resist.

My brother is 6' 4" and he drove one of tiny Honda Accord hatchbacks from the early 80's for a long time. It was always amusing to watch him fold into it. Don't ask me how he dealt with it, I don't know. He's very skinny w/small feet, tho. My husband is 6' 1" but has size 13 shoes and in most small cars/sedans/Asian imports his feet feel horribly cramped (driver or passenger)/the pedals are too close together so he dislikes them a lot.

Watched Lakeview Terrace on PPV. I expected a typically stupid but still viscerally enjoyable neighbor-from-hell kind of movie, with lots of gratuitous violence and Samuel hamming it up or something. Alas, it failed even in that. The people playing the put-upon neighbors were terrible, and they had a lot of (boring) screen time, which didn't help.

Is that an official policy? Depends on the city/town. Wouldn't matter either way around here, anyhow. I don't believe firetrucks have a ladder long enough to reach from the street to the end of a backyard. The only thing that might help is one of those big crane/lifts that can lift people 40+ feet, but since the space between side-fence and house here is only about 5 feet, I kinda doubt they'd fit one through to the yard - or be inclined to try. Most cats manage to come down when they get hungry enough - but humans become worried long before then.

After a combo of pseudo-studious choices and random answers, I was apparently raised by bears, or something:

I played that to death when I was a kid, along with a lot of other folksy melodies, heheh I never got past chords/bar chords tho. Largely strummed those chords for all I was worth. Mom made me do it. I had an acoustic Martin that was small enough to fit my short fingers. Nice guitar. I can't believe how much some people ask for them on ebay now.

Yeah. My short game attention span likes the no-goal sandbox nature of the game. I keep getting to about level 25, trying different factions etc, then re-starting. One game every faction was beating up on Vaegirs and the poor saps were soon reduced to huddling in their main trade cities w/no castles left, so of course I had to join them and help them win back their territories. Hah.

After a few hours I didn't see the kitty in the tree anymore. I also haven't seen the kitty since, so I dunno if he jumped to safety or fell out of the tree in a bad way. Hopefully I'll see him hale and hearty tomorrow. At least the palm tree underneath would likely help break a fall.

Nah. We've done enough routers, switch-boxes and internet/cabletv wires in the attic/walls/running down the hallway to connect our multitude of internet pc's and small bedroom tvs in 4 different rooms as it is. My pc in here, big TV out there....more work, more wall/attic holes, not worth the effort. Plus the hulu vids would probably look terrible on a 50".

Well, I just went outside and saw that one of our side neighbors cats is stuck atop the big tree in our back neighbors yard. Nothing I can do about it, but I suppose if it's still stuck a couple hours from now I'll go knock on the door and let them know. Not they can do anything about it, either.

Porcupine shields. Their shields failed not long after and they were toast. -------------------- Ouch? -------------------- As long as your reach is longer than theirs, couched lance tactic is awesome. One-hit kills ftw.

Their commercials are funny. I occasionally use them to catch up on something, but watching on my pc monitor is not the same as watching it on the huge TV in HD. I'm visually spoiled now, and it's hard to sit still for less. We don't have a DVR at the moment, and I miss it. Plus my computer isn't set up with a comfy lounge chair, so it's not very appealing to watch TV on it. heh I think one of the issues I'm having with the show is that I thought originally it was supposed to be about rich people getting fantasy dates or social thingies, and it seems to be moving in the direction of it being rich people using the service for dangerous criminal missions. Which is it? The boss constantly mentioning the danger-risk percentage of a mission but allowing it anyway is akin to Kirk always mentioning (and then ignoring) the Prime Directive.

I get far fewer colds/flus since I started using the debit card almost exclusively vs. cash. I'm still not convinced flu shots really help that much. A little, maybe. They don't cover all strains, it's a statistical guess, and getting one doesn't mean you're immune from the flu, period.

I've never liked "chick flicks" and my parents OD'd me on most dramas. Not that I haven't liked at least one or two movies from every genre at some point. I don't personally think there are too many comic movies ... I'm just bored of them. It's what happens when I predominantly like a few film genres and their sub-categories - action/suspense, western, sci-fi/fantasy. Comic book movies to me fall into the latter, and no matter how much you like a thing, anything gets old. I wish movie companies spread their genre making trends out a little more, that's all. It's no different than Paramount sucking the life out of Star Trek by making too many series too frequently, out of greed, etc. Re: 300 - Never read the comic, but I enjoyed the movie for what it was. An over the top violent "epic" - and I use that term very loosely - about near-naked impossibly six-packed dudes being macho in the name of honor whilst fighting evil fantasy figures. I admit, I LOL'd in a few places, which made it all the more silly fun.

Overlord2 is supposedly coming out this year. I can't wait. Yes, the first was a silly, irreverent game w/not much replay value, but I still loved it. Plus it was one of the few games my not-a-big-gamer husband has liked/played in a while. I loved beating up hubby's minions while he mumbled excuses under his breath. Heheh.

Today I'm thinking about how no company can seem to make a self-tanner product that doesn't make my pale-for-an-Asian (but still naturally a bit tan) skin kinda orange if I apply it more than once. I read about some that supposedly won't and try them, but the reviews lie. But I haven't tried any that cost 100+ bucks, maybe that's the issue. Har. I don't like skin cancer, so I never sit in the sun anymore, but I do like being tan. Pah. Oh well.

I'm kinda bored of superhero movies too...but probably because at this point they mostly feel the same. The effects/cinematography is cool, but the rest is eh. Movie companies always do that, tho...make a thing to death until they move on. Think I'll go see the new Witch Mountain movie this weekend. Hey, I grew up on the original Disney film. Ike Eisenmann was the cuteness as a kid. Ah, memories. The new one is getting ok reviews, too, for what it is.

Can I ask from what? Anything specific? They've been failing like crazy lately AND they managed to release some sort of firmware that bricked a lot of hard drives: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3...7200-11-failing It's gotten so bad that they've removed their five year warranty! It is now three years like the rest of them. I had noticed the last ones I bought seemed to be noisier, in an odd kind of way, which made me nervous about their reliability. I haven't bought any since. Shortening their warranty certainly isn't a good sign.

Did you hit the Lo-Fi link at the bottom? Edit: Or ... try hitting the Options button in the r-upper corner while actually in a thread. Should have a display modes menu from there.