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I knew this would come in handy... Seriously though, I think something similar to the EU would be cool, with a common currency and such.

1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) My 8th will be Draken's 5th one.

Transmet is some of the most original Sci Fi I've seen. I love it when they go to the Religion Expo and he dresses like jesus.

It'll be our 3 year anniversary at the end of March. She's a fantastic cook and for our first anniversary she got Warren Ellis to send me the script to Fell #1 like 3-4 months before publication. Best Present Ever.

Jalapenos are what makes a tuna sandwich. Banana peppers are the pepper of choice for pizza.

She's unwilling to marry for convenience, if I shell out 3 months pay for a ring and meant it she'd probably go for it. And no, I'm a citizen so I can come back to Canada any time. And I totally agree. Canada roxorz. Every time I go down there to visit I can't wait to get home. Nothing to do with her, since when she's up here I don't want her to leave. Its annoying because she doesn't even live all that far away, 5 hour drive by car, but I don't have a car, so its 8 hour ride by bus.

I heard about some guy investing like $500 bucks of real money into his second life account, then through various real estate deals and such eventually ended up selling all his crap for like $150k of real money.

I'm in a rather unique situation when it comes to co-workers. Vancouver is like the most multicultural city in North America, so its funny watching the non-native english speaking employees try to figure out what the non-native english speaking customers are trying to order. So we have a filipino trying to take the order of a chinese, east-indian, african, german, arab, and mexican, none of which have very good english. Leads to all sorts of hilarity, especially when we get especially dumb new employees. We had one girl who must have had some sort of cognitive problems because customers would ask for mayo and she would put olives on the sandwich, or asking for parmesan cheese would lead her to stuff all sorts of jalapenos on there. The regional manager came by one day and was like "Is this her first day?" and we were like "No, she's been here for about 3 weeks" She was fired the next day.

I told her she should move up here since all she needs is 10k in her bank account when she applies (since she is eligible for the skilled workers visa) and she has a rich friend she could borrow off of then give it back when she's approved. Which would have been super easy until she got diagnosed with MS and now needs $16k per year worth of drugs.

that was pretty hardcore. Like SCA fighting only exciting.

She wants me to move down this fall, but from what I've been reading if I apply now, I might legally be allowed to in 2-3 years.

My girlfriend wants me to move down to the US with her temporarily so we can see each other more than 1-2 weeks every 2-3 months, but I'm not quite sure how to do this as it seems like your options are 1)Have a family member who is a US citizen, or B)Have a job offer from US company. I don't have any experience in any sort of trade and the GF won't marry me just to make it easier to move down. I'd just call the inquiry line but its a freaking 1-900 number and costs $1.85 a minute.

You're just a copycat of Walsingham. Anyway, Devastator is awesome, not as awesome as Starscream, but I couldn't find any decent sig-worthy images of Starscream. The quote in my sig is from someone's rant about how its become trendy to be nerdy and people will claim to be a huge nerd just because they liked Pirates of the Caribbean or something like that.

I think its been said that if he dies before finishing it, his wife will finish it, as she's been his editor/proofreader/whatever since book one and knows how its all sposed to turn out and such.

I got the latest Wheel of Time book for christmas so I'm rereading the series before I start that. Its amazing just how much I missed when I started reading the series over 10 years ago. Though I'm dreading getting up to the more recent books with their 800 pages of nothing. After I'm done that I have to read Naked Empire, the next one I haven't read in the Sword of Truth series, which people had told me wasn't as good as Wheel of Time and I now call them filthy filthy liars as it is far better. Richard is a far more interesting character than Rand, and theres not as much boring filler.

Exactly. We have a lot of good customers. Most of our regulars are great, except for the crazy guy. Everybody hates the crazy guy because he's picky about the dumbest things. Like if the guy in front of him orders a 6 inch, so we cut a footlong in half, then try to use the other half for the crazy guy, he freaks out that its not fresh enough. Even if it had just come out of the over like 15 minutes ago. No one would care if he stopped coming, it wouldn't hurt our bottom line either since all he orders is 6" cold cuts, which are the cheapest on the menu. Now on the other hand, if the cool Indian guy who comes in twice a day to order 3 footlongs stopped coming, that would be bad.

Eh? Nevermind, dont tell me. I'll see it tonight. This episode is all about Claire and Mr Bennet. With Ted and Matt along for the ride. No Peter and Isaac, which I found odd after how they left last week.

What I don't get is how they end last weeks episode the way they did, then not even mention it this week. Good episode though.

Street signs with nifty background landscapes.

Turkey wasn't one of the $3 ones, and I told him so. Turkey is like 4.19 or something like that. Thats why he was stupid. I told him it wasn't 3 bucks, he said ok, and freaked out when it wasn't 3 bucks.

I'm playing with the Magna Mundi mod right now, which solves the blobbing issue in a very annoying way: HRE nations can't keep the provices they take from other HRE nations unless they have a core on them. But they nerfed the boundary dispute event so no one ever gets cores on anyone else. I was france and managed to vassalize and diplo-annex Friesland, Gelre, Utrecht and Burgundy, and was going to release the Netherlands as a vassal, but the emperor made me give all those provinces back, releasing Holland, Brabant, Friesland, Gelre, and Utrecht, all with 200 relations with me. I've also conquered Lorraine 3 times but it won't let me keep them. You can keep them, but you get like 5 BB points for every province you keep plus it lowers your relations with all the nations in the HRE for every province you keep based on the culture of the province (for instance, I wouldn't give up Zeeland, Brabant, Holland and Utrecht and my relations with Friesland went from 200 to -200 because they were all dutch provinces, while my relations with brandenburg only went down by 100.) It does make the game pretty interesting though in terms of colonization. I used to just hire a conquistador and explorer on the first turn and head off to N/A and pretty much start colonizing right from the start. As france with this mod I wasn't able to explore the new world until like 1510, while Spain had started colonizing the caribbean in 1495 Oh, and tigranes, I notice in your screenshot you seem to have a super Sweden too. My game with france so far they haven't touched norway or Denmark, but have conquered most of Novgorod and the northern Teutonic Order and are setting their sights on Lithuania. Which was funny as they were allied with Lithuania and Poland until a war of succession event which made them carve out a couple provinces from Lithuania's northern border.

I'm struggling with FFXII. Its the hardest one so far. All the others if you got to a part that was too hard you could just go somewhere and grind a couple levels out and go back, with the enemies on the map and the real time battle system, that isn't so easy, so I tend to die a lot. Also the dungeons seem to be really drawn out and pointless. The story and character designs(aside from Vaan) and such are definitely a level above previous games though

Someone created a mod that allows the nation of greece to form if you have at least athens and morea, similar to the german nation, russian nation, italian nation, etc. events.

I hate stupid customers. Like this one guy... I work at subway, we have 3 six inch subs for 2.99, the Cold Cut Trio, Meatball, and Veggie. Guy comes up and asks our specials. I tell him those three. He orders a turkey, but phrases it as "cold cut turkey" I tell him that the turkey isn't part of the 2.99 deal and he says ok. I make his sandwich, get to the till, it comes to 4.55 after tax and he freaks out because I said Cold Cut was 2.99. I also hate people who can't take no for an answer. Mostly with our bathroom. We're located in a convenience store right on the skytrain. There are big signs on the door that say bathrooms are for customers only, so unless you buy something, we don't have to let you in. One time the skytrain broke down stranding a couple hundred people at the station, most of which decided to get a sandwich. So we had our 2 closing people trying to handle a lineup about as big as our lunch rush, which we usually have 6 people to handle. The bathrooms require a key, but the genius management put the keys for both mens and womens washrooms on the same keyring, and on just a little keyring so its easily lost. Therefore we can't just hand out the key. So we have all these people in line and we're working our asses off trying to get them through, and these moron people budge in line and ask us to open the washroom. I tell them we're busy and they'll have to find a public washroom and they get all pissed at me. After like the 5th time that happens I put up a big sign saying washrooms are closed until further notice. Which doesn't stop people from asking us to open the washroom. Same thing happens at night. The signs saying washrooms are for customers only, also say they are only open during restaurant hours. So after we close, they're closed because we have to clean them and such. So we get people coming in and we say sorry bathrooms are closed for cleaning. And they're like "So I can't use the washroom?" and I'm like "No" and their response is "Why not?" We have coupons right now, all of which require you to buy a medium drink. Yet I keep getting people who look at the price after I ring it in and are like "The coupon says 4.49, why is it over $6?" And I tell them that the price of the drink puts it up over $6. They tell me they don't want the drink, so I take off the drink and put it back to regular price, which is over $9. And they get even more pissed off. Its not my fault they can't read, don't get pissed at me. Then I get the moron customers who insist on wearing their headphones while they order and have to keep getting me to repeat myself because they can't hear me. I also don't understand how someone can watch you make an entire sandwich, then point out that you made a mistake back at the beginning, which was easily fixed then, but now that the whole thing is done requires me to throw the whole thing out and start over. And the mistake isn't normally my fault. Like they say they want turkey breast, then we get to the end and they wanted chicken breast, but they didn't think to inform me of their mistake until after its toasted and all the sauces and such are on the sandwich. Had a guy come up to me and bitch at me for 10 minutes after we were closed, about how a subway an hour away from where we were didn't take american express. I even had a guy accuse me of slacking because I was in the back doing the prep that the morning crew was sposed to do while working a 14 hour shift because one of the closers decided not to show up. Customers are the reason that customer service is dead. Employees should be allowed to punch a customer in the face if they are being morons. Like this woman that comes in and orders 3 footlongs with all the veggies. On the side. EDIT: I apologize for that huge rant. I hate my job and seriously need to quit.