What you did today?

[Nepenthe]

@Hurlshot your kids are beautiful. You are a lucky dude.

 

Thanks GD, they were lucky and seemed to get mostly my wife's genes

While it's kind of soothing from the "at least I know I'm funding my own kid" point of view, there really isn't anything more tragic than a girl who looks just like her father.

[WDeranged]

@Hurlshot your kids are beautiful. You are a lucky dude.

 

Thanks GD, they were lucky and seemed to get mostly my wife's genes

While it's kind of soothing from the "at least I know I'm funding my own kid" point of view, there really isn't anything more tragic than a girl who looks just like her father.

 

Maybe a girl who looks just like her father but was born with her intestines outside of her abdomen?

[Walsingham]

@Hurlshot your kids are beautiful. You are a lucky dude.

 

Thanks GD, they were lucky and seemed to get mostly my wife's genes

While it's kind of soothing from the "at least I know I'm funding my own kid" point of view, there really isn't anything more tragic than a girl who looks just like her father.

 

Maybe a girl who looks just like her father but was born with her intestines outside of her abdomen?

 

What if they were coiled around her ears, like Princess Leia?

 

~

 

I have entered a nirvana like state where I play Empire Total War and work at the same time. It's freaking genius. I love it. I have my second PC set, so I do the battles real time, and get some reading or writing, or make some phonecalls while Johnny Turk or Indian manoeuvres on the great plain in front of me, and the tiny ranks of sepoys and cannoneers sweat, and the cicadas chirrup. I swear im'm getting twice as much actually done. (I'm obviously not, and I'll calm down in a while)

 

I have also evolved a superior form of the classic 'square' for fighting cavalry or massed hordes. Th eproblem being of course that cannons in the 'wall' of the square are open gateways to whirling dervishes etc.

 

So '=' and ']' is a line infantry company, '\' and '/' are the cannons, and '#' is infantry in square or light infantry under cover. Assume Johnny Hannover is coming from up the page.

 

===== ====

[ \ / ]

[ ====== ]

[ ]

/ \

# #

The idea being that the guns fire across the face of the infantry line, and vice versa. A key point being that on the absolute face of the square ther are no exposed guns. Obviously th rear is the edge of the map, which is why it's a bit pokey in historical terms. Counter-battery work is by rocving cavalry, or by simply choosing ground well or digging in.

 

EDIT:

 

ROFL. My ascii attempt failed hard.

Edited July 18, 2011 by Walsingham

[Calax]

My buildings air is borked... again.

 

This is the third time this month.

[Malcador]

Suffering in this heat, well when I'm outside. Pretty unbearable in my house too, upper floor gets disgustingly hot, damn lack of airflow. Supposed to be 35 C later this week, before humidity. Hmph. Other than, usual spacing out at work.

[Calax]

Oh, and for the record it's 92 degrees, but humidity makes it feel like 106 (62% humidity) with the peak at 96/110 F

 

Or for you Centigrade users

 

it's currently 34 feeling like 42

[vault_overseer]

Staying inside. Thinking about going back to work tomorrow. It will be nice for a change.

 

Oh, here's my family. I was lucky to have a boy that looks just like me and a girl that, so far, looks nothing like me

[Hurlshort]

Are you set with two, or do you plan on having more?

 

My wife is 36 and she says no more for her. But we ended up with a boy and girl as well so I think that's just about as perfect as you can get.

[vault_overseer]

I'm done with dealing with a pregnant woman. Two is just enough.

[Gorth]

ROFL. My ascii attempt failed hard.

Proportionally spaced fonts for the win. Funny thing is, if you hit the reply button and look at the text, it makes sense (the spacing seems to work there, unlike when the post is submitted)

 

Edit:

[Guard Dog]

On a whim I logged on to I-tunes & E-Music and bought a bunch of 80's music tonight. I must have spent fifty bucks all told. I guess I'm feeling nostalgic or something. I've got the Fixx, Red Skies playing now.

[Deraldin]

   =====		  =====
  [	 \	  /	 ]
  [	  ======	  ]
  [				  ]
 /					\
#						#

EDIT:

 

ROFL. My ascii attempt failed hard.

 

I tend to use notepad and then just past it into code tags.

[Walsingham]

Well, I don't think I shall need to use it again. Unless you chaps have a suggestion on how the shape should be improved.

[Raithe]

Well finally managed to fall asleep around 4am again, then staggered awake around 8ish, managed to loll around for a little before getting up properly, and then had to deal with the puppy being frantic and trying to eat the cat before I could finish my first cup of tea.

Trying to gather resources to focus properly and punch through this. Been resisting the urge the last few days to fritter money away on this and that and avoid getting into the retail therapy style..

Although I did end up picking up a copy of The DC Art of Jim Lee for th curiousity..

 

Fleabombed the house, put the animals on a couple of different anti-flea treatments.. and somehow the cat keeps turning up with fleas. So trying to figure out why and where. (he's a housecat, so definitely not from wandering outside). Our best theory is that somehow the dogs picked them up on a walk, and they jumped ot the cat at home.

 

Family politics are turning such a joy at the moment, and I'm trying to just not get too involved and keep things at some sort of even-keel.

And I have the nagging feeling I've forgotten something that I need to take care of.

[Nightshape]

I drank far too much last night, I have loads to do and no time to do it in it seems.

 

I also began making arrangements to go bury my brother that died last week.

 

Go life woooo.

[Malcador]

I feel for your liver.

 

Another pointless day at work here. I may spice it up by using a different pen today!

[Gfted1]

I also began making arrangements to go bury my brother that died last week.

 

Condolences.

[Hurlshort]

I'm really sorry to hear that Nightshape. Take care.

[Bos_hybrid]

I drank far too much last night, I have loads to do and no time to do it in it seems.

 

I also began making arrangements to go bury my brother that died last week.

 

Go life woooo.

 

My Condolences.

[Walsingham]

Can't think of anything helpful to say, Nightshape. Condolences. If you feel like talking about it - which I don't expect you will - then fire away.

[Syraxis]

My condolences.

Edited July 19, 2011 by Syraxis

[Orogun01]

I drank far too much last night, I have loads to do and no time to do it in it seems.

 

I also began making arrangements to go bury my brother that died last week.

 

Go life woooo.

Sorry to hear, my condolences.

[Raithe]

Condolences Nightshape.

[Nepenthe]

My condolences, as well.

 

 

In this end, spent another day writing, the 49th in a row by my calculations. Also bought a bunch of OOP Eldar off ebay, the paint-fest starts the second I'm finished with My Greatest Achievement.

[vault_overseer]

I want to go back to work. My mother in law is never coming back for longer than a month. Frankly, neither me or my wife know what the hell we were thinking when inviting her over for 6 months.