Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread

Posts: 968 · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:15 pm

Hi,

yeah, Avebury is quite spooky.

Remember the "children of the stones" tv series in the 70s, set in it?

Or the scarey "the changes"? Shocked

Cheers,
malc

Posts: 7874 · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:22 pm

well a project for when i can fit it in is this...i took notes of how long it took them silly celebs to get to the top of Kilmanjaro.

well i intend to do that and wipe that stupid smug look off all their silly faces...bunch of silly whining saps that they are.

the top of snowdon in summer is amazing - you can see for prb 30-40 miles if youre lucky and the surrounding areas are fantastic for walking and climbing....you can do multi-peak hikes too....wales is a fabulous place to tour around...lots of things to see and plenty of history to follow too for sure..

scotland is very similar - lots of amazing stuff if you take the time to go and look off the beaten track.

Al

Posts: 297 · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:43 pm

The wife and I celebrated twenty years of marriage yesterday by going to the Naperville Ribfest, eating Texas Outlaw ribs, taking my youngest son (he's eight) on all of the biggest rides, and listening to Blue Oyster Cult in concert. (They had Heart on the other stage.) Biggest difference (well, other than the gray hairs and the creaking knees)? Yesterday was in the 70s, and twenty years ago it was around 95 . . . and we got married in a building without air conditioning.

So, does anyone here have us beat on years of wedded bliss?

(Full disclosure: we did the nice dinner too, without the kids, but that was last week.)

Posts: 4843 · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:47 pm

25 years in August

Posts: 1255 · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:54 pm

Bracton wrote:

The wife and I celebrated twenty years of marriage yesterday by going to the Naperville Ribfest, eating Texas Outlaw ribs, taking my youngest son (he's eight) on all of the biggest rides, and listening to Blue Oyster Cult in concert. (They had Heart on the other stage.) Biggest difference (well, other than the gray hairs and the creaking knees)? Yesterday was in the 70s, and twenty years ago it was around 95 . . . and we got married in a building without air conditioning.

So, does anyone here have us beat on years of wedded bliss?

(Full disclosure: we did the nice dinner too, without the kids, but that was last week.)

We just celebrated 20 years back in March, but we didn't go to England, Scotland & Wales to celebrate until last month. Congrats!

Posts: 440 · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:26 pm

27 years last month.

Posts: 5147 · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:47 pm

I celebrated 6 years of divorce last month. Got drunk with the guys and banged a hooker named Crystal.

Kidding, of course. Excellent job, guys. Marriage seems to be an outdated concept now.

Posts: 3414 · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:56 pm

Bracton wrote:

The wife and I celebrated twenty years of marriage

Twenty years!?! How old were you when you got married? 15? Smile

I wouldnt have thought you were a day over 35.

Congratulations man. That's a pretty rare feat these days.

Posts: 1523 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:18 am

Proof that abstinence only education can lead to tragedy (although this one is funny).
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/07/02/10004621-ap.html
I cannot even begin to imagine how tormented those kids will be by their peers.

Posts: 297 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:23 am

Kingofpain89 wrote:

Twenty years!?! How old were you when you got married? 15? Smile

I wouldnt have thought you were a day over 35.

Congratulations man. That's a pretty rare feat these days.

Thanks. And I am a bit over 35. I'm just going to keep drinking those Potions of Longevity until I roll an 01. Laughing

Posts: 1547 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 8:02 pm

jasonw1239 wrote:

Proof that abstinence only education can lead to tragedy (although this one is funny).
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/07/02/10004621-ap.html
I cannot even begin to imagine how tormented those kids will be by their peers.

He forgot to cast his Silence 15' radius spell Smile

Posts: 947 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:06 pm

It's 10 pm here and you guys should hear the fireworks going off in my neighborhood right now. Recession my ass. Many hundreds of dollars of fireworks are going off each minute (a good guess). My dog will not leave my side and IT IS RAINING!!!!!!

Martin

Posts: 495 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:53 pm

Prufrock wrote:

It's 10 pm here and you guys should hear the fireworks going off in my neighborhood right now. Recession my ass. Many hundreds of dollars of fireworks are going off each minute (a good guess). My dog will not leave my side and IT IS RAINING!!!!!!

Martin

Not to much different going on down on this end of Indiana (although our rain finally stopped). I'd be ready to have flashbacks if there was more vibration from impact Shocked

Posts: 1879 · Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:22 pm

Prufrock wrote:

It's 10 pm here and you guys should hear the fireworks going off in my neighborhood right now. Recession my ass. Many hundreds of dollars of fireworks are going off each minute (a good guess). My dog will not leave my side and IT IS RAINING!!!!!!

I started this post an hour ago. My good neighbor has an assload of shells, 3-shot shells, and everything else imaginable. We're in the city limits, but it's a good show. A police car drove by but didn't do anything. Smile

10:15 PM with another hour or two of fireworks to go. Smile

[Edit: The street was filled with firework waste last night; it has been swept clean as of this morning! I have good neighbors on that side. Smile

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Posts: 472 · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:51 am

JohnGaunt wrote:

I started this post an hour ago. My good neighbor has an assload of shells, 3-shot shells, and everything else imaginable. We're in the city limits, but it's a good show. A police car drove by but didn't do anything. Smile

10:15 PM with another hour or two of fireworks to go. Smile

Same here...

... fireworks usually end by midnight (or the police will actually start driving around and enforcing the quiet by then... Very Happy

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Posts: 2688 · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:25 am

Started the day at around 7 am, did the lawn work: mowed, edging, weeding, trimming, blowing.... all that stuff.
Came in and took a nice cooling shower.

Around 10:30 am the wife went to her parents (Taking our dogs) to meet the whole crew and get ready for tonight.
Her parents, the wifes daughter with our five grandkids.
The wifes brothers and their kids.
Everyones dogs too.
The whole crew.

Most of them swam in the tank (pond) for a while to cool off, played around the farm for a bit, riding the ATVs and walking and playing with the dogs.
The tank is basically L shaped and one side is about 400' long and 100' wide, and the other side is about half that size.
There was a walking bridge over the bend of the tank till last year when we noted the steel supports holding it were beginning to fail, so it was removed for safety, which really sucks as it make for easier accesss from the farm house to the area where the cookouts happen and the fireworks are set off.
It had been there for well over 20 years.

I was working so could not get there until much later.
I got there at about 7:30 PM while they were picking blackberries and grapes from the in-laws vines near the house.
(They have another garden with some vines by the pond too)
(I have pics of them picking berries and some pics of the pond, but cant post them till tomorrow...).

We waited a little bit longer then set up and started popping fireworks at dark (Around 8:30 PM I think).
Finished at about 9:30 or so.

A typical July 4th day.

Posts: 297 · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:37 am

Sounds like a wonderful 4th, Gnat.

I started the day with a six-mile run (which Al would have done in about half the time I did). Then on to stratochamp's house, continuing our adventures in exTSR's Empyrea campaign. I had to leave early (just happy to live another day), so I could make a 4th of July party at a neighbor's house (massive beef ribs, this time), and then to the field behind the local school, where we and a crowd of others watched the fireworks.

Now that it's past midnight, it's finally gotten quiet outside.

Posts: 7874 · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 5:45 am

Bracton wrote:

Sounds like a wonderful 4th, Gnat.

I started the day with a six-mile run (which Al would have done in about half the time I did). Then on to stratochamp's house, continuing our adventures in exTSR's Empyrea campaign. I had to leave early (just happy to live another day), so I could make a 4th of July party at a neighbor's house (massive beef ribs, this time), and then to the field behind the local school, where we and a crowd of others watched the fireworks.

Now that it's past midnight, it's finally gotten quiet outside.

hey man, good to see someone exercising!!! and remember, it is about making the effort, not about how quick you do it...and quite honestly, i dont go quick or anything of the like...i leave that for the younger, much more fitter types than me. i tend to plod along and get there in the end - thats more important to me than anything else!

besides, i have a pulled calf just now Smile

hope you all had a good 4th July. i went down to the arcade for an hour Smile

Al

Posts: 1523 · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:19 am

I spent years working behind a desk and not getting enough exercise and as a result I was diagnosed about nine years ago with type 2 diabetes.
The diabetes is under control through diet and exercise along with daily dosages of metformin and gliclazide.
Since then I have lost 45 pounds and try to get some exercise every day. An old hip injury prevents me from running or even walking far but I can still use an exercise bike.
Nothing like getting some exercise and still being able to read while you are doing it. Razz

Posts: 947 · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 2:26 pm

Going out for a 5k now.

Martin