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Storm
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USA
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 Posted - 08/20/2006 : 11:27:22
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How the hell is everybody!!! Please let me know. Life is busy for me. Working, Writing, Family. Everything is cool. So let me know how eveyone else is fairing.
Any weird experiences happen to anyone lately? Me hmm I have to think about that. but none I can recall. Only lots of death at the animal hospital. 
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2006 : 13:09:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Storm
How the hell is everybody!!! Please let me know. Life is busy for me. Working, Writing, Family. Everything is cool. So let me know how eveyone else is fairing.
Any weird experiences happen to anyone lately? Me hmm I have to think about that. but none I can recall. Only lots of death at the animal hospital.
Except from the varying pain in my hip, and aside from a little snag, rather good!
The only weird experience is a low-frequency vibration in the house that only my girlfriend and myself are able to sense. We have correlated it to the ventilation system, but the actual source/cause of it still eludes us. The vibration is causing physical discomfort, and disturbing our sleep.
But aside from that, life is good.
Nice to see you back.
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McQ
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 08/20/2006 : 15:02:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Storm
How the hell is everybody!!! Please let me know. Life is busy for me. Working, Writing, Family. Everything is cool. So let me know how eveyone else is fairing.
Any weird experiences happen to anyone lately? Me hmm I have to think about that. but none I can recall. Only lots of death at the animal hospital.
Well, I've developed a snap hook in my golf game suddenly, after more than 25 years. I think it has to do with the two shoulders surgeries (rotator cuff) last year and wrist fusion surgery. No more competitive Judo for me from now on, either. I may switch my golf game from left to right handed, the way things have been going.
Let's see...what else?
My wife is still in treatment for thyroid cancer and my oldest son has Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but other than that, it's life as usual. I suppose that counts as weird.
I guess the golf game isn't such a tragedy after all.
How are you?
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2006 : 16:08:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
The only weird experience is a low-frequency vibration in the house that only my girlfriend and myself are able to sense. We have correlated it to the ventilation system, but the actual source/cause of it still eludes us. The vibration is causing physical discomfort, and disturbing our sleep. But aside from that, life is good.
Well this reminded me of something, (keeping in mind Dr. Mabuse lives in Sweden;) years ago I bought a Volvo station wagon (of course I wanted the P1800 and yet my own one - but I digress,) though the station wagon was actually a very fine car I eventually traded it in. One problem it had was a low-frequency vibration that could actually make one ill after a while. All atempts to find the source or eliminate it failed. The vibration must have eventually left the car and returned home - to your house?  I hope you find it. (I suggest parking a yellow 1974 Vovlo station wagon near your home.)
Other than that story things are OK with me. My mom is out of the hospital and doing well and I completed an oil painting on a commission from FedEx. It dramatically depicts a FedEx plane in flight. The painting was shipped last week and I got paid. Am happy about that. |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 08/20/2006 : 16:26:35 [Permalink]
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...of course I wanted the P1800...
The vehicle of choice of one Simon Templar, me seems to remember. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
1536 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 08:34:39 [Permalink]
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Hi Storm, glad you're doing well.
I too am doing well.
I've racked my brain and I cannot think of anything strange (aside from the fact that the US war machine has caused the death of thousands of innocent Iraquis for no clear reason and the majority of the US public doesn't care in the slightest).
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 12:34:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by furshur
I've racked my brain and I cannot think of anything strange (aside from the fact that the US war machine has caused the death of thousands of innocent Iraquis for no clear reason and the majority of the US public doesn't care in the slightest).
Now that is really weird. Especially since there's a very high pricetag attached to it, paid by tax-dollars. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 08/21/2006 : 15:30:32 [Permalink]
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I'm glad you are doing well, Storm. Nothing really weird around my place, except for me. My old, bear-chasing Chihuahua, Missy, needs surgery to put her left hind kneecap back in place, and I'm hoping to attend to that very soon. In the meantime, she's learned to negotiate the stairs to the back yard on three legs. The Pacific Ocean continues not to sweep me away with a tsunami, despite my cheeky atheism.
In City of Villains, I continue to develop Galathea (named for Pygmalion's sculpting creation and wife), a stone/stone Brute, readying her for participation in super-villain base raids and other player-vs-player action. She now is at Threat Level 18. Galathea has the Rooted power, though she really needs the Granite Armor she will get later. She is one of the few villains in CoV whose choice of costume is no costume at all. I suppose this whole subject is "weird" to most people.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/21/2006 : 15:30:40 [Permalink]
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(aside from the fact that the US war machine has caused the death of thousands of innocent Iraquis for no clear reason and the majority of the US public doesn't care in the slightest).
Because they are, well, you know, Iraqis. Not the same thing as humans, ya know.
Combined with the refusal of the US media to cover the number of civillian deaths in Iraq caused by our little invasion....
It is all rather disgusting, makes me want to move to New Zealand.
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/21/2006 : 15:49:05 [Permalink]
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Dude wrote: quote:
It is all rather disgusting, makes me want to move to New Zealand.
Just so ya know, the hole over the o-zone is right over NZ for a few months every year, and the rates of skin cancer are high. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/285/5434/1709 Take lots of sun lotion! |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 19:09:46 [Permalink]
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Hi Storm, nice to hear from you.
Australia is a lot more interesting than New Zealand though the boiling mud pots and caves are pretty fun. Furshur, don't assume the public doesn't care just because we don't have much representation in the media. Remember the couple 100 thousand war protesters that have been out demonstrating get very little coverage in the news.
I recommend the book, Exception to the Rulers" by Amy Goodman which I am halfway through for a comprehensive look at the US war propaganda machine. It may give you a little hope the anti-war crowd is out there, it just doesn't have a very loud voice right now.
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 20:50:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
Australia is a lot more interesting than New Zealand...
Squeeze me? Sure, Aussie's got crocodiles, koalas, kangaroos, platypusses(?), leafy seadragons and Yahoo Serious, but NZ has... flightless birds. Can't beat that!! Actually, Australia has a few of those as well. But it's too warm there. And who wants to see a fricking opera house, anyway? |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 08/21/2006 : 20:56:40 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal
Australia is a lot more interesting than New Zealand...
Squeeze me? Sure, Aussie's got crocodiles, koalas, kangaroos, platypusses(?), leafy seadragons and Yahoo Serious, but NZ has... flightless birds. Can't beat that!! Actually, Australia has a few of those as well. But it's too warm there. And who wants to see a fricking opera house, anyway?
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed in NZ. Game. Set. Match.
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 08/22/2006 : 04:48:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
Australia is a lot more interesting than New Zealand...
Squeeze me? Sure, Aussie's got crocodiles, koalas, kangaroos, platypusses(?), leafy seadragons and Yahoo Serious, but NZ has... flightless birds. Can't beat that!! Actually, Australia has a few of those as well. But it's too warm there. And who wants to see a fricking opera house, anyway?
And where else can you see Hobbiton, fer cryin out loud!!!
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 08/22/2006 : 22:55:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
Australia is a lot more interesting than New Zealand...
Squeeze me? Sure, Aussie's got crocodiles, koalas, kangaroos, platypusses(?), leafy seadragons and Yahoo Serious, but NZ has... flightless birds. Can't beat that!! Actually, Australia has a few of those as well. But it's too warm there. And who wants to see a fricking opera house, anyway?
My time in Aussie was awesome. We traveled in a car with a tent, stayed in incredible national/state parks, had nothing but incredible experiences hiking deserted trails to incredible places with incredible wildlife. I never even went to the infamous Opera House though we did hit the Sidney Zoo to see the Platypuses that eluded us in our exploration.
Ever sat inside the bowl of the Singing Ship wind sculpture on the coast near the town of Emu, NSW, with a couple of quarts of beer on a night watching lightning flashes light up the mesa islands out at sea listening to the wind vibrate the cables?
How about hiking down a trail looking for some big waterfall and end up wading in a small stream thinking you missed the falls only to wade a bit further down and find out you were at the top of those falls and they dropped a good straight 400 feet down, all the while you were just swimming around totally unaware what was a few feet downstream?
Ever have someone drop you off in the Tasmanian wilderness to camp a few days and see your first kangaroos looking like giant rats silhouetted on the horizon as the Sun set? And see echidnas try to hide by burying their heads, or startle a wombat out of its slumber?
Drive your rental car down a dirt track, come to a sign that said 4 wheel drive only next 6k, and decide, what the heck, you've come this far, can't turn back now? Then you make it to the campground and find picnic tables and trashcans. Spend a great day hiking up huge rounded boulder hills, watch pelicans in the surf then when you are making your oatmeal for breakfast over a campfire the next morning suddenly see 6 foot long goannas peering into those trashcans?
"Jim, look behind you there's a lizard."
"I've seen a million lizards."
"Uh... this one is six foot long!"
Ever run down the beach chasing sharks in the surf?
See Koalas at the top of Eucalyptus trees listening to Kookaburras and some bird that literally sounds like a space ship taking off?
Watch emus and kangaroos and the biggest spiders and bugs that look like leaves that you've ever seen? Seen trees full of parakeets and lorikeets and parrots all the same color but different colors from tree to tree?
Nothing in New Zealand came close to the Australian wilderness experience I had. Though I have some incredible memories from New Zealand as well. We met some cavers there at a youth hostile that took us caving, and in the morning we were awakened by sheep munching the grass around the tent. Sheep munching grass make a lot of noise. It was great fun as were the hot springs boiling mud pots and eluding a campground host or two, setting up our tent without checking in.
Same trip, in Fiji it was land crabs hitting the tent in the middle of the night. They make very big shadows. And the fruit bats are huge the first time you see them. First time I heard of Yasser Arafat was in Fiji. A nice family had us in for dinner. There was a picture of Mecca on one wall and one of Arafat on the other. My friend knew who it was, but it was new to me. Amazing when I think back on it now.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 08/22/2006 : 23:04:39 [Permalink]
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