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    Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
    arashisan
         		1:41p
    The Alopekus event this last weekend went well. We started by just socializing around the yard and finishing little projects. a new helm was padded, some armour was distributed, weapons repaired and made etc. Then we went into fighting, we picked up three newcomers (of course we will see if they ever actually call back or follow through) and then we had a javelin throwing competition. That was actually pretty fun ! Two of my spartans definatly beat me out of that game! This is where we kinda broke a little from the spartan theme but oh well...things degenerated with a run to the liquor store and Chipotle for burritos. Then we socialized some more, watched some SCA video and then..well... Zombie movies. But it was fun. In our defense we DID watch some ancient history vids the next day.
    joshuwain
         		11:42a
    32 Music Meme
    It's making the rounds, again...

    Stolen from my evil twin, [info]sylvan...

    Put your music player on random.
    Post the first line from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
    Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
    Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly.
    Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

    OPTIONAL: Skip those whose first line is the title; you may also stop short on those where a few words of the first line would give the title away; ignore spoken word bits.

    1. "I'm just some dirty words on a dirty wall, eatin' take-out by myself"
      -"Late", Ben Folds
    2. "Live in my house, I'll be your shelter"
      -"I'll Cover You (reprise)", RENT (Original Cast Recording)
    3. "One month after 'Star Wars', I went off to a con; saw ten guys dressed as Vader and twenty dressed as Han"
      -"Fannish Dilema", Naomi Pardue
    4. "Well, the pizza biz ain't what it used to be, it's a dangerous job for a boy like me"
      -"Domino Death", Tom Smith
    5. "I, man, am regal a German am I / Never odd or even / If I had a hi-fi / Madam, I'm Adam"
      -"Bob", "Weird" Al Yankovic
    6. "It's all right Danny, so you broke your father's heart / God knows he tried to lead you; he tried to play his part"
      -"Prayer For Danny", Matthew Ebel
    7. "Marsh child, the darkness will rise from the deep..."
      -"Mordred's Lulaby", Heather Dale
    8. "They made up their mind and they started packing / and left before the sun came up that day"
      -"The Way", Fastball
    9. "Steve's a WereWolf, but he's my guy / He's different from the rest; I don't know why..."
      -"Where Oh WereWolf", Mike and the Bots, MST3K
    10. "Don't say you didn't mean to piss me off / You put cat hair in my applesauce"
      -"Song of Kong", Ookla the Mok
    11. "It was a night like this, forty million years ago..."
      -"Walk The Dinosaur", Was (Not Was)
    12. "Start jumpin' up and swing your arms around"
      -"Dawn of the Day Before the Time of the Land the Lost Dinosaurs Forgot to Remember", Ookla the Mok
    13. "I'm your only friend, I'm not your only friend, but I'm a little glowing friend, but I'm not actually your friend..."
      -"Birdhouse In Your Soul", They Might Be Giants
    14. "'Pathological monsters,' cried the terrified mathemetician, 'every one of them a splinter in my eye!'"
      -"Mandelbrot Set", Jonathan Coulton
    15. "Well, I was rambling down the road in my pick-up truck, Defending the Faith in the 'Land of the Brave' / I got a fish on the back, a cross on the dash, a sticker on the front saying 'Jesus Saves'"
      -"Never Underestimate", Emerald Rose
    16. "Cuttin' away, there's work to do"
      -"Celtic Feast of the Dead", Fritz Jung
    17. "I thought about sitting on the floor in second grade / I couldn't keep the pace; I thought I was the only one moving in slow motion..."
      -"Regrets", Ben Folds
    18. "Now it's starting again: the rain coming down / And I'm all alone, in this one-horse town"
      -"Rain", Matthew Ebel
    19. "The trouble with schools is they always try to teach the wrong lesson / Believe me, I've been kicked out of enough of them to know..."
      -"Dancing Through Life", Wicked - Original Broadway Cast Recording
    20. "I turned on the TV set to check up on 'Battle of the Planets'"
      -"View Master", Ookla the Mok
    21. "On a fresh, May morning, I took my love to church"
      -"Merry Mayfolk", Emerald Rose
    22. "You control me, I'm your machine / You expose me, it's so obscene"
      -"Emancipation", Moving Units
    23. "Memories of things that never happened, these are -in ways- the hardest to forget"
      -"the Mirror Song", Thomas Dolby (from the Toys soundtrack)
    24. "Oh what's the use of livin' if you never learn to laugh? / Why, look at me: I grew up down among the riff-n-raff!"
      -"Philosophy", Dominic Bridwell
    25. "Starlight and magick, drawing down the Moon"
      -"the Magick", Alchemy VII
    26. "I've been sittin' at my computer, now, for uncounted weeks on end / My fair complexion is turning green and my eyes are shot with red"
      -"Terminally Ill", W. Scott "Cosmo" Snyder
    27. "Midnight, not a sound from the pavement / Has the Moon lost Her Memory? / She is smiling, alone..."
      -"Memories", Cats - Original Broadway Cast
    28. "I've been living to see you / Dying to see you, but it shouldn't be like this..."
      -"Could We Start Again, Please?", Jesus Christ Superstar - Original Broadway Cast
    29. "Rockin' with the top down, whoa-oh! / Flyin' down highway nine"
      -"the Kid's American", Matthew Wilder
    30. "I am that rare and awesome thing, and every inch ... a king!"
      -"the Madness of King Scar", the Lion King - Original Broadway Cast Recording
    31. "Ride, warrior, ride, with your blade by your side..."
      -"Warrior", Meg Davis
    32. "I'm a warrior born and a warlord made, to conquer the final fontiers / But they put my ship in a cryogen dip and they froze us for four hundred years..."
      -"Temperature of Revenge", Tom Smith
    33. "Your cruel device, your blood: like ice / One look could kill, my pain: your thrill..."
      -"Poison", Alice Cooper


    My apologies, in advance; my random selector seemed to focus -this time- on obscure filk songs. Double-points to anyone who can get more than five of these!

    ADDENDUM: Wow! [info]toob and [info]firecatmn really are kicking ass on this! Kudos!

    Yours,
    Sylvan (Dave)

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: "I'm a Creep" - Radiohead
    joshuwain
         		5:51a
    The Ammended Fast Food Meme
    Meme stolen from [info]graveyardgreg, [info]wingywoof, and [info]toob.

    Bold the establishments you've been to. Underline your favorites. Strikethrough the ones you don't like.

    Curiously, this Meme differs from between these people. I have concatenated all the versions, below.

    1. Arby's
    2. Beefeater
    3. Benihana
    4. Black Angus
    5. Buffalo Grill
    5a. Blimpies
    6. Burger King
    7. California Pizza Kitchen
    8. Carl's Jr.
    9. Chick-fil-A
    10. Chipotle
    10a. Checkers (or Rally's)
    11. Chuck E. Cheese's
    12. Claim Jumper
    13. Cluck-U-Chicken
    13a. Coney Island Hot Dogs
    13b. Dairy Queen
    14. Del Taco
    15. Denny's
    16. El Pollo Loco
    17. Fatburger
    17a. Firehouse Subs
    17b. The Great Steak Experience
    18. Hard Rock Cafe
    19. Hardee's
    20. Harvey's
    21. HomeTown Buffet
    22. Hooters
    23. In-n-Out
    24. Jack in the Box
    24a. Jimmy John's
    25. Johnny Rocket's
    26. Kelsey's
    27. KFC
    28. Krispy Kreme
    28a. Little Tokyo
    29. Long John Silver's
    30. McDonald's
    31. Oporto
    32. Outback Steakhouse
    32a. Panda Express
    33. Planet Hollywood
    34. Quizno's
    35. Rainforest Cafe
    36. Red Lobster
    37. Red Robin
    38. Red Rooster
    39. Señor Frog's
    40. Skyline Chili
    41. Sonic
    41a. Steak and Shake
    42. Subway
    43. Sweet Tomatoes
    44. T.G.I.Friday's
    45. Taco Bell
    46. TCBY
    47. The Old Spaghetti Factory
    48. Tim Horton's
    49. Wendy's
    49a. Whataburger
    50. White Castle
    50a. Togos

    Well, they forgot Rax and Culver's, so how complete can this Meme be? :)

    Also, I don't really think of "Benihana", "Outback Steakhouse", "Planet Hollywood", "Rainforest Café", "The Old Spaghetti Factory", and "Red Lobster" as "fast food" ... just chain restaurants. Perhaps they were added to up the total to 50?

    I adore White Castle; I'm lucky to have one just up the street.

    Yours,
    Sylvan (Dave)

    Current Mood: tired
    Current Music: none
    Monday, October 6th, 2008
    irish_dragon
         		9:42p
    Well Fuck!
    So late last quarter at school I got this notice from the financial aide office saying, that you need to discuss repayment options.

    Huh?!

    Still a full time college student and ALL my loans say I'm not do for repayment till 2010.

    so...WTF!!

    She said ok she would clear it up, come to find out still not cleared up, and I have to take care of it AGAIN tomorrow morning.

    I can understand once getting the notification, but twice.  It begins to piss me off. 

    I don't have enough stress as it is, lets add  more.

    Current Mood: annoyed
    gamerchick
         		9:06p
    my thoughts on Heroes, let me show you them
    ( Heroes )

    Current Mood: lazy
    Current Music: watching The Amazing Race
    jasonecaesar
         		4:22p
    NaNoWriMo is coming up.
    Who all is doing it?

    http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/165131

    Current Mood: curious
    Current Music: None
    praecorloth
         		12:37p
    Deus Ex 3...Will Canada fuck this game up too?
    http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=198546&site=cvg

    From what we know of it so far, the answer is no. In fact, props to Montreal for pissing on Deus Ex 2: Invisible War. A bigger travesty of a game there has never been.

    Archangel out.
    tribenewtype
         		12:23p
    Why not - on a lunch break anyways..
    Rules:
    A) People who have been tagged may write their answers on their blogs & replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.

    B) Tag eight people to do this quiz. These people then state who they were tagged by (I was tagged by carolinescastle) and shouldn't tag the person whom they were tagged by, that'd just be silly. Although I suppose if you change a question you can ask them to answer that, but they don't count towards your eight. Eight is a maaaaaaaaagic number.

    01. MONKEYS!!! (there was no question so monkeys I say) Um question- Who is one person from your past that you miss the most?
    From my past - I would say my uncle Talakashi. He was a great person with a smile always on his face and a love of life that was unmatched.

    02. What clothes are you wearing at the moment?
    green poloshirt, cargo shorts, brown belt and tennis shoes - what can I say, I dress professionally to work.

    03. What did you recently finish?
    DDL for a weighted average cost of goods sold technical specification document, though I am mostly through my lunch.

    04. What is your favorite scent?
    The ocean - and moms cooking.

    05. What books are you reading at the moment?
    The Idiot, and lots of tech manuals.

    06. If it wouldn't hurt your chances in the job market would you get a tattoo on your hands, front of your neck, or on your face?
    Not a fan of tattoos

    07. Do you trust easily?
    Yes - but if that is ever broken, i don't fix it.

    08. How are you act around people you have a crush on?
    Depends how well I know them, if I know them real well - I am overly flirtatious, otherwise, I'm pretty shy.

    09. What did you want to be when you grew up?
    Movie director

    10. Do you have a good body-image?
    Nope, but I'm working on that.

    11. Do you have a LJ crush?
    Sure

    12. What websites do you visit daily?
    facebook, lj, digg and google

    13. Random pet peeve?
    People who have an undeserved sence of superiority.

    14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
    Caring and amazing.

    15. What's the last song that got stuck in your head?
    Handlebars by flowbots

    16. What's your favorite item of clothing?
    currently, my comfy Mr Happy shirt. I have great memories associated with it now :-)

    17. What's better: to give or to receive?
    Give

    18. What turns you on in your preferred gender(s)?
    Trust and intelligence.

    19. Is there anything you want so bad right now?
    Yes.

    20. What should you be doing right now?
    Working on that aforementioned tech spec.

    21. What would you rather be doing now?
    Working on my own projects.

    And I'm tagging...
    elfgirlgamanda, kaffine23, kenziepuppy, snowraven143, stuckintraffik
    gamerchick
         		10:56a
    Another one of my articles is up at Gamegrene: Choose Your Own Adventure.

    Of the many topics of conversation that recur among gamers, tales of bad GMs of games gone by is one of the most popular. Most of us have experienced at least one of the classics: the killer D&D DM who seemed to delight in throwing PCs up against unkillable monsters and unsolvable puzzles, the GURPS GM whose lack of creativity turned the game into to a death march of random encounters, the World of Darkness ST so enamored with the doings of his badass NPCs that the PCs never got the chance to shine. While all bad GMs are unique in their own frustrating ways, what many people don't realize is that most of them have one crucial thing in common: They don't allow players to make meaningful choices with the potential to change the course of the game...

    As always, I welcome comments either here or at Gamegrene.

    I had a fun weekend and a good show at Pagan Pride despite being ridiculously tired throughout it for some unknown reason. Maybe a few months of 6-7 hours of sleep a night is finally beginning to wear me down. Unfortunately that is not likely to get better anytime soon so I'd better just hope that I can get completely accustomed to it. Anyway, it was really nice to have a couple days of just doing pagan-y things and focusing on that aspect of myself, and it made me feel a lot better about all these religious issues I've been having and sort of break through a bunch of blockages. So that was good.

    Music-wise, I sold a bunch of CDs at Pride, and am also in the process of booking a couple of very exciting shows within the next few months. More details on that as I get them. For now, it should be enough to know that the Player Characters are performing another electric show at the St. Paul Eagles Club on Friday, October 17 at 11:30 p.m. I know it's ridiculously late, and I'm sorry; we're trying to get away from stuff like that but didn't manage it this time. Still, if you wanna come out, cover is $5 and the venue is a wonderful divey space with exceedingly cheap beer and good people. We'd love to see you there.

    Right, and with that I should get to work of some variety...

    Current Mood: calm
    Sunday, October 5th, 2008
    big_ragu
         		11:50p
    update time
    Gah! I've been a bad LJ Friend lately! Bloody few comments and posts, I know, I know.

    But I still love y'all!!

    Pretty major lifestyle change for me, lot less time online. What little time I have OL is mostly at TheColonialFleet and 300DC (This... Is... SPARTA!!!)

    Quit Netflix, quit cable, quit casual dating, quit eating out, quit being a talk radio junkie, (mostly) quit drinking, completely quit the "drinking lifestyle."

    I'm working out at least an hour every day (Yay! P90X! Yay!) and believe it or not, I'm loving it. Well, mostly. There are times I don't love it, but I forget about that when I'm done. Then I love it again.

    For record keeping purposes, I'm going by my bathroom scale, even though I happen to know for a fact it reads about 3 pounds high. On that scale, I weighed 215 today, which means I actually weighed about 212 today, which is the lowest I've been since I quit varsity swimming in 11th grade. I also got rid of all the bloat I gained in the two months before Dragon*Con (yeah, I looked like shit, I know) and am on the verge of needing a brand new hole in my belt so my work pants stay up.

    Among my goals for the year (measured in between Dragon*Cons for 300DC) is to be below 200 pounds again. Tony Horton says goals are important and I agree. Tony Horton is also a total bastard and I want to punch him. But I love Tony Horton and I need him.

    All in all, things are well. Late night, come home. Work sucks, I know.
    irish_dragon
         		9:59p
    Hmmm...
    I may need to go to Eye Of Horus some time this week.  Need some supplies, may be cheaper to do it from there, than ordering.

    Trying to get most of my Samhain shopping and prepping out of the way bef. school really picks up.

    *-*-*-*-*-*

    It's official, I am now officially in the market for a new mechanic.
    irish_dragon
         		4:11p
    Update on Etsy Sales
    A little late, but this Sale goes till tomorrow.

    The EarthPath Artisan Street Team or EAST TEAM for short on Esty is have a Sale, called the TSAE (the spiritual autumn event).  It started on the about Mabon and goes through tomorrow.   To check it out, you go to

    www.etsy.com and search in the tags area, 'east team', or for the sale 'tsae'.  It'll bring up the items currently for sale under this option.

    I have two prints for sale under this banner.

    They are:



    If you are interested, price for either at 8x10 or 8x12 is at $9 each.

    After the sale these go to $12 each.

    I also have uploaded some more cards to the Etsy site.

     

    ( More behind the cut )





    Current Mood: creative
    irish_dragon
         		4:08p
    Updates
    I've updated some of my links.

    Added Goldenwolfen to my Artist Links list, and Removed Twisted Images.
    Added Faeriecon to the Festivals Links
        I would really love to make this CON eventually, just not this year, school, budget...ya' know the normal problems.

    Removed Icraft from the listing, and rearranged a couple link areas.

    Current Mood: blah
    joshuwain
         		8:27a
    Happy Pony Day!
    Sitting here, taking a break from writing up new spells with which to spank my players (and give them tools to spank my NPCs) I feel the need to wish a Happy Birthday to the Pony: [info]kamberlane!

    May your day bring about as much happiness as falling out of a plane, handsome! <hugs and kisses>

    You're one of those geeks everyone loves and we all envy! :)

    May you have the happiest of days, hon!

    Yours,
    Sylvan (Dave)

    Current Mood: pleased
    Current Music: some light jazz on the sound system
    joshuwain
         		7:31a
    Pain in the Back
    What a day. Not in a bad way, but the back pain that I've had for the last 3 days really turned nasty last night as I refereed the Vanguard game. It's in the lower, left quadrant of my back and really, REALLY becomes incapacitating if I twist, slightly, as I move. Pulling out a chair in the kitchen with my left arm, for example, nearly floored me.

    The thing is, my back -as I write this, and as it's been each morning for the last few days- feels fine. This, I feel, has nothing to do with the Vicaden or the extra-strength TYLENOL I've been taking. Rather, I think it comes from lying horizontally for 8 hours, allowing my back to heal slightly. Sitting up for extended periods, perhaps regardless of the chair, slowly brings the problem to the foreground.

    I'm not sure why but I've also been having nasty nightmares for the past 3 nights and I've also been waking up with a headache, each morning thereafter. The one I got this morning is coming back, now, after a hot, concentrated shower banished it around 6:30am.

    I'm out getting breakfast, timing how long I can remain up and about before my back starts getting to me, again. I'll see what I can do about seeing my doctor this coming week, but -really- I'm not sure what he can do. The last time I had this problem, I was put on muscle relaxers for my back and Vicaden, the latter of which I seemed to have an allergic reaction to (my back developed a rash and blisters, but that could have been due to a couple other factors, as well).

    Anyway, despite all this, I had a good day yesterday. The game went swimmingly with some splendid role playing by just about everyone! They're nearing the End Game and, really, I'm feeling a small amount of pride in it.

    Well, I won't bore anyone with details; I'm going to simply work on not being in pain, enjoying some eggs benedict down at Wilde Roast, and doing some writing before heading off to Misfits of Gaming at Noon.

    Take care, Journal,
    Sylvan (Dave)

    Current Mood: tired
    Current Music: some light jazz on the sound system
    Saturday, October 4th, 2008
    praecorloth
         		10:09p
    Chicken dish thing.
    So I'm making my baked chicken dish thing that I make sometimes. I took some pictures, I'll take some more and then I'll post what I did and the result. But I just want to say one thing.

    Broccoli. Steam it. Or else it's not broccoli.

    Archangel out.
    irish_dragon
         		10:01p
    hmmm
    So apparently I was wrong, etsy does take money from the purchase.

    3.5 % out of the selling price, excluding shipping.

    oops!

    But again it's much easier than ebay for me. 

    And I get to be around lots of other crafty people.
    gamerchick
         		8:55p
    Heads up: The combination of me still being at Pagan Pride tomorrow and our internet being broken again (yeah, not happy with Comcast right now) means that a plot summary is virtually impossible tomorrow. I'll get caught up during the week, swear.

    Current Mood: annoyed
    Current Music: watching The Amazing Race
    mandakatt
         		8:11a
    Bleh...
    Man, this cold is still kicking my butt.... but then again, it's not really the stuffy ness and crap that's wearing me out this time, it's this bloody cough... ugh!!!

    But, I guess another thing adding to it is that I'm working today, then add on the fact that I'm on call....

    Urkburgles!

    I'm gonna get so burnt out if I'm not careful. [....er.. like I'm NOT already there... ]

    *sigh* But, Furmeet this afternoon. Cause of how bleh I feel, not sure how long I will stay.

    In other news, the office I work at is going to be moving. I get to add an extra 10 mintues to my morning commute. Yay! *sarcasm* *shrugs* Whatever I guess.. But, perhaps if I keep nudging them a bit, I'll get to work from home. Sounds like the remote setup will be easier with the new phone system we're getting. Gods, if I could just do that for 2 days a week now... save me moola on da fuels.

    October snuck up on me too. o_O I has a buncha stuff to get done before November hits. Gleep!

    New Furnace, and my A/C unit went in last week. I must say, compared to the old furnace, the new one is UBER tiny, but heats much betters than the other one! Toasty! =P Then close to the end of the month, begining of November, my new windows go in. =) Geeze... I'll have like... a brand new house - almost - with all the projects goings ons. Now! Just to get organized so I can... FIND everything. =P

    Mmn.. Yeh

    Current Mood: okay
    Friday, October 3rd, 2008
    yarrick
         		11:42p
    Crusing around the lake....
    Yesterday I took the boat out for the last time of the year. It goes into storage come Monday when I take it to my Grandparents for storage. I'll be on my last time on a boat of any kind on Monday as I plan on getting out for a few hours before work with Grandpa and use my Wisconsin Licence for only the third time this year. Wow that photography job took a chunk out of my "normal" summer...

    Anyways: What time I did have out fishing this year on my own boat, limited as it was I got some incredible pictures. Especially on my last night out which left me happy that in spite of it being a crummy day fishing wise, I made up with it with some incredible shots that will hopefully sell as prints someday.

    So lets get on with another photo post:

    ( An ode to summer in Photos: Around the lake... )

    Current Mood: accomplished
    earthfur
         		7:59p
    how to avoid a Conservative majority (VoteForEnvironment.ca)
    Neat!
    http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/

    VFE's page for Richmond : http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/node/103

    VFE's page for New Westminster--Coquitlam : http://www.voteforenvironment.ca/node/123
    polyranger
         		3:16p
    Yum!
    I just added the flour to make my stew more gravy like. And it turned out AWESOME! It tastes really fantastic. I wish you could all try some, but I didn't make that much and I don't think I can ship it to Canada because it's undocumented food. So you will all have to trust me when I say, it's delicious.

    I may have to try more things in the crockpot.
    joshuwain
         		5:02p
    Palin Humor
    simpson_hill_2008

    palinHumor01


    Couldn't resist... :)

    Yours,
    Sylvan (Dave)

    Current Mood: amused
    Current Music: none
    praecorloth
         		2:14p
    Tack on another $700 billion.
    So let's recap.

    The banks are in good shape, they're paying off their debts. Your taxes are going to increase so you can pay for the banks to be in good shape. Then the banks are going to continue to demand money for your house. When you can't pay, they'll foreclose on it and you'll STILL get to pay higher taxes so those banks can continue to be in good shape. Aren't you lucky.

    Good thing we have representatives in the government to stop shit like this...What's that? Our reps are still completely and totally out of touch with the people they're representing? Oh we're so fucked.

    "We need some more money. Start up the printing press!" Where have I heard this before? Eh, it was probably from a long time ago and not relevant now anyways.

    Archangel out.
    jasonecaesar
         		12:55p
    Costuming help?
    For this Halloween, I am looking to dress as a Starfleet officer, circa 2265-2270, command division. I'm wondering if anybody can help me figure out the following:

    1) Where do I find the right boots to go with the uniform?
    2) How can I get a phaser and communicator to stick to the uniform? I know that they used velcro on the series; does anybody have any better ideas?
    3) Where can I get good patterns for the uniform?

    Thank you all in advance!

    Cross-posted several places.

    Current Mood: curious
    Current Music: Star Wars: Episode IV
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