Imponderables: Little Things

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NVGHOSTRIDER

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:46 PM

In keeping with the theme, I love the little things a ton.

That and Little Things is also a song by Bush.

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ZEEK

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:59 PM

Little firsties?

Are guys the only ones being put under the microscope on these little or big things or do women need to be held to the same standards?

Edit: Zeek would also like to point out that women seem to be suggesting they like little things. Sounds like we've had this whole size matters thing backward guys.

NAVYSEILS

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:00 PM

I'd say its the little things. As an individual with not so much money...the little things are always there. Rich man that can buy gifts and so on but never does much else would be far worse than a poor man who could reassure you every day that he cares.

Unless the rich man was really old...and sick...then it might be woth taking a chance.

LEOPARDFLAN

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:01 PM

Zeek!

I don't know if women should be held to those standards or not, I suppose it would depend on the guy.

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Stan: LF! Stuffed LF!
Stan: That didn't sound right.. sorry. I'm not some psycho taxidermist serial killer or anything.

MSB

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:05 PM

Yes absolutely women should do little things too... both people in the relationship should!!

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FREELANCERTEX

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:50 PM

i vote little things. im not much for big thins :-\ every once in a while doin sumthin big is nice, like going out to a show or something (andrew still owes me a date to a broadway show @_-) but im more for the lil things in life ^_^

MSB

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:11 PM

See big gesture is kind of by wrote as well...buy flowers, make reservations, etc

Little things are something someone noticed you needed or would appreciate ( like taking out the garbage or checking your oil to make sure it's ok) that say they are thinking of you and your well being and want you to be happy...

Grand gestures are romance and that's nice, but in my opinion, it's the little stuff that means love

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FREELANCERTEX

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:30 PM

thats what i said :-P

NVGHOSTRIDER

Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:29 PM

Good morning Ponderers. Got my issue 3 of Better Days last night and I am as reluctant to read it as I was to watch the final disc of the BDS when I first saw it.

SO how is everyone this fine morning?

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ZEEK

Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by nvghostrider:
SO how is everyone this fine morning?

Sleepy and very much not wanting to be at work. So very glad that we have a three day weekend coming up.

RIVERISMYGODDESS

Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:00 PM

howdy Imponderables.

MsB, I'm not sure what you mean by me goin' with laconic in the last thread. That didn't really apply to the question or my answer.

Meh, I haven't gotten Better Days #2 or #3 yet. I'm behind.

*snuggles MsB*

~jimi
Lt. Alexander - Chief Medic / XO Alpha Co. / Logistics & Transportation Specialist - 76th IAB

Was your mom a flaming sword swallower? We could use somebody to replace Donut.

Is she a mean girl, or a regular girl?
Caboose, what did I tell you?
That there are no regular girls.
Exactly.

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NVGHOSTRIDER

Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:24 PM

I'd be careful Jimi. Seems #2 got me a slight bit misty and laughing at the same time. I'm sure #3 is going to be great.

Feelin' ya on that one Zeek. Seems I still have work to do outside, projects to finish inside, and I still have to walk the field from the shoot Sunday to check for lost equipment.

Hopefully Sunday I will get to lounge a bit.

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FREELANCERTEX

Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:33 PM

eh, not such a fine morning here, is raining :-P in fact..is pouring, as i look out the window lol. perfect day to stay inside and relax.

anyone know how to cure nasty neck cricks? i woke up with a nasty one in my neck, meaning i can't move my head any which way cuz it aggravates it ><

MSB

Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:43 PM

Jimi...you gave a two word response ...hence laconic

Ok why is it only Thursday.... and why oh why does that damn alarm clock insist on going off and forcing us to get upand out of bed ( eventually)

Oh there will be resting on Sunday NV... we have scheduled Sunday to do absolutely nothing and we are sticking to that schedule...giggle

FLT- fill an athletic sock with uncooked rice. Tie the end and microwave for 3 minutes... put it on your neck:)

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RIVERISMYGODDESS

Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:47 PM

Make a heating pad by filling a (clean) sock with rice and then microwaving it. Don't do it for too long, and stop it every few seconds to make sure that it isn't getting too hot. It makes a maleable heating pillow that lasts a long time, and to re-charge it, all you have to do is microwave it again.

EDIT: We posted this at almost the same time MsB.

~jimi
Lt. Alexander - Chief Medic / XO Alpha Co. / Logistics & Transportation Specialist - 76th IAB

Was your mom a flaming sword swallower? We could use somebody to replace Donut.

Is she a mean girl, or a regular girl?
Caboose, what did I tell you?
That there are no regular girls.
Exactly.

xBox 360 GamerTag: Swinger420

SPACEANJL

Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:48 PM

I don't get 2# or 3# until next Friday! Wah!

(But I just got 1#. And I was right about Simon's groovy shades as retinal scanner deterrent! )

ps any other Perez-Reverte fans recognise that painting on pg 2?

Going with the little things - I cannot function without that mug of tea first thing...

MSB

Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:27 PM

*blinks*

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FREELANCERTEX

Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MSB: FLT- fill an athletic sock with uncooked rice. Tie the end and microwave for 3 minutes... put it on your neck:)

That works? O_o

does anyone know anything about cafepress? i wanted to make a browncoat design to put on the custom military caps they have, and the sample they show looks fine, but when i add my own image to preview it looks all funny :-\

ZEEK

Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by freelancertex:
does anyone know anything about cafepress? i wanted to make a browncoat design to put on the custom military caps they have, and the sample they show looks fine, but when i add my own image to preview it looks all funny :-\

Used them once. I was not impressed. I had a front and back image for the shirt I was making. They were similar but different and they failed to notice and printed the same image on front and back. So, I contacted them to get it fixed. They said they'd send a new one right away. I thought they lied then like a month later it finally showed up and they put it on a crappy quality t-shirt instead of the kind I ordered. Since it was for an event they way missed the boat by that point anyway.

So, yeah not a good experience.

The actual print of the image seemed fine though a little smaller than I expected. Took up less of the shirt space than I thought it would.

MSB

Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:04 PM

FLT it works like a charm and it's the best heating pad. Last hours and nit's re-usable and because of shape easy to wrap around neck, ankle etc

I buy from them all the time , but never put anything up... I suggest you PM artcat or zephyr both of them do cafepress:)

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FREELANCERTEX

Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:16 PM

i'll do that, fanks msb ^_^

um...how do i find them? this site doesnt seem to have a member list @_@

MSB

Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:46 PM

Just go over to the 76th thread....both of them post there and you can PM them:)

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FREELANCERTEX

Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:59 PM

thankies!! ^_^

FREELANCERTEX

Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:15 PM

shit. i can't find em anywhere :-\ either of em. this site really needs a memberlist. makes things so much easier :-P

YINYANG

Friday, May 23, 2008 12:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by freelancertex:
shit. i can't find em anywhere :-\ either of em. this site really needs a memberlist. makes things so much easier :-P

http://www.fireflyfans.net/showprofile.asp?u=8034 (artcat81)

http://www.fireflyfans.net/showprofile.asp?u=21953 (Zephyr1956)

I assume those are who MsB is talking about.

Once a lurker, always a lurker.

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, May 23, 2008 12:12 AM

FANKS!!!! ^_^

RIVERISMYGODDESS

Friday, May 23, 2008 12:36 PM

mornin' Imponderables.

~jimi
Lt. Alexander - Chief Medic / XO Alpha Co. / Logistics & Transportation Specialist - 76th IAB

xBox 360 GamerTag: Swinger420

ZEEK

Friday, May 23, 2008 9:00 PM

Uber quiet day. Everyone on vacation already?

LEOPARDFLAN

Friday, May 23, 2008 9:32 PM

Maybe it has something to do with fff.net being all wonky today

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Stan: LF! Stuffed LF!
Stan: That didn't sound right.. sorry. I'm not some psycho taxidermist serial killer or anything.

NVGHOSTRIDER

Friday, May 23, 2008 9:39 PM

Was for me. A pain and a half to get on earlier.

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LEOPARDFLAN

Friday, May 23, 2008 10:31 PM

Yeah really

Ya gotta wonder if the site ain't starting to fall apart... spells of slowness and all....

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Stan: LF! Stuffed LF!
Stan: That didn't sound right.. sorry. I'm not some psycho taxidermist serial killer or anything.

NVGHOSTRIDER

Friday, May 23, 2008 10:36 PM

Used to be much MUCH worse. It is actually a seldom occasion now.

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LEOPARDFLAN

Friday, May 23, 2008 11:46 PM

That's a good thing, then

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Stan: LF! Stuffed LF!
Stan: That didn't sound right.. sorry. I'm not some psycho taxidermist serial killer or anything.

MSB

Saturday, May 24, 2008 7:58 PM

Yes that would be who I'm talking about:)

I couldn't get on yesterday when I tried...glad I can now:)

NV for being the sweetest sexiest most wonderful man in the world ( sorry for the mush , just had to say it)

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Ain't Love GRAND!!!

FREELANCERTEX

Sunday, May 25, 2008 1:56 AM

hellooooooooooooooooooooo ponderers. this site HAS been acting slow lately, nice to know im not the only one :-P

so, how's everyone on this holiday weekend?

FREELANCERTEX

Monday, May 26, 2008 2:25 AM

ok...*bump* where is everyone?

KNIGHTREYEDER

Monday, May 26, 2008 12:54 PM

So I'm slow....about the thread topic, I always loved the line "nothing is trivial." Hence my agreement and not just in order to agree......

I think the site has sluggish moments that make me want to fetch a large caliber weapon. I have high speed cable etc so I'm pretty sure it's not that.......and my computer is practically a Cray (just kidding).

I think it may be a slow day seeing how many get Memorial day off.......speaking of-

Memorial day, for you dayshifters, remember....One Nation, One Moment. At 3 pm today remember those that have fallen with a moment of silence. No one wants to be forgotten.

http://www.remember.gov/

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FREELANCERTEX

Monday, May 26, 2008 3:03 PM

mornin all. the memorial day flyover just ain't the same without the A-10s flyin over. the helicopters just don't cut it.

*runs away crying*

I want my planes back. i misses them. *reminisces petting one goodbye*

NVGHOSTRIDER

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 3:39 PM

Heya folkses.

Call me what you will but I could just not push myself to attend services yeaterday. I've been tending gravesites and attending Memorial Day services since I was a small child. Just couldn't do it.

Having problems figuring out why.

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FREELANCERTEX

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 3:57 PM

*hugs NV*

NVGHOSTRIDER

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 5:40 PM

Thanks FLT. I had a great time hanging out at home and doing as little as possible. Three days of that really felt good. Even went and saw Prince Caspian and was treated to a buffet dinner and a few hours discussion with an old friend and his woman. MSB seemed to have a great time too.

The conflict is probably not doing what I feel is an obligation this year. Ususally there is a strong sense of duty but I'd rather honor on my own time rather than to look good in front of everyone in my community.

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MSB

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:38 PM

I had a wonderful weekend... NV

I'd say it's about honoring for real and not about form and appearance...

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DESKTOPHIPPIE

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 7:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MSB:
I'd say it's about honoring for real and not about form and appearance...

(but form and appearance are nice too!)

Banners, Avatars, LJ Icons and other fun stuff at www.desktophippie.com

MSB

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:12 PM

Oh sure they have their uses, but sometimes ift feels like you are violating the spirit and intent of something by doing it for appearance sake.... like honoring the dead at memorial day ceremony vs. going out to the graves and placing flowers and showing respect on your own... both are valid activities, but if you're only going to the ceremony because you feel you have to because of what other people think... not so much honoring the spirit and purpose of the act

HUGS DTH..how have you been??

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NVGHOSTRIDER

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:37 PM

Good morning people.

Well, morning at least.

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ZEEK

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:52 PM

Man the site was a pain yesterday. I got the thread to load but anytime I tried to post it would just go all 404 error on me.

At least I could lurk.

NVGHOSTRIDER

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:26 PM

(lurks in your general direction)

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MSB

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:14 PM

It's working again...finally:)

NV

So here's hoping someone else is able to post at some point... do we know what's wrong?

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Ain't Love GRAND!!!

FREELANCERTEX

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MSB: I'd say it's about honoring for real and not about form and appearance...

TELL me about it! my mom was pissed at me for not going to the parade @_@ she said i was being unpatriotic. i was like "um...im in the military, and i respect the people i serve with and who served before me. is that not enough?"

Zeek: tell me about it, i couldn't get the site to load at ALL. thank god its workin today :-P mightve had to throw my computer out the window XD

*jumps up and down* WE'RE MOVIN INTO A NEW APARTMENT IN FOUR DAYS!!!!

ZEEK

Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MSB:
do we know what's wrong?

My guess is there's some gunk in the series of tubes connecting the internets.

RIVERISMYGODDESS

Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:41 PM

mornin' Imponderables.

*glomps the hell outta the hippie* Missed ya babe, I hope all is well.

I haven't tried to get on all week, but it looks like I didn't miss much. I am glad that the downtime/slowness isn't nearly as bad as it once was.

*snuggles MsB*

~jimi
Lt. Alexander - Chief Medic / XO Alpha Co. / Logistics & Transportation Specialist - 76th IAB

xBox 360 GamerTag: Swinger420

EMMARIGBY

Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:58 PM

Hey guys! Can I imponderable for a while? I'm very bored at work.

Hmm, little things verses big things? Avoiding for a moment the obvious innuendo (it's more difficult for me to do this than you will ever know!), I'd say that I have learned to accept the little guestures of appreciation as no guy I have even been close to has ever made a grand romantic statement or action without prompting. Not tarring all men as prosaic and emotionally oblivious. Just most!

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MSB

Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:34 PM

Hey James Marsters kissed you... I'd call that a grand romantic gesture missy!! HUGS Em

Gunk...your technical explanation of the problem is gunk?? HUGS Zeek

HUGS Jimi...

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LEOPARDFLAN

Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:41 PM

No, that was the layman's explanation. The techno-babble one is that within all the wireless connections consisting of super-charged particles, there has been a buildup of non-charged particles that contain no information what-so-ever. So yeah, gunk.

Oh, and here's something for you all, that might make you laugh- Remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

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Stan: LF! Stuffed LF!
Stan: That didn't sound right.. sorry. I'm not some psycho taxidermist serial killer or anything.

NVGHOSTRIDER

Friday, May 30, 2008 4:32 PM

RAWRRRR!!! Fucking post already!

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MSB

Friday, May 30, 2008 5:15 PM

OK I give up.. try to help , get smacked. Keeps happening and yet I never learn.

NV

At least it's Friday

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RIVERISMYGODDESS

Friday, May 30, 2008 5:23 PM

now i just wish i was dead.

NVGHOSTRIDER

Friday, May 30, 2008 5:30 PM

Yes. Friday. Check it out, my fifth freakin' post worked.

Wish we could steal ya away Jimi. Seems we all need a break N-O-W.

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MSB

Friday, May 30, 2008 5:47 PM

That was NOT related to you Jimi...HUGS

Yeah we all need a break NV

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RIVERISMYGODDESS

Friday, May 30, 2008 6:08 PM

Sorry, that wasn't related to you either MsB, it was just because all the stuff going on overall right now (see e-mail)

*snuggles MsB*

I hope you're all having a good Friday. I'm about to go home and get out of my mind for a few weeks.

~jimi
Lt. Alexander - Chief Medic / XO Alpha Co. / Logistics & Transportation Specialist - 76th IAB

xBox 360 GamerTag: Swinger420

MSB

Friday, May 30, 2008 8:05 PM

I am reasonably confident that you have to be in your mind to go out of it... but I get what you meant..HUGS

OK I give, the allergies win. I am going home

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Ain't Love GRAND!!!

MSB

Saturday, May 31, 2008 3:31 AM

Bumpin for the weekend...and here's hoping it's a good one

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EMMARIGBY

Saturday, May 31, 2008 10:16 AM

I hate it when life is mean to my favorite Browncoats. Heartfelt hugs from me, Jimi, and hope you get time to yourself to unwind this weekend.

I have the house to myself this weekend so am about to put some music on, take a book into the bath with me, light some candles, drink some wine and eat some chocoalte.

It's true what they say, women rule at multitasking!

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Hissssssssss!

ZEEK

Monday, June 2, 2008 4:04 PM

*tired* Spent all weekend getting my apartment that I never clean into shape for hosting the austin browncoats. Now I'm all exhausted and need a weekend to unwind. Today is Friday right?

NVGHOSTRIDER

Monday, June 2, 2008 4:08 PM

Yay, FRIDAY!!!

Wait, huh?

Crap. Thanks Zeek.

Oh, good news. The Sunday shoot was good, we can plant a lawn now, and we have a Wii.

Just need time to try it out now.

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MSB

Monday, June 2, 2008 6:49 PM

Morning all

HUGS Em.. that sounds lucious and wonderful. I hope you enjoyed it immensely:)

HUGS Zeek...um maybe you could nap some

NV Wii...giggle

Oh and Geek Squad solved the problem ( and sadly it turns out had I thought for 10 minutes and not gotten frustrated I could have solved it myself) so all set with my new PDA

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NVGHOSTRIDER

Monday, June 2, 2008 7:57 PM

RPG!!!

Someone's gonna get it in their ass and I'll make sure it hurts.

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-Lee Marvin

NVGHOSTRIDER

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 8:13 PM

Tuesday
BUMP
because something tells me I won't be around to do so in a few days.

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Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.
-Lee Marvin

NVGHOSTRIDER

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 7:19 PM

Bumpin'
for Wednesday. Still holding on.

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Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.
-Lee Marvin

LEOPARDFLAN

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 7:24 PM

Bump-adee, bump-adoodle, bump-adoodle-dee...

*that was me singing badly off-key because I have no talent*

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Stan: LF! Stuffed LF!
Stan: That didn't sound right.. sorry. I'm not some psycho taxidermist serial killer or anything.

MSB

Thursday, June 5, 2008 1:37 AM

HUGS all ...ok we won't be here for a few days. We're leaving town to visit my famly in Utah and won't be back until the 9th ( or if we can manage it the 12th)

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NVGHOSTRIDER

Thursday, June 5, 2008 3:34 PM

Ponderers! Missed you guys and it looks like I might have to miss you longer. Leaving in a few hours and I might need it more than I can believe.

I soooo love my supervisors.

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Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.
-Lee Marvin

FREELANCERTEX

Friday, June 6, 2008 1:42 AM

ooooooooooooooooooooookaaaaaaay, fff has been NOT loading for me all...fucking....week. @_@ and now it finally works, sorry for the absence ponderers. hows everyone been?

WHITEFALL

Sunday, June 8, 2008 12:22 AM

I know, I came and went and then was seemingly gone again... just... so... busy.... year... almost... over... but.... not... quite.

But yeah, another few days and I'll be free of first year o' college and off to Burbank for awesome internship-ness at Cartoon Network. So assuming I actually study for my finals (like i'm not doing now), life is seeming pretty good. And I also recently made a ladyfriend, I don't know where that will go with summer coming and us not living in the same part of the state until next school year, but gotta love a woman who'll play scrabble online with you in the wee hours of the morning.

So I will come back, really. But for the moment, must... go... work... on essay... and then study for finals. That's The Plan.

Hope you all are well. :)

"But, these strong women characters?"

"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.

"All love is unrequited... All of it." -Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5

EMMARIGBY

Sunday, June 8, 2008 10:52 PM

How's the studying going, Whitefall?

I was supposed to be working this weekend but that didn't go so well.

Not long till Summer Break begins for all teachers/ students out there!

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Hissssssssss!

WHITEFALL

Sunday, June 8, 2008 11:23 PM

Not bad, not bad... well... ok, sort of bad, but I finished and sent in my essay, so that's done and done. So i'll be all finished by tuesday evening. Which is nice. But now I need to study for my two finals on tuesday, and I'm slacking off in post-essay euphoria right now. Sooner or later I'll get back on the studying horse.

Summer... yeah, admitedly I'll have aforementioned internship, but it's part time so I plan to leave tons of time to mess around, work on my writing and try to learn guitar. That's The Plan. But still, finals. Blah. Anyway.

"But, these strong women characters?"

"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.

"All love is unrequited... All of it." -Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5

EMMARIGBY

Monday, June 9, 2008 8:13 AM

I hear you about summer plans. I have soooo many things I would like to be doing right now if I had the time or energy - like finishing knitting Jayne hats for my nephews, finishing writing the fanfiction story I started two years ago, go chase snakes and then publish an article about how they're getting on, make jewellry from my snazzy new 'how to..' book, help out a friend on his ambitious proper flying 4ft scale model of Serenity project, finish my embroidery project of a signed framed picture of each of the BDHs (got most of the signatures but not finished the cross-stitches yet)..... and many many more projects whirling around my head.

You never know, I might actually finish something some day!

Any-one else got any interesting 'projects' on the go or on the drawing board?

Learning a guitar sounds like fun! What writing do you do Whitefall?

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WHITEFALL

Monday, June 9, 2008 8:31 AM

Well, the idea is screenwriting, that's why I'm at cartoon network and that's what I'd like to do as a career, thanks in no small part to firefly. Television, i mean. It's a good long-form medium, and I'm not as fond of books as people would think, since i'm an enlish major now. (Film at UCLA is a junior level major.) But since I decided on that path I really havent had the time (I have had the time, but... you know how it is, during the school year I get really distracted and... mind you distracted with stuff like class and homework. but yeah, it doesnt work out well.) so i need to work on stuff, just in general. short films if i want to pitch them to the film club, or television episodes if i want to practice that.

and guitar... no one forced me to an instrument from a young age, which makes me sad. i sing, but i want to take up something, and i have a guitar now, but likewise during the year i just dont have time (not to mention roommates) to whip it out and mess around. so hopefully summer will be better, with the internship being part-time and all. we shall see.

Ugh, i REALLY should be studying or sleeping. at present i'm doing neither. blah.

"But, these strong women characters?"

"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.

"All love is unrequited... All of it." -Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5

ZEEK

Monday, June 9, 2008 3:18 PM

fff.net finally loading for realz!? I can post again? omg. Hi imponderers! How has everyone been? It's been so long since I could actually get in here and post. I'm glad whatever was wrong with the site seems to have been fixed.

LEOPARDFLAN

Monday, June 9, 2008 5:10 PM

Yay! fff.net's fixed (for now)!!

^_^ ^_^

Barkeep, something to celibrate!

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WHITEFALL

Monday, June 9, 2008 9:06 PM

What's funny is with my patchy return record I've come back right as the site apparently came back up, so I don't know of this downtime of which you speak.

Blah, studying.

"But, these strong women characters?"

"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.

"All love is unrequited... All of it." -Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5

LEOPARDFLAN

Monday, June 9, 2008 9:48 PM

Lucky Whitefall ^_^

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CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:31 PM

Hallo all. Apparently I also missed the down time. Stupid work.

Whitefall, did I totally miss when you moved down to UCLA? Either that or I've forgotten. I've been driving past there two or three times a week since January, and I was on the campus last December for the Nutcracker. Small world, eh?

Congrats on the internship at Cartoon Network. I used to have a few friends who worked over there, but it's been a couple of years. Part time is probably a good thing, but they will work you like a dog, I'm sure. :P

So how are you liking LA, anyway? The more time I spend in the city, the more I both hate it and love it. I don't think I'll ever be able to live anywhere else -- though my boss and my husband are making plans to start a vineyard in northern California in 10 years or so, lol. (I'll just sit over here and be techy. I'm sure the vineyard will need computers, right? Webpage? Stable wifi? Something? Right?? Hehe.)

Anyhow, I'm just stopping by to say hi. That job went to hell in a handbasket since the last time I was here -- they passed on me as Lead, despite the fact that I'd been doing the job (without the salary) for five months, and instead hired a guy who is 30 years older than me but has less than half my experience in this area, who likes to try to micro-manage me (this is not the boss mentioned above -- the woman I was reporting to before this little shift is still awesome and is still pissed off at the execs for passing on me, and I hope to work with her again on something).

So yeah, I'm going to make myself tough it out until the end of the month, because I'm a grown up and it's good for me not to cut-and-run every time things start going to shit. The loyalty I have to a couple of people there and this exercise in character building is about all I have left. The money is nice, but not really worth it at this point. :P

My health is doing ok, back on my diet pretty hardcore and it seems to be helping. That and the sunshine. I love summer in So Cal.

So where has everyone run off to, anyway??

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

ZEEK

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:49 PM

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Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:
So where has everyone run off to, anyway??

Austin. You know we gots sunshine here too? Just sayin.

Good to hear about your health and way to go with sticking it out a bit at work. I feel the same sort of dedication to the people I work with. Not so much the management or the company, but I like the people I work with and I wouldn't want to leave them high and dry. (apparently low and wet is the preferred state of being) I was just telling one of my co-workers how if I won the lottery I wouldn't quit right away cause I know it would just hurt the co-workers that I like. So, I'd stick around to train a replacement and make a smoother transition.

At least it seems like I can actually reply today. Yesterday the site was being a pain again.

NVGHOSTRIDER

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:56 PM

Hola peoples!

Back from SLC and staying home to get stuff done. Very glad to see everyone drop in (wish I coulda been here).

Be back later to catch up (tired)

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-Lee Marvin

MSB

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:34 PM

Hey all

Whitefall..congrats on the nifty internship HUGS and let's here a bit more of this lovely lady with the god taste to fall for you

Zeek..HUGS

CK- oh that's sucks about being passed over sweety HUGS

Well SLC was good. My family loves NV ( including my nephew who was so taken wth Joe he started passing me , his beloved aunt, up for NV) We went to the zoo, a bunch of my favorite eateries, had Annie's birthday party, saw a movie, and had a pretty good time...but it's really good to be home!

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Ain't Love GRAND!!!

FREELANCERTEX

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:19 PM

'lo all.

CK, do you want me to kill them for you? i can make it so they won't find the bodies...

I TOTALLY FIXED MY OWN CAR. the boyfriend (mechanic) pinpointed it as a computer problem, so we took it apart and found out that one of the resistors had gone *POP* and thats what was making it run weird >< so i looked at it and was like "...u know, i've unsoldered circuits before..i bet i could fix that if we had a soldering iron." so andy volunteered the soldering iron from his shop, we picked up some solder and the proper resistor (all have different values of course, gotta make sure u got the right one) and i successfully removed the burned one and installed the new one, and like magic my car works again ^_^ i's so proud of myself. *does a woodstock dance and blows through the roof* I'M OKAY!! ^_^

MSB

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:30 PM

OK wow and oh wow and I am so impressed!! You rock!

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Ain't Love GRAND!!!

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:56 PM

Yeah, it sucks, but I'm mostly over it. As I told my boss (the nice lady boss, not the stupid old guy they hired instead of me) recently, I'm bothered by all of it but I'm not willing the spend the energy to go from bothered to angry.

And no need to kill anyone. ;) They'll be reapin' what they've been sowin' pretty quick here. Also, the joy of being a contractor -- I've already pitched another project to a different company. It was very well received. Now I have to write it all up so we can get the artists working on it, so that we can start shopping it around to investors, so that these guys can pay me. Thankfully I don't actually have to stay with the crappy company until the good company can pay me. :P

So yeah, I'm doing ok with all the crappy work stuff. That said, it probably wasn't he best week to make 5 dozen peanut butter cookies for me and no one else...

Edited to add: FLT, that's awesome! Very very impressive.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

MSB

Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:06 AM

HUGS CK...um you're job description is showing...giggle

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FREELANCERTEX

Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:19 AM

aaw thanks MSB ^_^ amazing how one tiny thing can mess up the way ur whole car works, im just thankful it was one little thing and not many little or big things >< then it would be andy's department lol.

CK: aaaaaaaaw maaaaan, i been really restless lately, could use something to get unbored lol *wink*

MSB

Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:17 AM

Tell you what FLT...why don't you come whack the snot out of NV's evil new boss...that'd be nice:)

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WHITEFALL

Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:48 AM

Oh life is a strange thing for me right now. Because near as I can tell, just about everything is going good. (This may change tomorrow when I pack up everything and leave campus living until september, and move to Burbank temporarily, but still). Finals are done... I probably got a B in a few of my classes, but frankly I had a good enough GPA my first two college quarters that it was useful when I needed it, namely applying for internships. Even if my GPA suffers, my resume aint as empty no more. :)

CK, indeed you probably missed my announcement... uh... yeah, sometime last year when I said "woo i'm going to UCLA" and then I went there and stopped posting on here for a long while. :( But yeah, I know what you mean about the love-hate of this city, I mean it's nice, and its got all the cool stuff, but it's also dirty and nasty and angry. But what can ya do, tis where I do my schoolin'.

And MSB, that's the other thing that is going uncharacteristically well, except of course that having met aforementioned lovely lady, we then get to spend six weeks at least apart. Which will suck. But we'll always have scrabble. At any rate, it was a strange thing, I was hanging out with her last night, and upon the advice of my manly roommate who had been in a long term relationship, (and given what I learned from my last relationship where she emailed me wondering if I was going to kiss her) I was thinking of kissing her, because apparently that's what people do after a few weeks, keeping the relationship moving. But when I finally managed to ask her (I have this thing about consent, it's the only way I kiss) and she was totally baffled.

Turns out I read her wrong, she wasn't signaling that I should move faster, she in fact is just as confused about this whole dating thing as I am, for all that she's older. And so rather than awkwardly kissing, we just talked, for hours, and for the first time in my life I felt like I could talk about what I felt, what I was thinking, to the other person in the relationship. It always bugs me when you feel like the one person you can't talk to is the person in the relationship with you, to keep up appearances and such. So we talked about stuff, and how we wanted to move the relationship, how slowly in this case, because there's just the two of us and it's just our business. So... it was a good day. A long day, granted, I was up for about 22 hours and took two finals that morning, but a very good day.

Is it strange of me to be concerned that my life is apparently going well at the moment?

"But, these strong women characters?"

"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.

"All love is unrequited... All of it." -Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5

FREELANCERTEX

Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:18 PM

wait, r u a freshman? cuz i just ended my second semester and pretty much NOBODY around here hires college freshmen for internships because theyre dumb. lucky -_

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Originally posted by MSB: Tell you what FLT...why don't you come whack the snot out of NV's evil new boss...that'd be nice:)

OOH!!!! PICKMEPICKME!!! *buys a plane ticket to nevada* i'll call u when i get there, just tell me where to go ^_^ -- why is he being evil? or how?

MSB

Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:50 PM

HUGS Whitefall.. no it's not strange. when you're used to one way and things change it's weird... but you do get used to being incredibly happy ( trust me) and it's great....also soooo great you found someone you can really talk to and share. It makes all the difference to have someone like that

NV

morning FLT...how's your day going?

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Ain't Love GRAND!!!

NVGHOSTRIDER

Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:28 PM

Yay for Thursday!

Bumpage

'cause I can.

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Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.
-Lee Marvin

MSB

Thursday, June 12, 2008 5:23 PM

Bumping because I needed a minute break from reading journal articles on autism

oh and to do this NV

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Ain't Love GRAND!!!

MSB

Friday, June 13, 2008 1:21 AM

bumpin again since the site is working

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Ain't Love GRAND!!!

ZEEK

Friday, June 13, 2008 3:45 PM

Yay it's Friday. I'm glad this week is almost over. Seems like it's been a long one.

And double yay that mean girl I told you guys about before is leaving next week. So, all I have to do is play nice for the going away junk this weekend and she'll be gone for good. I only planned on stopping by her little pot luck but now I think I might go to the happy hour tonight as well. There's a cute redheaded intern around these parts who might be there. I only met her briefly a few weeks ago and her personality didn't impress then but I figure the cute and redhead part earns her a second chance.

SPACEANJL

Friday, June 13, 2008 3:55 PM

Cute? Red-headed?

If she offers you a glass of wine and a floral head-dress, DON'T DANCE WITH HER!!

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