What made YOU happy today?

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

I can feel my arteries hardening already...

The good stuff then, yeah?

Pretty much, yeah!

(FTR, I like to avoid fattening stuff not because of packing on the pounds or being a health nut, but rather because fatty bad foods go right through me and I hate spending all day in the bathroom as a result)

This is a lesson I really need to learn. I'll be really, really good for a few weeks, but then the crispy, crispy lard calls to me, and I run back to it like a homing pigeon.

[moonlina]

The day that I both dreaded and thought would never get here is here: 100% audited inventory of my parts warehouse. Out of some 1300 SKUs representing at least $250K's worth of copier and printer parts, we had only six discrepancies. That damned near makes our Parts Dept. an industry leader! Yay us and yay me going back to regular hours again!

Maybe now I'll finally have the energy and desire to draw in the evenings again.

nice

[peterabnny]

This is a lesson I really need to learn. I'll be really, really good for a few weeks, but then the crispy, crispy lard calls to me, and I run back to it like a homing pigeon.

It's all about moderation.

And the proper use of cheese and salads (greens)...

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

I got my big girl license after putting it off for a really long time! Hooray being prepared to be carded. Plus my picture came out looking curiously nice.

[peterabnny]

I got my big girl license after putting it off for a really long time! Hooray being prepared to be carded. Plus my picture came out looking curiously nice.

Congratulations!

[Tim]

You need a license to be a big girl? That explains so much.

[robotthepirate]

A what now?

[Phact0rri]

I got my big girl license after putting it off for a really long time! Hooray being prepared to be carded. Plus my picture came out looking curiously nice.

Photographic evidence in the alter-ego thread?

[RobboAKAscooby]

Just got home from MCR concert, awesome night!

[Turi]

A former classmate offered me a job that would suit me perfectly: Visualization for product development at a consulting house, primarily for welfare technology. And with a schedule that would allow me to continue the part-time mathematics teacher job I'm starting on next week.

[Sites]

I scheduled a DnD session with my nephews. We're teaching them 4th edition - they're 7, 9 and 11 years old.
I'm excited!

[Phact0rri]

I scheduled a DnD session with my nephews. We're teaching them 4th edition - they're 7, 9 and 11 years old.
I'm excited!

I guess children are a good reason for 4th ED. it has a purpose after all!

[Laemkral]

I also have a D&D game scheduled! For the first time in almost a year I get to be a player and not a DM! We had some slight issues because the DM couldn't find his briefcase holding all his old 1st edition stuff. Yes, he was gonna run us through 1st Ed Ravenloft. Classic. But he can't find it, so I gave him my 3.5 and 4e books. Since he's unfamiliar with both, we're gonna run 4e cause the learning curve isn't as steep and I'll give him a crash course in the mechanics about an hour before the game.

It will be interesting, that's for sure.

Also also, I've begun clearing Germany. I fly out of here for good on February 23rd, which is YAY and also because I probably won't see my girlfriend for six months. Her schedule has gotten weird because of a possible deployment and she's not being given the full details. All we know is it involves her going to Fort Bragg to support special ops folks. No idea if she stays there or goes forward from there.

Oh, and my unit's Deployment Excellence Award packet (that I almost singlehandedly wrote and put together) was selected by US Army Europe for 1st place. It now goes on to Department of the Army to compete for the overall competition. This is some SERIOUS workplace kudos for me.

[Phact0rri]

Pathfinder is pretty fun... just saying.

I think you might mean AD&D, not first edition btw Laem.. as Ravenloft was originally an Advanced dungeons and Dragon's module. I really only know this cause me and the DM were talking about this last weekend.

[Laemkral]

Pathfinder is pretty fun... just saying.

I think you might mean AD&D, not first edition btw Laem.. as Ravenloft was originally an Advanced dungeons and Dragon's module. I really only know this cause me and the DM were talking about this last weekend.

Pathfinder is fun. I own the PHB for Pathfinder. But I have modules and more books for 4e, and it's a lot easier to teach to someone with no previous experience in RPGs.

It probably is AD&D. Honestly, I don't know or care. I'm going to leave my 3.5 books with my friend so he can decide which system he likes. The game was itself fun, even if we only got through a couple fights because of limited play time. As always, people showed up late and we rolled characters before the game. I had to help TWO people make characters and teach them the basics. We were supposed to be rolling dice by 8, first die hit the table around 10:15. I'm a bit peeved that it had to come to me saving the day with books and modules and everything because it wouldn't have been hard for me to help people roll up characters before the game (say during lunch at work) or even do the characters myself and then go through it on an individual basis before the game. Lot faster, more time for the actual game. But, it's been years since he DMed and he'd clearly forgotten the frustration of having to teach someone how to play or how long it can take a new person to create a character.

I got my fill of that during the year in Iraq, I am now a subject matter expert on inducting newbies into a gaming group.

[Phact0rri]

Pathfinder is pretty fun... just saying.

I think you might mean AD&D, not first edition btw Laem.. as Ravenloft was originally an Advanced dungeons and Dragon's module. I really only know this cause me and the DM were talking about this last weekend.

Pathfinder is fun. I own the PHB for Pathfinder. But I have modules and more books for 4e, and it's a lot easier to teach to someone with no previous experience in RPGs.

It probably is AD&D. Honestly, I don't know or care. I'm going to leave my 3.5 books with my friend so he can decide which system he likes. The game was itself fun, even if we only got through a couple fights because of limited play time. As always, people showed up late and we rolled characters before the game. I had to help TWO people make characters and teach them the basics. We were supposed to be rolling dice by 8, first die hit the table around 10:15. I'm a bit peeved that it had to come to me saving the day with books and modules and everything because it wouldn't have been hard for me to help people roll up characters before the game (say during lunch at work) or even do the characters myself and then go through it on an individual basis before the game. Lot faster, more time for the actual game. But, it's been years since he DMed and he'd clearly forgotten the frustration of having to teach someone how to play or how long it can take a new person to create a character.

I got my fill of that during the year in Iraq, I am now a subject matter expert on inducting newbies into a gaming group.

usually its either start really freaking early or make the night rolling up characters with a little prelude, in my experience. no matter how well plans are laid you aren't getting much gaming. when we started our newest campaign three weeks ago or whatever. I went out of my way to get there early (I'm always the fashionably late one) around five or six pm. and we still barely got any game done.

[peterabnny]

I had a very productive day at work today. Always nice having a feeling of accomplishment at the end of a long workday, isn't it?

[Phact0rri]

Breakfast With The Smiths this morning...

...to not be confusing I mean the radio show featuring two hours of the music of Morrissey and the Smiths

[McDuffies]

I tried to listen to Morrissey recently, didn't take.

[robotthepirate]

Breakfast With The Smiths this morning...

...to not be confusing I mean the radio show featuring two hours of the music of Morrissey and the Smiths

Cool, did you see how they're getting on with the new kitchen? ... Or do you not mean my parents?

I am happy. Just had two parcels in the post. Ordered 5 cds (£27) which could they be?

First one is... Flyleaf - Memento Mori ! Cool
Second one is... Florence and The Machine - Lungs ! Yay. (Just had Ceremonials so it seemed daft that I didn't also have Lungs)

First I will play Flylead methinks.