Ugh, storms and fires! Everyone stay safe!

DESTRI! A warm welcome home to you, my friend!

Welcome back Destri! Good to see you here again and I look forward to that update!

No storms here, just massive humidity and it being way to warm (ie above 20C). Would sort of like one to clear the air. No fires either fortunately, the one advantage of living somewhere where it rains roughly half the time...

Echoing Acadian - keep safe.

WOO HOO! Destri and Interregnum !!!

TK, I’m sorry to hear about those fires. We had three days of smoke last week from our coastal blaze, and I couldn’t believe how miserable it was. You can’t get away from it! I feel for you.

Destri, I’m so pleased that you’re back!!

Yay, welcome back Destri!

And TK, stay cool, k? Hopefully you won't get more than smoke this time around. Ugh.

Welcome back, Destri! Good to see you.

TK--goodness, I hope the situation with the fires will improve soon, so you can all have a more peaceful summer. I can't imagine having that to worry about, and I am sorry all of you have to go through that. Stay safe.

Am listening to "Furry Walls" right now. Ah how I love Infant Sorrow.

Sorry about the Jeffreys, Destri. You're not the only one. I, unfortunately, have had little time to read and comment, thereby defaulting to lurking and reading snippets when possible. Hopefully, though, the end of July will see the review process done and me with a cushy new Energy Sector job. Hopefully.

Thanks for the congratulations everyone. Yesterday I received the acceptance to the school I want to attend, so I'm happy^^. I've been really lazy with writing lately, but we're headed for Norway on either Monday or Tuesday so I hope it will give me the inspiration to continue.

One thing I love about the school system is how the gymnasium begins much later than the mandatory school though.

Welcome back Destri!

Thomas Kaira: Hope the fire is extinguished soon, they destroy so much of the environment. As well as peoples homes.

Congratulations, saquin! I'm glad you got accepted into the school of your choice. It's so much easier when you get to pick and choose where you want to go, rather than being assigned to a school. Here's to a great few years in gymnasium!

Good to hear you got the School you wanted Saqin! Does it have a particular speciality in the subjects it offers?

I've just moved house for the summer I managed to get a job, but it's in Englandshire (ie south of Berwick) so hence the temporary move. I'm quite surprised how different it is frankly, though fortunatly one of the local shops imports irn bru so that's one panic averted.

?? Usually I'm pretty good at figuring out the British terminology but this is a new one to me!

Putting on my "former instructor of English" hat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru

A treydog post! And its saturday!

Is the tree branch gone yet? Is it time for an update?

*POKE*

Is it? Isitisitisit?

Thanks a lot! I wasn't sure if it was a typo or what, but your link explains it all!

Olen, enjoy your Irn-Bru!

Writing this from my freshly reconstructed PC.

Yup, I've just finished connecting her to the Internet.

It's good to be back online.

WOO HOO! I know that's got to be a good feeling !!

WOOOOOOOT !!!! Congrats, Saqin!! That is huge news!

Congrats TK, I hope it runs smoothly. A new computer is always a fun thing to have. But then they become old computers...

And yes irn bru isn't availible in most countries (due to several of the chemicals in it being poisonous, carcinogenic or making children bounce off walls). Apparently the Russian version is more or less identical to the real stuff, which makes sense seeing as it serves the varied purposes of refreshment, utterly masking the flavour of added alcohol and hangover cure.

Anyway anything that orange must be healthy... If you're ever in Scotland it's worth a try, though a bit like the deep dried marsbar/pizza/pie it's not going to mark Scotland on the map for food (now heart disease on the other hand...)

Frankly it always amazes me how every country has some food which it's massively proud of despite anyone who didn't grow up with it hating it.

I've had this computer for about two and a half years and I've managed to keep it in pretty good shape. The only bad thing is the hardware. It can run most games available but not anywhere near as smooth as I'd like it to do. It will certainly not be able to run Skyrim or Battlefield 3. I've been thinking of getting a new one but I'm not going to bother. 1000+ dollars for a computer only to be able to run 3-4 games? Nah, I'll just get them for the 360 instead. And on the bright side, if I would get Skyrim for the PC I'd probably cheat like hell.