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[Kiln]

Not much going on with me right now, same old same mostly. Bought Dragon Age Origins the other day and I'm loving it so far, been playing it nearly non stop for like three days...damn I love it. The story is very fluid and while its not entirely original it does vary alot between characters origins and gameplay choices.

[ureniashtram]

Treydog, your not the only one with a little daschund.Speaking of dogs, im planning on getting a bulldog.Those big-jawed shorties brings a smile to my face when i think or see them.This monday, im going to watch some Japanese baseball matches.

[Tellie]

Hello for the few of you who might think there is something familiar about my name (yes I've been away for a long time) I am now anouncing my return to this wonderful forum and my goodness I've missed it.

So now I'm disappearing into the RP and Fanfiction section, as I think it's about time I satr updating some of my hopefully not completely forgotten fics.

:disappears in a cloud of chocholate powder:

[minque]

Ahh Tellie! My dear scandinavian friend! well well..long time no see..Aaaanyway Welcome back!!! So nice to see you again...

[Tellie]

Ahh Tellie! My dear scandinavian friend! well well..long time no see..Aaaanyway Welcome back!!! So nice to see you again...

Thanks Minque, it certainly feels good to be back as well. I can't say how much I missed our not so little anymore community.

Well for that's it for now I guess, I gotta go and update Telina again (update should be finished and posted within a couple of hours) stay tuned folks I'm outtie

[Dantrag]

Pardon me for (ab)using the Coffee Shop as my venting arena, but -

I'm working for minimum wage, with barely any hours. Despite this, I've done fairly well at saving money. I was actually very happy about how well I've been doing that, until I got a bill that is going to drain ALL of said money at the end of the month. At least I can pay the bill, I guess. Merry Christmas.

On the plus side, I've been working on a bunch of music with my band. We got really inspired, and worked all yesterday on lyrics, and today on the music. On the downside my neighbor thinks its too loud. I talked to her today (very respectfully, I might add) and she wants us to play on a schedule. I guess that's reasonable in a sense, but at the same time we cant write, practice, and come out with a decent song while only being able to work between 11 and 1pm. Not to mention the absurdity of someone else dictating when I do something in my own home. Creating something from nothing takes time, and unfortunately, you can't really schedule creativity. They told me to soundproof my room too, like that's cheap and I'm made of cash or something. I'm trying to get serious about music but I feel like I'm just getting stomped on in every way possible. (I would talk some crap about all these Yankees moving South and then complaining about the way we live here, but I'll let it slide this time. Too late? Oops.) I'm trying to be mature about this, but it's really hard to resist the temptation to play even louder for about 8 hours straight.

@##@!@#$%^%!!!!

Whew. Glad that's over. How are you guys?

[Olen]

Good luck with dealing with that neighbour Dantrag, she sounds a bit up tight. They can be quite irritating at times.

until I got a bill that is going to drain ALL of said money at the end of the month

We had one of them last year. This year we've decided not to heat the flat but damn does it got cold. It's warmer todat than at the weekend (and particularly yeasterday) but it's still only 12 C in my bedroom, and thats with me and a server heating it. Yesterday afternoon it went down to 7 C before the neightbours put their heating on but the way I think about it is that if I don't heat and just put on a hat and jacket I'll have the money to get myself something nice rather than just a passing moment of warmth.

I also currently do hours at uni which mean I rarely see the sun (the physics building for unknown reasons has no windows). Saying that its all slowing down now which is nice and when it snows things will be better. Another plus is that I've got a little worldbuilding forum up and running (apologies for the plug) see the sig.

[Channler]

Pardon me for (ab)using the Coffee Shop as my venting arena, but -

I'm working for minimum wage, with barely any hours. Despite this, I've done fairly well at saving money. I was actually very happy about how well I've been doing that, until I got a bill that is going to drain ALL of said money at the end of the month. At least I can pay the bill, I guess. Merry Christmas.

On the plus side, I've been working on a bunch of music with my band. We got really inspired, and worked all yesterday on lyrics, and today on the music. On the downside my neighbor thinks its too loud. I talked to her today (very respectfully, I might add) and she wants us to play on a schedule. I guess that's reasonable in a sense, but at the same time we cant write, practice, and come out with a decent song while only being able to work between 11 and 1pm. Not to mention the absurdity of someone else dictating when I do something in my own home. Creating something from nothing takes time, and unfortunately, you can't really schedule creativity. They told me to soundproof my room too, like that's cheap and I'm made of cash or something. I'm trying to get serious about music but I feel like I'm just getting stomped on in every way possible. (I would talk some crap about all these Yankees moving South and then complaining about the way we live here, but I'll let it slide this time. Too late? Oops.) I'm trying to be mature about this, but it's really hard to resist the temptation to play even louder for about 8 hours straight.

@##@!@#$%^%!!!!

Whew. Glad that's over. How are you guys?

Yea... damn those Yankees.. hah. You should make a song inspired by doucheness of your neighbor. I think that would be funny. Btw you guys got any songs up on the internet or something?

Anywho.. Long time no post guys. How yea been? I'm glad to see the community still exists even after so many years now.

[Dantrag]

Yea... damn those Yankees.. hah. You should make a song inspired by doucheness of your neighbor. I think that would be funny. Btw you guys got any songs up on the internet or something?

Anywho.. Long time no post guys. How yea been? I'm glad to see the community still exists even after so many years now.

I'm not trying to write a hate song about her; I honestly just don't want to think about it too much. I'm not holding a grudge or anything, I was just peeved when I wrote that yesterday. I wasn't really angry, just kind of surprised at the absurdity of it all. She said it was so loud she didn't even want to be in her house, which seems unlikely, since there is a fair amount of space between our houses, not to mention walls. You can definitely hear some noise outside my house, but inside hers? I doubt it. But after some time and thought I have a new mindset; it's just another obstacle I'll work around for now until I can pass over it completely.

As far as listening to the songs, we're still in the writing stage. we don't have any songs recorded, except for improv jams and small guitar fragments i lay down so I don't forget them later. I'll post a link when we get some though.

side note: these forums are still awesome, if a bit slow right now. A lot of people have come and gone, but just as many have stuck around all these years. I just realized I've been coming here since I was at most 15. (I'm pretty sure the 'joined' dates here for the old members are flawed because of the forum switch that happened. I want to say I was actually 13.) I haven't been the most active member lately, but I do lurk around still.

[Channler]

Yea man.. Its been a long time since we joined.. Doing the RP'ing and stuff. Great fun you know? Just so damn busy in college and stuff hard to remember to come back and say hi. Lots of stuff have changed since those beginning days both in life and on the forums.

I hope everyone else is doing well though.

[canis216]

Yeah, work and ultimate frisbee, keeping me busy and tired and away from my writing instruments. But hey, Chorrol is still alive and kicking. I imagine it'll pick up some more once the new TES game gets close.

[Kiln]

side note: these forums are still awesome, if a bit slow right now. A lot of people have come and gone, but just as many have stuck around all these years.

I know the feeling, if you think about it its actually kind of odd that this many people still frequent here considering how long its been since most of us were actually waiting4oblivion. There have been slow spells like this many times but it seems that even some of the people who used to come here alot no longer do, its kinda sad really since this was actually the first forum I ever joined, still one of my favorites too.

[milanius]

When all hope for progress and betterment of life is gone, what does one do? Where does one draw strength to live another 50 years caught in a groundhog day? i'm asking because I really have no bloody clue.

It's friday; I used to love fridays, but now I rarely have a saturday off. Seems like we're going to ditch sundays too, have ourselves a nice 7-day workweek fiesta for holidays. All to make rich even richer.

[Tellie]

side note: these forums are still awesome, if a bit slow right now. A lot of people have come and gone, but just as many have stuck around all these years.

I know the feeling, if you think about it its actually kind of odd that this many people still frequent here considering how long its been since most of us were actually waiting4oblivion. There have been slow spells like this many times but it seems that even some of the people who used to come here alot no longer do, its kinda sad really since this was actually the first forum I ever joined, still one of my favorites too.

Do not fret Mr.Oven, I'm still here at the very least...err that is that I have just returned from my about two year hiatus.

Still, I suppose having to work nine hours a day and have studies on top of that really cuts into both forum and writing time. Fortunately I have finished my education (again) and changed jobs so now I have two weeks with twelve hour shifts, and a month spare time between each time I need to work again.

Oh and Dantrag, I fully agree with you, creativity doesn't come and go on demand, though I do hope that your neighbour isn't such a hypocrite as mine is. My neighbour complains about me playing guitar, yet every weekend he holds loud parties, playing techno music as if he's trying to kill me and tear down my house at the same time so I basichally say F%(/&%(/ him...and I play as loud on my guitar as I want, beacuse if he thinks he has the right to ruin every single one of my weekends with his parties (not to mention drunken guests who tries to beat down my door every time) then I preserve the right to F*** up his week days so that he is forced to show up grumpy and tired every morning at work.

Phew...that really felt good I must say, anyways now that I've gotten that off my chest I'm off to write another update for Telina.

[Channler]

When all hope for progress and betterment of life is gone, what does one do? Where does one draw strength to live another 50 years caught in a groundhog day? i'm asking because I really have no bloody clue.

It's friday; I used to love fridays, but now I rarely have a saturday off. Seems like we're going to ditch sundays too, have ourselves a nice 7-day workweek fiesta for holidays. All to make rich even richer.

Well I always thing there is opportunity for advancement. Maybe not in your specific field however so you might just need to phase shift to different goals and visions. There are always stories of people changing what they do even late and life. They are happier and perhaps wealthier because of it.

For instance I'm not always going to be an active marine, one day I want to do something else and I might be 45 or older at that point.. who knows. But there's always possibilities.

[minque]

I still sneak in here about every day ...and I've almost done so since the start. I do love RP-ing...but sadly my writing is ...at a stop for now. I know where I want to go but not how to do it...hmm but I just might have a remedy for that!

Jeez..I'm sitting on a train from Copenhagen to Kalmar..it's turning and tossing all the time...I've actually been in Hannover..Great city, great Christmas celebrations...Weihnachtsmarkt YAYYY

[Tellie]

I still sneak in here about every day ...and I've almost done so since the start. I do love RP-ing...but sadly my writing is ...at a stop for now. I know where I want to go but not how to do it...hmm but I just might have a remedy for that!

Jeez..I'm sitting on a train from Copenhagen to Kalmar..it's turning and tossing all the time...I've actually been in Hannover..Great city, great Christmas celebrations...Weihnachtsmarkt YAYYY

I'f you like to visit a city with great christmas celebrations I suggest Lubeck...I was there last year. But I must say that the Christmas market at Lisberg in Gøteborg is great as well (that's where I've been this last week).

Anyways I hope that your trainride improves.

[Olen]

Edinburgh has a German market at christmas, always fun to wander round though it's horribly expensive. There's a Scottish christmas market next to it which serves food you wouldn't believe, it's no secret that we have one of the highest rates of heart disease in Europe and that market might be responsible. Deep fired white pudding may be tasty but its about half saturated fat.

Anyway I'm just recovering from the final weekend of term, no more lectures until january for me (quite a bit of course work though) . Was in Glasgow on friday to see Electric Six play, they're brilliant live and niche enough that tickets aren't too expensive. Then a christmas meal in one of the unions on Saturday which ended around breakfast time yesterday. Good fun but I don't recover like I used to.

[minque]

Lübeck has probably the most famous christmas markets in Germany, but for me it's too big! I'd like to see things not just being shoved forwards by a big crowd! I've seen it on TV...and of course it's really a big thing. When I lived in Stade in 2004 I got used to a more humble Xmas market...I even made friends there with one of the Flühwein-sellers....A very good thing I'd say!

[minque]

Ok so I'm off to Germany again tomorrow..just during the weekend, but I won't be online during that time