Coffee Shop Forever, It's time to kick bottom and drink coffee! Options

[minque]

Phew..I'm copying my 35GB of music from my crashed pc to an external harddrive, jeez it takes time! Then I'll have to check that darn thing for viruses as well....It's just sooooooo boring.

Thank god for my Mac! Otherwise I'd been very much out!

Poor hubby, his ethernet-usb adapter is dead, he's got no internet! I'm just so tired of all this crap

[Ibis]

treydoggie .. that sounds like such fun with the grandsons. It must be grand to have little boys after raising your own kids once. I saw a wonderfully fit handsome grandfather at the traffic light with snowy white hair and beard under a straw hat wearing an orange shirt and he was pushing the cutest round little baby in a lime green stroller under a lime green umbrella and they both looked so happy. As I said hi and walked on, I thought that is really the perfect picture of Florida 'the grandparent and grandchild generation together having fun in the sun.'



And Minque, I know your frustration. We are never so aware of how dependent we are on the internet as when a sudden lightning storm pops up and we have to go off computers and unplug from the wall. At least I do, Cain now has an APC surge protector. But even worse than that is when the electricity totally goes out and man does life stop then. Like during Hurricane Charlie when we spent 3 days in the dark in our windowless soundproof studios .. but man we could still hear Charlie howling outside. It was frightening. We all pay attention to hurricane preparedness now; we didn't really before the summer of '04.

[Bolzmania]

Yeah I know. Everything with internet has been weird lately in our house. My msn didn't work for 2 days and my xbox live hasn't been working for the past week. I may need to buy a new router though. ZyXel isn't xbox 360 compatible. But it did work for 2 weeks.

[minque]

Oh crap! I can see what that means! I'll have to fix a new router and worst of all the darn thing must be compatible with broadband-TV as well!

Oh I'm soooooooooooooooooo tired of all the internet crap, I'm lucky now at my hotel I have excellent wi-fi

[Bolzmania]

Okay I'll send you a link to an Xbox 360 compatible router. It's not ZyXel. None of them works properly with 360. Mine worked for 2 weeks. There are som Linksys and Dlinks. I found a very cheap Linksys.

[Lord Revan]

Oddly enough even when I failed to connect to the internet, I still have a reasonable connection to Live..... wierd. The way my family's comp is set up it would be an ordeal to disconnect it every time there was a thunderstorm (a very heavy piece of furniture would need to be moved in order to do that).

I've never had to endure a hurricane (I'm in Texas so that figures), take shelter for a tornado a couple of times, but it passed our part of town by. So I'm pretty much zero on first-hand storm experience, but discovery helps fill in the gaps.

[Dantrag]

Well, my life right now is pretty much just a bittersweet mixture of excitement and anxiety. I'm moving next week (for a whole year) and while I'm excited to start school and stuff, it really sucks leaving everything behind. So...

I'm just hoping all goes well.

[minque]

I can see clearly now! There's gonna be a new router, hopefully compatible with all our gear....but I put internet as number 1 priority! Just as information. There!


Danny where are you moving to? Which school will you be going to then...

I do wish you all the best, and just imagine how fun it will be to live on your own! I couldn't wait when I was a student....

[Sir Radont]

Well, my life right now is pretty much just a bittersweet mixture of excitement and anxiety. I'm moving next week (for a whole year) and while I'm excited to start school and stuff, it really sucks leaving everything behind. So...

I'm just hoping all goes well.

I'm moving too, in two weeks to Colorado. Permanently. Good luck with the move and school, it should be fun .

The only bad part about me moving is I won't see my wife for 22 weeks while I'm at the academy, which really, REALLY, sucks. I'll have a good job at the end though so I'll just bear it.

[Bolzmania]

I got Live working for the moment. Don't know how. It just works.

[Black Hand]

http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=778211

Hello folks. Whatcha doin? Nothin? Well, clicky on that linky to the main site, and contribute your awesome stories to this SuperMod.

[Lord Revan]

I just got back from seeing Wall-E, the new Disney and Pixar movie. I'll admit, I've seen all their movies since I was a pre-teen. Not necessarily a fan-boy, but their movies always warrant a look and not just a short preview to judge them.
Wall-E is a fine movie, with both humerous and touching moments tied into the plot. Undeniably, there are themes of environmentalism and other issues in the movie, yet they're not central enough to detract from the experience itself.

I couldn't help typing this, ignore this if you all want to.

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Well, Black Hand, none of my stories are remotely complete. If they weren't unfinished, I might have donated them.

EDit: crap, embarrasing typo. I got carried away and forgot who posted the link. :wacho:

This post has been edited by Lord Revan: Jun 29 2008, 04:03 AM

[Dantrag]

Well, Dantrag, none of my stories are remotely complete. If they weren't unfinished, I might have donated them.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

EDIT: nevermind, I think you were responding to Black Hand, just typed the wrong name. Or, maybe I'm just really clueless.

This post has been edited by Dantrag: Jun 29 2008, 03:58 AM

[The Metal Mallet]

Greetings one and all. I'm sorta back from my hiatus of sorts from this site. I'll tell you this, me losing interest in the wonderful people who visit here was not the cause of my hiatus. I think it was merely the attempt of keeping up with everything going on here that sorta burnt me out. My life schedule also makes things difficult as the only free time I have happens be around 1am most nights.

Hopefully I'll find some time to get active in this place once again. I really miss being here and I wouldn't mind writing again too.

[minque]

Greetings one and all. I'm sorta back from my hiatus of sorts from this site. I'll tell you this, me losing interest in the wonderful people who visit here was not the cause of my hiatus. I think it was merely the attempt of keeping up with everything going on here that sorta burnt me out. My life schedule also makes things difficult as the only free time I have happens be around 1am most nights.

Hopefully I'll find some time to get active in this place once again. I really miss being here and I wouldn't mind writing again too.

Awww Mallie! I sincerely hope you'll find time and lust to be with us again....you have been missed, but it's great to see you back!

[treydog]

Good luck to you, Danny! Hope you have a grand experience.

Mallet, it is always a pleasure to see you here, even if it is just to stop by and say "Hello."

The grandsons have gone back to their solar-powered alternate universe, and the house is quiet and a bit empty.... Even the ancient dachshund misses his small pack-mates; I think they cause him to regress to puppyhood (or to try- he doesn't move fast enough to keep up). We played in a mountain stream, turning over rocks to find crawfish (for those unfamiliar- think 3-6 cm freshwater lobsters- not exact, but close enough). We played croquet in a summer rain. The boys (and their dad) slept out in a tent in the backyard for 2 or 3 of the nights.

Last night, in honor of Mrs. Treydog's birthday, the two of us saw Tom Waits at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium. It is a good place for his show- seats about 1200. The tour is called "Glitter and Doom," and he did a fair number of new songs, plus a decent selection of older material- "On the Nickel," "Innocent When You Dream," and "Ninth and Hennepin" were real highlights.

The reason this was a "big deal" to us (besides it being the day before Mrs. Treydog's birthday) is that Tom is an acquired taste. Way back, 20 years ago, when we were first dating, I brought the Small Change CD for her to listen to. I admit- it was kind of a test. If she hadn't liked it, it would have been OK... just disappointing. But that did not happen. She enjoyed Tom's whiskey-bass weirdness and still does. I remember telling my best friend that I had met a woman who liked Tom Waits and he mumbled, "That's nice." A couple of years later, after we were married, we had said friend up to the house and Mrs. Treydog told him, "I really DO like Tom Waits." When I inquired, he said, "I know you told me- I just didn't believe you."

Hope everyone here has or finds someone with whom to share those kinds of memories.

[Black Hand]

Trey, happy b-day to the missus, Mallet good to see you at least drop by, real-life is certainly a priority in said life. When things are well enough drop by, and let us know how you are doing.

As for me, the eternal search for a job continues. I am waiting for a call from a court reporter company, either today, or wednesday, they said. I'm not sure if I should call in, on the one hand, it shows interest, but on the other hand, I dont want to sound desperate.

But I'm still making use of craigslist, as I still dont have said job, and will not assume that anything in life is guaranteed.

[minque]

treydoggie! I'm glad you enjoyed the "visitation" of your grandsons! It's always nice with some small feet tap around the house. They grow too quickly you know, I just have an annoying teenager and two cocky young ladies in their early twenties.....

So congrats to Mrs treydog from me! What did you give her this year?

Blackie my dear, I wish for you to get the job if you want it! Maybe you should call them? It shows interest and that might do the trick! Hmmm just tell me if you're too bored, maybe I can help.....


Come to think of it, I wonder if the fact that there are sub forums in the fan fic section makes ppl not finding our stories? I don't know....

[Lord Revan]

Deadroth's not too bad, I played briefly with him in HALO 3. I've met worse, they're all on my friends list. BY the way, being in his early teens and already speaking/learning three languages is more than most kids in America can brag about.

[minque]

Deadroth's not too bad, I played briefly with him in HALO 3. I've met worse, they're all on my friends list. BY the way, being in his early teens and already speaking/learning three languages is more than most kids in America can brag about.

Ok...well we have to learn a couple of languages in Sweden because so few ppl actually speak swedish!

And yeah he told me he played with you Revie! He loves his xbox live, it's working ok now so I told him not to turn it off!