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At the End of My Cope
This is hard for me to write. I'm sick, but I don't look sick. Most of my symptoms are cognitive. Failures of concentration, recall, and communication. On good days, I can force out a few emails. Navigate simple conversations. read a bit. On bad days, my hands shake too much to type or control a mouse. My attention span isn't long enough to bridge a commercial break. I lose time. I can barely sleep, but when I do, it's restlessly. Yet, I can't always wake up without help.
Then there's all the weird sensory shit. I try to keep myself covered up most of the time because I can't stand the movement of air across my skin. Every touch – even the absence of touch – is a torment of signal noise. Numbness, tingles, chills, the tickling of imaginary hairs. I can't trust that what I feel is real.
Because I have PTSD. Apparently.
This diagnosis is new, but it probably isn't news to anyone who knows me well. Given my history… Well. I'll just say that life has been too interesting for my own good.
When the workload at my dayjob began to snowball, I asked for help dealing with it. I was told there would be no help for me. I worked so much that I developed carpal tunnel syndrome. I asked for help and accommodation, and was told that, instead of lightening my load, I was expected to take on more. Work during my commutes. Take work home. Type more, not less.
It seemed like I had to choose between protecting my health and keeping my job. I felt trapped. Something had to give, and unfortunately, my mind said, "I QUIT!"
Medical leave started Monday. I have three months to recover from this breakdown. I don't know if that's long enough, but I have good meds, a good therapist, and good friends to help me.
Meanwhile, it took me four hours to write this short post. If you comment or email and don't hear back from me soon, please don't feel slighted. My mind moves in slow motion, right now. I can't even keep up with the outpouring of support.
Edgewise Words
Lately, I've been writing for myself. Bending to the need.
These prosy little trespassers from my brain may remind some readers of the Sandy!Plex, and my pirate life. Appropriately, because this writing is perpetrated during moments brazenly embezzled from passionless hours.
Never mind backstory: May these dribs impel us, friends. To write!
Plastic bags hissing fury from their tree-finger snares.
The scrape of fresh winter salt under worn shoe heels.
Children trudge gleefully, as if snowboots were soled with sandpaper and the sidewalk was an unfinished prop from a silver screen western.
Woodsmoke smells aggressively cozy.
Boring and frustrating; yesterday was as weak as those adjectives.
Mirth, art, and a salad wrought by a beauty with violent potential.
Twisting The Ritual Knife
I dislike Thanksgiving for a number of reasons – some principled and some personal – but for the people I love in spite of tradition, I usually abstain from speaking my mind during the holiday. Most holidays, in fact, but especially Thanksgiving. Novelly, I'm breaking my 'tradition of buttoning it', this year.
My opinion is that gratitude shouldn't be ritualized. It's absurd that, in a culture as obsessed as ours is with acquisition and ownership, we devote only one day a year to grace. And never mind that we dilute our One Thanks Day with a Black Friday chaser. Well, I say it's absurd, but it makes sense given how we feel about stuff. I emphasize those words because they are unimportant.
There's no point in my haranguing around the internet about this – whose behavior but mine can I affect, after all? Instead, I will buy into the New Year's Resolution-esque tradition of broadcasting what I'm thankful for. It's a bit, 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em,' I suppose, but not without twisting the ritual knife.
This year – as every year – I am thankful for what I don't have. I'm lucky, now, to have few cruel people or ongoing catastrophes in my everyday life. Not all my friends can say the same, and I am especially grateful to them for putting up with my curmudgeonliness in the face of good fortune.
Now, in the spirit of good-natured subversion, please enjoy ViHart's delicious One Thanks Day math videos.
INK is Indelible
Tomorrow is Monday all over again, but I can hardly wait. Tomorrow is INK day!
This book climbed right inside my heart and held it tight until the end. This book kept me awake nights back when it was just an early draft, even before I knew we'd get to publish it. Readers, rest up. INK releases tomorrow.
"In Ink, Vourvoulias masterfully weaves an increasingly complex parallel universe at once fantastical and eerily familiar: a not-so-farfetched future world where myth and legend cohabit with population control schemes, media cover-ups, and subcutaneous GPS trackers. She takes us on a whirlwind, goose-bump-inducing exploration of the dualities of life and death, the light and darkness of the human spirit, the indelibility of ink as both marker and recorder of our lives and the shape-shifting, vile nature of colonialism and bigotry. By the time you reach the novel's bittersweet ending, you will know: this story is as immortal as the souls of the nahuales of our ancestors' lore, and perhaps just as powerful." – Elianne Ramos, vice-chair of Latinos in Social Media (LATISM)
"A chilling tale of American apartheid, and the power of love, myth and community." – Reforma
"Readers who allow themselves to be drawn into the fantasy will find Sabrina Vourvoulias' story both depressing and constantly arresting, enjoying several surprises along the route. In the end comes an inkling of hopefulness for disbanding the tea bagger hold on liberty, but that's not certain. Vourvoulias won't let you off that easy." – La Bloga
"[Ink] is a politically- and socially-charged book, and overall a pretty good read." – Escape Pod
"[Ink] ranges over time, space and magic in a story by turns horrifying, heart-breaking, beautiful, hopeful, frustrating and terribly believable. Vourvoilias's writing is effortless and effective, uncannily capturing the voices of her disparate protagonists and narrators; not uniformly sympathetic, certainly not always nice, but lucid, convincing and consistent." – The Future Fire
"Readers will be moved by this call for justice in the future and the present." – Publisher's Weekly
Blogging Like It's Livejournal, Back In The Day
I tore my shirt sleeve this morning, but I was already at work so I couldn't just change. Because my cubicle is a veritable ice box, I'd already been planning to bundle up with the black jacket that I keep on the back of my cubicle chair, but still. I started my workday annoyed.
But it could have been worse. A long-awaited check arrived and made me look good to my boss, there was a birthday party with cake, and I made progress on a handful of projects in spite of being distracted by a worrying message I received. (Without apology: It's someone else's personal business, so I won't detail it here.)
During my commute, I'm always torn between reading stories and sleeping. Most days, seating is the deciding factor: If I get a seat, I sleep. If not, I read. Today was split: Sleep in the morning, reading in the afternoon.
Speaking of sleep, I need to do more of that. I'm going to try to go to bed early tonight. Meanwhile, I've a guest blog to polish, the bones of a short story to flesh, aaand probably some other stuff. I expect it'll come to me just as I'm nodding off…
Once upon a time, I used to blog regularly.
That's not right…
I blog all the time.
That's what if feels like, anyway, but this is truer:
As the end of calendar month approaches, I marathon blog. Six or seven posts in six or seven days. Reading, editing, and writing fiction happens during weekday commutes, for the most part. Sundays are for saxophone and Spanish study, plus writing groups (plural), and housework. IRL socialization, if there's time. Dayjobbery happens during the average hours of the average days.
Saturdays are for love. <3
Maybe this month I'll start marathon blogging a week early… Then I can keep all my Saturdays free for adventures with my family. If the weather is warm enough, apple picking and/or ice cream may be involved.
Use Your Fighting Words
I spent the first half of my life covering my head (sometimes literally) and waiting for cruelty to wind back down to ambient disdain. Now that nobody's routinely putting gun barrels in my face because I refuse to use racial epithets, or because I won't confine myself to 'women's work,' I am finally free to speak.
That sometimes bothers people, and I assume it's because I don't have only nice, pleasant things to say. I've incurred disapproval for being playful or snarky or downright angry in my speech. "Kay, why are you so disagreeable?" "Why can't you be normal?"
Just like everybody, I pretend a lot of things. But normal isn't one of them. I have the capacity, but it sickens me. Bigotry is normal. It should be unacceptable, but it's normal. Racism is the status quo, but it's embarrassing at best, and devastating to civilization at the scale of the mainstream. Misogyny is so pervasive, so normal, that women – WOMEN! – treat the word 'feminism' like profanity. They cringe from the very idea that we should have equal status with men. They won't even accept that nobody's choices should ever matter more than ours when it comes to our own bodies. That's normal. Agreeable gets what normal promises.
And it's awful. I will never go back. Not even if wing-nuts start shooting at me again. I lost count of how often my life was accidentally spared by a lousy shot, you know? What's a few more rounds between the mutually disagreeable? The difference is that I fire only words. If you make me choose, I'll take the First Amendment over the Second, every day of my life.
Because even when I disagree with you vehemently, even when I RAISE MY VOICE!! I would still rather listen to your bullshit than put a bullet in you. That's the difference between the Liberal I am and the Conservative I was raised to be.
Which is good news for everybody involved because I am a dead shot.
Bad News, Bad News, Bad News, GOOD!
Work, work, work. I love working. Free time is good, too, because I have a lot of projects to labor on at home, but I find industrious leisure even more satisfying when it's married to steady, paid employment. And if a job is less than dreamy? Well. At least it's fodder for my fiction.
Or, it was, anyway.
I was laid off from my old job two months and two days ago. As soon as the shock wore off – and it was indeed shocking to have survived the Great Recession with my job intact only to have that meager security yoinked from our grasp the minute it looked like we might emerge from economic meltdown relatively unscathed – I dusted off my resume and started applying to new job listings.
A week and a half later, I was called to interview for the second position to which I had applied. Once there, the second person who interviewed me said they were "appalled" I had applied for the job. I managed not to burst into tears, even though I was being paid the job-hunter's most terrifying compliment: They thought I was overqualified.
Still, the three people who interviewed me were otherwise very kind and seemed genuinely impressed with my skills. I left with the impression that if they didn't pick me for the job I'd applied for, maybe I had a shot the next time they posted a job listing in my area of expertise: Paper-pushing (for science).
While I waited for their decision, I applied to many… many more jobs. In desperation, I signed on with a few staffing firms. During my last job search, headhunters had done the opposite of helping – one even insulted me, the jerk – but what the hell. I needed work ASAP. Without a dayjob, I was scrubbing and organizing our apartment to the brink of obsession, and counterproductively disrupting the remains of my family's routines in the process.
Two weeks later, I got the bad news: Rejection… With an asterisk. They asked me to come back in another two weeks to interview for a different job. A better one.
(!@#%?! That never happens!!)
I managed not to burst into cheers.
And I kept applying to new job listings. Because I am exactly as hopeful as experience and realism allow; those who know me understand that I grew up without an allowance. So to speak. Even at my optimistic best, I wouldn't say I was confident they'd hire me. But at least I had another interview to look forward to. In a pinch, patience is a worthy substitute for hope.
The interview came and went, and tension earned a merit badge for tying my major muscle groups in knots. I started climbing the walls. Literally: I took up indoor rock climbing as a hobby. It was either that, or parkour, and I'm about as much an 'urban ninja' as I am an optimist.
Meanwhile, our favorite 'extracurricular' activity was slowly dying. Crossed Genres Publications. Our family business – and all the exquisite science and magic that comes with publishing fine fiction – was doomed. Even before I was laid off, we'd talked about holding another Kickstarter fund-drive to keep our poor beast alive. Just one more year. Then maybe it'd survive on its own and finally stop draining our resources. And then I lost my job and we had no resources left to drain.
I may not be hopeful by nature, but I am stubborn. And in good company. Our ship was sinking, but were we rats or were we pirates? When the time came, we didn't shout, "ARR!" Instead, we raised our colors and cried, "Are you with us?!"
With CG-Peoples' overwhelming support, our Kickstarter passed $4,000 in less than 24 hours. Then $1,500 more to raise our beloved magazine from the grave! And still the economic display of affection goes on. Who knows what literary shenanigans we'll get up to if people continue to put their money where our business is? Hell, if the Kickstarter brings in enough money, we might even be able to pay our writers and artists pro-rates. (I won't get my hopes up, but we do have a plan for that, just in case.)
But wait, there's more.
I got hired.
It's a better job than the one I lost. The pay and benefits are a little better. The office-culture is far-and-away-better. The work itself if more interesting, too. Yes, it's paper-pushing, but it's for science.
Between my new job and Crossed Genres' new lease on life… Well, to stretch the metaphor: We may be treading water, but at least our boat's still rocking. That's better than we could say before I was laid off.
In all seriousness, thank you, friends. You kept our spirits high and dry the past couple of foul-weather months, and you boosted our signal farther and wider than we dared hope. We wouldn't be afloat without you, and we know it.


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Marco Polo Crete: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips.
Fully revised and updated for 2016. Now with new Discovery Tours chapter. Experience all of Crete's attractions with this up-to date and authoritative guide, complete with Insider Tips.
You'll discover hotels and restaurants, trendy places to go and the best nightlife.
There are also tips for shopping and ideas for travel with kids, plus details of sports and other activities.
Further sections include: Festivals & Events, Travel Tips, Greek phrase book, Links, Blogs, Apps & more, and Index.
Useful too is the 'Perfect Route' chapter, which outlines a journey around the island, and the handy folding pull-out map supplied in addition to the Road Atlas inside. Crete is a world unto itself. Greece's largest island juts out of the sea like one massive mountain range, reaching heights of almost 2,500 m.
Everyone can find what they are looking for here: sandy beaches as far as the eye can see, secluded coves, wild gorges, great beach bars and lots of culture - after all the island was home to the first advanced civilisation in Europe. With MARCO POLO Crete you can find out where you can go mountain biking, play golf, windsurf, dive, sail and ride.The Insider Tips reveal where you can find peace and quiet in a village free of cars and where to find natural cosmetics made from avocados.
Panels in each chapter suggest things to do if you're on a tight budget and where you might pick up some real bargains. The Best Of pages highlight what's currently in vogue in Crete, recommend things to do for free, and have tips for rainy days and where you can relax and unwind.
The Trips & Tours include a hike along the length of the spectacular Samaria Gorge and right across the island.
Last but not least the Dos and Don'ts point out some of the things you need to be aware of and watch out for when visiting the island. MARCO POLO Crete provides comprehensive coverage of all parts of the island.
To help you find your way around there's the detailed Road Atlas, a useful map of Iraklio in the cover, plus the pull-out map.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 148 pages, col. Illustrations, col. maps
- Publisher: MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG
- Publication Date: 29/05/2012
- Category: Travel & holiday guides

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Today, [July 24, 2014] Edward Albee, Don DeLillo, John Green, Rachel Kushner, and twenty-five other leading American writers joined PEN American Center in an open letter to the Senate leadership demanding National Security Administration reform on the premise that mass surveillance is censorship.
Dear Majority Leader Reid, Republican Leader McConnell, Chairmen Leahy and Feinstein, and Ranking Members Grassley and Chambliss,
As writers and artists, we join PEN American Center in urging Congress to act to end mass surveillance. We recognize the need for strong protections for U.S. national security, and acknowledge that such measures will sometimes entail difficult tradeoffs. However, the NSA's shockingly broad and indiscriminate surveillance programs threaten our most cherished democratic ideals and violate our constitutional and international human rights to free expression and privacy. The Washington Post's recent report that nine out of 10 individuals whose communications are being intercepted are not the intended targets of investigation underscores the total lack of proportionality of NSA mass surveillance, and the need for reform.
It has been more than a year since the public first learned of the vast scope of the NSA's surveillance regime. Immediate reform is necessary to restore our historic and treasured balance between government protections and individual freedom.
Mass surveillance invades our private thoughts and lives, chilling speech and spreading fear and mistrust throughout a society. Mass surveillance is censorship: An October 2013 survey of U.S. PEN members, the majority of them writers, indicated that one in six are self-censoring—refraining from writing or speaking on particular topics—due to concerns over NSA surveillance. As over 500 of our fellow writers noted in an open letter published in the Guardian in December 2013, "In their thoughts and in their personal environments and communications, all humans have the right to remain unobserved and unmolested." Writers and all citizens need privacy to explore controversial ideas, conceive challenges to conventional wisdom, and to enter into open dialogue with counterparts around the globe who may enlighten our worldview through their very different beliefs.
NSA mass surveillance poses a grave threat to the United States' proud tradition as a champion of free expression. Congress must act now to protect our freedom to speak, think, write, and create freely—and in private.
Congress' failure to enact meaningful surveillance reform this year will risk enshrining the NSA's unchecked and overreaching programs as a permanent fixture that will jeopardize the free society we all treasure. We urge Congress to begin the process of reforming the NSA's dragnet surveillance programs by enacting reform, through the USA FREEDOM Act or another legislative vehicle, that achieves the following four essential goals:
•Clearly and definitively ends bulk collection of all communications metadata;
•Creates an independent special advocate for the FISA Court to press for the protection of civil liberties during the Court's proceedings;
•Ends dragnet collection of international communications, and respects the privacy rights of non-U.S. citizens; and
•Strengthens transparency provisions allowing private companies to disclose information about government orders received.
There is much more to be done, but enacting strong legislation on these four points would send a clear message that Congress recognizes the need for reform and is committed to ending mass surveillance. We call upon Congress to take immediate action to protect the rights of all to privacy and free expression.
Thank you for your consideration,
Peter Godwin, President, PEN American Center
Edward Albee
Anthony Appiah
John Ashbery
Paul Auster
Roz Chast
Don DeLillo
E.L. Doctorow
Ariel Dorfman
Dave Eggers
Jeffrey Eugenides
Nikki Giovanni
John Green
Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)
Siri Hustvedt
John Irving
Ha Jin
Tony Kushner
Rachel Kushner
Jonathan Lethem
John Lithgow
Maaza Mengiste
Francine Prose
Douglas Rushkoff
George Saunders
Wallace Shawn
Gary Shteyngart
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Muslims in Mannaar expose systemic inability of SL State in delivering justice to victims
Muslims in Mannaar expose systemic inability of SL State in delivering justice to victims
Imelda, Daya Master, felicitate Asian peace laureate Hathurusinghe[TamilNet, Sunday, 19 December 2010, 01:51 GMT]The commander of Sri Lankas colonial military in Jaffna, Maj. Gen. Mahinda Hathurusinghe, was felicitated by SL government circles in Jaffna, Thursday, for the Guci Peace Prize given to him in Philippines, which according to SL military web sites, Asian equivalent of Nobel Peace Prize. Mrs. Imelda Sugumar, the SL Government Agent of Jaffna was the chief guest for the felicitation that was coordinated by Daya Master, former LTTE spokesperson and now executive director of a paramilitary-backed television supporting Colombo. In a press meet the previous day, Hathurusinghe accused former LTTE members conniving with SLA as responsible for the robberies and other atrocities committed on people in Jaffna. While felicitating Hathurusinghe, Imelda attacked the editors of diaspora media for their bias and said that SL government and its military only help people in Jaffna. The organisers brought some civilians to attend the celebration, as far as from Vanni, luring them that it was a gathering to help them to find their missing family members in the war and to help them in getting aid, employment opportunities etc. Only when the programme started, people realised what it was for, and that they had been deceived. The SL military and the paramilitary groups operating in Jaffna have organized the function, even though no names of the organizers were notified. Daya Master was coordinating the arrangements and the programme. The function was held in the Paathukaavalan Hall in the main street. Attending the occasion, the preceptor of Nallai Aatheenam, Somasundara Paramaachchaariyaar, the Catholic Bishop of Jaffna Thomas Savundaranayakam, as well as Buddhist priests and Muslim religious representatives, made a request that there should be an assurance for the security of the Saiva temple priests in Jaffna. A series of armed attacks took place in recent times in the Jaffna peninsula, targeting Saiva temples and their priests. The military had warned the temples of serious consequences if any temple bell was tolled on the Heroes Day on November 27. While some say normalcy has returned to Jaffna there is insecurity to Saiva temple priests, pointed out the Nallai Aatheenam preceptor in his talk. Maj. Gen. Hathurusinghe made a public apology for the shooting incident at the Changkaanai temple in which the chief priest succumbed to injuries and his two sons were critically wounded. The gun used in the incident belonged to the SLA, the general admitted in a press meet earlier. Meanwhile, felicitating the military peace laureate, the chief guest Mrs Imelda Sugumar said that the editors of the diaspora media dont know the local conditions and the pulse of the people. They operate against the government and against the people she said. Media editors in the diaspora censor news of many events that happen in the peninsula and publish only the parts of the news they like, she said in an outburst of anger. The diaspora media editors havent done anything to help the 27, 000 widows and to rebuild 60,000 damaged houses in the peninsula. Only the Colombo government and its military are doing that she said. When people are happy of what they get, the outsiders like the diaspora and Tamil Nadu should not disturb it, was also the opinion of a neighbouring security advisor, who was an insider in the crime-filled war and who is now harping on models of home grown oppression for Eezham Tamils. Chronology: 22.01.11 Boy reported missing in Ki'linochchi
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Author:William Sandys Wright Vaux
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←Author Index: Va | William Sandys Wright Vaux (1818–1885) |
English antiquarian & numismatist. FRS (1868), secretary Royal Asiatic Society, secretary Royal Society of Literature
This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Articles written by this author are designated in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by the initials "V." |
- Nineveh and Persepolis: an Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the recent Researches in those Countries (1850)
- Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art (1851)
- The World encompassed by Sir F. Drake (ed. 1854)
- Ancient History from the Monuments; Persia from the earliest Period to the Arab Conquest (1875)
- Ancient History from the Monuments: Greek Cities and Islands of Asia Minor (1877)
- Articles signed as [ V. ] in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
Works about Vaux[edit]
- "Vaux, William Sandys Wright," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
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Good morning Wil. Fingers crossed for the move!
It has only been mentioned once but I can't stress this enough: you need to Cache your Wordpress installation. The reason why Squarespace is so successful is because they prevent your site from being going down. They use Wordpress AFAIK and they have a good caching algorithm implemented.
In case you know what "fireballed" means - I read Gruber's site and knew what he does to WP websites. That's where the term comes from. So when I found some errors in a presentation from a Deutsche Bank analyst John linked to, I started my own blog and the second post was me correcting those errors. Before I mailed John about it, I installed "WP Super Cache" to handle the possible influx of visitors. The site managed to handle 17GB of traffic, about 50,000 visits at about 900kb per visit, over a million http requests within a 36 hour timeframe. My site has since gone back to 40 visits per day and I disabled the caching algorithm because it prevents you from reviewing changes you make to the layout (because, you guessed it, the plugin caches everything and when you add a new logo or a link you have to wait for the cached page to expire to make WP hit up the caching plugin again to make a new, static version of the page).
You have 2 million followers on Twitter. You need caching :-)
I bet you already installed something and this rambling was in the end a giant humblebrag (thinking of it no it wasn't because I didn't include a link to my page ^^;) - I hope you don't mind.
Oh and get a host that backs up your MySQL databases. I bet you have a provider that does that having had all those bad upgrading experiences in the past but better mention it. People tend to forget that WP is a database and that all your content is saved in that database.
Anyway I bet everything will work out fine. You go girl!
In 2001, blogs were very new things. In fact, as much more time was spent arguing talking about what blogs even were, and where they fit into the media landscape than was spent actually, you know, writing in them. In fact, I don't even think the word "blogging" existed back then, and whenever it...
I guess that's the most extreme case of "NIMBY" you can find if you ask me :-)
I'm all for off-world nuclear powered tiny power generators.
Let's spare us the other half of that argument ;-)
Last night, Anne and I got to go to the Jet Propulsion Labratory to watch the landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover. It was a powerful, emotional, inspiring experience. When I think about how these scientists flew something the size of my car to another planet and landed it almost exactly where th...
That was AWESOME!
I know it sounds weird but this makes me want to watch Leverage again. Which is good because I don't think Fiasco! is for me because I could never be that creative when it comes to making up stories.
And the preview is all Matt Mira and plaid shirts! Admit it Wil, you wanted to to make him feel right at home by pretending to be a hipster like Jonah ;-)
Part one of Saturday Night 78 ended with quite a cliffhanger... ...so here's part two! If you're intrigued by Fiasco, I highly encourage you to get a couple of friends together and play it at your next game night. And if you want to give the Saturday Night 78 playset a go, you can download it...
Wow Wil, what a week!
First that AWESOME alliteration episode of TableTop with Amber making up those sunny smiling stories and gratuitous giggling (see what I did there? :-D ) and now this wonderful story about you having lots of fun.
Now if only I were one who likes alkohol *sigh* All tastes just bitter to me. I always pretend it's coke in my head ;-)
Man I wish my life was this full of great people. I envy you ;_;
But hey by living vicariously through you I get all these feelings as well (at least a little bit). And that makes me happy. Thanks Wil :-)
I got into bed around 2300 last night. Anne followed a few minutes later, and was asleep a few minutes after that. I stayed awake reading until about 130, which is something I've been doing the last couple of weeks. I can't fall asleep before 130, no matter how hard I try, so rather than fight i...
Phew and i felt like a dick when I said that QR-code thingie wasn't good for the health of the internet. I'm "glad" that there's always a bigger dick next in line.
Wil, she's clearly trolling you. Regard it as indirect praise that this is one of the few times trolls make it to your comment section.
And thanks again for the free content your provide. The Nerdist podcasts, TV show and especially Tabletop were the best things you ever did for me - not diminishing everything you did before that starting with "Stand by Me" but Tabletop and you connecting with @nerdist over that oven mit and that story you told on the cruise about you adopting your son made me feel so extremely warm and fuzzy inside making me have something in both of my eyes... I can not for the life of me understand what she's writing there.
You owe us nothing yet you give so much.
I was not happy that I had to cancel my appearance at the Denver Comicon this weekend, mostly because I knew that there were a significant number of people who bought tickets specifically because I was going to be there. Aaron Douglas did a magnificent job (because he is awesome) replacing me, a...
Oh I've been waiting for this since you started brewing.
Wheat = Weizen. Hefeweizen. The title is so full of win :-)
I bottled Wheaton's Own HefeWheaton yesterday. Here are some notes I made: Lost about a gallon to trub. Not sure how that happened. I haven't lost that much in a long time. Much more pale than I wanted. I was going for 10 SRM, but it's closer to 5 SRM. Too early to know, but I don't get any clo...
You will have nothing and like it!
Have to correct myself there. Roman letters. Greek numerals.
Anyway, I first read this page on my Galaxy Nexus, in GReader, a mobilized version cached with the help of Instapaper.
I am very much into gadgets and I simply can't understand the reasoning behind QR-codes. It's basically breaking the internet (e.g. not using hyperlinks), in this case for comedic value (which is cool).
I am so torn about this it annoys me. I mean look at me I came back hours later to read what I wrote again to check if I am being a dick about this. If I am - I'm so sorry. I just don't understand why I am deprived of another stupid cellphone video because I am unwilling to use my cellphone for a stupid action. Next thing I'm holding up my iPad at a concert to make pictures. *pulls hair out*
I am trying my best to phrase this friends...
I will not install a program that is converting white and black squares into greek letters on my Galaxy Nexus so I can hold it up to a monitor.
Never. Ever.
To be honest this makes me a bit sad. I am hoping that the QR-code at least _doesn't_ just hand me a URL but I still won't install a QR-Code reader to make a photo of my friggin monitor. It's ridiculous.
Sorry to be one of "those" people :-(
This made me laugh harder than anything you wrote. I laughed out so lout at 11:30pm that I feared my neighbours would knock on the walls.
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This is the bestest idea ever publishing your reviews. I've been reading them on TVS and came here for the first time because of them. Please oh please publish the two volumes in unison because I already know all your reviews on TVS.
Which begs the question: did you do simple copies of them and put them in the book (since you kept the copyright to reprint them wherever you like) or did you add additional information to those?
(meaning: can I simply buy Vol. 2 first and read that to get something totally fresh and will Vol. 1 still have things that I didn't get already on TVS?)
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Was wondering if anybody is using this in there v?
Also can you post pictures of it in your car and also recommend a good brand
Was wondering if anybody is using this in there v?
Also can you post pictures of it in your car and also recommend a good brand
I cant find this anywhere on the forum but,
I have a iphone 4, what is my best route (APP and hook up wire to the obd 2?? so I can monitor real time info on the iphone, help would be much appreciated!
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Honestly I'm not sure about that since I don't really pay attention to the one on the dash. Just to give you a heads up though if you want to plug one in the V, we have to modify (shave off a little bit of the opening, you will know what I mean when you take out the cover of the fuse-box) the fuse box cover to accommodate the rather large plug of the Scangauge. However it's hardly noticeable since the fuse-box is kinda hiding under the dash.
By the way, where are you located? If you happen to be in Ontario, Scangauge II is on sale this month in PartSource for $149.99.
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I have a similar thing, Turbo Gauge.
How did you position it on your dash?
Is it stuck to your windscreen?
Just been playing around with mine and installed it on the bottom of the gauges.
Put bluetack on the back of the turbo/scan gauge and it sits there nice and secure stuck to the bottom bit of the gauge surround.
The cable is hidden, runs behind the dash fascia along side the steering column and plugs into the back of the unit.
using bluetack is cool as it doesn't leave any marks.
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Are these things capable of displaying boost on them? That would be sweet and I'd be sold.
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It would prob work just like any other gauge and show boost if it was connected to the proper source.
The torque app might show mpg.
And if you have a Turbo V, it has a actual mpg readout already.
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I still use the OEM mpg gauge in the car. It is consistently 2.5 - 3.5 mpg overly optimistic from reality. I think that the real problem is not the gauge, but the speedometer. It is consistently 3-5 mph faster than reality, which I think means it is accumulating more miles than it should and therefore showing a higher mpg. I have been to two different dealerships and complained and they both said that the law allows a 5+/- mph difference and refused to adjust it. If it was accurate I'm sure the mpg gauge would be very close to accurate. I know a lot of people have complained about not getting good gas mileage, but I have hit 40 mpg on at least 4 occasions and my best was 46.6 on a trip to Georgia. I now have 20,500 miles and still loving it. (Yellow/Tech/manual).
What is the point of knowing this information realtime? Can the constant monitoring dramatically improve your driving to reduce gas consumption? Unless you are driving 50,000miles+ a year can this really save you alot of money? Are you tracking the data in spreadsheets for quantifiable analysis?
Wouldn't being as gentle as possible on the gas be just as efficient?
It's not only the mpg you can read with this item. You can read many different informations and trouble-codes and erase them. I have the Turbogauge in my Camaro, because there is no build in computer and I'm going to buy one for the Veloster, because I love such gadges and a little more (and more accurate) information, as from the manufactor delivered :-)
I think the realtime info can help because it can help you determine which driving habits cause a drop in efficiency, stuff that some might say helps mileage could be hurting, and vice versa
but other than that, the average in my mind would be better to track than realtime data
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Numerous reports trumpet the astronomic growth in Internet data traffic expected over just the next three or four years, based on forecasts for increased consumption of on-demand video and use of cloud based services coupled with the anticipated growth in data from devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). The latter phenomenon, according to Cisco, is set to see 50 billion things connected to the Internet by 2020, with network capacity needing to support more than a zettabyte (1021 bytes) of data daily as early as 2018 for what Cisco and others are now calling the "Internet of Everything" (IoE).
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Sometimes it is 6:00 on a Monday and you are starved out of your mind, and then it becomes the perfect time to make an enormous salad, which we did. We decided to go Greek because we are still on a veg kick after watching Fast Food Nation (see it) on Saturday night, and also because duh Greek salad is the best.
We wanted to make it special though, and Cooks Illustrated provided some great tips, such as marinating the cucumbers in the dressing and adding lemon. This meal was extremely low-budget and low-cal -- the cost maybe totaled $16 for everything. Top it off with a frozen fudgesicle for dessert (dunked in peanut butter if you can handle it) and you're set.
Romaine lettuce
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1 red onion
1 tomato
1/4 cup kalamata olives
1/4 cup mint leaves (ooo! the theme!)
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3 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 lemon
2 tbsp oregano
Mix together dressing ingredients (using the juice of the lemon and salt and pepper to taste). Add the chopped cucumber and onion to dressing to let it marinate while you prepare the rest of the salad. We roasted the red pepper (check out how in this recipe if you feel like 15 extra minutes), but you can just chop it up with the tomato and olives, and add everything to a bed of lettuce and mint Sprinkle feta, add cucumber/onion, dress it.
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Albright honored for lifetime of service
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WEST POINT, N.Y. (Oct. 23, 2013) — When the Corps of Cadets marched onto the Plain for the Review Oct. 17, the Honorable Madeleine Albright was overwhelmed with emotion.
She admitted as much afterward to the cadets during the 2013 Sylvanus Thayer Award Dinner at Washington Hall.
"I cannot tell you how deeply honored and grateful I am for being the recipient of the Thayer Award and having the privilege to review your parade today," Albright said, "when I could barely keep from crying as "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played and as you proudly represented our country—and always will."
Albright became the 56th recipient of the Thayer Award and only the fourth female to receive the medallion from the West Point Association of Graduates since 1958.
On the day following the end of the government shutdown, Albright spoke of national unity and the debt owed to the nation's armed forces and veterans.
"It seems to me that, if we are to protect the security and prosperity of our country, we should put an end to partisan squabbling, do a little bit of arithmetic and develop a unified and lasting approach to the federal budget," she said. "I came today from Washington and after reviewing your amazing parade I feel like saying, when I get back, to those in our Capitol, these young men and women deserve better." To that end, Albright suggested that investing in the education of America's youth and fortifying the nation's armed forces with the best training, equipment and leadership is essential.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright meets with the brigade staff following the Corps of Cadets Review on the Plain Oct. 17.
Retired Col. Bob McClure, West Point Association of Graduates chief executive officer, and U.S. Military Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr., presents the Sylvanus Thayer Award medallion to the Honorable Madeleine Albright Oct. 17 inside Washington Hall during a dinner in her honor.
"Here at West Point, cadets are taught about engineering and mathematics, history and science, but above all, you learn about the qualities demanded of a leader," she said. "So I suspect that I do not have to tell you that American leadership is still needed in the world today."
Whether as secretary of state or United Nations ambassador, Albright said she seized every opportunity to visit with military members throughout her travels. She was impressed by their enthusiasm, commitment and especially their candor.
"After all, just because someone is in the Army doesn't mean they're too shy to speak up," Albright said.
What troops conveyed to her at that time was a concern that their mission was misunderstood back home. She emphasized a need to resist isolation which will tempt a war-weary nation.
"Past lessons inform us that we cannot allow our country to become tired; we can't turn our backs on our responsibilities; we can't pretend that we are not the United States," she said.
U.S. Military Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr., said that throughout her career in public service, Albright had answered the call of duty by always providing relevant leadership and diplomacy.
"Unequivocally, Secretary Albright has dedicated herself to our nation, and truly epitomizes the principles of 'Duty, Honor, Country,'" Caslen said. "Secretary Albright's sense of duty illuminates her entire career, whether providing critical leadership within the United Nations Security Council at a crucial time in our nation's history or serving as our nation's first female secretary of state in an era when women were pioneers entering for the first time in senior international leadership positions."


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Owners of Lace Mamba DVD bundle (Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades and Real Warfare: 1242) who can't activate their copy of Real Warfare: 1242, please install this patch and your key will be recognized normally.
Several new reviews are available December 13, 2011"Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades, and rightfully so based on its name, was forged to wage war and so it is on the field of battle where its strength will be found."
Gamers Daily News - 7.5 out of 10
"Due to its largely open nature (even if it can be a bit of a grind to get the most benefit out of side-missions) and an impressive multiplayer skirmish mode that allows for up to six-way battles across massive playing fields, Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades is a worthy addition to the strategy genre."
Brash Games - 7 out of 10
"Real Warfare is a fantastic RTS whose artificial intelligence and unit customisation marks it as something above the norm."
Digitally Downloaded - 4 out of 5
New Update Available! December 6, 2011The game has been updated to 2.2.5 (list of changes).You can either run update.exe located in your game folder or login to multiplayer to receive the update (Steam version is already updated).
The manual installation patch can be downloaded here.
Retail Version Announced December 1, 2011Lace Mamba Global and 1C Company today announce the release of a retail version of the PC RTS game Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Iceland and Kuwait, starting in the UK and Ireland on 27.01.2012.
The retail version will additionally include a full version of the first Real Warfare game, Real Warfare: 1242.
Update 2.2.4 Available! November 25, 2011Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades has been updated to version 2.2.4. The patch fixes some script errors in the campaign, improves performance up to 2-3 times on certain video cards and brings several balance changes. Please download the patch in our 'Downloads' section.
You can read the full changelog here.
The game has been reviewed by Wargamer.com November 23, 2011"Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades is a great combination of a notable campaign and meaty tactical battles suitable for any strategy gamer."
You can read the full review here.
Game release, contest winners and first review November 18, 20111C Company is excited to announce that Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades is available digitally now. Most digital platforms list it as released or will be released in a few hours.
Launch contest ended! Correct answers are Hermann von Balk, 1225, Ottokar II and Dzierzgon. We congratulate the five winners, activation codes have been e-mailed to:
- Sunny Luu
- sam smith
- Piotr Karwala
- Alex Connolly
- Bart Schouten
Thanks to all who participated!
In addition, the first review of Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades has been published by Velocity Gamer website.
Dear players, we hope you'll enjoy the game as much as we enjoyed making it. Your crusade begins today!
You still have time to win a copy of the game! November 17, 2011Because of many answers submitted, we decided to continue the launch contest started yesterday for additional 24 hours. It will end tomorrow, November 18, at 2 PM GMT, so please hurry and send your answers to firstname.lastname@example.com! Here are the contest questions in case you missed them yesterday on Facebook and forums:
Question 1: Who of these knights was not only the Landmeister in Prussia and Livonia, but also served as the Deutschmeister in the Order's Province of Alemannia?
- Dietrich von Gatersleben
- Heinrich von Weida
- Ludwig von Baldersheim
- Hermann von Balk
- Mangold von Sternberg
Question 2: When Polish prince Konrad I Mazowiecki asked Teutonic order to help him in the war against Prussians?
- In 1217
- In 1220
- In 1225
- In 1232
- In 1255
Question 3: What was the name of the king who paid for the erection of a new castle in place of the Prussian castle Twangste?
Question 4: What town is now located in place of castle Christburg?
Five winners will be randomly chosen from people who provide the correct answers. They will receive the upcoming game Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades!
Playing Real Warfare 1242? Look here! November 16, 2011Customers who pre-purchased Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades also received the previous game in the series, Real Warfare: 1242, for free. It offers various tactical battles, but doesn't have the strategic mode available in RW2.
They are playing it right now and we received a number of questions regarding best tactics in a given mission, so we published the new article describing one of the possble tactical solutions for the second battle of Real Warfare: 1242 - Skirmish with Mongols. It is available in our Articles section (Tactics sample).
Please also remember that Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades is much more flexible in terms of difficulty, offering the strategic mode and sandbox campaign, meaning that in most cases you can choose which battles you fight and when, as well as you can improve your army beforehand. If a battle looks too difficult, you can choose different course of action or go for more easy prey first.
Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades Available for Pre-Purchase November 10, 2011The next installment in historical real-time strategies offering both strategical and tactical gameplay modes is now available for pre-purchase on digital distribution platforms. Play as a Komtur of the Teutonic Order and write the history by your sword, conquering new lands regardless of the low manpower of the Order and the strong resistance of the heathens. Order the game before the release date to receive the previous game in the series, Real Warfare:1242, for FREE!
Commanders! July 14, 2011Ladies & Gents,
Feel free to read a new article we are more than excited to present you in the recently launched the Articles section of our website. The new material is for those of you who are eager to learn more about Commanders.
Stay tuned for more!
For the creative ones June 16, 2011It's been awhile since we updated the website and today we would like to fill this gap. The website is now officially features Articles section, where we are planning to publish materials on various aspects of the game.
The "firstborn" article will be about Modding - for the ones who are willing not only to play through the game but also to create something of their own, try some game design.
Mirror, mirror... March 17, 2011Today we gladly announce the launch of the official website of Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades. The site contains lots of detailed information about the game and general combat tips and strategy. Visit our forums!
The Knights are Marching September 20, 2010The first trailer of Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades is available. The game is the next step in 1C's series of realistic real-time strategy games covering various periods in the development of present day civilization - from the Middle Ages to today.
The video depicts some gameplay peculiarities of the new title, allowing the gamers to assess the strategic map and the amplitude of the tactical battles with participation of thousands of warriors.
The Conquering of Prussia September 9, 2010We are excited to announce the development of a new chapter in the Real Warfare realistic real-time strategy games series - Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades. This new title allows players to witness the key events in the history of the Teutonic Order in the 13th century, namely conquering the pagan Prussia.
Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades helps players witness the key events in the history of the Teutonic Order in 13th century, namely conquering the pagan Prussia.
All battles form a single storyline campaign. The player will act as a Komtur of the Teutonic Order as they relive the battles of the crusaders, regardless of the low manpower of the Order and the strong resistance of the heathens. The project perfectly comprises two types of gameplay and owing to that the objectives of the Komtur are not simply limited to participation in battles. The strategic map involves the gamer into a colorful and integral world and allows them to travel around the map in the real time. The mode features full freedom of movement, dialogues with locals, RPG elements, quest system and much more. However, sooner or later, the players will have no other choice other than engage their faithful warriors into a battle. And this could be a combat with other armies, large-scale sieges of towns and castles, using various special assault weaponry and tools and fight right on top the walls and fortifications.


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yoru type of eel is a Brackish water Moray eel (gymnothorax Tile) i have one of these myself, and the two holes near its head are for its breathing... so perfectly normal... There should be another hole at the belly of the eel, thats where it removes its waste. However! the last picture you have shown, looks like your eel has eggs!!!!!!!!! just letting you know, you have a ton of pressure on you now... cause no one has ever hatched this species of eels in an aquarium enviornment! as far as worrying about it... make sure you leave it alone, dont do what i do to show my friends the eel, like, lift up its cave. make sure your water is brackish I noticed you have a pleco, so im guessing you have it in freshwater. buy yourself a hydrometer ( for like 15$) and get some sea salt, any type works, but everyone uses instant ocean, so id use that too. (( this is at the assumption that you have it at freshwater)) id make sure the eel is alone as well you dont want fish eating these eggs ( if they are eggs) Keep updating us please!! id love to har how this goes OH! also, some people have had problems with keeping their eels in gravel ( not me though) because the sharp ends could puncture its skin, however, if no blood was present, i wouldnt worry about that |
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Eric's new one....its a heart that's half devil and half angel
OK I have wanted to get a bat tattooed on me since I went to England. Bacardi is the only thing I drank over there for 2 weeks and I told my coach driver I would have it tattooed on me if its the last thing I do. Well since I love Halloween and Gothic stuff I decided I wanted to get a bat for every year I'm married. Besides liking bats I figured by getting them it symbolized that there are some painful moments in marriage like tattoos. The one above is on my wrist and the rest are shown below on my back...I'm thrilled with how they turned out. Let me know what you think. The one closest to my neck is the Bacardi one.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Just a thought
You know after a full week of the kids being in school...I came to a conclusion....life is pretty damn boring with no children at home. I get my cleaning done in half the time and spend the rest of the day wondering "what to do now." Oh well only a couple days left of solitude. For those of you who don't know I am starting back at Timber Creek Homes on Tuesday. I am so excited I hope everything goes as well as I'm expecting.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
First day of school
Today is the first day of school and I'm kinda sad because both of my babies are just growing up way to fast. That also means I'm alone all day long now...oh what to do with my time now?
My big kindergartner looking so fine with the spiky hair and his favorite part of this outfit is his shoes...not only are they sketchers but they look like police cars and light up.
My big kindergartner looking so fine with the spiky hair and his favorite part of this outfit is his shoes...not only are they sketchers but they look like police cars and light up.
A day with the ducks
On Austin's birthday he said he just wanted to go to the park. First we stopped at the pet store and he fell in love with a cockatil. Then we headed to feed the ducks at Barnett park. When we were done with the ducks and playing at Barnett we headed over to Kelly park and played a while. It was a pretty fun day.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Happy Birthday Austin
Today my little man is 5 and it's a sad moment for me.....my baby can't be 5 yet. Oh well I guess there is no stopping it so enjoy a trip down memory lane.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
My brother is old today
OK here is the deal today is my wonderful brothers birthday. He is 30 today...yes you heard right a day past old. I just wanted to give a shout out to my only brother and say have a good day little buddy I love you.
Here he is with his daughter
Here he is with his daughter
and with his sonNow this pic I'm going to make two comments....one being the hair: you will see he doesn't have any and there is a good reason for this, if he grows it out its all gray and he looks old. My second comment would be: you notice the frosting on him...well even though he is 30 today and this pic is a few years old, the signs of old age started early (he forgot how to eat). So if anyone knows the number of a live in nurse that can help do daily chores let me know....love ya man
Monday, August 11, 2008
Austin's party
On Saturday we had our annual BBQ/Birthday parties and everything went wonderful. The weather turned out beautiful and we could do everything outside. I spent all day cooking for the 35 guests that showed up and it was just a great night. Every year we either do a party for Austin and Randy or Austin and Sarah. This year was Randy because most of the grandparents will be gone the weekend of Austin's actual birthday.
Indiana Jones cake
Indiana Jones cake
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Happy Anniversary
Royals vs. White Sox
OK we left for Kansas City Friday when Adam got off work and we go to Junction City about midnight after searching 3 cities for a hotel, we got the last room in town. We got up and got to KC about 10 and found out our game didn't start at 6 it was moved to 3. We had enough time to get to the stadium and hopefully catch warm ups. Well we got lost and by the time we found our way again we got their during batting practice. It was 107 degrees out with a heat index of 112 and it was miserable but non the less we had fun. The kids kinda got restless but said they liked being there. Austin was upset he didn't get a baseball so we bought him one. After the game we took the kids to Olive Garden and again they loved it. The littlest things amused them though out the trip. Austin loved the house we stayed at because of all the stairs he could slide down and all the wonderful toys my aunt has for her daycare. Then they rode and escalator for the first time and he was like a little kid in a candy store, it was very cute. We went to Worlds of Fun Sunday and Chuck E. Cheeses. On Monday we went to Oceans of Fun. I didn't get any pics there but I guarantee you fun was had by all. Monday night we took the kids to a real mall and they got to do the build a bear thing and to top the weekend off we just hung out at the house and talked to my aunt and uncle while the kids played with their boys. It was a great vacation and I am looking forward to our next.
to keep the long ride fun we had our Nintendo's
to keep the long ride fun we had our Nintendo's
Kauffman stadium...Austin was more interested in Arrowhead stadium which shares a parking lot with Kauffman.
notice the home made tat on this girl....
they gave out free hats when you walked in the door and it was a good thing he was red before the game even started.
Chuck E. Cheese
On Sunday after we got home from Worlds of Fun we took the kids to Chuck E. Cheeses. There is one a couple blocks away from my uncles house and let me tell you the fun the kids had here.
On this ride it took a pic of them as they were driving and they turned out cute.
This blue screen they are dancing in front of is like in the movies and there were TV screens up above that put them on what ever was showing at the time...They were true hams let me tell you.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Our Trip...worlds of fun
On Sunday we spent the day at Worlds of Fun and we had a blast. The kids were in awe...most of the day their mouths were dropped open. June was scared of most of the rides but did find a few she liked. Austin was also scared but he stuck it all out and gave it a try. One ride we all wanted to go on was the fury of the Nile. Well we waited in line for about an hour and finally got to the front and they refused to let Austin on, since he couldn't go I couldn't go and i was more than upset. Austin took it not so well either. He just cried and the adult bumper cars he wasn't allowed on either and he again started to cry. But all in all it was a great day.
waiting in line for the fury of the Nile
waiting in line for the fury of the Nile
still waiting
the bumper cars were a big hit
Adam and June on the fury of the Nile
Adam and June on the fury of the Nile
Austin taking pics while we waited for Adam to ride the coasters
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Wednesday Wants
I haven't seen that much online that I have been coveting this week, apart from these shoes oh and yeah these shoes. The H&M ones are not in stock til May though :( Annoying!! Anyway back to the main event, the dresses! They are all from Own The Runway this week and are staying true to my current love of pastels and eternal love of all things leopard. I love the mix of pastel with the leopard collar on the first one, it shouldn't work but it so does! The second corally dress is so adorably girlie, the perfect mix of chiffon and tiny polka dots.
Dress: Own The Runway
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The last dress reminds me of my beautiful Oh My Love dress which gets so many comments but isn't easy to get your mitts on - not a bad dupe if you are trying to track down a multi coloured leopard print dress and I know a few of you are :)
What have you got your eyes on this week? Show me something that will turn my head!
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I am a complete leopard print whore, so the first and third dresses have definitely caught my attention :)
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Fashion, Well DoneThat third dress is AH-mazing. I definitely love the print. Nice choices :)
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Sunday, 14 August 2011
NOTD - Hot Lava
Stand back, it'll burn ya!
These nails were Pixie A La Mode's idea and turned out to be one of the prettiest manicures I've ever done! It's meant to look like molten magma, I think it's quite effective!
To do this I started with a base of 2 coats of Barry M Tangerine (which is a shimmery bright orange) then when that dried I added a large drop of Models Own 25 Karat Gold polish (shimmery gold) and a large drop of a shimmery bright red polish (it's a really old one from Icing with no name) and swirled them together using a tiny dotting tool. When that was all dry I added a coat of black crackle (I used Barry M Nail Effects).
I think it looked gorgeous! Because the black crackle is matte on top of the shimmery red and golds it really looks like the drying surface of magma. Fantastic idea Pixie :D
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Aww man I used to love that game! Now I'm looking around my room trying to work out how I could get around if the floor should actually turn to lava :P
It's possibly my favourite orange acutally!
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I'm bloody obsessed with crackle polish :P I get bored of my nails easily and it';s such a quick and simple way to liven up manis.
Thank you! I agree, I love the shiny shimmer with the matte black all crusted over the top.
Well this was dead easy. I wish I could do proper nail art but I am too rubbish using my left hand to ever do it right :(
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Hooray! My nails are full of win! :D
It is, Pixie is very clever! :D
Thank you! I want to do it again!
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David Crockett League Pass way late in getting to this game.
The blatant disrespect. ;)
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Terrible start.
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my cartoon is somewhat of a reinvention of the whole voodoo vince universe. i think kids these days call that "fan fiction" heh.
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