Another Bonfire, this one is for real.
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By the way, AK, if you don't come to the event, we'll be roasting a doll of you in effigy. Which is my way of saying I really hope you can make it. Are you still lacking for a ride? If so, I can try to help arrange something, and if all else fails, I have no real problem driving over to get you. I've been looking forward to meeting you for some years now.
Yeah, same here, 32. I need to put a real name on this restraining order.
If no one else raises a hand, I'll check my schedule again (no college, no job interviews? check!) and PM ya.
So basically, a sleeping bag and/or a pup tent, huh? Don't seem too difficult.
If no one else raises a hand, I'll check my schedule again (no college, no job interviews? check!) and PM ya.
So basically, a sleeping bag and/or a pup tent, huh? Don't seem too difficult.
"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Oh, you dirty, dirty All-American Boy, you.....Big Jim wrote:Now we just need to talk Caz and Thorn into making the trip.
I've been reading this and resisting the... never mind. The nothing. Nothing at all to be resisted, as there is nothing resist-worthy... or... um... fuuuuuuuuuuck.
Oooh! I'm saved! I'm saved! Caz is asleep! I can't talk to him about this! Now I can stop contemplating utterly destroying what little sanity I'm trying to build into my life right now. Really. I'll stop contemplating it.... Now! Or.... NOW! Dammit.
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Cool. We'll figure something out, I'm sure.ak404 wrote:If no one else raises a hand, I'll check my schedule again (no college, no job interviews? check!) and PM ya.
Now, for those of you who /aren't/ from Michigan, a reality check: the average high for the beginning of November is around 48, with lows around the low 30s. Yes, it's quite possible that it will be snowing. Well, it hasn't done it for several years, but the sun's getting warmer, so we're coming out of that little ice age that caused us to invent chimneys. Anyhow, it's likely to be pretty damned cold outside. I know I've said it before, but it bears repeating for those of you with delicate constitutions.ak404 wrote:So basically, a sleeping bag and/or a pup tent, huh? Don't seem too difficult.
Next week, I'm going to help Paul clean up the top floor of their house, and lots of people have offered to bring space heaters of various kinds. There'll be the fire outside, so people should be able to curl up around it if they're hardier sorts. So there shouldn't be a shortage of decently comfortable places, but I don't want people thinking they'll get by just fine with a blanket or a sweater; really, a sleeping bag or a nice comforter's going to be a good idea. Unless, of course, it just ends up being gorgeous outside like it is now. You never know in Michigan.
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Like the day in December two years ago, of which I saved the day's particular page from my old planner. One December Wednesday, it was seventy-two degrees outside. I found it odd, so I wrote it down. The next day, in big red letters, is written "SNOW". That would be Michigan for you. Unpredictable, at best.3278 wrote:Unless, of course, it just ends up being gorgeous outside like it is now. You never know in Michigan.
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I certainly hope so. There is nothing cooler then waking up in the morning, stepping out of your tent into a snow bank, and freezing your balls off trying to take a piss. Or is it just me that feels that?the average high for the beginning of November is around 48, with lows around the low 30s. Yes, it's quite possible that it will be snowing.
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Because just flying there and back would eat up most of the vacation time Americans get, honey. Sorry.
If I win the lottery ever, though - Australia's the first place we'll get plane tickets for. Honest. (Well, unless we decide to pop into Italy first, but that'll just be a pit stop on the way to our true destination, really!! )
If I win the lottery ever, though - Australia's the first place we'll get plane tickets for. Honest. (Well, unless we decide to pop into Italy first, but that'll just be a pit stop on the way to our true destination, really!! )
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Though that GNP is an average, Deev, and not a reflection of the reality of that distribution. Anyway, American vacations are to be appreciated, yes.
Oh, and does 32 ever check his PMs?
Oh, and does 32 ever check his PMs?
"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Just for the record, I can't come to your bloody bonfire because of med student stuff. We're done digging in corpses on Halloween, and I've got responsibilities that Saturday that, predictably, involve shepherding folks into deep intoxication.
Have another damn bonfire later.
Have another damn bonfire later.
There is then a need to guard against a temptation to overstate the economic evils of our own age, and to ignore the existence of similar, or worse, evils in earlier ages. Even though some exaggeration may, for the time, stimulate others, as well as ourselves, to a more intense resolve that the present evils should no longer exist, but it is not less wrong and generally it is much more foolish to palter with truth for good than for a selfish cause. The pessimistic descriptions of our own age, combined with the romantic exaggeration of the happiness of past ages must tend to setting aside the methods of progress, the work of which, if slow, is yet solid, and lead to the hasty adoption of others of greater promise, but which resemble the potent medicines of a charlatan, and while quickly effecting a little good sow the seeds of widespread and lasting decay. This impatient insincerity is an evil only less great than the moral torpor which can endure, that we with our modern resources and knowledge should look contentedly at the continued destruction of all that is worth having. There is an evil and an extreme impatience as well as an extreme patience with social ills.
Ah, crap. Then how am I supposed to know he's got my PMs?Bishop wrote:He checks. He just never respondes.
"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
.us: $33,900 (1999 est.)Szechuan wrote:I thought that was Switzerland or Luxembourg?DV8 wrote:But in return you get the highest Gross National Product per head. So shut it.Serious Paul wrote:Ah but the average American receives 13 days of Vacation. we suck.
.lu: $34,200 (1999 est.)
.ch: $27,100 (1999 est.)
It seems you were right. It's Luxembourg. You learn something new every day.
Yeah, yeah...so, are you guys coming?Oh, you dirty, dirty All-American Boy, you.....
I've been reading this and resisting the... never mind. The nothing. Nothing at all to be resisted, as there is nothing resist-worthy... or... um... fuuuuuuuuuuck.
Oooh! I'm saved! I'm saved! Caz is asleep! I can't talk to him about this! Now I can stop contemplating utterly destroying what little sanity I'm trying to build into my life right now. Really. I'll stop contemplating it.... Now! Or.... NOW! Dammit.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Wow. I wonder what kind of place Luxembourg is to live, and is it really the smallest country in the world, or is that still the Vatican?DV8 wrote:.us: $33,900 (1999 est.)Szechuan wrote:I thought that was Switzerland or Luxembourg?DV8 wrote: But in return you get the highest Gross National Product per head. So shut it.
.lu: $34,200 (1999 est.)
.ch: $27,100 (1999 est.)
It seems you were right. It's Luxembourg. You learn something new every day.
"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Heheh. Just wanted to verify, 32. Give me an email if nobody else wants a Filipino in the car.
Oh yeah, while yer at it, check the art section. Finally put the pic you requested up.
Oh yeah, while yer at it, check the art section. Finally put the pic you requested up.
"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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If I hadn't just pretty much totalled my van earlier this week, I could've volunteered to shove another person in the back on my way through Eastern MI. As it is, it looks like it's going to be Lilith, Sludig, Offie and I all making the ride there from Cincinnati in Sludig's Dodge Neon. Weeeee!
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There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see.
And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade.
They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone.
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There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see.
And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade.
They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone.
And I name this saying wisdom.
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Lumpia for bribe?ak404 wrote:Heheh. Just wanted to verify, 32. Give me an email if nobody else wants a Filipino in the car.
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Ak, I'd swing down to get ya, but I am currently going to be in Central-Northern MI taking the sis out trick-or-treating prior to heading to Paul and Meri's. If anything changes before then, though, keeping me in Saginaw, I'll let ya know ASAP.
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Teja:: Take her with you.
Teja's sis:: "Trick or Treat!"
*A bunch of bulldrekkers drop things in the candy bag*
Teja's sis:: "Bottles of beer?!?"
Teja's sis:: "Trick or Treat!"
*A bunch of bulldrekkers drop things in the candy bag*
Teja's sis:: "Bottles of beer?!?"
Dude, you've told me that before.DV8 wrote:.us: $33,900 (1999 est.)Szechuan wrote:I thought that was Switzerland or Luxembourg?DV8 wrote: But in return you get the highest Gross National Product per head. So shut it.
.lu: $34,200 (1999 est.)
.ch: $27,100 (1999 est.)
It seems you were right. It's Luxembourg. You learn something new every day.
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I've done that, sorta.Teja's sis:: "Trick or Treat!"
*A bunch of bulldrekkers drop things in the candy bag*
Teja's sis:: "Bottles of beer?!?"
At OSU, in the dorms, they used to get inner city kids in and take them through the dorms to trick or treat (why this was a good idea I'll never understand. why can't they just take them to the rich neighborhood?). One year, some friends of mine and I volunteered to help. We got some shot glasses, and traveled around with one group of kids, trick or treating with them. When we knocked on a door, everyone yelled "Trick or Treat".... They held out their bags, and we held out our shot glasses. We got /so/ drunk.
I think it was one of the reasons the Hall Director hated me. That and he was a fucktard.
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If the message is still in your "Outbox" then he hasn't read it yet. If it's in your "Sent Mail" box, then he's read it. Nice and easy. Like hair dye.ak404 wrote:Ah, crap. Then how am I supposed to know he's got my PMs?Bishop wrote:He checks. He just never respondes.
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Sorry, Thorn. The magic of hair dye continues to elude me.
"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
It's one of the few places in the world - and the only place in Europe - that still has anonymous, numbered bank accounts. It's in the middle of the Ardennes, so it's forested, with very few real cities, considering their half a million population, that's not strange. Oh, and there are a lot of pretty rich people in financing there, as you might expect.ak404 wrote:Wow. I wonder what kind of place Luxembourg is to live, and is it really the smallest country in the world, or is that still the Vatican?
And yes, as far as I'm aware, the Vatican is still the smallest, autonomous country in the world.
It's the Alzheimer's. Sorry.Cash wrote:Dude, you've told me that before.
Sounds like a fun place to live. What's the cost of living there?DV8 wrote:It's one of the few places in the world - and the only place in Europe - that still has anonymous, numbered bank accounts. It's in the middle of the Ardennes, so it's forested, with very few real cities, considering their half a million population, that's not strange. Oh, and there are a lot of pretty rich people in financing there, as you might expect.ak404 wrote:Wow. I wonder what kind of place Luxembourg is to live, and is it really the smallest country in the world, or is that still the Vatican?
"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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It looks like there should be plenty of room, unless we have more than, say, 20 people sleeping over, which I don't think we will. Instead of opening up the upstairs, we're opening up the porch area, which is large and pretty comfortable. Additionally, the upstairs is spacious and can sleep a /ton/ of people; it's just a little messy. It doesn't bother /me,/ but, you know. Anyhow, there should be more than enough room for everyone.FlakJacket wrote:Okay, just to recheck if I'm able to make it, is there still room in the attic/whatever or is it really just camping out at this stage?
The hotel, Moo, is 5 miles away, if that.
And I didn't want to say anything because I don't want to pressure you into coming if it's impractical - you really shouldn't - but it's unimaginable how cool it would be if you could make it, Simon.FlakJacket wrote:Okay, just to recheck if I'm able to make it, is there still room in the attic/whatever or is it really just camping out at this stage?