My 1000th post!
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Thanks for caring.Crothian said:
Luckily, it isn't causing me any real problems; here in the inner city of Vienna, it's mostly annoying, depressing and reducing social life...
At least not major problems, that is: My head hurts a bit from the constant sound of the rain (which hasn't really stopped at any time since saturday or sunday
) and taking a walk to enjoy the summer has become pretty much impossible.Also, my best pal around here got caught in a rainstorm on monday that wrecked his umbrella and so really got him - and then he had to wait, drenched to the skin, at around 11 PM, for the bus - for half an hour.
He's ill now - which also meant that we couldn't game today like we had planned to do. 
If the rain doesn't stop soon, though, we'll get some slightly more serious problems: At least one highway on the outskirts of the city already had to be closed temporarily - but if it keeps raining, one part of the subway will be flooded so severely that they'll have to shut it down.
Still, unless God unleashes a new Flood to start anew with humanity thereafter, I'll be okay.
Gah. Even more than normally, I'm really glad now that I don't live in the outskirts of the city - much less somewhere in the countryside: There are constantly pictures in the news of rural villages (up to and including small cities) that are experiencing severe problems with flooding - and storms of hail, too, in some cases - in August!
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Darkness
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ROFLMAO!!! 
Shark World indeed...
Heh. As a matter of fact, I even live near a couple of sharks (not to mention a couple hundred - or thousand - other creatures of the sea).
That is, I live near (=within a few hundred yards of) the so-called "Haus des Meeres" (literally, "house of the sea"), which is kind of the aquatic version of a zoo.
Still, "house" is an inaccurate description of the building; it's actually a very, very tall, old bunker from World War II (one of four in Vienna, two of which are quite desolate on the inside; still, the outer walls of all four bunkers still stand: these things were built to survive bombs - and they mostly did, despite the allies' best efforts) that's surrounded by a nice park (lots of children there - and people with dogs, too). Heh. Funny, really, to make an aquatic zoo (I'm sure there's an English word for that; I can't think of it at 2:45 in the morning, though 
) and a park for children out of a military bunker...
(BTW, at least one of the other bunkers - one of the more severely damaged ones - is also at the center of a park - albeit a rather large park rather than the relavitely small one here and the bunker there is also empty.)
Shark World indeed...
Heh. As a matter of fact, I even live near a couple of sharks (not to mention a couple hundred - or thousand - other creatures of the sea).
That is, I live near (=within a few hundred yards of) the so-called "Haus des Meeres" (literally, "house of the sea"), which is kind of the aquatic version of a zoo.
Still, "house" is an inaccurate description of the building; it's actually a very, very tall, old bunker from World War II (one of four in Vienna, two of which are quite desolate on the inside; still, the outer walls of all four bunkers still stand: these things were built to survive bombs - and they mostly did, despite the allies' best efforts
) that's surrounded by a nice park (lots of children there - and people with dogs, too). Heh. Funny, really, to make an aquatic zoo (I'm sure there's an English word for that; I can't think of it at 2:45 in the morning, though ) and a park for children out of a military bunker... (BTW, at least one of the other bunkers - one of the more severely damaged ones - is also at the center of a park - albeit a rather large park rather than the relavitely small one here and the bunker there is also empty.)
Re: Re: Re: Doubt it...
Wicht has been slackening off lately (maybe YB! isn't as popular as it once was?). I used to be much further behind him than that. Kreynolds, by contrast, is making up for lost time.
Darkness said:Standings, as of this moment:
Crothian: 5842
kreynolds: 3843
Wicht: 3678
hong: 3671
#5 is problaby me - and my post count is right under my name in this very post.
Wicht has been slackening off lately (maybe YB! isn't as popular as it once was?). I used to be much further behind him than that. Kreynolds, by contrast, is making up for lost time.
