The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Mycanid]

Things are better than before by far. The wife has soul searched and made a decision. Finiases are still tight as we enter winter (and oil heating costs). I can't buy any DnD until this spring. But that stuff is not important, not like family.

Sorry if I scared folks. I still think I need some headshrinking if only because I find myself very nonchalant about the whole suicide thing. Crazy time for me.

X-mas goes well. Began shopping in August and only have the wife left. Next weekend I will take care of that.... I hope.

No my good sir ... you did not really "scare" me ... I guess I am just a little tender hearted about those kind of things, i.e. my heart went out to you. Ah well....

Anyhoo ... I am VERY glad for you that things seem to be working out (and apologies, by the way, if I am bringing up uncomfortable things).

Boy do I remember about my dad's talking about the oil heating costs - growing up in upstate NY (where we also get our fair share of snow!) that thing was on a LOT.

 

[megamania]

Mega, I talked my friend into buying Heroscape for her son for Christmas (he's 9). He wanted to learn D&D, but she would have to teach him and she is clueless. So, I figured Heroscape would be a good start. I remember you saying you play it with your kids. Are there any good online resources or should she just go with what is in the box?

I don't have it in my favorites anymore but by googling Heroscape there is a home page complete with means to order all sets and also- a playtest section with rules and backstory.

Many new sets out too.... just in time for X-mas.

 

[Aurora]

And scrapbook ... you mean old pics? I just found a bunch of old pics of myself, my family and friends yesterday ... guess I am kinda "dwarvish" in the sense that knowing about family and ancestry matters to me. A lot. Were you doing this? Looking at old pics and assembling them, perchance?

I do all kinds of photos. When I say scrapbooking I mean like this . I also do digital scrapbooking.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Let's talk about something else. I had spaghetti for dinner! It was very yummy.

It is Friday! What is everyone doing this weekend?

Last weekend, our pirate group did the local XMas parade. It was cold and windy early but warmed up. I think the kids loved us.

This week, didn't have net access due to a hard drive crashing and taking the comp with it. Now working off the laptop which wasn't working either until last nite when a friend decided to remove the battery and then replace it. Then nearly tearing up my room to find the driver disc for the cable modem.

Still working on the desktop comp. Not sure what I lost tho. Either gaming characters, pics, files,etc. or some music files and my DL'ed copies of Jericho I'd gotten.

And still haven't had my fill of blowing <bleep> up due to no game and the just now getting the comp up...

 

[Mycanid]

Oh HO! That's lovely Aurora! I can see why you might have had fun.

I have a friend who likes to do similiar things with Christmas cards. He prepares literally hundreds of cards, covering them with pressed flowers, stickers, stamps (that is, the ones with inkpads) and hand calligraphy.

I really like such "hand made" things too, but have not the inventiveness to do something like that. :\ Guess that makes me appreciate it all the more when I see others do it.

You do other similiar things?

 

[Aurora]

Last weekend, our pirate group did the local XMas parade. It was cold and windy early but warmed up. I think the kids loved us.

1. How did you find a "pirate group"?
2. Do you actually pirate anything with said group?

 

[Mycanid]

Last weekend, our pirate group did the local XMas parade. It was cold and windy early but warmed up. I think the kids loved us.

This week, didn't have net access due to a hard drive crashing and taking the comp with it. Now working off the laptop which wasn't working either until last nite when a friend decided to remove the battery and then replace it. Then nearly tearing up my room to find the driver disc for the cable modem.

Still working on the desktop comp. Not sure what I lost tho. Either gaming characters, pics, files,etc. or some music files and my DL'ed copies of Jericho I'd gotten.

And still haven't had my fill of blowing <bleep> up due to no game and the just now getting the comp up...

Oh ... ... Major bummer. I hate it when a comp dies. Rebuilds can take some time too....

On the other hand the parade sounds like fun.

 

[megamania]

Hmmm ... I've heard a lot about heroscape. esp. the awesome character generation tools. whaddaya you all think?

I have played on maybe six occations with my kids. They play it a lot at home and Tim and his classmates play it a lot at school. It appears to be the new fad on the season for second grade.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Yeah cause we know that's where all the hot chicks go. To the Library.

Last time I went to the library, they wanted to charge me for comp access because I was "out of the county".

So I haven't been back.
And what I like to read, usually I buy.

 

[Aurora]

You do other similiar things?

I guess I am a "crafty" person. I do scrapbooking, card-making, I make altered items using the same supplies, I cross-stitch (not very often though), I make jewelery, I am learning to knit and crochet, and I do fresh and silk floral arranging. Among other things.

And thank you