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Ok...
13:02 Dec 31 2009
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...we'll start the avatar scavanger hunt game after the first of the year.

:)

COMMENTS

voodoochile
22:01 Dec 31 2009

:) Like the movie or just regular old avatars? ~grins~

birra
23:54 Dec 31 2009

It will be just the avatars, but hopefully it will get goofy and strange like the movie.

Nothing of the sort...
23:56 Dec 30 2009
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...or so he said.

But I have no New Year's resolutions. I never have. Really, November 12th is as good of a day to make a change as is January 1st.

It's more a matter of planning. To set a goal, define a path and set out to achieve it.

As I mentioned to the gorgeous woman who sits across the desk from me... the last 7 years of my life have been nothing but a series of calculated risks and I've embarked on taking the next big risk today.

As I pondered that, I realize it has been more like 10 years...

...no... 15.

Wait... maybe 21.

23?

Who really knows when it started? Perhaps it starts for all of us the day we decide to stop being children and start taking control of our lives as adults.

I don't know exactly what 2010 will have in store for me. I only know what I have in store for it.

Tomorrow is the last day of 2009. The last day of a difficult year in a challenging decade.

But I'm going to approach it like a diving platform and jump into the water. I'll try a few of those twists and turns along the way... except my goal is to make the biggest splash possible.

CANNONBALL!!!!!!!!!

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Avatar seek and find...
18:41 Dec 29 2009
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...we should play a game.

The basis will be creating a list of items that can be found in the back-ground of members' webcam stills and cell-phone photo avatars...

...it will kind of be like a scavanger hunt - you will be given a riddle to help you decipher which member to look for and then have to screen cap the member's avatar on their profile, using a simply graphics editor to circle or otherwise highlight the item you're supposed to be searching for.

Who's with me?

:)

COMMENTS

MisUnderStood09
18:50 Dec 29 2009

sounds fun!

ThothLestat
19:09 Dec 29 2009

I'm in.

RedQueen
20:21 Dec 30 2009

ditto...lol

Nedra
03:22 Dec 31 2009

Me too.

NightBlossom
05:21 Dec 31 2009

IIIIIIIIIIIII'm ready!

Thoth's Kismet
18:32 Dec 29 2009
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"Recommended by 9 out of 10 vampires"

Actually, more accurately I think it's 98.51% of vampires...

COMMENTS

ThothLestat
18:34 Dec 29 2009

yeah, but some of them are hybrids, or something.

06:17 Dec 20 2009
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The chili, BTW, turned out fantastic.

Spicy without being that "burn a hole in your tongue for the next 24 hours" kind of spicy.

Mmmm.. just the trick for cold winter days.

COMMENTS

ThothLestat
13:09 Dec 20 2009

candy ass.

*shifty eyes*

p.s. gimme some.

ImageMaker
14:36 Dec 20 2009

Yum

It's a cookin' Friday
17:04 Dec 18 2009
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I'm going to go install a presentation projector, and then get started making Bison Chili.

Mmmm... it's going to smell good in here. :)

COMMENTS

faeriemoon
17:30 Dec 18 2009

Soooo....Who's delivering dinner to my work? ;)

RedQueen
20:09 Dec 18 2009

oh yum...that takes me back. I used to work at a resturaunt in Las Vegas, The Alpine Village Inn. The Rathskellar served deer burgers with buffalo chili on top....*rumblerumblerumble*

Good morning!
15:23 Dec 15 2009
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Slept great last night.

Hopefully that is reassuring...

Yes, I know this is meaningless to most all of you...

COMMENTS

voodoochile
16:26 Dec 15 2009

A man without good sleep habits is a man who is running on 1/2 power potential.

Morrigon
17:01 Dec 15 2009

Seriously?

birra
18:16 Dec 15 2009

Seriously.

To both of ya!

RedQueen
03:50 Dec 16 2009

not to me it isn't..

Weather woes...
18:55 Dec 09 2009
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...I see all these horror stories about the recent weather... the winter storm that is blasting through the mid-west and heading to the north east.

The panic always amazes me. It's not like winter storms just happen... you kind of see them coming for a couple days. We've been hearing about this horrible weather we're going to have here since Monday.

It's not here yet. Looking at the 2100-mile radar, it looks like it is cycling around Lake Michigan and slowly swinging up from the south into this area. Right now it's near 50F here and raining with some severe thunderstorms just coming across Lake Erie.

No snow here. Really haven't had much at all this year... just a few inches a couple days ago and it melted fast.

But, the insanity is starting. Same thing that always happens.

Storm is on the way.

Oh, driving will be horrible. Plan on staying in.

Storm hits.

Removal crews clear the streets quickly.

Life goes on.

In a week, it will all melt.

And then we'll have the next storm for everyone to panic over...

*yawn*

COMMENTS

Guardian
20:25 Dec 09 2009

As of two o'clock this afternoon, its still snowing and blowing up drifts here in Minnesota.

Been through much worse, this is nothing.

CarnelianMyst
20:55 Dec 09 2009

We actually didn't get as much snow as first forecast. We did, however, get a thunderstorm mixed in last night...weird to hear thunder during a snowstorm!

RedQueen
23:06 Dec 12 2009

Enjoy the long lines at the grocery store, Home Depot, and gas stations- bout the same thing in Florida when a hurricane is ocming- and they probably jack up all the prices for snow just like they do hurricanse...

birra
14:49 Dec 13 2009

NY has pretty strict laws in regard to price gouging when it comes to weather related incidents. The storm took about a day and a half to pass. Yesterday was nice and sunny, this morning we're getting freezing rain.

'Tis the season...