Quick sitrep ... having major internet problems here - after an outage in the area last week, my connection box has been showing no signal strength indicators (I think it's just too weak to measure) so currently awaiting NBN techs to come and investigate.  Two appointments cancelled thus far as COVID taking them out, but hoping the third attempt on Monday will be the charm.  Keeping fingers crossed !  :>

Holiday season was pretty insane.  Getting back to normal, now.

Don't worry - you gave me an excuse for my own tardiness !  ;>

Remind me to never ask Zertin to light the candles on a birthday cake.  :p

<grins> Don't ask me to blow them out, either!

I'm going to be out of the city for a month and a bit.  Will be coming back on Dec 2.  Hopefully to pick things up here.

Please don't have Violet die in the meantime!  :D

Have a good trip!  :-)

And thanks for letting us know your wishes.  Maybe all characters should make a will?

For Q that would be:
  Do not resuscitate
  Do not resurrect
  Do not reanimate
  Let me die spectacularly
  All possessions to Zertin ... oh, right, don't have any...

Just a short outing then, Violet !  <grins>  Hope it goes wonderfully and I'll try not to kill your character.  <fingers crossed>

I can manage to meet all Qvar's requirements, though !   In three words or less ... ;P

I went to donate blood today.  I wouldn't do it again - too many questions.  :(

Whose blood is this?
How did you get it?
Why is it in a bucket?


:p

Ah, a man after my own heart. But perhaps a little too literally ...  ;o)

Just leave the bucket outside in the hall ... I'll bet its gone by morning!

If only he was joking ...

*drags self in*

WhaddImiss...?

*crumples*

Okay, I would normally be able to catch up tomorrow, once the extreme jet-lag is over, but tomorrow I go in for surgery.  Soooo...maybe not.

Sometime this week I'll catch up.  Thank you for not killing me - I hope.

Welcome back.  :)

What did you miss?  Well, buckets of blood for one thing... and that was just in the OOC.

Glad you're back :-)

Apologies for my absence (and to those who've already read this saga in my other games) - been fighting strenuously with our pool for the last three or four weeks ...

I already knew the chlorinator had given up (for those not in the know, that's the thing that converts salt to chlorine to keep the pool sanitised), but figured I could deal with the algae build up when I replaced it ... then the pool cover (which you need to stop water evaporating) reached its use by date as I noticed it was so brittle a part of it had broken off leaving a small opening.  THEN the pool started to smell.  Bad.  Soooo ...

We carefully pulled the old cover off, bundled it up and threw it over by the trailer to go to the tip ... to reveal the month-old corpse of a kangaroo.  THAT took some fishing out and after a month in the water was about as pleasant as you can imagine (rubber gloves and face masks were the order of the day), but we managed it eventually.

Then came the juggling act of trying to thoroughly clean the pool and get the chemicals back in balance.  Part way through THAT process the pool pump decided it had had enough too.  So that's a new chlorinator, pool pump and cover, plus an awful lot of chemicals ...

A lot of time and money later, and the pool is still a bit green, but today for the first time I'm actually registering chlorine in the water, which bodes well - I'll keep throwing the 'shock' quantities of chlorine in there by hand until it gets back into kilter, then I can hook the new chlorinator up and let it take over the job.  So we're finally in danger of getting there !  :>

The moral of the tale is ... next time we move we definitely don't want a pool !  <grins>

Now where were we ...

... and a) welcome back / b) good luck with the surgery to Violet !  :>

We're well ahead of you on 'not having a pool', but playing catchup on 'getting rid of kangaroos' ... we just put up a wire fence :-P

The area around the house/pool is fenced/gated (as is the rest of the property) ... but the fence/gates are only around 1m high, so the roos round here can EASILY clear them ... it's more of a hope and a prayer that they stay out of our gardens ! :P

Yep, 1m easy.  Our fence is only  1.2m deterrent around part of garden where one big male had settled in, eating rose bushes and getting territorial. So far so good. Roos still roam around the rest of the block, don't mind them there.

Absolutely ! <grins>  We're on 13 acres and the house/garden bit is about 1¼ acres of that.  Nice to see them out in the paddocks, though.

Been here 16 years, and this is the first time any animal bigger than a lizard has fallen in the pool - and we've had escaped sheep belonging to our neighbors (including a flock of 'em once - about 20 in total) come up the drive and wander happily around the house/gardens before now.

Now I count myself lucky that I only see exploring cats and the occasional roe deer in the garden behind the apartment building.

Oh, and lots of birds, of course.  Including flocks of drunken jackdaws (they get drunk from eating fermented fruit and berries in the autumn - spend all day screeching insults at each other and fighting clumsily - can be very entertaining).

Okay, choppy-choppy over and I'm feeling a little better.  Let's have a look at what's what.

...no plans for a pool, here, I live in an apartment.  :)

Great, I come back right when we're face to ooze with Jubilex.  O_o

Is this Castle Greyhawk?  ^_^
This message was last edited by the player at 17:55, Tue 12 Dec 2023.

Welcome back, V. :)

Skald, I don't envy you that experience. I have had the pleasure of being a pool-owner - it was great when the kids were young but in the end I spent more time cleaning it than swimming in it. I once had to check the neighbours' backyards to find where our pool cover had blown off to during a storm. But a dead kangaroo in the pool? That's next level stuff!