Thanks. :) Now I gotta remember what is was I decided would be really nice to have... ;)

System crashed, been out for a few. Back now.

BTW- Are we supposed to do our own rolls, or not? Been leaving that off, and haven't had a request from the GM to do so. I don't mind either way- I usually prefer to roll, except the rolers all hate me, so it's fine if the GM rolls.

I'm used to doing all the rolls. Some players provide them and I'm fine with that. So you can do it either way.

OK. I'll let you do them, I'm good with that. :)

When I returned home it turns out that nothing happens when I try to turn on the computer. I didn't have a problem with this three weeks ago when I used it last. It may take some time to get it fixed, but I hope to have access as soon as possible.

Hope you get it fixed and that it doesn't cost you any money!

I hate computers sometimes!

I know.  Computers are like cars.  They're awesome, but they can be a bear to fix.

Unfortunately I think it will cost me money.

If computers were like cars, they wouldn't break. There's lemon laws, if a car did what a computer does, you'd get your money back.

Then again, no one ever does any maintenance on computers...

Funny thing, that. The two PC's in the house here are seven and ten years old, respectively. Despite their age, they normally run fine. The last time I had a problem, it had to do with a mouse and power cord. The former furry and the latter hot, until the problem which made the former smoking and the latter shorted.

Ya know every time my computer gets hot... it's just my firewall acting up.

Ba dum dum!

A furry mouse? Go figure. I have cats, so I use a glide point, they like to play cat & mouse... ;)

(Seriously, the youngest one bats it off the desk so dangles from the cord, and then slaps it around for hours on end.)

Try giving a cat a die to play with!  They think dice are cat toys!

Mine only last a few minutes with them. They end up under the stove, fridge, couch, recliner (where they try to retrieve them when I open the footrest, and my daughters scream when I try to put it down with a cat there), and other inaccessable places. I tend not to use them around my cats (which generally means batting the cat off the table / chair / whatever).

Ummm... this particular rodent was not a component of my system, although he had some good ideas about multiplicative algorithms.

Good stuff, guys!  =)

We used to have trouble with kamikaze squirrels getting into transformers.  They'd knock the servers offline for five or ten minutes.

Had a squirrel in a robot once. Ate the cables and got fried, kind of like D'aden's mouse. Stopped us from building cars or a whole day, and that's only because me & the other guy happened to turn into experts at internal cable changing. I've seen it take 2 shifts of 3 guys each, with a little more left over (50 man-hours-ish), to change them things, they're a bear and a half.

Me and my partner, we got it done in about 3 hours just the 2 of us (6-7 man-hours). We never did tell them how quickly we did it... We just told them at the end of the shift, it was done. ;)

It is estimated that I will have my computer back tomorrow afternoon.

Superb news!

Dragondog - I'm assuming that from his current position if Tarhall casts a direct damaging spell like "Stone Missile" at #4 there is a danger of hitting Olven as he is in between Tarhall and #4.  Is that correct?

Thanks.

That is correct.

In reply to Dragondog (msg #269):

Thanks.

Sorry for my lateness in posting - I'm back now.