On this day, 30 May, I remember my Dad, born 1920... so he'd have been 103 were he still with us. He was buried in a hilltop cenetary in South Wales called Melincwrt, a beautiful spot where all his family were interred. His was the last body they could accommodate in the plot, but they could add ashes, so my Mum opted for cremation so she could leave her earthly remains beside his.

In Wales, there is a custom Sul y Blodau (Flower Sunday), celebrated on the Sunday before Easter (that most people call Palm Sunday), when people visit graves and put flowers on them. Many a year we'd go up there and visit the family plot.

I always hated those visits. Dead people are not in there, just their earthly remains. When we buried my father I said I'd only go back there once, to bury my mother. And I did.

Oddly enough, just looked on Google Maps. Someone's added a photo taken near to our plot (not that you can see the inscriptions).

   I don't visit the graves  much... My wife  got  cremated and is in a little Mausoleum. I used to go up once  a week..its been 15 years  now?  I just  go  up  when i drive passed.


 The littest of the girls who live  with me, went in  and saw the  Bze,  it has a   bras? Bronze?  plate on it .. when i was at the Undertakers,  he  showed me plates..aall Base reliefs  all the corner  Angel stuff .. I asked. " do you have a  Baker? "

 he  found one in a catalog. a woman , thought dressed old  fashion,  rolling out dough in Kitchen  with cabinets  around her  and cookies    on the counter in trays.

 She  was a great  bakery.  the amount of cookies  she made  were  legendary, and she was  the Bakery  for the  schools. After she had to  quit...the school switched over to  'prepackage '  stuff.. and Gone  from the school  were the  Stromboli  and    Rolls she  made.

 The head guy  had her make  , twice  as many Stromboli's , because teachers  would  pay for whole ones to take home

 There is another grave  we  put  flowers on...  Its the  Guy my youngest daughter  would have married, but he  got  killed in a car wreck,,,she was just banged  up a bit... but  her life is alot rougher then it should be, because of that.

::chuckles:; man? talk  about going off on a tangent, But?  its  important, Not to forget, while you move on. Nothing can bring them back... but...maybe?  we can be a bit stronger, Knowing they were in our lives?

 as i am sure you have Noticed.  Nikki is posted   some..she sent me some   PMs , i got a couple  close toegther, so that was a great thing!

 the PMs   have her  making strides... I , of course, warned her  not to   do 'too much'..but she knows that.

 she did ask about the  battle and such, and i told her o make posts when she felt  able..

 I was glad to see the Posts  come up

 Don't be afraid to send her some PMs.. I know  if i ever go down, i would like to see something like that, to know  my friends are thinking of me.

depending on where she is  her sisters  or her own home, she will answer  if she can..she will certainly read what is put up.

Im happy to see Nikki around and hope she continues to heal well.

Hey Brian check out posts 38 and 39 in the images thread for info on the Armoured suits used by the Armoured Infantry.

In reply to Tarja Vanska (msg # 998):

Cool. Do they come with mug holders?

Getting there, folks.  right elbow and shoulder are being a bit stubborn, but rest is getting better and better.

Yeah \o/Nikki listen to the doctors and just get better \o/

In reply to Nicole Rutledge (msg # 1000):

Stay strong and get better soon. Pretty please

Not on this model, you need the deluxe pack for that

Hey Nikki, good to hear from you again, I hope everything sorts itself out

alright, back in 2 days if my warden let's me out.  lol

All Players:

 worked  with   Kira  and sgot some ideas.

  Anyone who  is a mech rider  or  AI..please look to the   CS in  'Charcter Build"

   ADD... the  Mech section to your   CS in the spheres...  anyone who has spent   sphere poiunts there.. may  reshuffle them

 the reason is, Mech riding/AI/Armor,, will be treated much the same  way as  pilots for the thier speheres

 PM me  when you make the changes to the sheets.....PLEASE...use  the   format  i have.  just edits  it the new stuff.

Sending a PM there has been some misunderstanding.

MESH RIDERS.... hold off until i understahd  what the suggestion was.

In reply to Admiral Hack (msg # 1007):

Is that another fine Mesh we've started?

dammit!..  I'm too stubborn to change it now!

Im changing that now, I'm one of the best Mesh riders in the APF.

ok.. theb 'new"  Character Build  sheet  is  up

 ANY....Caharcter  who  has  mech points   in thier spheres. Please, replace  the old  spheres  with the new obe, and you may reshuffle any of you mech points there.

with some more talks and the addition of AI.

  Characters  who have Mech  training in their  spheres.  bay take up to  20 points(total)  from other spheres to add to the mech  ?AI stuff.

 AI is new, so  there wouldn't be 'experts" as  far as having overly high sphere points.

 so...to  be  clear...

   You may reshuffle your mech Points, as well as  skim up to 20 sphere points from other  spheres to add to it as well.

Ok so Meari could take like 16 points from field Medic and make her AI 16. Would that be ok and it makes sense her field Medic would go down think I put it up to high lol.

The new Mech/AI section has three categories in it (though there is also a section for tanks!?) so basically you can split any points you had in you old Mech rider score across those three categories along with up to 20 points from any other spheres. So yeah you could take 16 points out of your field medic score and put them in AI skills.

It would probably represent Meari neglecting some of her medical training in order to better focus on mastering the armour.
This message was last edited by the player at 20:03, Wed 31 May 2023.

Tarja  has it... to make it fair.  there would have been points you put into Mech stuff..and as Tarja  said, that means   they wouldn't have  go into   other spheres.

 this was the best way to let the  riders  reshuffle a bit, with out Unfair/non-IC  actions.

Ok fair enough will do my official shuffle when I get home from work.

 Don this will also add that Meari is an emergency med tech.

Ok folks.. tie off  your  'night  RP" i want to  move to 'next day'

going to  ask.tell this here.

 DON'T  change  a post, unless  you are told  'that's  not right...or  you can't do that"

  people  in this  came are from all over the world. they see the posts  at different time( as do i_)..just...make  sure  you ask me before changing it...most times i will tell  you to keep it as is..if it has a big enough affect, I'll tell you.

 when a post gets  changed, and some folks see the real post and others see the Edit?..it  messes  small things up,that can lead to big things.