Those sound delicious Don! Gonna have to look up a recipe!

In reply to Admiral Hack (msg # 940):

Oh, there's reservoirs all over the West.  When you have four or five years of consecutive drought and record-low snow during the winter followed by record-low rain over the summer, it catches up.  I mean, it was bad enough that six months ago, news outlets were publishing stories about how the Great Salt Lake was destined to vanish within the next few years...

There's a highway up one of the canyons about twenty minutes from here that's been closed indefinitely, because the river (coming out of one of those reservoirs) is running so high that it's washed away half of the highway in one spot...there's a LOT of water coming out of those hills!  And it's kinda crazy to me that it's mid-May and the higher mountains are still covered in snow...it's been a LONG time since I've seen that.

I always get  'El Nino"  and  'La Nina ' mixed up..one is  'bad winter"   the other is 'Bad  Summer'

 Sadly, the  'bad winter' is when we get the  most snow to help built up the water table.

all Pilots.

 in the load  out   thread, I edited the Combat rolls and such.. ANYTHING IN BLUE is new, as  far as results go.

remember.. You'll  do your RP attack and rolls

I will confiem them  and tell you the resutls


You will then RP out   yoru results..and somewhere after the   that i will have a  'results' post for the turn, and we'll do it again'

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Roll (2) 1d100 for the   attacks.....PM  me  results of the rolls.

Hanger dec  Folks   for this  turn of shooting and such.

(2) 1d100

1-5  you take  1 d8 of damage

6-25... 1d4 of damage

26-80..no damage

81-95...1d4  damage

6-100 ..1d8 Damage

once  we get Ranata's RP in for his  roll, I'll cue you pilots  for the next turn

So, I'm having a rough week with technology.  Sunday, my cell phone decided it didn't like the text messaging app...ANY text messaging app, basically, that worked with the basic SMS system (stuff like FB Messenger and WhatsApp were fine).  It would randomly bounce the cursor back to the start of the message while I was typing, and wouldn't send messages (I think I tried to send about twenty all day, and four made it through.)  I've had my phone for 8.5 years, so I figured it's time to upgrade...

Next day, text is working JUST FINE.

Also decided it was finally time to upgrade my work laptop (at the movie theater) to Win10, from Win 8.1 (got sick of getting informed that there were system updates that needed to be downloaded, and when I told the computer to download them, it said there was nothing there to download...)  I have a neighbor who's a little bit of a tech guru (he's also the guy who helped me fix my snowblower back before winter really kicked us in the teeth, so he's good for a lot more than computer help!) who finagled a flash-drive for me with the Win10 Upgrade software (even though Microsoft has officially discontinued free upgrades)...when I first got it on my computer, the laptop 'forgot' that it has a wi-fi transceiver, so I couldn't connect to anything.  It's done that before, I just reboot it and, lo and behold, WI-FI...

Except I rebooted it, and it kept spitting error messages back at me and wouldn't boot back up again.  Googled the error message and found out it was a software conflict (Win10 and Avast Anti-Virus do not play well together).  Booted it up in safe mode, uninstalled Avast, and we're up and flying on Win10...

And then I tried to print out the schedule for next week.  Now, my printer is throwing an error code which, according to the company website, means the printer heads have overheated.  Except that, in the help article where they explain that, they say that you can open up the printer like you're going to replace the cartridges, turn it on, and the cartridges will traverse to their normal replacement position.  I turn mine on, and the cartridges don't move AT ALL.  Worked just fine last week...and 95% of what I use it for is printing out schedules, so it's not like it sees a lot of wear and tear.  But it IS a few years old.  I have another one at home that's the same make and model, I'll bring it in and try it sometime (not tomorrow night...we're doing lighting focus tomorrow night until all hours...)

And just as I was finishing up looking all that up, the laptop FORGOT its wi-fi connection was there, again...

It's been a long evening, and I've only been here for a couple of hours.

That's crazy. I have Microsoft defender  that came with the  computer. and I have had  Norton for years.

 in the  early  day , i asked  Norton why it seems to attack  their   programs...about a year later  , there wasn't much trouble, Unless i used   Yahoo  alot ( back them i was in about  10   Games  on Yahoo and ran two others. )...

 I went to Avast, because my son-in law  said   how  cheap it was...but   you get what you paid  for, and I went back ton Norton after  having to  refresh, and  start from factory    settings..that  sucks when you try to get to your games  and  important   sites!

I have a  friends.. we  graduated together ( he even had a crush on my late  Wife, but   I won out with out  trying too hard )..anyway, he  has  a very  tiny fuse.. he was havign trouble with his odler  machine, and i would tell him what he needed to do  even the   clean out cookies  and history and searches and stuff... he didn't like to do that,,,Ihe broke down and got Norton, but was mad when a guy from India  wanted to do remote   to fix his machine?  Heck? i get them to do that  any  time  i  have to start from scratch.

 any way, he quit them,,he still has  trouble. I have been sailing alone  her for longer then i ever  have..hope it stays that way...Now Phones?  You'd have to talk to My oldest Grandaughter!

Ok. Pilots.. 'next turn"..the  'feed' is  being  cut off  By Karl and the  Cap ship bombardment . but foir this  turn we will use the same  rolls

 make the Rolls ..PM   me like before.

 Ranata  will be out until he gets a new ride.

 Stavros, for whatever  reason hasn't answered  PMs  or logged in..he is  in Med tech  Tent on the planet.

  Player  News.

   Nikki  is   getting a bit  better, Moving  around and trying to get arm working. she said  she  spending time between her sister's house, and her Home. which is a very good sign  she can have that 'home time"

  I don'[t want to put  up everything in OOC, any one who wants   more specifics  can PM me  and I will share her PM with you.

 but?  if nothign esle, she's on the emnd, and we look forward to when she can post, once more.,

I will most likely not be posting again until tomorrow night.  We're focusing lights at the stage tonight, scheduled to last until 1am, and then I'm going to bed...

And I think I tweaked my wrist yesterday...I was using a step-drill bit to make some holes larger in a metal plate, and the bit suddenly grabbed and twisted the drill in my hand, HARD.  It was fine last night, but it's more and more tender today.

Gonna run and get food and then back to the park for the duration, it looks like.  Wish me luck!

take care of yoruself, watch out  for Murphy and his law!

Ok..all fighter   PCs who are in the air, roll again

Wow...I've been livin' right or something...we were scheduled to be focusing until 1am...

At 9:15, the assistant lighting designer (who was running the focus, the actual lighting designer gets into town tomorrow) said, "Okay...I think that's it.  I want to flash through everything just to be sure, but I think we're good..."  By 9:30, he was done and on his way to his hotel (his day started at 2AM, Eastern time, so he's had a LOOOOONG day...).  By 9:45, everyone else was packed up and out, I had to take the boom lift back and go through and lock everything up (including all my tools...I try not to think about how much it would cost to replace everything if my tools wandered off.  Most of them are pretty basic...but I've got a few specialty items that are scary-expensive.)  By 10:20, I was clocked out, the security guard was still waiting at the exit so I could drop off the key to the lift to him and didn't have to wait to leave the park (if they're out doing their rounds, depending on where they are and whether they're just starting or just finishing with that section, if they've left the exit post then you can wait anywhere between five and twenty minutes for them to get back to let you out...)

And I can get some stuff done at the theater that I was dreading having to do tomorrow night.

Good to have a competent crew with a solid work ethic!  We blew through this in record time...just a few questionable points that the lighting designer may want to tweak, or change, or eliminate completely...we'll see on Friday.

That's neat Roy! Nothing is better then  thigns  working out right!

  Game Map  2.. has our  'AO' on

 Jerl is in the  center. Its walled has   four gates. It is to the west of   the  Airbase (A).

 our beach head  is  in the  area marked 'Plain'. The   road  south of  Jerl leads  to that plain,. with   smaller roads  leading  other places.

 the river  runs  from 11:00 to 4:00  with  it  splitting the   City... any one from the air  would have seen  many bridges ( some  , now have been destroyed)

 'Plain" has The Hermes Beachhead.  they are Building   'insta-walls'  to help protect the beach head and theirs is  very heavy fighting  to the  ridge  and  trees to the  west

at 2:00 from the  plain. is  where the engineers  have  built   a bridge to help us  connect with the airbase...

 the   road  leading from Jerl to the airbase is littered with Bodies  and  shattered  vehicles.. the plain  a mile or so from  Kerl and the  ridge-forest is burning .. The Panzers of the Drop ships  are being used  as  artillery to  shell , all around Jerl.

 The Air Battle  is   almost directly   above Jerl.. many doomed  aircraft   are crashing in and around the  city

 'off map' to the south west, is  where   the Mountain range is , that is getting  battered down..


 Athena's   beach head is   North of the  city, in a lightly  wooed   are a  with  some clearing  the they are using... Athena's  troops are attacking the   Trooper base ( T)...

 Both fighter wings  are trying to keep  the Angels off our  troops, while the  Angels appear to just  want to knock down out  fighters.

Pilots// one more  roll ( at least).. 1d100  still using the blue.

Roy let me know he'll be  busy  for a couple days. he gave  me info on what he  wanted    Roy to   do as far as the base goes.

 This is  cut the ^&%*^&%*&^%*&^% grass  day, so i'll be in a bit later  as the ^%$*%%*%$ battiers have to charge.

 All PCs... if you chose to  chase after the planes that are chasing  Shaow, let me know so i can do the maych  for your Rolls

  If you stay in the   furballl.. roll with the Blue chart again

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 Neari.. You can Link up  with Ranata on your next post

PV Pilots... you  may make the choice  again.. chase the  'chase planes"  or Go back to the furball

 chase planes use   the rolls i gave you in PMs... Furball pilots use   the Blue charts.

Just a update I have just left Oklahoma and on the way to new mexico everything is good and I plan to be back by Sunday or Monday at the latest.

Have  Fun!

 Pilots ...

 one last time on the Blue chart... (1) d100

Hi Don at work but internet is iffy not getting service like normal will post when I can

thanks for the heads  up Lizzy