Yay my posts work again finally

Yay!,,,Remeber  in the maps sections there are  2 maps that show the   Decs of the Hermes.

hey guys, trying to climb back on the horse here, again

https://youtu.be/7Iuq3Wfz3RA?si=236HC1CSPnjuiVmE

thought you guys would enjoy this one.

 That's great! i liked  that/ I wonder if they continued to serve  after that

ok?  tonight is the turkey raffle at out Vol FC. my late  wife used to go when we first dated..we never  miised  until she was sick a couple years. me nd  my local kids  go,but we missed 2  for pandemic.

 Tonight is also Crosscoutry  banquet for lest, she and my son will go there, me and 2 Little ones  are going , I think my daughter will bring her littlest one.

wwe  do , normally do well..we have had some big  years where we  wone, 3 or 4.. we're lucky if  we get one  and a door price or two.

 But? the Money goes to the VFC and they  helped  my son's old house when it  caught fire.

over the years.. we have  given turkeys to people  on my route, that i knew were going through hard times...we sneak up at night  and  knock on the door, to spare us both , being  embarrassed!

 one year. I woman lost her Husband, she had  2 kids and they lived in a  rundown home  near us..( it has been since torn down)....My wife went out and bough an EZbake oven and some kits  for the girl, and  a couple transformers ( bigger ones that  you make out of  5  smaller ones)  and  we gave them out biggest turkey, 10 lbs of  potatoes and  a dozen eggs... me and  my two Daughters ( they were mid teens. carried the  stuff  up, while the boys  and my wife had the get away car going... they never knew  who  brought the stuff, other  then 'santa'

 The Big thing, was the lasting effect on my kids..My oldest. buts  a new  Boy toy, Girl toy and Baby toy every year and  gives it to  Toys  for Tots.. my  youngest Daught  always doing stuff doing stuff  down  NC ( though, the poor  thing  has trouble helping her , when she has to run kids  around down there)... The Boys   aways   try to help other out too.

anyway?  all part of  our traditions.  i'll leave here before  6, should be back some where close to  9:00
This message was last edited by the player at 22:56, Thu 09 Nov 2023.

Wel...so the fever that I had last week that wouldn't break (it was 102 with Tylenol)...turns out I had COVID...fun times. Trying to get back on the posting horse...

glad you're feeling better Billie.  Hang in there.

Lots of attacks on players  this time of year

I've been busy last few days car hunting but huzzah finally a new car so lots of stress gone

Yay!, Congrates Jason

Thanks by the way not quite sure what to do in game at the moment as when I arrived originally I set my stuff down and immediately went planetsideso was never shown quarters anything

well. it should be assumed that your gear was sent to your  Quarters  You'll n be in the Non-Com dec  as a petty officer.

Ok thanks

There will literally be a room with your name on it, just stick a security code in the door and go inside. Though if you find a sleep deprived Finn inside...you've got the wrong room! :D

Lol

In reply to Billie Morrisson (msg # 982):

There have been several days where I've felt kind of run-down, my nose a little more stuffy than usual, my eyes burning more than usual...it kept me mildly alarmed, because that's basically the way my Covid bout started.  But a fever had never materialized, so I think it's a combination of seasonal allergies, post-show-closing letdown, and my tendency to burn the candle at both ends.  I've also been telling myself, "Hey, you can't get sick...you've got stuff to do and limited time to get it done!"  Two weeks ago, it was taking down all the lights at our temporary stage.  Last week, it was the trip to Vegas.  Now, it's taking down the rest of the lights at our permanent stage (they are lower priority because they're all in under a roof and sheltered from the weather).  I'm supposed to have some help for at least the first few days of the week next week (I think through 11/15), so I'm hoping to have them all down and moved into the space where we did our Seance show during the Halloween season.  It's heated in there, and I can set up some folding tables for extra working space, so I have room to work on cleaning and servicing all the lights over the winter.

They've also decided they're making a long-term pivot in how we do shows at the park...I got back just in time for the last day of them dredging out our main costume storage area.  A lot of the stuff is going to the haunted house stockpile...I'm trying to contain my anxiety at the thought of $600 suits being turned into haunted house costumes, but I'm taking some comfort in the fact that our production manager thinks that the costume storage space would actually be a really great workshop space for me, somewhere I could set up some legit workbenches so I can actually use some good benchtop tools like a bandsaw, drill press, belt sander, etc, which is something we were trying to do in our old rehearsal space, but it was never really working because there was just too much other stuff that had to fit in the same space.

Oh, and, yes, I survived Vegas.  I'm glad we went during the week this time, instead of over the weekend, because while I had to work almost all night Thursday night getting the movie theater ready for the next week and ended up having to work at the park on Friday afternoon because they wanted to get all the dry-cleaning back and into storage, I've had plenty of casual time to recuperate a little bit from Vegas.  Got to see Ka on Sunday night thanks to a friend that has worked with Cirque du Soleil in the past (it was originally going to be Love, but that show is dark on Sundays), the Seance show at Lost Spirits Distillery on Monday, I was going to see Blue Man Group on Tuesday but it was a last minute decision and by the time I'd settled on that one, tickets were sold out (ended up walking around The Strip, went to the Conservatory at the Bellagio and also got to see the Bellagio Fountain show, which I had thought had been shut down because of the Formula 1 preparations...turns out it's just that you can't watch them from the Strip because of the F1 grandstands that have been set up, but you can still see them from the casino side...) and we ended up going to a nightclub at the Cosmopolitan that had live-band karaoke...it's a whole different energy to do karaoke with live music performers around you, and even more different to be doing it in front of a crowd of 100+ total strangers, but AC/DC proved to be a popular choice and I actually did pretty good once I stopped trying to sing it like Brian Johnson and dropped it an octave to a range where I could actually sing it full-voiced.  Even had some drunk guy ask me when I came off stage if I needed groupies (no, I do not need drunk strangers following me around Vegas for the rest of the night, but thank you...) and another guy who was singing "Twist and Shout" later asked me if I would sing the harmony part, so I must have done pretty well.

And then Wednesday night, we went to Rouge...which was a first for me.  I've worked with burlesque performers for years, but this was my first topless revue.  Some elements of it reminded me of Zumanity, which was the first Cirque du Soleil show I saw (mostly the thematic context of humans being sexual beings and we should accept and embrace that...)  I was also sitting at one of the VIP tables next to my friend from Vegas, and the emcee ended up coming over and asking us some rather personal questions in front of the whole audience (mostly because we had both shouted out suggestions when he was asking general questions to the whole audience earlier in the show), and he ended up jumping to the conclusion that we were husband and wife, which made both of us laugh...we got a 'wedding picture' with some of the performers out in the lobby after the show as a joke (I then ended up spending the next four or so hours trying to keep my friend from getting into trouble as she tends to have an incredibly fine line between "pleasantly tipsy" and "belligerently drunk"), so when I flew home on Thursday, I was EXHAUSTED.  The earliest I got to bed the entire time I was in Vegas was on Sunday night, and that was still somewhere around 1am.

One thing I do love about Vegas...I have never run well on the traditional "business hours are 9 to 5" schedule.  I'm at my best around 10pm or so, and the hardest adjustment I've had to live with post-Covid is the lack of places that used to be open 24/7.  My body runs on a Vegas timetable.  Unfortunately, Vegas is WAY too crowded for my tastes (that was the other thing I loved about being down there during the week...Vegas is always busy, but it is so much LESS busy on Tuesday than on Friday!)

Very Neat!...that sounds like a great time...then works  stuff....will work itself out. The Important thing is you had fun with your friend  and got to see all those things.

 enjoy doing  stuff like that as much as you are able!

And it's been an interesting day or two back.  Yesterday was pretty casual, but I spent a little over an hour today up on the roof of the theater with the owners, spreading roofing tar to patch up some leaks we've had problems with, before winter sets in and they wind up buried in snow until the spring thaw.  I actually really enjoy the feeling of getting to know all the odd nooks and corners of the building, so this was kind of fun for me.

And then I watched the movie "Jules"...a quirky little comedic drama about a guy (Ben Kingsley) who's getting very far along in years and is on the verge of dementia, who has a UFO crash in his back yard and ends up befriending its alien pilot...but any time he tells people about it, they think that he's finally gone over the edge and his mind is going.  It's cute, heart-warming, and had a nice blend of standard alien-encounter tropes and unexpected twists.  If you get the chance, I highly recommend it...it's an indie film, so there's no big flashy effects sequences or car chases...just good, solid, straight-up acting and some clever storytelling.

that sounds   neat, have to see if it  shows  up on  Netflix, or   amazon..I also found out  the  TV package i have had, had a showtime  and MGM +.two weeks ago i saw alot of  my James  bond films, thy had like  a marathon of  sorts

Out of interest what time of day are we at? I thought it was pretty late after the wedding?

It is.. as the Shuttles  Landed  it was  close  to  11:30  with captain Si's  delay .. we have since   cast off ( hence the recruits brought aboard.)

 as Shadow  and the rest head down to the field it s  closing in on 1:00AM.

Ah ok, I wasn’t sure if I’d got the time wrong and it was a lot earlier in the day.

yeah..people are   winding  down now.. 'next day'  will be some  time after   they  deal with cot by and the recruits

 saw this on a list of Miliraty phrases.

FTA
©Lance Cpl. Vaniah Temple
"FTA" is an acronym for "failure to adapt." Someone can be reprimanded or discharged for this lack of versatility, and some modern workplaces may use this terminology to evaluate employees.

 we have  had  some of those here!

We have a long history of those, going back to just after the game started (like the AI player who wanted to infiltrate the Hermes systems and take control of everything...)

Decided to tackle another "the landlord's never going to get around to this" project, and I'm recaulking my tub and reworking the entire tub surround.  The landlord when I moved in had tried to give the bathroom at least a minor facelift...they redid the tub/shower surround, and put down fresh caulk...

But they used melamine panels (like an enamel over masonite), and over the years, just about every tiny scratch those panels had received in shipping or while they were being cut got water that soaked in an swelled the masonite, and in some cases, water had gotten behind it from somewhere else and separated it from the wall.  And rather than remove and replace the caulk, they had just smeared another layer over the top of the old stuff...without even cleaning the old stuff particularly well.  And when I say "old stuff", I mean I think it was the caulk from when the apartments were originally built...all hard and brittle, like window putty, and it had started to curl in several places, either up from the tub or down from the surround, so water and dirt were getting in there.  When I started removing the caulk and really getting into it, the newer silicone stuff that my original landlord had used came off (sometimes in two or three layers), revealing what may have been either pockets of mildew or just heavily accumulated dirt...all I know is it was really dark in color...

So, chiseled out as much of the old caulk as I could get to let go, used some CLR Mildew Remover to scrub along the caulking line, and used a scouring pad to scrub the melamine for the surround...that was all last night.  Today, after I got home from the park, I redid all of the caulk as best I could, and then I painted over the melamine with the Gorilla-brand knock-off of Flex Seal (which is what I actually wanted to use, but Walmart only had black...I should have just gone to Home Depot and paid a little more for it...Flex Seal applies much easier than the Gorilla stuff).

Got to that point, and had to wait for paint to dry, so I decided to head to the theater.  We're finally getting A Haunting in Venice, which I'm looking forward to...and Blue Beetle, which has apparently been a major let-down at the box office, but I'll give it a try just because I've been mostly enjoying the DC movies (once they got Zack Snyder out of the director's chair...he's got great visual sensibilities, but he's at his best telling someone else's story, like he did with 300.  Having him write and direct the first few DCEU movies was a mistake...)  But, wrapping all that up so I can head back home and get another coat of paint on the surround.  I'm hoping it all works out well, I'll be really happy to have my shower back...

I admire    your  work ethic. I see  some projects i want to do, but  i just can't ( won't in some cases).

 be nice if you got  something back on your rent for that!