I think I'll try drawing something I've wanted to draw for a long time… U.S.S. Enterprise VOLTRON! That's right! A giant robot formed from all the Enterprise ships of the prime Star Trek Universe (sorry, alternate Enterprise from the newest movie… you don't belong here). Haha! This should be easy to dr…

*notices the shapes of all the ships*

O… kay… this isn't gonna be easy…

skoolmunkee

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
Moving along, the Jewish museum was very moving as well as very depressing

When I was in high school I lived near Washington DC and the big Holocaust museum there had just been built. first we went there as a family, then we had two school trips there, then a relative came to visit and that was one of the places they wanted to go. Then another relative came and wanted to go there and I was like NO, I AM NEVER GOING AGAIN because my feelings toward it had changed from respectful to depressed/bored. Anyway they went there, I walked down the street and ate a giant pretzel and looked at dino skeletons.

AND I NEVER DID GO THERE AGAIN

Oh, gawd. I've been to that museum. I'd recommend it, but I don't think I'd go again. Pretty emotional- and I'm not an easy egg to crack. :/

came across an old lady lyin on the sidewalk today an while we wait for the paramedicals she told me the deal. turns out she was takin her little doggie out fer a walk an bein a little doggie he dumps right there on the sidewalk but bein a good citizen she goes in witht the plastic bag to grab that shit but bein an old lady an not to unsteady on her pins she falls right in the shit an crack her head open on the sidewalk - lucky i came by when i did cos that aint no way to cash em in

theres a moral to this tale but itll take a better man than me to discern what it isit

@ HOLOCAUST MUSEUM TALK:

On my 8th grade trip there me and my friend were left behind in the museum as 360 other students went off to lunch.

And the game we played in it was DO NOT LAUGH.

…Some of us might have laughed.

But not in the serious parts.

We limited the bad jokes in those parts.

Cause that would have been REALLY BAD.

But I may or may not have broken part of an exhibit there.

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today was a depressing day, so spoiler tags so you don't get accidental sad.

are family is all in town for my cousins wedding. my sister, brothers and i drove up to where we used to live. It was the last place we were all together with my father. The houses were all torn down, and the dairy had been turned into a conservation. We found what was left of the road, hopped a fence, and found where our old house was, based on pictures of trees.
We sprinkled his ashes around the tree from the backyard. it was pretty emotional.


i spent 10 hours in a car today, and saw an alligator. it was an overall cool day.

Happy Birthday, Crocty!!! Have to imagine that Ochi will approve of the temp tat.

@Ally: I once had a washing machine that sounds very similar to yours. When we sold our house the buyers said they wanted it - we mentioned - they insisted (another story in the archives of be careful for what you wish)

@seventy2: I guess that's what they mean when they say you can't go home again. sounds like a very full day

@Dodgy: WOW! I'm glad you were there for her!

Re museums / monuments / memorials, you can have one hell of an emotional overload in DC. I haven't visited the Holocaust Museum, but I've visited the Vietnam Memorial and, walking that walk, and seeing the other people there looking for names, it is one of the most moving tributes I've seen/experienced. The WWII, not so much. So much history to remember, but it still doesn't seem like we're learning much from it.

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So, another chapter in my battle with our school district. Today I came close to “calling down the thunder” because of a neat little maneuver on their part that if I hadn't got hipped to it today, we would have been pretty screwed. Frankly, I can't believe the deliberate mendacity – it makes me want to go back and reconsider some of Kyupol's posts.

So I upped the ante. Because, it's true, ain't no one messin with my cubs

:( Awww Seventy, I'd give you a hug, but you can't transfer those kind of things over the internet. I hope you're all right.

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Happy Birthday from 12 hours in the future, Crocty! Sweet tat you got there, man ;D

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Skool
AND I NEVER DID GO THERE AGAIN

Hahaha!

It was pretty intense, and I did enjoy it, but I don't think I would go there again of my own free will, it was far too upsetting. But I might have to go there again soon, because I needed the information from there for my English Assessment, and I didn't get it all down the first time becuase we were in and out in two hours, and it really an all day thing.

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@Ayes: I wasn't going to mess with your children before Ayes, but now I most certianly won't if you trn into a bear!

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Last day of term today here, I'm having a good last day. Watching Mr. Bean's Holiday with the year sevens, what of it? ;) But I have heaps of work to do over the term break, including a massive Geography project, an English speech, an Ancient History essay and a Modern History essay… uuuughhhh…. Safe to say I won't be doing anything mildly interesting during my break. :/

Heh… finally woke up… and it wasn't exactly pleasant. Pretty hot right now, even at 4PM. Programming a visual novel is giving me another kind of headache. I don't feel like hardcoding all the text for the game into the main program. That'd make patching the thing difficult.

Um… anyone know what a “waifu” is? Game's got this premise. You create your own character, give him/her traits and stuff, then interact with the game world's inhabitants and try to have a happy ending with one of them. And no… if I made it an eroge VN not a lot of people will be able to play it. Legally, that is.

I wonder how bad things will get if the age to legally procreate was raised to 80 years of age and violation of that law had the penalty of death for both offenders and any children they may have had as a result… And the law was enforced by teminator-like robots…

Oh, well… whatever… Gotta let my mind simmer now after having been heated up during sleep.

Really weird thing happened last night.
I guess I was so tired that I dreamt what I saw was… different?
Late last night my parents really came upstairs argueing about who broke something and I can remember the exact words (I told my dad them and he said it really happened) and my dad went from blaming mum to blaming me and I couldnt be bothered to get up so i slept until the next morning and told my dad not to blame me. everything happened in real life (i thought it was a dream) apart from the telling my dad not to blame me bit. is that weird?

new website for me and my friend yaaaayness:
check it out and tell me how to make it better!
www.thestudiokids.blogspot.com/

Sayomi
new website for me and my friend yaaaayness:
check it out and tell me how to make it better!
www.thestudiokids.blogspot.com/

It should be www.thestudiokids.blogspot.com because otherwise it just takes you to the DD site. Just so you know how I create my URL links, first is "url=http://yourwebsitehere“ in brackets, then what you want to name the link (any name will do I think), then ”/url“ in another set of brackets. :)

Nice site though. It gives me that ”60's“ vibe though. Then again, anything covered in hearts with that color/graphic theme tends to give me that vibe. :)

One odd saying I got from a guy who actually lived in the 60's… ”if you remember that time, you weren't alive"… apparently everyone was intoxicated with various toxic substances at the time…

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Here's another odd thought… would it be a violation of the U.S. Constitution if a murder occurs in the neighborhood but no one in that neighborhood wants to talk about and you bring in a powerful telepath to sweep the entire place of thoughts? And all this for the purpose of knowing who the killer is, then merely finding any evidence against him that will stick? :)

Sayomi
new website for me and my friend yaaaayness:
check it out and tell me how to make it better!
www.thestudiokids.blogspot.com

i absolutly love that; it couldnt get any better unless you were handin out free unprescribed pharmecuticals or somethin. i may need you to design somethin like that for me when i get some cash togrher

lonnehart
One odd saying I got from a guy who actually lived in the 60's… “if you remember that time, you weren't alive”… apparently everyone was intoxicated with various toxic substances at the time…

the sayin is meant to be “if you remember the 60s you weren't really there” - if you weren't alive then, you would actully be dead now. it colludes to the fact that in theory, everyone was high on psychotropic sustenances, but thats not really true cos my dad told me he only got high one time an that wwas from buildin model planes in a poorly ventilated garage.

I was six when the 1960's ended so all my first memories are from that decade.

A very small but very vocal minority took all the drugs. Everyone else that was there just wished they would shut up and go away.

The decade everyone would really like to forget is the 1970's. However, there's not enough drugs in the universe to forget that disasterous era.

Instead much of America managed to catch senility from Ronald Reagan in the 1980's and therefore forgot the previous two decades. lol!

Except for evangelical Christians who are convinved it's still 1854 and Darwin and the American Civil War haven't happened yet.

bravo1102
The decade everyone would really like to forget is the 1970's. However, there's not enough drugs in the universe to forget that disasterous era.

oh i dunno, it wasn completely stoopid i hear (this is obviosly why there wasn enough drugs to go around)

I have some memories of the 60s, but most of what I know was learned afterward. That decade, imo, had so many different shades of cool that it's hard for any other decade to measure up. Maybe the 20s.

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And now: a Thread Overlap
since the voice contest thread, altho not dead, seems to be comatose. Attention:

Last Call, Drunk Ducks

Tomorrow is the last day to send in your voice recording/try out.

Votes and guessing commence Sunday. ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN IN.



thank you. please carry on with your Rs, Ms Rs and Ss

Yeah! Get your recordings in for the radio play!
Do it!!!!

Dodgy

bravo1102
The decade everyone would really like to forget is the 1970's. However, there's not enough drugs in the universe to forget that disasterous era.

oh i dunno, it wasn completely stoopid i hear (this is obviosly why there wasn enough drugs to go around)

Man, no way! The 70's were the best. No, the worst decade was the 2000-2010. A few good things came out of it, like Drunk Duck, the massive flowering of webcomics, and some other stuff, but the proportion of pure shit has been far higher than the benefits:

- The comeback of hoody as a garment. Truly the worst travesty.
- The Tsunami in the Indian ocean
- 9/11.
- The horrible wars against Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Celeb culture worship moving into overdrive.
- The severe downturn in the production of original film content in Hollywood.
- The hoody in awful 1980s kiddy prints.
- Severe upturn in hyper commercial pop-music caused by the music industry cutting promotion budgets to anything else but their “sure things”, meaning that anything else has to dribble out via alternative channels only while pet acts dominate ALL mainstream media.
- Upsurge in racism against black people in the US due prominence of Obama.
- Biggest upserge in anti-muslim bigotry the world has seen since the crusades, in spite of the fact that Islamic terrorism is probably at the same level or lower than it was back in the 80's (and only represents an infinitesimal amount of Muslims anyway)
- Huge upsurge in Christian fundamentalism and active attacks on science in the education system in all Western countries.
- Big moves towards attacking the environmental movements.
- bigger gaps between the rich and poor than ever.
- Undermining of workers rights…

I could go on…
If I could think of anything else! Hahaha! I'm tapped out. -_-

Jesus fucking christ, in the past week, WEEK:
-A hawk snatched one of my chickens
-A starving possibly rabified mountain lion was scratching our trashcan
-A BOBCAT was circling the chicken coop this morning, and dads gun didn't fire properly.

Argh…I confined my chickens to the coop and moved them really close to back window but it doesn't seem to matter. Now i'm trying to distance myself from them because it looks like they're predator bait 24/7 and i still feel bad that blackie is gone.

Having a crappy week.

My school called me maybe 2-3 days ago and invited me to the awards/scholarships ceremony today, but didn't say what I had won. I had nothing to wear except t-shirts and jeans, so I had to go out and buy clothes. Turns out all I won was some $250 bursary(I don't qualify for most of them because I'm not going straight into university). I guess it'll pay for the new clothes, anyway. And someone else won the Fine Arts award, which I'm really sad about. Apparently top mark in art two years in a row(not sure about this year yet) and spending like 3 hours a day in the art room isn't enough. Don't know what more I could have done.

Also, things aren't going very well at work. For whatever reason the new owner doesn't like one of my coworkers, and is constantly looking for things to get mad at her about. That's upsetting enough, but she's started trying to get me to throw her under the bus as well. It's just so strange as well, because my coworker is great and the owner has been too except for this. I don't understand it at all, but it's very uncomfortable and upsetting.
Oh, and she's cutting the hours of me and the other part-timer, which really sucks. I really need a full-time job, but it seems just about impossible.

I'm feeling very down.

Skullbie
-A starving possibly rabified mountain lion was scratching our trashcan
-A BOBCAT was circling the chicken coop this morning, and dads gun didn't fire properly.

You have bobcats and mountain lions there? Jebus Skull, where do you live? Awsomeville bestplaceintheworldtown? O_o

@Hippie. That sucks :(

Is anyone else having the site load like crap for them?

That an multiple log outs, no matter what page you're going on.

And also having it constantly messing up in loading a page?

Just me?

Well screw you too Mr. Computer.

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I officially have one vote for 1337 in the mafia games.

That's cool.

Still won't win but someone thinks I should!

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Been watching Wimbledon all day.

Kinda cool but boring after a while.

Bout to see if Murray actually wins this match right now.

If not I'm not staying around for set five.

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…wait for it…

…wait for it…

…FINALLY…Three freaking hours of waiting on this…

…he won…

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Not like it matters or anything…

ozoneocean

Skullbie
-A starving possibly rabified mountain lion was scratching our trashcan
-A BOBCAT was circling the chicken coop this morning, and dads gun didn't fire properly.

You have bobcats and mountain lions there? Jebus Skull, where do you live? Awsomeville bestplaceintheworldtown? O_o

i thinks she said it was beverley hills

Getting stressed. Supposed to be moving house in august, things aren't going to plan and it might not happen until september… or decenmber. But it might still happen. Also trying to organise a holiday but due to the potential move I cant. We didn't have one last year due to finances and I don't want the kids missing out again.

I Am The 1337 Master
Is anyone else having the site load like crap for them?

I’d describe it more like molasses, but, yeah

ayesinback
another chapter in my battle with our school district.

So I upped the ante.

And today – I think we have success


It's not that I can't play hard ball, I just don't like to. and now I'm very sleepy. time to hibernate.

send in your recordings please

Wow… it's been quiet in here all day. I wonder why?

*peeks into the thread*

…..

I see DrunkDuck people… O_O

Lonnehart
Wow… it's been quiet in here all day. I wonder why?

Those constant logouts Leet mentioned. Made it almost impossible to use the site.

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@Ayes- Congrats and good luck!

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@ Dodgy- I confess that from her descriptions I did get a whiff of hillbilly and it brought to my mind Robert E Howard's stories of Nevada native and uber-hillbilly Breckinridge Elkins (who routinely encounters all manner of disturbing wildlife, both human and animal), but as well all know Skull is far more cultured than that.
So I can only conclude that Arizona must be a wild and woolly place to live!

ozone's right, i stopped coming, because it took so long to load. and i'm busy doing other stuff in miami.
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Having tons of fun. yesterday i spent some time in an 80ft deep lake. apparently they quarry things around here, fill up the quarries, and build houses around them. then call it “lake front property”


i like potatoes.

I like potatoes too, but I'm probably responding to something dreadfully double intendre, so I reserve the right to retract my statement.

yeah - so what's with the site? Are they starting to move stuff to the new one? Not only is it uploading Very Slowly, but I'm getting logged out almost any time I hit a link. phooey.

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Just got back from a hearing test, the latest installment in “Ayes gets pink eye”. Now that the school district saga looks like it might be a wrap, maybe I can wrap this saga up, too. And I mean saga:

28 May: cute baby nephew exposes me to Pink Eye
about a week later: pink eye > about 2 days later > ear and sinus infection > day later, while giving myself an ear bath, punctured ear canal (lesson learned: those little syringes can pack quite the punch) > pink eye is gone, but summer cold pops into vacancy > yesterday, follow up to punctured canal – structurally everything is Great, but hearing still not right > today: hearing test – loss of high frequencies > Steroids!

Alrighty – does that mean my swimming will improve like an East German Olympian?!

next in the ongoing absurdity: I promised to babysit that cute little nephew this afternoon (cue suspense music)

ANYWAY, how can YOU help ayesinback? (cuz I'm sure that's on the tip of your tongues :P )

Tomorrow voting for the radio contest begins and we need YOUR vote! *it would make me happy if you'd do it*

See the thread tomorrow - and thanks in advance.

@ Ayes- Yup, I had confirmation from Lawrence a while ago- Things are being moved. :\
- for the rubber ear syringes: they've actually been clinically tested (real scientific tests) to prove that they work! Which is great, but you HAVE to be very gentle and careful with them. VERY gentle…
But then again, losing HF sound can only be a plus. HF sounds are THE worst of the spectrum. People behave as if it's some sort of brilliant talent to be able to hear annoying mosquito buzz sounds at super HF. It's absolutely NOT, and those that brag about it are morons. It's exactly like bragging about the ability to smell dogshit from 1 kilometre away- HF sounds are the aural equivalent of that.

For me, it used to drive me fricken nuts. I could hear strange high pitched ringing buzzes from all sorts of electrical equipment and it was always highly directionally specific. The noises can drive you insane! Thank goodness there's not much of that in my house anymore. -I'm either deaf to it now because I'm older, or it's because I've gotten rid of all the stuff that did it, or it's just that all it's now background that I'm used to.

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Today I had a mother and father of a migraine headache… Though not as bad as the hospitalised ones I've had recently. Still pretttty horrible though.
The really shitty thing about these sorts of headache is that one of the apparent cause for them is LOSS of stress!
That means that over a working week of having to get up, get to work, get stuff done, go to bed on time, rinse and repeat, the body gets used to the stress levels and depends on them. So when the weekend comes and you can shoot that routine to hell, seep for as long as you need etc. all those stress hormones are gone so your head spazzes out and F**ks you up.
This is why most migraines always happen on weekends and holidays.

So the answer is less stress ALL the time, or maintaining stress all the time.

It seems like everyone is having “a week”.

Skullbie: I hope your chickies last the summer! So sorry about the loss. Fix that gun, girl!

Hyena: Keep trying girl. Baby steps – you'll reach your goals as long as you don't throw in the towel.

Seventy2: I cried when I read your post. For what it's worth, you have my empathy. (I know it's the internet so I don't know if that means much, but you have it anyway)



I've had a week myself.

Grandma died last month. Last thursday my grandpa had a massive stroke which paralyzed the right side of his body. We admitted him and after a lot of family drama, we've decided to honor his wishes and pull him off of life support.

But it's not like it is in the movies.

Grandpa's form of life support was liquid via IV and a feeding tube. So five days later my grandpa is still alive. It's so hard to watch this man slowly waste away, second guessing our decision every day.

The stress this has put on our family is bad enough, but my cousin just misscarried. She was due in two weeks time. Now she's in the hospital too.

It kind of feels like I'm the only sane person left in my family. I know it sounds crazy, but I haven't even cried yet. I've just been running around taking care of everyone else's emotional meltdowns. I feel like I'm about to reach my boiling point real soon here…

Someone mail me a truckload of chocolate?

ozoneocean
Today I had a mother and father of a migraine headache… Though not as bad as the hospitalised ones I've had recently. Still pretttty horrible though.
The really shitty thing about these sorts of headache is that one of the apparent cause for them is LOSS of stress!

wanted to ask someone who get this kinda thing: rehearsed with a band on monday - I'm talkin medium size rehersal place but the drummer strts mikin up the bass drum an i'm thinkin “but this aint redrock” an then he proceeds to put on ear defenders and beats the hell outa that kit.

i'm not talkin musician style ear plugs - i mean industrial frikkin ear defenders like you wear on a frikkin runway when a 747 is takin off. So we all hav to be loud enough to compete with this bull an after about an hour we break and he pulls these things off an says “y'know, if it wasn for these i'd be deaf as a post in the mornin!”

yeah like, thanks for bringin us all a set of those dude. anyway,s, after 3 hours i get this little pinprick of colour whirrin around in front of me an it gets bigger n bigger until i cant hardly see nothin but cellophane people with kaleidescope eyes an im thinkin somebody musta spiked my dr pepper, but then i remember migraine is sposed to have syptoms a bit like this? my head wasnt hurtin - no more than normal at least - but this thing didn go away for like, an hour or two an i didnt feel right again fer two days. i only had somethin like this once before, after eatin way to much carbonara

any idea what this might be? should i be gettin my head professionally tested?

Dodgy
any idea what this might be? should i be gettin my head professionally tested?

Only get it tested if it's a problem. Coloured effects are a symptom of “classic migraine”. That doesn't always involve much pain and sometimes none at all, just strange things with your eyes. Sometimes it can include severe pain but it depends on the person. For some people they actually go completely blind when they have it- I had a freind who had that happen every time, but it's very individual.

For me I just have “common migraine”, that means ZERO visual effects or fancy stuff, only pain and sometimes vomiting.