The Syndicate

I love your Thanksgiving story G-Man, thanks for sharing! Lots of Thanksgiving celebrations for you.

oh interesting ddl. I don't even know where the thread is. I think you probably have access by mistake but I could be wrong.

I think only the admins.

sig wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2017 12:29 pm I'm headed over to Columbus Ohio to spend thanksgiving with a friend and her family. So I can spend the break making awkward small talk with people who think we're dating, I guess we might also see some things in Columbus, but honestly I've got no idea what there's to do in the city.

Isn't Columbus the city with the concrete corn in a field? And lol on the awkward small talk! Maybe you can escape to a football game on tv.

Aww no one is sharing what they are doing for Thanksgiving I love to read about how people are celebrating.

Lol - actually I'm looking a little forward to it just being the two of us for Christmas but that feeling may change when we get to Christmas Eve. My mom is all about Christmas so she makes it special.

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:50 pm hope you're able to visit them at christmas, juliets.

unfortunately, Christmas is out too. but thanks for the thought.

So, what is everybody doing for Thanksgiving this year? Visiting friends or relatives? Entertaining others at home? Doing something with just the family? What are your plans? Share so we can all enjoy. We can't travel to our families this year because of me so I ordered dinner from Fresh Market and we will spend it with just the two of us.

Thats really great G-Man.

Also in the good news category I get out of the hospital next Tuesday! Still can't walk or use my shoulder but at least I'll be at home.

KATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD UNFURL!!!!!

Ricochet wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2017 6:48 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2017 8:16 am Looks like we're in for Irma here on the west coast of Florida. Already made reservations at a hotel in case the power goes out since my husband has to have electricity for his heart life vest. Dreading this.

Hoping for good fortunes, juliets. Any idea how much of an impact it's set to make in the state? Anyway, I'm thoroughly convinced you have everything planned out, in case of emergency.

Well, they are pretty sure it's going to make a direct hit on Florida it's just a matter of where. It seems to be shifting north which is good for us but not good for people on the east coast. And lol you are right, I have it as planned out as I can given all the uncertainty.

Looks like we're in for Irma here on the west coast of Florida. Already made reservations at a hotel in case the power goes out since my husband has to have electricity for his heart life vest. Dreading this.

Good luck in your new job Golden!

Good lucky Daisy. I am so glad it's not coming my way with the shape my husband is in but I'm sorry its coming your way. Stay safe!

Epi, that is just asinine. First, just the whole concept of not teaching grammar at all - dang, do we want people growing up and using dang in sentences? And secondly, that they didn't think through the more immediate consequences of the ACT. If I were an ACT taker I would be pissed that I didn't learn what I was supposed to to score well on the test that would help me get into college. And I suppose this is all the teachers fault that the scores went down. smh

What happened Epi?

Is there anyone besides Nutella thats in the 100% eclipse zone? Marmot maybe?

Anybody here who lives in the states ever done a power of attorney? If so, did you use legal zoom or an attorney or something else?

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:22 pm Eloh is downstairs having a consultation with a customer who wants to get her son a "titty cake" for his 21st.

O wow. Is she going to do it? And a mom wants to get it for her son? That seems a little...odd.

Quin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 7:44 pm

juliets wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 5:44 pm So, today, my death-defying husband gave away my car. Thats right, he gave it to my niece if she wants to come get it. We had planned to buy a new car but the idea was we would trade this one in or sell it separately. I think his illness has affected his brain.

Oh no. Have you talked to him about it?

I did but he's in this mood, probably because he had a low probability of survival and survived anyway, of showing appreciation to people he cares for. I'm all for that but we really don't have money to burn. Plus I have no idea how we are going to get the car to her in Georgia. Hope she's willing to fly down and drive it back cause we can't drive it up there. I did try to impress on him that I would never give away $2000 worth of assets without consulting him first and he should show me the same courtesy.

So, today, my death-defying husband gave away my car. Thats right, he gave it to my niece if she wants to come get it. We had planned to buy a new car but the idea was we would trade this one in or sell it separately. I think his illness has affected his brain.

Frankly, though I was an advocate of the politics thread at one time I had grown tired of it. Too much opinion presented as fact as S~V~S says, including me. Plus, I really hated to see people argue with each other on this site. I would prefer all the arguing take place in games only.

Oh not chocolate milk though - well at least sometimes.

Oh, so sorry Epi. So glad you have good memories.

Epignosis wrote:

juliets wrote:I was also in a piano competition and came in second. Scared the living daylights out of me. Never did it again and quit piano soon after.

Why would you quit?

I love playing the piano. I think in some respects I like it more than the guitar (shh, don't tell my guitars). However, I do have a problem playing in front of people, but it isn't related to nervousness: I am used to my damned keyboard at home, so a real piano feels substantially different to me, and I tend to make mistakes.

I quit because I didn't like the way my teacher was teaching and I didn't like practicing. And I didn't have good reach. I just didn't enjoy playing and I sure didn't want to do another competition which I would have had to do.

I was also in a piano competition and came in second. Scared the living daylights out of me. Never did it again and quit piano soon after.

Ricochet wrote:8am. get texted. jump out of the bed, could be important contest stuff

BOOK

It's 6:58, almost noon your time, and I haven't seen anything about how it went! Let us know!

And haha on the tweet!

Rico, report in on your trip! Or come to chatzy today and report in.

Ricochet wrote:

juliets wrote:

Ricochet wrote:>me: we need to find some study rooms at music schools in Bucharest to keep rehearsing for the competition
>Mom A: I'll make some phone calls, maybe we can find a restaurant that has a piano

If you don't hear from me ever again, it means I didn't make it mentally through this upcoming trip.

Hahaha I wouldn't trust Mom A, not for a minute. And I guess she thinks the diners would enjoy listening to you coach Kid A while he plays the same thing over and over. Good luck!

20 minutes in
Mom A already makes pics of me lying in my sleeping car bed, the size of a coffin

IT
HAS
BEGUN

Is this real life

No escape from reality.

Yay, the adventure has begun! I hope you can stream some movies. And maybe Mom A will send you the pics and you can show them to us! Good luck!

Ricochet wrote:>me: we need to find some study rooms at music schools in Bucharest to keep rehearsing for the competition
>Mom A: I'll make some phone calls, maybe we can find a restaurant that has a piano

If you don't hear from me ever again, it means I didn't make it mentally through this upcoming trip.

Hahaha I wouldn't trust Mom A, not for a minute. And I guess she thinks the diners would enjoy listening to you coach Kid A while he plays the same thing over and over. Good luck!

Epignosis wrote:

Quin wrote:Shit Epi, I'm glad it wasn't as bad as it could've been. Still, your neighbour needs a...talking to.

The policeman said she said this: "Well, at least their grass will grow back greener."

Thanks for your services, lady.

Epi will the grass really grow back or will the neighbor have to sod your yard? And I take it they are going to rebuild your fence?

Quiet in here tonight.

Long Con wrote:
And this?

Yes, I see this - looks good!

Long Con wrote:Photobucket is screwy right now, and I can't upload photos. I'm trying to share a Google Photos image with G-Man, and he says he couldn't see it. SO I'm just posting here in Randomville to test. Can anyone see this?



I can see it. But maybe I'm the only one.

No - it is just a question mark on my computer.

I'm glad you were able to get something saved LC.

thellama73 wrote:

Golden wrote:

G-Man wrote:Interestingly enough, I almost registered on this forum as ThunderSnow because the name is cool. But alas, I stuck with G-Man because it's what the folks remember me as.

You could change now. Everyone would be baffled. You'd probably also get lynched far less often lest people get smited.

But I'd probably still call you G.

When people change their names here, I refuse to call them by their new name on principle, even if I called them that exclusively before the name change.

Hahahahah this is so you llama. Contrarian to the end.

S~V~S wrote:I just checked, and yup, no LP. So LP, HV and the Piano all gone, so many inaccessible games and meta tells

I'm betting it won't be long until we lose Revolution Mafia too since LT doesn't seem interested in it any more. I will miss the little chat board.

I just read on FB that Lostpedia is gone. I don't have a link to it anymore so I don't know for sure but if it is, RIP.

YAYAYAY! LC was able to fix it for me after I sent him my sig in code tags.

So I got rid of the "centers" but it is still not working. The images won't appear as a solid block of text for some reason. Each image appears on a separate line. This is so frustrating. Gah!

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

juliets wrote:I cannot get my banners to appear side by side - I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Is there any way anyone can help me?

I'd have to see your signature page to know for sure, but it's probably just a matter of how you're entering them into the sig block. To leave no spaces or line breaks it should just be one continuous line of images. It'd look something like this:

[image]banner1url[/image][image]banner2url[/image][image]banner3url[/image] etc...

Obviously [image] would be [img]

Ok JJJ I'll try that. I've got centering commands in there so maybe I just need to get rid of those.

I cannot get my banners to appear side by side - I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Is there any way anyone can help me?

So funny how differently we see these skins. I've never used the dark one because it hurts my eyes and now I'm so adjusted to avatars on the right I would have a hard time with them on my left! To each his own.

Posting here as a test to see if something is wrong with my computer.

Oooh I see - its done by letter. Well then, it makes a hell of a lot more sense now.

Speaking of those thread games, would this be a good time to say I don't understand half of them? Like Film Association for instance. The latest entries are "Animal House" followed by "Eraserhead". So, the movie Eraserhead can somehow be associated with Animal House? I can't think of two more dissimilar movies. Is that the point? I'm lost. End of small rant.

Maybe it is 5:00. Perhaps I will test that theory tonight. I do have to cook dinner though so I'll have to be careful. I can drunk post in the chat.

Epignosis wrote:

juliets wrote:On a totally different subject I wish it were 6:00 so I could have a glass of wine.

What's so special about six?

It's the first acceptable time on a week day to have a drink.

On a totally different subject I wish it were 6:00 so I could have a glass of wine.

He's probably re-checking the background check they did on you when you were hired!