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First, let us start with a song.
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our lives are made
in these small hours
these little wonders,
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away,
but these small hours,
these small hours still remain
let it slide,
let your troubles fall behind you
let it shine
until you feel it all around you
and i don't mind
if it's me you need to turn to
we'll get by,
it's the heart that really matters in the end
our lives are made
in these small hours
these little wonders,
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away,
but these small hours,
these small hours still remain
all of my regret
will wash away some how
but i can not forget
the way i feel right now
in these small hours
these little wonders
these twists & turns of fate
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away but these small hours
these small hours, still remain,
still remain
these little wonders
these twists & turns of fate
time falls away
but these small hours
these little wonders still remain"
Rob Thomas - Little Wonders
I have come to really like this song. And it goes back to something I was talking about, involving a friend of mine and her relationship.
"Me: Here's the thing. Being together, with someone, is a big thing. But, like all big things, it's made up of little things. Now, the little things are pretty important, and they all need to be good, for the big thing to be good. Little things like communication, sex, morals, ethics, finances, ambition, support, compromise.. all these things are the little things that glue the relationship together to be one big thing.
My friend:: hmmm that is very insightful. im going to steal that and email it to hubby if you don't mind
Me: Your problem, if I may be so bold, is that you have some little things to work out with hubby. You both want the big thing, so the little things have to be negotiated 'til you are both happy with it
Me: Be my guest
Me: You will probably have noticed that I left Love out of all that?
My friend:: nods
Me: Love, is what brings people together, and what can hold them together even when they shouldn't be. It isn't what makes a relationship work though."
These have been percolating in my head lately and brought me to the conclusion that we often tend to focus too much on things outside of our control, and not enough on things we have some control over.
I think I want to change that, for myself.Current Mood:  thoughtful Current Music: Sunsets - Powderfinger |
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| You scored as Method Actor You think that gaming is a form of creative expression. You may view rules as, at best, a necessary evil, preferring sessions where the dice never come out of the bag. You enjoy situations that test or deepen your character's personality traits.
Method Actor |
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| 83% | Butt-Kicker |
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| 67% | Tactician |
| 58% | Power Gamer |
| 50% | Casual Gamer |
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I had an accident with my mobile not too long ago. As such I lost quite a few phone numbers and a few email addresses. It has since been replaced and I am slowly re-acquiring the numbers I had before. If you want me to have your number, please send me an email with your number. salidarx@yahoo.com will do.
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http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=90
It is with great sadness that I tell you that the Dragon is gone. RJ left us today at 2:45 PM. He fought a valiant fight against this most horrid disease. In the end, he left peacefully and in no pain. In the years he had fought this, he taught me much about living and about facing death. He never waivered in his faith, nor questioned our God’s timing. I could not possibly be more proud of anyone. I am eternally grateful for the time that I had with him on this earth and look forward to our reunion, though as I told him this afternoon, not yet. I love you bubba.
Our beloved Harriet was at his side through the entire fight and to the end. The last words from his mouth were to tell her that he loved her.
Thank each and everyone of you for your prayers and support through this ordeal. He knew you were there. Harriet reminded him today that she was very proud of the many lives he had touched through his work. We’ve all felt the love that you’ve been sending my brother/cousin. Please keep it coming as our Harriet could use the support.
Jason will be posting funeral arrangements.
My sincerest thanks.
Peace and Light be with each of you,
Wilson
Brother/Cousin
4th of 3
To Catalyst: Never, never loose faith. RJ did not. Harriet hasn’t. I haven’t. Going through what we have, our faith is only strengthened. Besides, if God didn’t exist, we would have never had Jim. We did. God does. Remember my Brother/Cousin, my friend, think of him fondly and glorify God’s name.Current Mood:  sad Current Music: Traffic |
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I was 10 years old and my brother left his Van Halen tape out. This would have been in 1982 before their big 1984 album. I put it on and it started playing Eruption and then went into Running with the Devil. From that moment I was hooked on Hard Rock for life. For a particular band, I would say when I was 13 or so, and Wanted Dead or Alive came on the hard rock station in Las Vegas. I became a Bon Jovi fan right then, and I still am a Bon Jovi fan.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/
Make sure you have finished off Harry Potter 7 before you read.
Jul. 27th, 2007 @ 02:21 pm
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No, not the show. I don't know if we even get that show in Australia since I don't watch TV anymore. If I had a TiVo I might record it but it's not worth the Foxtel subscription for a handful of shows that will be out on DVD soon enough.
No, this is about the new gaming group that I am joining this evening. They are doing a supers campaign at the moment, using a system I have never heard of. So this is a hope that maybe one of you out there will have heard of it and can clue me in about how it works. "My supers game uses SomeWhat™." is all I have to go on, and I haven't found anything yet. Also, it looks like one of the other guys is going to run a Star Wars game using BESM rules. Should be interesting.
I haven't brought up running a game, mostly because part of the reason the other group folded was I was feeling q little burnt out.. okay really burnt out. I had been primarily DM/GM'ing for 10 years. I could count the times that I just got to play on one hand. The campaign that promised to let me just play, the other players really didn't show that much interest in, so I felt really frustrated. I do love to DM/GM but I also need the time to just get in the game and play my character and let go of control. And I just wasn't really getting that. So, I haven't brought up doing a game, and besides I don't even know what systems these guys are all familiar with. I can run just about anything, but am most familiar with Hero, Palladium, D20, and Amber. I could do a Storyteller game ala World of Darkness, as well, but I am not as familiar with it. Something to keep in mind for now though.
Also, I have only met two of the group members so will be meeting 4 new people tonight. It's BYO drinks and foods, or take-out, so I am bringing a couple bottles of spiced mead. It would have been regular honey mead but they were out, the bastards. I wish I had to time and resources to brew my own mead. Mead 24/7 baby! Yeah! If you have never had mead you are so seriously missing out on so many levels it's just not even funny.
Okay, yeah, infoz please. And wish me luck. Haven't played face to face in a while now. It's like riding a bike, right?
Jul. 20th, 2007 @ 09:55 am
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http://www.fastsilicon.com/latest-news/microsoft-admits-all-xbox360s-are-defective.html?Itemid=60
Microsoft Admits *ALL* Xbox360's Are Defective PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 12 July 2007
xbox360flamesIf you thought that Sony was the only console manufacturer having a really bad day, guess again. After many months of public complaints and outcries, Microsoft has publically admitted that *ALL* (as in every single one ever sold) Xbox360's have a design defect that can lead to their failure. Though Robbie Bach, head of Microsoft's Xbox360 Division refused to elaborate on the issue, the general consensus is that it's one of botched thermal design management and inadequate dissipation of heat leading to component failure. All of the nearly 12 million units currently in the hands of consumers are effected. Though Microsoft has not issued a global recall, they have tripled the warranty coverage period, and are expected to have to dole out over $1 Billion to correct the situation. CRN Australia Reports...
Microsoft has admitted that every one of the 11.6 million Xbox 360 consoles sold in the past 19 months suffers from a design flaw that could cause the device to fail.
The firm will extend the warranty coverage from one to three years to compensate consumers, but does not plan to instate a recall or exchange programme.
Microsoft gaming chief Robbie Bach claimed in a conference call with financial analysts that the design issues surfaced recently.
Jul. 13th, 2007 @ 04:11 pm
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Courtesy of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nayad and cosmicbabe
IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 28 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my f-list, so let me know with whom I'm friends! Post a reply with your answers.
( Answers behind door number 3 )
Jul. 4th, 2007 @ 05:06 pm
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Hope.. is it a universal concept or something created by man to ease his sense of injustice? Sometimes I wonder. Because lately it seems to be something to facilitate being kicked down, beaten, trampled on, and then left for dead. So, why do we keep coming back for more? I'm wondering if it's worth the effort after all. Life has been pretty weird lately for me, partly pretty good, partly pretty sucktastic. Alot of it I can't talk about, some of it I don't really feel like sharing just yet. Sometimes I wonder if I should just talk more in this thing. I dunno if it would help though.
TPTB want to reduce the time I spend with my boys. They feel that a scant 2 days and 4 nights a week is TOO MUCH. The mind boggles...
Jul. 4th, 2007 @ 04:43 pm
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Okay I am going to do something that I don't normally do, and that is forward something. t's not your typical save the cancer kid or find the lost teen kind of forward though. It's about something else, more important? Maybe, maybe not. I don't forward most things because most of them have religion attached to them, and I don't further anyone's religion, including my own. I'm happy with it where it is, doesn't need to get bigger. And I am all for helping kids but 999 times out of 1000 those forwards are for kids that just don't need it anymore for whatever reason, be it death, or recovery, or whatever. So, I just don't do it. But this one. This is current, this is important in certain respects. And mostly, I just want to. So there.
( Read at your leisure, which means RIGHT NOW!! )
Okay so there it is. Do with it what you will. I don't mind supporting Rocky, it's a good show, and a good time. I'll see about getting to the theatre for it, soon.
Ta for now kids.
Jun. 29th, 2007 @ 02:04 pm
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Jun. 18th, 2007 @ 03:51 pm
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I stumbled across this particular meme over in Cosmicbabe's part of the pond. Since then Shrike, Greyduck, Merripan, and no doubt others have all posted their lists. Reading is one of my favorite pasttimes and I felt compelled to do this one. We have Morning Glory 2 to thank for it.
I have added 6 authors over Cosmicbabe's list. Anne McCaffrey, Katherine Kurtz, John Jakes, Tom Clancy, David Eddings and Piers Anthony. Since I am not positive on the origins of the list or why it had the authors it had, I thought a few more couldn't hurt. I probably should have put RJ on here too, but oh well.
( And the winners are... )
May. 30th, 2007 @ 01:11 pm
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Your Score: BRILLIANT!!!You scored 91%!JOSS IS OUR MASTER!!! You did Brilliantly!!! I'm so impressed... if you'd like to chat about our shared love of Firefly and Serenity, please email me... And thanks heaps for taking the test... Much Appreciated!!! :)
May. 29th, 2007 @ 05:32 pm
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I haven't been sure, exactly, how to approach this topic. Those that know me well, know I am not a stranger to death, and it's impact. But even so, it is never something to get used to, or find comfortable.
Yesterday morning, after an IM from fivefoldkiss on yahoo, I called home. On the phone, she told me that Katy was dead. She had died in her sleep, due to a seizure. I didn't know what to say. I listened, I mumbled something, then said I'd be home soon, and then I collapsed. Scared my co-workers I guess. I took a cab home from work and comforted ffk. I looked after the kids so she could contact people, an extremely unenviable task that I am in some ways glad I didn't have. I eventually took the kids up to the Westfield, to give ffk some time to make phone calls and talk to people, and just be alone if she wanted.
I am again home today, partly to keep an eye on her, and the boys, but also to.. try and process it. Try and come to terms with it.
I met Katy, aka Jesebelle, in the summer of 2000. I met her through ffk, and liked her immediately. We would talk and banter back and forth and I really felt myself developing strong feelings for her. I loved her, both as a friend, and as more. I cared for her immensely. We had our share of ups and downs, times that we did not talk for whatever reason, but I always loved her and wanted only her happiness. And now she is gone.
She leaves behind her daughter Emily Rhiannon, and her current beau, Wayne, a man I think the world of, as well as all her friends and associates, CJ chief amongst them. I know they will miss her and love her as well.
Katy, I will miss you. Forever.
Mar. 16th, 2007 @ 02:21 pm
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/12/12/obit.nodell.ap/index.html
MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- Martin Nodell, the creator of Green Lantern, the comic book superhero who uses his magical ring to help him fight crime, has died. He was 91.
Nodell died at a nursing home in Muskego, Wisconsin, on Saturday of natural causes, his son Spencer Nodell told The Associated Press on Tuesday. He previously lived in West Palm Beach.
Nodell was looking for a new idea for a comic book in 1940 when he was waiting for a New York subway and saw a train operator waving a lantern displaying a green light, said Maggie Thompson, senior editor of Comics Buyer's Guide.
Nodell imagined a young engineer, Alan Scott, a train crash survivor who discovers in the debris an ancient lantern forged from a green meteor. Scott constructs a ring from the lamp that gives him super powers, and becomes a crime fighter.
He brought his drawings and story lines to All-American Publications, which later became a part of National Periodical Publications, the company that was to become DC Comics, Thompson said. (DC Comics is a unit of Time Warner, as is CNN.)
The first Green Lantern appearance came in July 1940, an eight-page story in a comic book also featuring other characters. The character then got his own series, and Nodell drew it until 1947 under the name Mart Dellon.
After its cancellation in 1949, the series was reborn in 1959 with a revised story line, and it has been revived several times.
Meanwhile, Nodell left the comics field for an advertising career. In the 1960s, he was on a design team that helped develop the Pillsbury Doughboy.
In later years, Nodell traveled the comic book convention circuit with his wife, Caroline, who died in 2004.
"There were myriad of fans who would come up to my dad and would say 'Green Lantern got me to read' or 'Green Lantern got me to do something in my life,' " Spencer Nodell said.
Nodell was born in Philadelphia and studied at art schools in Chicago and New York. Besides Spencer Nodell, survivors include another son, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Dec. 14th, 2006 @ 05:03 pm
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Have you ever noticed how you can get along through life without a thing, but then that thing comes into your life and it seems you can't do without it? That happened to me over the winter. It ended up badly, and I haven't exactly bounced back from it, so I haven't been around much.
What was cosmically funny about it all, though, as that just when that happened, the company I was working for went into liquidation. I was sent a termination notice on the 7th of Sept. I, and others, were reassured that we would still be paid, that things would be okay, that this was just a transition, so I kept showing up to work. A few weeks of that goes by and then it comes out that, no, we would not be paid, and yes, the majority of people probably wouldn't be brought back. I left that day and said I'd be in with a guarantee of pay for any work I did. How heartless am I? *chuckles*
So, I sorta take a week off to regroup. I look a little bit in want-ads online and such and talk to other people I had been working with. I get mmore and more of the story the more people I talk to. The details aren't important for this blog, but suffice it to say, the guys I was working for are idiots. I do get a call from one of the former directors, stating they got a deal to go through and I was asked to setup their computer network, once he had worked out all the equipment issues. I agreed, once I found out the pay would be coming from the new company, and not this dipshit. So I get a little part time work from that. At the same time I am interviewing for a couple positions, one which would have been in the same suburb and been very nice, but I didn't get it. Oh well, life moves on. I also pick up some contract work for one of the guys that was displaced by the collapse of the old company. This guys pays on time, has clear indications of what he wants, and gets the equipment for me to do the job. I now have him as a permanent contract retainer for any IT work he needs done. So, happy about that. The dipshit cannot get his act together and succeeds in pissing me off again, so I tell the IT manager for the NEW company, I won't be in til there is equipment, since it would only cost them money. Now, understand I have not been paid by them at this point. I go to another interview, this one in downtown Sydney, the CBD, or central/city business district. I enjoy a nice 2 hour interview with these guys, even have the CEo get pulled in for a chat and I seem to get along well with everyone, but my technical skills are a bit lacking. I write it off as a good experience and look for more work.
Except, I get the job. The recruiter calls me that friday asking for references. I give him two and don't expect to hear back. he calls me on Sunday to say they tendered an offer. They want me. I am shocked. I accept verbally, pending reviewing the terms that wed in the recruiters office. I check out all the terms, they seem fantastic and more than I thought I would get from a new position. $50Kpa plus a $5kpa raise once I complete my CCNA. Laptop, Mobile, Home broadband, teaching materials and a brand new environment that fosters me learning and expanding my skills more than ever before. I cannot say it strongly enough, I love my new job!
After starting and getting settled in, I have come to meet all my co-workers and they are all nice people. Always a plus. I am still doing contract work for the one guy, and still get called in for the other dipshit's company, trying to get them up to where they need to be. They get the equipment I can work with, and the next available window I get them up and running. Still haven't been paid yet on that though. C'est la vie.
Now, trying to catch up bills, appease the landlords and get things back on track. Hopefully it will all work out the way I want, but since it never has before, I tend to think it's a vain hope.
Well, that is a brief catchup of some of the major happenings with me. If I haven't spoken to you, it is not because I haven't wanted to. Bills and issues have been occupying most of my time, as was looking for work. Now the new job is keeping me on my toes for the most part so I haven't had much time to chat or get back into routines. But I will try and find time to talk to those that I have missed.
Take care out there all of you.
Nov. 15th, 2006 @ 04:09 pm
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Courtesy of cosmicbabe
| Your Geek Profile: | 
Fashion Geekiness: Highest
Geekiness in Love: Highest
Internet Geekiness: Highest
Movie Geekiness: Highest
SciFi Geekiness: Highest
Academic Geekiness: High
Gamer Geekiness: High
Music Geekiness: High
General Geekiness: Moderate |
Aug. 8th, 2006 @ 12:31 pm
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<td align="center">You have a sexual IQ of 156
When it comes to sex, you are a super genius. You have had a lot of experience, and sex interests you so you know a lot about it. You pride yourself on being a source of information and guidance to all of your friends.
Take this quiz at QuizUniverse.com</td>
Jul. 21st, 2006 @ 05:54 pm
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