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Problems of the future, today!Entry #76
Being a member here for 12 years isn't much of an accomplishment. It's like saying, "Woo-hoo I didn't die yet!" I was too stubborn to make a new account when I couldn't log on in the mid-2000's, mainly to show I've been here since the beginning. If I did make a new account around 2003, I'd be Level Uber-Cool and have a blam-to-save ratio to die for. Whatever right?
Here's 10 things that happened since my last Newgrounds Birthday/Anniversary in 2012, in no particular order.
1. My Pop pulled his Aortic artery. The aneurism was so big, they operated 24 hours after walking into the ER.
2. After 2 1/2 months in the hospital and 3 major operations, the last one amputating his leg, Pop expires with my sis near him. Lightning stuck when he passed, despite the clearing conditions.
3. Had surgery to remove a 2 cm long clump of cartilage disc, that was never gonna get back under the bone. Still recovering. Op went fine, but there were other complications....
4. Found 3 Asterix comics at the library that I've never read before! Still missing a few of the newer ones...
5. 4 kittens were born to the stray mama calico, we started feeding after the house guests and their dogs vacated 3 years ago. She was old when she started to get friendly to us - had seen her sulking around years before.
6. Mama calico died a few weeks after Sandy. Her two last sons preceded her, who were also born sometime after my 11th year of being here. Her 2 orange kids used to follow me everywhere, even down to the road :(
7. "Super-storm" Sandy kicked the power out for a full week. Pop had transferred back to the hospital from the halfway house, hours before it struck. Had an oil lamp and a gas stove, but no heat. Radio was okay.
8. I kept a 2 acre garden alive during a drought, yielding dozens bushels of produce no one bought. It was chucked and I was still poor. All the roadside veggie stands are gone, and the auction costs 75$ to sell at. Foreign food rips us off!
9. Saw a lot of family and my Pop's friends at his funeral, Sis stayed here for over a month, brother and his wife visited 2 days. Cooking and cleaning constantly in a claustrophobic house.
10. The cleaning and organizing and chucking of the things that were Pop's, proceeds. Sticking to the house while my back mends. I can't bend over for a month and have to wear a girdle :|
Oh, and as for all of my posts/blogs, AMA (ask me anything). Life's too short not to get a straight answer.
3/1/2013 -- Having trouble with PayPal, so it might take another day or two to get things sorted and properly started. I do not like how everything seems to be dependent on banks! I will be contacting various artists here at NG for commissions very soon! Another hitch: ancient Lexmark scanner (drivers, of course) is giving me a headache with getting additional reference pictures up :\
My only reason for living at this point :(
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3/7/13
We only got like 5 inches over night and then a few more inches over the next few days.
Its supposed to rain tomorrow though....
Good. I never saw much point in plowing or shoveling shit that was gonna be gone soon.
3/6/13
I know I saw :3
Well have fun talking to him ._.
I try to have as much fun as I can here ._.
You get hit with much snow earlier this week. My cousin said we were gonna get a foot or two of snow... we got nothing, as expected from the temperature forecast.
Yup, talking about the weather... Now I'm old and officially boring.
3/6/13
Nah it doesn't do anything ._. but its nice (well...to me at least) having it at a number like that xD
Woo I doed!
Closer and closer to my ultimate goal...the shark with a laser on its head....
Ha, cyberdevil just got his fish today! Been talking to him lately. He is one writing mofo...
3/6/13
Woo! I leveled up!
And hopefully I'll hit 4,000 posts by midnight (my time. just gotta get 8 more posts.)
jOO get chain flail thingy! Well done!
3/5/13
Yeah ._.
Though I wish me and her talked more than we do....
Also I made 60 posts in the BBS yesterday. Which is a record for me xD
(did all of that without spamming once)
But post count only matters in NG logs, right? Post count on NG doesn't raise your voting score, does it?
3/4/13
Well I'm sorry that I'm so quiet ;-;
Yeah, ya have been lately! Things must be pretty good with the GF and the BBS
3/4/13
That is creepy.
Quantum physics has plenty of 'creepy', as Einstein would say.... was watching a let's play of Mass Effect 2 and they discussed a phenomenon (which I conveniently forgot the name of) which was used to communicate instantaneously, at a very limited bandwidth
Pss, 100$ for an xbox 360 or build a pc for 3 to 4 times that? Shocked I got an eye exam and contacts for 200$! Might get in trouble for torrenting games.... idk.
3/4/13
Noise-cancelling gun?
Yup. Thought I bookmarked the article. I'm sure it's based on a Brit's invention that the military scooped up. Produces an inverse sound wave, kinda like the reverse of feedback, since it's almost instantaneous. They make headphones that do the same for airplane flights... you can sense volume and s/n (signal to noise) like 'pressure', but no outside noise - creepy.
3/4/13
Naah, definitely sound cancelling technology lolz
Yeah, weird that the Japanese made a gun to do that, since they're usually quiet types
3/4/13
i think its me lol
Brandon's the one with the quiet site... I'm the only one who break the silence there (other than a few wildcatters)
3/4/13
Been real quiet here as of late :l
Must be sound cancelling technology... wait.....
can't hear a thing!
3/2/13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ebert_Shoul d_Lay_Off_the_Fatty_Foods
3/2/13
Ah okay.
I may have seen said episode o.O
They had a mind blasting device to get everyone in town to volunteer there
aha, found it /\.... name threw me waaay off.
night guys, gotta travel tomorrow.
3/2/13
:O transformers?!?! :O
more than meats the eye :P?!
are you talking about what I said about powdered beer?
3/2/13
planearium? o.O
Early South Park episode - guy at the planetarium couldn't pronounce the T
3/1/13
its messing with all of us!! D:<
The owners of the funhouse are crazy..... but not as bad as Alfred's Playhouse ._.
3/1/13
Why did that show up twice? The last time I refreshed the page there was only one o.O
I haven't seen Prometheus yet ._. Though I saw the rest of the movies. But still thats a LOOOOONG time to watch all of the Harry Potter movies.
Oh and Dark Side Of The Moon turned 40 today. So...yeah theres that.
Went to a big plane-arium in the 90's where they played Dark Side of the Moon.
2/28/13
Thought you'd find this interesting
http://www.damnlol.com/i/2fbcfb65bb80063a36d14 ce717187302.jpg
The Alien quadrilolgy might be wrong, since they made alien vs predator and a few others... and what about Prometheus? Pss, that last one sucked anyway :(
2/28/13
Thought you'd find this interesting
http://www.damnlol.com/i/2fbcfb65bb80063a36d14 ce717187302.jpg
Quite precise.
2/28/13
now its just making fun of me -_-
It's (NG's server software) reeling around like a drunk on ether :)
2/28/13
im always watching adventure time
It's the fine wine of toonage, maybe after I get a few more projects canned I check out the return of the Lich
2/28/13
im always watching adventure time
That anime site's got tons of toons for me, including an old chestnut of mine... Static Shock!
2/27/13
sorry :P
The NG servers test my patience too...
But I got no problem with you clicking till it sticks
on other posts, I'm frightfully careful not to double-post
Besides, it makes up for the 2 days nothing got said here...
still haven't watched the Lich episode... was thinking we could all watch it the saem time maybe
2/27/13
ahem! lady woman thing ._.
hi :P
2/27/13
ahem! lady woman thing ._.
...that's certainly a woman-like thing to do.
2/27/13
ahem! lady woman thing ._.
you're 3 hours late in responding....
2/27/13
hi :P
Sup, woman thing?
2/27/13
\/what is that??? an automated reply?!?!?
Just a thoughtful, questioning silence in the faec of incomprehensible data.
2/27/13
........
Yeah, shit gets even more complicated the older you get, let alone all the emotional crap suffered during 'the formative years', and the slow horror of mortality towards the end.
2/26/13
I can't think of what I was doing on that date ._.
Must've been crazy because things get a bit hazy from the time before I was born....
Dunno what to say to that. I'm not a temporal engineer.
2/25/13
I'm wearing my Gird - I mean Back Support Belt. It's wonderful. I had a great sleep last night thanks to it. I still think I'll get the Dr Ho Compression one for daytime wearing though and use the Shock Doctor 838 just for sleeping.
Really hope it buys you another hour or two of sleep. Added a chunk of lumbar support to mine today, as well as have my stitch snipped off in office. First question they asked How are you? Second question Do you need any pain medication?
Told them I was okay, then no thanks. Like Nancy once said Just Say No!
2/25/13
nah life just drags on
'Drag' being the operative word :P
2/25/13
Since it says "Ask Me Anything" in you post now....
Where were you on the night of March 4th 1983?
Dunno. I was ten at the time... may have a calendar from that year.
Sounds about the time my mom's pop died. He lived next door at the time...
2/25/13
We'll frolic down the yellow brick road to the wizard of oz together!
I'd honestly rather do my own work rather than have someone completely unfamiliar to my ways do it "If you want something done, so it yer self!"
Now there's an idea.... everyone in the Wizard of Oz is a cat but the cowardly lion...
2/25/13
Sorry to hear yer hurt Stevie :( you deserve better darling
Thanks :3 I love it when everyone says they'll help, then when I mention doing obviously strenuous shit, *vvvwhip*, right over their heads :<
In fact, every time (since the op) someone has independently done something here (snow removal/cat feeding/mess organizing/etc), it's made more work for me!
You deserve better too... get on that!
2/24/13
Now I know I hurt/damaged my chassis... set me back at least a week in recovery.
2/22/13
I think I hurt my back kinda badly today, while mounting a mailbox... at the height of rush hour. Or might have been skittering through the piles of crap in the old mans garage, trying to find the tools I needed. There's another building that had what I needed and was easier to navigate, BUT my sister padlocked the thing before she left... should've taken a bolt cutter to it the moment she was out the door :<
2/22/13
I hope my cat is okay. Had her practically my whole life. First time we moved my mother left her at the house and my homeless oldest brother took her on his cart. She's had a long lazy life followed by a sudden arduous final years. No idea where she is now.
Sounds like a rough deal man. Takes a bit of time for housecats to adapt to outside living. Some cats live over 20 years, under all kinds of conditions. Hope your old girl is happy and healthy.
2/21/13
Damn it's been slow here
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/sev4/nymphe
Looks like Fire Princess to me.....
2/19/13
Indeed it was ._.
hmmm..
2/19/13
i think the clockcrew's february flash flood is pretty funny, a lot of it at least...but other stuff seems to get passed through in the spirit of "encouragement" or perhaps sympathy. i think that definitely degrades the level of interest, turning an already niche interest into a more hard-core kind of hobby.
On what we were talking about earlier....they're all a bunch of wimpy rich-kids who think they've got it all figured out.
Dunno... if it's just a frame or three of animation, I blam.
If it's noisy and dumb, I blam
If there's a small story or some thought in it, I'll make a leap of faith and vote accordingly
Congress or the BBS regulars?
2/19/13
I completely forgot about Newgrounds' existence ._.
O_O
Must've been a terrible patch in your life!
2/19/13
:) haha there's the spirit!! XD
I'm here to kick ass and clean shit, and I'm all outta laundry detergent.
2/19/13
Happy to know there's at least someone else :) but I hate hearing how you've got shit on you too :( it'll get better for people like us someday!
Yeah, it's gonna get better :3 Poo-poo washes out eventually.
2/18/13
I mean after midnight NG time ._.
I wasn't "on here" back in '09 so I wouldn't know....
I was on here late '06 until like a month or so before the previous redesign in '07 then came back in '10.
oh..
Huh, I did not know that. Why were you away those 2-3 years? Or just offline in general?
2/18/13
Yeah it is.....though it irks me that more crap seems to get through lately. I mean....more than usual o.O
Also I COULD go through and vote on everything more than once. But I like voting on everything once.
Can you vote more than once? Nah, they log your IP, but you can vote on stuff you haven't yet with the alt account....
Yeah, NG used to have 'standards'. Seems to have degraded since the youtube influx of '09, or is that just me?
2/18/13
I vote from the top down. Don't ask why. It's a system I have....
But I vote on so much stuff there tends to be stuff still in UJ I already voted on when I wake up in the morning. Then I go through and vote on the stuff that was submitted while I was asleep.
Also I got almost 100 points in just a day! o: thats insanity. I wonder how many I can get by the end of the month xD
Bleh, it's a flash flood of mostly crap lately, not surprised.
I guess as long as you vote on everything, doesn't matter which way to go through the list.
Never how much I'm going to vote in a day, so I try and scrape the bottom of the purple barrel (when visible)
2/18/13
Played a buck scratch off and lost, as usual.
Payed almost 8$ for a burger (8oz) and fries (barely any, but good and fat) WITH NO PICKLE OR COLESLAW!?! fuck going back there ever again |:
2/17/13
thanks for that lol
Just glad you're getting all the crap stuff off your chest, I'm yer buddy through the good and the bad :3
IRL, I don't like sharing the bad, leaning on ppl, you know...
2/17/13
Woo I'm a Desk Sergeant! ._.
Congrats dude, that's a lot of voting on dubious crap ._.
I try and be a good boy... vote at the bottom of the purple to make room for new stuff
they really need to give the classic portal a facelift and get the UJ stuff up 100 submissions