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Then you're a failure as a human being. Sorry.


Also:
Painful ankles: Check.
Aching feet: Check.
Blisters: Check.
Muscle ache: Check.
Happpy, happy Aeth: Check and double check.

I calculated that I've skated about 65-70km today.

And ice skating is about 10 times as awesome.

Also, I was looking for new skates because mine are old, not a perfect fit and kind of cheap and I want a pair that's a step up in quality (also, I want clap skates).

Starting price for that category of skates: €500. sh*t.

I go skating a couple of times a year and each year I tell myself I'll go more often because skating is the greatest feeling in the world.
Also, rented skates suck donkey balls.

Ice skating is fun, but hard if you aren't used to it. I've only done it once as an adult, but I enjoyed myself.

For certain Kate fans here :)

Kate Beckinsale

I have unfortunately lost my formula for "Pharmacy Kahlua" which we used to make up at Uni. It had a little bit of brandy, vanilla essence, coffee, sugar syrup, water and 90% alcohol. Final alcohol content was around 22% though :)

We used to make up 40 litre drums (about 10 gallons) for our SUPA (Sydney Uni Pharmacy Assoc) harbor cruises. Lot of fantasticly bad nights were had :)

It is almost never used here in Australia now. It certainly has its uses (as in your case) but has a very bad name here due to many cases of date rape. They actually changed the formulation here and included a blue dye in the tablet to make it noticeable if someone had slipped one in your drink.....

The problem is there's only one place to skate down here, and that's the ice rink at the mall. There's no frozen lakes, no really free public places, and in general just not worth really learning how. More people than not don't know how to ice skate down here.

Can't you just skate on that stuff they have outside in the winter, I think they call it ice.

Modern Rohypnol tablets are not just dyed, they're also compressed so that they only really dissolve in hot liquids, and even if the drink is dark and hot, the tablet, when dissolved, leaves a green residue in the glass.

So if you've had a glass of... warm Bacardi Coke... eurgh, and the glass is suddenly green on the inside, you may want to call a cab.

Also with lots of sand and a plastic stretcher. Who needs cold to go sledding?

lol protein. Oregon is an interesting state as far as weather goes. In Western Oregon, where I live and I think protein does too, the climate is considered a "temperate rain forest" or at least that was what I was told in high school biology class. It rains here a lot, but the weather is pretty mild for the most part. On the coast that is particularly true.

Here in the town I grew up in, we have 2.5 seasons. I say a half because the half doesn't last longer than a few weeks. About 8 months of the year, it rains. The temperature varies a bit, but for the most part it's just rainy. Then towards the middle or end of May, it stops raining and starts warming up. Still, even during our "summer" we still get the occasional fog and cold day. Then in the first 2-3 weeks of September, it gets really f-ing hot. At least for Brookings anyways. Like in the low 90's. Ironically, this always coincides with the start of the school year for the primary and secondary kids. So instead of being able to go out and enjoy the hot weather, they're in a classroom with their legs stuck to their seats and sweating miserably. Fun stuff.

In Eugene, we actually have the 4 seasons, which is pretty nice, but the weather is more extreme. Winters there are a lot colder than they are here. Well, right now we're in a pretty rough storm all up and down the coast, and according to the interwebs, we're at about the same temperature @ 46F. A couple weeks ago though Brookings had some freak weather and it was in the 60's here. In January. It was close to freezing in Eugene during this same time. Of course summers are a lot warmer as well and it usually stays nice until mid-October. Sometimes the summers are too hot. It's not uncommon for the weather to be in the high 80's to low 90's on a regular basis.

It very rarely snows either on the coast or in the valleys though. On the coast it's a lot more rare because the weather is milder and the salt in the air. I think in my 22 years of living in Oregon, it's snowed maybe 3 or 4 times in Brookings? I mean real snow, like a couple inches or more. In the valley areas, it snows every 3 or years or so from what I've seen.

Now Eastern Eugene, they've got really weird weather. There's a small mountain range down the middle of the state, as you can see here. Okay, it starts up in Washington and ends up in Northern California, but you get my meaning. On the other side of the mountains, they get snow. Like a lot of snow. Pretty much every year. And I think their summers are a lot warmer too. Y'know how Oregon has this reputation of being green? That's only true of the Western half. The Eastern half really resembles Nevada more than the rest of the state. There's lots of rocks, not quite so many trees, and even some desert-like areas. They're weird.

Heh, never thought I'd drone on about weather for that many paragraphs lol.

I was told one of the reasons my Scottish side of the family chose Seattle when they immigrated 100+ years ago was because the climate was very similar to what they were used to.

Also am kind of glad things are changing back to rain here after the snow we had. People here don't handle snow well. My 30 minute commute took over 2 hours this morning.

People...

Oh man, I just went back in this thread to find a link and spent two hours reading our posts from August to December 2010. I need a smoke, it was that good.

It's on page 50-ish for those interested. Some good stuff in this thread.

God I used to bitch about my guild a lot...

I miss raiding with you guys. It was epic times. Hilariously silly, but epic.

Also, Protein, did they ever get around to giving you guys a special color?

*shrugs* Don't know, I had to 'quit' after a couple of months once we had a new baby on the way. Pity too, as it was kind of fun writing for the site and what not. As far as I know Xsarus was the only one who got a special color out of the deal.

I actually had WoW dreams again a couple of weeks ago. Shame my Windows broke and I actually care enough about my degree to avoid MMOs. I figure if you count the time since I started college, I'm actually 25% of the way to my PhD if everything goes by plan! That's 25% of 10 years. Damn, 10 years more school after being out and employed and sh*t just to get a qualification...

I'd play an MMO if there was one that even interested me right now. But since there isn't, I'll spend the money on beer instead.

I do 95% of my homework at uni anyway; that's why we only have 20 hours of teaching a week, I assume. Exam phase is a different thing, but honestly MMOs will lead to me spending more time each week playing than I spend in lectures/labs/etc. and I'd rather spend like 3 hours a day videochatting with my SO.
(That's the usual thing; we had a 3 week break because of holidays and I was way too grumpy, unwell and Twilight-brain-bleached to talk to him much the last couple of days (and felt bad about it), but we're back on schedule now and it's awesome.

The amazing thing is that my only friend who gets some of the aspects of this that are just a bit insane makes this relationship better sometimes, haha. That's why he's my friend, I guess, but I want him to be part of my life for a long time just because he brings little bits of awesome into it repeatedly. And yeah, not talking about the SO anymore - just a really awesome friend who's helping to make this as lovely as it should be (half the time by being horribly rude).

Also, I guess I like that there's an anti-SOPA banner up there now.

I'd ask for details about your lovelife but it's going to be so complicated that I'll forget most of it in 3 minutes anyway.

Honestly it's kind of the best time to take a WoW break. Since you have, what, like 9 85s now? Yeah, can't imagine that leaves you with a whole lot more to do in the game atm.

I'll be getting my darkmoon mounts, leveling another alt or two, then that Diablo game will come out. At that point I may well take a couple of months off until they start up the pre-panda stuff.

So, interesting turn of events for my guild... Our main progression group, which is currently 5/8 heroic, has decided to jump the Horde ship and transfer to Alliance, joining the Non-Combat Pet guild. Their reasoning for this is that there are simply not enough progression raiders of their caliber to recruit on Horde side. Also, there seems to be a lot of resentment between some of the other progression groups and their group. I don't have any resentment against the group as a whole, just certain members of the group that are ass-hats. Okay, really only one, but that's besides the point.

One of the other raid groups is pretty much on hiatus until MoP comes out due to some RL issues for a few members, and the raid leader not wanting to try to recruit 4 people this late in the expansion (which I totally don't blame her for). The other is recovering from the RL and his assistant jumping ship because neither one of them were happy in the guild. So... no more hardcore progression teams, really.

It should be interesting to see how this plays out. A lot of the older members have complained that the cohesive family feel that the guild had when it was a 25 man raid team has disappeared into cliques divided by the different raid teams. I wasn't all that present before Cata hit, so I don't really know the difference, but I definitely see where they're coming from. We're going to try and re-create that family feel if we can, by bringing back our 25-man alt raid and just doing LFR with everyone. So that should be fun. I'm kind of sad to no longer be able to brag about being in a guild with raiders who are in the top 1000 of the world, but I think this is probably a change for the better for us.

What Scotland are you living in?

Edited, Jan 19th 2012 3:52am by Sgriob