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[Barmymoo]

That's awesome, Patrick I hope it goes amazingly.

It is a grey and miserable day, and I can't go to London to see the Jubilee flotilla because of choir and exams, but I might eat some ice cream at the Welfare Sundae Sunday event, and maybe next week when my exams are over, the sun will come out.

Also, I found out last night that my ex-girlfriend is definitely going out with my sister. I thought that was the case, they met and hit it off at my birthday party at the end of March, but I only found out for sure last night. I'm pretty pleased, they're both lovely people and I brought them together (albeit totally inadvertently!).

[LTK]

That really sucks, tuathal. Maybe you can try to contact the student newspaper about this, just so that such a fuck-up doesn't go by unnoticed by everyone else.

[Barmymoo]

OK everyone I'm going to need your life savings to buy the forum a house. If everyone can chip in a couple of grand we'll be sorted, and then we can rent it out and we'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

[Mister D Nomms]

I already have a house in the Dep thread. You guys can room there as long as you keep it clean.

[Barmymoo]

Does your house have three kitchens?

[Barmymoo]

I've cycled past it a couple of times while visiting my brother, it looks pretty solid from the outside. They built things to last back then.

[Redball]

Price? Taxes? Utilities?

[Barmymoo]

Details, details. We can rent out the gardens to picnicers.

[Welu]

Dear Blog,

I finished an animation built in Maya today which would mean I was officially done (bar evaluation) with my second last module to be finished for Monday. I saved it, copied the file to my external harddrive, opened it to make sure it was all good and "FILE BROKEN". Tried the one still on the desktop, "ALSO BROKEN". All the latest incremental saves just died. The newest file working was from over an hour before, just when I finished rigging the thing. So the actually animating wouldn't have taken that long to do, maybe an hour if I was picky, but I was shaking in rage so I just packed up and went.
I did show my tutor the animation before it botched so he knows I've done it and I have the screenshots and diary as proof of my process but I still need the final file. Gotta finish it Friday.

Just... Sucks, man.

[Redball]

Details, details. We can rent out the gardens to picnicers.

Balloonists? Fox hunts? Guess not, on 20 acres.

[bainidhe_dub]

dude, weddings. you would not believe the amounts people spend on weddings. we'd be set.

[Lines]

SO MANY WEDDINGS. Comparing to what people will pay to have a wedding at one of the local parks, I'm sure we could afford to keep the house up off of weddings in the gardens.

May, if I had the money I'd be so in. I wanted to get some friends together to buy this house, but alas, it wasn't meant to be.

[valley_parade]

OK everyone I'm going to need your life savings to buy the forum a house. If everyone can chip in a couple of grand we'll be sorted, and then we can rent it out and we'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

a) I only have like $190 to my name right now

b) there's no basement, where are we gonna host punk shows as a way of paying the mortgage?

[Papersatan]

a) I only have like $190 to my name right now

b) there's no basement, where are we gonna host punk shows kink parties as a way of paying the mortgage?

[valley_parade]

Oh wait, it's got a "vaulted wine cellar". Fuck wine, kink and punk ahoy!

[snalin]

OK everyone I'm going to need your life savings to buy the forum a house. If everyone can chip in a couple of grand we'll be sorted, and then we can rent it out and we'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

There's no better way of saying "I'm filthy rich" than "I've got a reception hall. It's panelled in oak. It's described as 'grand'. It's about the size of a quarter of a tennis field". I also like that there are "self contained staff accommodations" - so you don't have to see the servants when they're not serving you!

[pwhodges]

On the first floor there isn't even any way between the staff and main parts of the house!

[Lines]

Oh wait, it's got a "vaulted wine cellar". Fuck wine, kink and punk ahoy!

Not to hate on punk or people who like it, but most people who like punk don't have that much money! We need to make money off of rich people! So I think Kat's route might actually be more effective, especially if it's very discrete. Also I want to have masquerade balls and that wouldn't mesh well with punk. And you need wine for those things. Also wine is nice. Also outdoor music festivals are a lot better than basement festivals, but if people litter on those grounds, they gonna die.

[lepetitfromage]

I'm SO in. Can I sign up as the first wedding on the premises? I nearly had a meltdown yesterday about how much fucking money these Wedding Industry Bastards want to weasel out of us.

[Lines]

Weddings are expensive. Some friends are planning one now and trying to keep the cost down as much as possible, but when you add up food, reception location, photographers, and all that, it's nuts. Personally I want an inexpensive wedding so I can go someplace nice for my honeymoon. I will make most of the stuff myself if I have to (which I kind of want to do anyways).

[Barmymoo]

We could totally start a wedding service. One of my stepbrothers is a great photographer, I have musician friends who play at a lot of weddings, between us we could definitely do the catering. OK everyone, send me all your moneys.

[Redball]

So how many two thousand dollarses is this?

[Barmymoo]

Currently we're looking at $   3,110,416.50, plus stamp duty. And conversion charges. Better get selling off those kidneys, people.

[celticgeek]

A mere $480 per forum member. 

[celticgeek]

And we send it in to this address in Nigeria, right?

[pwhodges]

No, this time it's to that department of the UN that uses a Yahoo mail address.

[LTK]

A mere $480 per forum member. 

A bit more if you only count the people who have posted in the last, say, two months.

[valley_parade]

Oh wait, it's got a "vaulted wine cellar". Fuck wine, kink and punk ahoy!

Not to hate on punk or people who like it, but most people who like punk don't have that much money! We need to make money off of rich people! So I think Kat's route might actually be more effective, especially if it's very discrete. Also I want to have masquerade balls and that wouldn't mesh well with punk. And you need wine for those things. Also wine is nice. Also outdoor music festivals are a lot better than basement festivals, but if people litter on those grounds, they gonna die.

Confession: Mostly I want a huge house with a huge basement someday so I can host shows just to have the bands I like come and play them. Wouldn't give no fucks about turning profit.

[lepetitfromage]

Weddings are expensive. Some friends are planning one now and trying to keep the cost down as much as possible, but when you add up food, reception location, photographers, and all that, it's nuts. Personally I want an inexpensive wedding so I can go someplace nice for my honeymoon. I will make most of the stuff myself if I have to (which I kind of want to do anyways).

Yeahh, we're definitely going to budget route- gives me an excuse to get artsy and craftsy. I was on The Knot for a while and I saw one person talking about her 30k "budget wedding". I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. We're trying to keep ours at roughly a third of that and I still think it's too much money. That total is even with me making all of the bouquets, centerpieces, favors, stationery....


Oh! Can we have a studio in our house too? With easels, wheels, a kiln, etc....we can sell art to pay the mortgage too!

[Lines]

Seconded! Studio is a must. I will even teach classes!

[Barmymoo]

Although it's not mentioned anywhere in the descriptions, in the efficiency report (the red to green bar charts) there is a chart for a cottage. Totally can be a studio.

[Redball]

400 sq ft for a wood shop and a closet with window for a ham station.

[Mister D Nomms]

Every house needs a sex dungeon. If space is tight, we can share with the wood shop.

[Barmymoo]

Guys, you are not having a sex dungeon in my 17th century house of elegance and sophistication, you can use one of the outbuildings and I'll just never go there.

[Patrick]

You guys all have to be quiet when Troubador's recording though.

[Redball]

Trying to imagine incorporating table saws, router tables, drill press, jointer-planer, band-saw, 6x48 belt sander into sex dungeon.
Ewwwww!
And that doesn't include the air compressor.

[ackblom12]

Fuck Saws are a thing actually.

Power Tool kinks are such a big thing.

[Papersatan]

Guys, you are not having a sex dungeon in my 17th century house of elegance and sophistication, you can use one of the outbuildings and I'll just never go there.

People in the 17th century had sex!

[Barmymoo]

I am sure they did. People still have sex, but not in my room :p

[Patrick]

Guys, my guitar amp is $300-400 worth of broken, the snare drum at my jam night is broken, and Matt isn't sticking around at open mic tonight. Bummer day.

[Redball]

Fuck Saws are a thing actually.

Even featured in a university course: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/05/northwestern-professor-apologizes-for-fcksaw-demonstration/

[Jace]

My nana is gonna die and I'm at work trying not to break down because even though no one else is here it sucks and I have been preparing myself for it for years but I never thought that I'd be 3000 miles away when it happened. I don't want condolences or anything, I just have to write this down. Reposted this from the other forum I'm on to ensure coverage.

[Redball]

That's hard, to be far away when someone you love is dying. OK, so no condolences. You've got my sympathy, though.

[BeoPuppy]

I am sure they did. People still have sex, but not in my room :p

... awwww ...

[Lines]

People in the 17th century had sex!

New sigquote, because I could not stop giggling at this.

[Welu]

I tried to surf yesterday for the first time ever. Managed to get on my knees a few times and after the first couple goes I got the hang of balancing pretty quick so I didn't keep falling off. Was very fun but very tiring and today my arms are screaming at me for it. Need to get working on my upper body strength.

[LTK]

You and me both, Welu. In gymnastics, the first time I pulled up to shoulder level in the rings was so intensive I couldn't pull up on anything else for the remainder of the lesson. The trick is, according to a stocky Asian guy with biceps the size of my quadriceps, to get the rings on the inside of your wrists instead of hanging on your palms or fingers.

Now I have a cold, so I feel like crap. And there's nothing like videogames to make you forget all about feeling like crap! When your entire attention capacity is focused on the shiny things on the screen, there's no room left for the thoughts "Man, I feel like crap" and so you don't feel like crap at all any more.

[The Seldom Killer]

Weddings are expensive. Some friends are planning one now and trying to keep the cost down as much as possible, but when you add up food, reception location, photographers, and all that, it's nuts. Personally I want an inexpensive wedding so I can go someplace nice for my honeymoon. I will make most of the stuff myself if I have to (which I kind of want to do anyways).

Yeahh, we're definitely going to budget route- gives me an excuse to get artsy and craftsy. I was on The Knot for a while and I saw one person talking about her 30k "budget wedding". I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. We're trying to keep ours at roughly a third of that and I still think it's too much money. That total is even with me making all of the bouquets, centerpieces, favors, stationery....

Just run through our wedding budget and it's come out at £4k tops ($6.1k). Mind you, I reckon I could probably halve that if we wanted to forego some of the nice stuff that's important to us. Mind you, the phrase "No, we're not bothering with that sort of nonsense" has crossed my lips a few times in recent months.

[Patrick]

I've been having a lot of reminders that I'm homesick hitting me right in the face lately, and it's already ruined my day. Isn't even goddamn 2pm yet and I'm having something of a breakdown. Fuck this, I'm going back to bed.

[Jace]

Me, texting my mom:
"any news?"
response:
"She is in hospice now. Resting comfortably on pain killers. Waiting for her to be ready to move in with your Grandpa Chuckie. Saw her this afternoon-she told me he was there with her & then smiled twice."

Simultaneously uplifting and soul crushing.
Have wanted to call my mom but I've been working the past couple evenings and I know that if I actually talk to her that I'd completely lose my composure.