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[supersheep]

it is good that you are all right paul. congrats on not letting it kick your ass, medically speaking

[JD]

What did your doctor say?

[nobo]

Dude, I hope you're doing ok.

[De_El]

Paul that is super scary it is wonderful that you are all right.

[Bastardous Bassist]

Dude!  That's fucking scary!  I assume you're doing okay now that you're back on the internet?

[est]

Damn, Paul.  Hope you're doing alright & I hope you're not set for any more of them.  My dad's had numerous heart attacks over the years, culminating in one that lead to either a double or triple bypass.  He had all sorts or indicators for it though, constantly high blood pressure, high cholesterol, family history of heart attacks, etc. so it wasn't exactly a surprise.  He's been doing just fine since the operation though, so we consider ourselves pretty lucky.

[Jimor]

Yikes, Paul, take care of yourself. From your other posts, it doesn't sound like you'd need to change much in terms of a healthy lifestyle, so I hope this doesn't put too much of a crimp on all the cool stuff you do.

Emaline, that is such a sad place to be with a beloved pet. I hope things turn around, but at least you can give her tons of your love and she isn't being tormented by bully dogs. {{hugs}}

[Hat]

Paul that is super scary it is wonderful that you are all right.

[Slick]

hey man guys you remember that time when this newbie came by and was all signing his name at the end of every post and we said that was silly and he was like I've always done this but whatever I can stop and then he turned out to be pretty rad and great and everyone liked him and then he had a heart attack and everyone was like 'be well paul we hope good things for you' and we all wished him the best recovery and fortune?
Hope you're doing OK man.


james

[Barmymoo]

Wow, that's a lot of bad news at the same time How is it that we all have bad things happen at the same time?

Although nothing bad has happened to me, but bad things that happen to you guys happen to us all. Emaline, can you maybe take the dog to a vet or a PDSA or something? At least then you would know what is up.

Zingoleb, that's crappy, and I hope they get themselves sorted. Try not to get stuck in other people's mess.

And Paul, with the amount of good luck and positive thoughts we're all sending to you you're bound to be OK but I will send more anyway because that's a really scary thing to happen.

[Hat]

I went to the Football and drank some midstrength beer and got pretty cut up and then yelled some abuse at a football player and then he scored a try and I yelled supporting things and I can't believe I paid 24 dollars for 4 midstrength beers

also hung out with my dad and watched Clint Eastwood movies when we got home, good Fathers Day!

[Lines]

Paul that is super scary it is wonderful that you are all right.

[valley_parade]

yelled some abuse at a football player and then he scored a try and I yelled supporting things

Brett, I think you went to rugby, not football.

[SonofZ3]

Dear Blog Thread,
      Yesterday at work I took a couple hours to do foot patrol through a local campground. Its nice to talk with people and be outside, so I enjoy it. Anyway, I was walking by one site where an old couple was sitting outside, and I said "Afternoon Sir! Enjoying the weekend?" to old the old guy, and he replied "New York State Sucks! Thats the point of it!" See, I work in Pennsylvania, and aparently this man and his wife have been coming down from NY to camp in PA for like 40 years because for some reason New York State sucks. I found it amusing.

[valley_parade]

He's got a point. it does suck.

[pwhodges]

Thanks for all your kind wishes.  I have had all my family here, but it is getting quiet again now.

I have had a mild attack; but as it was not expected, I must follow the recommendations to reduce the likelihood of another as rigorously as if the risk had been obvious.  What this will entail is still being worked out, but includes resting for long enough for the heart to repair itself fully and taking several medications daily for the rest of my life.

On the other hand, it is now clear that the physical weariness that I have felt from time to time over the last couple of months, and which had been making me feel my age, was actually an early symptom of the narrowing artery that led to the attack.  So I should recover to feeling more vigorous again, in the end

[Hat]

yelled some abuse at a football player and then he scored a try and I yelled supporting things

Brett, I think you went to rugby, not football.

no no I went to Football, the Rugby was on last night, I can tell because I barely understand the rules of Rugby but Football is just running in a straight line and getting tackled by dudes who can't count past ten

Do you correct every single person in America who calls Gridiron football as well?

I'm just saying because you might exclusively hang out with people who like Soccer but in Australia that's about as many people as you know all altogether and we do have two completely different games called Rugby that we're quite obsessed with so there's a need for a bit of disambiguation in the taxonomy.

[Bastardous Bassist]

Football is just running in a straight line and getting tackled by dudes who can't count past ten

Yeah, we call that one soccer in the US.  

[Hat]

Oh Shane is American as an Eagle with an assault rifle he's just kind of precious about his  Foot-ball

[Bastardous Bassist]

I was just trying to make a joke at the expense of soccer/football.

[JD]

Paul - My best wishes to you and your family. I sincerely hope you make a full recovery as soon as possible.

[Hat]

I was just trying to make a joke at the expense of soccer/football.

it wasn't a great joke though because it implies that taking the ball off someone with minimal physical contact is "tackling" them when really it's just nicking the ball


Also 6 schooners of midstrength beer gave me a hangover, fuck you midstrength beer I could have gotten twice this drunk for the same hangover.

[Bastardous Bassist]

Clearly, you don't play soccer the same way my friends and I did.

[Slick]

I think all footballers, American and British, should just say hey, enough fighting, let's all play ultimate frisbee instead. That is my sport of choice.
Think of the best parts of both sports, then replace the ball with a frisbee. Soooooo good!

[Hat]

can we still call it football

[Zingoleb]

Paul - My best wishes to you and your family. I sincerely hope you make a full recovery as soon as possible.

Also, I've played Ultimate Frisbee. Once.

[Bastardous Bassist]

I've played Ultimate Frisbee, and I really don't understand why people like it so much.  It was okay, but people really seem to get into it.  Maybe I just played with the wrong people?  Why are people so passionate about Ultimate Frisbee?

Also, I watch American football despite the fact that I actually believe soccer to be a superior sport solely because my local team is actually pretty good at American football.

[Jimor]

Speaking of football (the American kind). Friday night I worked TV crew for a high school football game. It was played at the school that won the California state championship last year. My small role is that I held the parabolic microphone so that the actual sounds of the game would be part of the broadcast. It's rather cool because I had full access to the sidelines.

It also meant that I was on the field when a fight broke out outside the stadium and lots of extra police descended on the area. They apprehended one of the suspects at gunpoint right outside our production truck. This was not an unusual event at this school.

Re: ultimate frisbee, it's been a LONG time since I've played, but there's nothing quite like being in full stride when that frisbee come gliding in from a perfect pass and just floats into your hands just a moment before the world becomes a tumbling mess and you stand up with the thing still in your grasp.

[SirJuggles]

My roomate last year was a huge ultimate frisbee player, being a leading member of my school's intramural league. I played a few times, and it was fun. Just... it got old fast. One team would establish super throwing skills and just steamroll the game.

[Hat]

So is Ultimate Frisbee kind of like Australian Rules Football, except with a Frisbee?

Also one of my turntables has a fucked tone arm : (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

anyone know anything about how they work or have access to technical drawings of a Technics 1200 mk2?

[Yayniall]

Ultimate Frisbee is for people who try too hard.
I like football and american football but rugby is weeeeak.

[Hat]

The problem with Rugby is that if you don't live in Australia, New Zealand (or possibly South Africa) you really don't have very many good teams to watch

see: cricket

[Scarychips]

I had a guy in my history class two years ago who used to keep on yelling after everyone who said that Soccer was Football. He also had a watch who was set on France Time and kept on running to go to every class wo he always waited 9 minutes on front of a closed door until the teacher came.
...
...
Anyways.

[Yayniall]

I was that boy!
viva gmt +1

[Hat]

It would be even better if you set your watch to GMT+1 and referred to it as PMT or whatever (maybe come up with a better intialization)

[Yayniall]

PMT: a watch that switches from 0 to 1 once a month.

[look out! Ninjas!]

Paul - My best wishes to you and your family. I sincerely hope you make a full recovery as soon as possible.

[iamiam]

so tonight i finally went out to a couple of really awesome places that were neat enough to actually make me not hate/regret living in charlotte anymore.  this is a good thing because it looks like i am going to be here for a long, long time.

now i just need to find friends who will actually go out to these places with me.  why is it the few friends i have are so far from me and also giant flakey homebodies?  sometimes it's hard being the hippest, coolest kid around :c

[Johnny C]

Paul! Best wishes and I hope for a speedy recovery - if speedy isn't in the cards, full will do.

My folks are out of town for a little over two weeks and I've decided that I'm going to use the period to teach myself how to cook a little better. Supplies are on their dime, so why not learn how to prepare more interesting meals? The downside is that I need ideas for food cause I don't know jack. Please give me suggestions and ideas!

[Finin]

if you like pizza then definitely get these babies


best pre-baked pizza crust of all time

[Ptommydski]

I'm one of those people who stir-frys and/or steams basically everything they eat.

It's easy and fast.

[jodizzle]

Me too Tommy, I mostly live off stirfrys and curry. Omnomnom.

Guys I am counting down until I can move into the fabulous unit and the boy and I are buying lots of rad things for it and I am finally going to live in a NICE place with NICE matching things and I cannot WAIT! I am getting a pirate bathmat!

Also I had a job interview today for a job as a legal secretary/personal assistant.  I think it went pretty well and I would actually really like to work there.  The people were nice, the building was beautiful, the job is something I could actually handle, and the working conditions sounded better than my current ones!  Fingers crossed but I won't get my hopes up because I am pretty sure I am cursed to stay at Cocos forever hating my life.

<3

[Hat]

Just learn to make your own pizza bases, not only is this badass, but it is fun as well.

If your parents are anything like mine they pretty much have everything you need except maybe yeast.

In fact I'm in a kind of similar boat at the moment Johnny and my olds have a ridiculous amount of baking supplies so I've been working on that. I recommend learning to cook a good roast as well because you don't want to fuck up one of those giant cuts of meat if you're paying for it, why not learn now? I'm assuming you already have a basic grip on the "brown meat in a pan and add vegetables and maybe something with carbohydrates" school of cooking, but maybe think about other ways you can prepare food like braising and sautéing and look up some recipes you can use those for?

Also bought three pairs of shoes today. This sounds ridiculous, but I could put my entire fist through both my soles of my only other pair of shoes so maybe not.

[Emaline]

Man, Paul. Seriously. I hope things get better for you. You are one of my favorite posters, for serious.



Thanks everyone for your kind wishes. We had her put down at 6:00 tonight. When we got to the vet, she couldn't walk at all. My boyfriend carried her everywhere.(I'm really grateful for him, he's been amazing through all of this. He is the one who bought her the expensive food. He paid for the vet. He carried her to the bed last night, and was originally planning on just me and her sleeping in the bed, but ending up sleeping in there with us after I asked him. He gave up his spot in bed for my dog. I am so grateful for him) At the vet, she was completely calm the whole time. She went silently. We were both in tears the entire time. I wanted to get her cremated, and keep the remains. Maybe make her a fancy urn or something. But we couldn't afford it. So, we buried her in my mother's backyard. At least this way, I will always have a place where I can visit her.

I'm glad that I got to spend these last few days with her. She was, and will always be, such a great dog. She was seriously the best ever. I don't ever want to get a dog again because no one can ever be as good as her. She was smart, and silly, and protective, and great. These past few days I've been reminising, and just telling all these tales about her, and I'm sure I've annoyed everybody with them, but I'm glad to have had such a good time with her. I think my favorite story of our time together was this one time when my roommate wanted to flea bomb the house. He decided he was going to go to the movies during that time, but me and Kit had nothing to do. We couldn't go back in the house for another two hours. It was fall, so it was pretty chilly out. We had a fire pit in the backyard, so I decided I'd walk to the store and buy some supplies for it. I also bought us hot dogs and marshmellows for lunch. I tried calling all of my friends(including my current boyfriend) to see if anyone wanted to come to our bonfire, but no one would. And that's fine. I had stole a newspaper, so she and I sat there, snuggled up near the fire, reading the paper. It was so great. We stayed there well after the two hours, well after the sunset. It is honestly one of my favorite memories of being alive, as well as one of my favorites of my dog.

[Johnny C]

Emaline, my condolences. Losing a pet is hard - but don't write off getting another one. You'll mourn her loss for a while, but eventually all you'll remember are the moments of joy and companionship.

Brett that's not a bad plan. If the weather is a little cooler, cooking a big fuckoff roast might not be a bad idea - but if it's in the mid-twenties, like it was today, there's no way I'm having my oven on for a couple of hours. I'm considering the following:

• make a soup! I could just go with a cool Boudrain mushroom soup recipe I found but I might go out on a limb and give this a shot instead - or maybe go wild and go wonton???
• oh huh I forgot I have this brisket just sittin' in the freezer
• BEER DOGS
• i should eat some bison while the eatin's good
• if i'm gonna make pizza i'm gonna go all-fuckin'-out
• a bunch of these probably

School's back up again but I seriously have no concern about having to take time to prepare meals or do dishes. Cooking is pretty fun and I'm excited to make some weird and tasty food.

[A Shoggoth on the Roof]

on the topic of hot dogs: there is this fast food place where I live (Delaware) called Deerhead. Apparently they are exclusive to upper Delaware, which I didn't know until I just googled them. but whatever. the point is, they make the best hot dogs I've ever had, anywhere. or to be more specific they have this delicious sauce (only the owner knows the recipe) that they put on the (probably average) hot dogs, which they sell split, and two on a bun if you want. of course they look like shit but don't be a pussy, if you're ever in northern delaware, go eat one.

[Hat]

I have organized to do karaoke at the Paddington Tavern tomorrow night which is going to be exceptionally rad because I've been meaning to go do Jackson there with my friend Nikki, and have never been able to because I usually work 6am Wednesday morning but now I don't and also I will be at uni all day getting stuff done so I don't feel bad going to the pub. Also she has an amazing voice and can almost certainly rock June Carter harder than anyone else I know.

[Jace]

This first part is gonna be sad and I am gonna talk about my dogs that are no longer with us.
Emaline, I know how much it sucks to lose your dog. The first time I ever saw my stepdad cry was when our dog Saturn died. He'd had the dog since he was only a few weeks old. I was in 6th grade and he was laying in the corner of our living room on a blanket with some newspapers nearby and our other dog (Jughead) who'd lived with him since Saturn was like two years old, went over to him, but then sort of slunk out of the room and Saturn started to turn over. My stepdad was in the kitchen making food and so I went and told him that Saturn needed help turning over. He went in and helped him roll onto his side, and then his nose started bleeding. And that was it, I watched him go. We got another dog a few months later, named her Sadie in memory of him (we would often call him Sattie) and both Jughead and her never went into that corner after that day. It was January 6th. I didn't do my homework that night because I spent the whole night next to him. We had Jughead put down the year I turned 15. I am sometimes glad that I moved out because it is hard to watch Sadie getting older and moving slower.



This part is no longer sad.
My friend Will came back into town after being in Oklahoma for a year. We hung out and played a one-shot World of Darkness game where he almost raped a clown and our friend Matt killed a cop. We also played a ton of Space Hulk, some 40k and did a lot of painting. Saturday night/Sunday morning we spent about two hours playing CASH N GUNS, a game where you point foam guns at each other while deciding how to split up loot from a robbery. It is a hilarious game that causes lots of laughs and just the right number of jokes about shooting the minorities first. I also finally finished my Sherman III platoon for Flames of War. I am currently looking at a good basing scheme for my infantry platoon and my two machine gun companies are primed and ready to be painted. Fuck yes 15mm WWII miniatures. I have two Grants and I am looking to get a platoon of Churchill III's to add to my Mid-War British company as well. Also, some aircraft. Even if I never play the game (not a possibility, I am in the store a lot), I will still have some really cool WWII minis.

[negative creep]

Paul! All the best wishes from me as well. Get well soon!

[Barmymoo]

The problem with Rugby is that if you don't live in Australia, New Zealand (or possibly South Africa) you really don't have very many good teams to watch

see: cricket

I am going to take issue with this in a very low-key, not-really-bothered way because didn't Britain just win the Ashes? By beating Australia at cricket?