Oh for crap's sweet sake.Originally Posted by chirine ba kal
Yes, I know, there's a nonzero amount of recoverable platinum in the damn things, but... Crom's hairy nutsack.
Oh for crap's sweet sake.
Yes, I know, there's a nonzero amount of recoverable platinum in the damn things, but... Crom's hairy nutsack.
I don't care if you respect me, just buy my fucking book.
Formerly known as Old Geezer
I don't need an Ignore List, I need a Tongue My Pee Hole list.
The rules can't cure stupid, and the rules can't cure asshole.
You have got to be kidding! I have never heard of that happening before. Gotta hate cordless tools sometimes. Wow!
Shemek
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
Thank you all for your kind words! I'm winding up having to take a day off work to deal with all the paperwork - I have 261 hours of paid vacation time accrued, so it's not an issue - as our insurance policy will pay for the repair. In the meantime, here's The Scene Of The Crime:
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Nice clean cuts, I will admit. This happened between dusk and when I got off work. I called the police, and got referred to the precinct to make the report, so I was pretty late. What annoys me is that this was an original part - and had lasted over 334,000 miles.
Sigh. Back to our regular programming in a bit...
Well, at least they didn't screw things up horribly, which is cold comfort.
Sort of like "40,000 crazed Milumanayani tribesmen are attacking, but we just got in ten carts of crossbow bolts."
I don't care if you respect me, just buy my fucking book.
Formerly known as Old Geezer
I don't need an Ignore List, I need a Tongue My Pee Hole list.
The rules can't cure stupid, and the rules can't cure asshole.
I hope whoever stole it, or ends up with the part, fails their emissions test. #karmicjustice!
Blaise
Someone really doesn't want you to release your book and they will go to any length to stop you from publishing.
Got to admire the handiwork. Looks like they've done this before. I'll bet it scared the shit out of you when you started it.Nothing like a straight pipe on V8. Did you drive it into the Police Station?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
Interesting point you make... I blame the Temple of Ksarul.
Shemek
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
And now, the news...
The van has now been seen by our insurance company, and has been declared a total loss as the 'book value' of a ten-year-old cargo van with 335,000 miles on it is less then the cost of getting the converter replaced. We've been offered $425 if we keep it, $825 if they scrap it, so The Missus is running the numbers to see if we can get a cheap ($1,000 or less) fix to keep us going or if we can find a used car for cheap. One complication is that the used dishwasher that Second Daughter was going to take for her new house is still in the back of the van, so we may have to 'borrow' it long enough to deliver the goods - unless we can find somebody with a pickup or something.
Net result, we're probably going to lose our 'heavy lift capability' that we've had for over a decade, as I don't think we'll be able to get anything larger then a regular type of car with our current budget. We're not particularly worried by this, as our need for this capability lapsed with the cancellation of the proposed Tekumel Room at Gary Con a while back; we needed cheap - read 'in-house' - lift to make that event really happen, and with it being highly unlikely that we'll ever need to do it again we really don't need to keep nursing the old warhorse along. I had a feeling, after the CinncyCon trip, that that excursion was going to be ours and the van's swan song; it took us a month to recover from the journey, and we had to put almost $2,000 into repairs to keep the van running afterwards.
While we had been hoping to get one more year out of the van, we have been preparing for it's eventual demise for over a year. All of the 'trade show booth' gear we've been building up will fit in a standard car, and if we we're being booked for a really splashy show - we can put on a show very much like the one done this past year for Gen Con about the history of RPG gaming, but specifically for Tekumel - there'll be a budget for renting a full-sized van to carry all the goodies to the show. Our plans for what we're doing in the future and how we do it are really focusing on "To Serve The Petal Throne" and we're more or less reconfiguring our in-house assets towards that end. Losing the van and the 'heavy lift' is not really a loss for us; we really haven't used it in years, except to help our friends out at CinncyCon, and we really don't want to keep putting money into a vehicle with all that mileage on it.
So, while I'm annoyed at the timing of all this - during my work week, and about a year earlier then we really wanted - we'll deal.
I'm really glad you put the spoiler on this - I have been told this same statement, almost word for word, far too many times over the years. It still makes me want to vomit. There are days when I fell sorry for Phil and his creation, when I see how it's being used for political purposes.I think that this is the crux of the problem. You simply lack the gravitas required to fully appreciate what Professor M.A.R. Barker was presenting at the gaming table. You, and Gronan, have gotten it wrong all of these years, and you weren't paying attention when M.A.R. Barker (who, by the way was a Professor) was presenting the world he created. You weren't listening, not only when he demonstrated how to correctly pronounce Tsolyani words, but stated the importance of correct pronunciation and how integral a part of gaming on Tekumel this is. Did you not realise that Tekumel was first and foremost a serious intellectual exercise, and that gaming is a distant second, or third? No mere diversion is this wonderful milieu! Also, did you forget that M.A.R. Barker was a Professor?
No wonder you've been getting so much flak over the years.
Shemek
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