ddickinson: I'm good thank you, cold, but good.

Does anyone have anything nice planned for New Year's Eve? I usually spend it with close family and watch the firework displays.

CarrionCrow: Cold sounds familiar, and it sucks.
No plans here, usually don't do anything special for that day.

ddickinson: I don't really mind the cold, I'm usually outdoors in it so I've gotten used to it. Even rain doesn't really bother me, unless it's so heavy that is floods the fields, that's a nightmare.

I just realised it's Saturday (I work everyday, so the days kind of merge together), do you have anything nice planned for the weekend?

CarrionCrow: Good morning. =) Still awake here, trying to finish off the last of my end-of-the-year haul downloads.
How's your day going?

moonshineshadow: Morning :-) No exploding here :D

But when I woke up this morning, it was snowing!!! The last time there was snow around Christmas was more than ten years ago *happy hug for everyone that wants one*

ddickinson: I'm good thank you, cold, but good.

Does anyone have anything nice planned for New Year's Eve? I usually spend it with close family and watch the firework displays.

ddickinson: Just a regular farm, a mixture of crops and livestock. Although we are trying to see how viable it is to not have to do any slaughtering for a year, not because of any big reason or anything ethical (not that I see slaughtering livestock as unethical, people need to eat), but because the cost for running it all is quite expensive, and with the amount of cheap (poor quality) imported meat, it's getting to the point where it's not worth the effort. We are giving it a year and then see how it turns out. If we don't do so well then we will go back to slaughtering livestock.

The downside to this is that we have had to put more work into the Winter crops (we never used to really bother with a Winter crop), to help recuperate the loss from the meat. We still have livestock, sheep for wool, goats for goats milk, chickens for eggs, and some dairy cows. We used to keep the cows until they reached their milking peak (4-7 years), then send them to slaughter, but we have not been doing it this year and are just letting them live out their lives on the farm. We are looking after quite a few pigs for slaughter, but they are for the neighbouring farm, he pays for all the feed and vet bills and we look after them - he is an old man and cant quite keep up with everything.

adaliabooks: Hello everyone.

How are you all this fine morning?

No snow here either, in fact it's quite sunny (although cold).

j0ekerr: Good day, ladies and gents, (would banshees and shogoths be more appropriate?). How have you been?

Are you returning to the normaility of your daily lives now that Christmas is over, and eagerly awaiting the new year's celebration?

I pity da fool who doesn't make a big deal out of epiphany.

I saw the hobbit: the battle of the five armies last night. And I have to say, it looks like the wet dream of a pre-senile Frank Miller given cinematic form. This is the battle of thermopylae in middle earth. It was visually stunning, although half the time I had no idea what was going on, nor did I care.

My favorite part was the headbutts. ALL of the headbutts.

Quite a few pages while I was gone, I have some reading to do but right now I wanted to share something with you all.

That is; my videogame woes.

As many of you know, I shop at the coompetition, while that may brand me as a purge-worthy heretic to some, I'm just in it for da moneyz, and the exclusives.

Well for the last few days, all I saw over there was junk, of the type I wouldn't put anywhere near my trunk. And then suddenly, not one but four games which I'm interested in suddenly appeared.

The games are, Brothers, Ghostbusters, Lords of Xulima and Postal 2.

Brothers is a must, I'm getting that one, no matter what. Yes or yes.

The others are a far more difficult choice.

Ghostbusters is nostalgia-based, but is nostalgia enough to make a good game?
Lords of Xulima, has a nice discount and is an steam exclusive... but will not remain so for long.
And Postal 2 is just ridiculously cheap at 90%.

adaliabooks: Lol. In my case it does happen to be true. Like I said, I'm not really a heavy drinker so maybe I just don't drink enough to really get a hangover. Of course, I'm Irish / Italian so that may have something to do with it, alcohol is in my blood :)

Haven't sat through the whole thing. But I did see that one chapter (more or less) in which one of the cool kids attends a D&D session, and ends up really liking it.

I wonder if that's how Vin Diesel got started.
Then I suppose a Christmas that lasts until the 6th would be your idea of hell?
Looks up the sale page.
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Sees...

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daikatana
DAIKATANAAAAAA!!!

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

CarrionCrow: Good morning. =) Can't complain here, how's your day going?

j0ekerr: Endre may envy you, but I outright hate you.

Hangovers leave you feeling like a cast of tap-dancing rhinos just did a representation of West Side story on your brain and your mouth was replaced with dirty sandpaper.

Hmmm never really drunk? In my case, I've only ever gotten a hangover after drinking enough to puke.

That usually takes a dozen beers, in a bit over an hour, on an empty stomach.

Haven't really tested those values, nor am I that keen on doing so.

moonshineshadow: Doing fine :-) Only a tad irritated by the spammer.

adaliabooks: Well... this is kind of like waking up to find the forum is covered in snow, except it's not snow but spam :/

HypersomniacLive: Good day, peeps. Everyone survived the eating and drinking of yesterday? And the idiot's flood of counterproductive posts

adaliabooks: Had to get up early to take the cat to the vet because we thought his eye was swollen again, but turned out to just be stuck closed with gunk, so he's fine.

Otherwise going fine, was going to try do something useful and productive... then I opened xkcd and that's not likely for at least an hour now...

Definitely never been drunk enough to get sick. Usually I stop when I get drunk enough to be stupid. The worst I've ever felt the next day is maybe a slightly sore head and a bit depressed, but even that is rare.

I find this to generally be true ;)

j0ekerr: Looks up the sale page.
Scrolls down.
Sees...

daikatana.
daikatana
DAIKATANAAAAAA!!!

KILL IT WITH FIRE!