Suck is....

That stinks... get back soon, sir.

Like Grandma used to say, "This, too, shall pass."

Don't worry, I'll be back - maybe I'll use the down time to draw up some even more unpronounceable names for y'all to herniate over!

They won't allow you to install NWN at the internet café, but your boss allowed you to install it at work? Doesnt really sound right, but must be nice with a so lenient boss(unless, of course, you went behind their back )...or did I misread your comment? >.>

Angel of Death wrote:They won't allow you to install NWN at the internet café, but your boss allowed you to install it at work? Doesnt really sound right, but must be nice with a so lenient boss(unless, of course, you went behind their back )...or did I misread your comment? >.>

Sorry, AoD, I was referring to the internet, not the game! Would be nice to have a boss that would let me do that, but no dice in this area ...

I miss all y'all ...

On the bright side, I am finally getting around to those pesky chores that I've been meaning to do for some time ... like reorganize the many gigs of NwN data that I have spread across several hdds! Maybe it's time to dig back into those old modules, and see if I can finally finish one up!

Till we meet again, friends!

Suck is...

My amount of computer time this week, so far. Drastically limited due to:

a) painted a room
b) cleared furniture and carpet from three rooms for carpet replacement
c) moved everything back into those room after carpet installation
d) replaced old security door with a new one
e) got house appraised for possible refinance
- - result today: counting purchase price and improvements, the house has lost almost 1/2 its market value in the last 7 years.
f) child #1 had minor surgery (yesterday)
g) child #4 got puking sick
h) child #2 got puking sick
i) child #3 got puking sick (middle of the night last night)
j) child #2 ended up with 105 degree F fever (this afternoon)
k) wife may be getting sick
l) dragon may be getting sick

The Amethyst Dragon wrote:Suck is...

My amount of computer time this week, so far. Drastically limited due to:

a) painted a room
b) cleared furniture and carpet from three rooms for carpet replacement
c) moved everything back into those room after carpet installation
d) replaced old security door with a new one
e) got house appraised for possible refinance
- - result today: counting purchase price and improvements, the house has lost almost 1/2 its market value in the last 7 years.
f) child #1 had minor surgery (yesterday)
g) child #4 got puking sick
h) child #2 got puking sick
i) child #3 got puking sick (middle of the night last night)
j) child #2 ended up with 105 degree F fever (this afternoon)
k) wife may be getting sick
l) dragon may be getting sick

Hmmm..... I'm starting to wonder if has got the Use Poison feat.. because all this illness started when you "re-bottled" a whole worlds full of poisons .... ....

RustyDios wrote:Hmmm..... I'm starting to wonder if has got the Use Poison feat.. because all this illness started when you "re-bottled" a whole worlds full of poisons .... ....

Ha! Thanks, RustyDios. I needed a little laugh.

Just edit your character file and "Leto" it in.

I think is just overdue to hit level 40 ascended

That list almost reminds me of the 12 days of Christmas....

... 5 Golden Rings!
4 child a pucking!
3 child is also!
2 child a hurling!
And a pair getting sick post surgery!

Suck is...

Going to help an old friend take apart a sheet-metal shed that collapsed during last snow season, and slicing your index finger almost to the bone, then the question of tetanus immunization comes up, the emergency room visit, and the "be sure to clean the wound and change the dressing 3 times a day" BS....


No good deed goes unpunished...

daveyeisley wrote:Suck is...

Going to help an old friend take apart a sheet-metal shed that collapsed during last snow season, and slicing your index finger almost to the bone, then the question of tetanus immunization comes up, the emergency room visit, and the "be sure to clean the wound and change the dressing 3 times a day" BS....

No good deed goes unpunished...

Agreed; used to do the same thing with old dot matix paper with perferated side edges. But no shots required.

Get better!

Dave: Ow. It's time like these when a ring of regeneration in real life would definitely be nice.

Suck is... drama and hormone driven insanity.

MannyJabrielle wrote:Suck is... drama and hormone driven insanity.

What does Harry Potter have to do with it?

And we hear ya....

Suck is ... not getting enough sleep because of an imperialistic 3-year-old/impromptu yard sale, forgetting to take your brain medicine, and then having to go to work and use said tired/under-medicated brain to think about other people's satellite television ...

ugh.

oof.

No good deed goes unpunished.

And then people wonder why I tell them to go screw themselves.

Dave, invest 12 bucks in a good pair of pigskin gloves for that kind of work!

Oh, and buy Microsoft in 91.

Ain't hindsight wonderful!

What really sucks is, there was a pair of gloves 6 feet from me... I just thought I only needed to whack that psrt once or twice with the hammer, so my hand wouldnt actually be touching the metal... when the hammer deflected from the third whack (in which i used more force) it ended up deflecting my hand across the plane of another metal sheet with an exposed (and rusted) edge.... before I could even regain control of my hand from the impact, the finger was already sliced very deeply

I did it to myself.... I shoulda just grabbed the gloves and played it safe...

Suck is...113 degrees F.

Oh, look. The grill is pre-heated, even before I'm ready to light the charcoal to cook dinner.

suck is...

so many reasons I am considering going off to live in the woods far far far away from other people.

suck is ...
getting bogged in your own driveway, .. more than once.

At least the recovery with tractor was simple enough.

Better than a week ago when I went down the back to check the firewood paddock:
Step 1 - Cruiser bogged
step 2 - tractor bogged pulling out cruiser
step 3 - back hoe bogged on the way to pulling out above.
step 4 - back hoe is self recovering, fortunately, (use back hoe to lift out and drag along)
step 5 - recover tractor
step 6 - bog tractor again on second attempt at cruiser.
step 7 - recover cruiser with back hoe
step 8 - recover tractor with back hoe
step 9 - recover slasher that was abandoned to recover tractor
step 10 - get everything back to the shed without incident.

Note to self : when wet walk down the back end when curious.

yeah sounds like it all started when you decided to drive down the back end.... then you got hosed

If you had nothing better to do, I could see all of that being kind of fun playing in the mud.... but not if you're busy, its raining on you, or you hate mud....

OK; just an Aenean tale of woe, and we have all had them. But mine is worse cause it is me....

Tryiing to power up the latest of my Bright Gmome Bottlebottom clan, as the race is getting overhauled. Burton is 9th (ie; 7 Wiz/ 2 Rog), and begins the day by trying to get some needed gems and crystals from the hidden mine. He barely beats sunset and a crowded graveyard, so that went well, but for the first time, runs into two Umber's; not just one. And they are lucky; making all their ST's, and half kill the Gnome before he finally wins the encounter. Now it is personal. Not he; but I.

And between them, I find a single unmarked gem. Yes Charlie Brown, I also got a rock....

After resting, I wander to Tradeholm to look for specials. On the way, I run into lucky Anhkegs, lucky Gnolls, and very lucky Fire Retardent Devourer beetles. Between them, I am half dead, and half my rations are gone, too.

Taking a detour, I try and sneak into a hidden treasure vault, as I discovered just yesterday that while Giants may be powerful, they can be bypassed by Invisibility. Same plan for today; difference being is the Old Red 'seeing invisible' Dragon that spawned near the entrance. Really; at 9th?

One Draconic spell later, I am half dead again. And while the treasure is intact and pocketed, I discover that resting is impossible in the hot lava cave. So I use a Teleport scroll, and thankfully it works.

Tradeholm. Start to sell the few baubles found, but must seek the best price. Change from bracers to Greater Appraise gloves. Where are they? Ah! I just sold them to the grocer! Buy them back for an overall loss of profit. Consider moving on from there to gather Soul Gems from the Dragonlin Kobolds, but decide at this point to switch to someone less squishy. And luckier....

*sigh* really does not sum up the frustration, and the sad part is that this only took a single hour of play. Maybe one day I will laugh, but not this day.....

It is OK Elhanan, I am laughing for you.

My "Sucks is..." is small beans compared to other people's problems.

Still, Suck is misplacing all my Aenea notes and maps during my recent move... I've looked for them for about a month, have unpacked the boxes, etc.

Elhanan, your trials and tribulations remind me a lot of Crideas' Fledgling days in Aenea. It took me weeks of near-constant play to get past level 15. Lots of deaths and near-deaths.... and WAAAAY too much wasted funding through various user errors

Suck is a laptop that went 'kaput'. No more Visual Studio, no more Neverwinter Nights, ...

<sigh>

I, personally, have found that laptops, in general, are suck.

Eric of Atrophy wrote:I, personally, have found that laptops, in general, are suck.

Personally, that depends on who might be sittng in them....

Svair wrote:Suck is a laptop that went 'kaput'. No more Visual Studio, no more Neverwinter Nights, ...

<sigh>

I am here if you need help with determining your options. The problem may be fixable..... PM me if you want to work on figuring this out. I have no problem helping.

Yes, Ccleaner is awesome and they have Defraggler as well...both great and...FREE =)

... Being on the verge of having ones internet turned back on, only to have their car take a crap, then on the way to fix said car have ones mother in laws car take a crap, therefor requiring one to reallocate funds to repair not one but 2 cars, but that's not all folks, a mere 2 weeks after that disaster the 6 year old dinosaur of a desktop pc that used to run ones NWN decides it is time to die, fearing the damned thing is going to burst into flames and jet through the wall perhaps killing a neighbor, one decides it best to replace said desktop and spends the internet funds yet again on a new laptop, guh, I just wanna come home to Aenea, is that to much to ask?!?!?!?!?!

...buying a new refrigerator.

Having to buy a new refrigerator because the existing one decided to stop working (not surprising...it's out of the warranty period), now I have to throw out a lot of food (I'd just gone shopping an bought a bunch of yogurt, eggs, milk, and other stuff) while shelling out hundreds of dollars for something I already own one of.

The Amethyst Dragon wrote:...buying a new refrigerator.

Having to buy a new refrigerator because the existing one decided to stop working (not surprising...it's out of the warranty period), now I have to throw out a lot of food (I'd just gone shopping an bought a bunch of yogurt, eggs, milk, and other stuff) while shelling out hundreds of dollars for something I already own one of.

Cant really tell you why.... but this just made me picture the scene in Lethal Weapon 4 where Joe Pesci goes on a rant about cellphones

Joking aside, sorry bout the fridge and the grub

Yeah that sucks ...

No doubt ... *looks worriedly over shoulder, as current refrigerator is leaking from the bottom and not sure why*
... may be joining you in sending a fridge to the elephant graveyard.

New fridge is installed and chilling. Luckily not all the food had to go...the freezer section of the old one was still functional. But I had really wanted some yogurt this morning...

Suck is:
My desktop computer is acting up, randomly rebooting itself for no apparent reason.
My wifes desktop computer is acting up, either the onboard sound mixer blew up or the software is corrupt, and I even figure out which it is, dell really does suck.
My wifes laptop is fine, so I am using it for NWN, but that is going on two weeks now and she is about ready for me to move it on over!
The old computer I bought for 100 bucks for the really nice monitor and wireless mouse is running fine, but is has only 512 memory, and only a PCI express x1 pci slot, so I cant swap my video card and a couple of gig of memory in, because it is like ddr 2 or something.
I cant just order a new computer because the hail storm did a job on the roof and cars, and my deductibles were 1K, and of course they ran sewer into the neighborhood costing another 1.6K to get hooked up, and so the reserves are at rock bottom (OK, at 1K, but that is as close as I care to get to rock bottom, Red and me is just too old to go back to living paycheck to paycheck!)

So, middle of next month, I am going to order me a new computer! I am thinking about getting a laptop with a docking station, any suggestions for a nice system sub 1K? I have a nice monitor and keyboard to plug into the docking station, just need a decent laptop with good memory and video card and docking station!

Or go back with another desktop a better option?

Desktop vs. laptop is a toss up between portability and upgradeability. I personally like Dells very much, but if you are filled with disdain for them, perhaps consider an HP. Both have good laptops and docking stations. You may wish to search for a good deal on newegg.com.

Suck is... A stupid hurricane knocking out power and Internet, and the electric company estimating between 3 and 5 days to restore it.

No power means no C-pap machine... Which means I barely sleep at all and get almost no rest... Tired and cranky.

The only electronics and Internet I have right now is my iPhone....while it's better than nothing, my god I am bored..

Ouch Dave, that is some major suck right there on all counts

New Laptop arrived today, built for gaming, and am unsure where my NWN install disks are (or even if I still have them). Curses... at least I don't need a new frig though :-)

daveyeisley wrote:I am here if you need help with determining your options. The problem may be fixable..... PM me if you want to work on figuring this out. I have no problem helping.

I sincerely appreciated the offer, thank you. The HP DVxxxx line of laptops had some serious (and well documented) problems with thermal paste/soldering pulling away from components after time - I stripped my laptop down, and decided I didn't want to bake my motherboard and scrapped it for parts.

www.Gog.com for 10 bucks you get NWN digital download. If you cant find your disks, its worth $10.

daveyeisley wrote:www.Gog.com for 10 bucks you get NWN digital download. If you cant find your disks, its worth $10.

I tried four times to download from them, and they refused to take my money.... Just as well, my wife doesn't want me using the credit card for such things, and it would have likely provoked a stern talking to from her once we got the bill. I was going to blame you Dave in my defense.

However, I've found the disks, but am having installation issues. The installation/play CD is scratched so I'm off to find a video store to see if they can buff it out.

Jesus man, I would have charged it to my card for you and just emailed you the link! You could mail me a check or something...

EDIT: I have another idea, but you need to call me or PM me to dicusss it.

I just returned from hunting for it at game stores (and 1/2 Priced Books). No luck. But I found out it was my credit card company that was nixing the transaction with Gog.com, and got them to approve the purchase. Thanks for offering to work it out with me Dave, that kind of helpfulness is part of why I love this community...

Now I just have to wait some hours for the download, install, then the CEP stuff, and then Aenea files :-)

Ooooh, Svair is coming back!