My favorite Dr. Seuss book is "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins"
Was that a Double Jack?
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My favorite Dr. Seuss book is "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins"
Was that a Double Jack?
And I think the last time I saw the first Jack, I was spending some quality time with the second Jack.
Man, I completely understand. Actually I haven't played the game much in several months. I've got like four or five level 85's on the alliance side of things, though I may try some fun on the horde side. I'm just burned out on the tedium of the game. Once you hit a certain point, it becomes an over and over and over sort of thing. Running dailies, heroics, yadda... Just gets old and everything you struggle so hard to accomplish in one major expansion becomes a joke to do in the next. But there is a certain allure to running out in those areas where few player are at and explore some of the old familiar haunts that were so challenging the first time around.
Oh, now I understand they are going to do a race based on Pandas... Should be fun. I'm gonna see if I can snag up the name, "Panda Pal" Hehehe
Man, I completely understand. Actually I haven't played the game much in several months. I've got like four or five level 85's on the alliance side of things, though I may try some fun on the horde side. I'm just burned out on the tedium of the game. Once you hit a certain point, it becomes an over and over and over sort of thing. Running dailies, heroics, yadda... Just gets old and everything you struggle so hard to accomplish in one major expansion becomes a joke to do in the next. But there is a certain allure to running out in those areas where few player are at and explore some of the old familiar haunts that were so challenging the first time around.
Oh, now I understand they are going to do a race based on Pandas... Should be fun. I'm gonna see if I can snag up the name, "Panda Pal" Hehehe
I'm rather proud of myself in getting my first toon to 70. (I don't have Litch King or Cata) Of course, Now I need to drop the cash if I want to level up further. Dang it.
My first car was a '72 Camaro, Blue with gold pinstriping, a rear spoiler, a little bondo work on one of the rear fenders, and big wide semi-low-profile tires on the back. I loved that car. Some jerk went around a car in front of him (driving on the shoulder) and hit me head-on as I was starting to make a left turn. Totalled my car after less than a year.
That SO sucks, I've always had a soft spot for Camaros and Firebirds... and it's always fun finding out how many folks had Chevettes or similar crudbuckets... I dearly love my crudbucket although she looks like crap right now (can't find a good paint match for the bodywork I've done and half the moulding strips have fallen off and never bothered replacing the grille after hitting the deer - yes, I hit a deer and the Chevette won, it's also been goosed by some little import and bumped rear bumpers with a Tercel in a parking lot, plus it's had my mom's CRV back into it (chevette won that one too, yay for real bimpers) and someone else in a blue car dinged the fender in a parking lot one day, but none of it actually shows), but it's been a losing battle against rust here too, the amount of salt we put on the roads I don't know how any car makes it past ten if it hasn't been undercoated... I swear the only reason I got ten years out of this one when I bought it at 20 is because it'd been properly undercoated all its life and I continued it every year, although I've still had to have some major reconstructive work done on the frame over the years...
Another question, what straight guy wants to stare at a a male butt all the time? <shrug>It's why my hubby always had female alts... Nobody ever questioned whether I was m or f in rl as long as I did my job (this was LOTRO, not WoW, apparently they're much more polite than WoW over there).
"All is brick!"
Oh so you can drive stick? Sorry between "Girl's Got Toys" and "Got Wood" I just had to
Oh so you can drive stick? Sorry between "Girl's Got Toys" and "Got Wood" I just had to
MmmmmHmmmm...
Frankly, I need to drive stick to keep my brain happy.
In John Irving's A Widow For One Year...the narrator has something to say about any guy who can't drive a stick...I concur.
MmmmmHmmmm...
Frankly, I need to drive stick to keep my brain happy.
In John Irving's A Widow For One Year...the narrator has something to say about any guy who can't drive a stick...I concur.
Looks like I have a new book I'll have to read, after I finish LOTR that another thread enticed me to read once again.
LOTR, the original trilogy as it was written before Star Wars, yet some Star Wars fans say that it is the original trilogy. But how can it be any good if it doesn't have mead swigging dwarves in it? Furthermore, the Hobbit is now being made into 2 movies, grrr, my add will not take it!
MmmmmHmmmm...
Frankly, I need to drive stick to keep my brain happy.
In John Irving's A Widow For One Year...the narrator has something to say about any guy who can't drive a stick...I concur.
Everyone should be able to drive stick. Just like everyone should know how to use their mirrors, parallel park (without the car doing it for you
), tow AND BACK UP a trailer, and drive in heavy traffic without causing an accident.Unfortunately, the average intelligence of drivers requires us to pass laws that say you can't text while driving. I'm sorry, if you're too stupid to realize that taking both hands off the wheel and looking away from the road at the same time and for more than a fraction of a second is unsafe, then feel free to remove yourself from the gene pool by driving into a tree. Try not to take anyone with you who is smarter than yourself.
It's a sad, sad world.
Everyone should be able to drive stick. Just like everyone should know how to use their mirrors, parallel park (without the car doing it for you
Unfortunately, the average intelligence of drivers requires us to pass laws that say you can't text while driving. I'm sorry, if you're too stupid to realize that taking both hands off the wheel and looking away from the road at the same time and for more than a fraction of a second is unsafe, then feel free to remove yourself from the gene pool by driving into a tree. Try not to take anyone with you who is smarter than yourself.
It's a sad, sad world.
Sadly, I did not learn how to truly use my mirrors (and thus effectively parallel park) until my EVOC training in academy last fall.
And regarding the "stick" thread here--day-um. I guess I can go PG or PG-13 here. I had no idea.
Wait, are we supposed to stop at PG-13?
I need to learn to drive stick. I don't think it should be that hard. I did it once, but I wouldn't say I'm good at it after that.
I'm really good at mirrors and turn signals though. Biking to work on Bay Area roads makes you very aware of cars and everything else on the road. And very pissed off at all the idiots who think safety features are optional. It's not just for your safety, it's for mine too!
I need to learn to drive stick. I don't think it should be that hard. I did it once, but I wouldn't say I'm good at it after that.
I'm really good at mirrors and turn signals though. Biking to work on Bay Area roads makes you very aware of cars and everything else on the road. And very pissed off at all the idiots who think safety features are optional. It's not just for your safety, it's for mine too!
Unfortunately, it's like drunk driving: the problem is that they always think they are better than the statistics "I'm a good enough driver that this rule shouldn't apply to me!", and then they rarely take only themselves out... and no matter how good a driver you may be, you're still at the mercy of the other morons on the road, one of my friends still has neck problems after getting rear-ended by some dippy teenager who failed to notice the stopped cars waiting to make a left turn in a clearly marked left turn lane, in broad daylight. We never found out if there was a cellphone distraction involved or not...
...and I haven't had enough practice backing up with a trailer because the last trailer I got to practice with wasn't visible behind the pickup truck so I couldn't tell which way it was going. But I wasn't that bad the time I rented a U-Haul for the Chevette. But although this one's an automatic, my last three were stick, and I can parallel park my 'vette anywhere, once got in so tight it took me 5 min to wiggle my way back out again... (PG-13 that!) And this is without a passenger-side mirror. Apparently on Chevettes, a second mirror is an option...
That was true for all Detroit Big 3 products until the Japanese started including them as standard on everything, back in the early 80's. Of course it took Detroit over a decade to catch on....
