The Topic of Great Randomness

[Tuttle]

mbf! Dee!

I miss all you people who were the most active ones ~4 years ago. It seems like the group here has been changing enough that while I read all (interesting) posts, I don't really identify with the community nearly as much. TOGR seeming to be dying probably doesn't help. But the forums does that, with going in phases with the publishing of the books.

I don't have much to really say here though. No real life updates. Continuing to be an unemployed recent college graduate. Tired of dealing with health issues. But Hi people. I'm still reading. And still like this forum even if it feels like the people I identify with are moving on, but probably also lurking.

I did get a great reference to AWoM in the last session of the mage game I'm in. When I have a friend in that game with a Mac named Spot. Then I found out she's yet to even read W@W because of having too much other stuff to do. Poor person. I've offered to loan her the books.

[Dee]

I remember you! In fact, I just saw you a few weeks ago! How cool is that? We met here and now we're friends in real life. The internet is so cool.

[mythbusterfan]

Hey guys! long time no post, here or anywhere on the forum for that matter. Hopefully I'll get back in the habit of posting and lurking around here still.

How have you guys been? and anybody remember me still? XD

[Kathy Li]

Just because I feel like it...



same deal as the earlier one, only now I'm using Mathmap & the Gimp on Windows XP in a virtual machine in Parallels because Mathmap Cocoa crashes every time I load a script now that I've upgraded my MacBook to Snow Leopard. (sigh).

[Lazy Leopard]

Given the timeframe involved, I don't think so. Besides, she regards it as cheating, so she generally doesn't. (Which means I can't when I give her the book, even if I want to...)

Awww I guess she gets to read it afterwards, then...

Sorry for getting your name wrong... I have no idea why it came out as Leonard rather Leopard. Posted in too much a hurry, methinks.

Quick, blame it on your spelling checker, or something. ( Seriously, no worries. )

[Wilf]

Congratulations. Now, the question that first occurs to me is "Did your wife read AWoM before she gave it to you?"

Given the timeframe involved, I don't think so. Besides, she regards it as cheating, so she generally doesn't. (Which means I can't when I give her the book, even if I want to...)

Sorry for getting your name wrong... I have no idea why it came out as Leonard rather Leopard. Posted in too much a hurry, methinks.

[Lazy Leopard]

Congratulations. Now, the question that first occurs to me is "Did your wife read AWoM before she gave it to you?"

(Hi Lazy Leopard! My mother was born in Orpington). (Which also got me thinkign abot the late Peter Murray)

Back in the eighties, when I first met Peter, he was living about here and I was living near here. We were both working somewhere here.

Edit: Well, come to think of it, I was renting a room rather nearer work to begin with, 'cos I couldn't get the house until I'd been working long enough to get a mortgage... (Ah, the days when a newly graduated worker could afford a mortgage... Back then a house round here only cost about six times a new graduate's starting salary. These days it's nearer twenty times...).

[Wilf]

I dropped by because I wanted to share with the world that my wife bought be AWoM for Valentine's... although I've now found out that TBM has finished (yay!) and that there's at least one other Brit on the forums (Hi Lazy Leonard! My mother was born in Orpington). (Which also got me thinkign abot the late Peter Murray)
Oh, and I also realised that last I visited these forums was before I was married... odd.

[Lazy Leopard]

Now I could really use a few weeks of tropical warmth...

...and I did manage to escape, the day before the pre-Christmas snow closed Heathrow Airport, and had a great three weeks in Kenya, including three nights at oy's Camp in the Shaba Reserve, and, the following weekend, the wedding of my father's youngest goddaughter. I also got to spend time with my brother's and sister's families, and catch up with a few old friends along the way. Now I'm back in wet windy old England...

[anotherBob]

Happy New Year!!!

[EricG1793]

Just thought I'd drop in and say a belated happy holidays and an advance happy new year.

Regarding the eclipse... wish I had known about it before it happened!

[running_alone]

Just thought I'd mention something fun: I got both SYWTBAW and Omnitopia Dawn as Christmas gifts this year! So happy!

Happy almost-New-Year!

[Trialia]

Happy Solstice and waes haeil to you, Tria! Wassailing sounds like a lot of fun; I'd like to try it sometime.

What do mince pies taste like? Are they like stew on the inside? I've always thought of them that way. ^.^

It is!

Oh, no, not at all! It's fruit - mincemeat, not minced meat. Chopped dried fruit and spices, softened citrus peel, candied fruits, in sweet pastry.

[SilveredBlue]

Happy Solstice and waes haeil to you, Tria! Wassailing sounds like a lot of fun; I'd like to try it sometime.

What do mince pies taste like? Are they like stew on the inside? I've always thought of them that way. ^.^

[Trialia]

Happy Solstice to all of you! Blessed be. My Earth Spirit group had a lovely Yule celebration last week, wassailing and mince pies and holly