OH, GOOD GRIEF, WHERE IS EVERYBODY??(elevens)?!!?!?!?!

[Jamastiene]

Why has DU been so quiet and slow for the last week or so? We're s'posed to be partying part of the time cuz we won the presidential and protestingthe other part of the time cuz even if I do, by the ultimate miracle of miracles, find a woman who can deal with my crazy wild ass, I cannot marry her.

Why is DU getting slow at night and early in the morning until it's only unhappycamper and me online around 6:30. We need more people, people. OMG, where is everybody???????!?!?!?!?!?

WAKE UP!!! OH, PRETTY PLEASE, I'LL BE GOOD. I PWOMISE*.


*At least, I'll be good until this place is hopping again, then I'll go back to my mischievous, albeit harmless, self. :evilgrin:

[siligut]

1. I’m here Jamastiene.

It is 5:15 am here, I am drinking tea and just waking up.

[Jamastiene]

2. OMGOMG

:hug:

Another living human being is on DU again. :hug: I felt like I was in an episode of the Twilight Zone. :silly:

[siligut]

3. Well, it may still be twilight zone, but I am human.

What are you doing up so early on a Saturday morning? Also, I am considering spamming the fuck out of the lounge, should I use a copy cat(my first) or just inanity. I do inanity pretty well.

[Jamastiene]

4. Insanity AND a copycat if you can manage.

I do insanity VERY well. It's my specialty.

I'm still up from last night. We had heavy rain and wind last night. So, I watched some tapes on the idiot box (TV) then came back on the computer when the coast was clear(no more lightning). I'll probably pass out in an hour or so. I'm still up from yesterday.

After the storms, I worked on my software program a little bit, then went looking for good clip art skull and crossbones pictures. I need some that will look good against a black background.

I decided to break my application suite into separate programs to code it, then put it all together at the end. I was getting confused and had over 1000 lines of code to weed through to fix errors and 7 separate programs in one. Now, I'm rebuilding everything as separate programs and it's much nicer now.

I need the skull and crossbones picture to make an icon for the very basic browser I built. The purpose of this browser is to make it easier for somebody to do a quick look up without having to wait a long time to load one of the regular browsers. It's only an afterthought. I'm still practicing encryption and decryption for the program I'll be concentrating on the most, the spellbook/diary/journal app.

C#.NET 2003 is maddening. I need to get off my lazy butt and download Visual Studio 2008 Express.

[siligut]

5. You don't sound like you have a lazy butt to me.

Maybe after you get some sleep. Do you worry about storms and your computer? We don’t have a lot of lightening in the NW, but we still use some pretty heavy-duty surge protectors.

I did make a copycat! I think I will have to do a lot more if I want to fulfill Philboy’s request. He might be a little grumpy this morning after all that crappy Sutters and LaBlatts.

Now, sweet dreams Jamastiene.

[Jamastiene]

6. Thank you.

:hug:

Yes, I definitely worry about lightning. That's why I went and watched television until the storm was gone.

One summer day about 3 years ago, I was on the computer and there were no warnings about storms at all. The weather didn't even call for any storms that day. I'll never forget it. I was playing Runescape and getting ready to fight one of the quest bosses.

All of a sudden, right outside the window in my room right next to me, there was this LOUD explosion. The power went out and a fireball shot out from behind my computer case. The weird thing about it was that the power went out, but my monitor still displayed Runescape (frozen on the last thing I did before the explosion) on the screen for about 5 solid seconds. Then, everything went black on the monitor.

My aunt came driving her scooter as fast as she could from the other part of the house. She said she was afraid I was dead. She said it sounded like this half of the house had blown up. I didn't even hear her until she was in the room with me, because the sound had muffled my hearing.

After the shock and my tears from worrying my computer had been fried, I went outside to see what happened.

It turned out that in a neighbor's yard, across the street and to the left, lightning had struck a telephone pole and ran through the neighbor's pine tree (about 8 feet from the telephone pole) to ground. It started pouring down raining and lightning really bad before I could get a closer look. So, I came back inside and we had a bad storm.

Later, I took a better look at the tree. It turns out that the lightning had hit the telephone pole and split. Part of it went through the telephone pole, the other parts ran through the pine tree AND my modem. The pine tree had a zig zag pattern from top to bottom all the way around the tree and some of the branches from the top pf the tree blew out of it. It wasn't a lot out of the top, but the streak down the side of the tree was real clear with raw wood showing where the bark came off. The tree died, sadly, and had to be cut down.

The fireball from my computer, lucky for me, was from the stray runoff current from the phone line frying my phone modem. So, the poor pine tree took the majority of the current, but my modem got enough to get fried. My sound card did too just by being so close to it.

I say lucky for me, because the processor and motherboard were fine, but my sound card and modem got fried bad enough to turn the green part of the printed circuit boards brown. That means the majority of the current went through the tree and not my computer. If the current from lightning had ran through my modem only and not the tree, I would have gotten more than a little shock and a fried modem.

I had to rebuild my computer. I had wanted a Gateway for years and had finally gotten this computer earlier that summer. I was glad it did no more damage than it did. Even before then I always unplugged my computer if they were calling for storms. That day, though, there was no warning...just KABOOM! :scared:

[siligut]

8. Jebus! Good story.

I lived on the east coast and this was years ago, and we were warned about lightening frying our computers. Thanks be for that pine tree.

Damn, just as you were about to face one of the Quest bosses! Damn! Ever get to finish that game?

[Jamastiene]

10. Yeah, lucky for me, I had banked everything

except the three items the game lets your character keep if you get killed(assuming you are not skulled). So, all I had to do was go back down the Port Sarim and sail back to Karamja to finish the Quest boss off. I had my character's default to re-spawn in Falador instead of Lumbridge, so it was an easy trip.

I was just so happy my entire computer wasn't fried. I love my computer.

[Symarip]

7. Checking in.

I'm hungover, but I'm here.

[siligut]

9. Good morning Symarip.

Hung over? Hope you had fun last night. I think coke is one of the best morning drinks for a hangover, that and some toast might help.

[Symarip]

11. Hi Sweetie

Yeah. No. I can't do carbonation in the morning. I found that coffee with real super heavy cream, a rice cake, and a handful of motrin seem to do me right.

Sometimes, though, nothing beats a good ol' fashioned bloody mary.

[siligut]

14. OMG Bloody Marys!

During baseball season, we would usually stop by a bar/restaurant near the stadium to eat before the game. At least half the patrons were nursing a bloody Mary!

Ever had a bloody Maria? Tequila instead of vodka, good stuff.

[Symarip]

15. Back in San Diego

I'd often have a chelada - half of a bottle of beer (preferably mexican) and half and half a cup of spiced tomato juice. Goes well with a machaca burrito from Alberto's.

[siligut]

17. I like tomato beer sometimes, probably picked it from my Latino friends.

We would have it after working in the sun, restore our electrolytes you know. Did you see the hot sauce thread? I didn’t see where you posted in it. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8237144&mesg_id=8237144 Some good ones to spice up tomato juice drinks here.

[Jamastiene]

12. Hey!

:pals:

I stayed up all night. My eyes are getting droopy some now. I need to bookmark Journey to the Center of the Earth to watch the rest later. I'm going to fall asleep if I try to finish watching it now.

[Symarip]

13. Why'd ya stay up all night?

I had two bottles of wine by myself, played King Kong in my new (and obsolete) HD DVD player, posted this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8240667 , and then passed out. No way I would have made it past 1 AM.

[Jamastiene]

18. I'm a night owl anyhow, but

even if I wasn't, those storms we had last night were enough to keep anybody awake. They were fairly rough for mid November. I'm scared of storms anyhow. :scared:

[siligut]

16. Watch it after you get some sleep.

We watched Journey to the Center of the Earth last night with the 3D glasses! Such fun. I like Brendan Fraser as an action hero. It was just enjoyable and the 3D effects were actually pretty good considering the less than controlled environment.

[malta blue]

19. Good morning

:hi:

[Mutley]

20. I'm here, but I've got to go again.

:P

Have a good day.

[Jamastiene]

21. OMG, that REALLY WAS a bad storm.

I thought that was a bad storm, but I didn't know it killed 2 people, left several people missing, and spawned an EF-2 tornado. :wow:

http://www.wral.com/weather/story/3966035/

http://www.wral.com/weather/video/3966538/

[siligut]

22. So sad.

Good you are OK and all of the work you did last night is safe. Now go to bed!

[Jamastiene]

23. As soon as my aunt is done in the bathroom, that

(bed)is exactly where I'm going. My eyes don't want to focus now and they keep rolling around and closing on me, lol.

I had to stay up a little bit longer, because my aunt wanted to get out of bed and she'll need to use the bathroom. I have to help her.

Thank you for keeping me company when it got *crickets* eerily quiet around here this morning. :hug:

[siligut]

24. My pleasure.

You are a considerate niece. Sleep tight, sweet dreams. :hug: