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Have fun at work?

Happy new year everyone.

Spent last night with my family and about a dozen other families from church ringing in the new year at one of their homes. All the kids were playing Xbox either in the garage with the screen projected onto a movie screen, or in the basement on the big screen. We adults acted like children and played party games like headbandz and taboo, both were hilarious. It's always fun to see "church people gone bad" hen their Irtysh minds come out .

I think I might have an idea for cams competition. This will have to remain underwraps, as it is a huge scale project , but something I've always wanted to do. Also have a second idea for a project, which is much smaller.

Everyone I finally getting better and were doing Christmas at my parents house today before I go to work.

happy new year theo!... good to hear you had a blast ...literally so to speak... and that yours are on the mend!

for cam I still haven´t found an idea... but I have currently lots of wood and plpastic junk from firecracker garbage...we went treasure hunting...^^

good to hear every one is getting better.

happy new year. taboo is a very fun party game.

this past sat me and my friends had our holiday party and we played cards against humanity...not suitable for kids or people that are faint of heart or get offended easily.

either way have fun at your folks place and dont work too hard at work today...take care buddy

Thanks guys, a few minutes till I clock in, but the funniest party of the headbandz game was one of the women got the bedroom card, and everything she asked question wise was misconstrued by everyone. Like "is it a place where business is conducted" and "is it a place often frequented" or "is it well known by the general public....or at least the members of our church" . Everyone was three shades of red by the end of her turn.

seems you really try to practise getting holy in your church ...

poor woman

again happy new year mate!

Merry new year, amigo

Great to hear you guys are on the mend. Hope this year is a great one for you all.

I miss parties. Nobody to party with here.

Thanks for all the well wishes guys , everyone is up and mobile again....just in time for the blizzard to hit today . We are expecting 6-12" of snow between his evening and tomorrow mid day. I have to work tonight and they want us to bring a change of uniform to the hospital just in case and they'll set us up with a spare room to sleep in if the weather is bad.

I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, but I'm really tempted to get into the x-wing miniature game. People have been showing off the models ( you majortom and your excellent repainting), and the space mats to play on. I'm tempted to buy a set because the prices are good, and then build a Death Star table complete with a trench run.i just need to get at least another person interested in it. Thinking this might be the game to get my kids interested in gaming with dad.

Before he snow starts we are off to get the kids new glasses.

Hopefully will have something to show beginning of next week, unfortunately the duldrums have not left yet.

More snow? I have to see if we will be getting any

Spending the night at work sounds like fun...

Take skis instead of a change of clothes, then you'll be able to get home.

Good to see everything but the weather is getting better where you are.

<<i just need to get at least another person interested in it......>>
me, me, me, me...er...damn...there was that bloody big ocean.......

saw some peeps already making deathstar tables.... always something I would call the top of ideas!

Good luck with the snow - hope it isn't too crazy for y'all. Been seeing pictures on the BBC news site and it looks damn cold and treacherous over your side of the pond - this side we've had non stop rain and gale force winds!

I've also been considering X-Wing, but I am a BIG fan of Star Wars - looks a great game, a little pricey on the models but then what isn't these days...

i actually play x wing its pretty fun simple to pick up and you can get some neat named characters for pilots. and each plane comes with like four or five pilots to choose from in the starter set you get luke skywalker and biggs for the named x wing pilots in the blister you get the other named one...i wanna say deg...but i might be wrong if you pick up the TIE advanced you get vader, boba fett for the fire spray (slave one) and the mellinium falcon has hans and lando for pilots.

The Snowpocalypse is supposed to hit tonight! We made the mistake of going to the grocery store today....ugh...people lose their Fing minds!

Here's what the local forecast looks like here

Theo, you screwed! I bet the butter/eggs/bacon/bread/milk are all gone!

 dsteingass wrote:
The Snowpocalypse is supposed to hit tonight! We made the mistake of going to the grocery store today....ugh...people lose their Fing minds!

Here's what the local forecast looks like here

Saw the news reports this morning for you lot. That's spectacularly nasty what y'all are getting. Stay safe!

Maybe a snowmobile would be more useful... and more fun...

Well decided not to stay at work, maybe if we were allowed to sleep in empty patient beds, but they cleared the inference room and threw own some cots. Ladies in this room, men in this room. Set up for about 50each. I snore and get up a few times a night usually, so group sleeping snt going to work for me. Even on mission trips in Nicaragua we managed better sleeping arrangements than this. Going to Joplin MO right after th tornados hit a few years ago there were about 150 of us sleeping in a church sanctuary for a few nights, but hat was set up by FEMA, and had decent shower and bathroom facilities.

My kids just woke up and ran outside as soon as they got their snow suits on. We have 5" of snow right now , and its still coming down hard. The road crews haven't even tried to clear the street next to our house, and its a secondary road, they must be trying to keep the highways clear. I only have to get 9 miles to work, but will leave a few hours early to get here on time. They discharged most patients last night that were in acceptable shape, but I'm sure there were plenty of call offs.

No worries for food around our house , we stock up on bread and keep it in a deep freezer, along with plenty of butter. The wife and kids were going to be making home made chocolate hip cookies for Christmas, but with being sick that didn't happen. About the only thing were low on is milk, but we have plenty of juice and water so just no cereal for a while. If it gets really bad we can always eat the kids, although they are a bit gamey .

Haha stay safe bro! It's really dumping here now. We usually buy half-gallons of milk for the two of us, since it goes to waste otherwise. Yesterday, there weren't any half gallons left. 2quarts...crazy people buying way too much. I think the attitude of "I've got mine, screw the rest" will be our downfall

It is just funny thinking of how much snow Theo is getting, I usually think the North East or Dakotas on up as getting this sort of thing happen.

I tried going to work, still no plow has gotten near us, two hours and I got less than a mile and stuck three times even with four wheel drive. 12" iswhat my kids just measured in the yard, and visibility is less than a quarter mile. This is the light fluffy snow, and the winds are just scattering stuff everywhere. I'm sure my kids and wife will be off school tomorrow if not Tuesday as well, most other major school districts have already cancelled.

My kids just made ice cream with snow, vanilla, heavy cream and sugar tastes great . I might try to go in later, if a plow goes by.

well... I hope you only have fun in the snow and nothing else...i´ll cross my fingers for all my American friends...

here it hasn´t snowed at all...we even get the odd day full of sun...I think in the end we´ll get enough snow to be sick about it ...but that might even arrive not till February...

and eating your kids?... hmmm.... better not... it´s not the taste... but the yelling...it will me missed...

LOL Theo, watch out where those huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow!

Well -7 degrees with -30 windchill factor, my 4 wheel drive is in my fence, and have been outside for over n hour and a half trying to get to a friends house because she doesn't have a phone or a shovel . She was able to get on her neighbors wifi and send out a help me using her old laptop and Facebook. Her cat chewed her iPhone cord in half two days ago , guess she'll have Chinese food for lunch .

Forgot to post this yesterday/sat.

Mini crusader has a basecoat going. I decided to tone back the areas getting the yellow as it was overpowering. Armor plates are being painted on the sprue and attached later.

You're having a Heat Wave down there!
-12° here now, but your wind must be worse there!

Mini crusader has a basecoat going. I decided to tone back the areas getting the yellow as it was overpowering. Armor plates are being painted on the sprue and attached later


I think that was a rather good decision... would have been indeed too overpowering with too much yellow...

I watched a CNN weather newsreport... and at first I thought it was just that weird farenheit stuff which I still doesn´t get... but then I realized on the radio that the numbers I saw were in actual Celsius...around minus 50 degree Celsius...wtf??? is there some clever terrorist out there manipulating US weather by remote or what?...sheesh... stay indoors and stay healthy... nerdism never was so sure a way to stay unharmed...

When it gets into the double-digit negatives Vik..Farenheit and Celsius are pretty close to the same:
But they are talking about the windchill most likely (what it feels like on your skin in the wind)
Right now, the snot in your nose freezes in seconds
Temp here is -12°F (-24°C)
Windchill is -39°F (-39°C)
See how they are the same?

ah...I see....
well... I had to camp outside when I was at the army ...we had -30° c...one of my mates burned the soles of his boots so that the soles came off at the fire... he was that close to the fire ... it is doable to stay outside...ask our Russian friends at dakka...... but I agree...if you´re not used to that cold it can be devasting... specially if you take cars and streets and bloody stupid drivers into account... then it gets really messy...