The cards for SHA look awesome!! The artwork is hot and hybrid mana are back! They even have an uncommon card showing that has colorless mana hybrid with black mana! WOW!
We are covered up at work. Which is a good problem to have, but a problem nonetheless. We've got about 40 cars in here right now, we are busting at the seams.
Ria - I love Paul's Boutique!
I got my foil Extirpate and my final 2x foil Sudden Spoiling (foil ps completed!) in the mail yday. I still have 4x foil Chars and 2x Tarmogoyfs incoming. Hopefully I'll get them today. Then there are several things incoming from 'Sal trades. I went to the cardshop yday and p/u some shocklands and 3x Soul Wardens (1x foil) I was needing for my B/W SoulBlossom deck in progress. I can't wait to get it complete and show you guys. I still need 1x (10th) Soul Warden tho. I am thinking about going back to the card shop and p/u some planeswalkers today, I am thinking 3x red and 3x green ones.
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Ria, I've found everything I said I had via PM (by the by, where can we agree on for card values?) except for Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn. I know I have him, but dude is hiding somewhere. I'm also trying to look around for anything else I might have, because I tell no lies when I say I'm hella broke ATM.
That being said, nice to see you, Saka, posting in my long past-due thread, as had I made it around the time I should have originally, you probably would've been posting in it, to the bellowingfool handle no less.
I use a combination of what stuff is doing on eBay, Apathyhouse (which tracks + averages auctions), + of course, MOTL, although I rarely see the prices that site talks about - the local is always higher, I think due to the fact that Aussie has a weird luxury tax, so stuff like blue jeans + magical cards are twice as expensive here :/ - but whatever makes you feel comfortable, I am agreeable to. I dig that postage is an issue when you're hitting the couch up for ramen fundage. . .
On a painting tip, I'm just putting the finishing touches on a triptych I made for the Clan (challenging myself doing a triptych for the first time, as well as working on tiny canvases which give little room for my forté - throwing water around). I'd like to send prints to everyone who'd like one (er, three ) - just give me a shout + PM your snail-mail addy + I'll get 'em off in the next week or two. I'll post it on ninjakitty so y'all can squiz a peek if you're impatient.
Cyan - I'd much rather get them from my clan buddies, but then I'd have to wait for them. I need instant gratification when it comes to getting my cardboard fix. So if that costs me a few more bucks per card than so be it. Plus, as I said before, there is a huge shortage of card shops in my area. There are only 2x good ones in all of upper middle TN. I feel I should support them if I want them to stick around. I picked-up 7x Shocklands, 2x Loxodon Hierarch, 1x Ghost Council of Orzhova foil, 3x Garruk Wildspeaker (1x foil) and 3x Chandra Nalaar (1x foil)! Not bad imo.
I need to play a game. I am trying to get a friend to come over by mailing him through PSN (playstation network). We both have little camera's connected to our ps3's and we can do video chat. It may not be new to everyone else but it is new to me. Pretty cool stuff.
Anyone feel free to hit me up on aim, I'll be there all night.
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I have to say, DUX, that's rather selfish of you. You get points for helping your friends, you know. That's what makes them your friends.
This really makes me feel bad. I can't seem to do right even when I am just trying to do something fun for myself. Sorry everyone.. I really feel like an @sshole/jerk now.
I should stop telling people about the cards i get - I am starting to sound like a prick - I just get excited and want to share - I love you guys and you are the only mtg buddies I have
I don't mean to drag you down, but you ask for deck help, + don't follow up the conversation (what format? Coffers is incredible, etc). I just offered to send prints to anyone who's interested, + you don't even say you're not interested; you ignore me, just like with our trade - you didn't reply at all to my last offer
I understand that blowing huge amounts of money is making you feel happy in the short term, but even you have expressed doubts as to how long that will last.
What I am saying is, that little extra wait on shipping time will pay off in the end, because you will know you are helping your friends at the same time.
I *could* buy all my legendaries each set from the local, the cost is about the same if the Legends are chasey, + I'd get to mess with them immediately, but I vastly prefer interacting with Daron. I get a silly letter from him each time, he tends to throw in things other people would think were trash but are fun for me. Our friendship grows with all these little things, + now, after years of it, I feel like I have a pretty strong connection with someone on the other side of the world that I may never meet. Having married someone who started in that same boat, it means the World to me.
I hope I'm not coming across as preachy, I just want to see you get into some long-term healthy happiness, Dave! You're a good guy + you deserve it.
Blah blah blah. . . I just walked back from the beach, incredible swimming weather out there, + they're holding the Jetty Classic so there are about 500 kids + adults competing in short-distance relay swims + while another 500 hang out on the beach smoking + yelling + scarfing sausages) so I'm gonna make some lunch + slam a couple iced espressos + then I'll check AIM if you want a game.
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On a painting tip, I'm just putting the finishing touches on a triptych I made for the Clan (challenging myself doing a triptych for the first time, as well as working on tiny canvases which give little room for my forté - throwing water around). I'd like to send prints to everyone who'd like one (er, three ) - just give me a shout + PM your snail-mail addy + I'll get 'em off in the next week or two. I'll post it on ninjakitty so y'all can squiz a peek if you're impatient.
Good mronig Called! Played at the local FNM last night and found out they lost their FNM status as of next month!:( Apparently, the store manager did something that pissed off Wizards last week and as a result lot his job and lost the store the FNM status. It is a good little shop. Always had a decent showing for release events, FNM's and special events. Kinda sad....
Anyway, I went to play last night and ended up undefeated. I prematurly drew the last round and would've ended up 1st but the 3rd undefeated guy played out against the mirror and won. Kinda sucks but I ended up with the foily Eternal Witness. The card looks awesome but the art is worse, I think. Doesn't look like a hot chick, but a drag queen. Ahh well....they'll have the foil Witness this month and will try to get sanctioned again.
Ah yeah...I played the guy I drew with and spanked him 2-0. Faeries is the bomb!!!:D
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I was summoned here.
I just started up the Shadowmoor spoiler, wahoo.
I am super-excited about Hybrid gone wild.
FNMs in my area are changing, its pretty cool actually...
We have a ton of new people coming to the shop, which does alternating weeks of constructed and draft FNMs. These people mainly come to the draft weeks. The store isn't very big, so without plenty of advance notice, the owner has to cut off the draft nights at 24 people. (Which it was last night, according to my friend.)
On constructed nights we usually have issues getting the required 8. I was somewhat pissed last FNM because I played my version of the japanese 25 land Kithkin deck, (I NEED A FOURTH MUTAVAULT AAAHHHHH) and lost to another Kithkin deck, just for the plain fact that his deck had more removal in it. (Crib Swaps and a Wrath or two) So yeah, I could use ***s, and I haven't needed them in years. (I sold all 5 of my lovely ***s to R_E many moons ago)
Lately I have been wasting far too much time on the internet, trying to find a lady who is a friend.
I skipped FNM to hang out with this girl that I am feeling tingles and jingles for at the moment. We are hanging out again Sunday to play Smash Brothers Brawl allllllllllllll day.
I'm not going to lie but in the weeks following Morningtide, up until just the other day, I was like ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. (About posting lol) I really think I have seasonal rumor-affective disorder or something.
Oh, I have a good story...
I was working all day (9-9) on Thursday, and around 11:30, the bank next door to my work (visible from the drive-thru of my work) was robbed by a dude that brandished a sawed-off shotgun. The getaway car was apparently in my store's parking lot. The bank that was robbed was my bank to boot. I went in there the next day and a cop was eating lunch in there, lol.
My state is having a rash of bank robberies, its nuts. Some of them are probably connected, but the rest are just copycat ones I think.
* jonnyjonski passes out at seeing Sedds, Saka and Travis all posting in the same thread within 3 days of each other.
Kithkin aren't any match for my deck.....I'll take you out Sedds....and don't think I won't!!:mad:
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I need to get OCTGN working so I can play some peeps in rav block constructed.
Parties were really fun, school dance was really really terrible. 2000+ people showed up, most of them drunk, my friend got his nose broken and someone threw a bottle at a girl and it cut open her head.
I had a little to drink, not like BLARGH 8 BEERS IN 10 MINUTES kind of thing, just a little. I was a tiny bit drunk, which hasn't happened before, so that was a new experience.
Anyway, I finished my English draft yesterday and today I'm working on my drama script and a stone carving for art again, and probably going to the city to see a film with my brother. Have a good rest of the weekend, my friends.
Ooh, I want a triptych! I love triptychs....well partially anyway, I love trips...and trekking and hiking and backpacking and anything that falls into the category of trips. Not sure what a tych is.
No self respecting scorpion would bother with my beat up boots. So no worries for me. Got back late this afternoon. could have been out another night, but I was down to half a gallon of water by 2:00pm. Wouldn't have lasted without a water source and the closest thing I saw was some damp looking ground in a stream bed. Thats what I get for only taking two gallons of water with me.
So the desert was cool. few of the perrenials were flowering, but the annuals were bloomin like crazy. I took pics of as many as I could find. Some were rare or hard to see, and a few times I was too lazy to toss off my pack to take the pick. But I did photo alot of them. It'll take a day or two to get them processed.
I've got to say that I am out of shape! I had to take several breaks while making it to the top of the mountain. My feet even started blistering, which hasn't happend in a long time...might have something to do with the condition of my boots. It also seems that my weeks of indoorness have caused my summer tan to deminish...something I noticed after my flesh turned red and painful.
At one point a swarm of bees decided to fly over me. It had to be about two feet thick and took at least four seconds before it had finished flying by. It was so low I could have swatted the lowest flying out of the sky. No pictures of that, I was too buisy staying as still as possible while they flew by. Thunderous buzzing as they passed, haven't heard something like that since the last time I attacked a hornets nest.
Before the winter rains
After the winter rains.
I know its not the exact same spot...but its pretty close.
There are better ways to go about it than what I did, but I was kind of in a hurry to get out there and didn't consider some things. Anyway, first make sure you have all your ingredients.
Ingredients
Water
butter
meat
noodles
vegetables
eggs
You might think pringles are weird, but they make an excellent snack as well as a garbage can. No matter how long your out you should be able to cram all your garbage in a pringles can. Otherwise your not preparing properly.
If you don't have something theres no harm in improvision.
Like better eating tools. (left) Or a chair and cutting board. (right)
In hind sight it may not have been the smartest thing to make chopsticks out of a creosote bush, known to contain creosol making it one of the most toxic and inedible plants in the desert.
Ah well, no use thinking about that now. Better get cracking, But before I start....a drink of water.
STOP!!!!! Chris....remember, No label means thats full of poisonous Denatured Alcohol. That'll kill ya...or worse, make you blind.
There you go, good'ol drinking water. And Nick said I wouldn't be able to tell them apart. Who's dead now? No one! HA!
Okay, first you do the standard boil water thing. Add the noodles and allow them to soften. While doing that chop up the meat. This should have been done before your out in the middle of nowhere, but whatever. Use plastic bags on the cutting board to prevent dulling your blade too bad. A dull blade is punishment for being unprepared.
You can use the packaged seasoning for the salt if you want. I didn't bother with it though as I didn't really want the chicken flavoring. They save great and are very useful in flavoring other foods, such as potatos
Once the noodles soften move them over to the frying pan. Save the water as if you're being LNT minded you're going to want to clean with it then drink it up later.
Stir fry the hell out of the meat and noodles until its browned nicely. Then add the vegetables and a little later the eggs. This would also be the best time to reach in there and pull out as many eggshells as you can before it gets too hot. I've no idea how to break eggs into a dish without spilling a little on the sides of the pan or Breaking eggshells into the dish.
Once thats done allow the dish a little more time to cook the eggs before removing from the heat. After that, eat up.
Hope you enjoyed this installment of "Cooking with Chris." Photos taken with Squaw tits in view because I know your obsessive like that. Join us next time where I'll bring up great classics like...bacon and eggs.
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And I guess that I'm a lucky one for the truth of what I know. For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go. I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone. If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
Your deck sounds good, Dave. Want to put it up against my Legacy burn deck?
Awesome pics and story, Chris! I'm going to show it to sammy later, she'll be interested. Makes me wish I could join you. I'm way more outta shape than you, but who cares, let's go!
I'm off to the house for a bit, back later tonight.
Nothing here. ..And I mean NOTHING. I am bored, just been messing with my decks, browsing the trade threads and watching the first season of Heroes on dvd all day.
Daggs - Sounds like you had a great time man! Good thing those Killer Bees knew not to F with the Daggs, there could have been hell to pay. The pictures are great! They look like something right out of a book. The "nipples" one cracked me up, nice job color coordinating. Glad you didn't dehydrate and made it back okay.
JJ - Sorry to hear about your local cardshop's FNM getting the shaft. Whoever messed that up should be drawn and quartered.
Charlie - Way to hang in there. Glad you didn't get caught in the crossfire of the drunken stupor. It is never a good idea to be punk in drublic.
Seds - Good luck with the "tingles and jingles" there, lady killer.
S_P - Stop going to bed so early, ya 12-year-old.
Ria - I haven't forgot about your trade proposal. I might be interested in one of those paintings too. I'll let you know. ...feesh pimpsta'.
Daron - I don't know if you were being sarcastic or serious about my deck. It is near completion but still is a work in progress. I'll post the current DL for ya's:
This is how it sits atm due to cards I don't yet have. Keep in mind it is still in progress.
I plan to -2x Coercion and -2x Conjurer's Ban, for +4x Duress or +4x Thoughtseize when I get them in the mail Monday. I haven't decided if I want to use 2x Oona's Prowler or 2x Ghost Council of Orzhova. I still need to see how the Ghost Council works in this deck, I thought it might be fun to bounce it using my rogue tokens after my attack each turn. I also plan to swap the 2x Diabolic Tutor for 2x Idyllic Tutor which will still grab O-Rings and Blossoms.
If anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.
That was a totally awesome post Chris. I'm planning on heading up to Payson for a few days this spring break. I need to just get away, you know? I'm not as hardcore as you though, and I'll be bringing with me multiple sleeping bags, a tent, a car, cooler, that kind of thing. But no electronics, save for a camera and maybe my iPod. Just myself and the woods. You have any suggestions for me on how to make it super awesome?
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Fleeting is this world
Growth and decay its very nature
Things spring to being and again they cease
Happy the marvel of them and the peace.
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Yeah, lose the car, cooler, and extraneous sleeping bags.
Hell I'd say you could even lose the tent. Here's my sleeping arrangement the other night.
Course I got to admit being a bit more comfortable than I shoulda, havin that there tarp an foam pad an all. Still had to pull out a fair number of jumpin cholla outta the tarp the next morn though.
I kid of course. There are plenty of places up by Payson well worth hiking. Probably beautiful just parking anywhere in the national forest and head towards the tallest mountain. I use the falcon Guide, "Hiking Arizona" for many of my hikes. Course Squaw tits was just cause it was there.
Theres a good 11.6 mile loop and 14.9 mile loop just below payson. Well worth carparking and hiking. Theres also some short day hikes and a real nice 5-7 dayer, for the full use of that spring break.
I got my own copy of that book but I'll need more information of what you want to do before I can give you real indepth details. Course the forest service can give you good details also. I could look into seeing if my old blm buddies can get access to a map. Then again BLM and forest service don't always see eye to eye...even if we fall under the same management philosophy.
Oh, and for those who were wondering, no I did not edit the nipple picture. Aparently someone brought up two ten gallon barrels and pink paint and made nipples on squaw tits. Theres something to be said about Graffiti vandalism and theres something to be said about a good sense of humor. I gotta say I nearly fell off the mountain side laughing.
Cheers,
Daggertooth
Super Edds. This was one of the rare flowers I found. The entire two days hiking and I only saw four of these. Don't know what to make of them besides saying I ain't sure if the purple is the flower or if the purple is just modified sepals and the flower is the yellow part. One of the more unique ones.
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And I guess that I'm a lucky one for the truth of what I know. For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go. I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone. If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
The goal isn't so much hiking (though I plan a 3-4 mile one perhaps, depending on how my shoes hold up to that length of trek) as it just getting out of the desert and into a nicer, more relaxing environment. A hammock, a campfire, scenery, and some good books are all I want. I hope to find a little pulloff that I can camp at instead of at an actual campground. Right now I'll looking to heading up to the Mogollon Rim itself (well, within a few miles of it, between Heber/Overguard and Payson). You have to keep in mind that I'm not as up to roughing at you are, and my sleeping bags are only good to like 30 or 40 degrees I think. I don't have much in the way of good supplies, thus the staying tied to a car and bringing along a few luxuries.
Mostly, I think I'm just looking for ideas of what to bring that I may not think of. Be prepared and all that.
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But anyway, I did terribly, due to my decision to play a rogue deck and not enough practice.
The cards for SHA look awesome!! The artwork is hot and hybrid mana are back! They even have an uncommon card showing that has colorless mana hybrid with black mana! WOW!
We are covered up at work. Which is a good problem to have, but a problem nonetheless. We've got about 40 cars in here right now, we are busting at the seams.
Ria - I love Paul's Boutique!
I got my foil Extirpate and my final 2x foil Sudden Spoiling (foil ps completed!) in the mail yday. I still have 4x foil Chars and 2x Tarmogoyfs incoming. Hopefully I'll get them today. Then there are several things incoming from 'Sal trades. I went to the cardshop yday and p/u some shocklands and 3x Soul Wardens (1x foil) I was needing for my B/W SoulBlossom deck in progress. I can't wait to get it complete and show you guys. I still need 1x (10th) Soul Warden tho. I am thinking about going back to the card shop and p/u some planeswalkers today, I am thinking 3x red and 3x green ones.
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Assuming Daron doesn't have them, as I'm sure he needs the money more since he somewhat depends on Magic.
Just let me know what you need. I have Garruk, Chandra, etc.
That being said, nice to see you, Saka, posting in my long past-due thread, as had I made it around the time I should have originally, you probably would've been posting in it, to the bellowingfool handle no less.
When you cross my mind you'd best look both ways.
On a painting tip, I'm just putting the finishing touches on a triptych I made for the Clan (challenging myself doing a triptych for the first time, as well as working on tiny canvases which give little room for my forté - throwing water around). I'd like to send prints to everyone who'd like one (er, three ) - just give me a shout + PM your snail-mail addy + I'll get 'em off in the next week or two. I'll post it on ninjakitty so y'all can squiz a peek if you're impatient.
eds@Cyan - what did you run?
Cyan - I'd much rather get them from my clan buddies, but then I'd have to wait for them. I need instant gratification when it comes to getting my cardboard fix. So if that costs me a few more bucks per card than so be it. Plus, as I said before, there is a huge shortage of card shops in my area. There are only 2x good ones in all of upper middle TN. I feel I should support them if I want them to stick around. I picked-up 7x Shocklands, 2x Loxodon Hierarch, 1x Ghost Council of Orzhova foil, 3x Garruk Wildspeaker (1x foil) and 3x Chandra Nalaar (1x foil)! Not bad imo.
I need to play a game. I am trying to get a friend to come over by mailing him through PSN (playstation network). We both have little camera's connected to our ps3's and we can do video chat. It may not be new to everyone else but it is new to me. Pretty cool stuff.
Anyone feel free to hit me up on aim, I'll be there all night.
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Anyone checking out the art of these Shadowmoor cards? Spoooooky @_@
This really makes me feel bad. I can't seem to do right even when I am just trying to do something fun for myself. Sorry everyone.. I really feel like an @sshole/jerk now.
I should stop telling people about the cards i get - I am starting to sound like a prick - I just get excited and want to share - I love you guys and you are the only mtg buddies I have
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Are you a pilot or a creator??
I understand that blowing huge amounts of money is making you feel happy in the short term, but even you have expressed doubts as to how long that will last.
What I am saying is, that little extra wait on shipping time will pay off in the end, because you will know you are helping your friends at the same time.
I *could* buy all my legendaries each set from the local, the cost is about the same if the Legends are chasey, + I'd get to mess with them immediately, but I vastly prefer interacting with Daron. I get a silly letter from him each time, he tends to throw in things other people would think were trash but are fun for me. Our friendship grows with all these little things, + now, after years of it, I feel like I have a pretty strong connection with someone on the other side of the world that I may never meet. Having married someone who started in that same boat, it means the World to me.
I hope I'm not coming across as preachy, I just want to see you get into some long-term healthy happiness, Dave! You're a good guy + you deserve it.
Blah blah blah. . . I just walked back from the beach, incredible swimming weather out there, + they're holding the Jetty Classic so there are about 500 kids + adults competing in short-distance relay swims + while another 500 hang out on the beach smoking + yelling + scarfing sausages) so I'm gonna make some lunch + slam a couple iced espressos + then I'll check AIM if you want a game.
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SP has signed on in blood, who else will submit?
It wasn't my blood. Does that matter?
Quote of the day:
Rubrduxdave: i just got spankeed w/ merfolk
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I'll post more about the nights events(damn millfolk) & posts in the morninig, but for now I have to ask..
...What do they put in their coffee down under?
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Anyway, I went to play last night and ended up undefeated. I prematurly drew the last round and would've ended up 1st but the 3rd undefeated guy played out against the mirror and won. Kinda sucks but I ended up with the foily Eternal Witness. The card looks awesome but the art is worse, I think. Doesn't look like a hot chick, but a drag queen. Ahh well....they'll have the foil Witness this month and will try to get sanctioned again.
Ah yeah...I played the guy I drew with and spanked him 2-0. Faeries is the bomb!!!:D
Sucks about your shop, JJ.
Let me know if you decide you want to trade your FNM Witness, I'm trying to get 4.
I just started up the Shadowmoor spoiler, wahoo.
I am super-excited about Hybrid gone wild.
FNMs in my area are changing, its pretty cool actually...
We have a ton of new people coming to the shop, which does alternating weeks of constructed and draft FNMs. These people mainly come to the draft weeks. The store isn't very big, so without plenty of advance notice, the owner has to cut off the draft nights at 24 people. (Which it was last night, according to my friend.)
On constructed nights we usually have issues getting the required 8. I was somewhat pissed last FNM because I played my version of the japanese 25 land Kithkin deck, (I NEED A FOURTH MUTAVAULT AAAHHHHH) and lost to another Kithkin deck, just for the plain fact that his deck had more removal in it. (Crib Swaps and a Wrath or two) So yeah, I could use ***s, and I haven't needed them in years. (I sold all 5 of my lovely ***s to R_E many moons ago)
Lately I have been wasting far too much time on the internet, trying to find a lady who is a friend.
I skipped FNM to hang out with this girl that I am feeling tingles and jingles for at the moment. We are hanging out again Sunday to play Smash Brothers Brawl allllllllllllll day.
I'm not going to lie but in the weeks following Morningtide, up until just the other day, I was like ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. (About posting lol) I really think I have seasonal rumor-affective disorder or something.
Oh, I have a good story...
I was working all day (9-9) on Thursday, and around 11:30, the bank next door to my work (visible from the drive-thru of my work) was robbed by a dude that brandished a sawed-off shotgun. The getaway car was apparently in my store's parking lot. The bank that was robbed was my bank to boot. I went in there the next day and a cop was eating lunch in there, lol.
My state is having a rash of bank robberies, its nuts. Some of them are probably connected, but the rest are just copycat ones I think.
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Kithkin aren't any match for my deck.....I'll take you out Sedds....and don't think I won't!!:mad:
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Also, yay@Greg-in-the-house. Shadowmoor looks evilfun, + hybrid is a welcome return.
Diggy, what are you studying?
I need to get OCTGN working so I can play some peeps in rav block constructed.
Parties were really fun, school dance was really really terrible. 2000+ people showed up, most of them drunk, my friend got his nose broken and someone threw a bottle at a girl and it cut open her head.
I had a little to drink, not like BLARGH 8 BEERS IN 10 MINUTES kind of thing, just a little. I was a tiny bit drunk, which hasn't happened before, so that was a new experience.
Anyway, I finished my English draft yesterday and today I'm working on my drama script and a stone carving for art again, and probably going to the city to see a film with my brother. Have a good rest of the weekend, my friends.
No self respecting scorpion would bother with my beat up boots. So no worries for me. Got back late this afternoon. could have been out another night, but I was down to half a gallon of water by 2:00pm. Wouldn't have lasted without a water source and the closest thing I saw was some damp looking ground in a stream bed. Thats what I get for only taking two gallons of water with me.
So the desert was cool. few of the perrenials were flowering, but the annuals were bloomin like crazy. I took pics of as many as I could find. Some were rare or hard to see, and a few times I was too lazy to toss off my pack to take the pick. But I did photo alot of them. It'll take a day or two to get them processed.
I've got to say that I am out of shape! I had to take several breaks while making it to the top of the mountain. My feet even started blistering, which hasn't happend in a long time...might have something to do with the condition of my boots. It also seems that my weeks of indoorness have caused my summer tan to deminish...something I noticed after my flesh turned red and painful.
At one point a swarm of bees decided to fly over me. It had to be about two feet thick and took at least four seconds before it had finished flying by. It was so low I could have swatted the lowest flying out of the sky. No pictures of that, I was too buisy staying as still as possible while they flew by. Thunderous buzzing as they passed, haven't heard something like that since the last time I attacked a hornets nest.
Before the winter rains
After the winter rains.
I know its not the exact same spot...but its pretty close.
There are better ways to go about it than what I did, but I was kind of in a hurry to get out there and didn't consider some things. Anyway, first make sure you have all your ingredients.
Ingredients
Water
butter
meat
noodles
vegetables
eggs
You might think pringles are weird, but they make an excellent snack as well as a garbage can. No matter how long your out you should be able to cram all your garbage in a pringles can. Otherwise your not preparing properly.
If you don't have something theres no harm in improvision.
Like better eating tools. (left) Or a chair and cutting board. (right)
In hind sight it may not have been the smartest thing to make chopsticks out of a creosote bush, known to contain creosol making it one of the most toxic and inedible plants in the desert.
Ah well, no use thinking about that now. Better get cracking, But before I start....a drink of water.
STOP!!!!! Chris....remember, No label means thats full of poisonous Denatured Alcohol. That'll kill ya...or worse, make you blind.
There you go, good'ol drinking water. And Nick said I wouldn't be able to tell them apart. Who's dead now? No one! HA!
Okay, first you do the standard boil water thing. Add the noodles and allow them to soften. While doing that chop up the meat. This should have been done before your out in the middle of nowhere, but whatever. Use plastic bags on the cutting board to prevent dulling your blade too bad. A dull blade is punishment for being unprepared.
You can use the packaged seasoning for the salt if you want. I didn't bother with it though as I didn't really want the chicken flavoring. They save great and are very useful in flavoring other foods, such as potatos
Once the noodles soften move them over to the frying pan. Save the water as if you're being LNT minded you're going to want to clean with it then drink it up later.
Stir fry the hell out of the meat and noodles until its browned nicely. Then add the vegetables and a little later the eggs. This would also be the best time to reach in there and pull out as many eggshells as you can before it gets too hot. I've no idea how to break eggs into a dish without spilling a little on the sides of the pan or Breaking eggshells into the dish.
Once thats done allow the dish a little more time to cook the eggs before removing from the heat. After that, eat up.
Hope you enjoyed this installment of "Cooking with Chris." Photos taken with Squaw tits in view because I know your obsessive like that. Join us next time where I'll bring up great classics like...bacon and eggs.
It was a fun weekend.
Cheers,
Daggertooth
Oh.....
Nipples!
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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Awesome pics and story, Chris! I'm going to show it to sammy later, she'll be interested. Makes me wish I could join you. I'm way more outta shape than you, but who cares, let's go!
I'm off to the house for a bit, back later tonight.
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Nothing here. ..And I mean NOTHING. I am bored, just been messing with my decks, browsing the trade threads and watching the first season of Heroes on dvd all day.
Daggs - Sounds like you had a great time man! Good thing those Killer Bees knew not to F with the Daggs, there could have been hell to pay. The pictures are great! They look like something right out of a book. The "nipples" one cracked me up, nice job color coordinating. Glad you didn't dehydrate and made it back okay.
JJ - Sorry to hear about your local cardshop's FNM getting the shaft. Whoever messed that up should be drawn and quartered.
Charlie - Way to hang in there. Glad you didn't get caught in the crossfire of the drunken stupor. It is never a good idea to be punk in drublic.
Seds - Good luck with the "tingles and jingles" there, lady killer.
S_P - Stop going to bed so early, ya 12-year-old.
Ria - I haven't forgot about your trade proposal. I might be interested in one of those paintings too. I'll let you know. ...feesh pimpsta'.
Daron - I don't know if you were being sarcastic or serious about my deck. It is near completion but still is a work in progress. I'll post the current DL for ya's:
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3x Caves of Koilos
4x Godless Shrine
6x Swamp
7x Plains
~Spells~
4x Oblivion Ring
4x Orim's Chant
4x Vindicate
4x Bitterblossom
2x Coercion
2x Conjurer's Ban
2x Diabolic Tutor
4x Chrome Mox
~Creatures~
4x Soul Warden
4x Voice of All
3x Dark Confidant
1x Oona's Prowler
1x Ghost Council of Orzhova
This is how it sits atm due to cards I don't yet have. Keep in mind it is still in progress.
I plan to -2x Coercion and -2x Conjurer's Ban, for +4x Duress or +4x Thoughtseize when I get them in the mail Monday. I haven't decided if I want to use 2x Oona's Prowler or 2x Ghost Council of Orzhova. I still need to see how the Ghost Council works in this deck, I thought it might be fun to bounce it using my rogue tokens after my attack each turn. I also plan to swap the 2x Diabolic Tutor for 2x Idyllic Tutor which will still grab O-Rings and Blossoms.
If anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.
Well, back to trades and Heroes!
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Homebrew is creating Magic.
Are you a pilot or a creator??
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Actually Dave I was serious, and yeah it's looking pretty cool so far. I bet you have at least half blinged out, don't you?
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Hell I'd say you could even lose the tent. Here's my sleeping arrangement the other night.
Course I got to admit being a bit more comfortable than I shoulda, havin that there tarp an foam pad an all. Still had to pull out a fair number of jumpin cholla outta the tarp the next morn though.
I kid of course. There are plenty of places up by Payson well worth hiking. Probably beautiful just parking anywhere in the national forest and head towards the tallest mountain. I use the falcon Guide, "Hiking Arizona" for many of my hikes. Course Squaw tits was just cause it was there.
Theres a good 11.6 mile loop and 14.9 mile loop just below payson. Well worth carparking and hiking. Theres also some short day hikes and a real nice 5-7 dayer, for the full use of that spring break.
I got my own copy of that book but I'll need more information of what you want to do before I can give you real indepth details. Course the forest service can give you good details also. I could look into seeing if my old blm buddies can get access to a map. Then again BLM and forest service don't always see eye to eye...even if we fall under the same management philosophy.
Oh, and for those who were wondering, no I did not edit the nipple picture. Aparently someone brought up two ten gallon barrels and pink paint and made nipples on squaw tits. Theres something to be said about Graffiti vandalism and theres something to be said about a good sense of humor. I gotta say I nearly fell off the mountain side laughing.
Cheers,
Daggertooth
Super Edds. This was one of the rare flowers I found. The entire two days hiking and I only saw four of these. Don't know what to make of them besides saying I ain't sure if the purple is the flower or if the purple is just modified sepals and the flower is the yellow part. One of the more unique ones.
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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Mostly, I think I'm just looking for ideas of what to bring that I may not think of. Be prepared and all that.
A Webcomic of math, physics, and life as a geek in college.
Official Insomniac/Physics Addicted Uber Geek of The Called
"I want to be a complete nerd with extra nerd sauce on top. I'm a nerd. Infinite nerd!"
-rancored_elf
:teach:If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.:teach:
-Fred Menger
Fleeting is this world
Growth and decay its very nature
Things spring to being and again they cease
Happy the marvel of them and the peace.
-Nidana Vagga