hi everyone guys and ladys my gw name is lil might as u can see. one of ur clan mates told me to come on site register and say hi to everone in forums because i am very interested in ur guild so i talk to all of you sometime. by the way awesome site lol. if u want we need help with our counterstrike site lol jk thanks guys and ladys or girls.

Quote:The server is for RB use only. If there are less than two RB community members involved, that is not RB use.

Are the ranks of RB GW players growing, holding steady, or shrinking?

Has anybody grown disillusioned? Or you all having a blast?

How high are the fun quotients for those playing this one extensively?


Just keeping tabs. There's still a remote possibility, down the road, that I would give this thing a second chance. Whether I do or not, though, I am curious about how well it is treating the rest of you.


- Sirian

I normally don't pay much attention to NPCs but this time I noticed Cynn, Devona and Mhenlo outside of Beacon's Perch and I decided to check them out (since Mac and ClickClick disappeared after I got the quest reward). So now I have a party of 5 henchies and 3 more NPCs in my party to steal my drops. The 3 NPCs does not show up in my party window as allies.

Is this new? I think I read that in an update or one of the fansite interview that how your character interact with NPC would affect certain events later. Maybe this is it?

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Hi

I will be leaving in two weeks for an extended stay at the cottage - for most of July and August. Although I will be returning to the city a few times during those two months, it will not be on Sunday evenings.

Is anyone interested in piloting MiyazakiSS in my absence? Although I am sure that the team would manage without him, I am equally sure that those defensive auras would make the job easier on them.

Well, after four years of trying, I was finally offered a job as an elementary teacher.

The job market in Oregon is very tight, and there are far more licensed teachers than there are teaching positions in this area. We have no sales tax and propery taxes were cut significantly via initiative a decade or so ago. The northwest has also been in a longer and deeper recession than the rest of the country. So, many newly licensed teachers either leave the state (other states will hire you on the spot and pay more) or take jobs that don't require a teaching license (the job market is tight enough that you need either a teaching license or many years in the field to get even the non-licensed jobs these days).

I did the latter. I have been working as a Head Start teacher for the past 2.5 years. It's been a pretty good position, but it's also not exactly what I'd been looking for. It was also not full time. I also discovered that since I was not working for a school district, I was no longer "on track" to work into an elementary position. I could have probably moved into early childhood administration or university-level education (I was techincally employed by a local university), but, if anything, I seemed to be moving farther away from my original goal of teaching elementary school at the classroom level.

Anyway, I finally got a job offer- next year, I'll be teaching first, second, and third grade (yes, all together, eep!) at an elementary school about 30 minutes from my house.

While I'll be moving from part-time employment into full-time work, I am hoping that I won't be significantly busier than I have been this year. One of the things I did to help me become more employable was to take Spanish courses during the evenings this year. I would like to continue to learn Spanish, but I'm hoping to move into summer study and not do it during the school year. So, the main time difference will just be that I'm moving from a familiar position to a more unfamiliar one. That will take some time at first.

But, overall, it's a chance to get to do what I've been wanting to do for years. It's also helped me to believe in myself again, because it's hard to do that when you get rejection after rejection after rejection. My new school appears happy to have me, my old school appears unhappy to lose me, and hopefully this is going to be a big step forward for me.

I thought I should share this, since some of you were around when I was going through school and even looking for a job the first time around. It's been a while!

Hi

One of the natural phenomena that I see at the cottage on a regular basis is the seiche. It is easily noticed at our location because the bay is shallow, with a very gentle gradient to deeper water; a change of a few inches in water depth can cover or uncover a fair bit of real estate.

A seiche is caused by rapid changes in barometric pressure on a large body of water. The water will be 'pushed down' by high pressure or 'pulled up' by low pressure on the area where the changes are taking place. This sets up a 'bathtub slosh' effect that can go on for some time. The period of a seiche is usually about 20 minutes. The more extreme and rapid the changes in air pressure, the more extreme the seiche in height. The phenomena was first studied on Lake Geneva, and the word is thus old 'Swiss French" in origin.

There is always some seiche activity going on - but usually it is no more than an inch or so in height. However, thunderstorms can cause much bigger ones to develop. The biggest seiche I have ever seen occurred the day there were tornados about fifty miles south of us on Lake Huron. The bay emptied completely - about a four foot change. The boys had a glorious time that day running out to grab fish and turtles that had been left on the newly exposed beach. I have also had the experience of standing on the dock on a hot and windless day and having the water well up so that the dock was covered and the water started flowing over our breakwall.

I thought I would post about this, because most people, when I mention that there is a 'tide-like' activity on our bay, have no idea what I am talking about. We had a bit of a seiche on the weekend that, while fairly small in level, serves to illustrate the differences it can make. The photographs are of our dock, and the thing to look for is the (home-made) mooring anchor that is off to the left of the dock. This seiche would have been about 6-8 inches.


The photo above was taken when the seiche was 'out'. Below, a photo taken when the seiche was 'in'.




That's all, folks. Nature study moment over. At least now when I mention seiches and wax enthusiastic about a 'big' one, you will know what I am talking about.

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I am new to our guild and YAY!! hehehe this is funny thanks for lettin me in guys