Chernzobog In reply to Jack-13 [2012-01-11 19:52:18 +0000 UTC]

^^

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Chernzobog In reply to Chateaugay [2011-06-13 09:14:27 +0000 UTC]

You're too kind

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Chernzobog In reply to Ghilemear [2010-12-29 19:24:34 +0000 UTC]

Haha, no worries! Thanks so much for the well wishes!

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Chernzobog In reply to Citizenmike [2010-04-01 22:29:24 +0000 UTC]

Team Jacob...unite!
xD

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Citizenmike In reply to Chernzobog [2010-04-02 05:42:28 +0000 UTC]

YESH!

If he can be a shirtless werewolf with a sixpack, then I guess I can too!

TEAM JACOB FTW! XD

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Chernzobog In reply to xCrimsonxNightmarex [2010-03-31 07:42:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for dropping by!
That's an old quote from my insomniac freshman year of college- but it still rings true! Haha

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xCrimsonxNightmarex In reply to Chernzobog [2010-04-01 20:04:03 +0000 UTC]

Anytime
It just sort of interested me.. I might have to steal it and use it sometime {if you don't mind}..

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Chernzobog In reply to xCrimsonxNightmarex [2010-04-01 22:28:31 +0000 UTC]

By all means

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Chernzobog In reply to SenoritaRin [2009-07-04 20:50:45 +0000 UTC]

That is so frickin cool. It just needs to be blue and glowy <3

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Chernzobog In reply to SenoritaRin [2009-05-24 20:54:24 +0000 UTC]

Canada is interesting! It was freezing and I mean freezing (is 30 degrees cold enough for you tough Colorado-ians? ) for the first couple of days, and now it's warming up nicely! Everything is still kinda dead here, but I was promised it would get all nice and green and flowery soon. I learned to drive an ATV! That was fun and a bit suicidal. Haha: I didn't realize how much muscle they take to steer-not like a car at all. Birdies are adorable. I can't wait to see their babies. They're going to be adorable with their little feathery eyebrows.
What else? I'm maybe 10 minutes away from a river. And the campus, omg, the campus here? Has huge paddocks full of cows and horses and one hilarious building called: Poultry Science, lmao. XD Also: I met this weird French guy who has a farm on the wildlife preserve where we work and dresses like a sheriff (down to a working pistol and spurs). He's a total sexist and seemed to judge me by my answer to this totally random question he asked me when I met him...which was: If you were stuck in a lifeboat with two others and someone had to die, would you jump overboard and sacrifice yourself, or eat one of the other people?
.......
.........Come again?
And he was totally serious. Wouldn't leave me alone until I answered. So I said something like: if the people in there with me asked such random questions, they deserved to be eaten.
And I couldn't tell if I impressed or offended him, lol.
Anyway, this dude occasionally invites us to his Howling Coyote Saloon for lunch and we're going to go back there for free Bison burgers sometime this week. Bison burgers! The novelty!
Let's see...work is good. I had a brutal two days in which we helped other people with their wetland surveys because the birds were being relatively quiet. There are over a 100 ponds in the Reserve and "perimeter work" as it was called, involved walking around the edge of each one, holding a GPS in one hand and scrambling with the other. Follow the waterline, was the instructions. Ha. Sounds easy enough, yeah? But it wasn't. I quickly learned that there are three kinds of ponds--in order of most evil to least it goes something like: reedy, woody, clear.
The reedy: surrounded by reeds (duh) but I don't think you appreciate how sinister reeds are until you have to walk on them. Each step, you had pull your boot free of them, (which was made all the more difficult by the fact that, by this time, your boots are full of water and weigh some frickin' 5 pounds) and then step down. Each time you stepped down, you'd go right through the reeds into mud and water up to your knee. Then it was wrench your boot free, again, and repeat the process for as long as it took to get around the lake. It was ridiculous. I have never been so exhausted. The effort of lifting water filled boots free of mud and rushes was insane. I was so dead.
The woody: Basically entailed forcing your way through both live and dead brambles and willows. I got branches in my eyes, down my clothing, got my hands all cut up, it was brutal. Once we had to scramble up and over a dead willow that had fallen into the water and I almost ended up head first in the mud.
Then there's the really muddy ponds, which were plain fun by comparison. I got stuck twice. Once, with my boss and she levered me up and out easily, and the other by myself. In the middle of nowhere. Both boots sunk so deep that I couldn't pull them free. It was kinda funny and kinda bad at the same time. I had to pull my socks out of the boots, spread my weight over the mud, and then yank the boots free knowing that, at any moment, I could just sink right in.
It was quite the experience.
After pond duty, birds are even more amazing.
But yeah: enough rambling: How is your time in Arizona? Die of heat-stroke yet?

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SenoritaRin In reply to Chernzobog [2009-05-24 21:24:51 +0000 UTC]

you are having WAY more fun than i am! XD i want to slog through mud, damn that sounds AWESOME.
i was about to say 30 degrees isn't freezing at all but then i realized that it is, literally, freezing - isn't 32 freezing?
and you mean to tell me that this is your first time driving an ATV?? ATV's are BADASS. nothing is more fun than jumping on an ATV and chasing down cows, way better than driving around bird watching or whatever you're doing with them, LOL those things can go over anything. >8D
bison burgers? YUMMEH. better than beef eh? gotta love it. not as good as elk, but much better than cows. i actually have buffalo meat in my fridge right now, that's funny. starbucks and buffalo meat...moving up in the world!
well i'm jealous, that sounds FREAKING AWESOME. arizona is brutally hot, except for this past week when it rained constantly. moving to hassy was a pain in the ass, while i was moving my stuff i managed to lock myself out of BOTH dorms at the same time, how fabulous...XD
so far all i did was a bunch of training, lots of ice breakers and "team builders." which i love. oh wait, no i don't. next week i start my shifts: midnight to 6am at the front desk on tuesdays and wednesdays, on duty thursday from 5pm to 8am, desk from 12am to 4am on Saturday. hell yes, i get to be nocturnal this summer!!
....i SO want to drive an ATV now....NO FAIR!!!

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Chernzobog In reply to SenoritaRin [2009-05-24 21:59:09 +0000 UTC]

I thought I wanted to slug through mud too, until I did it. 0_o The reeds were brutal. I have never been more exhausted in my life. While you're becoming nocturnal, I wake up at 5, work until 9, come home, eat something easy to make, shower, and then fall right to bed.
XD How did you lock yourself out of both dorms, lmao? And what did you do with the pesos? How did you move? Friends/slaves?
Eww, icebreakers? That sounds awful. As if they expect you to interact in the wee hours of the morning when you'll be working. And to think, you used to go to bed early! It's like we're switching schedules or something.
As for ATVs: Hell yes. I want one. I want to cruise around campus on one. Shifting is so fun. Steering is so fun. And being bumped around on rough roads is beyond fun. Weee!

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SenoritaRin In reply to Chernzobog [2009-05-25 00:23:28 +0000 UTC]

cruising around campus on an ATV...that would be AWESOME. steal one from canada while youre up there, hahaha
i was moving my mini fridge across campus to hassy and i locked both keys, and my suncard, in Hayden. there was nobody at the front desk either, i had to track down the reslife staff and get somebody to let me in after that i called two of my friends and made them help me, lmao
the pesos are somewhere in the many boxes i have, so on the off chance i wind up in mexico i'll be able to buy myself a pack of gum lol
i usually went to bed at like midnight, that's only early compared to you XD but now i'll be going to bed at 6 am, is that early or late? haha

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Chernzobog In reply to SenoritaRin [2009-05-26 18:07:21 +0000 UTC]

Omg, horray moving. You took your fridge over to Hassy without anyone's help? Are you crazy? 0_o XD
Ahaha, and that would be early. Very early.

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SenoritaRin In reply to Chernzobog [2009-05-26 21:39:36 +0000 UTC]

well it's not a very big fridge, it seemed like a good idea at the time LOL

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Chernzobog In reply to Ghilemear [2009-03-27 00:42:39 +0000 UTC]

Aww, thank you so much. <3 It means a lot. Prose doesn't get the recognition it deserves, you know?
I'm a saber fencer. I don't have the point control for foil or epee and I love the faster, more aggressive style of saber. Do you fence at all?
And yes! Yes it will! I need to get my video drivers updated when my computer is working again so I can play Portal!

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Ghilemear In reply to Chernzobog [2009-03-27 17:01:56 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, my wife's experiencing the same thing. She actually pointed me your way. Her username's Daneiki.

I dallied with Western fencing, and I've learned some iai and kenjutsu, as well as some Chinese jian and dao technique. I just like swords in general. I have a friend who does saber as well, and I'd really like to get some gear together and actually learn, but with my current budget, it ain't happenin'.

Mmmmmm, Portal. I haven't played it, and I really have to.

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Chernzobog In reply to Ghilemear [2009-03-27 18:35:16 +0000 UTC]

^^ I figured you're the husband. Nice to meet you, by the way. It's awesome to be speaking to both the creative minds behing the story--you guys make an awesome team!
Ooh, sounds like you know quite a bit about the different styles. I'm not familiar with anything other than Western fencing really, and I do know that as much as I love it, it IS damn expensive. I think it has to do with all our equipment being electric. Something about that whole system makes the prices skyrocket! Our team is lucky enough to have a wealthy patron saint/benefactor who buys pretty much all our gear for us. That's why I'm in possession of a complete "set" including a 200$ mask, 3 sabers, and a 300$ lame with my name on the back... I'd never be able to afford any of the stuff without his generosity, so I totally feel where you're coming from!
(PS: I just like swords in general too XD )

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Ghilemear In reply to Chernzobog [2009-03-27 20:36:03 +0000 UTC]

^^ I figured you're the husband. Nice to meet you, by the way. It's awesome to be speaking to both the creative minds behing the story--you guys make an awesome team!


Ooh, sounds like you know quite a bit about the different styles.
Not really. I know the basics for a lot of different arts, but I'm not versed deeply in any of them.


I'm not familiar with anything other than Western fencing really, and I do know that as much as I love it, it IS damn expensive. I think it has to do with all our equipment being electric. Something about that whole system makes the prices skyrocket! Our team is lucky enough to have a wealthy patron saint/benefactor who buys pretty much all our gear for us. That's why I'm in possession of a complete "set" including a 200$ mask, 3 sabers, and a 300$ lame with my name on the back... I'd never be able to afford any of the stuff without his generosity, so I totally feel where you're coming from!
(PS: I just like swords in general too XD )
I am constantly looking for a cheap alternative to use for practice. It drives my wife nuts. Have you ever heard of HACA or ARMA?

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Chernzobog In reply to Ghilemear [2009-03-28 00:15:06 +0000 UTC]

No, I haven't--what are they?

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Ghilemear In reply to Chernzobog [2009-03-28 00:33:25 +0000 UTC]

HACA = Historical Armed Combat Association

ARMA = Association for Renaissance Martial Arts

Both are essentially European equivalents of Japanese -ryu schools. They pore over European manuals and melee technique to create a proto-system of accurate, historical martial lineage. HACA weapons are wonderful, though I haven't made one yet. They're easy to find with google.

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Chernzobog In reply to Ghilemear [2009-03-28 03:40:22 +0000 UTC]

That is badass. Looks like I'm going to have to do some research!

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Ghilemear In reply to Chernzobog [2009-03-28 04:19:39 +0000 UTC]

By all means! Here's the website for ARMA. If I recall, HACA might not be around anymore, but they're weapons specs are still on the website. Pretty easy to make, but I can't locate all of the materials.

[link]

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Chernzobog In reply to daneiki [2009-03-25 02:21:59 +0000 UTC]

You're more than welcome! I eagerly look forward to the next installment!

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