This is truth. Personally, I go to Somewhere In Time most often.

Not a huge fan, either.

I do like them up until ....And Justice For All.

I didn't listen to Metallica until I discovered Megadeth and it's gone down hill from there.

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Hammer to Fall both good Queen songs

Now I'm Here

Seven Seas of Rhye

I don't really "get" metallica, for me about their best is

Don't Tread on Me

only for the mondegreens - Bradley armour's here.

Hee hee...shhhhhh, she'll hear you! I can't take any more of a beating. lol

I love our new place. Tons of space, and a couple of the longest walk-in closets I've ever seen. I thought they were secret passages. lol What I did NOT like was unloading the truck. It's a strain to begin with, but it decided to downpour at the precise moment I opened the back of the UHaul to start unloading. Ha! Thankfully we have trees to give some cover.

Technically we are in Seatac not Seattle. Our place is within walking distance of the Seatac airport, but it's much quieter than we expected. So, any Ogres that have long layovers through Seattle, let me know. Maybe you can have a home cooked meal during your wait! lol They were right to dub this place the Emerald City, just a beautiful area.

My son and I did a little exploring of the area while we were in the hotel and it's so easy to get around even without a vehicle. One short bus ride (which comes by every 10-15 minutes) and you are in the middle of a shopping Mecca. There is nearly a store or shop for anything you could need or want. It's even more awesome to me since I've gotten used to having squat for choices in Anchorage. heh My friends here have been giving me the lowdown on places that run clix games (as well as other games) so I'm super happy about that. All in all, it's been a long, tiring move and there's a lot of unpacking to be done...but it was all worth it.

K O: I think most of it's been covered. Those who talk about extra expense have probably never shipped to Canada. It's stepping outside of a comfort zone, though, including knowing that something standard such as (usual) Delivery Confirmation falls apart as soon as it leaves our postal system and enters that of the Great White North. I think that's what's really at work.

The paperwork can be an issue, especially if it's the first time sending. Waaaay back, the first time I did, I didn't know about the customs rules and so didn't mark it as a Gift, and concerned about getting some shot at proper financial protection for what was sent (this was something I'd sold on ebay) I marked the actual price paid by the buyer, including shipping (rounded) as the value.

Some weeks later when I was doing some follow-up (as I did back then, when a transaction just faded to silence and no feedback had been left for me) the buyer responded with irritation about how it got held up in customs for a little and he had to pay the customs thugs a fee to ransom it because I'd declared a value on it. So far, we generally don't have to deal with that sort of nonsense down here, so without this experience or a good primer we'd have no reason to know it.

When I sell on ebay, though, I'll sell and ship to anywhere. I've sent to Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Germany, Hong Kong, France, Denmark, England, Mexico, Argentina.... the biggest hassle and the only one that eventually I had to give up on was one sale to Spain.

That started with the payment problem, as there was at the time some regulations that didn't allow him to use PayPal, and continued with something strange going on with the address, as I sent it, it sat somewhere over there for a couple weeks, then came back to me with a question mark next to the (verified with the buyer) address. Twice.

I still have the package (looking at it now), last sent out by me July 2, 2005. Still sealed. Inside is a MM#201 Alex Summers, IIRC.

Always felt odd about what to do with it. The buyer (Alberto Diaz Garcia) went silent after a while. If I couldn't get the package to go to him and he couldn't deal in PayPal, I couldn't see going to buy an international money order which I'd be trying to send to the same address.

Aside from that, though, it's all gone well, and by selling to virtually anyone on the planet I've often sold items for more than I would have gotten if I'd just stuck to the U.S.

Each year I've been in the Secret Santa here I've told whoever coordinated it that year that I'm open to getting a recipient outside the U.S.

I've never minded shipping to Canada. Like you said, it's not a big deal or a big financial burden.

Heck, I jumped at the chance to trade with a well known Australian Ogre for another Frost Giant!

I'm listening to The Prisoner right now and I don't like it. I can't seem to keep my attention on it for long enough to really develop an impression. It's not catching my interest in any way. That could be a product of the recording or my mood though, so I'll keep going.

Some of this was bubbling away in my mind while I was writing the piece for KO, so I had it in mind to try to make a clarification.

What I guess I was saying was that the imagery and styling of the music all strike me as something that would have had to get its hooks into me fairly early on. By the time I was 15 or so I don't think I could have taken the whole package in with a straight face. This isn't to say there's not talent there, and were I to read the lyrics of several of their songs I might see something there I'm missing with that very quick, cursory YouTube sampling I did earlier today.

It's also worth noting that several things in various media - music, television, novels - that later became very dear to me were things initially I blew off. If I'm in any way feeling pressed for a decision, my reflex is to say "no." It's a self-protective move (especially useful in dealing with salesmen) because usually there's plenty of time to say "yes" later.

Our Annual Game Knight Zombie Tournament was awesome today. Brad and I played a ton of Horrorclix Zombies, mixed with all of the Marvel Zombies (minus Iron Man, couldn't find his base) and all of the DC Black Lanterns. We had 5 opponents and they put up a valiant fight, but we had them severely outnumbered so it was only a matter of time before the Zombies feasted.

One of our younger players won the whole thing, having taken out more Zombies than anyone else. They all bought in, which was used to buy packs of Superman. And as luck would have it, our winner, being a huge Batman fan, pulled SR Batman from the packs. Everyone had a blast, and I am already looking forward to doing it again next year.

Ended up out with my older son and his girlfriend to see Paranormal Activity 3 tonight. I'd read a synopsis of the first one (including the alternate endings) back when that first came out, but I've never gotten to see either of the earlier two films. (For whatever reason, despite being hooked up with HBO, Cinemax, Starz, Showtime and The Movie Channel, neither of the earlier two films have shown up in cable rotation there.) I knew this one is a sort of prequel anyway, so I didn't let it being #3 stop me.

It was effectively done, only juuuust starting to irritate me a little toward the end, as the camera was being held far too steadily to work for me - not only as this was set in 1988, but there's no way I'd be moving through the spaces he was and not whip-panning left and right each time I stepped into a new, wider space or wherever there were left and right turn options.

I had as much fun taking in the audience reactions (including the couple just to my right in the row behind me) as the guy was a jumper. When he was startled, we'd feel it.

Sounds like a very cool Halloween tournament. How many zombies did you guys control?

I did alright. I ran:

3x Kree Colonels, 41 points each
3x Tactics, 20 points each
12x Kree Captains, 27 points each
8x Kree Warriors, 22 points each
Nor-Varr, 141 points
Automatic Regeneration, 12 points
Inside Information, 4 points
Ronan the Accuser, 130 points
Protected, 8 points
Stunning Blow, 10 points
Takedown, 6 points
Crimson Gem of Cyttorak, 5 points
999 points

I was pretty much ignored in the first game. Everyone went to deal with each other's threats. Apparently an armada of Kree isn't threatening.

Second game, they all came straight at me. Pretty much was on defense all game, which isn't always fun.

Funnily enough, in the second game we played on the CoG Rooftop map. I had more guys than my starting area allowed, so I had to place my guys in the open air squares. Well, after the first action resolved, all those guys plummeted and were forcibly deployed out in the field. They were slaughtered reasonably quick. :knockedou:knockedou

We had three squads of Zombies spread out over three maps. I'd say there were between 16-20 Zombies per map. And when I say Zombie I am using it as a blanket term referring to every piece on our side of the table.

Special stipulations made all elevated terrain grounded terrain, all powers/abilities/ranged attacks that required LOF were capped at 6, no figure could use HSS (even the Black Lanterns) and the Zombies could not be attacked with Psychic Blast. No brains to psychically attack after all.

Sorry it took so long to get here. I was away from the internet at a family wedding out of state. I want to thank everyone who voted for Big Barda to be made. I might finally get a good one with the Birds of Prey keyword. Yay