House of Ainsley: Out-of-Character Discussion

nobody said corwin cared about the odds... still feeling sick so i may not get to this as quick as i want to..

Wraith wrote:

Hehe....

Squirelly....

!!

Did I just teach you some American slang there?

S.E.A.M.U.S wrote:

nobody said corwin cared about the odds... still feeling sick so i may not get to this as quick as i want to..

Aw.

Acai berry juice. Lots of it. And tea tree oil to treat any rashes. You'll be up kickin' buttocks in no time.

seriously nasty springtime cold is kicking my ass hardcore... I've gone 4 days now without playing games on my computer, because i've pretty much been going to bed as soon as the rest of the kids are in bed.

So how do you feel now?

Also, I'm at work and some little punk at the front gate just buzzed me, just to make a crank call.

Kids are stupid.

Damn...we had a big, huge wedding party at the Grand Lodge last night, and I spent half the night cleaning up and the other half fiddling with the electronics (and failing to get the TV to work), handling a late check-in and gabbing with Dub the security guard. At least that punk at the front gate only called once, probably because I told him I'd be sending Dub along to see if he needed any assistance.

Dub's there with me Friday and Saturday nights now, so I can't really get all that much done (unless it's strictly work-related, of course). But he's off tonight, so I'll have the place all to myself again. And the next two days after that are my days off. And then I can finally get back here, vegetate and see how many of these rumors (true rumors mixed with half-truths, red herrings, obsolete rumors and absolute fakes and falsehoods, naturally*) at the Bard and Fox I can confuse Karnoz with.

Corwin and Sylvea are welcome to join us, as always. *ahem...*

So even though last night sucked, this night's looking pretty good. And how was your weekend, eh?


* Remember: Sense Motive doesn't work very well when a person repeating a lie earnestly believes that lie to be the truth. Ah ah ah!

ARRRRRGH!!!

*insert Very Angry emoticon here*

I was working on Karnoz's post (and was just getting to the part about the wood elf bard's song and composing lyrics for it while describing more of the people around the tavern), and you know how Internet Explorer has all those tabs for various windows? I was doing what I usually do with long posts; I had one tab open with GD's post for me to consult, the second tab was me editing my post, the third tab had my Gametable pic of the inn's interior displayed, the fourth tab had a map of the continent (helpful for coming up with NPC races and nationalities on the fly) and the fifth tab was opened to Thesaurus.com and Dictionary.com (helpful for coming up with all that colorful dialogue and narration).

So I reached up to click the Thesaurus and look up a few synonyms for "walk" (since the bard could certainly find a more interesting way of approaching Karnoz), but that big Illusion Vale header was right underneath that tab, and in my haste I missed the tab and clicked the header instead. And the header has a hyperlink to the main index of the forums. So I went to the main index. And when I Backed to the forum's Edit box, all my work was gone.

ARRRRRGH!!!

Why can't phpBB come up with a forum that doesn't wipe out your text editing when you do that? You don't lose your text when you do that on the CoH Guru forums, IIRC. Same with The Way Inn forums.

Goddammit! I'd be cussing my fool head off if I was the type to do that.

Okay, new approach to making this post and any other big posts on this forum: I'm just going to Send and post my progress everytime I think about switching tabs or leaving the computer, no matter how incomplete the post is. I'll throw up a heads-up here when I'm done. And if you don't see the little lime-colored prompt at the end of the post ("Karnoz >" or whoever's post it is), I'm not done yet. There. That measure should stop my work from disappearing into the ether whenever accidents like this rear their ugly head....

Damn it, that just totally ruined my day. Now I have to start over. I remember a lot of what I put into this window over the past X many days, but damn damn damn it to Hell.

I need to get out for a while, cool my head off and grab something for dinner. I'll be back to start all over again later.

Damn it.

If it helps.....

When I have a large post, I usually write it out on a word doc, save it to my desktop, tweak it, spell check it and then C and P it into the window when it's time to post.

Regardless of what happens, I still have the original post.

I've actually tried the Word/Notepad Copy-Paste approach before, but I never much cared for it. I like to use those BBCode commands a lot (as y'all probably know by now), and Word, Wordpad and Notepad don't do BBCode...which means I have to go through each post twice, once to type it out and another to go back and add all the BBCode.

So I'd just as soon post my progress in bite-sized pieces; that approach may be a tad confusing for onlookers (like you three or so...), but it has the advantages of 1) allowing me to add BBCode as I go, and 2) allowing me to work from multiple computers, in case I have to go to work--or come home--before my post is finished.

But tonight's looking promising for me actually getting Karnoz back in action. Last night was the local high school's prom, the subsequent clean-up and Dub the guard, but tonight's me all by my lonesome and left to my own devices. Then come two days off. Let's hope that I can finally get this all sussed out and back on track, shall we?

If you're so used to using the BB code, just use HTML codes in word and you'll have the same results when you paste into a text window here.

There's not anything I can do about the keeping text thing in the edit window unfortunately. It's just something that Forumotion hasn't implemented.

But even so... you could always just write it out and every ten or twenty minutes or so you could paste it into a Word program. Doing it backwards works too.

Wraith wrote:

But even so... you could always just write it out and every ten or twenty minutes or so you could paste it into a Word program. Doing it backwards works too.

That would work too. I wonder if it's worth getting an egg timer just for that purpose.

I'm glad to see you posting again, though. I was getting more than a little worried about you, and starting to wonder if I had somehow failed to keep you interested or entertained. How have you been?

Also, I just picked up a 1.5 Terabyte external hard drive! It set me back about $130 ($140 after tax), and I can't wait to get on with backing up my internal hard drives; the last big thunderstorm that blew through here gave me a heart attack when my computer wouldn't reboot. Three restarts later, my computer finally came back to life. Heart attack averted. But man, I was honestly afraid that the lightning had fried my computer.

I might even use the extra space to reinstall some of my old "rainy day" games, like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and Age of Pirates: Carribean Tales. Heck, I might even reinstall my old floppy drive and see about preserving Darklands. Now that was a great RPG.

Also, my quest for more Castlevania music continues. I wasn't aware that there was any Castlevania among the five-thousand sequels to Dance Dance Revolution, but apparently there are a few tunes and medleys, including this medley of songs from Haunted Castle (aka. Akumajo Dracula), a medley of which includes the dark reprise of the Wedding March, Cross Your Heart (Stage 1's theme), Bloody Tears (Stage 3's theme and a tune in just about every Castlevania game) and the Game Over/Attract Mode theme.

(The medley maker even threw Serena's scream in there! Nice touch. )