[Tiste Simeon]

QuickTidal, on 17 April 2018 - 12:40 PM, said:

We've passed the miscarriage danger zone so I can now say:

My wife is pregnant with our second child. And it's a boy!

Amazing! What is the miscarriage danger zone? We obviously had one about 18 months ago now so next time Mrs Tiste gets pregnant I'm going to be worrying about stuff...

[Messremb]

First trimester isn't it? Chances drop massively once you're in the 2nd which is why you generally don't get someone saying they are pregnant till then and why the dating scan is around then too.

Mrs Messremb had our twins zygote tested this week and they're identicals, looks like the nail varnished big toes are here to stay.

We have two nearly 5 month olds who are getting a little tall for some 6-9 month clothes. Thank goodness for summer so we can pretend trousers are actually shorts...

Congrats QT 😊

[Malankazooie]

Wow, April 21 and I woke to a winter wonder land. It's the latest I've seen snow here. Of course some of the old timers have regaled me with tales of when it once snowed as late as June and as early as Labor Day (first Monday in September). I think with climate change/global warming those occurrences are days gone by.

[Nicodimas]

Feel good story right here

https://www.yahoo.co...-190326822.html

[QuickTidal]

Tiste Simeon, on 20 April 2018 - 11:56 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 17 April 2018 - 12:40 PM, said:

We've passed the miscarriage danger zone so I can now say:

My wife is pregnant with our second child. And it's a boy!

Amazing! What is the miscarriage danger zone? We obviously had one about 18 months ago now so next time Mrs Tiste gets pregnant I'm going to be worrying about stuff...

Thanks!

Like Messremb said, it’s the first trimester (12weeks). After that the chances of miscarriage drop to like 5% or something. Worrying is normal after such a traumatic experience. We worried after it happened to us.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 22 April 2018 - 10:39 AM

[Mentalist]

SUN! GLORIOUS SUN!!!!

Missed lane swim today, but thanks to it no longer being winter, I was able to take my bike out of the shed for the first time this year. After a brief tuneup, went for a ride. Spent about 2 hours outside. Weather is lovely.

Also, get to play soccer tonight. Last time I had a game was the weekend before Easter, so I'm fairly eager.

[Nicodimas]

I’m probably the only one that thinks this is cool, but picked up 20 sf of 150 year old copper with amazing Vert de Gris patina on it....

Pysched !

[Slow Ben]

Nicodimas, on 23 April 2018 - 09:58 PM, said:

I'm probably the only one that thinks this is cool, but picked up 20 sf of 150 year old copper with amazing Vert de Gris patina on it....

Pysched !

Nope, thats pretty awesome.


Completely unrelated, but have you seen the new metal roofing thats supposed to look like copper. Its awful.

[amphibian]

Gotta go slate roofing.

[Slow Ben]

amphibian, on 24 April 2018 - 12:01 AM, said:

Gotta go slate roofing.

I think you have me confused with King Slow Ben.

[amphibian]

My family used to own a rental house with a slate roof. We had the good fortune of a college five minutes away with enough historic buildings to have a couple full time slate roofers who were willing to moonlight for us.

I heard about how they wished they could afford them for their own homes and basically have lusted after one since my family sold that place.

Slate roofs are the best - if you can get someone who knows how to put them on.

[Tattersail_]

I'm rereading The Dresden Files. I am up to Turn Coatso those of you who have not read it do not click the spoiler below that has just give me tingles down the spine and a massive grin on my face.

Spoiler

"I need to get a message to every member of the Senior Council," I told her.

'Very well sir, what is the message?'

'Be advised that I have been sheltering Warden Donald Morgan from discovery and capture for the past two days. An informant has come to me with details of how Warden Morgan was framed for the murder of Senior Council Member LaFortier. Warden Morgan is innocent, and what's more, I can prove it.'
'I am willing to meet with you tonight, on the uncharted island in Lake Michigan, east of Chicago at sundown. The informant will be present, and will produce testimony that will vindicate Warden Morgan and identify the true culprit of the crime.
'Let me be perfectly clear. I will not surrender Warden Morgan to the alleged justice of the Council. Come in peace and we will work things out. But should you come to me looking for a fight, be assured that I will oblige you.'

........

[Tsundoku]

New PC after the old one died. The tower is so much smaller and quieter.

Everything runs quicker.

Now I have all the fun of reloading all the old stuff I want to keep, from online and the backup I wisely made just before the old one died for good.

[Macros]

Checked in and at security, holiday mode.

Tempted to set an auto respond on my email
'please fuck off until the 14th May
Thank you '

[QuickTidal]

Holy shit, they just arrested a 72-year old cop in Sacramento for the EAR/ONS/GSK stuff.

This is insane! It would be like if they finally caught the Zodiac killer. EARONS is one of the highest profile unsolved cases in True Crime.

They are holding a press conference today. My guess is they caught him on DNA...

EDIT: News reports that it's a 100% DNA match to evidence, AND he's "talking"...holy shit. It's really him.

EDIT 2: And he apparently has "trophies" in his home.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 25 April 2018 - 05:12 PM

[Abyss]

Tattersail_, on 24 April 2018 - 08:34 AM, said:

I'm rereading The Dresden Files. I am up to Turn Coatso those of you who have not read it do not click the spoiler below that has just give me tingles down the spine and a massive grin on my face.

Spoiler

"I need to get a message to every member of the Senior Council," I told her.

'Very well sir, what is the message?'

'Be advised that I have been sheltering Warden Donald Morgan from discovery and capture for the past two days. An informant has come to me with details of how Warden Morgan was framed for the murder of Senior Council Member LaFortier. Warden Morgan is innocent, and what's more, I can prove it.'
'I am willing to meet with you tonight, on the uncharted island in Lake Michigan, east of Chicago at sundown. The informant will be present, and will produce testimony that will vindicate Warden Morgan and identify the true culprit of the crime.
'Let me be perfectly clear. I will not surrender Warden Morgan to the alleged justice of the Council. Come in peace and we will work things out. But should you come to me looking for a fight, be assured that I will oblige you.'

........

I love that bit so much, and also this...

Spoiler

Quote

And then it hit me. They were dealing with something far more dangerous than me, Harry Dresden, whose battered old Volkswagen was currently in the city impound. They were dealing with the potential demonic dark lord nightmare warlock they'd been busy fearing since i turned sixteen. They were dealing with the wizard who had faced the Heirs of Kimmler riding a zombie dinosaur, and emerged victorious from a fight that flattened Morgan and captain Luccio before they had even reached it....

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 25 April 2018 - 06:24 PM, said:

Will be interesting/disturbing to hear any memory prior to attacks by him.

They've apparently tied him to two more cases that were not originally attached to EARONS...and I heard some mention of his DNA being in an Australian database right around the time EARONS incidents stopped in 1986...

And he was kicked off the police force in 1979 for shoplifting a hammer and "dog repellant"....that last factor is chilling since the dogs of the victims never barked to warn them, which would fit with him using dog repellant.

But yeah, press conference in ten minutes about it. Should blow up on the news by dinner time.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 25 April 2018 - 06:52 PM

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 25 April 2018 - 07:19 PM, said:

He white or black ?

White guy.

[worry]

That is so exciting. And only a few weeks after the release of Michelle McNamara's book!
http://www.oxygen.co...i-think-you-got

[QuickTidal]

Oh shit....so in one of the attacks he was heard to mutter “I hate you I hate you I hate you Bonnie” that’s been on file for years...

The guy they caught was married to a Bonnie.

This is insane!