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We don't get big quakes out here. However, it's expensive as hell to live here, it's stupid crowded, and it gets hot enough in the Summer to, as Yosimite Sam said, 'burn your biscuits'.
Speaking of which, bidscuits would go down nicely. Should get a roll or two when I make it to the grocery store, whenever the weather clears up. I' going to go ahead and walk it since with my chair-cane I can sit and rest anywhere! Good exercise too. I just hope the weather is good soon... :-/
...yeah, couldn't live in any of the other cities there. Like Madison WI, Austin seems to be something of an "island" if ya know what I mean. Stupid expensive and getting crowded here in Portland just as well.
Here it gets so wet it's more like soggy biscuits
Yecch, soggy biscuits! Just nasty..
Anywhere there's a tech hub it gets overcrowded and expensive. Once I hit retirement afe I'm off to a small town somewhere nice, like Conneticutt or Vermont. Cold, yes, but they're prepared for it and most houses have insulation.
...I know. Save for Mei Lin, Dairus, and Monique (as well as Kalea for G3) there haven't been many true ethnic base figures.
Maybe it was what the Plymouth horn sounded like :)
Is too...something...for my taste buds. Like drinking warm stout. Maybe not that savage but...
Been watching English Druid soap opera Brittania, makes me want to visit Britain all that green! :)
Smells a bit like sea shore after a big storm or a king tide :)
Hot. Hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot.
...did something I was always afraid about, saved one scene under the name of another.
My one complaint about betas: they keep popping up the scene/scene subset folder list every time you click on "save" so you have to click on the file name and then the save button in the popup. This doesn't happen in the full general release as there, once the scene you are working on has initially been saved, it updates the correct file without opening the folder. So I completely trashed hours and hours of work revising my summer in the city scene with IBL Master (had to adjust a lot of the surfaces since the Gamma is set higher and thus it requires reducing specularity, particularly on shiny and reflective items), so I have to start all over again from the base scene. Discovered what happened as when I opened the bus stop scene to work on it, the changes I made to it were gone even though I knew I had saved them. Opened the Summer in the City scene and it was the saved version of the bus stop scene.
This is why I am not into reducing texture size in a 2D programme by hand as I don't want to screw up like this and overwrite the original texture file. Dyslexia doesn't just relate to transposing letters or numbers.
I am not using the full release of 4.10 as the latest version apparently has some issues with bugs that are cropping up while other than this incident, the beta has been extremely stable. I also want to keep 4.9 active for other purposes as the general release would overwrite it.
Not a good note to turn in for the evening on.
...ugh trying to get a bit of a foothold on on redoing some of what was lost before turning in but suddenly running into a tonne of "not responding" errors. I can't even seem to make one move without everything grinding to a halt, and this scene is no where even near as large as my railway station scene.
I ended up watching Roadrunner on Youtube for an hour. Still funny! MEEP MEEP!!
No wonder I think of the beach every time you post...!
It's the pain of others we enjoy so much!
Wales is even greener, lots of mountains, even more lots of rain and Druids and Bards abound even now,
http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2012-08-10/first-minister-joins-druids/
old Faithful in Wyoming hasn't been the same, think it was due to a quake.
Much of Santa Barbara and surrounding countryside don't look like "Psyche" any more. The fires and landslides have pretty much rewritten a lot of the geography.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-mudslides/death-toll-rises-to-17-in-california-mudslides-17-missing-idUSKBN1EZ0YS
A lot of this was Montecito (a stone's throw away).
I'm in Massachusetts. Heating can get expensive. Natural gas is better than oil. But even that gets expensive sometimes. But it's not just the cold. Heavy snow, or ice storms, can bring down power and communication lines. Whenever there's a big storm, I see it on the news...so many thousands of homes without power. Most of the time it's towns north of us. Boston is about 40 miles north/northeast of me. Some locations are out for days, sometimes more than a week. Especially in the north country (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine). I'm in a city that has a municipal power company. I've heard that our rates are the best, and the service is good. But even we have outages sometimes. Never gone days without power, though. Hours, yes, but not days. Hopefully it stays that way. Getting around when there's a big snow storm is another issue. And there are idiots the just don't get it and drive fast even when the roads are all snowy or icy. I hate going out when the roads aren't cleared yet. Fortunately, I don't have to often. Being out of work means you don't have to be somewhere.
Unfortunately, it also often means you can't go somewhere, link extra vacations, movies, dining out, etc. 
Dana
A friend had a Road Runner, during the time when I was dating who became my wife. He'd visit with my mom and sister and let me take it out on Friday nights sometimes. Yes, it had that sound of a beep. I thought it sounded like the meep meep. Nice car, too. And it was purple, our favorite color.
Dana
The Windows file system should have at least caused a message asking you to confirm you want to Replace it. If DS doesn't allow that, then maybe it's time to say goodbye to it. That sucks. And often, when saving something with the same name, it will add a (1) or (2) to the filename, so you have both. It's very odd if neither of these things happened.
Dana
I've given some consideration to a "safe" place to live and have come to the conclusion that right where I am is actually pretty survivable. Southern tier of Western NY State. Chautauqua county. Nestled up next to Lake Erie but east of the ridge of hills that the locals call the "snow ridge". Yeah we get cold weather now and then and yes, we do get lots of snow especially before Lake Erie freezes over putting an end to "Lake Effect Snows". But we know how to handle snow up here.
For the most part, this area only has tiny earthquakes that are only learned about by reading the newspaper the next day.
Summer storms sometimes have lots of lightning but not like Florida.
Floods come in the spring when the snow melts but are confined to the streams through the valleys where most people are smart enough to build high enough up the bank. We do get the flat lands flooding but that's been going on for thousands of years and makes the fields fertile and the houses are mostly designed to handle it. (i.e. flooded basements are to be expected if you live in a flood plain. Duh!)
There hasn't been a big fire around here in my considerably long memory, nor have I read of one in our history. We get a lot of rain and the foliage (and there's lots of foliage around here) is green. So, even if a fire gets started it doesn't spread.
We're not immune to droughts which usually only last a few weeks and only affect the prices of crops and not the forests. Nor reservoirs of which we really don't have many because wells are the thing around here, with people getting their water from the deep aquifer that's been the same level since this area was settled 200+ years ago.
The population of this area hasn't changed much in the last 100 years, except around our lake (Lake Chautauqua), where the golfers have cut down much of the forest to make sloping golf courses and hundreds of houses with grand views of the lake.
By the time any remnant of a hurricane reaches us it's just a big thunderstorm.
Tornados? We do get one once in a while. They take out trees and do some superficial damage to houses but as far as tornados go, they are probably not much bigger than an F1 or F2 and they are quite rare and short lived. Perhaps a damaging one once every 10 years.
Tidal waves? Well, unless lake Erie somehow comes up with an 800 foot wave to get over the "ridge" we're pretty safe.
Landslides? I don't think we have a hill big enough for the land to slide from, they all did that 30,000 years ago.
Sinkholes? I never even heard the concept of a sinkhole until I moved to Florida to go to college. The only thing that could be called a sinkhole around here is the top of your septic tank caving in. Although that might more properly be called a stinkhole.
Dam breaches? No dams worth mentioning around here. Although Kinzua Dam is about 40 miles southeast of us in Pennsylvania and if it goes would pretty much wipe out the city of Warren, PA and several of the little towns further downstream.
The biggest threat to safety in this area is man himself: Fracking has turned serveral areas into places where you can get your heating gas right from your kitchen faucet.
The fertilizer runoff from the farms, golf courses and gated community uber lawns around our local vacation lake (Chautauqua) have turned it into a 20 mile long petri dish of green glop that suffocates the fish.
Complaint: My biggest environmental complaint around here, directly affecting me, is the manure factory just east of town where the thousands of cows dutifuly deposit their duty into a giant obscene pool of goop that is carefully tended by the property owners and liquified and ripened. Then big tanker trucks back into a loading dock down the hill and the sludge is drained into the trucks to be sent god knows where to somebody who pays for the stuff. and the trucks are never filled cleanly. Imagine one of those bright shiny stainless steel milk tanker trucks covered in rust and black sludge spillage down the sides, on the wheels and mudflaps, dripping still liquid excess along the road. And as you actually pass the loading dock area, the excess dripping from the trucks has pooled, and baked onto the hot summer pavement and gets thrown up onto the bottom of your car. So, when I have to drive past this "manure factory" I make sure I close the window and close the car vents long before I get there because you don't always know which way the wind is blowing and the smell could meet you a mile before you see the facility. Ah, just another one of the fragrences of life in the country.
...the confirmation message does appear but if you incorrectly save to a different existing filename,in Daz it simply overwrites the file and doesn't create a <filename>(2). The reason I accidentally overwrote the file was because one was just under the other in the folder list and both had "4-10" after he file name (denoting they were saved in Daz 4.10 so I wouldn't overwrite the originals for if I did that then I wouldn't be able to open them in 4.9, I am still "testing" the 4.10 beta). Again if I was working in the General Public Release, the folder wouldn't even pop up on the screen and the file would have saved to the correct filename. I don't know why the beta versions keep opening the folder list each time, even when doing intermittent saves.
...as I mentioned going back to Wisconsin would be relatively safe (geologically and natural disaster wise) but winters there are just too harsh for me these days particularly due to my circulation issues (even 70°F seems a bit chilly to me and I don't feel comfortable until it gets near 80°). Then there's the "change every five minutes" weather there which is the hallmark of the upper Midwest that plays havoc with my arthritic bones and joints (rapid changes in air pressure and/or humidity). Here in the Pacific Northwet, the weather changes are more gradual and yet I still feel it.
There are also a couple other reasons why I'm not keen on going back there either.
green glop
haven't been to Lake George or Peach Lake since the early 70s. family vacations.
cant imagine what Peach Lake is like nowadays. prolly not peachy.
Morning. We seem to be having a dust storm here, is very dark and big stuff seems to be sailing through the air as well as choking grit :0
...yuck, worse than frozen water from the sky
I just think Wile E. is inventive but without comon sense. :-p
I didn't know whales could be Driuds and bards! Learn something new every day...
Nlech. I guess it's not Old Facefull any more now. :-(