Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[flowerbug]

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There was a concerning uptick back in the early 2000s when it was becoming common for doctors to promote unneeded C sections. Both infant and mother mortality rose in the US. The US actually has the worst infant life expectancy of a developed country.

i don't consider the USoA as developed as it now looks to be degenerating and in terms of health care we're rather poor at it (we spend a lot more for poorer quality and not the best results).

 

[FarmerJamie]

We played everything. About 12 of us. Most were Navy or ex-Navy. Same group for about 15 years. Haven't found a group we like here. Old 2nd ed AD&D, Gurps, Heros, Traveller, Shadowrun, Mechwarrior, Palladium. Sometimes we'd mix it up and play Battletech or Seakrieg. Random other games sometimes like Munchkin or Chrononauts.

I was banned from playing some of the board and card games with some of the others at the gaming store because most have rules where you can make everyone lose and I absolutely will go for that. They learned the hard way and too many got upset because I was good at it. Our main group knew how I played and knew the rules just as well as I did so we did great.

Some of the guys were huge WW 1 & 2 history buffs. I actually prefer pre-history, but do like most history. Wanted to be an archeologist but there's not really much jobs there, so I went aircraft structural mechanic. Very much a nerd and had posters of jets and Airwolf on the wall along with the unicorns as a kid.

How cool! In the 70s, I just had my best friend and we did the SPI, Avalon Hill games. Dabbled in D&D, but it wasn't great with just us (tried to get other friends interested, but no luck). Most of the gaming stores around here are card based.

We went to Origins 82 and had a blast. We had a session with the designer of "Behind Enemy Lines", a WWII RPG. Bought a copy, haven't touched it since 83.

Planning to drive to Minnesota this summer and stopping at a vintage game store near Madison WI to unload my stash. Son doesn't want many of the games and I just can't bear to simply toss them

 

[FarmerJamie]

More rain inbound today.

 

[Mini Horses]

Today it's back at job. Once I get chicks situated I can leave. Making my own schedule is paramount for a job

 

[The Porch]

I got out early and got the coop all taken care of, then got all the watering in the garden done.
a Load of towels and a load in the dishwasher.

I took a break and did some Bible study and now,, I have lavender plants to plant.
I think Iced Coffee shall be great today.

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[flowerbug]

How cool! In the 70s, I just had my best friend and we did the SPI, Avalon Hill games. Dabbled in D&D, but it wasn't great with just us (tried to get other friends interested, but no luck). Most of the gaming stores around here are card based.

way back i played some of the Squad Leader type games with a BIL but that didn't last too long as he ended up becoming an ex-BIL. it was fun while it lasted.

after that not much gaming until college and a group of us were playing Diplomacy and a few other games until people got too mad at each other to play any more. then another group got together for playing Rune Quest and that was fun and it stayed together until a lot of the people graduated and moved on.

i wanted to go back and play Rogue (an old game from the 80s that we could play in the computer lab) again and also to see Rog-O-Matic run (the lab wouldn't let us run that one because it could use too many resources) against Rogue so i did go out and find those and then had fun messing with those for years until i got too busy with other things and had to leave it aside. in the past few weeks someone has been asking questions and sending me fixes to bring the code up to more modern standards, but while we got Rog-O-Matic done without too many issues, his initial attempt for Rogue was too many changes and the interface to Rog-O-Matic is very brittle so that's gotta be different than what he did for it to work very well because i don't have the time to go back and figure out yet another version of Rogue... once was enough.

my favorite game for a while was Railroad Tycoon and then i got into playing Simutrans or some name like that, it's been a long long time since i've even looked at that and another game i played a lot on the computer for a while was Battle for Wesnoth. i've not looked at that for years now too because i decided i should learn Python and do some other things instead and that's been plenty enough for me.

We went to Origins 82 and had a blast. We had a session with the designer of "Behind Enemy Lines", a WWII RPG. Bought a copy, haven't touched it since 83.

it's hard to find people who are compatible who want to do this kind of gaming.

my nephew and one of my brothers are both into on-line games but i haven't gotten into those (fast twitch shooter type games don't appeal to me). i like turn-based games where you can have some time and also because i do get interrupted here quite often so there's no real way i can do anything that requires a lot of dedicated and uninterrupted blocks of time.

Planning to drive to Minnesota this summer and stopping at a vintage game store near Madison WI to unload my stash. Son doesn't want many of the games and I just can't bear to simply toss them

good luck, i hope some of them will reach good hands.

 

[FarmerJamie]

way back i played some of the Squad Leader type games with a BIL but that didn't last too long as he ended up becoming an ex-BIL. it was fun while it lasted.

after that not much gaming until college and a group of us were playing Diplomacy and a few other games until people got too mad at each other to play any more. then another group got together for playing Rune Quest and that was fun and it stayed together until a lot of the people graduated and moved on.

i wanted to go back and play Rogue (an old game from the 80s that we could play in the computer lab) again and also to see Rog-O-Matic run (the lab wouldn't let us run that one because it could use too many resources) against Rogue so i did go out and find those and then had fun messing with those for years until i got too busy with other things and had to leave it aside. in the past few weeks someone has been asking questions and sending me fixes to bring the code up to more modern standards, but while we got Rog-O-Matic done without too many issues, his initial attempt for Rogue was too many changes and the interface to Rog-O-Matic is very brittle so that's gotta be different than what he did for it to work very well because i don't have the time to go back and figure out yet another version of Rogue... once was enough.

my favorite game for a while was Railroad Tycoon and then i got into playing Simutrans or some name like that, it's been a long long time since i've even looked at that and another game i played a lot on the computer for a while was Battle for Wesnoth. i've not looked at that for years now too because i decided i should learn Python and do some other things instead and that's been plenty enough for me.




it's hard to find people who are compatible who want to do this kind of gaming.

my nephew and one of my brothers are both into on-line games but i haven't gotten into those (fast twitch shooter type games don't appeal to me). i like turn-based games where you can have some time and also because i do get interrupted here quite often so there's no real way i can do anything that requires a lot of dedicated and uninterrupted blocks of time.




good luck, i hope some of them will reach good hands.

In college, we played Risk quite a bit, but after about the 3rd play through, the default strategy was for everyone to gang up on me to take me out quickly. Lolol.
Axis and Allies I played a lot with my son when he was in middle/high school. Ticket to Ride gets played occasionally with all three kids.

I do play a handful of PC games here and then. I can't do the twitch shooters either, tried Red Dead Redemption 2, playing with the kids, but no good at it.

Lots of good turn based PC games. Civilization 6 I used to play at lot. Refused to go with Civ 7.

Usually play when work has me brain dead or the weather keeps me inside

 

[Hinotori]

In college, we played Risk quite a bit, but after about the 3rd play through, the default strategy was for everyone to gang up on me to take me out quickly. Lolol.
Axis and Allies I played a lot with my son when he was in middle/high school. Ticket to Ride gets played occasionally with all three kids.

I do play a handful of PC games here and then. I can't do the twitch shooters either, tried Red Dead Redemption 2, playing with the kids, but no good at it.

Lots of good turn based PC games. Civilization 6 I used to play at lot. Refused to go with Civ 7.

Usually play when work has me brain dead or the weather keeps me inside

Had to play Risk in one of the classes in high school. Had to turn in your moves each morning and the game went the whole year

 

[Country homesteader]

Good Evening my fellow members!
I know I haven't been good at staying in contact but this year has been crazy and we're only 6 months into it!! My H and I help out on a farm on some weekends and now that paving season is here he is out of town alot plus our first anniversary is in a few days but that's not what is bringing me on tonight.
I am chicken (which I've dealt with chickens before so nothing new) and Guinea Hen sitting for a week, when they were dropped off to me one of the hens has a broken leg, they are only 8 weeks old so is it okay if they are outside (yes, they have a shelter to get into) but how do I fix that leg without separating it from the others?

 

[Mini Horses]

Obviously you need to separate it to work on the leg. What to do depends on where it's broken. Any pics? That young, if it's in the lower leg you might be able to make a "cast" with a couple match sticks & tape. . Really need to see it.

Glad to hear you're still among the living long time gone.