I am SO glad you're back!

[Szark]

Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I'm going to stash this complement away somewhere safe and take it out every few days and shine it. Thanks Szark, you made my night!

I will get you a frame. Seriously I don't really bother about what a forum looks like as long as it works, But this is a whole new, easy to read (Black and Green), easy to navigate and a joy to use on Chrome 64 bit. I know I must sound like a sycophant sometimes but I am sick of seeing people moan about this that for no real reason or importance and it feels nice to compliment someone on a job well done.

 

[Miss B]

Agreed!!

 

[Alisa]

So nice to hear, Szark.

Lisa gets the bulk of the credit (and the people who created the Xenforo software, of course) and then there were a group of AWESOME folks who beta tested and were invaluable in giving her input and feedback. It's still a WIP. But I LOVE the Blackend Green Theme

Like so many things around her - a real Community Effort!!

And yay, Rokket - countdown to Wifi!

 

[Rokket]

Count is down to 10 hours!!!!

 

[Miss B]

Kewl! That's probably going to be the longest 10 hours you've ever spent, Unless of course it's time for bed in your little corner of the world.

 

[Pendraia]

Or if he is flat out working...time goes more quickly if you have things to do.

 

[Miss B]

Oh, don't I know it. Lately I've been crawling into bed way too late because I didn't realize what time it was. ~shakes head~

 

[Rokket]

I crawl into bed too late every night. I haven't been sleeping well pretty much since New Year's Eve. I have a lot on my mind.

No, it's not bedtime here. When I posted that message it was around 7:41 AM here. It's now around 9:50AM. So a little over 8 hours and I will have WIFI!!!! Yeah, longest 8 hours ever....

 

[Miss B]

Ahh OK, and it's 7:51 PM Saturday here, so you're roughly 12 hours ahead of me on the East Coast of the USA. I wasn't sure what the time difference was.

 

[Rokket]

Yep, 12 or 13 hours depending on daylight savings time. We have a lot of people from the East coast on this ship, so I am fully aware of the time difference. Our main office is in Virginia, so we have to know when they are open for business if we need to contact them.

 

[Miss B]

Ahhhhh. With all the Kiwis and Aussies here on the forum, it's hard for me to keep track how far ahead in time everyone is.

 

[Rokket]

Deleted my last post...

Anyway, how cool is that? We are having conversations with people we never would have talked to before the internet...

 

[Lorraine]

I just know I and my fellow Kiwis see the New Year first We gets to party and blow up the world with fireworks before anyone else in the world which makes us very happy. When you live on a pimple on the bottom of the planet, you take your firsts where and whenever you can

 

[Rokket]

I never thought of that! I know that during the big Y2K scare I was still in the Navy and we were recalled back to work just in case the bad thing happened. We were watching the clock strike midnight all around the world as it started. Made me mad because I wasn't able to be out celebrating like all my friends were. So to get even I started knocking on their doors to wake up the hungover drunks at 7AM the next day. They were not happy to see me... go figure!

 

[Lorraine]

Haha! Oh I remember that New Year very well. There was supposed to be a big NY Eve cruise out into the bay so we all stocked with food and drink but Ma Nature had other plans. Huge, MASSIVE storm came through so my pals, Matt and Rose (she who fell asleep on me last night), and I gathered together on Sans Souci with more booze and food than the average small country needs and proceeded to have a party on our own. About half an hour before midnight the wind dropped, it stopped raining and we were able to sit outside for the countdown. Would our phones still work? Would airyplanes fall out of the sky? Would we all disappear in a cloud of smoke? Yes, no and no. All that happened was a hangover that lasted two days (the mere THOUGHT of peppermint schnapps makes me shudder now ~shudder~ ) and a very, VERY rolly trip out into the Bay on New Years Day.

 

[Miss B]

All because no one in the early days of computing ever thought it would last past December 31, 1999, so why bother coding for it? ~sheesh~

 

[Lorraine]

~sheesh~ is right. And all the people who said "see, told you it was a fuss about nothing" didn't think that maybe nothing happened because of all the prep nations did. Heck, who knows. Like me and the maybe cyclone this week...I'm prepared for it and if it doesn't come, cool, but I'm ready just in case. Civil Defence would be so proud of me

 

[Pendraia]

lol...I remember it kept my husband very busy working to avoid it happening.

 

[Lorraine]

Exactly, Pen! They worked their butts off for a couple of years so that 'nothing happened'. Stupid people ~goes off muttering and shaking head~

 

[Pendraia]

He was doing contract work out the time and being really well paid to work his butt off but after that he was unemployed for 6 months...