Slitherine

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So, finally, here is the question. How do you guys balance AE and the rest of your lives?

"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished."
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
Also on the not-so-serious side, I hope that you 'kept the American end up' in your decision making process last night?

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


... and I would be banished form family gatherings.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

What is "balance"?

PS: If we get the answer right, will you tell us the twenty secret spots? I'm guessing the first few are Pago Pago, Noumea, Port Moresby...

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ORIGINAL: khyberbill

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So, finally, here is the question. How do you guys balance AE and the rest of your lives?

I bought my wife a subscription to Oprah. Whenever she starts on one of the "Oprah" things, I remark, has Oprah gained more weight? That seems to divert attention for a while. Perhaps having Cosmopolitan in the house is a bit like chumming shark infested waters and having Oprah instead is akin to adding some oil to the raging sea? As for balancing...what life?

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

Level 2 airfields that can grow to level 7. I get it!

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ORIGINAL: sprior
Very carefully. I get home aroun 5.30, help with or make dinner, then set the slaves, er kids, to to cleaning up. While they bicker in the kitchen I do a turn if one is waiting. .....

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Do you mean to tell us you put your real name down on a subscritption Oprah? I hope you paid with unmarked bills or something.

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

You do realize that is seriously geeky

Besides everybody knows about them...the "secret spots" are the 20 dot hexes with level 2 airfields that nobody has found yet....and I'm not going to say. You will have to get your own copy of Cosmo.

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Remember how I was asking about resource points and supply in Manila?
Well, that's not what I am asking about now. I have a question about Cosmopolitan magazine.

So here is the deal. Everytime Stalker Girl buys a new copy of Cosmo, I know she is going to try some experiment...and I don't mean a trial of a new lipid-lowering drug either. So, anyway, I get the AE turn in the email at work that includes the big fight at Timor. I can read the text file but I can't look at the game turn yet (if I had AE at work I would crash something AND not be able to get any work done). So I have to pick up the Mayan housekeeper after work and, as ususal, she is on Mayan time, which, as far as I can tell, is really good at predicting the Winter Solstice and that kind of thing but seriously deficient on the hour and minute thing. So, naturally, she is late, so that ticks me off a bit. Anyway, where was I..ah yes.. so I am listening to National Peoples Radio on the way home and, of course, that ticks me off a bit too, so I turn it off and try to listen to the Cubansimo CD, but I have heard it 18 times and it is Spanish anyway so I turn it off and try to have a converstion with the Mayan housekeeper in a combination of Mayan-Spanish medley and Spanglish. She tells me again it was a mistake to marry Stalker Girl but I can tell she has softened her stance somewhat. None if this is really front and center because all I really want to do is see what happened to Chicago and Pensacola and where the Japs are going to land in New Scotland.

When I get home I have to feed and walk the four-legged friends and help help cook dinner and clean up...but while I am loading the dishwasher I spy a new copy of Cosmo with an article on "Twenty secret spots" or something like that . I try to slink off to the office to fire up AE...it's already like 8:30..my bedtime is like 9:30 and by 10:00 I will be drooling on the keyboard so I am trying to type really quietly as I enter the turn password.

And then I hear from upstairs...."Cap, are you coming upstairs???"

So, finally, here is the question. How do you guys balance AE and the rest of your lives?

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
...and I would be banished form family gatherings.

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers


You've met me, you know I am a geek.

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


Here is a test:

Imagine you are at a fancy Hollywood dinner party. Everyone there is a screenwriter or art director or actor or VP in some NGO. The conversation then turns to your hobbies. You are already suspect because the valet noticed your car did not have a Gore 2000 sticker or Save the Whales sticker.

Now...what do you tell them:

1) I am a civil War reenactor
2) I collect model trains
3) I play a turn-based compter recreation of WWII in the Pacific..oh and China, Burma, and India too.

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ORIGINAL: sprior
Enola Gay is playing in the kitchen, I bet the kids are really getting on her nerves, they are mine.

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

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ORIGINAL: sprior
Enola Gay is playing in the kitchen, I bet the kids are really getting on her nerves, they are mine.

From what I heard, Mrs. Tibbits was quite a patient woman, though given to the occaisional melt-down and explosion when the neighborhood kids came over and a critical mass was reached.

Reader Poll:

The US carriers should:

1) Promptly attack the Westernmost Jap carrier group, while trying to avoid engagement with the SE group.

2) Sprint in and attack both groups, with the Ride of the Valkyries playing on the loudspeakers.

3) Move in a careful Northerly direction, hoping to attck the landing group

4) Exercise Brave Sir Robin option