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RE: Advice needed - 4/7/2010 4:15:27 PM   
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So, finally, here is the question. How do you guys balance AE and the rest of your lives?


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. Then I sit and read (To Lose A Battle at the moment), make parental and husbandly noises then around 10 see if there's another turn waiting for me. And so to bed.

We make a point of eating dinner as a family at the table most nights so that's when I catch up on who's kissing who at school, the various bitches, cows and sows at my wife's work and what my son made with lego today and how many times he kicked/got kicked playing football.

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RE: Advice needed - 4/7/2010 5:55:33 PM   
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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?


Right...like I had a choice.

That is the crux of the issue. AE, alas, has to take a back seat.

I am seriously thinking of hiring my genius-type engineer nephew, teaching him how to load an amphbious TF and set search arcs and then just dictate opeartional instructions to him over the cell phone (hands free of course) while I am driving.

Of course, what would happen is he would get hooked and want to start giving orders himself....and then he would probably fail out of his PhD program and I would be banished form family gatherings.


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RE: Advice needed - 4/7/2010 6:02:58 PM   
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... and I would be banished form family gatherings.



What's the downside risk?

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RE: Advice needed - 4/7/2010 6:03:05 PM   
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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...


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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RE: Advice needed - 4/7/2010 6:04:37 PM   
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Level 2 airfields that can grow to level 7. I get it!

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RE: Advice needed - 4/7/2010 6:06:34 PM   
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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?



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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RE: Advice needed - 4/7/2010 6:07:38 PM   
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Level 2 airfields that can grow to level 7. I get it!


Maybe only level 7 in your case.

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RE: Advice needed - 4/7/2010 6:09:05 PM   
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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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The Causeway - 4/7/2010 6:14:42 PM   
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**********Northern terminus of The Causeway, near Johore Bahru, Feb. 3, 1942*********


British Officer in slightly gay short pants: ....YOU THERE! back across the causeway lads...the lot of you.. and you lads on the two pounders, don't let any of those damnable Ronson lighters across....

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Advice Given - 4/7/2010 6:34:30 PM   
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Lord Admiral Sprior (High), CIC of all things brown

Dearest Spri;

We couldn't help but notice that Johnny Jap is bombing Batavia with unescorted Sallys for two days in a row. This should present an opportunity to teach the Little Yellow Bastards a lesson.

Also, congratulations are in order on the Timor attack. Looks like PoW and Repulse are home safely, if not dented. How is Thanet?

You might be interested to know that New Scotland is safe for now. Johnny Jap appears headed for Luganville.


Warmly;

His Excellency Most Exhaulted, Grand Marshall of the 1942 Hilo Pineapple Festival and Parade
Cap Mandrake


PS ...Just thinking you might want to evacuate Johore Bahru before the Japs focibly evict you.

PPS...Oh, never mind.

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To Lautem or not to Lautem... - 4/8/2010 12:52:56 PM   
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... that is the gurzamplant.

Pros:
Holds open SLOC to Ambon
Is a bastion in front of Darwin
Good launching point for future offensives, both north or west

Cons:
Whatever LCUs are committed could be overwhelmed if JJ commits enough troops
Whatever LCUs are committed will weaken the defence of Darwin

Anyone remeber SPI's Cityfight? I remember in the designer notes something along the lines of "Occupy a building the enemy wants, fortify it, then hang the flags out to let him know you're there. When he comes to get it slaughter him" Tempting...

Risk/return. Whatever we commit we have to be prepared to lose. I know I can commit an infantry brigade and at least one evac-ed base force. I think the risk of losing them is worth the royal pain we would be to JJ.

Plus Warshite will soon be in the neighbourhood to take over from PoW/Repulse as the centre of what will be Force W. I love the Warshite, my favourite WWII ship.

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RE: To Lautem or not to Lautem... - 4/8/2010 10:28:32 PM   
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I love how you guys are giving it to the Jap rather than running like a couple of scared school girls. Hurrah Hurrah!

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RE: Advice needed - 4/9/2010 1:08:33 AM   
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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.



Not at all, I am very manly and put that rag in her name, the Economist is in my name. And for those who think I am wimpy, I keep a .400 Jeffrey's Nitro Express at hand. This rifle, which I have had since I was 11, is very useful for quelling neighborhood arguments, downing escaped rhinos and pacifying rebellions. I don't think I have shot it since I was 12, it kicks like a mule!

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RE: Advice needed - 4/9/2010 1:41:51 AM   
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Give the bastards hell, Sprior and Cap'n! Let 'em bleed for every scrap of soil that they take from you.

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RE: Advice needed - 4/9/2010 1:56:10 AM   
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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.



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

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RE: Advice needed - 4/9/2010 2:02:57 AM   
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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?


Well in my house the computer is upstairs and the bedroom downstairs......

However, in this instance I think I would hit the computer shutdown button and head to the bedroom....

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RE: Advice needed - 4/9/2010 12:40:14 PM   
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...and I would be banished form family gatherings.


Then this is a win-win great plan!!! free staff work for a time, a new opponent to play when "abducted" and free from family gatherings

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RE: Advice needed - 4/9/2010 4:09:20 PM   
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You've met me, you know I am a geek.


Don't worry, WITP/AE is turn based. It's OK.

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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Codebreakers - 4/9/2010 6:24:04 PM   
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********Naval Intelligence Office, Fleet HQ, Pearl Harbor, Feb. 5, 1942*********


Naval Intel. Boss: ...right...we need to tighten things up on radio communications. I thought I told you guys NOT to use non-random associations for code words. The old man still thinks the Japs read our communications and found out Saratoga was off Sydney.....now...<walks over to map of the world>...we need something for New Caledonia....hmmm....HERE...this kinda has the same shape...we'll call it New Scotland. And..Koumac will be...<looks closer> New Ullapool and Noumea will be ....New Edinburgh. Got that?

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RE: Advice needed - 4/9/2010 7:09:23 PM   
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Spice it up a bit:

"Oh I don't do much, really. I conduct computerized conflict simulations with an emphasis on socio-psychological interactions in the Internet age. Sort of a peace-matrix through cyberspace thing."


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RE: Advice needed - 4/9/2010 11:23:55 PM   
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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.


In view of your "company" I would shame them by saying that rather than wasting foreign aid money which really mainly benefits consultants/industry of the donor country rather than the putative recipient country, you actually reduce trade barriers to exports from developing countries which benefits their citizens. When queried how you actually do that, proudly boast of your Mayan housekeeper and how you reward the export of Mayan labour exports to the USA.

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Nueva Madre de Dios! - 4/10/2010 1:03:58 AM   
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Well, well, well....




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Forward Defence - 4/10/2010 6:17:42 AM   
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Greetings from New Fiji. I just recieved your letter re. a defensive line in Portuguese Timor. I am here on a inspection tour and my aircraft is grounded due the proximity of Jap carriers so I decided to take a few minutes to respond.

I solidly concur with you plan and am able to comit the USN Wildcats and at least one squadron of SBD's to the Ambon, Lautem, Darwin position. Also, USS Boise and her escorts may continue to operate there as a surface security force. Chicao and Pensacola, of course, will have to return for repairs to Southern Australia. As long as we can build up a solid supply cache and keep the airfield open, I think Darwin is virtually invulnerable now to seizure. Unless Bataan or Singapore falls, I don't think the Japs can bring a ground force of sufficient force to defeat the brigade you propose at Lautem.

Warmly;

Admiral of the Fleet, and the ground troops for that matter
Cap Mandrake, certified Orange Belt, Jiu Jitsu and
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Evil computer virus.... - 4/11/2010 4:58:17 PM   
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...and I mean Biblically evil.

Let me explain. Stalker girl's Dell laptop got a case of the slows and locking up (I told her to use Firefox but she wouldn't listen). Anyway, so she takes it to this retired aerospace engineer who does computer repairs and drops it off. 10 d later she hasn't heard from him so she calls.

Computer guy: Yes, sorry, I haven't been feeling well...I think I have E. coli or something.

Stalker Girl: Oh, OK, take your time.

<3 days later>

Wife of Computer Guy on Phone: Hi, Stalker Girl?

Stalker Girl: Yes?

Wife of Computer Guy on Phone: I have good news and bad news and really bad news. The good news is your computer is ready. The bad news is I can't find your power cord and the really bad news is my husband died of a bowel perforation 3 d ago.

So Stalker Girl goes over to pick it up, consoles the poor wife for 2 hrs, pays her $75 and leaves without the power cord. Now she is out $75 for the repair and $90 to replace the transformer/charger....and...wait for it....the thing STILL doesn't work. It just makes a creepy purring sound when you turn it on. I am not going to touch the thing even though it has my last year tax files on it. My personal belief is it wants to be fed again.

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RE: Evil computer virus.... - 4/11/2010 5:40:00 PM   
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DO NOT touch said afflicted computer with bare skin. At today's prices, a better solution is the Office Space solution .....remember the fax machine? Repairing computers is almost never worth it....recovery of hard drive data is easier and can be transferred to a new, unafflicted computer after a careful check for afflicated files. I'm sure your soul mate knows the dangers of downloading.

As to your 08 tax records...call the IRS and ask for your 08 return transcript. All your entries from 08 will be there. If you want a transcript off your 08 income (all sources), ask for a Wage and Income transcript for 08. Yep...free and they will fax, if you are at the fax machine. Don't call them on Monday. The hold time to get to a customer service rep will be too long.

Good luck, young Jedi. And have fun with your soulmate dropping the hammer on the evil machine with the green goo leaking out of it.


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New Scotland - 4/12/2010 6:46:49 PM   
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Things are moving slowly right now because of that excruciating annual American "tradition" of tax preparation. I declined to participate in the past but then an IRS flunkie actually came to my door and gave me a special invitation. It is going to be excrutiating this year as Stalker Girl cashed in a 20K IRA beacuse she "needed the money"....doh.

There are now two carrier groups confirmed near New Scotland. The US carriers, will have to refuse combat until we have more information...that is...unless Halsey pops a cork and head over there on his own.




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RE: New Scotland - 4/12/2010 7:04:06 PM   
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While JJ is busy over on Cap's side of the map we're loading up a brigade and a base force to send to Lautem. Reso arrives at Cape Town. Enola Gay is playing in the kitchen, I bet the kids are really getting on her nerves, they are mine.

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RE: New Scotland - 4/12/2010 7:30:06 PM   
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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

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RE: New Scotland - 4/12/2010 7:37:18 PM   
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As an employee of Westernallies (tm) am I allowed to take part?

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RE: New Scotland - 4/12/2010 8:12:49 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake


quote:

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


My vote;

Bravely bold Sir Robin
Rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die,
Oh brave Sir Robin.
He was not at all afraid
To be killed in nasty ways.
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin.

He was not in the least bit scared
To be mashed into a pulp.
Or to have his eyes gouged out,
And his elbows broken.
To have his kneecaps split
And his body burned away,
And his limbs all hacked and mangled
Brave Sir Robin.

His head smashed in
And his heart cut out
And his liver removed
And his bowls unplugged
And his nostrils raped
And his bottom burnt off
And his pen--

"That's... that's enough music for now lads,
*** there's dirty work afoot*** ???."

Brave Sir Robin ran away. ("No!")
Bravely ran away away. ("I didn't!")
When danger reared it's ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled. ("no!")
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about ("I didn't!")
And gallantly he chickened out.

****Bravely**** taking ("I never did!") to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat. ("all lies!")
Bravest of the braaaave, Sir Robin! ("I never!")

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