Friday/Saturday Night Singles' Thread (10/7 & 10/8)

Free Republic ^ | 10/7/05 | scott7278

[scott7278]

With a deep, bass voice:

 

Hello FReepers!  Beautiful night, isn't it?  Whether you're happy or lonely in your singleness, this thread is for you.  Got pictures or stories?  Share them here!  Come on in -- the water's fine!

 

 

[pcottraux]

"How did they get so old, anyway? I am younger than they are."

LOL, good attitude to have.

[Paul_Denton]

Dang I am sorry to hear that. It is never fun when parents meddle in your life like that.

[pcottraux]

"Thank you?"

"Yeah, I had to scratch my head over that one."

Whoa, did I say something puzzling?

[scott7278]

She sets me up with horrible mismatches, then monitors and watches over everything I say to them.

That's not good.

[pcottraux]

Yeah, it can be annoying. Whenever Mom says she wants to set me up, I just let her dream on.

She tells me to move out if I don't like it, but when I go, I know she's going to cry her eyes out. That's my Mom.

[pcottraux]

Yeah, if I talk to a girl, she has to know everything I said, and everything the girl said. If I'm communicating via e-mail, she insists on carefully reading the entire e-mails.

[scott7278]

It just sounded funny, that's all.

[Paul_Denton]

That sounds like an invasion of privacy to me. Your parents should not have any say in what you are talking about with a girl.

[scott7278]

Yeah, if I talk to a girl, she has to know everything I said, and everything the girl said. If I'm communicating via e-mail, she insists on carefully reading the entire e-mails.

Seriously? I guess FR is your great escape, huh?

[pcottraux]

"It just sounded funny, that's all."

What did?

[pcottraux]

Yeah, computers confuse Mom to death. She doesn't want to know.

[pcottraux]

Well, it's not really demanding so much as begging, pleading, and irritating until I give in and tell them or show them all, just to get them to leave me alone on the matter.

That's life, when you're an only child.

[Paul_Denton]

LOL I am the only one in my entire family that knows anything about computers. Seriously.

[Paul_Denton]

I was an only child too. So I know what it is like. I set up a second email address that only I know about.

[pcottraux]

Me, too, although I really don't know that much, compared to most people. I've had to lecture Mom a million times on how to scroll up.

BTW, when I complain to Mom about her insistency in involvement in my so-called "love" life, she says, "I just want you to be happy." But some things are out of her control.

[pcottraux]

I did that in college, but now that's my main e-mail.

[Goodgirlinred]

Well, I am sorry to have to say this, but your mother needs to get a life!

As for being the baby, I was the older of the two of us. My brother is a year younger than I am. I was always my late father's little girl, up until the day he died almost 6 years ago. My brother was always Mama's Little Baby Boy. However, now that I am a widow, I am Mama's little girl and she worries about me. However, she does not get involved in my business unless I invite her to do so. Mama is my best friend now as well as my mother. I think that kind of relationship just comes with maturity, on both the part of the parent and of the child. ;)

[Nowhere Man]

My nerdy interests include accounting/tax, computers, and science fiction. However, my love for sci-fi just hasn't been the same since Star Trek TNG went off the air.

I like to do a lot of research for my RPG games like The Morrow Project and Twilight: 2000. Right now, I'm fleshing out a Morrow Project campaign to where my character (I'm the game master so it is an NPC, Non Player Character, sort of like myself but on steroids since he was a prodigy) representing me is driving around a gas turbine hybrid VW Iltis SUV they he was on the design team for back in the 1980's. Before the Project went to fusion power in 1987, in my game, our vehicles were gas turbine hybrids from the time it was started in 1962 until 1987. It has an orange gas plasma status screen and it doubles for navigation, think of a typical portable PC like Compaq or Compass had in the mid 1980's, you'll get the idea. I'm looking for numbers and research so I can calculate range and fuel consumption for the batteries and gas turbine engine. How geeky is that? B-D

The Morrow Project is a game that the characters are part of a private, paramilitary effort by Morrow Industries to rebuild the United States after an atomic war or the catastrophe of your choice. I've been doing a lot of research to what we have in the Western PA area where my game is set, from oil refineries to farms. The idea is to be frozen and you wake up 3 to 5 years after "The Oops" but things go wrong and we wake up 150 to 200 years later to a somewhat depopulated and Balkanized America. Im my game, he war occurs around 2012 (as to the game's canon war date of 1989) or so but the unrest starts in 2005 or 2006. I'm still trying to decideif things are the same historically as now up until things start to go bad or whether I want to have an alternate history to where we still have the USSR existing in 2005/2012 or so as part of the catalyst to the atomic war. The latter would leave me off the hook to where "well that didn't happen in real life historically." I'm also an "alternate history" junky.

Yeap, I was a "teenaged Orc" when it comes to RPGing but I'm getting close to being a "middle-aged Orc." B-)



VW Iltis, in Canadian service



The Morrow Project patch

[Goodgirlinred]

Thank you. It really gets to my kids sometimes. LOL! Now, my oldest daughter's daughter is treating her that way! HOWL! Payback time!

[Paul_Denton]

That sounds like a very cool game.