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marcsand2 · Jan 16, 2017

Blind Owl said:
We found a house. *happy dance*

Congratulations!!!! Inspection done? Money arranged? When do the movers start to move?

Graptor · Jan 16, 2017

Not cold here in Colorado, but a good snow dumping this morning. Had to skip the coffee so I could shovel.

Time for my afternoon coffee break.

@Blind Owl , congrats on finding a house! that seems fast. Last time my wife and I went house shopping it tooks us 4 months to find what we wanted. Of course, we were not up against the clock either, as we were still in a house.

Blind Owl · Jan 17, 2017

AstroSam said:
YES!! Congratulationsssssssssss!!!
MEGA-MULTI-JUMBO-LIKE(DANCE&PARTY)!!!!!

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Haha. Thanks Sam. You make me smile.

marcsand2 said:
Congratulations!!!! Inspection done? Money arranged? When do the movers start to move?

Thank you Sir Marc!
Inspection done. Money is being arranged. Movers start the move on the 31st.
So.
Damn.
Excited.

Graptor said:
Not cold here in Colorado, but a good snow dumping this morning. Had to skip the coffee so I could shovel.

Time for my afternoon coffee break.

@Blind Owl , congrats on finding a house! that seems fast. Last time my wife and I went house shopping it tooks us 4 months to find what we wanted. Of course, we were not up against the clock either, as we were still in a house.

Thanks Graptor. Yeah, it's nuts, but we looked at around 50 houses in 3.5 days. Took a while to find what we wanted, but we got it. Thank God. Now to finalize and get the family moved across the country. Woohoo.

GeneticPredator · Jan 17, 2017

Uhhh Coffee please...

marcsand2 · Jan 17, 2017

Blind Owl said:
Yeah, it's nuts, but we looked at around 50 houses in 3.5 days. Took a while to find what we wanted, but we got it. Thank God. Now to finalize and get the family moved across the country. Woohoo.

Wow, that are 14 houses per day!!!! I hope with the 50 houses you also include the houses you see on internet / at the broker: "nope, won't do it, skip it right away, we don't have to look at it anymore"

Blind Owl · Jan 17, 2017

marcsand2 said:
Wow, that are 14 houses per day!!!! I hope with the 50 houses you also include the houses you see on internet / at the broker: "nope, won't do it, skip it right away, we don't have to look at it anymore"

Nope. We walked into every single one. Haha

AstroSam said:
14 houses per day, jeeeez @Blind Owl ... :astonished: Was it like a "closed geographical range" where those houses stand? Or had you to drive along a kind of "red line" across the whole town? I'm asking because - 14 houses?! Lets say 45 minutes visiting time for each house + 20 minutes of "transition time" to get to the next house, thats about 15 hours...without any pause for taking some lunch or the like. Your son is with the grandparents, I guess

Yes. Our real-estate agent had the houses broken up by areas each day. East day 1, west day 2, far west day 3, etc etc etc. There was rarely 20 minutes of transition time, as Kingston is only about 120000 people - a nice small city. And some houses we walked into and said no immediately. Maybe 10 minutes max on some. Longer if we liked it. :slight_smile:

AstroSam said:
*microphonecracks* Sir? Yes, Sir, mission successful accomplished; over and out.
:grin:

haha, your missions are always accomplished Sam!

GeneticPredator · Jan 18, 2017

AstroSam said:
14 houses per day, jeeeez @Blind Owl ... :astonished: Was it like a "closed geographical range" where those houses stand? Or had you to drive along a kind of "red line" across the whole town? I'm asking because - 14 houses?! Lets say 45 minutes visiting time for each house + 20 minutes of "transition time" to get to the next house, thats about 15 hours...without any pause for taking some lunch or the like. Your son is with the grandparents, I guess...?

*microphonecracks* Sir? Yes, Sir, mission successful accomplished; over and out.
:grin:

Sames here....please...ouh...erm...I'm the one who has to serve it?? DamnIhatethosedays....:grin:

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Have a nice start into the day @all!
Cheers!
Sam

Thank you SOOOO much! You are an angel!

rogesh · Jan 18, 2017

AstroSam said:
Sorry, am totally busy the upcoming two weeks. Will hardly be online.
Hence: self-service your coffee :smile:
Cheers, all the best!

Roger that. I'll be off the week after the next week for about 2 week's because snowboarding :D so don't worry about me xD
Congratulation @Blind Owl wish you the best with your new home

Graptor · Jan 18, 2017

I'll come by as often as possible and serve some up......

Graptor · Jan 18, 2017

Time for the afternoon coffee break.... and a question for you all...

I am curious. Most of you here have been around for a while. I've only been flying for a couple weeks now, so everything is brand new. I am curious about your experience when you first started flying. I'm in a starter Mustang Alpha (and no budget for additional ships right now). I've loaded it with a few configurations, the M3A's, the Longswords, the Bulldogs, and combinations of them. I am not very successful at killing pirates. I get one occasionally, but really not very consistently. I fly well enough that they don't shoot me down (anymore).

What's the recollection from you as to the ramp up of being able to hit them effectively with under powered weapons? And BTW, I did start a thread in General Discussions around the loadout of the Alpha, so I'm not trying to repeat that conversation here, just looking for good stories.

I just noticed that I don't have an avatar, and everyone else does. Guess I have a mission to look for something for that as well now...:eyes:

Blind Owl · Jan 19, 2017

rogesh said:
Congratulation @Blind Owl wish you the best with your new home

Thank you so much. I can't wait until we have the whole family all moved out and settled. Soon...tm

BUTUZ · Jan 19, 2017

AstroSam said:
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I started watching this two days ago and I am still here. I appear to have dribbled. In several places. :|

Blind Owl · Jan 20, 2017

BUTUZ said:
I started watching this two days ago and I am still here. I appear to have dribbled. In several places. :|

I'm a fan of the Van Wilder 2 scene, with Holly Davidson. Yummy.

rogesh · Jan 20, 2017

Graptor said:
Time for the afternoon coffee break.... and a question for you all...

I am curious. Most of you here have been around for a while. I've only been flying for a couple weeks now, so everything is brand new. I am curious about your experience when you first started flying. I'm in a starter Mustang Alpha (and no budget for additional ships right now). I've loaded it with a few configurations, the M3A's, the Longswords, the Bulldogs, and combinations of them. I am not very successful at killing pirates. I get one occasionally, but really not very consistently. I fly well enough that they don't shoot me down (anymore).

What's the recollection from you as to the ramp up of being able to hit them effectively with under powered weapons? And BTW, I did start a thread in General Discussions around the loadout of the Alpha, so I'm not trying to repeat that conversation here, just looking for good stories.

I just noticed that I don't have an avatar, and everyone else does. Guess I have a mission to look for something for that as well now...:eyes:

When I started flying the Mustang it was quite fragile (it probably still is). Didn't try many loadouts but I can tell you that you just have to practice. Though it will always be harder to kill with such a ship than with let's say a hornet xD. What helped me to better hit is turning down the mouse-sesitivity and to fix the gimbals.

marcsand2 · Jan 20, 2017

Graptor said:
Time for the afternoon coffee break.... and a question for you all...

I am curious. Most of you here have been around for a while. I've only been flying for a couple weeks now, so everything is brand new. I am curious about your experience when you first started flying. I'm in a starter Mustang Alpha (and no budget for additional ships right now). I've loaded it with a few configurations, the M3A's, the Longswords, the Bulldogs, and combinations of them. I am not very successful at killing pirates. I get one occasionally, but really not very consistently. I fly well enough that they don't shoot me down (anymore).

What's the recollection from you as to the ramp up of being able to hit them effectively with under powered weapons? And BTW, I did start a thread in General Discussions around the loadout of the Alpha, so I'm not trying to repeat that conversation here, just looking for good stories.

I just noticed that I don't have an avatar, and everyone else does. Guess I have a mission to look for something for that as well now...:eyes:

Evasion is the power of light ships, stay close on their six and use them as target practice. Don't lower your throttle, just use strafe to keep a good firing distance. Finish of the lighter ones first, otherwise they will stick on YOUR ass. Practice in Vanduul Swarm. the Vanduuls use light ships in masses, good for target practice.

marcsand2 · Jan 20, 2017

rogesh said:
When I started flying the Mustang it was quite fragile (it probably still is).

Nope, since 2.4 the shields actually work, so you don't die at the first asteroid which just jumps out of nowhere in front of your ship, you even can take some hits without loosing parts!!!

rogesh · Jan 20, 2017

marcsand2 said:
Nope, since 2.4 the shields actually work, so you don't die at the first asteroid which just jumps out of nowhere in front of your ship, you even can take some hits without loosing parts!!!

I'll have to testdrive my beta again :D

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