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Our fourth snow storm of the season has arrived. Our second one in four days. Though they still don't know how much snow we're picking up this time around. Some stations say 6", some are saying as high as 18".

Deepcrush wrote:Well I cant let them in the house. They're always covered in blood.

Just got my internet connection back.

Night night

Deepcrush wrote:

thelordharry wrote:Gaw blimey guvnor, I'm the East End Cockney whelk, Richard Bashir.

"You're bad man, you're very very bad man"

Umm... what?

BABU!

I'm damned near comatose at the moment. I've been pulling twelve hour days at work since thursday....had two dates this weekend...my daughters 3rd birthday party...and a "guest" that was at my place last night till one am. I can barely function

Mark wrote:I'm damned near comatose at the moment. I've been pulling twelve hour days at work since thursday....had two dates this weekend...my daughters 3rd birthday party...and a "guest" that was at my place last night till one am. I can barely function

Well, as long as you could function last night, everything went fine.

Snow started last night around 7pm EST. As of 1pm EST we've picked up about 8''. Nasty winds, wet snow and 28* so we're expecting to lose power tonight when everything refreezes around 10*.

Tsukiyumi wrote:

Mark wrote:I'm damned near comatose at the moment. I've been pulling twelve hour days at work since thursday....had two dates this weekend...my daughters 3rd birthday party...and a "guest" that was at my place last night till one am. I can barely function

Well, as long as you could function last night, everything went fine.

Oh yeah....last night everything worked just fine. All four times

Learning to read Middle English is a pain, not to mention trying to pronounce it. To say the least. No wonder nobody speaks it anymore.

Your learning the language from Lord of the Rings????????

No, I am trying to read whatever they were speking in arund 1200, being a nice mis-mash of Danish, French, English, and whatever there already was on the isles. Add to that that the format being presented is a pain to read as well. Poems easily getting 3000 lines, with little character development and the like.

Though I do like the course, sometimes frustration boils up. The best way to describe the process of reading and trying to understand it is imagining a mediaval crop field, and you being the plow which is to turn over the stubborn Anglo-Saxon soil.

You're learning Ye Olde speach? Why is that, if I may ask?

Oh, and pop quiz! Any idea what this says?

We gadriaþ in nihtscuan
Neoðan þin gledstede,
þin liċfæst in blode ond lieġe.
Nu þin ġebann, æþreddaþ us
To þæm anliċum æltæwan gastcyninge
Gaius Baltar, ure dryhtweorþ nergend
Nu ond æfre to alder.
Swa we ġehwilc ġehalsiaþ.