"We really should have paid more attention to the calendar."

Rob sighed. "Mii, there's been so much going on in the last few months that some people would say forgetting a birthday is excusable. But that's a poor excuse. I really should have remembered."

"I don't mind, Rob," Mii said as the others brought two cakes out of the kitchen. Then she saw what was written on the cakes, and added, "Oh, that's different. I didn't realize that we'd forgotten two birthdays today, not just one."

Ruiko led Blossom's original residents in the well-wishes. "Happy Birthday, Mii! Happy Birthday, Rob!"

It's the founding-of-the-nation holiday up here north of the border... although we're under a heat dome at the moment (forecast says it'll "feel like" 41°C/106°F with the humidity today) so I doubt I'm going to attend the festivities. Anyway.

Happy Canada Day to all the other Canadians on the forum!

Once again, we launch a new update thread.

Previous thread is here.

New thread is new.

Old thread is here.

Our annual week at the beach will start this Saturday, 6/27 through 7/4. But as has been usual for longer than a decade now I'll have wifi and my tablet with me, so it won't be like I'll be disappearing. And given that, I wonder why I even warn the board any more...

Inspired by Lilith Fair, there's a new all-women music festival happening this year.

Daisy Chain Fields has been announced for August 29 in Irvine, CA. And in a nod to its predecessor, Sarah McLachlan will be preforming.

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I'd be a little concerned about the other side of the mashup without some fairly rigorous testing, though...


Another One Bites the Bee Gees mlxed by Auralnauts

a comment: "This is the clearest vocal track I've ever heard for Stayin' Alive"

My emotion I well can remember
  O'er a "promise" that somewhere I'd seen
One night, away back in December
  Anno Domini 1918.
Happy tears in my orbs began wellin'
  As I read how the England-to-be
Would become a fit messuage to dwell in
      For heroes like me.

Refreshed by an access of ardour
  I returned to my business in town;
But, as life seemed each day to grow harder,
  I despaired of its joy and its crown;
Till, fed up with a "tale" for poor Tommies,
  My temper I finally lost,
And pronounced that oracular "promise"
      A palpable frost.

But I've tumbled at last to my error;
  For, although I am far from content,
I know that this era of terror
  Is just what the Government meant;
When through England so bell-like and clear rose
  That eager, that passionate vow;
Since none but a race of real heroes
    Can live in it now.

--Punch, December 1st, 1920, commenting on political promises

... or rather, I should say that I have solved the system issues which have plagued me for far too long, and I can finally return to playing COH without my system spontaneously restarting at inopportune times.

Now I just have to deal with the fact that my 64-year-old hands are a bit stiffer than they were when last I was playing regularly. I have some new characters I created for My Apartment Manager Is Not an Isekai Character (long story, which we haven't even started to write, and no, it's not about displacees from Paragon), so I figure I will use them to get my fingers back into fighting trim before I attempt any large scale group activity with the gang.

Speaking of which, thank you to whoever kept reupping Evangelia's big boss bit over the past nearly two years. You honestly didn't have to do that, and I would have gladly taken whatever demotion my inactivity left me with.