Mercenaries Guild

On the Wednesday after next (i.e. the 25th), some bloke from Virgin Media is coming round to install the necessary hardware to connect my home to their broadband service. At any time between now and then, likely tomorrow, Pipex, who provide my current service, may cut me off from you lovely people on the grounds that we haven't, apparently, been keeping up with our payments (we pay by direct debit, and the money's certainly there: apparently they just haven't taken it). Pipex support has generally been useless, hence why we are changing providers rather than sorting it out, but the upshot is I may suddenly disappear for a week and a half and I can't be quite certain about when. Around about Monday after next (23rd) I'll be going back to school so one way or another I'll be able to get on IRC again, but I may be absent for the entire week prior to that and somewhat limited by the school's screening for a few days more (of course they say Wednesday, but I can't help mentally appending "...ish").
I'm not going to be too enthusiastic about finding alternative ways of getting to you, because my mum already thinks I'm addicted to the internet, but you never know.

So uh... see you guys then. Don't fall apart without me :P

(of course, given that the money IS there, it's entirely possible that pipex will get their act together and never disconnect us... if this ultimately turns out to be the case, sorry to uhm get your hopes up).

Nooooooooooooo!/me falls apart.

Oh good, now I don't have to make my own topic.
Anyway, my family is preparing to move to Virginia, so I might disappear for a little while. Just until we get settled in, of course.
Just letting you all know. We are actually leaving this Friday, to be exact. Hopefully I can check back in soon :)
Bye til' then.

Members vanishing :)

Alright, sorry to miss you both.

Where in VA rend?

You will be missed :D

Noooooo. Rend is like my hero xD. Benmachine boo Pipex! You two hurry back alright? ... It just won't be the same without you guys!

Aw that's cute. Thanks  :)

Raytray: We are moving to Fredericksburg. You live near there right?

shit shit shit shit.

Um... I'm in texas. I'm Navi's neighbor.

edit: 48.7 miles 59 minutes. according to google maps. -- that's how far i will be from you. :D

Go back to where you came from! We don't take kindly to your kind in these here parts.


Khalsa

Lmao Khalsa... You confederate BASTARD!
Rend why exactly are you moving?

My grandparents live about twenty miles from Fredericksburg. They live on Lake Anna.

Haha.

Cerebral, my mom has been hired for some job at the pentagon, so they would like us living a bit closer :)

Woah Pentagon... I'll make sure not to mess with you then. Gratz on your mom if she wanted the job that is.

Cool, Rend. I live in Northwest DC.

Well, I'm back. Less so given that I've got school now, but back nonetheless, barring any spontaneous failures.
Looks like my ping to the lolcat might be worse on this provider, though :(
--- 69.41.162.130 ping statistics ---
100 packets transmitted, 98 received, 2% packet loss, time 99063ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 125.658/176.088/282.062/37.059 ms
The frustrating thing is that the minimum time is a good 20 milliseconds faster than Pipex ever managed, but the mean is a good 20 milliseconds slower.

The connection may stabilise over a few days.
I know ADSL takes "up to a week" to fully get right.  Although that could just be that tiscali are shit...

Welcome back Ben!

Got ADSL about six months ago. Never looked back since.

I am back as well, and I'm very happy.
I now live in Virginia, and I can enjoy tremulous once again :)

I'm going off to camp for a week!
In like... 20 minutes!

Well, see ya all on the other side ;)

"The other side"?
What is it, a death camp?

Sheeesh. I barely made it out of their alive - don't poke fun!

Anyway, it was quite fun :)

Oh. My deepest sympathies.

I'm visiting my family for a week or so. Should be back by Wednesday.

Excuse the brevity but I am somewhat rushed :P

Benmachine is leave us again  :'(. Have fun.

Thanks for the care.

Later ;)

Have a good time :)
Posted on: August 02, 2008, 08:53:17 PM

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I'm going away with some of my friends for a week, see you on the other side ;)
Posted on: August 10, 2008, 09:31:40 AM

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Back :)

Welcome back.

Yay!

Going to Cape Cod for ten days starting tomorrow. Be back on when I get back.

Have fun.

Back from Cape Cod.

Welcome back Despairation.

Work is building up for me recently, so I'm going to switch to email and IRC-highlights/PMs only some time this evening. I'm not sure for how long, but probably I'll make some time on Sunday. If you need to talk to me you still can, but expect to see me less often.

Going camping with my school at a place called Caroline Furnace (http://www.carolinefurnace.org/your_support/your_support.htm).

Yeah, pretty much me too, plus I got some personal health issues in the family that are being tended to (yes, I'm finally getting that goiter (http://images.google.com/images?q=goiter) removed), except I'm not very attentive in IRC, so jabber (silverfox@mercenariesguild.net) or PM is best.  I can try and finish tasks/whatnot that need to be done in my spare time, but I have ZERO self-motivation at the moment, so someone must ask if I'm needed.

Dude you had me quite worried for a bit, Dont do that to me!