At least you get some of the cheapest gas prices in SC... NC has some of the highest in the area afaik (NC state tax on gas is highest in the southern states it lists on the pump... and it lists a few).
Welcome back Misa Glad to hear your sorting things out. If you think things are are tough in the South, try Maine. I swear nothing exists up here but snow and blackflies.
Patiently waiting for your next update to the best Texture Pack of all time. I've been resorting to using Conquest since Mojang went to 1.7
What with the move, is your old donate link still current?
Nice to see some people are capitalizing off of the situation by illegally making money off of redistribution of derivatives of my work without even obtaining permission to do so... :/ On my own thread, no less.
I've been following this thread for about 2 years now (not posting, just reading), and I just want to say that it's truly awesome to have you back, Misa. It sounds like things are getting a bit less crazy in your RL, and I hope that trend continues. Reading your wall of text yesterday brightened my day no end.
Nice to see some people are capitalizing off of the situation by illegally making money off of redistribution of derivatives of my work without even obtaining permission to do so... :/ On my own thread, no less.
I just wanted to share a compilation of different packs. Money for it will not take. The title even have it modified pack from Misa (so only posted in this thread). If not satisfied with the previous link, but with Google disk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ALPMDYr289WTF2Yl9FN2h3d0E/edit?usp=sharing
I wanted to offend nobody, forgive if that not so.
Misa,
I know you've gone through a lot, but just knowing you are okay is good enough for us that appreciate the heart and hard work you put into what you do. I am a patient person, and I know the results will be utterly worth it. Keep your chin up, kid, and do what you need to do to take care of yourself first before you dive headlong into the storm of creativity I know resides in your soul. We're here for you, even if sometimes it doesn't seem like it!
SPOOOOON!!!
Second of all: It is a pity that McPatcher don´t support connected textures, random mobs and custom colors anymore. This pack is basicially relying on those features to make it as good as it is. Damm you McPatcher!
"Even if saotomato wasn't who he claimed to be, what exactly would you be reporting his post for? Which rule specifically would that post be in violation of? "
"The Fraud Act 2006 makes it an offence to dishonestly make a false representation with the intention of making a gain or causing a loss. It is difficult to see how any kind of impersonation, no matter how odd, cannot have the intention of causing some kind of tangible gain or loss. Gain or loss must be loss of money or property. Loss to reputation can have incalculable damage in this regard."
Any claims made about your person without your knowledge or consent can be construed as fraud. Any illegal activities would be a violation of board rules.
I'm unclear from your post as to whether saotomato was or was not who he claimed to be, but now that you are back it is irrelevant.
My post was intended to draw you out if you were still around. I wanted very badly to send you some money whether or not you intended to ever update your pack, but I could not possibly send money if I didn't know your circumstance.
Now that I know you are OK, I will send a donation immediately.
I didn't mean to imply that I 'knew you' any further than what I wrote. You appear to be a very strong, confident person who wouldn't rely on surrogates to speak for you. I respect you, your work and your talent.
In any event, whether you found my comment offense or not, you have provided me with endless hours of entertainment and brought a considerable amount of light into my life and I'm glad you are back.
I have sent donations before and hope the one I make tonight will help you with any struggles you are experiencing.
I never meant to offend you. I only hope the best for you in all things.
It's around this time I actually got in contact with my real life best friend over the phone and asked him to let everyone know I was alright. Sorry I didn't have much more to go off of to have him relay at the time.
...
I didn't send an anonymous person, I was on the phone with a friend, he mentioned people were thinking I was dead and I asked him to let everyone know I was alright.
...
I didn't give him one because I was operating off of limited information myself at the time and had no estimates for when I'd be able to return to the community, let alone the status of the pack.
I would think this would be enough to confirm my identity, but oh well. It's not about me, Misa is back!
You're back, Misa! And now living in my neck of the woods--the Deep South. Congrats on your move....and I feel for you, growing up a country girl myself with no access to running water or internet during most of my teen years. To keep warm, we had to actually cut trees in real life and haul the firewood to the house. (Minecraft makes it look easy, but believe me, its not.)
Even as an adult, I was paying $50 a month for "high" speed internet through a satellite that was sooooo slow. It took 20 minutes to download a 2 min vid on YouTube. You then hit "play" hoping it actually does so, but often it stalls and you have to reload the vid. Still, the fake "high-speed" satellite was better than the 26 kbits speed of the phone line. My frustration reached its max when I started taking online classes (it was WAY too far to drive to both college and work everyday), and I needed to watch videos for some of my classes. One day I was in the middle of taking an online test and some heavy clouds blocked the sky, cutting out my internet. Talk about me panicking, afraid I was going to fail the test. Happy, half an hour later I got reconnected and finished the text before the timer stopped.
Finally, I had had enough, and bought a house in town. Besides saving on gas money from long drives to work, I was finally able to enjoy the benefits of having real high speed internet for the first time. Imagine watching a YouTube video IMMEDIATELY when you hit play. Actually playing on Minecraft servers….with real people. An impossibility when I lived in the country. Oh, and I can talk on a cell phone...and hear people. Something else I could not do in the country.
Good luck to you, Misa, with getting settled in, job hunting, and getting a new computer. You're very talented, but I also know how hard it can be to get a great job in the rural south. Don't feel guilty for taking donations for your work. You deserve it. Take your time getting back to working on your pack. (I'm looking forward to finally seeing your flowers someday.)
Also, I recommend growing a small garden. Its one of the main things I miss when I moved into town. Fresh tomatoes. Store tomatoes don't ever come close to the rich, delicious flavor of tomatoes straight from the garden. The pacing of country life if far different than city life. Truly, it is lovely to take time to stop and smell the roses. Enjoy just being alive.
Last time I self-moved with a young family way back when, it very nearly killed me with all the work needing doing on the new (that's a joke) place. Completely got out of the hang of sleeping for weeks...and that's a spiral into oblivion for sure. Hope you get everything sorted, but just take it easy in the process.
It's good to have you around again.
I'm already finding that I pretty much have to live on nightly hot baths now just to sleep through the muscle pain. It'd be nice if I could afford healthcare as is now required by my country. Unfortunately the local government of the place I moved to decided it's more politically advantageous to their cause to punish people like me for being poor--despite there being no jobs in the area to help me correct the situation. I guess I can't complain too much though, because I've got a roof over my head.
At least you get some of the cheapest gas prices in SC... NC has some of the highest in the area afaik (NC state tax on gas is highest in the southern states it lists on the pump... and it lists a few).
Good to know. Now I've just gotta work on getting a car.
Welcome back Misa Glad to hear your sorting things out. If you think things are are tough in the South, try Maine. I swear nothing exists up here but snow and blackflies.
Patiently waiting for your next update to the best Texture Pack of all time. I've been resorting to using Conquest since Mojang went to 1.7
What with the move, is your old donate link still current?
Having been greeted by a freak snowstorm upon arriving here, I definitely don't envy your weather. At least you have the pseudo-benefit of being near the setting of nearly every damn Stephen King novel ever written. Anyway, yes, the donate link is still current.
I've been following this thread for about 2 years now (not posting, just reading), and I just want to say that it's truly awesome to have you back, Misa. It sounds like things are getting a bit less crazy in your RL, and I hope that trend continues. Reading your wall of text yesterday brightened my day no end.
Good to know some people were able to read all the way through it. I typed it up in notepad (constantly saving) in case of a power outage, and it ended up freezing up my browser for a couple minutes when I went to paste it here. Was kinda wondering if it'd crash the forums or not, heh.
May have to rely on that a little longer than I was hoping. On the bright side, I've given them special permission to use CTM in the meantime. Hopefully that'll buy me some time to get things sorted out here so I can get back to work on the pack.
First of all: OMG MISA IS BACK! #YOLO #SWAG #MISA #SOHAPPYIAMJUMPINGONMYCOMPUTERDESK
Second of all: It is a pity that McPatcher don´t support connected textures, random mobs and custom colors anymore. This pack is basicially relying on those features to make it as good as it is. Damm you McPatcher!
Third of all: I loved all the work you have done in the past and I will love all the work you (maybe) will do in the future! I never will forget all the work you have done for us! This is the best texturepack I ever seen. I love your work. I cant imagine how many hours you have spend making this for FREE! I if god exists I hope it leaves a great Place for you in heaven. And that he gives you some angel servants. You deserve to be threatend like a Queen. The Queen of texture packs.
Not sure where you're getting that information about MCPatcher from, but it's pretty much false by default. Literally the only purpose of MCPatcher at this point is to add support for features like that. As someone who's aided in the design of some of those components of MCPatcher, I think I can safely say those features aren't going anywhere. If they do disappear, it'll only be temporarily in between updates to the game when Kahr has to do re-writes for the obnoxious amount of core changes Mojang's been making to the rendering system.
Oooooo Misaa,, I missed you girl, and your clever / ironic comments and responses here
I am glad you are alright (not dead ),, though I am sorry for your back :/ I understand you !
p.s. Misa what's your profession (/specialization) ?
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay. I actually don't have a profession. As a pipe-dream I'd love to be a lead game designer, but lack the degree of programming knowledge required. More realistically, I'd like to go to school to possibly get into a field as a professor or research scientist in some field of biology--likely something in the branch of neuroscience, bioinformatics, biostatistics, or organic chemistry. Though I'd also be fine with mastering the first and any of the second languages I know to become an English teacher somewhere overseas.
"Even if saotomato wasn't who he claimed to be, what exactly would you be reporting his post for? Which rule specifically would that post be in violation of? "
"The Fraud Act 2006 makes it an offence to dishonestly make a false representation with the intention of making a gain or causing a loss. It is difficult to see how any kind of impersonation, no matter how odd, cannot have the intention of causing some kind of tangible gain or loss. Gain or loss must be loss of money or property. Loss to reputation can have incalculable damage in this regard."
Any claims made about your person without your knowledge or consent can be construed as fraud. Any illegal activities would be a violation of board rules.
I'm unclear from your post as to whether saotomato was or was not who he claimed to be, but now that you are back it is irrelevant.
My post was intended to draw you out if you were still around. I wanted very badly to send you some money whether or not you intended to ever update your pack, but I could not possibly send money if I didn't know your circumstance.
Now that I know you are OK, I will send a donation immediately.
I didn't mean to imply that I 'knew you' any further than what I wrote. You appear to be a very strong, confident person who wouldn't rely on surrogates to speak for you. I respect you, your work and your talent.
In any event, whether you found my comment offense or not, you have provided me with endless hours of entertainment and brought a considerable amount of light into my life and I'm glad you are back.
I have sent donations before and hope the one I make tonight will help you with any struggles you are experiencing.
I never meant to offend you. I only hope the best for you in all things.
With great respect,
Scott Davis
I figured UK law wasn't internationally enforced. But in any case I didn't see anything he said that'd indicate anything that could demonstrate intent to generate gain or loss. At worst he would've just been giving false hope to people on my behalf. To help clear things up though, he was and is in fact my best friend of over 15 years.
Anyway no worries. I wasn't offended so much as needing filler material for my giant wall of comeback text, and I've got this habit of going off on tangents of picking things apart that I may see initial errors in. I didn't intend to come off as strongly as I may have. I do appreciate the support and hope I can soon continue to live up to my reputation through my work.
With the new mincraft now having the ability to do 3d detials on textures do you think you will add this to some of your own textures?
I streamed a little bit of my old experimental work on the subject on my Tinychat last week. But yeah, I've kinda been hoping for that functionality for a long time. For those not in the know, Mojang has added custom model support for blocks which allows us to have blocks that aren't necessarily just cube-shaped. As I briefly mentioned in the wall of text, this could be a way to help solve my issues with things like foliage/leaf blocks to make more realistic-looking trees and whatnot.
However I can't make any promises as to what will actually be implemented so much as the fact that I will definitely be playing with the system and evaluating which blocks would be the best candidates to receive this treatment. I've already got some block models I've created over a year or three ago that UV map perfectly to the existing default texture asset format. So if this ever is implemented for my pack, it'll be completely optional and have little bearing on the other default style of textures used in my pack.
You're back, Misa! And now living in my neck of the woods--the Deep South. Congrats on your move....and I feel for you, growing up a country girl myself with no access to running water or internet during most of my teen years. To keep warm, we had to actually cut trees in real life and haul the firewood to the house. (Minecraft makes it look easy, but believe me, its not.)
Even as an adult, I was paying $50 a month for "high" speed internet through a satellite that was sooooo slow. It took 20 minutes to download a 2 min vid on YouTube. You then hit "play" hoping it actually does so, but often it stalls and you have to reload the vid. Still, the fake "high-speed" satellite was better than the 26 kbits speed of the phone line. My frustration reached its max when I started taking online classes (it was WAY too far to drive to both college and work everyday), and I needed to watch videos for some of my classes. One day I was in the middle of taking an online test and some heavy clouds blocked the sky, cutting out my internet. Talk about me panicking, afraid I was going to fail the test. Happy, half an hour later I got reconnected and finished the text before the timer stopped.
Finally, I had had enough, and bought a house in town. Besides saving on gas money from long drives to work, I was finally able to enjoy the benefits of having real high speed internet for the first time. Imagine watching a YouTube video IMMEDIATELY when you hit play. Actually playing on Minecraft servers….with real people. An impossibility when I lived in the country. Oh, and I can talk on a cell phone...and hear people. Something else I could not do in the country.
Good luck to you, Misa, with getting settled in, job hunting, and getting a new computer. You're very talented, but I also know how hard it can be to get a great job in the rural south. Don't feel guilty for taking donations for your work. You deserve it. Take your time getting back to working on your pack. (I'm looking forward to finally seeing your flowers someday.)
Also, I recommend growing a small garden. Its one of the main things I miss when I moved into town. Fresh tomatoes. Store tomatoes don't ever come close to the rich, delicious flavor of tomatoes straight from the garden. The pacing of country life if far different than city life. Truly, it is lovely to take time to stop and smell the roses. Enjoy just being alive.
I've never had to chop firewood to keep warm, but I've definitely had to deal with the whole 'Minecraft makes it look easy' thing with the renovations I had to do to make the place I moved into livable. If only breaking doorways and building walls were as easy as adding and subtracting a couple blocks.
Instead you've gotta deal with hours of tetanus-inducing demolition with a wrecking bar, chisel and hammer, followed by setting up level headers and sole plates so you can make room for the stud beams you've gotta put in and line up in a way that they're perfectly flush (but with an offset to the thickness of the drywall) with the existing wall you're trying to patch. Then you've gotta sand for hours and seal, patch and surface the thing with joint compound just to find out that you're not even remotely close to being done since you still need to cut and install new baseboards and molding to cover up the sole plate. And then you get to worry about painting all that without ruining your carpet. That's all failing to mention that beforehand I had to remove up to three layers of wallpaper that'd put the eye-destroying qualities of Mojang's default Minecraft textures to shame.
I can also relate to the Internet thing quite a bit, but in a different way. I was using the Internet back in the 80's before Windows had graced it with graphics, and the concept of a family computer, let alone remotely affordable personal computers and laptops were still quite a few years off. Basically all I had access to at the time was BBS and one-on-one IRC, and I recall the IRC taking like 5 minutes for the person you were talking to to receive your message, and about the same amount of time for you to receive messages from them. All the while, your only phone is completely tied up and if someone picks it up and tries to use it, you completely lose your connection. At the time though, I was easily impressed by the novelty of talking to someone who may be on the other side of the planet without paying an absurdly massive long distance phone bill. Now it's just a granted component of everyday living.
As far as the garden idea goes, I actually received a small greenhouse as a housewarming gift from my local relatives. The weather here's been a little too windy to actually work outside and attempt setting it up that I'm beginning to wonder if it might be a better idea to set up the greenhouse in my attic. I have a set of really nice full-spectrum sun lamps from the pen of my tortoise (which I had to give up for adoption to make the move ) that'd work perfectly for an indoor garden. Though I've also thought about using it to set up a mycology lab.
I really like the idea of attempting to grow my own truffles, gourmet mushrooms, antibiotics and other fungi-based products that are hard to easily or affordably come by in stores out here. I've also got the knowledge to know how to set up a sterile environment and grow various fruiting bodies from spore. It'll probably all boil down to what I have more of a demand or need for in the long run. But at the moment that's a little hard to forsee, so it'll probably have to wait a bit along with other things I've had to put on hold. It is something I'm still greatly looking forward to though when this whole Red Queen effect of moving in will eventually wear off and I'm able to settle into the slower pace of country living.
It's been on April first since the day I was born. You can imagine the confusion my relatives had when my parents called them up to notify them of my arrival--no one believed them until i was virtually forced to cry for them over the phone.
Misa, it's so awesome to see you're back even if it's in a limited capacity for now. Hopefully people have donated enough to give you a helping hand. If not, hopefully people who can afford it and appreciate your pack enough to do so will drop some cash your way.
Also, check your PM's if you have time. I'm going to send you something that MIGHT help out?
PEOPLE CHILL DOWN WAIT FOR HER TO CATCH UP DON'T PANIC PLEASE
and thanks for reading this
And welcome to the South.
At least you get some of the cheapest gas prices in SC... NC has some of the highest in the area afaik (NC state tax on gas is highest in the southern states it lists on the pump... and it lists a few).
Patiently waiting for your next update to the best Texture Pack of all time. I've been resorting to using Conquest since Mojang went to 1.7
What with the move, is your old donate link still current?
Nice to see some people are capitalizing off of the situation by illegally making money off of redistribution of derivatives of my work without even obtaining permission to do so... :/ On my own thread, no less.
I just wanted to share a compilation of different packs. Money for it will not take. The title even have it modified pack from Misa (so only posted in this thread). If not satisfied with the previous link, but with Google disk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ALPMDYr289WTF2Yl9FN2h3d0E/edit?usp=sharing
I wanted to offend nobody, forgive if that not so.
I know you've gone through a lot, but just knowing you are okay is good enough for us that appreciate the heart and hard work you put into what you do. I am a patient person, and I know the results will be utterly worth it. Keep your chin up, kid, and do what you need to do to take care of yourself first before you dive headlong into the storm of creativity I know resides in your soul. We're here for you, even if sometimes it doesn't seem like it!
SPOOOOON!!!
Hm, quote from http://www.minecraft...-hd-fix-432-01/ :
"The Fraud Act 2006 makes it an offence to dishonestly make a false representation with the intention of making a gain or causing a loss. It is difficult to see how any kind of impersonation, no matter how odd, cannot have the intention of causing some kind of tangible gain or loss. Gain or loss must be loss of money or property. Loss to reputation can have incalculable damage in this regard."
Any claims made about your person without your knowledge or consent can be construed as fraud. Any illegal activities would be a violation of board rules.
I'm unclear from your post as to whether saotomato was or was not who he claimed to be, but now that you are back it is irrelevant.
My post was intended to draw you out if you were still around. I wanted very badly to send you some money whether or not you intended to ever update your pack, but I could not possibly send money if I didn't know your circumstance.
Now that I know you are OK, I will send a donation immediately.
I didn't mean to imply that I 'knew you' any further than what I wrote. You appear to be a very strong, confident person who wouldn't rely on surrogates to speak for you. I respect you, your work and your talent.
In any event, whether you found my comment offense or not, you have provided me with endless hours of entertainment and brought a considerable amount of light into my life and I'm glad you are back.
I have sent donations before and hope the one I make tonight will help you with any struggles you are experiencing.
I never meant to offend you. I only hope the best for you in all things.
With great respect,
Scott Davis
And thank you for the best texture pack in the whole universe :-) ... tried so many, but this one is simply perfect.
I would think this would be enough to confirm my identity, but oh well. It's not about me, Misa is back!
With the new mincraft now having the ability to do 3d detials on textures do you think you will add this to some of your own textures?
Even as an adult, I was paying $50 a month for "high" speed internet through a satellite that was sooooo slow. It took 20 minutes to download a 2 min vid on YouTube. You then hit "play" hoping it actually does so, but often it stalls and you have to reload the vid. Still, the fake "high-speed" satellite was better than the 26 kbits speed of the phone line. My frustration reached its max when I started taking online classes (it was WAY too far to drive to both college and work everyday), and I needed to watch videos for some of my classes. One day I was in the middle of taking an online test and some heavy clouds blocked the sky, cutting out my internet. Talk about me panicking, afraid I was going to fail the test. Happy, half an hour later I got reconnected and finished the text before the timer stopped.
Finally, I had had enough, and bought a house in town. Besides saving on gas money from long drives to work, I was finally able to enjoy the benefits of having real high speed internet for the first time. Imagine watching a YouTube video IMMEDIATELY when you hit play. Actually playing on Minecraft servers….with real people. An impossibility when I lived in the country. Oh, and I can talk on a cell phone...and hear people. Something else I could not do in the country.
Good luck to you, Misa, with getting settled in, job hunting, and getting a new computer. You're very talented, but I also know how hard it can be to get a great job in the rural south. Don't feel guilty for taking donations for your work. You deserve it. Take your time getting back to working on your pack. (I'm looking forward to finally seeing your flowers someday.)
Also, I recommend growing a small garden. Its one of the main things I miss when I moved into town. Fresh tomatoes. Store tomatoes don't ever come close to the rich, delicious flavor of tomatoes straight from the garden. The pacing of country life if far different than city life. Truly, it is lovely to take time to stop and smell the roses. Enjoy just being alive.
1st april Misa birthday, see her profile.
I'm already finding that I pretty much have to live on nightly hot baths now just to sleep through the muscle pain. It'd be nice if I could afford healthcare as is now required by my country. Unfortunately the local government of the place I moved to decided it's more politically advantageous to their cause to punish people like me for being poor--despite there being no jobs in the area to help me correct the situation. I guess I can't complain too much though, because I've got a roof over my head.
Good to know. Now I've just gotta work on getting a car.
Having been greeted by a freak snowstorm upon arriving here, I definitely don't envy your weather. At least you have the pseudo-benefit of being near the setting of nearly every damn Stephen King novel ever written.
Good to know some people were able to read all the way through it.
May have to rely on that a little longer than I was hoping. On the bright side, I've given them special permission to use CTM in the meantime. Hopefully that'll buy me some time to get things sorted out here so I can get back to work on the pack.
Not sure where you're getting that information about MCPatcher from, but it's pretty much false by default. Literally the only purpose of MCPatcher at this point is to add support for features like that. As someone who's aided in the design of some of those components of MCPatcher, I think I can safely say those features aren't going anywhere. If they do disappear, it'll only be temporarily in between updates to the game when Kahr has to do re-writes for the obnoxious amount of core changes Mojang's been making to the rendering system.
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay. I actually don't have a profession. As a pipe-dream I'd love to be a lead game designer, but lack the degree of programming knowledge required. More realistically, I'd like to go to school to possibly get into a field as a professor or research scientist in some field of biology--likely something in the branch of neuroscience, bioinformatics, biostatistics, or organic chemistry. Though I'd also be fine with mastering the first and any of the second languages I know to become an English teacher somewhere overseas.
I figured UK law wasn't internationally enforced. But in any case I didn't see anything he said that'd indicate anything that could demonstrate intent to generate gain or loss. At worst he would've just been giving false hope to people on my behalf. To help clear things up though, he was and is in fact my best friend of over 15 years.
Anyway no worries. I wasn't offended so much as needing filler material for my giant wall of comeback text, and I've got this habit of going off on tangents of picking things apart that I may see initial errors in. I didn't intend to come off as strongly as I may have. I do appreciate the support and hope I can soon continue to live up to my reputation through my work.
I streamed a little bit of my old experimental work on the subject on my Tinychat last week. But yeah, I've kinda been hoping for that functionality for a long time. For those not in the know, Mojang has added custom model support for blocks which allows us to have blocks that aren't necessarily just cube-shaped. As I briefly mentioned in the wall of text, this could be a way to help solve my issues with things like foliage/leaf blocks to make more realistic-looking trees and whatnot.
However I can't make any promises as to what will actually be implemented so much as the fact that I will definitely be playing with the system and evaluating which blocks would be the best candidates to receive this treatment. I've already got some block models I've created over a year or three ago that UV map perfectly to the existing default texture asset format. So if this ever is implemented for my pack, it'll be completely optional and have little bearing on the other default style of textures used in my pack.
I've never had to chop firewood to keep warm, but I've definitely had to deal with the whole 'Minecraft makes it look easy' thing with the renovations I had to do to make the place I moved into livable. If only breaking doorways and building walls were as easy as adding and subtracting a couple blocks.
Instead you've gotta deal with hours of tetanus-inducing demolition with a wrecking bar, chisel and hammer, followed by setting up level headers and sole plates so you can make room for the stud beams you've gotta put in and line up in a way that they're perfectly flush (but with an offset to the thickness of the drywall) with the existing wall you're trying to patch. Then you've gotta sand for hours and seal, patch and surface the thing with joint compound just to find out that you're not even remotely close to being done since you still need to cut and install new baseboards and molding to cover up the sole plate. And then you get to worry about painting all that without ruining your carpet. That's all failing to mention that beforehand I had to remove up to three layers of wallpaper that'd put the eye-destroying qualities of Mojang's default Minecraft textures to shame.
I can also relate to the Internet thing quite a bit, but in a different way. I was using the Internet back in the 80's before Windows had graced it with graphics, and the concept of a family computer, let alone remotely affordable personal computers and laptops were still quite a few years off. Basically all I had access to at the time was BBS and one-on-one IRC, and I recall the IRC taking like 5 minutes for the person you were talking to to receive your message, and about the same amount of time for you to receive messages from them. All the while, your only phone is completely tied up and if someone picks it up and tries to use it, you completely lose your connection. At the time though, I was easily impressed by the novelty of talking to someone who may be on the other side of the planet without paying an absurdly massive long distance phone bill. Now it's just a granted component of everyday living.
As far as the garden idea goes, I actually received a small greenhouse as a housewarming gift from my local relatives.
I really like the idea of attempting to grow my own truffles, gourmet mushrooms, antibiotics and other fungi-based products that are hard to easily or affordably come by in stores out here. I've also got the knowledge to know how to set up a sterile environment and grow various fruiting bodies from spore. It'll probably all boil down to what I have more of a demand or need for in the long run. But at the moment that's a little hard to forsee, so it'll probably have to wait a bit along with other things I've had to put on hold. It is something I'm still greatly looking forward to though when this whole Red Queen effect of moving in will eventually wear off and I'm able to settle into the slower pace of country living.
Thanks. I'm now 'half the resolution of my texture pack' years old.
It's been on April first since the day I was born.
And odd Part. We share the same birthday!
Also, check your PM's if you have time. I'm going to send you something that MIGHT help out?