The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: B E C K on Nov 24, 2004, 12:49:28 AM
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Here's mine. Now sis and I prefer to pretty much keep to ourselves, so we almost never express interest in going to anyone's house to begin with for anything. Since Grandma didn't want to host anything this year and no one expressed any interests for filling it, we figured we'd have a little Thanksgiving at home with just the three of us.
So next thing I know, Mom's invited Grandma and one of our aunts. Just one aunt because she's the one that still lives with Grandma, they're kinda a package deal. Okay five, no big.
Then my mom informs us that aunt suggested that we invite uncle and wifey. Their sons all work and they'll be alone... or something. Okay, I like those two. It's okay.
Then aunt blabs big mouth to another aunt, who automatically assumed she was invitied or something because next thing I know we're told to expect her to come. Now it's starting to dig into the group of people I'd rather not be around.
Then another aunt calls up my mom and mentions something about how my mom "is hosting Thanksgiving". FTW. Since nearly everyone knows about it, my mom decides to invite her little brother, who she didn't want to feel left out.
So now I have no idea how many people to expect. My mom is one from a family of like eight kids. We know one aunt and her family already had other plans, but God only knows what the others were gonna do. Seven people was enough but now... I thought I was getting anxious about this until I heard Merla the other day... "Cancel it. Tell them it's canceled. Cancel it. Cancel it." :lol:
So now my current plans are to whole up in my mom's room with Merla and our cats and either play a game, go online, or watch a movie. And if it gets too noisy, I'll try to talk her into taking us to the theater.
Anyway, what are your's?
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Your Thanksgiving makes mine sound not so bad. Actually, they're not, I just wanted to say that for some reason.
I'm going to my grandma's to eat lunch and play with my little cousins. It'll be crowded, and the guys will probably watch football (GAG!). Everyone will either crack up or be offended at my litter-box cake. People will fawn over Miina because she's all, "I'm due in 3 months, look how fat I am!" It's like, she's pregnant so she gets instant attention. It doesn't really matter, though, cause most of my time will be spent chasing cousins and cousins' kids around till they're tired, then reading. Grandma will probably do one of those rare things that make me happy she's my grandma, like give me the rest of the black forest cake to take home. Whatever. I'm just happy I don't hafta cook.
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It's like, she's pregnant so she gets instant attention.
Just until she pops out the loaf. Then they'll be all over the kid and no one will care if she gets run over by a bus.
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You know, Nuri. I wish I could show up, if nothing else then for just how hilarious it would be. But I'm working.
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I'm going to a turkey dinner buffet at 1. Then I have to work 3-10. Teh suxxor.
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Yeah cause we all know if you didn't work, Meg, you'd definetely show up at my house. :lol:
And at least you'll probably have a nice paycheck, Chels.
Anyway, do most of you have your turkey in the evening of the afternoon? We've always had it in the afternoon. It never even occured to me until today that people might save it for the evening.
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I think most people have it in the afternoon. It saves money on football munchies. Or something.
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Im going to Kary's house after this apple pie finishes baking, and with the pumpkin pie I made last night.
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Nuri, I don't get holiday pay if that's what you're getting at. I get my lousy $3.09, and then tips.
Fortunately, we're over staffed. XD
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$3.09?!!! How much do you make in tips?
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It depends on the night. Tuesday night, I made $43 but we were unusually busy for a weeknight.
I can make between $30-60 on a weekend. Hopefully I'll make a lot more tonight.
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I wasn't implying you were getting any holiday pay, just that your paycheck would probably be smaller w/o working the holiday... ...like mine. LJS isn't open on Thanksgiving, so I lose hours.
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I got like 64 hours on my last paycheck (which I received today, payroll cutoff was the 21st), so I don't know how many more hours I can work without going stark raving mad... like I did tonight!
We weren't even that busy!
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Thanksgiving was fun this year. See, my little sister deceided to run away Monday night (he cell phone, her car and privledges were taken away due to her drug and drinking problem and her having to repeat her senior year) and she wasn't found until Wednesday. So it was quiet all day.
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All the fun stuff happens to you, Cyc.
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Nah. I'm sure Tom got caught stuffing the turkey.
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See!
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You ought to be a paparazzi, Zero.
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And how!
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I always imagined Tom with a bird on his bird.
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FYI, Tom leaves all the organs in.
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i ate so much turkey and drank soo much sangria yummyy
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FYI, Tom leaves all the organs in.
All of them? So tom has a vagina now?
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In a strange, Ed Gein kinda way...
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the only thing i dont like of this long weekend is the black friday. i hate sales. lots of people raming the fucking mall just to get a discount, fuck. and they act like they didnt live in a civilization! today i was in strawbridges, going to the purse section(not trying to search for any sale product, i dont do that cause they are generally screwed up in some way) and some bitch came running past me and grabbed a purse that was beside me like she wanted to win me over grabbing it! wtf i got so pissed! i didnt want her 40 bucks piece of shit :angry:
edit: i didnt know it was gonna be this bad today. i'll never again step out of the house in black friday
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Not everyone wastes hundreds of dollars on a purse, Faye.
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Why does he constantly envision me having sex with food? o.o;;;;; I feel so dirty.
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I dunno, you just come off as a food-fucker.
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The fact that you're thinking about it makes me wonder what naughty things you've done to the eclairs on the table.
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I don't like eclairs, get your mind out the gutter you pervert!
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You don't have to like them, but either way I am staying away from your sex-bo-... I mean fridge.
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Ah ha! You nearly referred to a fridge as a sex box. Ladies and gentlemen we have our food-fucker!
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Um, it's your sex box, not mine since I don't even know where you live. So how could I fuck anythin in your fridge if I don't even know where it is. Not to mention that you're the one who started the whole food fucking thing to begin with, which means you probably have sodomized a morsle of food before in your life. It only makes me wonder if a kid from Kenya would cry if they saw you violating some sandwich, or worse, jerkin your gerkin while imagining me fucking a turkey.
Though I gotta say you drew me with some nice legs.
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But you referred to my fridge as a sexbox...
Anyway, yeah the legs look good. I was going to draw hands wrapped around the turkey legs, but hands are a bitch to draw in paint...
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But you referred to my fridge as a sexbox...
Anyway, yeah the legs look good. I was going to draw hands wrapped around the turkey legs, but hands are a bitch to draw in paint...
So? The point is you're drawing pics of people fucking food. That's just disgusting, due to the commitment taken to do such a task. It's like Guro hentai.
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Lets all worship zero's paint skills. :rolleyes:
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But you referred to my fridge as a sexbox...
Anyway, yeah the legs look good. I was going to draw hands wrapped around the turkey legs, but hands are a bitch to draw in paint...
So? The point is you're drawing pics of people fucking food. That's just disgusting, due to the commitment taken to do such a task. It's like Guro hentai.
And you have been offended. My job is done! :D
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Guro offends me, the Turkey pic made me feel frightened.
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I understand wanting to save money but Black Friday sales are ridiculous. Nevermind that you can save a whopping 100% by not buying anything. The malls were still packed this weekend, and I'm just wondering how many of those people can even afford to be shopping and how many are grossly living beyond their means.
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I'd love to know that myself. I live in an upper-middle-class-to-rich community and I had a woman return 3 pen-sets because she forgot to enter in her discount card. We went through a long process of refunding her chell JUST for a 45 cent discount.
I don't see how people subject themselves to it. I'm aware that part of it is curiousity. I went to Best Buy last black Friday and was nearly pick-pocketed. Luckily my good friend Nick was watching the guy and screamed "THIS GUY IS GRABBING PEOPLE'S ASSES!" and the guy took his family, left his shit in line and left. Not to mention all the sick people... I've seen healthier people in line for a flu shot...
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BUT THE TOASTER WAS ONLY 3 DOLLARS!
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I work at Office Depot, so it was all stupid shit.
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I had a great time at Target on black friday.
I missed the store opening and the huge line that I heard wrapped around the entire store.
Cant believe that we sold so many Garfield the movie dvds, these people would buy a turd if it was on sale I think.
Later I went to the Rocky Horror show, passed out in the lobby, then puked in a friends car on the way home.
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Cant believe that we sold so many Garfield the movie dvds, these people would buy a turd if it was on sale I think.
:lol: LOL!!
My job was dead on Black Friday. Nobody wants fish when they've spent all of their money on Christmas socks and Thanksgiving turkey it seems.
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Had the whole week off. About halfway done with remodeling for the new computer room/extension of kitchen. I hate primer painting. :angry:
Wednesday night's fun was a huge phone fight with Eddie, bro & mother about what to do the next day, making me thankful AGAIN for how cool my sister & family are about the whole holiday schtick and that I had amaretto for my coffee Thursday morning. Brother Tom & John safely out-of-state with John's family, lucky boys. Ended up getting Eddie's mom about 11:30. No fish offering this year at Black Eyed Pea, so we had veggie plates for lunch. Took her over to the bro's after that, where I played with their 12-week Boston Terrier AND with the 3-year-old child - y'all would have been so proud of me! :lol: Got back home & took my sister, nephew & girl friend & BIL to our favorite pub for dinner.
Kind of bleh feeling the next day from stress & drinking literally almost all day long. It was spaced so that we never actually got drunk or had a hangover, but our consumption level had definitely been reached.
The best day was Monday - we got married at our district Justice of the Peace court and spent the day in Galveston eating lunch harborside and riding around in a horse-drawn carriage. We're having a committment celebration party January 23. :D
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Cant believe that we sold so many Garfield the movie dvds, these people would buy a turd if it was on sale I think.
:lol: LOL!!
My job was dead on Black Friday. Nobody wants fish when they've spent all of their money on Christmas socks and Thanksgiving turkey it seems.
Mine was too. Of course, I worked 5-10pm so everybody was done shopping.
I drove past the LJS in my town on Friday and I saw ONE van pull in. I think they were from out of state.
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Some black guy tried to pick my pocket once. I slapped his hand away and kicked him in the chest. He walked away all casually trying to act like he was mad at me for "randomly" attacking hm, but he couldn't say anything because I hit him in the lungs too hard!
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Thursday night was a typical dinner. However, someone stuffed something they shouldn't have down the garbage disposal that clogged the drain and caused the sink to flood.
Our store only got 2 people the first hour to walk in. There were some good sales, like 99cents for a 100 bulb lightstring. But hardly anyone came in.
Not so with Best Buy. They had this 5 dvds for $20 sale and the line streched around the building twice. This makes me wonder if this was a line to get IN the building since it's not the line for the registers.
"But I just want to buy a pack of CD-Rs..."
"Sorry, you'll have to stand in the 3 hour line with all the people buying the DVDs and the Big Screen TVs that are on sale..."
The only sale I went to was at EB Games, they were having a sale with Computer games 75% off and Buy 2 get one game free. I bought FF8 for the PC, Mechwarrior 4 mercenaries, and a WWI fighter game. Still trying to figure out this damn junction system in FF8.
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You mean you haven't been bored to death by FFVIII yet? The junction system is easy, by the way. You're just a dumbass, like most of the people who play the game and whine about the battle system. Soon, you'll start whining about the lack of good story and treasure chests, and the fact that, despite being exceedingly easy to use, the battle system sucks balls.
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HA! Max Con will tell you how much I bitch about Final Fantasy games and FF8 is my favorite as far as battle systems go! The junction system is easy man, don't try and read those instructions, they'll just confuse you. If you need help that bad, goto GameFaqs.com for simpler instructions.
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Yeah, but with the junction system, you have no characters that are really specialized for anything. So instead of having to think about whether to use a white mage or a lancer as your third party member, you just give people the different junction monsters and abilities and go. There's no real thought involved. The materia system was almost the same, but at least there were penalties for using too much of it. There aren't really any penalties for using too much junction magic, except maybe you have to sometimes heal your monsters. It's like the game is meant or retards or something.
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Regardless it's the least frustrating Final Fantasy out there. That's why I like it so much.
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Have you played FFIX? The only real frustrating thing there is, if youhaven't played a character in a while and they haven't earned a certain skill, you have to either keep them with a sucky weapon till they learn it or give them a stronger weapon and they don't get another opportunity to earn the skill completely. And in FFIV, the characters learn new skills as the level up. If they've levelled up and didn't learn a new skill, then you buy them a new weapon. Unless they're like Tellah and can't learn anything new, or like Cecil and you just give him a staff from your magic users for a while.
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I've played and beaten IX. It's actually my second favorite in the series.
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You spoony bard!
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Bitch, stop being a dumbass. To say that there is less thought involved with the party system in FFVIII tan in other FFs is completely fucking ridiculous. THe actual problem with the over-extended customization of their abilities is that requires too much thought as a result of estra labor involved with switching eveybody's shit every time you reorganize your party. The biggest design issue wth FF8 was the same exact design issue with every FF. A very poor skill management system.
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Meg's got a bit of a point there. I've figured out most of the Junction system and it's not horribly difficult to juntion a GF to yourself, but the whole system is lame. If you want to transfer a GF you either have to do it manually, or use switch and then go in and set the GF up the way you want to.
I'm just annoyed by the whole GF/Junction system. In order to do ANYTHING you have to have a GF junctioned. You can only use 3 commands at a time, and 'Items' is not a manditory command like it should be, like it's been in any other final fantasy. You have to worry about GF compatability, and leveling them up a bunch, and matching them up right, and adding their stats to yours, and having them learn new techniques... ect ect...
There's just way too much fucking micromanagement there. Or you can just say screw it and let the computer do it for you and hope it works out for the best.
Disappointed in this game, I am. The card game is kinda lame, the action is slow to pick up, I still have no idea what the main plot of the game is even though I'm finally at the part where Riona joins your party, I'd say the only good thing about this game is the Draw ability.
That and the fact that on the world map, all three members of your main party walk next to you instead of vanishing into thin air between battles.
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Finally we agree on something. You're gonna hate it when disc three rolls around. It's grossness.
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I'm still stuck on a part in the third disc. Well.. "stuck" I guess. When you get there, I'll let you know hwat the fuck part I'm at where I don't want to advance the story because I need some character cards from people who won't play anything but fucking Random. At least Triple Triad had a rules system, unlike the ridiculous FFIX thing. :rolleyes:
What I feel about FF8 overall is that it had a shitload of ideas and angles that were very new and innovative. A lot of features and gameplay elements that had never been tried before, and still haven't been since (even the story was very untraditional in interesting ways). And while every last bit of it sounds very cool when you read the booklet, or you looked at previews in magazines and shit.... maybe about half of it was done well. Like the way the enemies level up with you? Sounds cool, but it really just prevents you from being able to keep a balanced party, because you're simply not allowed to do any field juicing. Or the SeeD rank thing. :) "Oh sweet, something that forces the player to remain on task, and not dick around leveling up their assholes... :( oh, no nevermind. It only pays attention to whether you're having battles, and not at all to whether the party members are behaving properly....................... :) cool!"
Hey, remember in stupid Charlie's Angels, when Drew Barrymore landed in a house with two kids playing multiplayer FF8? :lol:
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Tetra Master was fun.
There's a multiplayer FFVIII?
**SPOILER**And there was a reference on Drawn Together of the space scene between Squall and Rinoa which was actually hilarious.
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Not a spoiler!
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I know, but someone might have yelled at me for it. >_>
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What reference was that?
There's a multiplayer FFVIII?
No, it's just that in the scene both the kids were both "playing", holding controllers and all, despite the fact that they were clearly playing a one-player game.
As for FF8 on the whole, I loved the ass out of the Draw command. I just didn't really come to care about any of the characters and had no wish to waste time finishing it. It felt very anticlimatic. By the time I arrived at the third (or fourth, don't remember) disc, I realized I'd have more fun washing dishes. Now maybe if it had starred Quistis Trepe....
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Yeah. I actually played till right after getting the Ragnarok recently, deciding it was stupid to hate a game I'd only played for an hour and that it had to get better, but that shit with Rinoa, and that god damn theme song (how the hell does Faye Wong get her voice to sound like Olivia Newton-John's anyway?) made me feel like I was being made to read a really crappy book. Then I remembered I wasn't being made to do anything, and played some fighter instead.
The reference I was talking about was in that episode about Clara's Octopussoir, when she and Charming are doing that romantic montaguey-thing, and they're in space and holding hands like that. I think their suits are connected via their oxygen tube thingy.
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Two kids, one of whom was FAT, were clacking away at the stick to their controllers while Squall was attacking one of the creatures that can put you to sleep from the training area in Balamb.
Hey did FF9 have the two-player feature like FF6 had?
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Yeah. It can get kind of irritating though, because one person's controlling everything else and you're wanting a random battle to come along so you can do something other than stare at the screen.
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And it IS a spoiler. Albeit an extremely vague one. Not debatable.
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Toldja.
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Nothing a Jew says is correct.
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I meant to make a topic weeks ago about Drawn Together. I really like that show.
I didn't know 6 had a two player feature. Guess it doesn't matter in my case. I've been meaning to get back to that game. I was in that tower thing and while I could wear the Moogle Suit or whatever to avoid battles, I wondered if that was really a good idea to start with because I needed more experience anyway.
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Nothing a Jew says is correct.
Shut up.
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Nothing a Jew says is correct.
You're with Faye now!?
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Has "Wish Upon A Weinstein" taught you people nothing!?
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I didn't know 6 had a two player feature. Guess it doesn't matter in my case.
Right. Because you don't have any friends.
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Stop stating the obvious!
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Oh yeah? I'll buy you yesterday!
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You can't afford me! :angry:
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Probably not.
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Good! I'm glad this is settled. :angry: