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Today the trunks I mentioned end of february are transported away. Ground is still frozen and still some snow. Since I do my photos with my old analog cameras I rarely upload them. This photo was done3 weeks ago with a fast black and white analog film and then I scanned the negative .... I think these old analog cameras have a charm a high resolution digital camera lacks. And best you can get them cheap at ebay nowadays. I am a dinosaur I know, but the photo has some nostalgic charme, or?

The cranes and wild geese just arrived a few days ago and turned: They are flying back south !!!! Temperature dropped 20Celcius , had snow and -14C. Today my ladies were buying clothes and didn't want me, so I looked for some tools at nearby hardware store and guess what I found: Just 2.40 Euro. Remember the McCurrywurst just a few posts ago? This one is a real one from a butcher who sells his own stuff saturdays at market, yummy Yummy YUMMY. French fries are not the tiny ones, they are 1.2*1.2cm square , just to get the size.

Level 105 and the animation of Energy Blaze has a nice range, even better that the area of effect seems a bit wider than the animation. I marked where the animation stops. I recharge a 5.5s Energeryblaze with a single hit (4.2s reg per hit are in the weapon slot). Because I have no weapon skill and I use high level weapon my attack speed is just 80%. It is enough to kill whole areas with 50 beasts at once. At bosses I swap to a Kaldur (not that much range needed) and use a leatherhat trophy which boosts attack speed by 53% and if needed I can do a demon tooth trophy for all the reg per hit I need. I really like that I can use small heal potions for a full heal in niob thanks to alchemy.

Here a screenshot with maximum combat art range equipment. What is not needed for CA-range is damage mitigation gear. Old computer with even older graphic card, so all settings to low. Screenshot was taken with 'sys ss 2' Open console by pressing '^'. Type : sys ss 2 Type: quit You can try sys ss 3 or 4, but my card is too weak. 2 is double width and height at a screenshot and at 32MB a screenshot. Click picture for full size.

I know that the glacial shield would be a bit better in defense and freeing 1-2 skills, but I wanted to maximize CA-range The level 75 skill distribution: all stats stamina , from now on vitality armour lore 5 --- in beginning to unlock armour modifiers on non set stuff tactics 9 --- unlock dual wield and modify buff for defense celestial lore 75 --- main attack concentration 1 --- 2 buffs celestial focus 75 --- main attack dual wielding 1 --- 2 nlovae combat discipline 1 --- 10% less regeneration time ancient magic 75 --- only one damage type, breaks damage mitigation but not magic armour of enemy toughness 53 --- reducing peak damage constitution --- defending by healing demands some hitpoints to survive the hit first Have to do a screenshot when I play again, currently I have like 300 photos my oldest did at university to magnify in my photo-lab. Old analog black and white 6*9cm 220 roll film. I am a dinosaur, I do not like the digital cameras except for their ease to upload pictures.

How a Bratwurst keeps your kids healthy: Kids were playing in the snow and there were still 3 raw Bratwurst from yesterday which couldn't be frozen because of no room left. So peeling the Bratwurst, making small meatballs. Cutting 4 onions into half rings. Roasting the meatballs and the onions in a bit of butter. Making a soup with a lot of fine cut herbs, adding the roasted stuff. Nice brown soup with meat and vegs to fight the cold before having it.

Hit additional enemies is polearms and in CM-patch these Molotov-cocktails= elixir bottles you can throw. A BFG seraphim with throwing elxirs can be a solid build. BFG to boost ranged weapon skill and hitting additional enemies on an elixir scales with this skill- Elixir is one hand, so you can use a shield. BFG skill three allows e-shield..... Life leech: I can use dual Kaldur's each socketed with this great combination of: -enemy chance to evade/enemy can't evade combination. Heal spell right and holding both mouse buttoms it works. So I do not have to compromise the build, just switching weapon slot. But platinum I can still do a combination pillar/heal and press right button at a boss. After reading a chapter in a nice book I look up and I am still alive while the boss is dead In fact most dangerous enemies are demon champs and eyes who have x% life leech attacks. But after playing this long I know where they can appear and I place pillar with extended reach at screen borders.

Winter is back, 6 inches snow in one hour yesterday. Terrible accident on Autobahn 30 miles away, 20 trucks, 80cars .... My wife was close to end oif her shift when first injured arrived at hospital. The miracxle was: no deaths, 100 injured. She did a 16 hour double shift and came back late night instead mid day. Still sleeping when I left.

Even if I place a pillar at my feet: with Playerlevel 76 and 63% +combat art range, blowpiper and wiillowisps are most often in its range. Dryad island I normally place pillars at screen ends to kill willowisps before they are in shooting range. I miss the wiki, I do hard in remembering the english skill and CA names after not playing for a while

Approaching the final battle at platinum difficulty with my MA-build. Maximum_Area of effect build. It is really not the same as maximum area_ of_effect_damage. I just create a build which can equip every piece of equipment which boosts +combat art range. Tactics lore is not chosen for weapon damage, it is just 9 points to first unlock dualwield for 2 Nlovae staves and second to fully modify the buff for defense. Armour lore, toughness and constitution --- 5 skills Celestial focus and lore, ancient magic and combat discipline to play a celestial caster -9 skills Add 1 point in concentration for 2 buffs and all skills are ser. All stat points go into stamina, I want to play a real caster in niob and not a hybrid who recharges spells with regeneration per weapon hit. So far it is great fun to see undeads die far far away just because of the aura-buff. Needless to say: pillars and aura are modified for maximal radius.

And I was so proud when I climbed the may pole aged 16 .... At may day a pole was erected on marketplace with ribbons on the top. If you climbed and picked a ribbon you could ask an unmarried girl for a kiss. Next autumn my oldest has a class in cone harvesting for her studies in arboristic and forest economy. It is done in a natural park, so not the usual method of using a helicopter to cut of the top with the cones. It is climbing. But probably less dangerous as putting rings on the feet of kite nestlings as she did last summer for climbing training.

McDonalds: I was shocked when I saw this at them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst And even more shocked of the taste And it seems I wasn't the only one: I really think a Currywurst isn't their thing. Luckily it is sunny and my rapeseed-oil driven motorbike with 1.2litre per 100km allows me do drive to a real currywurst store and still save money.

Even the ground is frozen at shadow places still, the forest ants are leaving their sunny nests already. I take this that spring is arriving, also first chains of cranes were passing in their flight back from africa to scandinavia. Our sundial has following german saying: Mach es wie die Sonnenuhr, zähl die heiteren Stunden nur. The sundial at local church in latin: horas non numero nisi serenas Don't know if there is an english equivalent, from Wiki: horas non numero nisi serenas - I do not count the hours unless they are sunny-A common inscription on sundials. The english translation doesn't rhyme as the german does.

No snow, no rain, frozen ground, .... The reason I was quite silent last days: optimal weather to transport the wood from the forest without damaging the soil too much.

I am happy with my trackballs. The last 'rat' I had was a Logitech G9x which I bought used after a computer show. It was none of the reasons listed on its features list which made me buy it, it was because it fit in my big hand (I need a rat and not a mouse). I had already a carpal tunnel syndrom surgery which was could be traced back to a broken hand in my youth. So I am very carefully now, avoiding things like a repetitive strain injury. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury

Once upon a time there was a little (obviouisly not me) boy who was overlooked at school. Things changed at university when musics bands and good looking girls surrounded him like bees a honey-pot. What was the change? TeX A nice program which allowed to write chemical formulas, mathematical equatations, music and a lot more in a programming way. Way faster than changing the type wheels in a typewriter to type a Sigma, alpha, beta, ... The best is: even today I am faster in typing formulas with TeX than in any other word processing program. Decades of using it.... The quadratic formula is $-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac} \over 2a$ \bye For windows I would choose an implementation with a GUI: http://www.texniccenter.org/ Of cause my daughters use it too: who wants to ask a shy little mathematician for help when visiting university

Soon the season in germany again: Rhubarb sorbet made with a fruit wine from strawberries ...

Was lucky to find an old single-disc on a garage sell out. 20 euro for 200 singles and I was only interested in one: http://www.myvideo.de/watch/5042034/Tony_Carey_Room_with_a_view The band played it on our marriage when asked for something slow...

Do you know that people with dogs suffer way less from flu and cold? Probably being forced to walk with the dog out at any weather hardens them. The local anti-cough medicine: Cut onions in fine pieces, pour sugar on them. Osmosis will bring some onion liquid into the sugar. Use the liquid as a anti-cough sirup. The aetheric oils help fighting the bacteria and the Vitamin C strongens the immune system. A secondary effect: no boy will approach your daughters when smelling like onions and a lack of socials contacts prevents spreading the disease

Latest information about our 'meteor': I was already puzzled how a Meteor hitting russia at a speed of 54000km/h could be seen in germany when it hit russia coming from the east. The police was informed by spacecontrol that it was in fact a booster from a russian rocket which burnt when hitting the atmosphere above our little place. Video how the entry of the booster was seen by people in germany: Around 35seconds is an explosion which made my daughtrer believe in a plane crash. She said it was really bright. However, reading the -20Celcius and all these destroyed windows from this meteorit, hope a humanity organisation moved some plastic or other stuff to close the houses.

Even if having dual wielding - at bosses using a two-hzanded x% lifesteel changes a lot... Normally I concentrate on a single aspect early and develope a second or third aspect later in game I would start archangel's wrath and the two shields probably.

GIMP Doing all graphic and photowork with it. Free, multi platform and scripting, so you can apply the routines on all 300 photos at once Since it is multiplatform you can choose what you need from homepage: http://www.gimp.org/

Armageddon Had a police call and feared the worst. Then the officer said they want to excuse because they weren't believing our 8 year old when she reported a possible plane crash when she was out with the dog after 10pm. I was getting my wife and the 13year old from railwaystation. The 8 year old was ordered to look for the twins the 30 minutes I would be away. Our 13year old didn't say that she phoned the police and I wouldn't have known if not for the call from the police. It wasn't a plane crash it was an asteroid hitting russia and she was the first but not the only who reported it in my village. 7 calls and the officer said that his collegue felt sorry because she said her name, address, age, and reason for the call as she was taught all in a correct way, he just had nothing from flight control and she was the first with a call. Now I hope that the big one which is scheduled will really pass the earth by these 40000km newpapers say.

As far as I remember: Only the magical lore and the combat art level affect the life leech damage. Yes thing it was the AddOn which added Ancient Magic. It was hard to play a caster Inquisitor.

Knuckles, know how it is without power. My main problem used to be trees falling at storms and damaging lines. And since I am the only house on this end of the line it was always low priority for the power company when stuff had to be repaired at bad weather. So now we use at least 3 different way to heat the house and 3 to for power. normal power supply wood gasification driving an engine whose heat is put into a heat battery 5 metres in ground our staircase with the builtin oven: http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?/topic/18412-what-is-the-latest-big-real-life-project-you-started/page-1 old wood and coal fired ovens a trailer with an 18 horsepower generator (got it cheap from a bankrupt company, 500 euro at auction) One reason for the triple savety was that my wife is an doc and at bad weather normal all comes together: not possible to bring people to a distant hospital because of trees blocking, power shortage, ...