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Despite all the predictions of doom and destruction, midnight has come and
gone. The candles and torches did not go out, the lock on my treasure chest
still fails to work (just like it always did), my abacus still does work,
blood did not rain from the sky, Satan did not sail from hades on a blazing
Skull's Eye Schooner, the Flying Dutchman did his rounds and shot through as
per normal, and I am reliably informed that as long as the sun rises on
time, the colony's sundial will continue to function as unreliably as ever.
This new nineteenth century is clearly over rated.
Nevertheless we will wait fervently for news from other centres. Of course
we'll be waiting fervently for about three months for a ship to bring news,
but we of the Brikish Armed Forces are quite used to waiting fervently for
long periods of time.
And after all, we are the NSW Corps! <<rah!>>
And we have plenty of rum.
<<RAH!>>
Happy New Year gentlemen.
Richard
Still baldly going...
Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/
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Richard Parsons wrote:
>
> Despite all the predictions of doom and destruction, midnight has come and
> gone. The candles and torches did not go out, the lock on my treasure chest
> still fails to work (just like it always did), my abacus still does work,
> blood did not rain from the sky, Satan did not sail from hades on a blazing
> Skull's Eye Schooner, the Flying Dutchman did his rounds and shot through as
> per normal, and I am reliably informed that as long as the sun rises on
> time, the colony's sundial will continue to function as unreliably as ever.
>
> This new nineteenth century is clearly over rated.
>
> Nevertheless we will wait fervently for news from other centres. Of course
> we'll be waiting fervently for about three months for a ship to bring news,
> but we of the Brikish Armed Forces are quite used to waiting fervently for
> long periods of time.
>
> And after all, we are the NSW Corps! <<rah!>>
>
> And we have plenty of rum.
>
> <<RAH!>>
>
> Happy New Year gentlemen.
This begs the question: Is anyone planning any LEGO celebrations of the
new year/millenium (yea, I know, the new millenium doesn't actually
start for another year)?
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Frank Filz
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Frank Filz wrote:
> This begs the question: Is anyone planning any LEGO celebrations of the
> new year/millenium (yea, I know, the new millenium doesn't actually
> start for another year)?
Yes - I'm taking my trains into work with me tonight for the weekend, and I'm
cracking open a 4532, 4537, 4539, 4547, and 4549 to build.
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Tom Stangl
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ffilz@mindspring.com (Frank Filz) wrote in <386CD901.7AAE@mindspring.com>:
> This begs the question: Is anyone planning any LEGO celebrations of the
> new year/millenium (yea, I know, the new millenium doesn't actually
> start for another year)?
Sorta. My wife and I are working on slowly working on rebuilding the
sets from a large collection I picked up on Ebay a few months ago. We
break out the bins on some evenings after our son has gone to sleep.
(Early last week I finished 6987, the Blacktron I base, woohoo!)
So, after getting back from an actual New Years parties a little after
his bedtime, she and I sat downstairs, watched the celebrations on TV,
sipped hot chocolate, kept an eye on the computers and the internet
in general, and built old Lego sets as the year rolled over. What a
great way to start the first year of the 2000s.
We had actually thought about throwing a new years day lego buildfest
(gotta do something with all of those boxes I got), but many of our
Lego friends are in other parts of the country for the weekend, so
we've postponed that until, I dunno, maybe the next big snowstorm.
-r'm
Remy Evard, Argonne National Laboratory
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~evard - Sorry, no Lego pages up yet
Supercomputing and systems administration by day, AFOL by late night
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