TX's

[GOZR]

Well is TX's group completely disintegrated? no one is on comms or nowhere to be seen... just ghosts in forum roaming....


What's up ?

[TX-Gunslinger]

Well,

Let's see:

1) Still beta testing
2) Trying to get banned at SIMHQ
3) Working many hours a day (I know you don't believe this - as I take a few minutes here and there to post a note or two and sometimes leave the computer logged in to fourms)
4) Eco's away from home for a longer period than normal
5) Mother-in-law needs help (remember she's in my house now)
6) Entertainng business clients
7) Attempting to spend what little time I have alone (remember the Mother-in-law part) with my wife.
New roof and car damage from a really bad hailstorm a few months ago
9) Wife's family has been vistiing the Mother-In-Law
10) Trying to keep money flowing so I don't have to lay off anyone in this recession
11) King just got married
12) King reinstalled XP
13) Starting to plan work and surveying my land (70 acres) 72 miles south of where I my house is
14) Trying to spend time talking my middle daughter through her 3rd child
15) Trying to spend time talking to my oldest daughter whose been in Germany for six years - with a husband on a second deployment to that IRAQ craphole
16) Scheduing travel for my Son to visit in August....

Much more - but this would be the small stuff - and I'll bet TB is going through similar things....

There's only a few of us - so when a couple are working on a full plate - it gets quiet here.

Thanks for asking though

S~

Gunny

[GOZR]

Yeap ! hard times.. i wont even mention on my side but yeap..  this is why i gave my TV away and sleep late, trying to make the day longer.. Just hold on tight there Gunny

[TX-Thunderbolt]

Wife and son have been out of town for 3 weeks and will return on Wednesday...that's tomorrow! WOOT!

In the meantime, I have replaced my mailbox (long story), fixed 2 of my outside hose bibs that were completely broken, fixed a leaking upstairs shower (having to cut access hole in the frikkin ceiling in a downstairs closet) and then fixing THAT by installing a latched access door in the event I need to gain access to it again someday, built my new machine and tweaked it out, rebuilt my old machine for my college-bound son, added some of those displaced parts to my wife's machine (specifically a slot-feed DVD player and an Audigy 2 (non zs) Platinum sc to replace her 7 yo SB live!).

All this while overseeing my department's role and playing my part in opening a $500 million dollar hospital wing-expansion under the magnifying glass of financially trying times.

I've been flying in the evenings some, but really in an effort to just relax a bit. I deperately want to get RoF back installed (I already DL'd the primary), but the mind power and time to get it all set back up from scratch is more than I'm capable right now. I ordered the retail version as well and will be interested in the side-by-side comparison.

Anyway, that's been my life lately. Like Gunny, I dip in and out of the forums throughout the day during small windows of opportunity and because of our internet filters blocking certain sites and content, I can't go to UBI or SimHQ anymore until I get home and cruising the forums then isn't something I've been interested in doing (see above).



TB

[TX-Gunslinger]

Earlier post deleted.  SIMHQ problem cleared.

Please don't refrain from posting over there - see new statements by administration.  Also, please don't use my poor example as one for yourselves....

S~

Gunny

[GOZR]

Well i try ti think lightly and fly a bit or roam in Arma2 .. A very close friend passed away last week.. going tomorrow at the ceremony...

[TX-Gunslinger]

I'm sorry to hear that your friend passed away.

I did fly last night for about an hour on a ROF (non-beta) server that was near full (off and on).  The frame rates, gameplay and company were excellent.

I would encourage any of you, if you have the release (non-beta) to grab a server and have some fun.  Hunting is great right now because the deer don't have guns yet

Remember, the command for chat in game is ESC.

S~

Gunny

[TX-EcoDragon]

Well is TX's group completely disintegrated?

Heh. . .certainly you know better than that GOZR!   

But I know what you are really saying. . .you miss flying with your friends! Aww. . .that's sweet! 

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your friend.

I'm still in Ojai, quite busy, and I've also got a memorial to go to. . .again. 

[GOZR]

Yes but here the problem .. there is no servers.. and when there are it's a maximum of 2.. and no indication of pings and all settings are check like simplified FM or gauges and friendly or enemy icons.. can't do that.. ( at list because it's just the start )

They really need to fix or make the server more like IL2 on the Refly button .. you have to wait that the mission finish to join.. That is not serious on a Sim based for Online focus.. It should be a choice.

Thank's Gunny

Eco ..

And sorry for the loss as well..

[TX-Kingsnake]

They really need to fix or make the server more like IL2 on the Refly button .. you have to wait that the mission finish to join..

Have we mentioned to you that this has been requested repeatedly throughout the beta? It is going to be included in a future patch.

Looking back at every year in TX, the summer months were the lowest level of participation. In fact every year right around now through the end of summer you will find nobody is around. Summer is when people have things to do and places to go. In the winter when everyone has a new sim toy you will find a high level of participation. 

[TX-Kingsnake]

Here is one on the topic of summer time and people not being around from 2006

http://www.txsquadron.com/forum/index.php?topic=2412.0

[TX-Gunslinger]

Ahhhh King - that's what I admire much about you - critical observation skills   2006 - I remember that post, seems like that was yesterday - these years are passing so fast now for me.

Hey TB - I was in a hurry this morning - 500 mil expansion - man!!!! You poor man - my utmost sympathies!  I whine about keeping 15 - 20 folks on a payroll and you manage that!  Holy moly, no wonder your busy.  How do you even find time to breathe?

It all makes sense now...

Hat's off

Gunny

[GOZR]

Yes critical observation skills is a given but people skills not..

 Haaa! Eco Pin pointed the good one..

But some how it doesn't feel like Summer.. relax summer .... summer vacation .. not this year..

[TX-EcoDragon]

Hehe. . you guys are funny. . .and GOZR being critical of someone else's people skills. . .well, that's another good one!

 




OK, Group hug.

[TX-Gunslinger]

Summer?

Bah Humbug!  First, it was 106 degrees the other day - only good thing about that temp is you don't have to worry about humidity - there is none     This time of year in central Texas is the equivalent of January in Maine.  This is when we slow down going out of doors past 9:00 AM and before 4:00 PM - they don't call it "siesta" for nothing.

Here's my year....

January - Congress is out of session and all the money they allocated for projects is sitting in Civil Servants inboxes.

February to May - After much pleading, begging and mild threatening - some of the money is (due in January) finally released so folks can actually start to work on the projects which have been approved.

June to July - all the leftover money which expires on Oct 1 (leftover from the previous year) is fought over and fought over and finally released.  Remember the main U.S. Government rule "Thou shalt give no money back - for if you do - your future budgets will decrease by the amount that you give back, proving that you are infact, a very poor manager"

September - submit budgets to Civil Servants for review......

S~

Gunny