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My student loans paid off.

I've lived in metro Detroit most of my life so I'm used to big communities. On the one hand, it's great being a performer is a large community as there are always opportunities for gigs and such. On the downside, there is a lot of competition willing to underbid you. In 2004, I moved out to a small mountain town in Colorado for a job. On the upside, I was one of the only performers of my kind there so I was in demand a lot. Plus, I couldn't go anywhere in that town without people saying, "Oh, you're that comedian from the club. I saw your show last week," and they'd give me free stuff. There were two restaurants in town I never had to pay for my food at all because it was always comped. So that's cool. On the downside though, I had to drive 45 minutes just to get to a Home Depot and about an hour and a half to get any of the other shops and amenities I took for granted in Detroit. Ideally, I'd like to live in a small to mid-sized community but within only a half-hour driving distance of a decent city.

It's a great knife! It has all the features I want, feels great, works well, and is pretty cheap to boot. I have the big one that I carry everywhere except work, and the little one that I carry at work. Both of them together still cost a fraction of the Benchmade I used to have, and honestly, I think I like the Gerber better. I am very, very picky about knives and that Gerber Fastdraw is perfect for me.

I can bring Marc's coat.

Still looking forward to this one: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi107256089/ I <3 Emily Browning.

When pRick and I hit the range soon, you can join us if you want.

Haunted house type stuff primarily. Pop up zombie heads, skeletons rattling chains, air bursts, etc. But, I'm also looking to maybe make some homemade confetti cannons and use compressed air in lieu of squibs for bullet hits in video and such.

Springfield XD .45 compact. 10 in the mag, 1 in the pipe, 13rd reloads - Winchester Rangers.

You know, I have yet to see that. I really need to go through my list of classics and finally get around to watching some. I haven't seen Citizen Kane either.

Now I know where and when to send in the tactical nuke. "Ghost reporting for duty." *Bzzzzzz...* "Warning, nuclear launch detected." ~Starcraft

Numerous things from a couple haunted things at my buddy's house next year for Halloween, all the way up to complete lighting system for a variety show.

Only if I can nom your balls.

Does anybody use air compressors for tools or machinery? Anybody work with pneumatic pistons/cylinders, solenoids, and other valves? Anybody construct their own compressed air gadgets? I have a few projects I want to work on next year and I'm thinking pneumatics is the way to go so is anyone willing to tutor me in some basics?

I know there are a lot of DJs on this board and while you deal mostly with audio and goths tend to hide in the dark, hopefully a few of you know about lights. Let's say all I need to do is dim a few par cans. Then do I really need a dmx controller, or just some sort of dimmer controller? Let's say I also want to fire a strobe and control a fog machine. Will a regular dimmer controller handle that, or then would I need dmx? Now lets say I also need to control when solenoids operate on pneumatic systems. Do I need to program that through a dmx controller or will something else work? So, if I don't need dmx, what would you recommend? If I do need dmx, what would you recommend? Brands? Models? Would you recommend hardware or software? Brands? Models? In addition to a controller, what other things do I need? Cables and type? Relay packs? And once I have everything I need, how does it all hook up and work? I don't plan on using any intelligent lighting so my controller doesn't need a joystick, though maybe someday I'll pick up a laser in which case (depending on the model) I might need a joystick. Anyway, let me know what you know and if you're ever working a club some night and will be running lights, can I come by and shadow you and pick your brain?

They found her in Washington state, huh? I bet she was trying to find sparkly vampires.

Which is why I think the whole election process needs a massive overhaul, but that's a subject for another thread entirely.

That just sounds dirty. "Yeah, I got yer wand right here."

Phee and eternal are the same thing?

I'm a Slurpee. I bring people together.

I hope there are some cute young ladies crushing on me even though I'm married. Because if I like them back, and they like TWB, and she likes them back, then there is some great potential there. Just because TWB and I are married, doesn't mean we aren't available.

Hey, I know you! Good to see you back, even if it is under unfortunate circumstances.

I think the two party system is tearing America apart and fueling a whole lot of arguments. You read the newspapers, watch the news, chat around the water cooler, etc. and what are you lead to believe? That the race for Michigan Governor was between Bernero and Snyder. But then you get to the polls and find five other names on the ballot. Who are these people? What are these other parties they belong to? Why didn't they get any press time? The past several years have been, "We're pissed off with the way the Republicans handled things so I'm voting Democrat." Whether you believe in the Dems or not doesn't matter, you're just voting against the Republicans. Then it's "We're pissed off with the way the Democrats handled things so I'm voting Republican." Whether you believe in the GOP or not doesn't matter, you're just voting against the Dems. Well stop voting against what you don't like and start voting for what you do like. In the election yesterday, I voted for a couple of Democrats, I voted for a couple of Republicans, I voted for a couple of Libertarians ... my votes were all over the place. Why? Because I don't buy into this party bullshit. I look at each candidate and how they feel about the issues and I vote for the one who closely aligns with me. Sometimes that means I vote mostly Conservative. Sometimes that means I vote mostly Liberal. Sometimes it means I'm all over the place like this last election. But what it does mean is that I vote, and I do so as educated as possible. In my book, "bipartisan" is a bad word. It should be "multi-partisan" or even "nonpartisan". But to continue the whole Republicratic system is to divide the country in two and watch us tear each other apart, and that's not a country I want to live in. In Matthew 12:25, Jesus is attributed as saying, "Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and any city or house divided against itself will not stand," and later in history Abraham Lincoln spoke, "A house divided against itself cannot stand". While Lincoln was referring to the Union vs. Confederacy, North vs. South, slave vs. freemen, this country is divided again today into Republicans and Democrats and we are fighting another Civil War; not with guns and swords, but politics and rhetoric, and I think the latter is more dangerous. It is time to eschew our political affiliations and stand together, as Americans!