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So, I'll be sitting here on the Craptop, keeping you guys updated.
I miss my music. I miss Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. I miss DJing. I miss playing. I'm SO bloody bored right now...
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Isn't your laptop able to run CoH? Even if it was too laggy to actually play, you could at least still use the chat channels.
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Nope, it's ridiculously slow.
will make sure enough salvage is collected so you don't miss out on the Cossy slot, though can't do squat about the badges.
Ummm, will your laptop run CoH at all, ie let you log in.
even if it's running at one frame an hour, we could still team you for the halloween badges...
Yeah, that's what I was thinking - as long as the laptop can handle logging on once and accepting a team invite, he should still be able to get the badges and salvage.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
I appreciate the sentiment guys, but the bottom line is, this isn't even my laptop. It's a "time share" until I get my desktop back, and there's so much [censored] on this laptop that I doubt CoH would fit.
40 gig HD, and about 35 of that is Hebrew music.
Just an update for you, whilst I'm still mildly inebriated, and of sense to find any of this remotely amusing, I failed my Fitness test. I quit smoking for that [censored], and I still don't pass? Nuts to that.
Let me just explain that it isn't my fault. Anyone who knows me knows that I take my mistakes on the chin, and freely admit to [censored] up when I do. However, this was so ludicrous...
I was told repeatedly that the fitness test was made up of two parts. The Bleep Test, and Push and Pull. I was also told that I only had to hit level four in the Bleep test.
For those not in the know (i.e Golden Girl) the Bleep test is a pre-recorded test where you have to run a set distance from one 'bleep' to the next. You do this a number of times, and then the level increases, and the time between bleeps decreases. Level four is, quite honestly, ridiculously easy. It is, as I mentioned in an earlier post, a brisk jog. No worries there, as, all joking aside, I'm in pretty good shape. Hell, if I can pick up Weasel without running risk of a hernia, I've got no worries.
I got to level five in the Bleep test with a slight panting, and decided to walk off, in order to conserve my energy for the Push-Pull test. Level five, remember, is one FULL level higher than I was told to hit. Job's a goodun, as we used to say at TrU. I did the push-pull, no problems (my average was something like 80 kgs both ways, spread out over five attempts - minimum is 35 kgs) so I basically had no worries.
When I went to check out my average, I was slightly surprised to find out I'd failed. It turns out that the minimum level for the Bleep isn't level four, like I'd been told, but level 5.4 - the same for the Regular officers. If I'd have known that, I damn well would have continued.
I got to a payphone and informed my mother, then my father, then my grandfather of this interesting complication. My Dad, who originally fully backed my entry to the police, and then had some reservations about my safety, was pretty sad for me. He's not the type to wait by the phone, but he was pretty interested in my results. The only time, incidentally, he's been interested in my life over my pain in the neck older sister (yes, that IS her, and no, I can't get you a signed copy. I haven't spoken to the money grabbing, patronising, holier-than-thou [censored] in nearly four years and that's how I like it). My grandfather, upon hearing my plight (as opposed to DW's "Plight") was more practical, and said something along the lines of "This is what you get for being too smart".
Nice guy.
So, yeah. I'm not in the police just yet. I'm going to speak to the people at Recruitment in the morning, and find out if and when I can re-take the fitness test. Hopefully in the next week or two, as I have something like 20 days before the training starts. If I can't, I'll ask them to hold all my details, and I'll re-take it at the next available opportunity.
Oh, and it's been confirmed that I -will- be getting a new PC. However, it's being ordered through my Dad's company, for tax reasons, and the guy put in charge of the ordering...well, I used to work with him, when I was in sales at the company (private sector, very nice) so I know what he's like, and, with any luck, I'll be back up and running by the time I'm 30.
Who told you the test was only to level 4? Was it anyone offical? If it was, you'd have grounds for getting an automatic pass.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
Hey Benno 
Sorry to hear about that mate, didnt read the whole thread but read the OP and the long plice one, u'd make a good copper, u seem like a stand up guy with ur head in the right moral place 
. Come back soon and if u dont, well keep in touch
I clicked that link, your sister sounds like a right diztzy,halfwhitted, lazy [censored]. can i say that?
Plight
You didn't exactly fail, instead you were unclear on the rules. You'll get there in the end. Took my cousin eight tries before he managed it - and he's been sporty since he could walk .
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I quit smoking for that [censored], and I still don't pass? Nuts to that.
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*cough* *hack* *choke* *splutter* Blackmail is fun!
Glad to hear you're getting your computer issues sorted, mostly because bad things come in threes - and now that you and Weasel have your computers back up and running (or at least, in the progress of becoming up and running), maybe my damn ISP will stop faffing around and not cut my internet off for two sodding days.
Ahem.
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Hell, if I can pick up Weasel without running risk of a hernia, I've got no worries.
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*whaps you* I've lost weight! 
Well, I've got him 4 bits of salvage if he needs them next time he's on Defiant
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
Aww, bless. :-)
Okay, a few quick updates before the cat realises that he's sitting on my feet and attack.
1. Police
I finally got a call back after leaving plenty of messages over the past few days. I have to make an appointment, next week, for the week after, with Occupational Health, for a re-examination. Oddly, they're not too concerned with my fitness level, it's more that I have a duff knee and I haven't been immunised against Hepatitus. They're going to stick me on a treadmill or something, so that's fine.
2. PC
My new PC has been ordered - in fact, I think it was ordered a few days ago, but nobody bothered to tell me (it's been ordered through my Dad's company, for tax reasons) so hopefully, in a week or so, I'll be back up and running, and then I just have to put my files onto it. I should, with luck, be playing CoH again by the middle of November.
3. Other things
Driving test next thursday. Also, I like bewbies.
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Driving test next thursday.
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Ahh, so a different kind of bleep test for the examiner, when you accidentally pull out in front of an 18-wheeler?
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Also, I like bewbies.
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Who doesn't?
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They're going to stick me on a treadmill or something, so that's fine.
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Well, at least you'll be able to partly experience the hunt for Jack in Irons
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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Also, I like bewbies.
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Who doesn't?
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Your old friend Rot Hood?
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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my pain in the neck older sister yes, that IS her, and no, I can't get you a signed copy. I haven't spoken to the money grabbing, patronising, holier-than-thou [censored] in nearly four years and that's how I like it.
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...who? sorry, my reading is limited to Dickens, Bukowski, Heller, Stephenson, Banks, Serendal etc. not much for... what ever the hell that is.
anyway, hope your back with us soon, and i pity the fool that gets a Hell, though i have twigged on the resons, i still hold to my motto "i'd rather burn in hell, than buy from Dell" you have clean copy of Windows right?
I'll be getting one. I'm going to ask my friend Barry to burn a copy of XP Pro for me.
Entirely legally, of course.
Yay glad to hear you'll be making a swift return, Blindy's been telling me i've been doing impressions of you..funnily enough, the Luke Skywalker one and the ELLO! you do, yeah I dunno why, maybes its cos I miss the insults 
Also gratz on the Police front, just dont get me nicked yet, it wasn't me that stole the pool boy, ask Hoppy!
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Yay glad to hear you'll be making a swift return, Blindy's been telling me i've been doing impressions of you..funnily enough, the Luke Skywalker one and the ELLO! you do, yeah I dunno why, maybes its cos I miss the insults
Also gratz on the Police front, just dont get me nicked yet, it wasn't me that stole the pool boy, ask Hoppy!
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Never again..
I am the Blaster, I have filled the role of Tank, Controller and Defender
Sometimes all at once.
Union EU player! Pip pip, tally ho, top hats and tea etc etc
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So, I'll be sitting here on the Craptop, keeping you guys updated.
I miss my music. I miss Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip. I miss DJing. I miss playing. I'm SO bloody bored right now...
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Isn't your laptop able to run CoH? Even if it was too laggy to actually play, you could at least still use the chat channels.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork