Great to hear from blue again!

Never played Blasto, but I do remember the ad from Gamepro.

I want to get some displates of some of my favorite characters to hang up on the walls of my office. I am having a hard time deciding which one to get for Katara. Which one do you guys think?

Oh, WOW!

I love that last one with the inset image, inside a silhouette. Plus it spells her name - I like that.

The saga of Chris Chan continues to escalate.

i can't believe chris escaped court from a bathrooom window lol, i seriously thought we would be at the end times for his shenanigans but surprisingly not.

There's been a shooting in my hometown of Norfolk, Virginia, near Old Dominion University. A gunman opened fire at a weekend house party. Seven people were shot, two died later in the hospital.

Weekend gun violence is almost routine now across the country. Now smaller cities, like Norfolk, are also experiencing a rise in shootings, just like larger metropolitian areas. 

My beloved hometown, the once quirky and strange, Norfolk, Virginia, has become too much like the rest of the country. My enchanted childhood will not be experienced by future kids growing up in the shadow of a US Navy Base and NASA at Langley.

i'm.... honestly thankful that i live in dutton, virginia now. chesapeake, newport news, portsmouth, virginia beach, norfolk, all the worst places to live in, while dutton and gloucester have been serene and quiet. i honestly missed this lifestyle from the early 2000s when i lived in gloucester for the first time. no trains waking me up at midnight or early in the morning, no sound of shootings happening every day like it was in those places. edd, if you could ever get the chance to move around here i'd love to visit.

Hopefully this campus shooter will just give himself up. Unlike other campus shooters in the past.

eddstarr wrote :

There's been a shooting in my hometown of Norfolk, Virginia, near Old Dominion University. A gunman opened fire at a weekend house party. Seven people were shot, two died later in the hospital.

Weekend gun violence is almost routine now across the country. Now smaller cities, like Norfolk, are also experiencing a rise in shootings, just like larger metropolitian areas. 

My beloved hometown, the once quirky and strange, Norfolk, Virginia, has become too much like the rest of the country. My enchanted childhood will not be experienced by future kids growing up in the shadow of a US Navy Base and NASA at Langley.

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Thank you guys  it's great to have friends, especially when your hometown becomes unrecognizable.

For years the Tidewater region was a strange mix of history, people, customs and traditions. My grandma and her generation enjoyed British tea time with a southern twist. Almost everyone I knew enjoyed sharing stories about the area with all the navy serviceman who were puzzled by some of the weird observances.

I still remember the 1962 NATO Day Celebration Parade through downtown Norfolk.

The North Atlantic Fleet Commaner was waving like a madman from the rear seat of a 1960 Imperial LeBaron hardtop sedan. My mom wanted to know why I got upset by the sight of the NATO Commander and I told her I thought he was being abducted to Great Britain and never to be seen again. (and that car freaked me out too).

It's 9/11 and it's raining. Very fitting.