Last Knight Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 What I find tends to make it bearable is unconsciousness, along with liberal infusions of water and oxygen. Good luck with that last one, though.Yeah, I find it impossible to sleep on planes... Hopefully the world's comfiest travel pillow helps with that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ub3r_n3rd Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Ugh, I can't sleep on planes no matter how long the flight. When we took our trip to Italy in 2010, I was awake the whole 15 hours to and from the US. At least I don't get jet lag as I adjust really quick to the timezone changes this way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleBluberry Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 <ahem> http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/previews/latest/01530 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ub3r_n3rd Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 That one make me chuckle LB, he's a cool little sculpt. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Knight Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 <ahem> http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/previews/latest/01530 many kinds of awesome. XD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sundseth Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Does anyone else hit the stores the Monday after Easter to get cheap chocolate bunnies? Nope. Cheap jelly beans, cheap malted milk balls, cheap candy eggs ... but not cheap hollow chocolate bunnies. I have a weird double vision about pounds based on getting most of my information from books, some of them very old. My general sense is that a pound is $2, which I think it roughly was around the time I visited the UK. Historically, I feel like a pound is $5, which I think it might have been way back in the days of the gold standard. Like, a hundred years ago and more. Of course, a yen was the same as a dollar back then too, and that has *rather* changed ... The best site I could find only goes back to 1953. But other data I could find indicated that the Yen was pinned right at 2/USD in the pre-war years, then started to fall with the embargoes. After the war, it looks like it hovered around 350/USD for quite a while. Postwar, the pound sterling was pinned to 2.80 USD. (ISTR references to 5 USD to the pound prewar as well, but can't find reliable sources right now.) And the Deutsche Mark hung at around 4/USD until the late sixties. And then currencies were allowed to float rather than the exchange rates being heavily managed by central banks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sundseth Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 <ahem> http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/previews/latest/01530 many kinds of awesome. XD Reminds me a lot of the old Ral Partha Dwarf with No Name figure (two versions, one with a hand crossbow, and one with two black powder pistols). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingo Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I have a one-yen coin from around 1900. It's solid silver, the size of a silver dollar. I guess it took some fierce inflation to get it to about 100 to the dollar. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Knight Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I have a one-yen coin from around 1900. It's solid silver, the size of a silver dollar. I guess it took some fierce inflation to get it to about 100 to the dollar. Weeeeeeeeeeell, the dollar isn't what it used to be, either. And I imagine that solid silver yen is worth a bit more than a yen, these days. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Knight Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 World's Comfiest Travel Pillow by wandererchronicles, on Flickr 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Chaoswolf Posted April 11, 2014 Moderator Share Posted April 11, 2014 I'll join Ub3r N3rd in wishing you a safe flight! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Darsc Zacal Posted April 11, 2014 Moderator Share Posted April 11, 2014 I'll join Ub3r N3rd in wishing you a safe flight! And me as well. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Knight Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I have boarded for the first leg, Norfolk to DC. Thank the gods it's short, cause thus is the most cramped I've been on a plane - and that's saying something. Thanks for the well wishes! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Knight Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 It's raining in DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talae Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 The goal of the game with the shaving cream on my head at the pep assembly was to have a student toss Skittles onto our heads from 10ft or so away. I ended up with a student that was less than coordinated. She was accidentally pelting me with them underhand-pitch style. Good thing we were also wearing safety goggles. I came in second because of this... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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