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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by mac5732:
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif 2001 started out ok, it ended a bust. Still trying to remodel my kitchen & downstairs, a job that should have taken 2 wks is now on the 4th week and we're still living out of boxs and no sink, try finding something you thought you had marked on the box and forgot,, ugh, http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif
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2002 has got to be better when it comes to that $^&(*(*&^%''' Kitchen mess...... It can't keep going on, can it????/ won't it ever get done????
sigh...

just some ideas mac http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif <hr></blockquote>

Well, mac, my parents are having a bathroom and kitchen remodeled, plus having central heat & A/C installed, plus having a new full bathroom installed, and trying to remove textured paint from nearly every wall in the house. Even with professional help, it's taking 3-4 MONTHS to accomplish everything. They've been living without sinks in the bathrooms for over a month. In fact, I ended up hosting the family Thanksgiving at MY house because Mom's was so torn up. And my sister hosted Christmas at HER house for the same reason.

So, I guess I'm saying it could be worse; but I wouldn't expect your kitchen remodelling to be a fast job. Especially if it's the first time you've done any of the tasks. I recently replaced two bathroom sinks and 3 sets of faucets; it took 3 times longer to get the first sink and first set of faucets in than it took to get the rest of the work done.

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Man, this thread is depressing. I personally am looking foreward to a great year. After 7 long years I am finally moving out of this hellish town and getting my own place. (I never thought this day would come.)

Oh ya, gonna be livin it up in sunny Arizona!

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
Man, this thread is depressing. I personally am looking foreward to a great year. After 7 long years I am finally moving out of this hellish town and getting my own place. (I never thought this day would come.)

Oh ya, gonna be livin it up in sunny Arizona!<hr></blockquote>


So, the Arizona connection grows. What part of AZ are you moving to? Yesterday, the high in the Phoenix area was in the mid 60s, so things are really nice right now. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif (Of course, you have to brace yourself for June, July and August, but that's a different story.) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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I'm movin to Tempe in a couple of weeks.

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TS, tell your mom I feel for her, its like living a nightmare in h... doing dishes in the utility tub, can't find anything you need, colors not coming out right and on and on and on.... yuk

Growltigga, I did have some professional help, that's part of the problem, myself, wife & 2 different contractors. lost cupBoards, floor grout that came out in 3 DIFFERENT COLORS, now whole floor has to be re-done, and thats only the beginning. I'm glad we put this off for the Last 20yrs, I don't think I could go thru this more then once a life time, if there ever is a next time, I'm just going to sell and but a nice little condo, haven't had much playing time because of it..

Oh how I feel and relate to those who try this...
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just some ideas mac

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Gryphin:
Growltigga,
That is excatly my point. In human terms, the strange things we do are unpredictable. It is why Cpt Kirk could beet Spock at chess.<hr></blockquote>

Gryphin, senility can lead to unpredictability as well!!

On a serious note, I think I am going to give up SEIV and go back to playing Shogun - I had no problems commanding thousands of Samurai but everytime I play SEIV - I get whomped by some b##### alien race - it is beginning to get depressing as I just don't seem to have the time to devote to trying to understand all the nuances of this game without a manual/idiots' guide!!

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Mac5732,
Kitchens, conservatories, patios and wooden floors are 4 things man is not meant to wot of without the help of a professional.

I have done all 4 in 2001 which means it is going to go down as (a) an expensive year (b) bloody stressful and (c) not a time for your wife to realise she actually preferred oak to maple when you have just put down 100 square metres of the stuff

2002 was meant to be the year of no home improvements!!

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Growltigga:
...I just don't seem to have the time to devote to trying to understand all the nuances of this game without a manual/idiots' guide!!<hr></blockquote>

Have you checked out Dubious's strategy guide?

What about this thread?

Or
this one?

Or maybe this one?

How about this one?

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by mac5732:

Growltigga, I did have some professional help, that's part of the problem, myself, wife & 2 different contractors. lost cupBoards, floor grout that came out in 3 DIFFERENT COLORS<hr></blockquote>

Mac, what can I say? you have my deepest condolences and best wishes for resolving this

I took the view that I didn't want contractors involved for the same reasons (it helps if your brother is a builder who built his own 9 bedroom house) - still took us a solid 3 1/2 weeks to redo the kitchen and that is even with a great belgian company turning up to help fit the electrics etc

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Growltigga, not to change subject, but Baen has a release date on Weber & White's sequal to In Deaths Ground, Shiva Option, date is February 2002, only a couple more weeks before we find out what happens..... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

mac