Happy Holidays and may gaming goodness be with you always.
Same to you!.. Wishing all Grogheads a safe and happy holidays!
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Happy Holidays to everyone! Hard to believe another year gone by....
A safe and happy holidays to you all!
Merry Christmas tomorrow (and tonight) to my fellow Groggy Christians, and Happy Holidays to everyone else! -- may God strengthen and honor you all this coming year!
Quote from: Grim.Reaper on December 24, 2018, 09:57:36 AM
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Happy Holidays to everyone! Hard to believe another year gone by....
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Merry Christmas to all....and to all good gaming, enjoy yourselves grogs.
Happy Holidays. See you all on the other side! ;)
MERRY CHRISTMAS Grog-Brothers everywhere! Go to bed early and don't forget to leave a good game on for Santa to play when he comes down the chimney. :bd:
Quote from: Sir Slash on December 24, 2018, 12:19:21 PM
MERRY CHRISTMAS Grog-Brothers everywhere! Go to bed early and don't forget to leave a good game on for Santa to play when he comes down the chimney. :bd:
Heck no, he might ruin my progress!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all Grogs!
Merry Christmas, everyone. Stay safe.
Very best wishes to all.
Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year!
Happy Massive Sales Season!
Io Satvrnalia!
Eat, drink, be merry! Try to enjoy the company of your in-laws! Watch Die Hard! Polish your dongles!
Nadolig Llawen, fy ffrindiau!
Have a lovely holiday and fill it with games!
Merry X-mas! All the best to you all. :arr:
I actually did watch Die Hard with both my daughters Friday night. Their favorite character was Argyle :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas all! :hug:
Happy Holidays to all.
I hope everyone here has the chance to spend time with their loved ones.
Happy Holidays Me Jolly Grogs!
:hug: :)
Merry Christmas, m'friends. Hope it's one to remember and for all the right reasons.
Quote from: Steelgrave on December 24, 2018, 07:04:40 PM
Merry Christmas, m'friends. Hope it's one to remember and for all the right reasons.
If all goes right I'm not going to remember a lot of it. ;)
^I am well down that road.
Quote from: Gusington on December 24, 2018, 03:44:25 PM
I actually did watch Die Hard with both my daughters Friday night. Their favorite character was Argyle :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
There's a saying at my house. "It's not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls off the Nakatomi building".
^I hope you're telling the truth with that one.
^ I am. Crazy thing it was my wife that first said it many many years ago.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to my fellow Grogheads.
Eat, drink safely and be Mary! Or Merry.
Quote from: SirAndrewD on December 24, 2018, 07:10:48 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on December 24, 2018, 07:04:40 PM
Merry Christmas, m'friends. Hope it's one to remember and for all the right reasons.
If all goes right I'm not going to remember a lot of it. ;)
:2funny: :2funny: O0
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc, etc to all the Grogs!
I thought there must be a Groggy Christmas carol out there somewhere but the closest my search came was this poem/carol written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in December, 1863 as he was nursing his son back to health after being injured in the Battle of New Hope Church in Virginia.
(full article here: http://suvcw.org/mollus/art005.htm )
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Till, ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men!"
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep;
God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!
Couldn't have said it better myself Bobarossa. The only other Grog-worthy poem I can think of would be the one about the guy from Nantucket. ::)
Merry Christmas nards.
Happy Christmas and a happy, merry new year to all.
May the force be with you.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all Grogheads near and far :D
-on a side note-
about Christmas Carols
a friend from my shooting club had send me these along with his Frohe Weihnachten greetings
^-^
Happy Christmas & Yuletide Holidays everyone!
Merry Christmas / Vrolijk Kerstfeest !
Merry Christmas, gentlemen! To you and your families! May it be a happy and healthy time :)
Happy Holidays fellow grogs!
I'm working 12 hours at the hospital, so no gaming for me today.
Be safe out there!
Groggy
Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year to one and all.
I've heard about that Grog from Nantucket.
I thought that was you. :o
If only...
A belated Merry Christmas to everyone - hope it was excellent for all of you
Quote from: GroggyGrognard on December 25, 2018, 11:53:32 AM
Happy Holidays fellow grogs!
I'm working 12 hours at the hospital, so no gaming for me today.
Be safe out there!
Groggy
Thanks!
One of my buddies got out of the hospital from an emergency removal of his gall bladder on Christmas Eve. Best thing that happened this Christmas except for the Birth of Christ.
Merry Christmas and Happy new Year, nerds
Quote from: GroggyGrognard on December 25, 2018, 11:53:32 AM
I'm working 12 hours at the hospital, so no gaming for me today.
No wonder you're groggy!
Are you a Doctor? A Nurse?
Happy Holidays Brant, to you and yours! :bd:
Quote from: airboy on December 26, 2018, 09:45:53 AM
One of my buddies got out of the hospital from an emergency removal of his gall bladder on Christmas Eve. Best thing that happened this Christmas except for the Birth of Christ.
Hope he gets to feeling better and has a speedy recovery.
Quote from: Tpek on December 26, 2018, 04:24:27 PM
No wonder you're groggy!
Are you a Doctor? A Nurse?
lol Yeah, the 12 hour shifts are a bit long. I'm a radiographer.
Groggy
Quote from: GroggyGrognard on December 27, 2018, 09:25:36 PM
lol Yeah, the 12 hour shifts are a bit long. I'm a radiographer.
Groggy
Cool! Before I went into EMS I spent a year or so as an aide in the Radiology Dept. This was around 1981 so I developed film and pushed around the 'portable'- a wheeled x-ray machine that was the size of a refrigerator and was used when patients were too ill to move out of the ER or were in isolation. After the latter there was the inevitable scrub brush and bucket of bleach. I also spent a while helping out in the Nuclear Medicine dept... a weirdly insular place run by two eldritch techs and a secretary that I came to believe was secretly in charge.
^You have done a lot of interesting work.
Yeah, his working life is like the complete opposite of mine.
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 28, 2018, 08:57:14 PM
Cool! Before I went into EMS I spent a year or so as an aide in the Radiology Dept. This was around 1981 so I developed film and pushed around the 'portable'- a wheeled x-ray machine that was the size of a refrigerator and was used when patients were too ill to move out of the ER or were in isolation. After the latter there was the inevitable scrub brush and bucket of bleach. I also spent a while helping out in the Nuclear Medicine dept... a weirdly insular place run by two eldritch techs and a secretary that I came to believe was secretly in charge.
Great story! Thanks for sharing. I enjoy hearing about radiography stories from years ago, back when radiographers had to develop their film. One of my radiography instructors in school started in the field in the early 80's and would regal us with stories about "back in the day" having to develop the x-ray images on film.
The portable x-ray machines nowadays are much smaller and lighter than a fridge. They are digital systems, which means the x-ray image comes up immediately on the portable machine monitor. This is very convenient not only for us techs, but especially for the doctors who can immediately see the image and, for example, if it is a chest x-ray, can see a line or tube placement. Or if it is an upper or lower extremity, can immediately see a fracture and/or dislocation. Diagnostic imaging technology at its best. My job is all about producing quality images for the radiologists and patient care. I love it.
When I was a rad tech student, at one of my clinical sites, I helped out one of the nuclear med techs with transporting patients to and from the stretcher to the scanner machine table. Nuclear medicine has always sparked my interest, and it requires further education with its own registry exam. In the diagnostic imaging world, nuclear medicine is a whole different beast.
Groggy
@ Huw: mine too.
My buddy lost about 40 pounds, but survived. He had a gangrenous gall bladder that was just barely removed in time. But he is much better and went to the first half of Auburn's basketball game with me today. I'm hoping he learns that when he is in severe pain or when he is chronically short of breath (he also had a heart attack) that he goes to the doctor.
Happy New Year - - - at least from here.
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Happy New Year!!! Any gaming resolutions like; finish such and such game or get to that backlog of sale purchases you haven't touched from 3 years ago.....??? And of course, like all NY resolutions they will be unfulfilled and forgotten a week from now. :idiot2: :uglystupid2: <:-)
Quote from: Rayfer on December 31, 2018, 09:35:19 AM
Happy New Year!!! Any gaming resolutions like; finish such and such game or get to that backlog of sale purchases you haven't touched from 3 years ago.....??? And of course, like all NY resolutions they will be unfulfilled and forgotten a week from now. :idiot2: :uglystupid2: <:-)
God I wish I can finish some of the games I have. I'm making a concentrated effort that I think I will be able to finish Spider-Man in the next couple of months. Then it's devoting mega time into red dead
Happy New Year everyone!
Happy New Year!
A Happy and prosperous New Year to all my Grog-Brethren everywhere. My New Year's resolution this year is the same as last year, to fully update all my versions of Combat Mission. And it will probably be next year's as well. :2funny:
Happy New Year all!
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Happy New Year, my Groggy friends!
Easy to stay awake here, Rednecks with beer and guns will keep you up all night. :hide:
Happy New Year guys!
Hmm...I still feel the same as yesterday, just with a slight headache.
Quote from: GroggyGrognard on December 29, 2018, 12:14:08 PM
Great story! Thanks for sharing. I enjoy hearing about radiography stories from years ago, back when radiographers had to develop their film. One of my radiography instructors in school started in the field in the early 80's and would regal us with stories about "back in the day" having to develop the x-ray images on film.
Groggy
Developing the film was a real trip. Whomever was scheduled to develop film that day spent most of it in the darkroom (which was pitch black, no little red light) opening the large film holders containing exposed film and feeding the sheets of film (some of which was 2-3 feet long on each side) into an automated developing machine with about a hundred rollers in it that would run the film through first a developer, then a fixer, and finally a water bath. Then we would take sheets of unexposed film out of bins and reload the holders and pass them back out through a small pass-through that could only be opened from one side at a time. All of this was done only by touch and location memory. Also, the machine jammed a lot... :(
While I was there the department was slowly transitioning over to 'rare earth' film holders that would fluoresce slightly inside exactly where struck by x-rays so the techs could cut back on the level of exposure to patients when those holders were available.
Since we worked in such a sealed off room we were allowed to bring in a portable radio and jam tunes while we were 'sealed in'. O0
I took photography courses in high school (1989-1992) before digital pictures and we had a very similar setup to develop our own film, complete with the radio 😎
Quote from: Staggerwing on January 01, 2019, 08:57:47 PM
Developing the film was a real trip. Whomever was scheduled to develop film that day spent most of it in the darkroom (which was pitch black, no little red light) opening the large film holders containing exposed film and feeding the sheets of film (some of which was 2-3 feet long on each side) into an automated developing machine with about a hundred rollers in it that would run the film through first a developer, then a fixer, and finally a water bath. Then we would take sheets of unexposed film out of bins and reload the holders and pass them back out through a small pass-through that could only be opened from one side at a time. All of this was done only by touch and location memory. Also, the machine jammed a lot... :(
While I was there the department was slowly transitioning over to 'rare earth' film holders that would fluoresce slightly inside exactly where struck by x-rays so the techs could cut back on the level of exposure to patients when those holders were available.
Since we worked in such a sealed off room we were allowed to bring in a portable radio and jam tunes while we were 'sealed in'. O0
Brilliant story! Thanks for sharing.
Sometimes, when I have to go to OR for X-ray they will be jamming to tunes in the room. It's interesting to find out what kind of taste in music the surgeon has.
Also, there was a CT tech at my hospital on the weekends for awhile who is a big fan of old heavy metal music and would play it in the tech workroom while performing CT studies. Nothing like jamming out to Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden while performing a CT head scan.
Groggy
^HA