For those of you who are on Daylight Savings Time anyway. (Feel free to put them back if you're not but don't blame me when you're late for everything).
I almost forgot again which could have led to some embarrassment. Personally i think DST is a ridiculous and pointless exercise which should be scrapped. Time is immutable. Stop screwing with it!
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What's DST??
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What's DST??
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Daylight Savings Time.
In America the clocks get adjusted to fit the seasonal change in daylight hours.
It's because some jobs are dependent upon hours of daylight, so instead of just waking up earlier, we go to all the trouble of changing our clocks by an hour twice a year.
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Daylight Savings Time
Ib4l thanks for reminder tho
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DST does not apply to most countries that are close to the equator, as the length of the day does not change much from Summer to Winter.
Singapore (Montoyatok's location) happens to be one of them, although DST did apply once.
P.S. If you are in the U.K., some banks shut their ATMs down over this period, (1 to 2 am, Sunday) to stop the transactions being screwed up by the time change. Progress!
Its daylight saving time not savings fyi
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Soon I will get a free extra hours sleep.
Also, Spring forward, Fall back. That's how I usually remember it.
There are a lot of people that want to stop doing it, me included. But then all of these parents start screaming "think of the children". They are afraid that their urchins will get run over if it is dark out when they are waiting for the school bus.
Boooo! I don't like it when it gets dark that early.. In december it gets dark at 15:30 (3:30 PM).
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Boooo! I don't like it when it gets dark that early.. In december it gets dark at 15:30 (3:30 PM).
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That's what happens when you live on a Gas Giant.
Actually, there are some energy benefits to DST. It allows us to consume less barrels of oil for energy with the clocks rolled forward. Now if we get greener energy sources in the US, then I'm all for scrapping it...
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Boooo! I don't like it when it gets dark that early.. In december it gets dark at 15:30 (3:30 PM).
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Damn that's early
Showing my age here, but any Brits remember the experiment from 1968 to 1971 when the UK remained on British Summer Time all year?
In Northern England we went to school in the dark, in Scotland it was even worse, the dark lasted longer. We had to wear stupid PVC tabards with reflective panels front and back, that nearly made you pass out from the fumes from the plastic.
It ran for two years before they ditched the idea.
that sucks i work nights and work this weekend i better get paid for that extra hour
You guys realize that its not THIS weekend, right?
Nov 4th.
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You guys realize that its not THIS weekend, right?
Nov 4th.
Sent from your mom.
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I did.
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You guys realize that its not THIS weekend, right?
Nov 4th.
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It's not the same everywhere. It is this weekend in the UK.
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You guys realize that its not THIS weekend, right?
Nov 4th.
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Oooooo. I can see it now. It was planned for Nov 4th because of the election on Nov 6th, Republicans put it that day so it will make Democrats become disenfranchised and not show up to the polls on time!!!!
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It's not the same everywhere. It is this weekend in the UK.
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Ah... the day that geeks fear and dread is coming up... so which one of you XDAers have prepared for Valentine's this year?
As for me and mine, we have already exchanged gifts ahead of time (she's going back to China on the 14th)
After six years it's really hard to come up with something nice... -.-
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This is our fifth Valentine's Day. This is the second time I hand-made something for her...
That's nice... last year I made a song for her (I'm producing some underground music, btw)
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That's nice... last year I made a song for her (I'm producing some underground music, btw)
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Haha.
Any spelunking on that night?
Its our 11th anniversary on the 15th so there`s nothing left to get, I`ll have to make a trip to Tesco`s, I really know how to spoil it, I mean her..
As for anything planned, jaysus, I`ll probably end up having a choke with me yolk a few times and then get her to have a go, then sleepy time........looking forward to the 12th!!!!!?????
Just a commercial strategy to take out more money from your pockets...
If you love her/him make Feb. 14 everyday!
Yeah... that's why my gift was hand-made... she got me a (gasp!) Domo-kun. I was wondering WTF? all the way to my office (we met up for lunch today)
we are sooo lucky u put an anonymous vote
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Yeah... that's why my gift was hand-made..
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I can give my wife a "hand-made gift", but she better prepare herself for a mess, waheeehhhehehe
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I can give my wife a "hand-made gift", but she better prepare herself for a mess, waheeehhhehehe
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Well, I'm actually not that far in the relationship with this girl but if I was I would let her decide what we should do during the day (shopping or whatever she wants to do). At the evening I would prepare a delicious homemade dinner with starter and dessert, give her a massage and probably suffer through a romantic movie (I would concentrate more on the cuddling with her than the story though)
I would probably also give her some jewelry at the dinner if I could afford it but... I'm a student ^^
We don't do Valentine's day.. because we are cheap like that
Most people here including me
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we need moar of this in o-t
Flowers, nice dinner, movie, and some random inside joke type presents. Nothing super original, but definitely did the trick
From my estimates, the "geek" subspecies of humanity will be extinct by 2060-ish.
Only 2 are prepared for this event, while the rest are unprepared or even unaware of the existence of said event.
I haz sad...
I procrastinated, didn't get anything, just told her I'd take her to the book store. She was happy. She got me the BBC Planet Earth on blu ray.
I met a girl on the cruise ship I was on for the last 4 months. She's still there... looks like I'm off the hook? lololol
seems like i was the only one voted 'maybe' .
haha i wonder what would happen I still got 35 minz of V's day here.
spent almost half the weekend making some sort of valentine's day videos for youtube and actually 'failed to advertise' it cuz I dont have a girl
anyway Happy Valentine's Day
Are you ready for the apocalypse??
It is on the 21st December!If it won't happen, lots of babies on 20th September 2013, and you know it
How do you think is it going to happen?
Zombies
Flood
Earthquake
Internet virus
Bill Gates kills us all with the T-Virus
9GAG
Americans will eat healthy!
Storm
Nuclear explosion (FK I am 2 km away from one!!!)
My personal choice are zombies, I get girls, and also that would be really cool
I am waiting for more suggestions
I'd love to know how the last day of a calendar got turned into the apocalypse. I remember (smug time) reading about the Mayan calendar many, many years ago, and it was just a case of "This really long calendar is due to end in 2012. It's not a big deal, but only happens around every 3,500 years or so."
It's about as dumb as "The Rapture".
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I'd love to know how the last day of a calendar got turned into the apocalypse. I remember (smug time) reading about the Mayan calendar many, many years ago, and it was just a case of "This really long calendar is due to end in 2012. It's not a big deal, but only happens around every 3,500 years or so."
It's about as dumb as "The Rapture".
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Yep, stupid I know, a post on 9gag:
Aliens: we came to give you a new calendar...
Human: why? Won't the world end?
Aliens: what? You think that the world ends just because the calendar is over?
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now you know we will never eat healthy
What another one? I've survived a dozen since i was born!
They don't even make the end of the world like they used to.
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What another one? I've survived a dozen since i was born!
They don't even make the end of the world like they used to.
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True, my parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles and parent's friends have gone thru many, they must be strong...
Anyways I want zombie apocalypse, chicks
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I made this calendar. If i die today the next guy will find this calendar and freak out since the calendar stops at december 31st.
- "Where's the one for 2013?!"
- "I died.. dude"
-.- the Mayans just never finished the damn calendar cause they were wiped out by the Mexicans.
-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
The image below is the mayan calendar. It is a circle. Last time I looked at a circle, it's pretty continuous and never really ends. Did something change lately?
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The image below is the mayan calendar. It is a circle. Last time I looked at a circle, it's pretty continuous and never really ends. Did something change lately?
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Yes, people...
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Yes, people...
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I tend not to be around people often. Are they bigger idiots than they were before?
We will be in-between the battle of heaven and hell.
I wonder when it actually will be 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds before the end of the world.
Edit: Here's a countdown to "the apocalypse"...
http://www.2012supplies.com/countdown3.swf
People may think it is a normal day... but tomorrow is the International Woman's Day...
I think it is time to show the love to your half... What is your plan?
Women's day? I want to organize a competition where I have a bunch of women, and see which one makes the best sandwiches. After I eat them I proceed to have sex with the winner, and then the rest of the competitors.
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Women's day? I want to organize a competition where I have a bunch of women, and see which one makes the best sandwiches. After I eat them I proceed to have sex with the winner, and then the rest of the competitors.
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Just pray they dont read your post before they make you the sandwich, otherwise rat-poison sales will be through the roof tomorrow.
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Just pray they dont read your post before they make you the sandwich, otherwise rat-poison sales will be through the roof tomorrow.
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Look like Americans don't celebrate this day? too bad, lol...
I think i am gonna skype my GF tomorrow... it has been too long...
Well,at least buy a flower or a dinner for your lady, gents.
If I had a girlfriend I'd celebrate.
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If I had a girlfriend I'd celebrate.
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This.
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Women's day? I want to organize a competition where I have a bunch of women, and see which one makes the best sandwiches. After I eat them I proceed to have sex with the winner, and then the rest of the competitors.
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No wonder I don't like you....
Wasn't me!! I didn't do it!
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People may think it is a normal day... but tomorrow is the International Woman's Day...
I think it is time to show the love to your half... What is your plan?
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Tomorrow? *****, i'm in the future! It's the 8th here.
BRB, i have to move my flying car. Enjoy your land based vehicle!
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Just hope your mom dosent win.
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You might not know... tomorrow is 8th March.
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Err... no it's not. Unless....
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Just hope your mom dosent win.
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Its only open to single hot females aged 18 to 25
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Indeed, me too. ._.
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Me three, but its all over. Its 9th March now (here)
I still have under 9 hours.
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We still have 31 minutes to go.
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Oh no, that's too short. Better try next time (year)
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I still have under 9 hours.
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You have got favorable chances, any luck ?
1 hour and 15 minutes to go here... but i also belong in mil's category
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Oh no, that's too short. Better try next time (year)
You have got favorable chances, any luck ?
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Sorry I was busy... unfortunately no hot teenage women were involved
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Hold on. This chick I hooked up with in Poland just IMed me. She's drunk and wants to come to me right now. And I think she has a BF. lol.
Speaking of which, I hooked up with this chick, she gets a BF 3 months later, that was 3 years ago. I hooked up with a different chick last summer, and I found out a few weeks ago she's engaged
Did anyone watch Good luck Chuck?
And she is really drunk lol. SHe said she should go to sleep but she doesn't know how. lol
This is fun. She broke up with her boyfriend. And she said the Oktawia (her name) that I met is back. And when I met her she was crazy in love with me. Hahaha
And she confessed she misses me and thinks about me very often. lol.
Why is it I'm the man with the girls in Poland and I can't get a freaking girl here in the states????
So I live only like 4 or so blocks from the beach, never really get bad hurricanes but this one is apparently going to be as bad as the really bad one in the 60s (bob maybe?) Here's some pics and vid I took earlier today.
The hurricane wont be here really until late tonight into tomorrow morning.
Panaramic pic that obvi wont fit,
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I feel bad for you fellas. Made the weather beautiful down here in Fl. Sad to see it pass.
yea man, just hope its not bad here on the jerseyshore
I'll probably go out with my camera and shoot something by the east river if it floods over.
I'm in Dover DE and so far it isn't THAT bad. Still have power
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NYC is going crazy about it. Mandatory evacuations and all and the storm hasn't even really hit us. lol. I think I will ride my bike in the storm. lol
It's supposed to hit it area NYC/northern NJ by 8pm. I really hope they are wrong and it turns out to be a dud.
I hope
I hope
I hope
it's going TO MAKE LAND in the NY/NJ area.
So if your Along the east coast but it's passed/passing by....It's still out to sea right now.
Keep that in mind
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I heard news today...that's sad
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What a bunch of ******* that are on TV.
It is a cat 1 and will be a tropical storm by the time it hits land.
It is going to be windy and it is going to rain. Sheez. The news said 7,500 flights have already been cancelled.
It is a rainstorm!! lol
I'm heading out to the docks. THey already flooded over. lol.
Thoughts and prayers go out to the fellow XDAers in the states hold your heads
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Thoughts and prayers go out to the fellow XDAers in the states hold your heads
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Yes. You people on the east coast hold your heads!!
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What a bunch of ******* that are on TV.
It is a cat 1 and will be a tropical storm by the time it hits land.
It is going to be windy and it is going to rain. Sheez. The news said 7,500 flights have already been cancelled.
It is a rainstorm!! lol
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It's a cat 1 hurricane with a nor'easter that's being forced onto land by a high pressure ridge and it's going to hit the jetstream.
I'm in the path of the storm and I think if you don't think it's going to be bad maybe you should refrain from posting here.
I for one, am worried.
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It's a cat 1 hurricane with a nor'easter that's being forced onto land by a high pressure ridge and it's going to hit the jetstream.
I'm in the path of the storm and I think if you don't think it's going to be bad maybe you should refrain from posting here.
I for one, am worried.
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Dare I say the Perfect Storm?
Seriously. Calm down. It is a rain storm. If you are worried leave. Don't sit around and wait for the government to get you out.
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Dare I say the Perfect Storm?
Seriously. Calm down. It is a rain storm. If you are worried leave. Don't sit around and wait for the government to get you out.
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It's more than a rain storm.
I'm high enough that flooding isn't a concern. Winds however, are.
(That being said I never wait for the gov't to do anything.)
I've already evacuated my pets and loved ones. I'm stuck here because of my job. I'm responsible for pulling all the cabs off the streets and putting them back on road when conditions allow (tomorrow night? Wed?)
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And from August last year:
Hurricane Irene.
Her bark was worse than her bite.
Even if I wanted to get out of my borough, I can't. No car, no public transportation.
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Even if I wanted to get out of my borough, I can't. No car, no public transportation.
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Ride your bike. I saw a few hipsters riding theirs. I hope one of the 115mph gusts knocked them over. lol
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And I can confirm Sandy is pretty wet right now.
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I will not follow in the hipster's footsteps. I hope you're having fun in one of the other boroughs.
(and then i saw your location on the side of your post)
Have a date on Dec 22 - can anybody confirm
I got my fingers crossed that it ends! Yay end of the world!
Aint you building your spaceship??
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We won't get the tickets only presidents and millioners will
Not this sh*t again.
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We won't get the tickets only presidents and millionaires will
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FTFY
Let it rip !
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THIS.
Sad will have to live another 50-60 years more if no accidents or diseases come by
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Have a date on Dec 22 - can anybody confirm
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Anybody ever think the scribes just started getting carpel tunnel while making the calendar and finally said "Screw it. I'm done!" and went to grab a brewski?
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Sad will have to live another 50-60 years more if no accidents or diseases come by
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You can always become a drug dealing gang banger. Your chances of dying like quadruples.
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You can always become a drug dealing gang banger. Your chances of dying like quadruples.
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Or you can play chicken with a train. I bet you can make the train give up and move first.
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Anybody ever think the scribes just started getting carpel tunnel while making the calendar and finally said "Screw it. I'm done!" and went to grab a brewski?
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This. People put faith in strange things in life, but in my opinion, believing that a random society that existed ~2,000 years ago was able to somehow pinpoint when the world will end is nuts! Just my $0.02.
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This. People put faith in strange things in life, but in my opinion, believing that a random society that existed ~2,000 years ago was able to somehow pinpoint when the world will end is nuts! Just my $0.02.
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You mean human sacrifice won't appease the God's? I've been living my life wrong all these years...
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You mean human sacrifice won't appease the God's? I've been living my life wrong all these years...
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Like writing username reverse etc right?
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Dyslexics, untie!
Easier than it sounds, harder than it looks.
Mayan calenders didnt had leap years. This means if their calculations were true than the world would have ended about 8 months ago. So the world is not going to end.
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Mayan calenders didnt had leap years. This means if their calculations were true than the world would have ended about 8 months ago. So the world is not going to end.
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*Thanks*
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I'm just gonna top myself on the 20th. Even if the world doesn't end the amount of "ermagerd sterl alerve!!!" threads the day after will probably push me over the edge anyway.....
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....