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clockwork_docHello Daimon, Metody,
Just letting you know I've got a Nexus e-mail now, so it should be easier to get in contact with me if neccesary. Hope you're both doing well.
-Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown
Just letting you know I've got a Nexus e-mail now, so it should be easier to get in contact with me if neccesary. Hope you're both doing well.
-Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown
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Date: 2008-09-28 09:57 pm (UTC)Been a truly bizarre couple of weeks. But. I have some fun stories, and I am doing the last of my gear-selection after trolling for ideas.
I helped rescue some guys from a place called Black Mesa earlier this week. It did a great deal to help clear the old head and lift my mood.
How go things on your end?
D.
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Date: 2008-09-28 10:05 pm (UTC)Glad to see you've been keeping busy. I'm looking forward to seeing what you picked out.
I see, that's good. I hope everybody is okay. What happened?
It's unusually quiet in Chicago. Makes me a bit worried that we're due for something catastrophic. Then again, perhaps I'm just paranoid. I'm still working on my time machine design, gathering parts. Ran into some new people -- man called Egon in the park, and a kid named Zel. Had nice conversations with both of them. Egon gave me some meditation tips -- I'm hoping it can help me a bit with getting more control over my weather powers.
-Doc
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Date: 2008-09-29 06:04 pm (UTC)Sorry it took me so long to get back to you - this got caught up in the spam net. Work and school have gone all political shaped, but real life is going pretty well. I've made a lot of friends.
Hope things are going well for you!
--Metody
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Date: 2008-09-29 08:39 pm (UTC)That's all right, I wasn't expecting an immediate response. I have plenty of time on my hands.
Glad to hear real life's going well, even if work and school aren't exactly. I hated when politics came up at my place of work -- it seemed there were always two people determined to get into a fight. Luckily things seem to be quiet on that front here at the moment. And it's good you've made some new friends. Friends are important.
They're all right at the moment. Working more on controlling my weather powers. Met up with someone I hadn't seen in a while. It's oddly quiet now in Chicago, and it makes me a little nervous. Still, have to take the calm when you can.
-Doc
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Date: 2008-09-29 08:43 pm (UTC)(It's horrible, but I keep wanting to salute with 'what's up?' I'm sure this would not at all be annoying.)
I'm sure it'll all work out. There's just some questions about money and it's brought up some really old bad blood between my advisor and, like, half the people I work with. Gah.
We had the most amazing storm last night. Half the sky set on fire, and the river too. I wish you'd been there, because I would have loved to hear what someone who actually knows about weather would have had to say. And yeah, cherish that calm. It's a precious commodity!
--Metody
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Date: 2008-09-29 08:58 pm (UTC)(Heh, that's okay. I actually haven't heard it yet, can you believe it?)
Yikes, I see. I hope it does all work out. I've been on the recieving end of tension at work, and it's not fun.
. . . On fire? Literally? Great Scott. I don't know what insights I could have given you, I've -- never seen the sky on fire. Looking like it was from sunsets and the occasional bad thunderstorm. . . . Though it does make me wonder if I could have controlled it regardless. Weird.
Tell me about it. We've just come off a rash of all sorts of bad things. Quiet is good.
-Doc
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Date: 2008-09-29 09:02 pm (UTC)It'll all work out, one way or another.
Yes, literally on fire. It only happens a few times a year, and never for very long now that the factories get shut down during the worst of summer, but really on fire. Big red puffs right after the lightning. It's pretty high up, though. Thank goodness! And it'd be pretty cool if you could have controlled it.
--Metody
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Date: 2008-09-29 09:09 pm (UTC)Sooner rather than later, hopefully.
Wow. That's -- good that it's high up. Though it worries me slightly you have an atmosphere that can ignite like that. I can only imagine the panic something like that would have caused in Hill Valley. If I could have controlled, I would have made sure it stayed far away from any inhabited areas.
-Doc
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Date: 2008-09-30 12:48 am (UTC)Back in the seventies, it didn't stay high up - that was when they discovered that the outgassing from some of the factories could combine under the right hot, moist atmospheric conditions and spontaneously ignite. Fwoosh. Fwoosh through a good portion of the city. It only lasted a few minutes but it started a lot of ground-level fires.
Also, the river bursts into flame a few times a year. This is not a clean city. Amazing sunsets, though.
--Metody
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Date: 2008-09-30 12:56 am (UTC)Great Scott, I see. I'm glad it's not that bad nowadays.
I can guess. Sounds like a rather dangerous place to live, honestly. (But what do I know, I live in a Chicago where a certain coffee shop has exploded MULTIPLE TIMES.) Now I can see better why you were so impressed with my snow.
-Doc
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Date: 2008-09-30 01:34 am (UTC)It's just Steel City that's that bad. The rest of the world is pretty nice. It's downright idyllic in the hills of Pennsylvania.
And yeah, the snow! That was great, just like something out of a Christmas card!
--Metody
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Date: 2008-09-30 01:40 am (UTC)Ah, that's a bit better. I can't imagine the entire world being like that. Be rather depressing.
I'm glad you liked it so much. It's nice being able to use my weather powers to make people happy.
-Doc
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Date: 2008-09-30 01:44 am (UTC)This is like slow chatting.
I really did like it. It's too bad you can't package it up. I'd buy a jumbo pack and unleash it on the city on Christmas, so my friends could see white snow too.
--Metody
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Date: 2008-09-30 01:48 am (UTC)Heh, I suppose. Suits me fine, though.
Glad you did. And heh, if only. Snow resists most attempts to keep it as snow, sadly. If I can figure out a way, I'll try and give you some.
-Doc
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:06 am (UTC)True fact: there is a thriving business here in importing snow from the surrounding mountains, especially around Christmas. It arrives packaged in styrofoam bricks. You get it with a big, freaking heavy block of ice, and then you set up a miniature winter scene on the ice, and then you carefully put the snow on top. And that's at the center of the table for Christmas/Hanukkah/insert winter holiday here. And if you live in a good neighborhood and have a front yard, it goes on display in a big plastic box afterwards.
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:13 am (UTC)Amazing. Never heard of that before -- then again, Hill Valley tended to get natural snow. (Never much of that, but we were in Southern California.) Sounds kind of cute, honestly.
-Doc
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:18 am (UTC)I don't speak Spanish. It's a local tradition, like rioting after football games or reserving parking spots with chairs.
--Metody
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:21 am (UTC)Sounds nice. Back home we just had stuffing ourselves on turkey and listening to carols on the radio, for the most part.
-Doc
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:25 am (UTC)Turkey is a Thanksgiving food here. My family usually has ham. Or, one year, salmon. Because there was no ham left. Not a one.
Now I want to cook.
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:29 am (UTC)Turkey is the quintessial Thanksgiving food here too. It's just traditional where I come from to have it on Christmas as well. Ham (or salmon) sounds like a good change, though.
I'm just plain hungry. May have to see what room service has.
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:35 am (UTC)I'd invite you over, but it would be a really bad idea if you have asthma. On the other hand, there is venison in the freezer and bear sausage besides.
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:40 am (UTC)No asthma, but the fact that your clouds can occasionally be lit on fire does scare me a bit. Though I've never had bear sausage. Venison, once -- thought it was a bit tough, but that might have been because of the cooking.
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:48 am (UTC)There's different cuts of venison and you've got to cook them differently. I think a lot of people who aren't familiar with it assume that the whole animal is the same, but that's like assuming a sirloin is the same as chuck roast. And I really like bear sausage.
We hunt a lot. It's a family thing. :D
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:51 am (UTC)I see. I've only had the once, so I really wouldn't know. My father got it from the market one day, and Mother wasn't really sure how to cook it. She did the best she could, I'm sure.
Heh, I see. Helps to keep the larder well-stocked, I'm sure.
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Date: 2008-09-30 02:58 am (UTC)Venison in supermarkets drives me nuts. All they do is put up a sign saying 'venison'. It's like a sign that says 'beef', gosh darn it! And I will have to bring you a decent cut of it the next time I go out, because good venison is cooked like good steak, and is very tasty.
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Date: 2008-09-30 03:04 am (UTC)Heh, yeah. I enjoy a good steak, so it does sound good. Thanks.
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Date: 2008-09-30 03:21 am (UTC)I really liked being multicolored. It was pretty.
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Date: 2008-09-30 03:23 am (UTC)That sounds like one of the better/least frightening LoLs, yes. Something I could live with anyway.
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Date: 2008-09-30 03:27 am (UTC)Hmm, being an animal. . . that sounds interesting, honestly.
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Date: 2008-09-30 03:36 am (UTC)Re: *chuckles*
Date: 2008-09-30 03:45 am (UTC)(OOC: The darn comment thread's run right off the edge of his journal. XD)
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Date: 2008-09-30 03:50 am (UTC)((Ha, yeah...me and my unending conversations. Sorry?))
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Date: 2008-09-30 03:53 am (UTC)(OOC: Heh, that's okay. It just surprised me to see the comments disappearing over the edge.)
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Date: 2008-09-30 04:04 am (UTC)((I...kind of do that on a regular basis. I really have a problem with figuring out when to not talk anymore.))
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Date: 2008-09-30 12:55 pm (UTC)(OOC: It's all right. I like when Doc has people to talk to.)