Rayfan In reply to tea [2019-12-20 05:08:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, same to you!!

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Rayfan In reply to OC-Alert [2019-07-02 03:26:12 +0000 UTC]

That is cute stuff!  Thanks for telling me about it.  I've always loved that Ray van Gogh painting

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Rayfan In reply to tea [2019-04-13 19:22:21 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it's starting to get hot here but it cooled off the last couple of days to the high 80s.  Enjoying the last few bearable days!

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tea In reply to Rayfan [2019-04-16 22:31:26 +0000 UTC]

Yes yes, I am enjoying the cooler temps for now as this latest storm rolls in from the coast. 

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Rayfan In reply to NemoNemini [2018-12-24 02:25:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, my friend - I wish you the same. 

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Rayfan In reply to tea [2018-10-26 05:38:23 +0000 UTC]

Getting by so far - how about you?

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tea In reply to Rayfan [2018-10-29 04:23:26 +0000 UTC]

Cooking. I do have a month off and am thinking about some doing short trips here and their, keeping it close to Las Vegas.

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Rayfan In reply to OC-Alert [2018-09-20 00:31:59 +0000 UTC]

Yes, so much good stuff from that time is gone from DA. 

I love how incredibly repulsed Piranha seems to feel in Rayian's picture, like he can barely endure himself.  Gets the feeling across so well.

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Rayfan In reply to OC-Alert [2018-09-19 04:33:52 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I do - how do you want me to send them to you?

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OC-Alert In reply to Rayfan [2018-09-19 15:21:18 +0000 UTC]

Maybe put them in stash?

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Rayfan In reply to Susannah-P [2018-09-15 02:19:48 +0000 UTC]

Are you kidding?  I'd be honoured!  And I'd love to see your interpretation!

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Susannah-P In reply to Rayfan [2018-09-15 16:41:35 +0000 UTC]

Oh thank you so much! I look forward to doing him!

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Rayfan In reply to Susannah-P [2018-09-15 21:39:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

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Susannah-P In reply to Rayfan [2018-09-15 21:56:51 +0000 UTC]

Your welcome! Besides which, your lovely compliments deserve something back so this is also a thanks to you 😊

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Rayfan In reply to Susannah-P [2018-09-16 05:17:52 +0000 UTC]

Well, I appreciate that - but I haven't given any compliments that weren't entirely deserved, and more so.

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Rayfan In reply to Susannah-P [2018-08-04 07:11:05 +0000 UTC]

I tried to answer this earlier but my answer got lost...

I'm very glad if I helped encourage you in any way.  Your art is so beautiful and full of emotion, and suggests so much depth of character, I'm sure your writing will be fascinating as well.

And thank you - it helps me keep going, too, when I hear that you get something out of my writing. 

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Susannah-P In reply to Rayfan [2018-08-04 11:14:47 +0000 UTC]

You are very welcome, and many thanks indeed. Likewise to your wonderful literature.

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Rayfan In reply to tea [2018-07-08 07:46:21 +0000 UTC]

Ice chips in the bra sounds like a fantastic idea except that I'd be drenched in five minutes and hot again three minutes after that ... why, is there a power failure somewhere?  Hope you're staying cool where you are!

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tea In reply to Rayfan [2018-07-11 02:37:39 +0000 UTC]

parts of LA had lost power. They had put out a heat warning. So put those chips in a baggie, unless the dripping is keeping you extra cool. 

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Rayfan In reply to tea [2018-07-11 04:42:44 +0000 UTC]

Ah, I see!  I don't live in LA anymore ... moved to Arizona (where the heat's about the same, but more rain). 

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tea In reply to Rayfan [2018-07-13 02:55:25 +0000 UTC]

Aa I see, my bad. That probably was a good move for you. Less fire hazard but more snakes and occasional large dust storms. 
So now that your out of Cal. Doesn't it seem like Cal is on fire most of the time! 
What do you think or your newer home? 

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Rayfan In reply to tea [2018-07-13 06:27:00 +0000 UTC]

It's very pleasant here in the spring, fall, and winter.  Unadulterated hell in the summer.  They get fires here too, and floods, but at least the whole state isn't on fire.  Cost of living is cheaper, which is the only reason I moved.  Even though I live a big city and it seems mostly civilized, I still miss dirty old LA.  Still, all in all, I guess it's about a fair trade.

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tea In reply to Rayfan [2018-07-15 02:59:19 +0000 UTC]

Yes I miss dirty old LA sometimes too. Cal in general has gotten to expensive to live in. Ok at least the coastal cities have priced them self's for exiting and I'm not big on their desert cities.
I'm glad you are selling in and can afford to feed your mouth. I find that very rewarding to do. Just think it monsoon season too. No driving in flash flood water though.     

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Rayfan In reply to tea [2018-07-15 05:30:28 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I prefer being able to eat too.  Funny that I've seen more rain since I moved to Arizona than I saw in all the years I lived in LA.  I will definitely do my best to avoid flash floods! 

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tea In reply to Rayfan [2018-07-19 05:09:51 +0000 UTC]

That's right, it never rains in southern Cal. according to the beachboys.
Will it's in the 112+ in the Las Vegas area and my sister called wanting me to go out for a bite to eat. But it's a dry heat here, so I suggest Sweet Tomato's sometime after it cool's off, say in January.  She laughed and we just left is open for some other unknown time.
So do avoid any flash floods because it's good having you hang around dA.   

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Rayfan In reply to tea [2018-07-19 08:23:51 +0000 UTC]

I don't miss Las Vegas at all.  But when it comes to desert, even if we get a bit more rain, we beat you in temperature - it gets up into the 120s here.  I plan to spend the entire month of August in my apartment.  Hopefully we'll both be freed by January.

Actually, the only flash flood I've ever experienced was when I lived in Las Vegas.  So you watch out too!

I'm glad you're still hanging around DA as well.

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tea In reply to Rayfan [2018-07-20 17:48:46 +0000 UTC]

Las Vegas yeah no state income tax here. Flash floods are more controlled these days and one would have to actually drive into one to experience being swiped away. I do mess the yearly news reports of someone floating their Cadillac under the Charleston underpass. Will that is progress. So much for looking forward to anything in July. Now August is the main reason people stopped trying to cool their houses with swamp coolers. Spending hundreds more a month on AC is worth not having the place smell like a fish monger waft and still be to hot to support intelligent life.  Ok so July and August are not suited to human life here is the western deserts of USA. But my desert is one of the harshest in the world and your is just to wet.   

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Rayfan In reply to tea [2018-07-20 23:17:35 +0000 UTC]

Heheh, yes, this is a weirdly wet desert, with "monsoons," farms, and a bunch of lakeside housing developments scattered around Phoenix. I'm amazed the water doesn't all boil away.

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tea In reply to Rayfan [2018-07-22 05:36:47 +0000 UTC]

The Vegas monsoon has just about blown it self out and soon to be replaced with record Hotness. Of course it is a dry heat, weather people make it sound like that is a good thing when it over 110 F. I'll have to pick up some bottle water just to drive across town in a AC car. What can I say, anything over 110 is bad, ugly, and disagreeable. A cold shower or bath would help, but the cold water coming out the shower is no longer cold or even cool. A lot of good driver turn into bad drivers in that kind of heat and lets not talk about dry mouth. I know lets call it cellphone mumble mouth season. 

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Rayfan In reply to tea [2018-07-22 16:22:00 +0000 UTC]

I guess dry heat is a *little* better than humid heat of the same temperature, but I agree, after about 110 degrees nothing is very tolerable and every degree above that makes it a lot less tolerable.  We don't have any such thing as cold tap water either, for all the summer months.  Often the hot water is cooler than the cold until it's run for quite a while!  (I don't quite get that.)  I have insulated stainless steel water flasks now that I carry around everywhere when I go outside, filled with refrigerated water.  (No AC in car unfortunately.)  And I wear a "Frogg toggs" scarf, which helps some.  Still can't go out to stores for more than a couple of hours on my weekly food rounds, before I start to get too unfocused to drive.  But it seems like summers are getting unbearable pretty much everywhere now.

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tea In reply to Rayfan [2018-07-23 05:58:51 +0000 UTC]

I quite buying bottle water last year and don't miss them at all. 
My frig has a water dispenser and I keep the filter changed and up to date.
I also have water flasks that fit car cup holders. I should run them through the dishwasher before using them.
No AC in the car ugh! With Vegas being a 24 hour town I can go get food early in the morning.
Or late at night. Though it really never cools off, maybe high 80s or low 90s .
Besides the AC doesn't start cooling the car until I get home if it out in the sun for and length of time.  
I keep telling the cat that I will give him a dollar if he would make the run for me but with no luck.
 

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Rayfan In reply to OC-Alert [2018-04-04 11:06:22 +0000 UTC]

Heheh, I guess it is, kind of a forerunner.  There were so many grisly deaths available in Rayman 2, but that one obviously made the most impression on me.

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Rayfan In reply to FairyLy [2018-03-19 22:16:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, but no I don't.  I used to post stuff on LiveJournal once in a while (under the name sfwriter) and on Dreamwidth.org under the same name, but these days that stuff is mostly political blowing off steam.  I have some Rayman stuff on LiveJournal at rayfics.livejournal.com/ that I haven't posted anywhere else.  

Do you have a tumblr? 

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FairyLy In reply to Rayfan [2018-03-22 17:34:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the link, it will be interesting.
A bigger part of DA migrated to tumblr so I thought you too. I find you an interesting person so would like to read your stuff, not only about Rayman.

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