Well it was another good LAN and I got home safe and sound. Weather is pants and there was a whole mess of spray.
Thanks to the commitee for organising it all again.
I think there was somthing wrong with that last 1/2 bottle of wine, my stomach feels funny and I have a head-ache :g:
Made it safely back to the homestead, plugged stuff in and now going go to sleep in front of the tv 'watching' the GP
Good lan even though I didn't get a prize for being on the winning CoD4 comp :crying:
What a great weekend :D
It was good to see some new faces again this time. I hope you LAN virgins enjoyed yourselves and will sign up again for April 2009. :thumb:
I'm home and back up and running. We had a nice run back up the road with no delays and in good time for the GP. :)
Thanks everyone for another great LAN!
Another good 'un
Well done and thanks to the backroom boys without whom we would have no LAN:thumbsup:
Home and unpacked, uneventful journey.
Thanks to everyone who came and put up with me :) A bloody great weekend was good to catch up with you all.
See you on the servers :)
Well, my alternator has packed up. Battery light was on as soon as I set off from March.
I thought it was lying as when I dipped the clutch and let is go bellow 1500 revs (diesel) the light went out and also when at junctions.
I eventually noticed that the wiper blades were struggling a bit and thought "ah, this is going to be serious".
I turned off all electrical so that only the turbo, steering and fuel solenoid were having to be powered from the battery. Lights were off and wiper was only used when really needed (which was quite a lot).
Slowly but surely the electrical systems started to fail one by one, Traction Control, ABS and SRS gave up about 60 miles from home.
Speedo and revs started failing about 25 miles from home, started using SatNav (on battery) to get a speed reading.
Indicators and turbo gave in about 15 miles from home and there was furious clicking from the wiper solenoid whenever I flicked it on.
Even the battery indicator started to go very dim.
6.5 miles from home the battery finally gave in and couldn't supply the small voltage needed to keep the fuel valve open. :crying:
I called one of my brothers who came out and we attached jump leads to the battery and ran his engine for 5 minutes and started my engine again and used the small amount of charge he'd thrown in it to get the final few miles home.
If I hadn't had the Aircon and radio on for the first 30-40 miles and it hadn't been raining, I would have made it on the charge in the battery.
If it had been a petrol car I wouldn't have made it through the first few villages.
Anyway, excellent LAN again and a big thanks to all the organisers.
Benny will have to come and initiate the new faces next year.
well guys home safe and well.
can i say a huge thankyou to all the guys whom make this weekend happen, superb stuff, come on april 2009:D
Thanks for the eventful weekend :D. Looking forward as always to April 2009.
Just got home.
Cheers all for some brilliant games.
Extra credits to Sheepy and team -SH-, we shot them up nicely. Pen and TL cheers for making it difficult to get through the first de_eagle match. :flirty:
Now I'm having a Grolsch...
Hopefully untill next LAN.
Big Thanks all
Just got reinstalled, now for the games :)
Thanks to all , another great weekend. Special thanks to me new bitch Fat Dan. Lan go-ers will understand this joke. :flirty:
Quote from: lionheart;249430Thanks to all , another great weekend. Special thanks to me new bitch Fat Dan. Lan go-ers will understand this joke. :flirty:
I'll post the pictures...
great weekend all. was great to finally put faces to names
looking forward to april in march :D
Quote from: OldBloke;249408What a great weekend :D
It was good to see some new faces again this time. I hope you LAN virgins enjoyed yourselves and will sign up again for April 2009. :thumb:
Prolly not April, but later that year I'll be there again :D
(maybe a Amsterdam/Rotterdam/Nijverdal/Prague trip 2009, in june/juli but we'll see about that)
Quote from: delankster;249444was great to finally put faces to names
:D
Speak for yourself ya oogly girt giant:narnar:
if you haven't done a LAN yet, do the next 1:D
scary stuff:ohmy:
Quote from: Blunt;249455Speak for yourself ya oogly girt giant:narnar::
no mirrors in your house ?
Quote from: delankster;249460no mirrors in your house ?
:roflmao:
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What an enjoyable weekend :D faces to names etc, even without any kit it's a great social event, [pauses] see you next April.
Great weekend except for the poxy network problems. New O/S installed and network problems gone? Just got to spend the next few days installing everything again:sad:
A special thanks to Oldie and a lot of other deadmen who tried to solve the problem and to Kevin for lending me his laptop, enabling me to show my usual mediocracy in LFS. OK, so I know I'm not that good.
I seem to have misplaced a bottle of single malt :doh: - did anyone find it?
Found it, drunk it, felt dodgy next morning. :yahoo: Or was that Doormans's Rum?
sorry for the late post.. just found the time to set everything up again..
Was a good lan this time.. Ghosty and I were glad to be there a day early as we felt more settled in on the first day..
Good to see the BIG boys again (except Dewey as he claims I have a fat neck).. I guess the quest for decent 2nd night's food continues eh boys?
Lot of laughs and lots of good ale (forgot why I loved the beer there). See yous in the spring!
NF
*Chants* We-want-pictures! We-want-pictures! :flirty:
Quote from: Gnomie;250004*Chants* We-want-pictures! We-want-pictures! :flirty:
I'll add them this weekend, I promise!
Smilodon has a few aswell.
BTW, on the way back we thought of the "Helping Hand Award", what happend to that this year?
Also the LANpicture :sad:...
(http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7676/31102008025dg7.th.jpg) (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=31102008025dg7.jpg)(http://img243.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/1840/31102008026yn0.th.jpg) (http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=31102008026yn0.jpg)(http://img201.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
(http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/6263/31102008027vg1.th.jpg) (http://img160.imageshack.us/my.php?image=31102008027vg1.jpg)(http://img160.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4543/31102008028qr7.th.jpg) (http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=31102008028qr7.jpg)(http://img201.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9300/31102008029lf2.th.jpg) (http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=31102008029lf2.jpg)(http://img201.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif) (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)
heres some pics i took with me phone, so not that good a quality....
this was post steak night and the malt/rum/vodka......etc was in full flow :norty:
Quote from: delankster;250024heres some pics i took with me phone, so not that good a quality....
Very nice of you to load all the images to Imageshack, but you know we have a Gallery on the forums? Check the link on the left, it's where our piccies should be for posterity!
TL.
I put my piccies in the gallery but the movies are here:
http://s476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/dmro000o/?mediafilter=videos
:roflmao:
Admin, could you make a section for the pictures? dMw LAN XIV (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=268)
Quote from: o000o;250047I put my piccies in the gallery but the movies are here:
http://s476.photobucket.com/albums/rr127/dmro000o/?mediafilter=videos
:roflmao:
"I don't give a ****. I aint payin a tenner for a burger."
:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
The Helping Hand is next to me still, plans to return it securely kind of went awry.
Bit of a late one but thanks for the LAN guys, I had a great time, despite mostly getting pwned. Good to see you all again, looking forward to the next one...I may even practice a bit of gaming in the meantime :) See you on the servers, thats if I can get Jamie (TEowner) off my PC in the next 6 months...
Atb
Bru / NvG
Quote from: DuVeL;250048Admin, could you make a section for the pictures? dMw LAN XIV (http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=268)
I think pete meant for the DMW Gallery.
Quote from: GhostMjr;250221I think pete meant for the DMW Gallery.
Yup, it's still not there.
Can it be added please?
Quote from: DuVeL;250269Yup, it's still not there.
Can it be added please?
Added, apologies for delay
Quote from: BlueBall;250272Added, apologies for delay
Bump, it is added (thanks BB). but nobody has yet used it!
TL.
Quote from: TeaLeaf;250695Bump, it is added (thanks BB). but nobody has yet used it!
TL.
We could always delete it again :norty: :devil:
Mayby I'm being a bit thick but how do I get my piccies in there from my gallery?
The only time I saw I could was when I was uploading the piccies, surely I don't have to re-upload them.
Quote from: TeaLeaf;250695Bump, it is added (thanks BB). but nobody has yet used it!
TL.
Lol, just got back from working for days in Amsterdam....no, not behind the windows...
Will add them soon.
I've posted a selection of my LANpictures.
I hope I got all the names right.
Is it possible to move pictures?
I kept posting them in the LAN thing but they seem to be in my memberpictures now...
Posted a few recovered pics from the lan and managed to upload one twice (incorrectly captioned):doh:
Perhap the new section head (Smolidon) can delete it for me :)
I shall amaze you all with my forum kung fu......
Done!
Quote from: Lameduck;251370Perhap the new section head (Smolidon) can delete it for me :)
That's 'Smellidon' :rolleyes:
Quote from: smilodon;251377I shall amaze you all with my forum kung fu......
Done!
There's a few more pictures of mine that need to be put in the LAN thread. Could you manage those aswell please?
I thank you if you do.
You seem to have 48 pics form the last LAN in you personal gallery. I cannot copy them, they have to be moved from one gallery to another. So they'll either be in your gallery or LAN XIV gallery, not both. Do you want them all moved?
Quote from: smilodon;251414You seem to have 48 pics form the last LAN in you personal gallery. I cannot copy them, they have to be moved from one gallery to another. So they'll either be in your gallery or LAN XIV gallery, not both. Do you want them all moved?
All moved please.
The thing is, I selected LAN XIV, added the first pictures and kept pressing add picture but somehow they got under my gallery.
Looks like you guys had a great time! :) Thanks for sharing the pictures.
Quote from: DuVeL;251429All moved please.
The thing is, I selected LAN XIV, added the first pictures and kept pressing add picture but somehow they got under my gallery.
Done...
Quote from: lionheart;249430Thanks to all , another great weekend. Special thanks to me new bitch Fat Dan. Lan go-ers will understand this joke. :flirty:
(http://www.deadmen.co.uk/photopost/data/519/medium/mini-LANXIV_021.jpg)
Non-LANgo-ers aswell now m8.