Firefly

That's really neat! I've actually got something Similar

Our local hand-made furniture store in my area will take away any furniture from your home as an act of Christmas good faith and recycle it/reuse it in their store free of charge in the 2-3 weeks leading up to and after Christmas. Works out for everybody! I'm thinking of going and getting a love-seat or Futon to use while me and Sarah play games downstairs in the hobby room across from my Studio - and having them take my old mattress and mattress frame away in exchange. Great people, too! 

Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Merry Christmas!
(The photo is my sister in law and her adopted Black daughter - who is now in college and over 6 ft tall 😍)
Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech Ha'olam, asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu l'hadlik ner shel Hanukkah (blessing said as each candle is lit..."Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Sovereign of all, who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this season").
And BTW... I'm a Buddhist, so Happy Bodhi Day!

Nowadays we do too, but back then everything ended up in a skip and went to a waste sorting plant. There are companies out there who collect your christmas tree free of charge and either turn it into green energy or replant it in a tree nursery. One time my sister and I decided to do the right thing and replant a tiny potted fir that used to be her Christmas tree in mum's back garden. Now that tree is about 6 metres tall. For once something good came out of Christmas! 

Nowadays we do too, but back then everything ended up in a skip and went to a waste sorting plant. There are companies out there who collect your christmas tree free of charge and either turn it into green energy or replant it in a tree nursery. One time my sister and I decided to do the right thing and replant a tiny potted fir that used to be her Christmas tree in mum's back garden. Now that tree is about 6 metres tall. For once something good came out of Christmas! 

As a Pole, I approve of the pickle. @Lipfert, your family has fine taste in Christmas decorations.
Haven't put up a tree or any lights yet, but I might come up with something by the 24th. I'm coming by mum's place this weekend, I may take some pictures there. 
I feel you @Heinrich. The last time I bought a real Christmas tree it spent two years on my balcony because I couldn't be bothered to carry it out for waste disposal. I live on the 4th floor, there's no lift in the building (a hearty thank you to commie architects) and the bloody thing weighed a metric tonne. It spent most of its existence looking sort of like a floral Chernobyl victim, rotting away happily (or not) until I finally got rid of it. 

As a Pole, I approve of the pickle. @Lipfert, your family has fine taste in Christmas decorations.
Haven't put up a tree or any lights yet, but I might come up with something by the 24th. I'm coming by mum's place this weekend, I may take some pictures there. 
I feel you @Heinrich. The last time I bought a real Christmas tree it spent two years on my balcony because I couldn't be bothered to carry it out for waste disposal. I live on the 4th floor, there's no lift in the building (a hearty thank you to commie architects) and the bloody thing weighed a metric tonne. It spent most of its existence looking sort of like a floral Chernobyl victim, rotting away happily (or not) until I finally got rid of it. 

As a Pole, I approve of the pickle. @Lipfert, your family has fine taste in Christmas decorations.
Haven't put up a tree or any lights yet, but I might come up with something by the 24th. I'm coming by mum's place this weekend, I may take some pictures there. 
I feel you @Heinrich. The last time I bought a real Christmas tree it spent two years on my balcony because I couldn't be bothered to carry it out for waste disposal. I live on the 4th floor, there's no lift in the building (a hearty thank you to commie architects) and the bloody thing weighed a metric tonne. It spent most of its existence looking sort of like a floral Chernobyl victim, rotting away happily (or not) until I finally got rid of it. 

As a Pole, I approve of the pickle. @Lipfert, your family has fine taste in Christmas decorations.
Haven't put up a tree or any lights yet, but I might come up with something by the 24th. I'm coming by mum's place this weekend, I may take some pictures there. 
I feel you @Heinrich. The last time I bought a real Christmas tree it spent two years on my balcony because I couldn't be bothered to carry it out for waste disposal. I live on the 4th floor, there's no lift in the building (a hearty thank you to commie architects) and the bloody thing weighed a metric tonne. It spent most of its existence looking sort of like a floral Chernobyl victim, rotting away happily (or not) until I finally got rid of it. 

The WingWalkers are a twenty plus year old squadron with a long history in the flight sim community. 
We lost one of our flight leads last month after a short flight with cancer.  Icy was our Flight Lead for Gold Flight, our bombing group.  Icy flew with a positive spirit and a reckless abandon that made flying a lot of fun.  We will miss him greatly. 
We will be flying the "Missing Man" formation in his honor on Tuesday night.  We might blow some things up too, Icy would have been disappointed if we didn't.  If you are interested in joining us send me a PM and I will share the server password with you. 
Salute
WWGeezer
CO WingWalkers

Win 10 is a resource and data collecting sponge!  Had horrible input lag on my stick.(old school run a clean boot)
If you choose you cant cut a lot of unneeded bloat. And maybe even find Zupper power! (hidden power setting)
Did about 90% of this with great results.
Will see how long the changes hold.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgW7iXejfqQ

If anyone's up for some DCS fun, I'm going to be flying on the Cold War server starting in about half an hour (1900 CEST). I will take a short break around 2030 and resume flying about an hour and a half later (2200). Unless I throw my monitor out the window I should stay online until very late in the evening. 

I feel personally attacked by this.

Ran across this interesting video.
 

Baby Boomer music alert! 

Wuhey these guys can PLAY though. The Drummer and Keyboard player are ridiculously good. 

 
 

I feel your pain. Just paid out for a MOT and full service on my car, as well as getting the front two tyres changes AND brake pads. It's safe to say I am now broke beyond compare!
RIP wallet.

Just a heads up, in case anybody is looking for more storage space. Amazon currently has some mad discounts on the Samsung 970 Evo range of M.2 SSD's. The 1Tb stick is currently 50% off, at £120 with the 500Gb only £69.99. For their performance it's pretty nuts how cheap they are.
I just snagged the 500Gb one, as I can't even install half my modules atm because of a lack of SSD space! I can finally get the Syria map!

Thanks for the tip, I seem to be unaffected thankfully.

I've just logged in to ED forums to find that I'd been permanently banned. After the initial shock and disbelief I Googled it and found out that there's been a major server issue on ED's part. All you need to do to fix this is log out and back in again. 
https://forums.eagle.ru/forum/english/customer-support/forum-and-site-issues/7142217-re-login-for-fix-you-have-been-permanently-banned#post7142296

"Vertoloty v vozdushnom boyu" ("Helicopters in aerial combat"), a 1989 instructional film for helicopter crews produced by the Soviet Ministry of Defense. Could be useful for future DCS: Mi-24 pilots. Note the R-60 launcher @5:35! 
 

"Vertoloty v vozdushnom boyu" ("Helicopters in aerial combat"), a 1989 instructional film for helicopter crews produced by the Soviet Ministry of Defense. Could be useful for future DCS: Mi-24 pilots. Note the R-60 launcher @5:35! 
 

Music like from 80's italian Star Wars copy movie.

Every day is a good day to post a MiG-29 video. 
 

"Vertoloty v vozdushnom boyu" ("Helicopters in aerial combat"), a 1989 instructional film for helicopter crews produced by the Soviet Ministry of Defense. Could be useful for future DCS: Mi-24 pilots. Note the R-60 launcher @5:35! 
 

"Vertoloty v vozdushnom boyu" ("Helicopters in aerial combat"), a 1989 instructional film for helicopter crews produced by the Soviet Ministry of Defense. Could be useful for future DCS: Mi-24 pilots. Note the R-60 launcher @5:35!