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Well its settled...I'm moving. Just got my plane tickets today.
As some of you already know I've been out of work for quite a while. I've really been trying to get a job here in Newfoundland, but have had no luck:(
So along comes my aunt who says she can get me a job in the store she works at. Even better, said job is at night, my prefered time to work. So i said "gear it up" and am now all set to make my way to fort mcmurray AB.
I have to leave alot behind (i'm gonna miss my books) but eventually I'll be able to get most of it shipped to me. Have to desert my PC for a while too, I'll be posting from the public library for the first month or two that I'm there.
I leave on Sept 5th, a week from today. I'm excited to have a job again, but sad to leave my beloved province behind. Anyhoo, I've rambled enough...carry on!!!

good luck deddy!

Newfoundland to Alberta will be culture shock, I'm sure. Keep us posted!

Alberta?

That's pretty far from the coming apocalypse. At least as a Newfie you'd have gotten a whiff of plasma.

Well, enjoy running the world. It gets old after awhile.



Take care. Hope you enjoy the new life.

So where're you originally from? East? West? Middle?

Best of luck with the move and the new job, ded.

Best of luck on the new job Deddy, and good luck getting settled! Let us know how it goes, and we'll be looking forward to your posts during the months it takes to get fully settled in!

Ditto what Outdoor Miner & Cobalt Kid said. I hope the job is good for you and the move is easy.

Enjoy Fort McMurray Deddy. I hear its one of the hoppingest places in the country right now. Mmmm heavy crude oil... mmmmm.

Lots of young people from all over Canada relocating there. I knew this girl who drove one of those three storey high dump trucks one summer.

I also hear that its an hour and a half north of Edmonton... by plane.

Not withstanding that, I'm hope it'll work out for ya. Remember when you leave there grab a handful of that tar sand. And don't worry about leaving the Rock, none of the Newfs I've met has forgotten home.

Well here's the important info:
http://the-master-list.com/Canada/Alberta/index.shtml

Thanks for the well wishes guys!!!
Labrador originally, but done most of my growing up in Newfoundland


All my research on the the town points to the same thing Tamper....not sure about plane time, but its a 4 1/2 drive north from Edmonton...its going to be alot colder than I'm used to!!!


Thanks MEL....I already used Diamond's Comic Store Locator to find a comic shop just around the corner from where I'll be living YAHH!!!

Good luck with everything man!

Good luck, Ded! Big life changes can be a big ol hiccup, but they can bring great things! Even though you have to leave The Rock, you're still a Newfie no matter where ya go, and it'll still be there down the road!

There's probably more Easterners out in Fort McMurray than back home! What's the average age out there now - 25? Lots of opportunities and I hope you get to make the most of them; sure beats sitting around sans job.

Aaah, Alberta. When I was a kid I thought everybody's Dad wore jeans, cowboy boots and a big @$$ belt buckle. When we moved from Cold Lake AB (population at the time about 3000) to the relatively booming metropolis of Lloydminster (15000) I was unnerved to see my new friends fathers in suits!

I grew up in northern Alberta (Cold Lake) and strangely, I don't remember it being any colder than Winnipeg (where I live know) which is so much further south. But I've never been to the Maritimes, so I can't really put that into perspective for you. If it doesn't work out, head to southern Alberta (ie. Lethbridge) where it's desert and the winters are very mild.

Is your Aunt going to help you find a place to live? I remember there was a time when Fort McMurray had one of the worst housing shortages in the country. Hopefully things have changed for the better. Good luck!

The part of Newfoundland I live in now has really mild winters.....usually no snow till late dec or jan. Even then its not alot of snow falls.

As to a place to live, I'll be staying with my aunt till i can get a place of my own. I expect that to take a few months, as there is still a housing shortage in Fort McMurray

Well Legionworld, I'm about to pack up my computer.
The next time I post I'll be in Alberta!!!!

Have a safe trip, Dedster. We'll see you soon.

Have a safe trip Dedman. Let us know you are safe and sound all the way in Alberta

We promise not to killl you too much in INVASION.

Good luck with the actual moving.

Hope Deddy's doing well.

Deddy is doing great!!

I quit my first job I had when I got here.... I found a better job. I'm now a security Guard at one of the Oilsands Production facilities. The job is great, I'm really enjoying it. We stay in here on site for two weeks then return to town for two weeks. (we work 12 hour shifts so I still average a little over 40 hours a week)
Everyone one I work with is great, and about half of them are from Newfoundland too.
The production facilities are amazing!!! They are HUGE!!! I mean I knew they were big, but this is mindnumbing.

Anywoo, I of on my first turnaround this Monday, I have plans to goto the local Newfie Club this weekend with one of my uncles, to have a few drinks

And that pretty much all the news from Fort McMurray for now.

excellent! glad to hear it, you old sod!

Glad to hear it Deddy! I'm glad everything is working out. Sounds like where you're at is an up and coming place to be! Keep us updated!

Hello Legionworld....I'm heading back to camp today for another two weeks. I work till xmas day then I'm off to Newfoubdland for a visit during my two weeks off. I'm going to snag a few pic while I'm working this time, will post them when I get a chance. And seeing as I'll be working I won't be such a frequent poster over the next couple of weeks, though you can still expect to see me once a day!!!
Well I'm off......

Enjoy your return to Newfoundland Ded! We'll keep our eyes out for (at least one of them at least, as the other one never stops glancing at Crujeckie's lovely figure... )

Happy holidays (early)!

Glad to hear everything is going well in the new job and new town! Have a fun filled holiday!

Have a good trip Deddy. I've heard that the Tar Sands companies give a travel allowance for some of their employees every year? Are you lucky enough to get this. I can't imagine its a short trip back to NFLD from there.

And I think LW should make our next trip up there. I've always wanted to run over things with one of those 10 storey dump trucks.

Hey Deddy!
I'm glad to hear you've settled in and are still enjoying the new job/life/death.
Moving can be a risk and i'm glad it worked out for you.
All the best mate.

Have a great trip, ded!

Every time I see this thread, I think it reads "Adventure in Fred McMurray".

LOL That was my first thought, too, EDE, and as a Canadian I ought to know better. :rolleyes:

Hey Ded! By any chance are you going home in mid-March? I may be going up to St. John's for a couple days around then.

Tamper - some companyies to pay for flights home.....sadly mine doesn't

Kent - Don't know, haven't made any plans beyond my xmas trip home. However if I'm there or not, I HIGHLY reccomend George St. (over 100 bars in a 1/2 mile strip)

Well this is my last post till xmas day, the computer lab here on site is closing for xmas this evening. Happy Holidays Legionworld!!!!

Right back atcha! Have a great time!

HH to you too, amigo!

Wow, I haven't updated this thread in ages.
Anyhoo, not a whole lot happening, still working security, still like my job.
Spring seems to have finally arrived, today was 8C...YEAH melting snow!!!
I'm still fequenting the Newfie club (double rum and coke baby!!!) and the casino.
I found a better comic shop than the one i was originally going to, I no longer miss any of my monthly titles.
I've started shaving my head again, got the Lex Luthor look going again.
Most awesome of all, I've made myself a new lady friend I have yet to introduce her to the Legion however.
Oh and I bought Poser 7, a really cool 3d figure animator. I had Poser 4 but this is much better, expect some really cool art from me once i cook up some custom textures.
Thats it for now....carry on about your business.

Dedman, is this your election HQ? I just dropped by with a case of Jack Daniels for your staff.

Hmmm...I hadn't really considered an election HQ, but i guess I should have one and this will do fine.

The Den is an extension of the poltergeist area, so all my staff are disembodied spirits and thus, do not drink. However the JD is very welcomed for my guests and potential voters.

In return for such a kind gesture, I have provided your cafe staff with all my secret recipes to help with the catering situation. I highly recommend the 5 mushroom sauce over pasta.

Well thats it my election HQ is now open for business, come one come all, get your free slinky and bottle of JD!!!

Slinkies! Yay!

A Slinky (for fun) is a wonderful toy! I keep one on my desk to relieve stress!

Good luck in the election, Deddy!

Good luck Deddy!

Slinkies are a great campaign promo...love em!

Better grab a slinky before they are all gone. No one's taking any of the JD though.

Slinkies rule! Soon dedman will too! (providing no embarrassing photos turn up)

Considering where we are, those would probably increase my voter base!

Considering where we are, embarassing photos could be of you abstaining from potent potables, skipping the strip club in order to go to church, not accepting a bribe, or writing a limerick.

These slinkies are counterfeit! They don't slink down the stairs!

Hey!
I wanted a free slinkie!
Counterfeit slinkies?
Oh, the horror!

These are Space-Slinkies...they walk UP stairs.

Hey the strippers are here!!!

Space-Slinkies AND slinky space-strippers!!! Now that is what I call a PARTY!!! Well, my mind is almost made up.

Yes and you may have noticed my parties are hosted by Gladys the sentient Disco-Ball...that girl knows how to party!!

Dedman, you might want to have a word with that Slinky over there in the corner- it's been pining over Gladys the sentient Disco-Ball all night. (I didn't know you had sentient Slinkies too!)

The Sentient Space Slinkies!!

I can't decide if that sound like a 50's B movie or a 70's prog rock band.

Good luck Deddy.

OOOOH!! STRIPPERS!!

Poor Stan the Slinky doesn't know what kind of girl Gladys is! She's T-R-O-U-B-L-E for a nice slinky like him!

Between the circus at the Vudoo Lounge and the Sentience Explosion in the Den, there's a lot of amazing developments on Legion World. I just hope the Security Office is prepared if things get out of hand.

Have no fear, as a high ranking security officer, I am in constant contact with the office and have things well in hand.

Wheeeeeee! Strippers with slinkies! This place space-rawks!

Awwww. These poor strippers look exhausted. And they're running out of things to strip (I think I saw one stripping the finish off the bar). The Space-Slinkies are kind of saggy too. Wonder what's happening over at the Vudoo Lounge....

Well all the clocks have stopped at 4:20 here at the den, time to break out the super -hookah.....OF SPACE!!!!!

Free space-slinkies, strippers, super-space-hookers...umm...hookahs! Dedman you party like a Space-Kennedy!!!

And now, I proudly present,
Kitty Cat Dancer

That cat's not wearing any clothes!

What a coincidence. I say sexy things to myself when I'm DAAAAAANCING too.

Thanks, Deddy! I just forwarded the link to my sisters... I'm still giggling...

That was not a cat. It was a Durlan. Didn't you see how the black spot kept changing sides?

Are you hungry? I give the joy of joys...toast.... Yeah Toast!!!

Deddy, congratulations on attaining the most important, most powerful office in the known universe: Deputy Leader of the LMB! Here are the keys that Kent gave me at the beginning of my term. Use them in good health!

Thank you Rockhopper. I will strive to use my new found power to bring even more inanity to our little world!

Ded, there's a couple of surly looking guys out in the parking lot asking about you. They say you owe them for 1,202 reverse momentum Space-Slinkies (I took two,sorry), three weeks of stripper service (including dry cleaning for 50 thongs and twice as many pasties), a dancing (french Canadian?) cat with an apparent coke problem, super-space hookers...umm...hookahs (either way it ain't gonna be cheap), and some toast.

Congratulations, Dedman!

Welcome all to my election headquarters.
I have baked up some of Mearl Dox's cupcakes for your enjoyment!

Whoa. That would explain any number of things...

Good luck, dedman!

Say, if I were a female member of Legion World, I might possibly be offended by having the term "cupcake" tossed at me. I'm guessing you probably didn't mean anything by it...but, again, that's just a guess.

Good luck!

Perhaps "cupcake" could refer to prostitutes and therefore ease some of the tension between pro-prostitute LMBers and uptight crotchety LMBers?

Could be a good election platform Deddy--evidence of a longstanding committment to solving this problem!

Thanks for shedding some light on this matter, Cobalt Kid! So, when dedman says, "Get me a cupcake, NOW, damn it!", He's actually asking for a hooker named Fawnette, who's wearing nothing but a rubber Dick Cheney mask and specializes in naked waterboarding!

Scandalous!

You know, after studying his posts, I'm pretty certain that he using the words "cookie" and "nun" interchangeably, as well!

Rou do what to NUNS?

I help them communicate with God

What flavor of cupcakes are here?

I currently have double chocolate, chocolate chip, blueberry, poppyseed, wheat bran, and carrot cake...all available in regular and low-fat varieties.

Boom boom boom

The sound of death fills the halls.

Blood runs down the walls of fusion powersphere.

Hmmm...someone is playing my music...

GAH, the powersphere is in trouble

<runs back to the control room>

What, no cocoa pink cuplets?

Come on over for those...oh wait...I'm under attack.

Those were just the favours I allready had made...if you want cocoa pink cuplets, I can whip some up. Mearl's cupcake recipe prepares for all situations.

Friends!

Romans!

Roma-ro-ma-ma!

Gaga-ooh-la-la!

Watch out for romance!

A vote for Dedman and myself means another useless bit of pop culture trivia will be disseminated through the internet. It means fans of the pre-"Lovedrive" Scorpions and post-"Lovedrive" Scorpions will be united in peace (although there would have to be a consensus that "Savage Amusement" was their last good album and that they didn't have a clue without Dieter Dierks producing.)

But I digress.

(Like that doesn't happen all the time.)

Horror movies and Hello Kitty. Heavy metal and classic Europop. Only the Dedman/Stealth ticket could bring such groups together in harmony.

Vote for us, and the LMBP will be even crazier and more inane!

<span style="font-size: 18px;"><font face="Script"><blink>Come for the cupcakes. Stay for the narwhales.</blink></font f></span>

<Autobus finishes running the diagnostic program>

Hmmm...this can't be right. HECUBUS...COME HERE!

Yah, waz up Bus!

Did you or Succubus do anything with the Flux Inverter before that mishap today?

Naw man, we was jus' chillin.

Oh, well look at this <points at screen>

Dat ain't right, best call security, we be'n sabertoged!

*with a momentary truce, Cobalt Kid and Chief Lardy arrive at the Powersphere after leaving The Rookery .*

During the course of my investigation I begun to realize the drug smuggling ring was bringing something far more dangerous to Legion World, as you’ve probably learned as well. I worked with Kent Shakespeare to find out what was actually being brought in was one specific person. I reconfirmed the Dark Oval’s involvement and had Space Ranger assemble all the data on Legion World showing the arrivals of new citizens when compared to Gruertis Nyebif’s records of drug imports. What I found was telling.

<Cobalt stops for a moment and annoyingly shifts topics, not revealing what he found>

Traditionally when I would conduct investigations, I would use Lolita as my top analyst. Her mind as you know is brilliant, and she has a computer-like ability to analyze data, recognize patterns and make information-based assumptions on what is happening. My codename for her was ‘Oracle’. Without her, I’ve been a bit lost. It was only when I had some to think about the normal steps I would take that I realized one of Lolita’s immediate processes is to analyze the recent newsfeeds for any topics that may at first appear inconsequential but could be more important. I asked My Whee Fem to do this for us and she came through.

She reported that recently Dedman was overheard complaining about problems at the Powersphere . This was in the gossip columns where they were really reporting on his wife’s pregnancy but this bit of data still saw print. Further digging revealed there was a small article about problems the Powersphere was having where sabotage was not completely ruled out. As you are aware better than anyone, the Powersphere is critical to the safety of Legion World.

If my theory on the attacker holds up, it fits that this could be him. Rather than sabotaging Legion World, he probably has been staying here all these months. This is a highly dangerous area so you have to be extremely powerful to even be here; it also means it’s a great place to hide because most people can’t actually enter this space.

<opens the doors>

Within, we should find out if someone has been staying here. Be on your guard…I’m hoping I’m wrong but if I’m right, we have one of our worst enemies within…