Earthling

Well, look who I bumped into earlier this evening....... Hey.....Long time, no see, how are we all? I'm still enjoying retirement, playing Elite, reading a lot, still building the model railway........still breathing If anyone else is still flying Elite, look me up on Inara.cz, say 'Hi'. Take care, everyone. o7 Commanders

Yeah, you will. I had my first PvP encounter a few days ago. Waked into Wyrd to visit The Dweller, was hailed by a human in a FdL, told me I was 'In Violation of the No-Fly Zone' his wing had imposed over Black Hide. I thought, 'No Fly Zone, don't be silly' so I ignored him, he tried to interdict me, I evaded, got down to Black Hide where his two mates took me to pieces in less than thirty seconds. Lost all the cargo I was carrying for next Engineers level, but learned a lesson about valour, discretion and role-play. Ho-hum, back to the grind.

Does anyone else listen to Radio Sidewinder? I don't mean while in-game, I mean, like, ermmm, all the time. Does that sound sad? Someone tell me it's not sad, please.

Checking in late to the party. How many of us played the original, back in the day? I'm a veteran of Elite, Frontier and Frontier:First Encounters. About six months in, Dangerous has been only minor disappointments so far.

Screenshots? Yeah, okay.

Well, late to the party here, as always. I've been in Elite since about April. Haven't been to Merope to do the 'Wrecked Alien Ship Selfie' yet, but I got to Maia and bought some meta-alloys for Felicity Farseer. Heading off to Merope 5 when the tourist-rush has died down Really glad I had the idea from somewhere to look on here. The Frontier Forums are just so toxic. I'm on Inara.CZ instead. Much more useful, friendly, informative and fun. PM me and I'll show you my Licence Fly Safe, Commanders.

I'm so glad I'm retired and don't have to deal with rolling out Windows iOS....sorry.....Windows 10. It seems to work a treat on my desktop and laptop at home, especially with a clean install, wasn't so good with an upgrade. Hello, everyone, by the way....how are we all?

How many of us are playing this and what are your impressions? My impression after four months grind is, 'It'll be nice when it's finished'. Oh, yeah, and 'Hi, everyone' by the way, haven't logged-on for a while.

@davidcs Over-priced, I think, more than anything. Six and a half grand, 10 years old, think it must have been one of the first new-shape models. Very low mileage for the age. A grand cheaper and I'd snap their arms off for it.

Admittedly, most of them are in London, but I saw a couple in Dorset while I was off for the winter.

I've seen a beautiful SLK on Autotrader, been watching it for six months now. it was taken off for a week, but reappeared with a price reduction of £400. Guess they thought they'd sold it. It's in a used car dealer, somewhere north of Luton. And I love it, I want it and I would sell my children into slavery for it. They're grown-up now anyway, so it wouldn't matter. I'd post a link but I'm afraid someone else will swipe it will I'm trying to cobble the money together.

Thanks, @ButterflyMoon, hip, nerve, thigh, leg......I don't know which anymore. none of it stops me doing the things that make me smile.

Well, @witch, Day Three and I'm beginning to think it was sheer bad luck. Three months is pretty normal for a contract, most renew and turn into six months or even longer, but three months is the norm.

Primary Health Care, GP's, etc where I live are awful. Not their fault, I know, over-worked, too many patients etc. but that shouldn't excuse them for off-handedly saying 'We'll get you some physio. Next, please.' which is what it felt like. Taken all that on board Elsiegee40. This has been going on since last May, when I thought it was lack of exercise, being off-work. It was when I finished work at the end of October that I started to get some diagnosis/treatment. Already been going on too long.

Yep, huge pain in the hip, not so much the groin, but lots of numbness in my thigh, constant pins-and needles, but in different places from day to day. I've been referred for physio but the last time I went there (for a shoulder problem) was a complete and utter waste of time. I had an episode with my lower neck/back a while ago (years, in fact) which was called a 'compacted vertebrae' at the time. I'm wondering if it could all be connected. You know, like your hip bone's connected to your leg bone, your leg bone's connected to your.......I'm sure you know the rest. I keep telling myself, it's not the years, it's the mileage.