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New Mission - Datacard delivery
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johnahue42
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 		Good luck krystyn! Make sure to strut and talk and act like a diva! Make Syd proud!

PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:04 am
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harleykins
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 		Good luck today krystyn! Very Happy

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Ursos
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 		Yes, good luck indeed! Hey, maybe h.meier will turn out to be Jennifer Garner ... err, I mean Sydney Bristow! Surprised

PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:47 am
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Karl
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 		good luck!!!

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Charlene47
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 		good luck krystyn!

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Soph
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 		Good luck! represent us well! heee

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krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice


Joined: 26 Sep 2002
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Location: Is not Chicago

 		I will do my best!
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:53 pm
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Ursos
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 		Well, it should be going down about now, eh? I wonder when we'll hear back!

[EDIT]: This conversation just took place on irc.freenode.net #omnifam:

[05:10 PM] Ursos: SH*T!
[05:10 PM] Ursos: I just got a call!
[05:10 PM] Charlene47: OMG really?!?
[05:10 PM] Ursos: It was the passphrase...
[05:10 PM] Charlene47: from meier?
[05:10 PM] *** Mode change "+v Ursos" for channel #omnifam by Vesh.
[05:10 PM] Charlene47: passphrase?
[05:10 PM] Ursos: I replied with the thing about living in alaska...
[05:10 PM] Ursos: He says he think's he's been followed and do I see the clown behind him...
[05:11 PM] Charlene47: ......omg, but he knows that only one person is meeting him, doesnt he have her number?!
[05:11 PM] Charlene47: this has to be a trick to see if you are there or not, right?
[05:11 PM] Ursos: I say that I didn't make it to the park and that I sent my assoicate there for me.
[05:12 PM] Charlene47: is he still on the phone? (sorry if i'm bothering you!)
[05:12 PM] Ursos: He made a sound that was possibly a grunt of annoyance, and the call was disconnected...
[05:12 PM] Ursos: No he's gone.
[05:12 PM] Charlene47: .....a clown?
[05:12 PM] Ursos: I e-mailed him too! I said that I couldn't go, but just in case I would give him my cell too, and that my associate was going to be there.
[05:12 PM] Charlene47: i so pictured a real clown when you said that :S
[05:12 PM] Ursos: Ugh! I keep breaking this thing! L OL
[05:12 PM] Ursos: He may have meant a real clown.
[05:13 PM] Ursos: ARG! I'm so confused!
[05:13 PM] Charlene47: LOL Ursos you haven't done anything. I am breaking it more than you Razz
[05:13 PM] Ursos: I don't know if I was supposed to play along or what...
[05:13 PM] Charlene47: does he have her phone number too?
[05:13 PM] Ursos: Well, we're both on the chopping block, so ...
[05:13 PM] Ursos: I don't know if she gave her number or what.
[05:13 PM] Charlene47: there better be a real chicago meet, after all of this...
[05:13 PM] Ursos: He sounded annoyed...
[05:13 PM] Charlene47: he wont be in the park probably. it'll be cancelled cause someone has spotted him
[05:14 PM] Charlene47: i bet it's all a set up :S
[05:14 PM] Charlene47: are you gonna post it so Sd-1?
[05:14 PM] Ursos: AHH! I wish I had krystyn's phone number...
[05:14 PM] Ursos: I'll post this conversation there... Give me a second...
[05:14 PM] Vesh: Does she have any of the unf people's phone numbers?
[05:14 PM] Charlene47: the meeting should be over by now, shouldnt it?

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flicks09
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 		Dudes, I got a call too, and I'm in the UK. He asked me about the snow thing and before I could reply we were disconnected - I think it was my cellphone reception. I emailed him to say as much and that I looked forward to receiving another call from him. Hope he replies, I don't want to be cut adrift from the game or anything. I also emailed the Operator about this, as well as subsequent uncertainty about the meet, and asked details as to how I should proceed.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:36 pm
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krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice


Joined: 26 Sep 2002
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Location: Is not Chicago

 		At least it wasn't a Zombie Mime!
This is a little of how my day went:



Heck yeah, there was a clown.

So, I get there, to Villa Park. I park my car in the high school parking lot, and walk over to the bench nearest the sign leading into the park. I futz with my newspaper, and then decide to pretend to work in my planner for a while. I see no one, except some clown and some kids he's making balloon animals for, over at the playground. I take a picture of them, cos I think, "how odd, heh."

Phone rings pretty much at 4 PM, and the caller ID is blocked. A man with a warm voice gives me the passphrase, and I chuckle and respond in kind, "Not since I lived in Alaska, that's for sure!!" Because, people, it's like 91F here today.

He tells me that he has been followed, and do I see a clown behind me at the playground? I say yes, I saw him as soon as I got there, and he tells me to go over and ask him for an animal balloon. He'll know what to do. I say, "Will do!" and I hang up.

I walk over to the playground, and the clown is joking around and twisting up balloons for a couple of kids, with a couple of adults standing by and watching. I smile and ask if it's someone's birthday, and somehow it comes to light that he's been waiting for the party to arrive, and that he doesn't know where they are, but in the meantime he's making animals for the kids, since he's there and all.

I ask for an animal balloon, and somehow, the adults and kids take this as their cue to go on home, and they all leave. Heh!! So we're standing there, and idly chatting about these bastard birthday kids who didn't bother to show up, and then he says that we should go stand in the shade of this big tree nearby, since it's so hot. I say, "OK, that's cool," and we walk over. He asks me what I want for a balloon, and I say, "ummmm, a duck?" He seems a bit worried, and then suggests hopefully, "water fowl?" I shrug, "OK!"

He took a phone call early in the meeting, ostensibly from the party people he was supposed to be waiting for. He asked a couple of generic questions to whoever was at the other end: "Oh, really?" "In a purple van?" and then the conversation was over.

So the next ten minutes or so became this total comedy of balloon errors. Nearly every single balloon he pulled out broke as he twisted it, and he kept saying it was this weather that was doing it, that it was bad for balloons, etc. I kept sympathizing, but I was feeling so bad for him, and totally wanting to laugh, you know? The poor guy. Seriously, every single balloon. I started to wonder if he was doing it on purpose.

He asked me at one point if I wanted to try blowing one up, and I was all, "oh, hell no," and I am grinning at this tree, because tacked to it are two long blue ribbons, with "For Hylie" printed on them in white. Hee hee. So I took a pic as he's working on the balloons, and finally, he gives up on a swan (after duck and generic water fowl were deemed beyond the pale of his abilities, I suppose), and starts making this double-looped twist thing, and he comments on my newspaper, and says, "A little light reading?" and I say, "Yeah, checking up on what's going on this weekend in Chicago." He tells me to stand in a different spot for a minute, because it looks like a better shady spot, and I think he was trying to make sure I saw the Hylie ribbons on the tree, even though I'd already taken a picture of them. I sort of gently mocked him, "Oh yeah, it's much better over here. The breeze is really nice!"

He pulls out his own paper, and tucks it into the middle loop of this balloon thing, and I cheer, "Awesome! A newspaper holder! That's really useful!" So he hands it to me, but I've got my camera, and my own (datacard-laden) newspaper, so I say, "Hold this, in fact, keep it," and I hand it off to him so I can take his creation. He points out the tree at this point, and says something about how interesting it is. I say, "Yeah, I noticed that earlier. Heh heh!"

I take a pic of the fancy-schmancy newspaper holder, and he says, brightly, "Ya wanna take a picture of me? Because I am so awesome!" and I say, "You are awesome!" and I take a picture of him. And then he suggests we take a picture together, so we do, and then I shook his hand and thanked him for the extremely useful newspaper holder, and I walked back across the park to my car. I sent an email from my phone to johnahue to let him know everything was good, and the clown went up to some older man and a little girl to check up on the balloon flower he made for him earlier. As I was getting into my car, I saw the clown crossing back over to the playground, talking on his phone.

h.meier should have his datacard shortly!

For the record, there appears to be nothing inside the newspaper he gave to me, and yes, I did take one of the ribbons off of the tree. Smile

I was worried about ignoring the original stipulation of waiting ten minutes for h. to leave under the original plan, but since the clown walked away from me, and I was just standing by this freaking tree, I figured it was within my rights to walk back to my car and drive away. It was apparent I was totally alone, and the clown was there as cover, so I think we're good on that point.

Mission, as they say, accomplished. Smile

ETA: I just sent a close-up photograph I took of the "For Hylie" ribbons on the tree to the Methusalabs website. Hopefully they'll post it in their photos section!

Jetpack
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Vaughns Love
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 		You are awesome Krystyn!!!

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Ursos
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 		AWESOME! Hey, good job with the mission! That's hilarious, the whole chain of events! Hehe, I liked how the parents and kids scattered once you came up for business. Razz

You didn't see any purple vans, did you?

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krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice


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 		No, no purple vans!! Wink

Oh, and at one point, after like, the third balloon broke, he said something like, "I'm going to have to start doing magic! Or singing!" and I just sort of looked at him in amused despair.

He also asked me if I was afraid of him, or of clowns, and I said no, and he did this "Waaaaaoooooh!" sound that he had done before, and pulled some string attached to his wig so this flap of his hair came rising up all crazy-like, and I was thinking to myself, you know, it just wasn't enough for me to ride on a boat with a crazy diseased German and a zombie mime in the middle of the night on the Chicago River, I now have clowns in suburban parks trying to befriend me with their wacky wig antics ...
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xbl gamertag: krystyn

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Charlene47
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 		This is seriously the best thing I've ever heard!!

You are so amazing Krystyn, thanks for doing this!!

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krystyn
I Never Tire of My Own Voice


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 		Oh oh! And it was so cute. One of the little kids that was there earlier came running back into the park up to us at the tree, and I said, "I see you have another taker!" and he turns, and the kid hands him this can of Coke he was carrying. "Oh, thank you!" says the clown, and I say, "That is so sweet! Aren't you sweet?" and the kid runs off.

Totally hilarious. The clown was all happy about getting "free stuff."
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