Sidenote : Just a bit of fun, no offense intended with the tongue in cheek stuff.

Well it's apparent from reading and watching the volume of posts grow that besides myself, there might be a few people struggling with their Caedes, hmm, affinity. So, here goes:

1.) We admitted we were powerless over art and in particular, fractals --that our lives had become unmanageable. Take a look around you ... do you see your pets wasting away with forlorn looks at a food dish not filled since you joined the site? Is your significant other attached by a USB cable? Friends ... there is help.

That's how she hooks you...she hands out the Aleve like candy, then when you come back for me, she charges you more than Caedes will ever have in the xbox game fund. Lauren is evil like that!

"bye boys! have fun storming the castle!"

"now we will see who is right, and who is DEAD!!!"

"as you wishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Oh, ok ... The Princess Bride. Top 5 for me.

Who wants the Aleeve ?!!!

Suffering a bout of clue'les'sitis?
Or Caedesian 'repetitve threads post syndrome?'
(Hey ... read that last one fast enough and it almost sounds right! Yep, another 'shiny moment brought to you by the good folks at the home.)

With the former for me, it's a chronic condition.

*makes the sign of the cross with his fingers, in Keifer's direction*
Of course Lauren, I'll share my Oreo's. Oh and here, they're realy good when you dip em in peanutbutter.

oh!! .. it burnzezzz .. make it stop

(*pulls out a bic lighter and ignites curtiebear's fiberfill stuffing*)

Oreo's in peanut butter ?? *gags*

Sorry Curt, Keith's waving Godiva.....my favorite ....yummmm

I'll save some Aleeve for Les, cuz I promised, but the rest goes for the burnz on Mushy Boy......

Godiva talks the talk kids, sorry

Has anyone else noticed that Americans have a weird fetish with Peanut-Butter-flavoured-everything? There was this girl at my uni who had PB-jellybeans, PB-filled chocolate bars, even PB-chewing gum!!!!!!!!! :O

right after I read that… I saw a commercial for peanut butter hershey's kisses… i wonder if they're in the CVS down the block yet… brb!

That's another American thing I don't know about - WHAT ARE HERSHEY'S KISSES?

Candy.....little chocolate candies...solid chocolate, that are absolutely scrumptious when frozen ....

Oh ! Oh ! talk about frozen,.... ( Sorry Jemma ) you ever have those miniture Reeses's Cups frozen ?? Yummmmmmmmyyy !!!!

nutrageous...frozen...omg!!!! now that's yummy!!!!
and hey, got anymore aleve? i'll trade a handful of kisses...and a fresh brewed cup of coffee for some...my tooth is killing me.

OMFG...I'M FREAKING OUT!!!! DID YOU SEE THIS---->
Website Downtime Planned - by caedes 01/16/06 10:27 PM
Warning! I'm planning on doing a major upgrade to the server hardware and software some time this week (probably Thursday or later). There is the distinct possibility that the website will be unavailable for some number of hours, so please be prepared and have a book or some other distraction ready just in case. I don't want to have anyone freak out. =) Just think happy thoughts of a shiny, new, faster website.

WHAT DO I DO WHILE CAEDES IS DOWN??? WHERE WILL I GO????

(I guess I'll have to use that time to feed the pets, water the plants, handle all those neglected items because I am powerless, and have a strong addiction...THERE I said it, I have an addiction, and wasn't really looking for the women who think blinking noses are sexy group...I belong here...Choclate, I need Chocolate...NOW!!)

Oooo.. we're going to have to send you some Kisses Jaecee.

Of course, to promote the company I work for, I do need to say Nestle Crunch bars... mmm..mmmm... good.. :o)

Oooo.. we're going to have to send you some Kisses Jaecee.

(*averts eyes away from screen*) Noooo ... mustn't think about ... chhh ... chhho ... chhoco .... (*glimpses monitor in peripheral) ... oohooohoohhh ...

You ever see those gi-normous Kisses? There must be a least half a kilogram of sweetness there.

And yes, Jenn, in case you didn't get the memo ... there's a special meeting planned for the downtime. Red coffee and chocolate, I believe, so ... are you coming?

3.) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Geri, as far as we understood the pronounciation of thy Webmaster's name.

Hey ... it's late, lol. They all can't be gems.

hmmm......rapidly approaching that 4th Step! Oh dear.......:~)

The 4th step? Well, in preperation for that, this for all of you... *Hands everybody a copy of Dr. Seuses' "Oh, the Places you will go".*

can I have a copy of "Hop on Pop" too please?

*raises hand* I want " Horton Hears A Who " please .....

Lol @Cat.

No impugning necessary on our parts ;) .

OMG… that is SO not where I was going w/that… *looks down* is my freudian slip showing?

Sometimes.*giggle* it hangs clear to your ankles.*more giggles*

LMAO @ Cat & Les .....I didn't even catch it !! D'oh !!! *giggles*

You guys are SO BAD!!!!! :-) LOL

Lololol.

And again, ... lololol. Too funny.

No Cat, you can not have Hop on Pop.
Nor can you have Horton Hears a Who for who's not hear a Horton, Lauren.

OK just where was I going with this.... Geisel, get your spirit butt out of me... no more channelling for you... *Spit*

This ... this, is what happens when the inmates get the news that the aslyum is shutting it's doors for a while. Lol.

Oh, and some have been reporting skin breakouts ;) .

.........lolol

which is healing up quite nice, thank you...:o)

I swear, leave you lot alone for one night and I come back and can't make any sense of the discussion....

Wheee.. ain't it fun? ;oP

Don't worry Jemma, neither can we & we were here !!

Oh sure Lauren ... go ahead ... tell evrrrrrrrybody we take the short bus.

This does not bode well for my 'bad boy' image :( .

It's ok Les.. the short bus makes it around the curves better..

Lol @ Ann.

Needed that spark of optimism, ty. Ohhhh ... sorry ... but, to add ...

I just had a taste of what it's going to be like as my ISP decided today was the day to renew my IP lease. It ... was ... a little scary.

I shut my computer down over the weekend once, and came back to discover it wouldn't turn back on. Apparently the PRAM battery had died quite some time earlier and it was running on ghost energy. It took me about 2 days diagnose the problem and resolve it, but MAN did I have some withdrawal shakes there. *shudders*.

oh… and then there's the time more recently over the summer… b4 I had the electrical work done… where I forgot that I couldn't run the computer, the air conditioner AND the microwave all @ the same time. In my own defense, I was sick, but it did result in me walking 6 blocks @ 10:30 @ nite to go pickup a new surge protector to replace the one I'd just burnt out…

Ok, from what I've gethered here, you all have an accute osession with Caedes(I'm not saying I don't) ;) blinking noses, chocolate and Aleeve, correct? Oh and you all take the short bus .... the one that gets around the curves well, did I get it all right? This whole thread confuses me :-o)

Have we gotten to step # 3 yet ?

Hey Lauren, in fact we have, a way, way back. Once again;

3.) Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Geri, as far as we understood the pronounciation of thy Webmaster's name.

TPBM is confused. Oops, nvm ;) .

You think you all have it bad with the no-caedesness? I have to go to my boyfriend's house, AND THEY DONT HAVE THE INTERNET!!!! *eyeballs having out all haggard and drawn-looking with the terror of it all*

Oh my Gawwwd... dump him. Do it now before its to late girlfriend.:oP

Lol ... lol. Oh my.

Jemma ... didn't the cave your b/f live in with his family give you any indication at all? Are we not supposed to be 'visual' people? Hmm. Pardon? He looks like Jake? Oh, well then.

And the day starts ... :) .

* leaves behind cheesecake crumbs while reading posts*

*ponders Step 5 - Make sure you have a bucket to clear up the continually exploding members....looks pointedly at the mushroomhead*

We're at step # 5 already ? I may need a remedial course

Hey, can i join? i brought chocolate chip cookies! lol So ok, now i need to go back and read steps 1-5...

Chocolate anything is always welcome..

Well to be fair to my boyfriend, they have just gotten the internet, but OH GOD - IT'S DIAL UP!!!!!! I have been spoilt on broadband for too long..............

(*averts eyes*) ... did someone mention ... dduh ... ddddiii ... nope, sorry, I worked through that a while ago ... no looking back ... now ... my kingdom for a T3 connection :) .

4.) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Whatttt?? Me? No, I am still right and you are wrong :P .

5.) Admitted to Caedes, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our settings in various graphics software and browers and the reasons 'why.'

What moral inventory ? Actually Les, dear boy, you are WRONG & I am RIGHT ...

Just so you know

Glad we cleared that up lol...

Les...Universal Law #1: Woman are ALWAYS right
of couse if you read further down you will find
Universal Law #1.a : at at leaste make them feel they are always right
" Yes, dear.... Of course dear.... OK dear, I'll get right on that dear" :o)

Sorry Les, I ain't tellin' nobody nuttin' about what I did......and.... I have no defects in my character!! :))

Lauren, Lauren, Lauren ... "Yes, dear ... of course hon, you are right ... (*crosses fingers behind back*) ."

(*throws Curt a lifesaver*) ... hold on Curt, it could get a little choppy in the waters here, lol.

Mimi, my apologies. An oversight on my part, as I omitted the " ... everyone, except Mimi" clause ;) .

6.) Were entirely ready to have Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, GIMP remove all defects of image so we could finally post. :P

Quick thinking Les.......my images have no defects either!! lol
(and if you believe that, I would like to sell you some beachfront property here in St. Louis, MO!!!!!!!!! hehe)
and for 7.......I have no humilty !!!!

Lololol ... Mimi, that was the definitive 'anti-'humility statement. "We have no humility and are vocal and proud of it!"

Yes, I think we should look at ...

8.) Made a list of all images we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all and began to reload them into our graphics programs. Making a promise not to misuse the sharpening tools contained therein.

LOL @ #8 hehhe

9.) Made amends to those images, except when to do so was not within the acceptable and approved guidelines as set down by Caedes for a posting of a re-work.

And have begun, by our behavior and example, to convince those about us that our images are indeed changing for the better by not abusing the saturation levels in our images, so that 'green' grass no longer appears in our winter scene shots.

Oh, oh, this one is a toughy.

Well Les...as long as I do a good Step 10, the above Step will not need to be addressed ,by me, at this time ( and hopefully not for a looooong time~)
That admission, under manipulation gallery ,when you really don't want to go there is a tough one. But it is truly better to promptly admit the saturation & hues & "minor" filter work & levels and get humble about it sooner rather than later :~)

A timely resurrection methinks. :oP

*whispers* ... come'ere!! ... we need to get those threads that make you think down the page ... I no good at thunkin. :o(

You in?

Ok, ok ... I will admit it then. Yes, yes ... this was a shameless plug for meself.

*Just found this...oh good...more wasted time* Pets? What pets? Oh oh.......*runs to check* Boy am I in big trouble! I got some splainin to do. I gotta go.

who are these children living in my house?

Tell her Curt.

Her ?! Tell US Curt !

10) Continued to take personal and artistic inventory of our galleries ... deleting when neccessary ... and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

"No ... it was my full intention to include those power lines, lens' flare, Uncle Joe holding up 'bunny ears' and distortion for this image. I happen to think they work well."

"It's a fractal ... f..r..a..c..t..a..l. It's supposed to look like that! Sheesh!"

*opens eye*

Huh? What kids? Ohhhh... those kids... no need to worry, your new babysitter is here... I'll quiet them down...

*mumbes about the pretty lights*

Yer a real sport Curt...babysitting your own kids.

starting with you... Git to bed, young man... Now, or I'll paddle ya...

Young man? ...love it...your parents could be my kids....and judging from what I see of you they are.

so... you're 80 or so?

Or so.

At least he's not so-so

See? Im not so....nor so-so....so see?

I no see so-so, nor a so. Perhaps you could sew a so-so or a so in your shorts, so we can all see you go a go-go in your so-so shorts. See?

Ah, what the hey ... one more ...

11.) Sought through size conforming uploads and donations to the caedre to improve our conscious contact with *Geri, as we understood the pronounciation of his alter e-go, *caedes ... praying only for knowledge of editing programs and that sweet new digital SLR coming out.

12.) Having had a CAEDES experience as a result of these steps (and any others we can think of) we try to carry this message to others and practice these principles day and night, night and day, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year.....into infinity and beyond!

Lolol.

Yeah ... what she said ... *shakes fist at ...* ... uhm, nvm. Shiny moment pour moi.

(*walks off sheepishly ... into a wall*) ... *ouchies* ... that's gonna leave a mark. :o/

I worked all day...hard...come here to relax....it's like walking into the asylum at feeding time.

And I quote from some of the original words found, and in my mind ... quite appropriate for our beloved site:

" ... to see them help others, to watch loneliness vanish, to see a fellowship grow up about you, to have a host of friends - this is an experience you must not miss."

True say ... true say.

Coffee and cookies are now being served ... pull up a chair and sit with us, won't you? You don't want to miss out on this. :o)

I hate when real life interrupts my Caedesian life.... * grabs cookie* dunks in Les's beer...

(ahem) hi, my name is Rob, and I'm a Caedesian....

*collectively ... amongst the scuffling and shuffling of chairs ... the caedesian membership is heard to reply in unison*

"Hello Rob."

*Les notices some crumbs in his non-alcoholic beer* ... hmm, oatmeal raisin .. that'll work ;o)

*sees Les about to commit the ultimate horror of horrors.... lunges into a mid-air dive, and grabs Les' modern-day hemlock just as it's reaching his lips* (shudder) "not...not...non-alcolholic beer!!! oh the humanity....

Thanks man. Someone must have slipped this by the door.

*looks sternly towards the corner where that guy is standing in the shadows*

Whew!! Close call.

You guys are just plain nuts! I'm sure glad I have such composure and and self control. *waits to see who pulls trigger first*

Jerry must be the "Guy in the shadowy corner".
Lynch him!!!!

I am torn asunder...I dedicate half a picture to you and now you want to lynch me. *hangs head and sobs softly* Ok ....I'm over it...what's next?

*with a thoroughly bored expression, I hand Jerry his oil can*

Are you finished yet? hmm?

Does this mean I get to choose as to whether or not I am Chip or Dale?

You guys fight over it....I'm oiling up.

well if jerry's oiling up, that would make hiim the tin woodsman, so...curtie's the scarecrow, and les is the cowardly lion?

You got it Dorothy!

By the way The Scarecrows name was Hunk, the Tin Man was Hickory, and the Cowardly Lion was Zeke.

Zeke here ... who you calling cowardly? Huh?

Come on ... put up your dukes ... and that part I do mean seriously ... your jean shorts are drooping a bit, Mr. Plumber and your 'smile' is not as beguiling as you may think. :oP

i'll do better than put up my dukes...i'll yell "BOO" , now run off and go play with the munchkins, (and bring me a box of honey-dipped when you get back) ,and Jerry must've thought i was 'dorothy' from a tat i have in an unmentionable location... which of course bears the obvious next question... how'd he know?

I want to know why you are telling you have one in a secret place....care to share? Maybe let us know what it is...location not needed.