Basically, I thought we could have a gadget that points to our forum posts so we can check out what we've been typing.
I have what I need to make it work for Sue and for me but I need information from everyone else
Sue D. Nim
PiB
Chrysame
Muleskinner
Dee
To make the gadget work, I need the user number for each of you so I can link to the posts like above.
If you go to either my preference or my bookmarks in the forums, your user number is the name of the page right at the end of the url (mine would be 61145). So let me know your number and we can have a gadget.
sim3 worsiedog
KimmieJean
Or let me know if it seems like a really bad idea or you don't want to participate.
That's a cool idea.
ReplyDeleteI always wondered how to get somebody else's member number. (I know, I posted mine on my page, didn't I? I was afraid I wouldn't remember how to get it again if I lost it.)
Basically, I bookmarked a post that had instructions on how to find your posts and suddenly realized that we could do this and see what's up really easily.
ReplyDeleteYours is the post in the blog so I could find it easily. But I can't work out how to find someone else's number from the site so I have to ask. It should be a nice gadget though.
Mine is 180560.
ReplyDeleteChrysame, your link is working. Hurray.
ReplyDeleteYay!!! *pops open a celebratory Diet Coke*
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have a number? My blogs are wordpress so I do not think they are linkable here?
ReplyDeleteIt's your Sims 3 forum id number so we can jump to your recent posts.
ReplyDeleteNot a blogspot id, we can still link to your blogs.
6418
ReplyDeleteHi Dee,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the number, I've installed the gadget
"Our Forum Posts" which is currently second from the top.
Click a link and see what Sue's been up too. Or anyone else we have a number for.
I'm glad you found the gadget. I would go to the forum and try to find posts by all of you and just couldn't find any since the post get knocked back so fast. I have scrolled through page after page, knowing you had posted something but never finding it.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't a real gadget as such. I just used the html code gadget to build a set of links. They don't have a special gadget to link to Sims 3 forums :D
ReplyDeleteI sort of figured they wouldn't, but couldn't think how else to word it at the moment.
ReplyDeleteBrain not working well right now. Tired and sleepy. We just got home a little while ago. It's a beautiful drive, taking what some call the blue highways. I think they still mark the old highways blue on the maps here. There was a lot more traffic on that two lane highway today though. When someone not used to these winding mountain roads is in front of you and there is no way to pass them, it can make your trip a lot longer.
It's going to be months before they get I-40 opened back up near Tennessee because of the recent rock slide.
For anyone not from here. I-40 is a major highway that runs almost all the way across this country, and when any part of it shuts down it can cause a lot of travel problems. I'm sure Muleskinner knows what I'm talking about.
Anyway, thanks for making the links and sorry about rambling on about the trip.
There's a book called Blue Highways about seeing America via the back roads. It's fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading that book many years ago. At least it seems, many years ago.
ReplyDeleteI think mine is 37108.
ReplyDeleteThanks Muleskinner. I had actually found yours. It is possible but very very tedious to find a member id on the site.
ReplyDeletehttp://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/user/list.page is a list with all members. Each page contains 30 ids and the names are alphabetical. The last page is http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/user/list/470610.page
So you can 1/2 the number 470610 to get the halfway mark in the ids. Then go up or down until you find the id.
So I finally tracked down worsiedog to http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/user/list/455970.page
Hi Dee: Way back when (early 70's) I was westbound from Raleigh on I 40 with a load destined for Little Rock.
ReplyDeleteIt was late afternoon in the last part of winter/early spring, I don't remember exactly. Anyway, I do recall it was a cold day. Back then mostly just truckers had cb radios. A few people had started installing them in their automobiles. Anyway, there was a lot of truckers talking about I 40 being closed due to a slide.
I was not yet a seasoned veteran as a trucker. But had to deliver the load I was hauling 'on time'. I listened to the other truckers and followed the tail lights. Literally!!!
It was a real caravan. It was pitch dark when we headed north-northwest out of Asheville. AS I recall we basically followed old state routes 25/70. It was a very, very lonnggggg night.
I followed the leaders and somehow we made it through the mountains just fine. Like I say, it was all night driving. I couldn't describe the landscape if my life depended upon it. I do recall a lot of twisting and turning (winding here and there) and some step grades.
My hands throbbed for a whole day after that from gripping the steering wheel and shifting gears of my 18 wheeler.
I made the Little Rock delivery 'on time', thanks to all the experience that led the way.
I might have to drive those roads again someday to see what I missed.
Great Story Muleskinner.
ReplyDeleteMy folks did a stint as truckers. Dad was a big bloke, 6 4 and big build. Mom eventually joined him on the road as a co-driver for a couple of years. But at 5 1 she looked so tiny getting into or out of that truck. She liked seeing parts of the country but the road proved too tough. Bad food, long hours etc, she had to give it up.
Dad loved to drive always. One of my not so fond memories is going up into the Pennsylvania mountains to visit his family. I had a tendency to motion sickness + vertigo. Narrow winding roads with steep drop offs were the ultimate in not fun for me.
Yes, we do have some very winding roads on the route we took and wouldn't want to travel them in anything larger than the truck we were in the other day.
ReplyDeleteLuckily I have never suffered from motion sickness and enjoyed the view of the river beside the road even though it made the trip a lot longer.
They made changes to a section of the river a few years ago when they hosted some of the Olympic events there.
I was taught to drive by a trucker. That was back in the days when truckers were considerate and knew what they were doing. He taught me how to drive on the interstate and all the light signals, such as letting them know there was room to get in front of you and how to say thank you with your lights. Don't see that much anymore.
Right now the truckers are going the only other route through Johnson City, TN, I believe.
This is great having the id numbers. Now when I have time again I can find everyones post and comment.
Remember, I said we had a rock slide that closed I-40. Well there is a video on youtube showing a slide on the road I took the other day. Now we have two routes to Tennessee closed. The one on youtube is highway 64. That little 2 lane highway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYGJYnJTi0
ReplyDeleteI know if you want to see it you will need to copy and paste or you can just go there and type in "rock slide""64".
When I saw that it gave me chills. The workers were trying to clean up from the first one when this one happened. These mountains just can't take any more rain.