CHAT ROOM

[ThePackageHouse]

This is a designated chat room for all of us game room groupies!  A great place to hang out, ask questions or just get to know each other.  A great big thanks to Jane and Elizabeth for getting our games back running again.  XOXOXO

Enjoy!

Lori  - aka "Packy"

[VinoCatz]

YAY ! thankyou to Jane and Elizabeth for giving us the space to enjoy ourselves and enjoy some brain stretching now that the other forums are just not the same.

"Viv"

[ThePackageHouse]

So, now that we're all together in one big room, I just have one word to say about the new Etsy forum changes:

$%&#(&%^&23$%# !!!!!!!

[ElizabethRosenArt]

Ditto that Lori!!

[SwissZahlerArt]

I am sorry, the characters or typos do not show on this side of the computer...

[ThePackageHouse]

I'm so glad to have these games back especially this week.  Our wind chill on Wednesday is -35.  I know a lot of you will likely be going through much of the same.  I may have to pull out the footed jammies and stay in them all day.

[ElizabethRosenArt]

Footed jammies sound good to me right now! Our weather has been so bizarre this Winter- it rained for 2 solid days (it doesn't rain in January in the mountains of Upstate NY), that all froze, and then it snowed on top of sheets of ice. I'm scared of my driveway, frankly. Park the car by the front steps and crawl through the passenger door to the driver seat if I have to go to the PO, lol. Well, or request a pick-up.

[ElizabethRosenArt]

Just for any of you who don't read Etsy announcements, I clicked the orange announcement at the top of the page today where it says Learn More, and there are some things underway that will reduce our eyestrain at the very least. If you click 'learn more' at the top, there's more. But here copy/pasted, an excerpt:

work that’s currently underway:

• Making the font easier to read throughout community pages
• Reducing the white space within Teams and Forums discussion threads
• Increasing the time between community sign-in requests

[NorthernNicNacs]

They canceled school for the next 2 days up here in Northern MN. Wind chill expected -60.

Burr

[VinoCatz]

You can send any cold weather downunder, we have had some extreme HOT weather, hard to believe when the other side of the world is frozen !

[OpenVintagePreserve]

I could fax you some of our bitter cold. LOL!

[VinoCatz]

yes please, that would be lovely ! and my printer just died, arghhhhh.  

[OpenVintagePreserve]

Oh, no! The dreaded printer demise! Hope you can find another relatively easily. 

[OpenVintagePreserve]

We’ve been having several days in which I could open my window during the afternoon - hear the birds, feel the breeze, etc. But then about once or twice a week, it gets down to low teens or single digits (which doesn’t compare to what some of y’all have going on, but it’s mighty cold for us). So I had the window open today, and tonight the temps are going to tumble and keep tumbling all through tomorrow. Brrrrrr.....

[SwissZahlerArt]

Good evening everybody.

Today was 30 F (-1.1 C) which made us to feel like a summer day.  LOL.

There were about 6" (15.2 centimeters) of snow acummulation early in the morning.

I drove today just to get out of the house. There were streets with only one lane available for driving. It was like driving in the 40s, you barely saw cars on the street. Fortunatelly,

the drivers understood today was a day to drive slooooooooooow. Schools were closed.

Did schools closed when I was growing up?  I do not remember...

In theory, the rest of the week shall be below zero; therefore, soup time.

[QuiltPolice]

We have wind chills 30 below zero and lots of snow the day before: Wisconsin

[TimeAndAgainFashions]

I am not feeling very cahatty at the moment, but did want to say HELLO!

Stay warm - or cool as the case may be.

[ThePackageHouse]

Good morning all!  

I guess there is no way to make the title of this chat bold (after the fact)? Also, does anyone know how to keep from having to do this incessant page scrolling?  I think I have carpal finger.

[ChillwolfArt]

@ThePackageHouse

To make the font bold after you post, I believe you hit the down arrow to Edit. (I'm going to check after I leave this post).

I noticed the font is darker (some others commented on it).  It started for me yesterday; thank goodness!

The scrolling: I don't know how to avoid it.  It does look like they lessened the white, but I still scroll up and down, up and down.

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Just edited and the option to Bold is there.  A good thing about it, they changed the bold font as well; it's not as clunky and thick.  I noticed this yesterday when the non-bold font was darker.

[OpenVintagePreserve]

Carpal finger . . . Sounds about right. It actually gets tiring. 

[QuiltPolice]

Noticed how many pages on all the game there are already.

It must be from separation anxiety for the 2 weeks of no forums.

[OpenVintagePreserve]

Separation anxiety - YES!!! What a relief it is to be here. 

[ThePackageHouse]

Yessssssss!  Even as horrible as this format is to get used to, we are all helping each other and limping along to have our games back!

[VinoCatz]

I definately had some separation issues, LOL

[InMyField]

I have 2 questions: what do the orange triangles mean that sometimes appear on the right of game title (sometimes they have check marks)? and, how can I delete the Notifications feed I keep getting when someone posts?  Thanks :)