BobbieK

The thing that slows me down is my reading speed - when copying from a document, I tell myself what I'm reading in my head like a storyteller. I type as fast as I read, I can spell fairly well so I don't need to think about that, just what I'm reading is all. If I try to read on ahead, my typing tends to be faster. If I'm just typing out of my head like in chat, I'm probably faster, as fast as I can think to say it. Tested I'm 63wpm with 100% accuracy but not in a test I go about 70 - nerves I guess. So being a good speller and reading fast I would say affects typing speed. I learned on an old manual typewriter when I was 14, the graduated keys you had to pound and a manual carriage return with a bell, no enter key. Couple years later I was on an electric typewriter which was still graduated, but some of them had an enter key and some had a backspace key with a digital display window above the top row. On those I averaged about 40 wpm. Several years later I did a refresher and the class had all computers. The other girls complained I was too loud, I was pounding the keys like I would a typewriter, and I was making lots of mistakes. The teacher got me to slow right down to about 20 wpm and retrain my fingers to squash up, flat, and press lightly. After a couple of days doing that I sped right up to 80. I've slowed down with age and lack of need. So. Spelling, reading, squashing up, flat, and pressing lightly .. as well as cutting your fingernails short! Draping a tea towel over your hands helps to stop you from looking at the keys while learning.

*** I would offer a room in my new house but I'm on the other side of the planet. Sometimes a long term good tenant is an asset when selling. So your friend should find out who the bank is and find out what the process is and whether or not he can stay. My advice for looking for a new place, because rentals in my city are very very hard to get as we found last year or so when we were renting while this house was being built, driven by the mining boom - all the interstate and international employees monopolised the rental market, and the mining companies who reserved a bunch of them. ANYWAY. If going through a real estate, always offer more rent than what is being asked, and if there's a yard or even a courtyard, talk about and put on the application your masterful gardening skills, it matters, the front garden affects the value of the house as well as the whole street, if you have a fancy lawn mower etc, do mention that. If you're going private as in dealing directly with the owner/landlords turn up to the viewing with the money or your cheque book, dressed well, professionally, and if possible, accompanied by your mother, even when you're as old as me. Pull out your money or cheque book and say something like 'I/we'd like to settle this today'. With the actual moving, if you have an automatic driver's license you can hire a 3 tonne truck to drive yourself, they are made for a regular driver's license now and most have a tail lift. Young teenagers next door or whatever appreciate $20 to help with the loading. Local removalist companies often sell second-hand moving boxes/crates for $5 or $10 each, much easier than scouting the stores for their throwaways, sometimes people sell them in the newspaper for less. And then the masking tape is very cheap to buy. Moving is a big headache, I've done it, I counted just the other day, 32 times in my adult life, sometimes that has been having to start all over again with nothing, which is why even though my mum has fancy new one's I have insisted on storing my old dining set, fridge, washer and double futon in the garage for the day anyone I know is going through such a move, because I know what it's like. I hope any of that helps.

I settled some more into my new house. My bathroom is all pink, like the princess I am. I'm finally back on the internet after much rigmarole, only to find the game has gone haywire, probably with the preparation for 3. We finally had a home cooked meal for dinner instead of take away we've been surviving on with everything packed .. it was the best spaghetti I ever ate. It's very cold in Perth, Western Australia at the moment, surely not as cold as it gets in the US and Canada, but cold for us, and we're near the beach so the winds make it worse. While I'm holding onto a hot coffee having a smoke in the alfresco area, I'm thinking someone should invent a patio chair that follows the sun while you sit in it. LOL. You're sitting there in the morning sun and all of a sudden, the sun moves and you're cold. This is a nice DISCUSSION isn't it? I say as I ..

always take a smelting urn with you when I was smithing for money I found the knives paid the best and they were easy and convenient to offload onto the dude next to the burthorpe bank chest, he just kept buying them however many without paying less, perhaps that's true for all shops now? didn't used to be. I always smelt and smith in burthorpe, if you swivel the camera round from the bank chest you can click on the furnace straight from your withdrawal, and then when you're smelting you can click on the bank chest at the right angle straight from the furnace, the anvil is also clickable at the right angle from the bank chest, not sure about back again from the anvil. steel is probably easiest because there's way less coal to mine for that, might not sell as well at the GE but definitely can sell the end product to the colonel or whatsisname at the bank chest, again the best return is with the knives. I think I remember working out that for the amount of coal you need for the higher ores, it was more efficient therefore quicker xp to smith steel. gold and silver only give smelting/smithing xp but not for making anything with it, that is crafting.

I've already got my fill of trees and fruit trees, just that one time I was chopping one down to get the roots and I was distracted by something and then when I looked back the tree had grown back. I just wondered if it grows back like regular trees it might drop nests too, and wondered if anyone had that happen.

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my brother was asking about Runescape he wants to play free and wants to have a clan, I couldn't find on the guides if clans are available for f2p anyone know?

*** My Constitution is 80

I just realised mushroom potatoes have changed to healing more than tuna potatoes! Mushroom potatoes heal 1600 whereas tuna potatoes heal 1280. Mushroom one's used to be lower than tuna one's. But the level to make them is the same - mushroom being lower than tuna. And! the final stage of making a mushroom potato gives 55 xp whereas the final stage of making tuna potato only gives 10. Even an egg potato gives more xp than the tuna one's now. Wierd!

Was wondering if anyone's ever gotten a bird's nest from their own grown tree? If so, then what do you reckon is the rate compared to forest trees?

so I'm into brewing. I'm a DIY kinda gal. I was making my own beer glasses, but I also make my own vials for herblore and the glassblowing time for me needs to be for one or the other, since I go fight a bunch of rock crabs for masses of seaweed each time. I checked out your guide, it suggested they spawn in several pubs, but I've been to a almost all of them and haven't found any. Beers spawn in the Barbarian village and I collected a whole bunch but then I had to drink them all to get the glass. The guide also said about POH shelves. I went to my house and got a sackful of beer glasses but when I left my house to go put them in the bank they disappeared from my inventory. I thought it was a mistake so I went back to my house and the same thing happened. It wouldn't let me leave the house with the beer glasses, unlike other resources I take from there, everything else it lets me take. So does anyone know exactly where empty beer glasses spawn?

I was annoyed with the silly stuff clogging up my inventory while I'm trying to harvest, get logs, mine or whatever. I got enough to make the autumn one and then destroyed whatever else I got after that. Took up my bank space too. Is it just me or does the member's bank space seem to have shrunk?

ah so temple trekking is slayer, ok not an option for me yet. stuck with moss giants for now. thanks.

ok so what is temple trekking? I do prefer to DIY, always have, that's how I play.

I spent all day yesterday finding ways to get the most watermelon seeds without buying them from the exchange. Pickpocketing the master farmer isn't a good way .. hours and hours and just one or two watermelon seeds, with a decent level, plenty of other seeds though. I looked up the bestiary on here with a drop search of watermelon seed and tried out all the one's my level and quest completion can. The best one I've found so far is the Moss Giants. I fought the Fire Giants first because the bestiary said they drop 3 at a time, but I was there a full session of food's worth and my sack just got full of gems, more than mining with an amulet of glory. Hill Giants were pathetic, good for runes and the lower seeds. Didn't bother with Ice Giants, I regulared there plenty before and remember it wasn't very often I got watermelon off them. Ogres always dropped seeds if anything, but only one watermelon occasionally, mostly herb. Hobgoblins were mostly the lower seeds, among a bunch of other junk. I've fought Jogres before and remember they were very good for grimy snakeweed and rogues purse, but not often seeds. One session with the Moss Giants, at combat 163, full armour, and 10 pineapple pizzas, and I got 6 watermelon seeds, in maybe 2 hours. I haven't tried the compost familiar thingy yet, are they any good? I need to look up how to summons them yet, I've only made pouches so far. Any other suggestions? Besides buying them. Cor blimey, they're almost 3K each at the GE. I'd rather gather them.

Thanks everyone for noticing my post and replying. I do try to be quiet and unknown, but I can't help myself. I tried out for Big Brother once, but didn't get in. I guess whatever it is I have doesn't let me use it like that. I shall check out your suggestions in time. Again thanks.

I hope I have the right section. the spirit kalphite pouch in summoning seems to have been removed from the menu when using the ingredients on the obelisk. it is still listed in the RS skill guide for summoning, but when I took the pouches, shards, blue charms and potato cactus to the obelisk, it wasn't on the menu. I checked if it'd been moved to another charm or such, but it's gone. Also, because this is the only reason why I trained summoning, because I wasn't interested in it otherwise, the Fairy Tale part II or III where you have to get the wand off of Gnarly, doesn't let you progress if you don't have at least 37 summoning, to talk to Gnarly, even with the bucket of milk. The quest doesn't say in RS that any summoning is required, perhaps that is a new thing in that quest. It's also not mentioned in the quest guide here.

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I told you I can go on and on. and unfortunately for the cyber world, I can type as fast as I think to talk it, and so I do because I can. I do put it into somewhat productive avenues sometimes, like songwriting, but my composer has gone a bit walkabout. I was writing a popular legacy on the Sims 2 website called Lateral Legacy and was up to the 42nd episode, but they dismantled and got rid of that site to make people move on to Sims 3. Don't worry, I'm pretty sure I won't be unloading my writing compulsion onto this forum. I'm mainly here to get tips for the game. Just I saw the introduce yourself and felt obliged. I have guessed that I'm probably a bit older than most of the members here as I am in the game, so I won't be surprised or offended if nobody can relate to much of what I've said here. Don't mind me, I'll leave you be now.

I've been a user of Tip it since I started playing Runescape I think. Which was back in the year 2000 or 2001, can't remember which, those two years were confusing because special events usually help stick things in my memory, like prominent new year's celebrations. Now for the new year's eve that was turning the year 2000, there were huge celebrations everywhere for the 'new millenium', but the next new year's eve people argued that was actually the start of the new millenium with the new century actually beginning with the year 2001, so there were big celebrations and commemorative merchandise for that one too. Anyway, if Tip it existed back then, then that's when I started using it, otherwise it was when I played again in 2004 and 5. I think I finally registered when I was entering information for a quest guide or something like that. Fairly recent, or was it?!! Spooky if not. So I've been playing Runescape since back then. I remember the big thing was fighting the Moss Giants under Varrock, it was always hard to get a spot and after someone said 'you're too weak', I was driven to get my combat up. And I did. But these days that is not high compared to the I don't know how they got that high so quickly generation. It was a thrill to get a muddy key from the Moss Giants fights and dare the dash to the lava area in the Wilderness to open the chest next to the devils and get pineapple pizzas and rubies. You'd struck it rich. The next chunk of playing I did was when energy just came in and you had to carry a sleeping bag around with you or find a bed. Did it have night and day? Not sure. And! the fad of wearing gnome fashion! pastel coloured robes, bottoms and hats. I still have my pink one's. I have a 10 year cape, which people ask me what it is a lot, and then they still call me a noob because my stats aren't 99. Or they say I'm lying. Oh well. Why would you want to know everything and have done everything in the game already anyway, how boring. I'm not in any clan. I pretty much keep to myself in the game and do my own thing. and get accused of being a bot because of it. But I'd be 99 if I were. frustrating. I have an ability to go on and on. And it is a talent, not good for relationships but excellent when writing to politicians and stuff like that. I once organised and did a petition to the West Australian Minister of Education to ask for a course in music business for our TAFE colleges, which in America I believe the equivalent are 'community college'. It was successful, from my going on and on about it, and now one of our TAFE's have a full diploma course in music business, which in years to come will affect a change in the entire Perth music scene, having specifically trained people to run it. My talent also got me the only official legal permission from EA Games to use a video made with their Sims 2 game, with an original music video on youtube. There are thousands of Sims 2 videos on youtube, but because there is a fat, slim, buckleys and none chance of my music video someday becoming popular and therefore earning me performance royalties, legal permission is needed to use that video, and so, after almost a year of calling their HQ nearly every day and resending the CD, I finally got that in a physical document and was required to state that in the credits of my video. It's called Silver Wings, by Orange Baskets. So yeah I got a bit involved in music, I was mainly just a big groupie to start with, but not the stereotype. I loved a live band, The Screaming Jets so much that it influenced which town I decided to move to when I got my 23/4 year old itchy feet syndrome. To Newcastle. It's north of Sydney on the coast. And everyone there sounds like Kath and Kim. And now I'm told I do. When I got there, the pilot course just happened to be starting at their TAFE for music industry business skills, an article about Silverchair was in the paper of how they were doing that course, while they were still in high school - they lived in Newcastle. Being a single mum at that time entitled me to do any course at TAFE for free and gave me priority in their selection. So even though I had no prior experience in music and didn't play anything, I was accepted into it. My involvement in it all went on from there. Now that I'm much older though, I don't get involved in it as much. My daughter is a grown up herself now and I am retraining to be in office administration through a course I do at home. My hours have even changed. I rise very early and have trouble staying up late. I mostly just go to dinner with my b/f and stuff like that. Once a year however I do go to the songwriter's Christmas party thrown by APRA, their affiliate in America is ASCAP. They're basically the organisation that collects and distributes music license fees and royalties. There's a few kind of famous people that also go to that party each year, it's fun. With my daughter independent, I've gone full circle and live with MY mum. We're about to move into a brand new house we had built, which has a second master bedroom for me, and she has the other one. I hear more and more how common this is now, in Australia anyway, and I've read a recent article on the CBS site that it's becoming more common in America too. I don't think it will happen with the next generation, do you? because I think me and my mum's generation are doing it out of a common bond of NOT GETTING the new young generation. From different planets I think. .. I also go to the gym and enjoy TV nights in. My favourites with my household are Once Upon a Time, Downton Abbey, SVU, Being Human, Supernatural, and on video because we don't have cable: Mad Men, Hell on Wheels, The Walking Dead, Call the Midwife, Boardwalk Empire, and Copper. One thing I've learned for certain about myself is that people don't tend to forget me. I try to be mellow and inconspicuous but it never works. Even online when nobody can see me behind my computer, how does that happen? It's weird. Thanks for reading my novel. Bobbie King xxx.

The ingredients for the basic defense potion have changed to Marrentil and Bear Fur. You may already know but if so it's not been updated on the potions table in the herblore skill guide. I don't know if the xp or level for it has changed with it.

is it anything other than for show? cause that's been a waste of bank space then.

please forgive my ignorance but what is a super set? I have been in and out of RS since 2000 or 2001 but I don't know what that is, I'm guessing to do with herblore potions but which one's? allll of the super potions including restore anti poison energy etc? or just the combat one's ie strength attack and defense?

what a shame, I'd dearly love to have dragonhide skirts instead of legs. robes are like skirts aren't they? which are the higher one's and do they protect against magic as well as the ranger's outfits do? and what level of what do I need to wear them and can I make them myself?

how do I get on there and will my stuff go and come back with me?