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I know I have many friends on this thread, so I'll just come out and say it. I learned a short time ago that my landlord for the past year died suddenly in a drowning accident. It's unknown at this point whether my Mother and I will have to move, but I'll keep everyone posted.
well. F&&*.
Drowning accident? My god, that's horrible! That poor man...
Do dyslexic poets write inverse?
No we don't. It is
A great shame that we simply
Make a mess of things.
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The wife's response when I start saying too many jokes or puns is to roll her eyes and go into her office, closing the door behind her.You should remove the door one day, then hit her with an all out barrage of the worst jokes you can find.
Alternatively, write them on bits of paper and slide them under the door, one by one.
Or rig up an intercom system.
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Do dyslexic poets write inverse?No we don't. It is
A great shame that we simply
Make a mess of things.
Poems written by Yoda they are
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I know I have many friends on this thread, so I'll just come out and say it. I learned a short time ago that my landlord for the past year died suddenly in a drowning accident. It's unknown at this point whether my Mother and I will have to move, but I'll keep everyone posted.
I'm so sorry, John. How horrible.
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Just came out of job. A lot of substitutes these days so suddenly everybody thinks I am the veteran and the boss. They come to ke for advice and ask me how to do things. It's a bit overwhelming but I like being the boss xD
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A clever tinker crafted himself a new belt out of old watches.
He thought it was snazzy, but everyone else hated it.
They felt it was a waist of time...
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Looks like I get to run to the store for toilet paper and a belt. Which are the last two things you want to have to run to the store for. >:-(
Watching the teenager trying to use a weed wacker on the miniature volunteer trees along the fence line of the field next door helps though.
Spoiler alert! Plastic string won't cut thru wood, no matter how long you stand there.
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So, NobodysHome gets points for restraint this fine day (or yesterday evening).
As most of you know, my best friend committed suicide at 26 (undiagnosed manic depressive). Few of you know that one of the major contributors to his suicide was "M", one of those sleazy enabler types who thinks that every bad idea is "cool".
He was my friend's roommate, and went so far as to sign a suicide pact with him, encourage him to keep a bowl a sleeping pills by his bedside "just in case you decide to end it", and otherwise acted like suicide would be the "coolest thing ever".
And of course when my friend finally went through with it, M didn't.
So last night at Impus Major's variety show, M showed up, drunk as a skunk, seeing me for the first time since my friend's death, and acted like we were best buds.
I did not hospitalize him.
For this I am proud.
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Good job! It's not easy.
Still, the universe tends to sort these things out, they'll get what's coming to them eventually.
Just don't make a list of people the universe needs to sort out and get to eventually. People get super uptight about lists these days. :-)
Even if you're a pacifist. :-)
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So I guess the website is only phone compatible today.
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Impus Major: Gee, Dad! It's too bad you weren't born on June 6th! Then you and mom would have a 'D-Day/Hitler's Birthday' thing going that would be pretty cool!
NobodysHome: Shall I mention to your mother that you suggested that?
Impus Major: ...er, no! I guess your birthday's fine where it is!
So for my 50th birthday I plan on getting up at my usual time (5:30 am), driving to Yosemite, hiking up to Cathedral Lake, sitting around for a few hours, hiking down, doing dinner at the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge, and then driving home.
For some reason, no one else in the family feels that this sounds like any fun at all, so looks like I'll be doing it solo.
If I vanish in late June, just know that I am feeding the bears and raccoons as nature intended...
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That sounds like fun to me.
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That sounds like fun to me.
Well, other than the 9500' altitude change, it would be a piece of cake.
As it is, I'm planning 4 hours to get up the 3.5-mile trail.
Having been a "pseudo assistant leader" on a lot of Sierra Club trips and watching East Coasters learn that the difference between a 1000' "mountain" and the Sierras is a wall of granite, I *know* what the trip is going to do to my poor body.
But that's kind of the whole idea of a VisionQuest, isn't it? Push your body to its limits and see what you learn.
I figure I'll learn, "You're too old for this s**t, NobodysHome!"
But time will tell.
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Still sounds fun to me. :-)
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So, NobodysHome gets points for restraint this fine day (or yesterday evening).
As most of you know, my best friend committed suicide at 26 (undiagnosed manic depressive). Few of you know that one of the major contributors to his suicide was "M", one of those sleazy enabler types who thinks that every bad idea is "cool".
He was my friend's roommate, and went so far as to sign a suicide pact with him, encourage him to keep a bowl a sleeping pills by his bedside "just in case you decide to end it", and otherwise acted like suicide would be the "coolest thing ever".
And of course when my friend finally went through with it, M didn't.So last night at Impus Major's variety show, M showed up, drunk as a skunk, seeing me for the first time since my friend's death, and acted like we were best buds.
I did not hospitalize him.
For this I am proud.
wow.
Not sure what i would have done.
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Impus Major: Gee, Dad! It's too bad you weren't born on June 6th! Then you and mom would have a 'D-Day/Hitler's Birthday' thing going that would be pretty cool!
NobodysHome: Shall I mention to your mother that you suggested that?
Impus Major: ...er, no! I guess your birthday's fine where it is!So for my 50th birthday I plan on getting up at my usual time (5:30 am), driving to Yosemite, hiking up to Cathedral Lake, sitting around for a few hours, hiking down, doing dinner at the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge, and then driving home.
For some reason, no one else in the family feels that this sounds like any fun at all, so looks like I'll be doing it solo.
If I vanish in late June, just know that I am feeding the bears and raccoons as nature intended...
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Only four more days of school.
Maybe I'll make them get a job this summer.
Edit: Oh, and I work tonight.
I anticipating a brisk market for above ground swimming pools and trampolines.
Lots and lots of trampolines.
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Hey, Nobody, when is your birthday then?
Mine is soon too.
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Hey, Nobody, when is your birthday then?
Mine is soon too.
June. :-P
(I am notoriously unwilling to give up extremely specific information about myself online. So it is the 4th week of June (18th-24th).)
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Just a bit before mine, which will be the 5th week.
Most of my family had been born between June 21st and July 12th or between 25th September and October 12th. We are like 15 people born on that dates.
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Impus Major: Gee, Dad! It's too bad you weren't born on June 6th! Then you and mom would have a 'D-Day/Hitler's Birthday' thing going that would be pretty cool!
NobodysHome: Shall I mention to your mother that you suggested that?
Impus Major: ...er, no! I guess your birthday's fine where it is!So for my 50th birthday I plan on getting up at my usual time (5:30 am), driving to Yosemite, hiking up to Cathedral Lake, sitting around for a few hours, hiking down, doing dinner at the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge, and then driving home.
For some reason, no one else in the family feels that this sounds like any fun at all, so looks like I'll be doing it solo.
If I vanish in late June, just know that I am feeding the bears and raccoons as nature intended...
Would I get cool points with Impus Major if I casually mentioned that June 6th is my and Whingey Wizzard's anniversary?
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Just a bit before mine, which will be the 5th week.
Most of my family had been born between June 21st and July 12th or between 25th September and October 12th. We are like 15 people born on that dates.
OK, I'll give it up just because this was always one of the biggest 'coincidences' I'd ever seen.
My brother, two childhood best friends, wife, and I were all born on the 20th of various months.
My father, other brother, and later best friend were all on the 26th.
So if you looked at my entire family (5 people), best friends (4 people), and wife, 8 of the 10 were born either on the 20th or 26th.
(And my mother is hardly an outlier, having been born on the 25th...)
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Impus Major: Gee, Dad! It's too bad you weren't born on June 6th! Then you and mom would have a 'D-Day/Hitler's Birthday' thing going that would be pretty cool!
NobodysHome: Shall I mention to your mother that you suggested that?
Impus Major: ...er, no! I guess your birthday's fine where it is!So for my 50th birthday I plan on getting up at my usual time (5:30 am), driving to Yosemite, hiking up to Cathedral Lake, sitting around for a few hours, hiking down, doing dinner at the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge, and then driving home.
For some reason, no one else in the family feels that this sounds like any fun at all, so looks like I'll be doing it solo.
If I vanish in late June, just know that I am feeding the bears and raccoons as nature intended...
Would I get cool points with Impus Major if I casually mentioned that June 6th is my and Whingey Wizzard's anniversary?
Love the 50th plans. I haven't been to Yosemite without kids in six years.
Only if you had a guy dressed up like Hitler at your wedding.
And yeah, I just know the last couple of times I've gone up it's only been to 6000'-7000', and even setting up camp was exhausting. Going to 8100' and then doing a 1500' climb at 50 with no prep seems... stupid.
So I'm walking an hour a day, carrying a pack, increasing its weight day by day.
If I can climb Marin with a 50-pound pack in an hour, I *should* be able to climb to Cathedral Lakes in 4 hours...
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I forgot to mention! We had a belt test this Wednesday: I went up from Orange to Green, and my Eldest from yellow to orange stripe! :D
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Oh, and since it's easier to get in touch with you on FaWtL than e-mail or phone, any thoughts on lunch tomorrow? I'm dropping Impus Major off at a party at 2, so I'm thinking the Himalayan Tandoori & Curry House from TryCaviar.com. I've heard nothing but good things about them (the owner of Xocolate says it's her favorite restaurant), but we've never gotten to eat there because... Sushi 29!
And I bought 2 pounds of Trader Joe's chocolate. Any issues with my spoiling your kids rotten with strawberries and melted chocolate again?
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What sort of numskull runs around Ferelden with nothing but a leather kilt to (inadequately) protect his marble-smooth Elven thighs?
Me, though I hardly have a choice. Maker grant me trousers!
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I forgot to mention! We had a belt test this Wednesday: I went up from Orange to Green, and my Eldest from yellow to orange stripe! :D
Wow, congrats to both!!!
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I forgot to mention! We had a belt test this Wednesday: I went up from Orange to Green, and my Eldest from yellow to orange stripe! :D
Congrats! :)
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My birthday is during a calamitous week in August.
I try to ignore it and hope it goes away.
It never works.
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I forgot to mention! We had a belt test this Wednesday: I went up from Orange to Green, and my Eldest from yellow to orange stripe! :D
Somebody's catching up to the old man. :-)
Congrats! Those are never easy. :-)
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What sort of numskull runs around Ferelden with nothing but a leather kilt to (inadequately) protect his marble-smooth Elven thighs?
Me, though I hardly have a choice. Maker grant me trousers!
Still upset they removed the leather mini-skirts for Inquisition.
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Agh! I've caught up on all of the scenes for my PBP except the one that I'm kinda stuck on and totally dreading....and I still have twenty minutes before the kidlet is done with class....I'm.....gonna have to write the scene........*grumble, mutter, hiss* ;P
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...or I can just totally derail the scene because my inner voices also have attention issues....
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...or I can just totally derail the scene because my inner voices also have attention issues....
...or let ME write the scene, and claim you were drunk...
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...or I can just totally derail the scene because my inner voices also have attention issues.......or let ME write the scene, and claim you were drunk...
lol. They know me to well to believe that. :P
It's mostly just that it's all me, all by myself. It's a scene that affects a bunch of characters going forward, so I can't totally skip it. But I hate writing long NPC exposition where I have to interact with myself. And here in a nutshell is the answer to why I have so much trouble finishing a novel. I need a freaking co-author, dangit! Nano is enough to get me through a first draft, but second drafts are scary....*shudder*
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Ironic really given that I'm a super shy introvert that I have trouble working alone...
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They now have one of the Stop for children signs chained tied to a sandbag in the big f*~@ing pothole at work. Which still has the Orange cones jammed into it (it's up to four now.
If I was a betting man I'd say it doesn't last the weekend before it's stolen (like the Orange barrel before it).
I forgot to mention! We had a belt test this Wednesday: I went up from Orange to Green, and my Eldest from yellow to orange stripe! :D
Somebody's catching up to the old man. :-)
Congrats! Those are never easy. :-)
Thanks!
Ours... wasn't that difficult, this time, though it could be that we've spent a really long time on this particular belt (due to being suuuuuper sick during and around the last belt test).
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Impus Major: Gee, Dad! It's too bad you weren't born on June 6th! Then you and mom would have a 'D-Day/Hitler's Birthday' thing going that would be pretty cool!
NobodysHome: Shall I mention to your mother that you suggested that?
Impus Major: ...er, no! I guess your birthday's fine where it is!So for my 50th birthday I plan on getting up at my usual time (5:30 am), driving to Yosemite, hiking up to Cathedral Lake, sitting around for a few hours, hiking down, doing dinner at the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge, and then driving home.
For some reason, no one else in the family feels that this sounds like any fun at all, so looks like I'll be doing it solo.
If I vanish in late June, just know that I am feeding the bears and raccoons as nature intended...
Would I get cool points with Impus Major if I casually mentioned that June 6th is my and Whingey Wizzard's anniversary?
Love the 50th plans. I haven't been to Yosemite without kids in six years.Only if you had a guy dressed up like Hitler at your wedding.
And yeah, I just know the last couple of times I've gone up it's only been to 6000'-7000', and even setting up camp was exhausting. Going to 8100' and then doing a 1500' climb at 50 with no prep seems... stupid.
So I'm walking an hour a day, carrying a pack, increasing its weight day by day.
If I can climb Marin with a 50-pound pack in an hour, I *should* be able to climb to Cathedral Lakes in 4 hours...
Well, we had my dad, does that count?
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Oh, and since it's easier to get in touch with you on FaWtL than e-mail or phone, any thoughts on lunch tomorrow? I'm dropping Impus Major off at a party at 2, so I'm thinking the Himalayan Tandoori & Curry House from TryCaviar.com. I've heard nothing but good things about them (the owner of Xocolate says it's her favorite restaurant), but we've never gotten to eat there because... Sushi 29!
And I bought 2 pounds of Trader Joe's chocolate. Any issues with my spoiling your kids rotten with strawberries and melted chocolate again?
I don't know... it's probably going to pale in comparison to *your* curry, but ::shrug::
Strawberries, chocolate... how upset is Nobody's Wife going to be about my son's chocolate-covered fingers *everywhere*?
Your call.
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So, NobodysHome gets points for restraint this fine day (or yesterday evening).
As most of you know, my best friend committed suicide at 26 (undiagnosed manic depressive). Few of you know that one of the major contributors to his suicide was "M", one of those sleazy enabler types who thinks that every bad idea is "cool".
He was my friend's roommate, and went so far as to sign a suicide pact with him, encourage him to keep a bowl a sleeping pills by his bedside "just in case you decide to end it", and otherwise acted like suicide would be the "coolest thing ever".
And of course when my friend finally went through with it, M didn't.So last night at Impus Major's variety show, M showed up, drunk as a skunk, seeing me for the first time since my friend's death, and acted like we were best buds.
I did not hospitalize him.
For this I am proud.
Skipped that and went straight to the Morgue?