Faithful,
Thinking about your situation.
Praying for you.

SS

Last night, we 2k the kids and SIL and went 2 our favorite Mexican restaurant for foodies.

I had one of my favorite burritos and a bunch of chips and salsa. Yum. But I went home 2 full.

At 3am, I woke up from a strange dream. I dreamed we were on a starship and towels were coming out of the linen cabinet, carrying buckets of water on2 the bridge, with "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" playing over the ship's intercom. At first, we tried shooting the towels with our phasers, lest they short out some sensitive equipment console with their buckets of water. When we did, though, they'd be quickly replaced with another towel with buckets of water "in hand" (and we were worried we'd run out of towels). But we soon realized that we could 2rn off the replicators so their buckets would be empty, and we'd simply let them walk around until they got dirty and had 2 go 2 the laundry for cleaning.

...then I woke up.

-ol' 2long

Hitchikers meet Sorcerers Apprentice.

Are you certain that was cilantro in your burrito?

;-)

2L - I have been laughing so hard at the visuals I haven't been able to type for ten minutes.

I don't even want to know what it might mean - Freud wise.

FAR, I demo things in the basement on my laptop. I just use audacity and a SM57 adapted to the mic input on the computer. Don't laugh. You'd be surprised.

But that's mainly just to try vocal harmonies and beats before I present things to the band. It gets scary down there, but man, it's so much fun.

GC

Whatever it takes. I have done lots of crazy stuff. Some of the best records recorded were recorded that way.

4 track cassette recorders - man that was cool, wasn't it?

Never mind, the question was unfair and didn't belong here.

weaver:

The towels were kind of a kacky green...


...but that probably wasn't your 2uestion, was it? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

-ol' 2long

Can't sing this one, 'cause there's no words...

Theme from "Inspector Morse"

Gawd, what a beautiful, though melancholy, composition!

-ol' 2long
P.S. Look folks. We'va had 2 deal with a lot of unpleasant $h!+ this week. We know that. Let's convert it 2 oppor2nity! (my favorite Mars rover of all time, doncha know? Or doncha!)

2long, guys don't dream in color... geesh, don't you know that?

Yes, opportunity...the miracle behind the grievance. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I want one of those!

-AD

GC, SS, Weaver, JJ, Appy et al.. taking a possibly permanent break from here. I don't want my rep as a member of Idiotville to bring down people I care about. You will all continue to be in my prayers.

Weaver, you have my addy if you want to contact me.

Uh, FF, waitasecond please? I dunno if you'll read this, but.

See, you are not JUST an Idiot.

You are also a campfire, uhm, girl. (I just made that up. There are also campfire boys. Or boy scouts, or whatever they want to call themselves.)

I know you're hurting about the general goofiness on the boards the last few days. I don't know what in specific is hurting you, and I'm sorry that it is.

Still, we didn't vote you off the island yet.

(It's Weaver's island. And better than the real one.)

Speaking of real islands, look at THIS one before you go:

http://www.mbare.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album37&id=DSC00970

and THIS one too:

http://www.mbare.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album37&id=DSC00972

The little one way off in the distance.

See those? They're in Door County. That's between Lake Michigan and Green Bay, not Lake Superior like Weaver's island was.

And look at this:

http://www.mbare.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album37&id=DSC00976

It's a goat. On the roof of Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant in Sister Bay, which is in Door County.

So, see, here's my point.

You are feeling, I think, pretty inadequate and unlovable and generally miserable. Or that's what comes through in the post.

I don't want you to feel that way.

So take a while to look at the pictures, and any other pictures that you really love. Take some time to talk to God and to remember all the people that you love. Take some time to remember that the campfire, and Idiotville, are both little villages in the middle of this great big city called MB. And -- remember that a village comes together the most in the hard times. Don't run away because of a hard time, hon. If you need to take a break to protect yourself, I can understand that -- please do!

But if you're taking your marshmallows and going home, well, I'm pretty sure that's not on the agenda right now.

{{{{{{{{{{FF}}}}}}}}

FF - ( very theatrical....) YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME!!!!

Huh? Say what?

We are all so emotional of late, but that is okay. As 2long and JJ said, this will in the end, be a sitch/drama/crisis which brings goodness about.

A cleansing of sort, or maybe a metamorphis.

I do not think any less of you, or any person on the Iville thread for doing what they are bound to do by their beliefs, bonds, experience. I judge only myself Faith, and act in accordance with what I have learned is the best way for me, I strive for this anyway. Dishonesty is huge for me, and it is the one thing I will no longer accept in my life, not from myself or others. My daughter has only gotten in big trouble once in her life from me, and that is when I over-heard her lie to a girlfriend. I don't know Faith, it is so hard sometimes to know what is right. That is why I no longer question this one thing, ever. It is my fence and I will not move it.

We are all such soft-hearted souls around this joint, but it is good every now and then for a crisis to help us examine where we are, and to look hard within ourselves.

I have your email addy, but here is mine [email]chanci99@hotmail[/email] if you want it, I am not very good at email, just so you know...not much of an emailer, nope.

For a long time now, we've been gathering around this campfire and have learned much, shared much, cried together, laughed together, vented, been heard...it's a beautiful thing. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

FF,

It seems a little like an out-of-body experience, but dispite all the other messy stuff going on out there in the dark, I still trust you around the campfire.

I still trust you within our shared MB context.

I need to trust somebody around here, but there are so few.


Still praying for you,

Who's got Faith's email? ...I can't find it.

I prefer to talk to her on here, but...

I'm worried about her, and I don't want to bug her if she is concentrating on her marriage, but I need to get a big "I'm okay" from her.

Gray, Do you have it?

Maybe check your mail?

SS

I just did but I'll keep checking. Thanks SS.

Ask Pep!