GC,

Got it!

Cool.

Did you just add the GE Community placemarks? I could swear they weren't there earlier.

Take your mosquito repellent with you.

Other than that, I'm envious.

Kiwi, I loved A Prairie Home Companion. I'm not a giant fan of the radio show, but the fact that it exists makes me feel a small amount of hope for the world. I enjoy lots of the music, and I do enjoy GK's storytellin'.

I'm also a huge giant fan of Robert Altman. APHC is the kind of movie I'll get on DVD and watch on Sunday when the weather is bad.

I'll miss Robert Altman's movies.

And also Molly Ivins' newspaper columns.

GC

2long,

Don't give in to terrorism.

GC, I didn't know much about it all till I saw the movie advertised. Then I found the radio show has been playing here for years (go figure). I guess we're like a midwestern city. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

I've read a lot since and it sounds like a great movie.

I didn't.

We saw PHC last night with my D.

I've always been a big fan of GK.

My son lost it completely on the penguin joke...

-ol' 2long

The guy I sit closest to at the lab had sushi with GK a few weeks back. And get this - it was right after the show. I mean, they walked from the Fitzgerald Theater to the sushi place. That's right - GK does a show with stories about cute honest and down-to-earth midwesterners then he goes out and eats sushi!

To be fair, my colleague described GK as being indifferent about the dinner plans.

2long, I have his home address if you want to send a fan letter.

GC

We 2k the whole family 2 see the live show when they were performing at the Hollywood Bowl a 2ple years ago.

I'm not big on sending fan mail. I'd feel funny.

-ol' 2long

Hey campers - I have a meeting with a Judge, some leeches, and an XW tomorrow at 1:30, in a formal setting. Gonna formalize the custody, SS and CS. My leech saw a couple of spots where she thinks she can save me some money. (like not paying for XW's leech, and not paying back CS for 4 months, etc.) Of course - I am still paying!!

Think positive thoughts for me. Pray, if you do, for a positve outcome for my kids and myself.

It has been a stressful last couple of weeks, with a big event with lots of production and new technology also starting tomorrow afternoon at work. We are still setting up for it tomorrow morning. (The big kahuna decided on Thursday to add a couple of tech items that had already been cut [budget] - so I ordered the gear, and it has not come in yet.)

What a crazy life! But fun! I am blessed with great kids. My 13 yo dd is the apple of my eye. My 8 yo ds is also a fantastic young man, oozing with all things that make a son great. My 5 yo dd is a loving artist. Fiery like her mom, able to love greatly, and grudge greatly.

Pray for them especially.

Thanks, campers!!!

Now somebody get me a Seven and Coke, please. And pass the chips.

far

Don't give in to terrorism? I thought of that after I left, all upset the other day...about leaving and not jumping in on something that I knew was hurtful and wrong. Not jumping in ended up bothering me more than jumping in would have, I finally realized.

Wrote an ugly little poem filled with anger, even.

Is it better to stick around and fight something out if it causes bitter feelings of anger to do so? And if it is for someone else? Is it not only better to stick around and fight but required when it is someone else besides yourself being harmed? Words harm.

What happens to a gift if you don't except it? Who does it belong to? I thought of little things like this, and what is the right way to handle nastiness through words.

Anyway, TT emailed me and said to just stay here at the campfire and not read other threads. That's what other's do, I know. I'll give it a try.

I was so ticked off the other day at the spreading of falsehoods about our friend...the only outlet I could find was through heavy metal (Kimmy will understand this I think). And you know what? It worked, and I found peace again. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

"What if" by Creed.

CREED LYRICS

"What If"

I can't find the rhyme in all my reason
Lost sense of time and all seasons
Feel I've been beaten down
By the words of men who have no grounds
Can't sleep beneath the trees of wisdom
When your ax has cut the roots that feed them
Forked tongues in bitter mouths
Can drive a man to bleed from inside out

What if you did?
What if you lied?
What if I avenge?
What if eye for an eye?

I've seen the wicked fruit of your vine
Destroy the man who lacks a strong mind
Human pride sings a vengeful song
Inspired by the times you've been walked on
My stage is shared by many millions
Who lift their hands up high because they feel this
We are one We are strong
The more you hold us down the more we press on

What if you did?
What if you lied?
What if I avenge?
What if eye for an eye?

[Guitar Break]

I know I can't hold the hate inside my mind
'Cause what consumes your thoughts controls your life
So I'll just ask a question
A lonely simple question
I'll just ask one question
What if? What if?
What if? What if?
What If I?


What if your words could be judged like a crime?

Weave, GC, how are y'all handling the cold? Is it is bad up there as they say?

FAR, how did it go?

SLH, where I live cold is a fact of life. It is 3 below today. We deal with it the same way you deal with your god awful heat in the summer. We are finally getting snow, in fact gray could turn that snow machine off anytime now. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Thank God my plow-man likes homemade cookies. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I have no idea what the big city people way over (500 miles way) where graycloud is do in the cold. I don't think they get any snow like we do. Winter is no fun without at least three feet of snow on the ground, IMHO. (which we pretty much have now). We have dump trucks working most of the winter to cut down the snow banks and haul the stuff out of here.

They actually PAY someone to take the snow away???

I'd pay for some of that to come here! I've seen snow maybe 5 times in my life, and even then it was no more than 7 inches, if that.

If only we could hire trucks to take away the excess HEAT in the summer. . . <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hey everyone! SLH, it was 89 here yesterday! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

SS, I owed you an answer but ran off as per my usual MO.

Things are iffy. He lied to me about a lot of things but seems to want to turn it around. Will I stay m'd? Not sure yet. I have two very happy children to consider. For now, we live peacefully.

FF, it is so good to see you again. I have wondered how you are.

She's soft and chewy with a nougaty center.

;-P

A 3-musketeer's bar!

-Qfwfq

The court date went as I had expected. No suprises. In California, there is a guideline amount of CS and SS, and we agreed on that. She was asking for me to pay her lawyer and back CS to October, and that went away. I have more time with my kids than most fathers get (38%/25%)- basically the time I spend with them awake anyway. I found a slick attorney. He advertises on the web, as a father's rights attorney. You go in, and all you see is boobs. You get led to an office of a partner attorney (female) with noticable cleavage. She actually seems like a good attorney, and is the one you communicate with. No guy who just became single is gonna walk out of that office. Then the senior attorney shows up for the court date. He talked to XW's attorney for a while, we met for 1.5 hours in the lobby, we went in and presented a completely aggreed settlement to the judge.

I am not unhappy with the settlement. I see a future with at least some sanity.

It sure is nice in SoCal today. But it got cold tonight. But no snow.

far

FF - Hi!!!!!

(waving)

wtf is qfwfq
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