Apparently Neak was busy last night, because I don't see any new pictures materializing here this morning. I'm not sure where anybody got the idea that I was going to help put up the tent; I contributed sufficiently by admiring all that manly wisdom and skill that HP and AJ exhibited when they put it up themselves. Besides, I was busy getting ready to get supper ready. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> HP bought himself a new iron skillet to use on the nuclear reactor. The first time I picked it up off the table, I used only one hand, and nearly snapped my arm off at the elbow. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Here's a quick preview of some of our upcoming photo treats. We have a nice picture of Neak and AJ in the tent which was purchased for their use. It was the same brand, model, and (allegedly) dimension as the tent Neaksis had purchased a couple of years ago. However, the manufacturer must've started measuring in centimeters, or something, because it turned out they couldn't have slept in that tent together without being arrested for public indecency! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> Do you really want to see pictures of the soy weiner barbecue? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Nice pictures of the lighthouse, especially the one of my comatose body lying on the 308th stair after I finally made it back to the top. Do you know that it's not possible to take a flattering picture of somebody jumping on a pogo stick? I proved that several times with both Neak and Neaksis. It makes you look like you're operating heavy machinery...while constipated. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Very odd.

Well, my break is over. Short post tonight. I was too tired to stay awake and took a nap first. Such pictorial delights await you...as soon as the designated poster posts. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

t&l

For a minute there I thought I was technologically savvy, but I was wrong. Guess I'll call Neak and have her talk me through this one more time! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

One of my worst experiances with camping was ..........

Well, there was that time up in.....
Actually, that trip turned out fun.

Oh - it was the time we ...........
Na, that turned out fun too.

Shoot, I guess I can't join the bad camping experiance club.

You gals tell me how the meetings go, OK?

SS will be traveling to visit his son in Arizona this week. Try not to have too much fun while I'm gone.

SS

Love the pic.. Ahhhh........ I.......... Well.........
Lets just say I love the pic.

SS

I am finished. I have done it. The editing (my part) of Neak's book is complete, and even now being attached to an email so I can send it to her for the final go-over. I've been set free! What shall I do now? I think I'll fold the laundry first. It's been accumulating for awhile. Well, tomorrow I'll fold laundry. Right now, I'm leaving for work.

Neak, you've got mail. And a job!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I'm glad to see that although you are huffing and puffing about having to go camping, knowing you, you still had a jolly good time of it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

You have email, btw <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Love,
Jen

grrrr!

Lost my post.

WOW, I missed a LOT!

T&L, simple. Down the stairs with a skateboard, up with a medivac. YOU COULD HAVE FIGURED THAT OUT. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

-AD

What a GOOD idea. Wish I'd thought of it. At least the medivac part. I'm afraid a skateboard would've kept right on skating...out past the lighthouse and off the Point. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> I prefer to do my whale watching from a distance. thank you! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Although, considering the shirt I was wearing, I wonder if I could've qualified as a great blue whale, once I hit the water... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

t&l

t&l

aren't steps like that a killer? lol

we have one here called Jacobs ladder which takes you from the river foreshore to Kings park. Kings PArk is 1,000 acres of natural bushland reserved since perth was founded in 1829 and is about 1 km from the CBD of Perth. Its beautiful.
There are 250 odd steps going up like a ladder...Aussie runs them about 5 times a day for "FUN??????"

Night view from Kings park restuarant

We had a very romantic night there not long before he went OS <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I was huffing and puffing once I got there, too! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Of course I had a jolly good time of it. Why go if I didn't plan to have fun? But sh-h-h-h-h! You're telling all my secrets. Not to say I wouldn't have had a better time if HP's haste to get home had not exceeded our tolerance for playing in the frigid waters of the Pacific. Or if, once his Good Humor truck started running on fumes, I hadn't been in the same vehicle with an no-longer happy camper. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> But this sort of brings me to a lesson from the Saga. One of two, actually, but the other has a picture to go with it, and my poster is busy having a life! Not only that, she's got the disc with all the pix on it and I don't have time to go by and get it back so I can have further opportunities to display my techno-wizardry. Major <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />!!

So, the one that doesn't have an illustration: Do your best to have fun. Even when things are at their worst, with everything and even everybody conspiring against you, look for something to make you smile. Laughing would be even better. We talked a little bit about this a long time ago in the context of funny things happening at funerals...certainly as unfunny an event as one could hope to ever encounter. And for a lot of you, right now your whole LIFE feels like a funeral, with hopes, dreams, feelings as dead as any body I've ever gone to see buried. Sometimes I still feel that way myself, though not as often as I did when I was younger.

And so I have become relentless in my daily pursuit of something to make me laugh. I was in a very bad mood last night when I got to work, although I don't have time to tell why now. Very angry with myself because I feel I did an extremely stupid, and totally avoidable, thing. I KNEW BETTER AND I DID IT ANYWAY!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Somebody asked me what was wrong and we talked about it briefly, and I admitted that I was mad, and why. And being crabby encouraged some very sarcastic, caustic, and extremely humorous comments to ccome flowing out of my mouth. I had everybody, including myself, laughing almost constantly for awhile. Finally I commented, "Wow! Just think how funny I could be if I were in a good mood!" But when I got done being snarky, I'd goosed myself into a lot better attitude than I had when I started. Which is the main reason I try.

People under the great amounts of stress that most of you are, or have been, NEED something funny to give yourselves a break, even if you have to make it up, create it from scratch, or even hunt it down, grab it by the neck, and FORCE it to amuse you. You will be able to maintain sanity much longer and much better if you find something to laugh at every single day. No matter what. Even when laughing is work. If you're in this difficulty (whatever it is) for the long haul, retaining the ability to be entertained is an essential part of your armament. Give up a lot of other things, before you let your sense of humor die. Laughing has kept me alive. It can help to sustain you, as well. And if there's nobody else to laugh at, hey, grotesque self-deprecating humor has always worked well for me! Maybe it'll work for you, too! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

They're going to power test here imminently so I'm going to post before I lose this.

t&l

I find laughing at myself is pretty good T&L <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

or listening to non PC jokes lol


[color:"blue"]
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods.

"What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself. As he was walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.

He turned to look and saw a 7 foot grizzly bear charge towards him.

He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him.

He looked over his shoulder again and the bear was even closer.

He triped and fell on the ground.
He rolled over to pick himself up but saw the bear right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.

At that instant the Atheist cried out to the Lord.

Time stopped, the bear froze, the forest was silent. A bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky, "You deny my existence for all of these years, teach others I don't exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?"

The atheist looked directly into the light, "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps could you make the BEAR a Christian?"

"Very well," said the voice.

The light went out.

The sounds of the forest resumed. And then the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together and bowed his head and spoke:

"Lord, bless this food, which I am about to receive through Christ our Lord, Amen." [/color]


hey I was being edge-u-ma-cated today by one of Aussies friends who is a Aboriginal elder.

Very interesting and he told me of lots of things Aussie did as a kid which I have never heard... lol
Like .... there was this one tram left in this old gold mining town which rumbled up the street more for past glory than anything else...and one day this un-named youth of 11yrs visiting the town with his dad liberated some jelly and fuses and decided to see what would happen when a tram went over it???
Apparently the tram was appropriately shared over the entire town!
The local police sergeant and said father were pretty damn sure who had done it but had no proof and couldn't work out how the youth could have been in two places around the same time.
Seems hes had a leaning towards blowing things up all his life ..lol

And I found out what the elders call him in Nyungar language - its said VERY fast & I cant say it.... its

"galamaay-dji wandjjina balun mara bilarr maayirr"

theres no EXACT translation but in general terms its descriptive of his job or work..like police have a number of names dependng on what duties they do... more info you dont need ......hehehehhe

younger brother white death spear wind

yes we have a winner alright. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Ok, I am trying to get some of the photos zipped into yahoo. I've got 8 so far. If you want to see more than I have time to link at any given time, just click on any of the photo links provided and then click next. (I just mistyped that as 'lick', but that would have been both ineffective and strange.) You can also CLICK on back to album.

Oh bother, you will have to crick your necks for this one. I'm still trying to figure out how to rotate photos on linux.

t&l with HP

Well, I hope you figure it out soon, since its present angle makes for some doggone uncomfortable viewing.


Ah, how I love the smell of testoterone in the autumn!

t&l

P.S. I did this one all by myself. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> I'm exhausted now. Must rest! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

SS--they don't have computers in ARIZONA? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

AW--I think I'll pass on the steps, at least for now! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> My legs are still not speaking to me. HP liked to play with fire (the literal kind) when he was a kid, but I don't think he ever blew up a tram. Probably lack of opportunity! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Neaksis with DD9 (mercifully, if temporarily, silent)


The Dervish with his caterpillar, ...est) may or may not make it to moth-hood

I need to sleep first and come back to this later, but Neak, bless her little heart, has jumped the gun on me with the horizontal picture of Mr. and Mrs. Smoochie. However, I can tell you, in a nutshell, the lesson of the Saga that it illustrates: If you can't have what you want, want what you have. Infinitely easier in concept than in performance, to be sure, but an excellent life tool nevertheless. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

soon-to-be-comatose-t&l bids you all adieu

Love the photos.. camping must be in your future I think...we have a 8 man dome tent in the back of the Urban assault veh heh heh - very easy to put up and yes I do go camping I am just determined NOT to enjoy it and thereby encourage the horrors for more!!!

But now with Mikey can't do that..it would irresponsoble wouldn't it? ..just rehearsing the arguments lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

SO WHO DID THE COOKING?

Its usually me <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> As a special "treat", once in awhile...maybe! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />


Oh, pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease don't EVEN suggest an urban assault vehicle! That's just what I need to make my life complete! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> And all the guys would think it was a good idea, too. If that idea ever catches on around here, I might have to assault somebody myself!



Neak can make those pictures accessible next, if she likes. After I nearly self-amputated my arm attempting to hoist the cast iron skillet while cooking the first meal I ever-so-subtly shifted my attention more towards dishes and other cleanup. Besides, HP wanted to use his new nuclear reactor. Should I have selfishly deprived him of this cherished wish? Noble OtherSusan thought not. AJ did the soy weiner barbecue on Saturday night. So food preparation ended up sort of distributed amongst the hungry adults, I guess. How's this for an answer? I probably cooked less than I should have, but more than I wanted to. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> And in the process, I managed to eat very, VERY well. What? You thought the vegetarian got all this fat from carrot sticks and celery? Think again. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

t&l

P.S. I went onto cc46's thread to see how she was doing, and found this note I wrote to her a few days back. I'm including it because it touches on our current lesson from the Saga: Hi cc46--You need something new with which to occupy your thoughts. Dunno exactly what that "something" might be for you, but during those interminable pages of living the Saga, I've learned that when my thoughts escape the corral, and start dragging me down the dusty trail (over the rocks and bumps, through the cow pies and horse droppings! ) I very quickly have to lasso them back and start them in a new direction...or else. It is my personal tendency to get very depressed when things aren't "right", and there's so doggone much to be depressed about, too , so I work very hard at not letting my thoughts get away with me. Wish I could give more specific detail about how you, cc46, could do this for yourself, but I can't. All I know is that even though you will sometimes accidentally fall into the Slough of Despond, there's no need, once you're there, to sit around and make a few mud pies as long as you're dirty anyway! You're in my prayers.

AJ barbecues dead soys. Anybody want a taste?

t&l's gourmet meal: grilled cheese sandwiches and canned tomato vegetable soup

Culture Shock: The Inland Empire's Mr. Finley Meets the Vast Pacific Ocean

OK, enough silliness from me for this morning. Buenos noches, mis amigos. Yo sueno.

t&l

Hey technobabe, there was a problem with links #1 & 3 in the above post. Microsoft Office - cool.

Or maybe it was just me?

No its not you ...lol


I think it was t&l's way of making us scroll through ALL the album..lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

sneaky! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Arrrg just turned TV off they had live feeds of fighting in Afghanistan and I dont cope wll with that. So its off...de nile is a river ... <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />