<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> That was funny!!

I just found this photo while cleaning. (Isn't cleaning fun?) This was taken about a year ago at Universal Studios. Mom is in the bottom picture, and the rest of us are in the top one. I love Grandpa the best - he really felt like that ride took undue liberties with his person. Second place would be the Screaming Divas clinging to Neaksis' hand.

The Jurassic Park Ride

must be x army..could have charged the bloke but didn't.

Going to have to go as need to get the boys to sleep - alone!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> - need some sleep discip for the field as we are still all a bit tired... pretty common in ops..you can sleep when you get home <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Have you heard our marching song .. what a laugh ,,,the WO says its good for morale ..espcially as we go by the Poms because we stole it from them... and sing it in German ..lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Mein Vater War Ein Wandersman

Ich liebe ein-a-wandering zu gehen,
Entlang der Gebirgsschiene
Und während ich gehe, liebe ich zu singen,
Mein Rucksack auf meiner Rückseite.

OH-, kann ich ein-a-wandering gehen
Bis den Tag sterbe ich!
OH-, kann ich immer lachen und singen,
Unter freiem blauem Himmel des Gottes!

The Happy Wanderer

I love to go a-wandering,
Along the mountain track,
And as I go, I love to sing,
My knapsack on my back.

Oh, may I go a-wandering
Until the day I die!
Oh, may I always laugh and sing,
Beneath God's clear blue sky!

Love the family photo neak !!

Gotta go..one very annoyed Nurse person is walking around looking for me with pills .... why are they ALL so bossy?

gender orientation I guess <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Time to go awandering ...well not on a mountain track but away from annoyed voice .... wonder if the WO's bar is open still..a nip or two before bed would warm me up.

love to stay & play ..but gotta take my bat & ball & go to bed..eventually.

cheers big ears <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Nitey nite, be safe.

All right, that was sneaky, Neakie. The "family photo" she posted is actually 2 photos scanned together. In the top one, Neak, GP, Mr. Computer, and Mr. AlmostEyebrows are in the 2nd row from the back. They are all having fun...more or less! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I can't promise GP was thrilled. In the row ahead of them is Neaksis, the Screaming Divas, and the Bellowing Divo. Neaksis is the only one having fun in that row! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I took it from my vantage point on land, as I performed my function as prison guard for the Dervish, who was too short to get on the ride. And plenty mad about it, too! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> He couldn't understand why stubby scrawniness should render him ineligible to go to see the dinosaurs! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

The bottom picture is of Neaksis and me, in the lower left hand corner, on The Mummy Returns roller coaster. And I bought the picture precisely because it was such a dumb picture of me. I really love roller coasters, and wouldn't ordinarily be making such a face on one, but Universal Studios had a very tricky ride. Instead of slowly climbing up, up, up and then zooming down when you reach the crest, in this one you climb into the cars, go into the dark, and immediately (and without any warning whatsoever <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />, drop about 500 miles down. It was the sheer unexepectedness of it that got me. And the sheer plunge, too, of course. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Neakbro doesn't like roller coasters at all, nor does his dad. Flard didn't when he was little, although he and I have gone together on the one at Marine World Africa USA in Vallejo, CA, and he seemed to be having a good time...unless the smile on his face in that picture is kinda like a chimp smile, which indicates fear rather than pleasure! The girls and I just think they're all great.

I rode the Stratosphere shoot-you-straight-up-in-the-air ride in Las Vegas a few years back. However, the story I read about the Japanese tourists a week or so ago who were suspended upside down in their seats, 27 feet away from the building, almost 900 feet above the Strip, for 90 minutes after there was a glitch with the ride, has pretty much taken the edge off my adventuring impulses for now! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> How much do you think THEIR psychological counselling is going to cost, and how many years will it take? I know from experience those straps don't feel all that substantial when you're hanging from them, even for a minute. But for 1-/12 hours? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> It boggles the mind!

I'm at Sneak's house right now briefly. I have no interent access at home right now. Maybe it's the rain. Unless Neakbro can talk me through fixing it, over the phone, I'm going to be inaccessible until somebody with some technical skills, a new cord, or both, comes to visit. HP is still in SoCal visiting his mom, so I can't even pick on him. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Have fun.

t&l

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Personally, I have no idea what you're talking about! All nurses are shrinking violets. I consider myself to be Exhibit A of this very fact. I'm surprised, after all these months we've spent "together," none of you has noticed. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Well. Hm-m-m-m-m-mph! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Made the mistake of showing Neaksis my posts while I was sitting with her, and for my pains, got the privilege of having my alledged factual errors corrected. Allegedly. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

I did not take the picture of the ride with all the kids on it. The one Neak posted is the one that they take and sell to the gullible. I did take some pictures after they got down under the bridge. Maybe I could post one of them some time. The Divas and the Divo were still in hysterics by then, too, only you could see their faces better. Also their mothers' faces more clearly, too, laughing at their frantic children. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

I have also been informed that The Mummy Returns ride doesn't drop, but instead shoots up. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Really? Sure felt like a drop to me! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Whichever direction it went, it sure took off in a hurry.

I sit corrected. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

P.S. That Neaksis. Neak called and asked if I could bring some sugar from Neaksis' house to Neak's. So I asked Neaksis, "Do you have any sugar?"

"OK," she replied, and kissed me sweetly on the cheek.

I asked again, "Do you have some sugar?" since she hadn't actually answered my question and Neak was waiting on the phone for a reply.

She kissed me again and laughed, at which time the light dawned and I realized, "Ah! Sugar..." <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I'm leaving now to take 1-1/2 cups of kisses to Neak's house. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

It's 0400 and I just got a call from Neak to say that her dad was in a wreck a couple of hours south of here. Why he was driving back tonight, and in the middle of the night, I don't know...but he apparently hydroplaned his truck, which is now expired, and lying on its side in a ditch. Thankfully, HP's only injury appears to be a cut cheek. I've been rousted out of bed by Neaksis, who spent the night here, and won't actually know anything definite, or more, until I'm out on the road where I have cell phone service.

I'd ask "What next?" but I'm afraid to! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Life could always be worse. Apparently Mom didn't even recognize the truck, even after having its general direction pointed out to her. She said by appearances, Dad should have been killed, instead of walking away.

Scanner-1; HP-0 Apparently this does not do justice to the marvelous black eye that is now developing.

Mom should be back shortly.

Stand by. I'm trying that link again.

{{t&l}} praise God that HP walked away from the accident.

Amen to that!

The picture works now.

Just heard from them, they are picking up his paycheck. Mom says more pictures will be on the way shortly.

<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="" />

All I can say is HIS guardian angel must have a dislocated shoulder and a hernia. That truck had "FATALITY" written all over it! And yet he lived to tell me how to drive all the way home. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Wow, T&L - sorry to hear about the close call. Thank God he is okay. I don't even want to ask what else can go wrong.

Thank you. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I appreciate your restraint. And don't anybody else be asking for me, either! I don't need to know. Let's just let it be a secret, OK? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> I'm leaving for Neak's house. Maybe she can figure out how to get the photos out of my phone and into the computer. I'm not even going to try.

t&l

***Sigh***

What else can go wrong????

Boy, are you going to be in big trouble when Mom finds out what you've done!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> You'd better hope she's got too much trouble to chase you down and wreak vengeance. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

t&l....you have to be, you must be...you are---

The funniest person I have ever "met"!

You could make a FORTUNE as a stand-up comedian! I am so glad your family appreciates you...don't hurt Neaksis!

For ONE HUNDRED INTERMINABLE MILES!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> During which time I strenuously, and successfully <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />, resisted the temptation to tell him, "Quit telling me how to drive! I'm not the one who just rolled my truck twice, and totalled the blasted thing." <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Instead, I just gently offered, each time he said something, "If you'd prefer to drive the van yourself I'd be glad to pull over and switch places with you."

What did he say to that, you ask? Get ready for a SHOCK!!!!!!! The Tar Baby said nothing. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> In response to the offer, I mean. I knew you'd be surprised. Unfortunately he had plenty to say about what I was doing! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Glad you find me amusing. Humor is my sword and shield against the distresses of life, and for some odd reason I seem to be wielding my weapons a LOT lately. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l