But there is an "I" in team in Spanish (i.e. "equipo"). What is your sage advice there, hmmm?

That's it! Vacuum bags! I have been struggling with what to do with WW's clothes when she goes to Mexico so I can have more closet space. I'll pack them all in vacuum bags! Do they make them for shoes too?

I'll have to divert to Todd the linguist consultant as you are the instigator...my only solution is that I posted the English version...await T's Nobel prize winning insight and expertise!

You have a gift for recognizing loop holes quickly...are you as skilled at resolutions?

I can claim anything I want but you have unfortunately read most of my thread(s) so you would know I would be lying. Actually problem solving is a characteristic of good engineers. I just wish I were a good engineer.

LOL, let me rephrase...are you a quick to resolve work-related issues with such creativity and expedience???

The shoes can go in the vac bags but no shoe boxes...could wrap each pair in tissue paper to protect from friction. Could actually use towels or other linens that you would send to protect the shoes at the same time getting them packed...a 2fer...not sure if G would go for this approach depending on how protective she is of the shoes...

I can answer that. We were living in a high rise apartment in Dubai. I changed companies and we moved to a house but unfortunately WW left to go to Mexico while we were in process of moving. Since it was only a short move, packing was not entirely professional. She packed her shoes in several large boxes. I am now in the house and trying to make some space so I took the boxes and emptied them out on the floor in front of the closet. I did not mistreat the shoes in any way. But they were in a rather large pile. When she got back and saw the house and the sad state it was in, she had no complaints - until she saw the shoes. We didn't speak for a week after that.

I guess shoes in a vac bag could be a marriage buster...this could be used in 2 ways...if I were you I'd be sure to box the shoes...

Ironically, I once got the cold shoulder and lots of verbal backlash for putting my boot(military) on the bed! I was astounded and thought it was a joke but H took it as a personal message of disrespect for me not appreciating all the effort he made around the house to keep things neat and clean for me. I used to leave my coffee spoon on the sink when I'd leave for work each day...found out years later that it was taken as another disrespect message. Had I known I was sending signs I would have happily put the spoon in the dishwasher!

Is your husband Arabic? Shoe bottoms have a very special meaning for Arabs. they are a tremendous insult. Just crossing your legs and showing your shoe bottom to an Arab is enough to get you killed in the right setting. Putting shoes on the bed would certainly do it. Stoning most likely.

Apparently there is no "I" in the word "team" in Russian (команда), German (Mannschaft), Norwegian (lag), Chinese (小组) or Italian (squadra). It seems it is only the Spanish and the French who are so egocentric.

there is no I in the word team, but there is a ME if you re-arrange a few letters. Not in Russian though.

Actually I don't think vacuum bags will help with WW's clothes. She already has her clothes wedged in so tightly on the rack that our closet has achieved neutron star density. It bends light. If the closet door is open and I turn the closet light on, no light comes out the doorway. Small children walking too close can easily get sucked in by the gravitational attraction.

BTW, I didn't know about the Russian thing but then I don't understand the acrylic alphabet.

2much,

The Nobel was for my ground-breaking work in Quantum Mechanics. I solved a couple of the riddles that haunted Einstein. There is still a great divide in our understanding, however.

I have never written a book entitled "Delusions of Grandeur". Sorry.

Of the three published books, two are on physics and the third delves into experimental psychology, sorta a hobby of mine. It is called "Neurotics Build Castles in the Sky and Psychotics Live in Them". It is an interesting look at the power stucture in American politics.

Vacuum bags eh? I know of a GWTW doll collection I would love to shrink wrap. I wonder if I could get its size down to 134,112 cubic meters so that it would fit in her closet. Hmmm....

Neutron stars Pio? Now we are talking! It is a common misperception that if a star becomes a Black Hole that everything in the heavens would be "sucked" into it. Take our star for instance. If the Sun became a Black Hole tomorrow, the Earth's orbit would not change by the width of an ant's eyebrow. It would immediately get dark and soon very cold, but those are different matters.

And Black Holes do not "bend" light. The operative definition is that the escape velocity of a Black Hole is greater than the speed of light. So says Einstein.

And BTW, the manner in which I derived the groundbreaking research on recirculation zones is through an intimate understanding of Einstein's definition of gravity, to wit: the unseen curvature of space caused by the presence of matter. So, with the paper clip air foil, if there is no zone to recirculate (being an open paper clip design), the lift/drap coefficient changes dramatically for the better.

***It is called "Neurotics Build Castles in the Sky and Psychotics Live in Them".

and the sequel..."And Psychiatrist's collect the rent"

your abstract, analytical scienfific jargon is off the charts...I need boots to navigate along with a search tools to translate the lingo...too much effort involved 4 me

enjoy the foil and clips...I'll jump back in when it involves less work <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Wouldn't the spanish version be: there's no 'yo' in 'equipo'. It doesn't make sense to mix the languages does it ???? :-)

2much,

Surely you don't mean waders?

2much, I couldn't sleep last night, got up at 3.00am and read your WONDERFUL post to me.



Yes, yes, yes, yes that it is what is happening now.

Anyway, enough about work, I just wanted to thank you all for the time you've taken to think about my sitch and the great advice you've given me.

I went back to bed and slept peacefully.

Now back to whatever it is you're all talking about. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Re: waders...aaaaahhhhhhh, yes!

Pio, I just wanted to let you know that I got the best laugh of the day, when you posted your grandpa's story, and I got to this punch line. And I have to tell you, in all honesty, I don't think your apple fell all that far from his tree!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

t&l

KiwiJ.,
Happy to be of assistance...how horrible for you...I look back and think that my experience with my disgruntled employee almost gives my marital sitch a run for it's money...the difference was that my H was so clear headed on how I should treat the employee...actually gave me advice that I used.

Now having said that when H put me in similiar positions of dishonesty, not accepting accountability or responsibility for his behavior, denial, whining, fingerpointing, being the victim, tring to transfer guilt to me, putting on exterior front when out and being pure mean when home...never did he see or even think that I should apply the same tactics on him as I would an employee. For some reason the rules didn't apply to him.


Too bad I love the H so much I'm willing to endure all this insanity. I thought I had toughened up and detached but he is still here. I am committed and if things don't improve in the near future I will truly be committed...I'll move into ToddAC's neurotic castle in the sky and pay rent...LOL

Doesn't ANYONE want to talk about infidelity any more? This other stuff is just too depressing.

Our DDs are so excited about going to Disneyworld. It is fun to watch. Last week I posted that we told the DDs about gemela going to Mexico and DD1 was really upset and wanted to go with her.

Night before last we were playing Uno and DD1 (who always keeps score for some reason we have never understood) was showing me in her book that she had written to me "I don't like you any more" and told me she wrote that the night we talked about Mexico. She told me that she was mad when she wrote it and it isn't true and that she really loves me and she doesn't want to go to Mexico any more.

On second thought, let's don't talk about infidelity.