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Communication is essential to human existence and to the human spirit. Varied species of life communicate, but nothing compares to the need of the human spirit to understand and be understood. Recently my sister expressed the desire to start a "round robin". For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a letter that would be written (popular a couple of generations ago), by one person in a family and then sent to a specific person on the list - that person would add information about their family or other items of interest and then send it along to the next family member on the list until it eventually made its way back to the original sender who would either start a new letter or add to the original one.Another form of communication that I laugh about was the infamous party line. I remember walking in on my grandmother several times when after hearing the phone ring with the amount of rings that meant it wasn't a call for us, but a call for a neighbor on the same phone line, and she would have carefully picked up the receiver to catch up on other people's "business". Sometimes they would all just begin talking to each other as well. I guess that is really when it became a "party" line!My recent blog about the television show "The Moment of Truth" has turned into a back yard blog; people come onto the site just to say hi, to connect with another human, to unload problems and give happy news. We have people sharing recipes, griping about the difficulties in their health, or personal matters. We also have poets who share their spirit with us. The MOT blog has become too difficult to load, so this is our new: Backyard Fence Blog. Meet us when you have the need or desire to communicate with some caring friends!
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jystevens (Joyce Stevens) says…
Ronda:What a great idea! There just doesn't seem to be as much 'talking over the back fence' as there was when I was growing up.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Good for you Ronda.Maybe the title should read, Version1.0, and when it hits a certain number of posts, it rolls over to 2.0, to keep the loading time fast LOL.Isn't this how Dear Abby started?Almost forgot my own idea of “not” double spacing for a paragraph, makes the thread smaller! I'm sure I'll forget that sometimes.Update on the bird story. About 4 minutes after I posted the tale, the darned freaky bird came back. But a little less verbose. I was going to put out the dryer lint for them as you suggested, but was still in my robe.I would have laid it on the neighbor's grass, as the grass here is too close to be seen out the window.Good thing I didn't as the boy started to mow the lawn yesterday. I considered putting some on the many 3-4 inches limbs coming out up and down the base. That we'd be able to watch.Then it started to sprinkle. The thought of wet dobs of blue& gray lint stuck in the tree..not a pretty sight LOL. I also thought, the lint would also be cat hair off of the clothes. Interesting to know what the birds would think of that in their nest.=DHmmm… I wonder what they would do if I put the mass collected on the cat's slicker brush on a twig for them to use.
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mfowler (Matthew Fowler) says…
Hi Ronda! So we're talking about “whatever” then? OK, here are some REALLY random discussion topics (I'm very bored):—ALDI: I can't believe more people don't shop there, best kept secret in the world, low prices, “retro” small town grocery/variety store atmosphere, all the junk food a guy could want; —The Anti-Climatic (sic?) Post-Championship Letdown: Is it just me, or was the March-Madness hype actually better than the post-championship, end-of-sugar-rush feeling that came after?—”Cougars:” What is all this crap about older women going after younger men? I have heard or read about this at least three times in the last two weeks. Seriously. Reminds me of the “metrosexual” movement—all sound and fury, signifying nothing…
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
joyce, I agree. None of us seem to have the time to go into our backyards or sit on front porches sipping lemonade and having a heart to heart with a neighbor. Guess that is either why computers came to be, or computers ruined the moment - not sure which. What do you think? Also, after our brutally long winter I know I have become a bloggin addict!! :)Multi, tweet of you to stop in. It is also fun to put out various bright colors of yarn and then walk around your yard and see if you can spot any of them in area nests. You've got bird fever and should go to Bird City with me sometime. The blackbirds there huge and would make a wonderful blackbird pie! “Blackbird singing in the dead of night. Take these sunken eyes and learn to see. All my life I am only waiting for this moment to be free. Blackbird fly….”Matt, any one of your three topics would make for a great blog all in its own right. I am with you when it comes to Aldis though. I always figure the fact that I shop there pays for a nice vacation every year over what I would spend elsewhere.I am missing a sports related high also - I must get into running again for that wonderful feeling of when I stop. :)cougars - I absolutely hate the thought that women (probably my age group and older) would be referred to as cougars. Pussy cat or kitten is a much nicer term. I think Frank Sinatra referred to women as “mice” in a movie once and I thought that was horrible. Cougar sounds so jaded and rough. Any women out there who care to comment on how much younger of a man they have dated? And I hate to say, Matt, but when I see some shorts of the ex Donald Trump marrying the very young and very handsome Italian guy I think it is disgusting. I think ex Trump looks much older than Donald. What do you think? We need to come up with a term that works for older men who track younger women. Oh yeah, I forgot, they are called perverts! Maybe cougar isn't such a bad term after all.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Matthew Fowler has a sexy name.I never thought anyone had a sexy name before.Am I getting prematurely senile?
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
omg..rofl.i hadn't read his post yet.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
multi, are you becoming a cougar right before our eyes? Just so you know since no one is listening in, Matt Fowler is a sexy guy. His name suits him.warmer, so tell us more about your horse! :) We had a horse that was bitten by a rattler on our farm one summer. Jeez the size of that swollen jaw. I kept thinking it would explode after a point, but it survived. Here is another horse story for you. My aunt Sara (thick German accent) told me how as a young girl on the farm she and her brothers would run out to pasture to chase the horses in. One horribly stormy evening the horses ran along the fence and lightening came down and struck the fence. As she said, “The lightening just sizzled them - every last one of them and there were seven of them.”
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Ronda says,Any women out there who care to comment on how much younger of a man they have dated? ______________I'll bite so others might too.Have to use the calculator..have to remember how to use calculator..trying again..About 22 yrs younger, and 26 yrs older.As for names, younger man I dated called me “firepuss”. Is that along the kitten/cougar line?
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
hahahahahha, that name suits you to a tee from what I know of you! And you are batting the long eyelashes as we speak. I have to say I have about the same age range, multi. I did date a guy 26 years older than myself and have dated a guy eighteen years younger. The older I get the harder it is to find older guys to date though. :) Well, at least that much older.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
uh, Ronda, I could be wrong, but I think warmer was referring to MOT.I wonder if Matt is the sexy guy I found online. If not, there's a Matt Fowler out there who's going to be embarrassed by the attention he's getting.Oh, I have a great list on what to do with a dead horse. I'll get it.(note, sent to me by the 26 yr older IBM exec., they sent it around his office.)
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Good to know Ronda, thanks for sharing. I have sometimes wondered if anyone else has experienced that.If I knew how to make a html page, I could just scan this in,or send post pics. But for now, I'll just type it and copy it. It's cooperate funny enough to appeal even to those who might not check out a link.Wait, realized someone has probably done this already..googled it and so we have:http://www.abcsmallbiz.com/funny/deadhorse.html
23 April 2008
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
That was a good link. I like the way businesses have these interesting tid bits for success - some of them even use life coaches!I knew what warmer was referring to - just wanted to keep him talking about other “dead horses” he has experienced.Matt will be afraid to post here again. Matt, oh Matt….
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
You're safe here Matt LOL.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
okay,I too was on MOT/blog. and now here. any readers who want to know more about me should bead my posts there I suppose.***on the ramona morgan thread Multi said she wished she could go back to highschool/junior highschool and know me or jonas. well, i must say I'm sure she would've ignored guys like me in jhs/hs, being nerdy/geeky and she being an actually good looking girl. nice to think about though. ***I'm looking for a small round table like a small dining table, or oval shaped. need for another computer/scanner so I can use them and further complicate/congest my room! ***matt, never heard the term cougar before. when I was in undergrad college I lived with a woman 18 years my senior, assume that qualifies. now, well, er, that was 25 years ago too. ***nice sounding storm this afternoon. I love the sound of the thunder echoing across the sky. we had some lovely thunder just now. ***Ronda, thanks for starting this. I think this is an important step forward for the blogging populus in and around/connected to lawrence. now, let's get that parade for the debate team winning first place, you know their cheerleaders are real knockouts. “bead my posts.” that's really special. if you want to, you can, but I think you'd get more out of 'reading' my posts. [shakes hands over keyboard].
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JJE007 (Anonymous) says…
Back fence TALK!Give it up. Don't balk!Back at y', back fence. TALK!I been to the back fence.I added somethin' of that to itthen I added to our creed….our creed…our creed…our Creede…Mining for thoughts that were as I seen'em.I think my neighbor peed.I went to the back fence…went to the back fence…and called neighbor Need.Neighbor need said thingsthat I've never ever, never ever, never heard or seed.It talked about the news, talked about the news,of every single day.ev'ry day…ev'ry day…ev'ry day…ev'ry day……My neighbor had a kneejerk beefthat wandered through its say.So oh lawd won't you buy me, lawd won't you buy meand let me say a way…away away…a way…I got me a chicken and plum.I got me a chicken and plum.Made a pot pie made a hot pot pie and stuck in it my thumb.Made a pie for my chicken…made a pie for my chicken's dumb.Who's that chicken?Who's that chicken?Who's that chicken……as long as a bird…and as bad as a wrong?Who's that chicken?Who's that chicken?Who's that chicken…–––––––––—I have no i(freakin')dea…too much wine…!~)
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
gnome, our group was unique. None of us considered ourselves too pretty for anyone, and your sense of humor and biting comments would have deemed you a necessary part of our group.I don't have a round table..for all the stuff I do need to shed. Family size oval kitchen table, yes, but no small ones. How about a rectangle antique four leg sewing machine” That's wide enough for a tower and monitor, and you can still roll a chair up under it. Very heavy as the machine is still in it. and works!
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
JJ,My thought on the 4th verse was, someone needs to that bottle away from JJ.Then I got to the end..how funny.
23 April 2008
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
OMG! This 14 min old on yahoo news.The phone call about the Tx sect may be traced to this woman previously convicted for making numerous false abuse calls to authorities!http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080423/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat_colorado
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Well, what I'd really like to talk about is………….there's this new TV series, I think it just ended, but it was called The Moment of Truth, and the basic idea is …..:)
23 April 2008
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
nota, we are glad that you, gnome and JJ found us - it would not be a back yard fence blog without you. You can give us a MOT anytime you care to.Loved the rappin, JJ. We are glad our resident poet (along with gnome) is sticking with us Got a chicken and a plum with backyard Need. Too funny!Let it roll on.gnome, check out the good will store by Aldies - they have a lot of small tables that might work for your computer needs (not related to backyard Need) if you don't do garage sales.Love the thunder and lightening myself.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
thanks for the offer multi, but don't really want a heavy old sewing machine, thanks anyway. ronda, thanks for the word on the good will. didn't know they had much furniture. already checked at my favorite, Freeman's but they didn't have a candidate. yes, JJ'spoetry was wonderful. dinner tonight was: italian sausage patties, grilled with bell pepper on bread with tomato. yum. well nota, if you want to talk about mot, you can. I saw one episode, and I think I'm scarred for life. what a revolting show.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Well, forget the MOT, which I never watched anyway. :)Back to cougars for a moment. When I lived in Virginia for a short time, the first lady I had a - liaison - with was a tad older … almost 20 years older. She was not kittenish, the word cougar seemed to fit well. Voracious, wild, predatory all come to mind. And it has been many years, but I seem to recall she had a heck of a bite, too.Incidentally, Ronda, when a male of the species develops an interest in a woman who has the wealth of experience that comes with age, they're generally looking for something closer to a cougar than a kitten.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
nota..you got that right!
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Well that is good to know nota, it sounds as though multi already had this understanding. I am sure it works both ways - the attraction that young women feel for an older man I'm sure means they are seeking more then what they would be getting from one their own age or younger. Our society has programed me into thinking the older woman doesn't have much to offer, but in reality I know that isn't true. Multi will tell us all about the wonderful assets of mature cougars!!! Okay, multi, you're on….
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Logan72 (Alia Ahmed) says…
Rhonda,When neighboring females talk across the backyard fence in Pakistan, it is called “gupshup” in Urdu. I always liked that word and will be glad to join in the “gupshup”. I grew up in northcentral Kansas (guess where? ……Logan) and we also had a party line and you were automatically cut off after a certain number of minutes (7-10, I can't quite remember). Well, in junior high, we learned that if one person held the handset down and counted to seven and released it, the other person could call back and you could pick it up before it rang. My father never caught on (I don't think!). My apologies as an adult to the others on our party line, Mrs. Higgins and others, for monopolizing the party line.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Wow, that is interesting about the “gupshup”. I thank you for that piece of information. Seems as though communication is important in all cultures. :)Logan, huh? I wonder how many other people are familar with the party line - funny how smart teens always seem to find a way around the rules!
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says: ” the attraction that young women feel for an older man I'm sure means they are seeking more then what they would be getting from one their own age or younger.”Actually that preference is somewhat hard-wired into humans (and most other creatures) as necessary to the survival of the species, having more to do with the female of the species seeking a provider/protector at times when it is more difficult to provide for herself or defend herself (e.g. when she is gravid). In the early days of man, women whose preferences were for those who couldn't provide/protect didn't live long enough and/or reproduce enough to pass those preferences on to latter generations.The male preference for cougars, however, is exactly opposite the hard-wired, species-survival needs. It's pretty much purely recreational.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
nota, nota, nota. Would you say that in today's world there is anything between a man and a woman that is about survival? No offense to any males out there, but I have yet to meet one who is able to assist in a woman's survival (with the huge exception of helping procreate), which would be about race/population survival as opposed to the gender.The women I know are surviving very well on their own and enjoy recreation also! :)What do you think Alia, gnome, multi, warmer (that ought to be interesting), marion, lonelane_1, beatle, Gretchen, Joyce? This backyard meeting might turn into a BBQ.
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beatle919 (Marcy McGuffie) says…
Hey, hey, hey…it's a new thread of randomness! I ducked out of the MOT thread because it became a bit overwhelming for me. Great idea, Ronda!I have to say, Aldi's rocks! The husband had to talk me into shopping there (I was quite hesitant)…lo and behold, I now try to talk everyone I meet into giving Aldi's more business. Their Mama Cozzi's thin crust pizza is quite tasty, btw. And, what better for a backyard meeting bbq than frozen Aldi's steaks?
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
We still are born with appendixes, Ronda, even though there's not much need for them. Certain religions still adhere to dietary rules that were necessary before the days of modern food processing and refrigeration, but really aren't necessary to prevent food-caused deaths anymore. The preferences of which I speak were developed millenia ago, when as I said, they were important to the species' survival. There is evidence that preferences can be passed down the same as physical attributes.Whether the female preference for older males is based on reasons that are still legitimate, or even if they are aware/unaware of what those preferences are based in, that is how those preferences became part of the paradigm.And I daresay that women who chase after older men for the experience factor may be setting themselves up for some major disappointments, as experience may not be the determing factor in performance. Not everyone uses Viagra.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
I'll say! LOL. That's why the 20 something is fun. Is he good in bed? No. But he's vigorously active in bed forever. Amusing times. LOL.–––Ronda says;Multi will tell us all about the wonderful assets of mature cougars!!! Okay, multi, you're on:.––––—Ronda must be trying to get me kicked off the boards. I can't even begin to answer that here.Let's just say I have written referrals and leave it at that.––––Doesn't notaj have the most edible intellect?=D
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
The male preference for cougars, however, is exactly opposite the hard-wired, species-survival needs. It's pretty much purely recreational.that's what it was for me. we didn't have a love relationship, we had a sexual relationship. I certainly learned a lot in the process. If I could go back and talk to myself I'd advise myself not to have taken that relationship, but she was the first woman I had. Nota is outling in summary the views of the evolutionary psychologists. often, they study monkeys and other similar critters to try to learn about innate human behavioral tendencies. I've been well schooled it it. do I believe in it, no. ***logan7/alia, so are you pakistani? if so, how'd you also experience teenhood in logan? just curious. there is a pakistani important in my life. ***any of us here going to submit to the basketball draft? ***I heard that the pingpong championship was won by a ku guy in today's news. yay! have a parade? and finally, I think Matt got scarred off! come back Matt! they really won't bite!
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
should read: “outlining” and “scared.”: hope matt didn't get 'scarred off!'***so, ronda you decided on this post not to include the picture of yourself in a bikini? that was funny the poster accusing that these blogs are turning into pickup places! maybe we need to post more novel pictures of ourselves: a picture of myself shopped to look as if i were holding up Fraser Hall? a picture o — typo —a picture of multi in the tree with her active birds? etc.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
okay then, back to Aldies. Yes, beatles19, how very nice to see you on this blog. Welcome to my backyard and do feel free to pick some dandelions while you are here visiting. We should put a list of our favorite Aldies items together for everyone. Their fit and active products are great, packages of dried fruit and nuts are priced right, they had dynamite granola but I don't believe they carry it any longer.nota, I have to admit I do agree with you on a lot of what you are saying - I must be programmed from ancient women to disagree initially with everything that comes out of a male mouth. :) This is why I have robotics man hands “Love Handel”. By the way, the little stinkers have been missing for a couple of days now. I allowed leftie to give the other leftie a manicure and they apparently used the fingernail file to pick the lock on their cuffs and chains to make their escape. I was able to follow a trail of blood for a short distance but it rained hard the night they made their escape. If you see some bony fingers out running the streets, please don't try to capture them - they are not armed, but they are dangerous. Just let me know where they were last spotted. They tend to hang around piano joints!multi, say no more, please!!!!! lol
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says: “Nota is outling in summary the views of the evolutionary psychologists. often, they study monkeys and other similar critters to try to learn about innate human behavioral tendencies.”“I've been well schooled it it. do I believe in it, no.”Me too, but I do. It only makes sense, and if you extend the theory, it can also be seen in the different preferences between cultures.Besides, if you accept that human intellect is more advanced than that of 'lower' animals (and I'm not entirely convinced that's true), is there some reason to expect that one of the most valuable aspects of that intellect - instinct (even if we call it intuition) - has disappeared? We may have more control over whether we follow those instaincts by way of higher executive function, but that doesn't mean they're no longer there. Can you deny that overall (of course there's exceptions), men tend to be attracted to younger, more physically fit females, women more to someone either older or stronger or a more stable provider (or a combination of those), and that those preferences played an important role in successful reproduction in the early days of mankind?*******************************justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says: “nota, I have to admit I do agree with you on a lot of what you are saying - I must be programmed from ancient women to disagree initially with everything that comes out of a male mouth. :)”I wouldn't be surprised if that also found its way into the hard wiring. One of the reasons a new relationship is so exhilarating is the knowledge that it can all fall apart at any moment. The uncertainty is what makes it so exciting. It wouldn't surprise me if, to some extent, there's a built-in adversarial aspect that ensures things stay 'interesting.'Disembodied hands that are not 'armed.' Pun intended? :)
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
nota, pun intended! :) I was wondering who among us/you would catch that. Well, nota, some people are very easy to get along with and then there are those of us, yeah I am one, who is exceptionally adversarial. Probably one of the reasons I am enjoying putting my blogs out there so much is because I seem to always get the last word in if I wait long enough for everyone else to tire!! I agree that we do so many instinctial things, impulse actions and reactions, that we scarely use our high functioning brains except to then try to go back in time and figure out why we acted in such a way, etc. Such an interesting a topic.gnome, I love the idea of posting pictures of us in strange places. I would love to see a tiny multi in a bird's nest - and aren't you famous for being stolen from one yard and placed in another backyard? :) We could have fun moving you about and you could become a famous fence jumper - gnome dog might enjoy that too!
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
And what's a backyard without kittens?http://notajayhawk.home.mchsi.com/pictures/DSCI0233s.jpghttp://notajayhawk.home.mchsi.com/pictures/DSCI0237s.jpghttp://notajayhawk.home.mchsi.com/pictures/DSCI0239s.jpghttp://notajayhawk.home.mchsi.com/pictures/DSCI0240s.jpg
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
notajayhawk says,…men tend to be attracted to younger, more physically fit females,..–––Thanks for the reminder, today especially, I was about to stupidly stick my neck out .Ronda, here's a pic, just shrink it to fit in any nest you want.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/12/nfreud112.xml
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
multi, raotfl - how did you get that picture of me while I was sleeping!!! Too funny - a bird would make short work of that beauty!nota, I thought we were having a disagreement - the secret to making me feel peaceful is showing me kittens. So sweet! I bet they bring so much joy and poop to your heart and house! :)By the way, neighbors, I am proud to say that my nephew contacted me Tuesday and he and his wife had twin sons: they are Cameron Scott and Kodiak (he is into wrestling!). They are doing well and should be released from the hospital by Sat. One is a blond and one is a brunette - when I get pictures I will share them!
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says: “Thanks for the reminder, today especially, I was about to stupidly stick my neck out .”Ah, but as I said, there are exceptions, and also that human beings aren't as enslaved to those instincts as other animals, especially as they no longer serve the purpose for which they developed. Especially when it comes to recreational purposes.My wife is 20 years my junior, and while that would seem to fit the pattern, it doesn't so much from her perspective, as I may not have been the best provider/protector.
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booklover (Anonymous) says…
Hey strangers,I was driving down through the neighborhood and I saw yall chatting by this back fence here, I wander if you could give me directions to somewhere… over… there?
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
yonder is thataway
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
booklover, what type of books do you like to read? Would you lend me one of yours?multi, you think they were just passing through? That type of person makes me nervous - we have a lot of small children in our neighborhood!
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TheEleventhStephanie (Anonymous) says…
No offense to anyone here, really. I log an awful of of online time myself. However, I have to say I find it ironic that while you yearn for this communication and connection with others, you are still inside behind the computer. I'm guilty too, but I'm on my way to the porch next door to hang out some with my *actual* neighbors!
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TheEleventhStephanie (Anonymous) says…
Also, I'm sure you're all nice. You seem to be anyway. Why don't you all get together in person and pretend you are neighbors! :)
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says: multi, raotfl - how did you get that picture of me while I was sleeping!!! Too funny - a bird would make short work of that beauty!_________Hang on to your triple dip!I thought Big Sue and I were just identical twins given up at birth, but now, with you Ronda..tripletts! What a find!How ya been sis?––––You people thought I was kidding with the picture, didn't you?
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
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Ronda,Booklover. Doesn't post a lot, mostly about the hawks, but BL has been on some of you interactive song blogs.Friendly and respectful, a welcome addition to any neighborhood.11th Steph..When one looks like Big Sue, they aren't truly welcome anywhere. People like pretty, happy, well-to-do people.People aren't really any different that a pack of dogs. If they are healthy and frisky, they are accepted. Let the same dog be happily in the group for years, and become ill, old or weak, and the pack will turn on them, nip by bite, and rip them to shreds.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
well welcome steph and booklover. reading is great. please elaborate on your love of books. steph and I have communicated for a while and colaborated on a worthwhile project. sometimes I think “instinct” is just a sophisticated excuse/rationale source instead of personal responsibility. twenty years your junior. congrats nota, I could tell you were wise. ***ronda, you mean handel got out! hmmm we need to organize a search party. call the sherrif's. he can't get too far very fast. for those new to the blog and unfamiliar with the blog that preceded this one, handel is the [mythical?] robot massage provider for ronda. he was purchased second-hand and has certain eccentricities because of that. when I first leaked his name, ronda was flooded with offers to take him off her hands. she successfully waved them off and got a tighter grip on handel. it seems that perhaps one of handel's fans/groupies may have snuck some contact with him and helped him give ronda the slip. so, yes, if you see two hands in the street, don't be alarmed, they are just handel the retread robot escaped from ronda's clutches. it means ronda is without her nightly massage, so her comments may become more edgy.
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booklover, here are the directions you need:drive west on 15th st, or rather bob billings, turn left at kasold.turn left at clinton parkway. drive through iowa st, now you're on 23rd, be sure to add to the congestion caused by the nonexistence of the slt.turn left at mass st. slow down at 11th, get a glass beer bottle and look for a police officer to tase you.at 6th, cross the bridge and drive to “all stars” no, you don't have to go in, just wait your chance to dodge a bullet in the parkinglt. after the bullet wizzes past your car, drive south and recross the bridge. turn right at 6th.turn right at maine. turn left at 2nd. turn in to the e.r. and get yourself checked out, but if you're suicidal, the protocol still isn't what it should be. when you do get outa the e.r. drive west on third (should be third not 2nd before the e.r.). left on michigan. just before 6th, pull in to lawrence feed and buy some good dog food for your dog. then cross 6th and make a left and go eat at burgerking, you're probably hungry by now. then, drive west on 6th to iowa. turn left and go to the merc and buy some health products, wave at the former city commissioner. continue south on iowa. pull in just past 15th at the lied ctr and buy a ticket, surely there's something you want to see. then head east on 15th, taking care to watch for careless students, and marveling at there wardrobes. turn left at naismith, up the hill and curve to the east. stop and dip your hand in the fountain. keep driving, be careful you're still on campus. go to 14th st and leave campus. drive down 14th st, way down the hill to connecticut, turn right, then look right at the place where new improvements for central jr high school will occur. turn right at 15th. stop at lawrence community theater, and buy another ticket, darnit, annie get your gun is coming up!. then go to mass st. again, drive north just a couple blocks and stop at south park. get out of your car, you drive too much. enjoy the trees. walk over and see the house that's going to be rebuilt on rhode island 1100block. go compliment the police in the police station. walk by the hq of the anarchists on the west side of the 1100block of mass. finally, just watch the children play in the west half of south park and meditate on the meaning of life.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says: “twenty years your junior. congrats nota, I could tell you were wise.”Well, I suppose younger or richer are the choices many would make. Made the mistake of the latter with my first wife - never, never marry a woman for her money. Turns out they can afford a lot better lawyer.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
oh ronda, yes, from backyard to backyard. but there is danger attached with that:some people think they get good luck if they burry a gnome upside down in their yard! not making this one up! not appealing prospect.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
theeleventhsteph, there are many reasons we stay inside - for some such as multi it may be a huge weight issue (just kidding mult since I have never seen the real you), some of us are shy - wouldn't be me - some of us are edgy without our robotic hand massaging manhands - this would be me- and some of us prefer the written word because we can have more fun with it. I am sure booklover understands this completely.nota has been married twice! We find out more about ye each day, neighbor!gnome - you have that poor woman so turned around she'll never find her way out of Lawrence. I saw her car go by my house several times on her way to Burger King and then to the hospital. She look slightly frazzled, but she shouldn't be reading while driving. She may even have ran over Handel if she didn't spot one of them with their hand raised to tell her to stop. Gosh, I sure hope not!
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JJE007 (Anonymous) says…
Is being married twice good or bad?Been married for 28 years… to a couple of great women… NOT at the same time!~) I loved them and loved being married to them… most of the time…I feel sorry that I learned more about life by leaving and can imagine that, knowing what I'd learned, we MAY have been able to work things out… BIG “may”… too big… That may( be ) is a blessing and a curse. We are all alone in the end, I suppose, and we can all, from beginning to end, find ourselves too fragile to love or accept love. It's a bit sad. There are so, and too, many things that cleave loves from lives. I am devoted to a young old soul these days and it's hard to find friends and social events to share when you're 25 years apart in your birth date. It is trying…a challenge…but we try…to love…in love…and seemingly…against the odds…in remaining so odd. I do know I'm doomed to THAT!~)Oh…I've been out here on the fence for too long…gotta get back to washing dishes and cleaning my guns!~) Later, neighbor…
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Logan72 (Alia Ahmed) says…
bearded_gnome,I am not Pakistani, I was born and raised in Logan. I met my Pakistani husband at KU, got married in Pakistan, have two gorgeous adult children and two grandchildren and another due any day now. I went to Pakistan as a naive western Kansas young woman (at age 22) back in the 70's. It was a great adventure. Maybe I'll blog about it sometime. So, bearded_gnome, do you want to tell us about the Pakistani in your life?
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booklover (Anonymous) says…
Boy BG! You suck at directions. I got so lost I ended up in Topeka! Had to stop and ask a painted Jayhawk statue to show me the way home. Good thing I had my favorite new book to keep me company. I finished it just as I pulled into the West Lawrence exit on the Turnpike. If you like mysteries and medical stories all wrapped up in family drama and issues, you must must read Jodi Piccoult's new book Change of Heart. It's about a man on death row for killing a police officer and his step daughter. At the time of the death, the officer's wife was pregnant with another child, now 12 and needing a heart transplant. The accused killer wants to give her his after he is executed. But can he? Is it ethical? Legal? Will it turn her into a bad person like he was? If you belong to a book group, suggest this title. It would make a great discussion book!
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
oh booklover, I guess I needed to do a download to your gps unit? sounds like a good book. ***alia, she is in college at a small private school in another midwestern state. on rare occasions she posts on here as pearlgirl. she does have a poem on the poetry blog. as do I. I am proud to say she helps me with my writing and is a dear friend. she is studying computer science. ***I sure hope booklover didn't hit handel. ya' know, if one of his fingers got hit, he might be stuck giving people the 'finger' without meaning to offend.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
since we're being revelatory:I am in my 16th year of my second marriage. was lucky to get outa the first marriage without being killed, no, not exaggerating! she was violent, insanely jealous and suspicious. never knew what I would find when I came home! that was an eight year marriage. phew! nota, you're right, never marry for money, whether you are male or female. marry for the sex…or well…the love.
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TheEleventhStephanie (Anonymous) says…
But you all seem to like each other. Seems to me it would be more fulfilling in person. To each her own, I guess.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
oh, before I forget: alia thanks for answering my questions. yes, you should blog about that experience.
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vpete69 (Anonymous) says…
Write letters and mail them? Without a computer? I fail.
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notajayhawk says;And I daresay that women who chase after older men for the experience factor may be setting themselves up for some major disappointments, as experience may not be the determing factor in performance. Not everyone uses Viagra.––––––In my humble experience, the two oldest men I know don't need the drug. Although I can say that the last time I was together again with the oldest, his intention finished as soon as he “attempted” entry.The next younger, well he does yoga and can teach most everyone some pretty astonishing positions for multiple accomplishments in a row.The mates I've known between mid 60 and down to young forties, most need the viagra and don't take it. They're too tough/manly for pills. Only one man used them, and even he was very difficult to “take to the show”. One man on the other hand, found the older he got, the woodier he got, and the wood stayed around longer than when he was young. He died young, just when he was starting to have some fun in life. ––––Ronda, did you look under the bed for Handel? Maybe he doesn't like the early morning light now.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
gnome, it would be difficult to get more subtantial stories about this town into one story. Well done.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
11th Steph..also note, Ronda said she would have to write a blog about meeting me.That pretty much shut down any trust for meeting people on here.I myself like being with people I know. When life was better, I could have been described as a social butterfly/life of the party.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says: “nota, you're right, never marry for money, whether you are male or female. marry for the sex:or well:the love.”For the love? Geez. Well, I guess if you can't come up with any *good* reasons…Actually I misspoke (just call me Hillary). Didn't mean to say marry *for* the money, but being married to a woman with *more* money still leads to that potential for a better lawyer being in the opposing corner. Not that it would have taken much to be better than my lawyer. He was bad and knew it - I refused to pay him the remainder of the money he said I owed him, and he actually let it drop. Not very typical for a lawyer.(What's the difference between a lawyer and a carp? One is a cold blooded, bottom feeding, slime-covered pond creature. The other one's a fish.)Actually when we met, I was making good money and she was a college student. When we got married, I was making comparable money. Then she talked me into going back to school to finish my degree (the first one), so when the divorce came around, she was a partner in a CPA firm and I was a part-time bartender. And I got the best legal representation that part-time bartending can buy.You and I seem to be moving in opposite directions, though. It was my first one that was sane.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
I had a response to send on that, but the helium is leaking out of my balloon, losing altitude.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Pull up, pull up!!!
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email sent.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
For the bored looking for a thread with a bit of humor. It's stuff we all know, well most of us, but the comments are mundane, to rude, to outrageous. Alot like LJW.http://food.yahoo.com/blog/foxyfestivities/3829/how-to-survive-the-5-most-embarrassing-dinner-date-mishaps
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
145. Posted by riccolites on Thu, Apr 24, 2008, 8:35 pm PDT if you discover a booger on your collar, try to pass it off as being a slug seed. Then try to convince your date that you are studying invertibrate anatomy.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
wow, that was funny Nota! I agree re lawyers. only known one or two good ones. sorry to hear we're moving in opposite directions fella. when I kicked first wife out, I immediately changed the locks, phoned the pd for extra area checks, and breathed a huge sigh of relief! in seven of the eight years of marriage, she imagined that about a hundred women had been pursuing me, or that I'd been pursuing them! yes, I'm not making any of this up! sturm und drang. ***gnome, it would be difficult to get more subtantial stories about this town into one story. Well done.multi, I assume this comment refers to my “directions” to booklover. and he/she failed to follow them and missed some of the tour. I could've adeed another ten miles with more anotations. thanks multi. ***now, if your balloon is dipping too low, beware, the lawrence inspectors have been known to ticket balloons for traffic distractions!***steph, it is not just our sharing with each other, we also gratify a little exhibitionism in sharing with each other in public. after all, if you are talking to your neighbor over the back fence, the nextdoor neighbor listens with his/her window open. some one else hears a snatch or two as she drives by. children playing in another neighboring yard go home and ask their parents about what they overheard. and finally, someone floating overhead in a balloon with “sonic ears” (the stupidest title for a product ever conceived) tunes in as he floats by. so, this isn't so far flung from real life. ***and finally, I think you girls have definitely scared off matt fowler.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Gnome, I believe and understand about the wife with the viscous accusing imagination. I also divorced one of those. He only got worse after the divorce.You are also right about having people that aren't part of the picture to talk to. A friend in a far away town called me last night to talk about how so many of her “ministry/nurturing” group activities that she has started there are having problems. She can't talk about it with anyone there, it's a very small town.
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Logan72 (Alia Ahmed) says…
Gnome,I read pearlgirl's poetry on her blog. It is very nice, Soulful.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Seems it was a late night (for me at least) at the backyard fence, and an early start this morning. Yet another reason to have it here where we can do it 24/7, regardless of how many neighbors, or how few neighbors, are present.multi, I can write blogs about people without disclosing name or any other identifying information about them. Besides, I believe it was aginglady I was supposed to meet in a parking garage that I scared off when I told her I wanted to write a blog about it - I could have made her come across as so beautiful, so intelligent, so spiritual, so thin, but, nay, I never had that opportunity. Hummmm, that makes me wonder about you and any connection to aging lady????Two such examples of keeping an identity private are my “What We Do For Love” blog and “When Words Are Worth A Thousand Pictures” blog.Good suggestion about Handel hiding under the bed(s) - you were correct. I believe it may have been the terrific thunderstorms overhead that made them fearful. I caught them balled up, clutching each others hands, their knuckles were white (not the grey metalic robotic color they usual are). Their fingernails were dug into each other so hard I literally had to pry them apart. I think they are doing something spiritual to recover now and they are in a praying hands postion and have been for several hours. Let us hope they make a total recovery!peargirl is indeed a pearl from my experiences with her! A rare gem and we are fortunate to have acquaintance with her.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says: “nota, I thought we were having a disagreement - the secret to making me feel peaceful is showing me kittens. So sweet! I bet they bring so much joy and poop to your heart and house! :)”Cats sleep 18 hours per day (kittens even more). That means they're awake about 6 hours. My question has always been, why do those 6 hours have to be the same 6 hours the human occupants of the dwelling are trying to frikkin' sleep!?!?!?!?!
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
ronda,I'm so glad that handel was found! I hope he doesn't have this reaction to every sstorm. if so, you may have to take him for an “adjustment” of his software. pearlgirl is a true blessing in my life.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
I cannot live with cats in the house! it is revolting: step in their poop box…then they're walking accross your counter where you're preparing food. then they're walking on your food! yuck. nota, the reason for the six hours being when the humans are sleeping is:if you have a dog, you are his master;if you have a cat, you are simply her staff.***it sure cooled off about 11a.m. today. nice, I'd rather have 50F than 70F, as I am warmer than most people.***painters working on outside of our house. scaring gnomedog. he's very clingy today. ladder against roof sounds, walking on roof sounds, and paint roller running over ridges on the outside of house sounds. latter gave me a headache so it probably gave him one too. in case anybody's interested, yesterday, 11;25a.m. on the food crisis story, agnostic posted an absolutely revolting post very very foulmouthed expressing his/her opposition to my position. I marked it to s suggest removal, last time I checked, it was still there. I'm not exaggerating, really foulmouthed.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
should read, 11;43a.m. post. and, miraculous it is still there! this guy/girl has to have an in with the admin to get away with what aganostic gets away with in revolting disgusting posts.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
agnostick is the type of poser - oops, meant poster - or maybe not - that the award-winning LJW loves to have on their website. It's the big-fish, small-pond philosophy. Rather than try to be a respectable regional (or larger) news source, they're stick to the only thing they can, trying to please the ultra-libs in Lawrence.Lawrence - 28 square miles surrounded by Kansas.Sorta' like Oz.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
gnome, btw, the idea is to not let the pets walk in your food, clean feet or not.I had a psychology professor a while back who was talking about how her cat didn't need a litter box because it was trained, when the cat had to go, it would just stand at the patio door from her bedroom and meow. Then she started talking about what a p-i-t-a it was because after finding out how it worked, the cat would do this at all hours, standing at the door and meowing at 3:00 a.m. to go out and then again at 3:15 to come back in.So I raised my hand and asked “Um, which one of you was 'trained,' again?”
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
exactly! very perceptive Nota. ***yes, the LJWorld does cater to the far left fringe of this community. sadly, it means that a poser like agnostic can spew all kinds of bile and nothing happens. others with different perspectives do less and get disappeareded. I am glad to say I've never had another pen name on this award-winning forum, maybe am lucky haven't been disappeareded. couple of conservative posters I know are on their thrid and fifth identities. yes, 28sq miles surrounded by kansas. a blue blotch in the middle of a radiant red state. lawrence is known as the berkley of the plains.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
multi:Gnome, I believe and understand about the wife with the viscous accusing imagination. I also divorced one of those. He only got worse after the divorce.one of the hardest things about first wife's intense jealousy and suspision was:I ain't that great in looks, ain't a jock, etc. I have to work to get women in my life! sometimes, I couldn't help but laugh at some of her imaginings, which only made the resultant fights *worse*!!!I tried introducing her to my fellow grad students so she wouldn't imagine, and that made things *worse*!!!yeah, a short husky guy with a beard…yeah right women just throw themselves at me! I still occasionally have nightmares in which that woman figures prominently. she was indeed physically violent, too. used the every man is a potential perp stereotype against me. thank God I am alive now.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Does a viscous imagination slow down fluid thought?
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
yes, and it makes your life very very sticky. you have to add a little lifethinner or jealousydefuser. I noted poor multi in another typo yesterday:referring to someone she knew::”he loved on the seven hundred block of ash.” freudian. sorry please excuse us multi. so, nota I hope your spousal unit is better today. mine had bad arthritis in back today, perhaps predicting the onset of the cold front by four hours. gnomedog enjoyed his walk, though he didn't like the wind. he is a very sensitive dog. however, he is also the most loving male dog I've ever known. onward and somewhere…
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
gnome, your pointing out the typo was funny, and the typo itself was perfect. I was foolishly in love with the man.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Etoh makes a good thinner for those viscous imaginations, but rarely makes thought more fluid.
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JJE007 (Anonymous) says…
Fluid thoughts…Are there any other kind?I wouldn't know.Today I turned another year.It's cause for celebration…they SAY!~)It's more like turning a page on a book you have to read.I'm still interested in turning that page but…It's still just a page.Every day is cause for celebration.Its page can bring all manner of excitement.Today I heard the first oriole singing and saw it fly by when I imitated its song.I also heard the first house wren sing its full song,though I thought I heard one try a few days ago.There was a white-throated sparrow under the truck in the street this morning, and those birds have been singing for a few days.I hear that they're seen a ruby-throated hummingbird in the greenhouse at the Vinland Valley Nursery. That's nice to hear, though the hummers don't sing.There were no morels in Brook Creek Park…that I could find, but I'm sure there have been a few popping up.Hope springs with spring.The old grey-faced pup nextdoor was bouncy today. I hadn't seen it for months and thought it may have passed into some other existence. It was good to see…along with the redbuds in fine fettle and the wild plum shining.52 ain't so bad, I guess. The beer is still good at Free State and the fish and chips are, too. My sweetie bought me food and a fine cordless XRP Dewalt drill/Driver which will come in very handy…along with the sandals that are on order.Life is good. In a month I'll be in a new old house with a late garden to plant and lots of pits to fill with what little money I have. Life is good…for the economy!~)
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Happy Birthday JJ.What is the elixir that makes your days cause for celebration?nota…Etoh..funny.
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JJE007 (Anonymous) says…
The elixir of lies, lost mind and ignorance lubricates my days…and the gawd of lies, lost minds and ignorance (ETOH), I suppose!~)Spring is a balm, too.
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Will I run to the bev shop before closing, or wait til tomorrow…decisions decisions.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
very nice JJ.however, it appears you are implying brook creek park is amorel, or immorel. always was a little suspicious of that park/creek. congratulations JJ. your poem was lovely too! glad for the news of the pup nextdoor. dogs are very special. ***hey ronda, I think you need to institute an exercise program for handel. that will help relieve the tension and keep him in better shape. perhaps one hundred finger pushups to start. and, remember, he has hundreds or thousands of groupies, don't let him near your windows. he is just not ready for groupies. ***I'm glad that worked out multi. I certainly didn't want to hurt your feelings. “foolishly in love,” that is a repetitive statement. in my experience, all love for the opposite sex is foolish, but such fantastic folly.
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gnome says;hey ronda, I think you need to institute an exercise program for handel. that will help relieve the tension and keep him in better shape.––––––-Ronda, you might want to check out the finger exercises for carpal tunnel.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
very good point multi.mrs.gnome is looking at likely having that surgery. wouldn't wish that on handel. ***earlier tonight, a woman went into labor at the county jail. don't know if baby was *born in jail*. night all.***p.s. ronda, I finished alternate ending #1, emphasizes the questing nature more. will send you alt endings 1 and 2 when done. maybe tomorrow night. oh, thought of gloves for handel? driving gloves might be nice when he's not serving you.now, *night all*!
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gnome,Better she have the surgery sooner than later. Mine was too late, the nerve damage is permanent.The surgery itself takes about ten minutes. Finding a vein on me took much longer LOL. I have the tendency to be called the worst stick of the day.Since the incision is only slightly longer than 1 inch, and it's a simple cut of the band, pain is minimal. The one thing they didn't tell me about, was that when the band is released, the parts that go from the wrist to the thumb, move over where they are not used to being. This caused a brand new pain. It took a while, for that to not be so bad.The exercises aren't painful, just time consuming. My outcome was bad enough, they decided to not do the left hand, as it was bad, but not as bad. Now, since I'm on the computer more (against my personal healthcare rules, but I'm bored out of my mind) my left arm started to hurt, and now it's numb the instant I sit down here. Other instances too.I wish rose well.Ah, well.
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yeah multi,I had to have carpal tunnel surgeries in the mid '80s. surgery itself not bad as surgeries go. yes, the nerve damage can be perminent. carpal tunnel does indeed interfere with typing, as you describe. she's finding it very frustrating and is scared of the surgery. once a very good orthopedist in this town, not practicing now, tried to prevent need for surgery on my hands by *injecting* each wrist. to make sure she was in the right place, the doc had to push the needle in right over the carpal tunnel, and actually hit the nerve in question. I was this close to passing out! but those injections didn't prevent the surgeries. then I had to have them repeated on each hand in just a few months; no surprise, I've been puzzling docs since my birth! I made sure to get PT after the second surgeries. today, my hands are just fine, no problem. the scars at my wrists are a bit larger and very zigzag compared to what you would have. ***okay, I'll try on this new blog:anybody want to start a new u urban legeand about lawrence/dg co? I have written about the huge giant magnets burried under hoch/budig when it was rebult after the lightning strike/fire. these are operated by a lowly ku classified employee, Sam. these magnets, when activated, cause major storms to divert from their courses threatening dg co. but no classified employee there on weekends: explains why we get more severe weather on weekends. no sam to protect us with the massive magnets.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
wow, kinda quiet today.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Seems to be that way all over the site. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, a lot of the loons are apparently busy elsewhere.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
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justmesis (Anonymous) says…
gee… I'd forgotten all about my idea of starting a “round robin.” It never really got off the ground as I couldn't get some much needed contact info. on some of our relatives. Maybe I'll give it another try this summer. ( as you have all noticed I do not have the writing talent of my sister so please forgive me. Thanks! I am also very new to this blog thing
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
Hello, all you happy people.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
hi snappy!warmer in tx? how are the reptiles? ***justmesis,welcome,and glad you joined us. the sister to whom you refer, is that “the creator” aka ronda? ***well,if you're at a particular mexican restaurant later tonight, you can meet mrs. gnome and I. hint: this restaurant is not part of a chain and has been here a long time. ***was a very nice afternoon to walk! wow perfect 60F breeze, etc. the dam still making its steady sound. gnomedog got to see a buddy and played. ***finally, anybody familiar with the play byFugard “blood knot?”
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Happy late birthday nota!!! I won't even go to how old you are. :) But I'll bet you are about twenty years older than your lovely wife. My daughter turned 17 today - she is strikingly beautiful and exceptionally smart - I thank God each day for allowing her to be in my life and I hope he continues that as his plan. So nota and my little one are under the sing of the bull! :): :) :) my sister and brother are also Taurus - I am surrounded by you. Everyone in our family seems to be either Scorpios or Taurus - what a combo!Yes, I can see that it has been a quiet day. I was wondering how nice weather and out-of-door events would affect comments and the blog sites. I pray for snow!gnome, I love the idea about having handel do excercises and I really like the idea of putting the lefties on some sort of regular schedule. They obviously need to be kept very busy - they were holding an alarm clock earlier and rocking back and forth to the ticking sound - they apparently have too much time on their hands. :D couldn't resist that one. Amazing how many hand, finger, joint, etc. puns there have been with those two! Carpel tunnel sydrome sounds absolutely dreadful and I'm sorry some of you have experienced that sort of pain. We should do a blog about all the different types of pain - there are so many, so different, such varying degrees.I would love to know of which rest. you speak, gnome. My favorite is also not a chain, not open on Sun. nights, sometimes has a buffet - doesn't serve hard liquor!jestmesis, I am so honored when you take time to come onto my blogs! I love you and hope to pay you a visit again sometime soon. Jestmesis is a grandmother again - she had twin grandsons born on Tuesday (yes, more Taurus) and they are Kodiak and Cameron. One is blond and the other burnette. I can hardly wait to hold them and feel their chicky soft hair against my neck and breath in their lovely fresh baby scents.snap, are you still leading a happy internet life? He/she must be very busy.
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
Ronda, if I was doing any better, I just couldn't stand it. Was in Orlando last week on business, went to an off-the-beaten-path museum and saw the very knife that Gordon Cooper carried into space in 1963.
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justmesis (Anonymous) says…
gnome; yes, the sister is Ronda. I am the oldest but have been in awe of her since her birth.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says: “Happy late birthday nota!!!”Think it was someone else's birthday, unless you're very late - mine (51) was a month ago, unless you're going back and checking through old posts in the MOT blog, I don't think I mentioned it recently. And although my sun sign is Aries, my moon, rising, and dominant signs are all Pisces.It was a great day, gnome, it was supposed to rain this p.m. (the weatherman was wrong - imagine that), and we were out at my little one's school carnival, but it stayed nice out. Of course, you're not reading this, you're out enjoying the whole enchilada. (Add a Sauza Conmemorativo and Cointreau margarita and it's perfect.)
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
JJ had a birthday, referenced it in his poem.Ronda, I know a lot of us drink while reading, but maybe you need to cut back.-Pot calling kettle black *~DNotaj says,And although my sun sign is Aries, my moon, rising, and dominant signs are all Pisces––That explains everything!
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Note:On the Architectural integrity thread, cool was the first and only poster for 16 comments. I was just going to see how far it would continue, but the guys just had to break in and let loose.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
My dream job.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080423/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_i_can_has_cheezburger
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says: >>>”And although my sun sign is Aries, my moon, rising, and dominant signs are all Pisces”“That explains everything!”Are you implying, madam, that I'm fish-like? Or fishy? Or cold-blooded, scaled, and slimy (what do you think I am, an attorney???)?You know, they say a goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.You know, they say a goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.You know, they say a goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.You know, they say a goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.You know, they say a goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
somebody hit nota's reset button!!!okay, ronda, it was el matador. wonderfully cozy. tonight had live music. had tomales in but didn't buy any of those treasures today. actually, nota, thanks for the thought, but I am alcohol free. I think I ate enough for two, myself. it was raining 30minutes ago when gnomedog got his last walk of the day, now he is *a wet dog*. well, congratulations ronda! your daughter sounds like someone to be proud of!and congrats to justmesis, on your grandkids. glad you're here snappy. no word on armadillos or reptiles there? yes ronda it does sound like handel is trying to take back the hands of time. maybe has a bad memory he wants to sweep away, these stem from his former life I am sure. hope he hasn't been getting to your computer to look through “thumbnails.” and, be very sure he doesn't surf to a matrimonial website. he might wind up walking hand in hand in hand down the aisle.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Didn't get a drop of rain here, and we're not very far away.My daughter, thanks to Go Diego Go on Nikelodeon, is thoroughly convinced she is no longer human, but is in fact a jaguar. Remembering similar thoughts when I was (much) younger, I dug through YouTube to find some suitable clips from Kimba the White Lion. Now she wants the Kimba DVD's!Who lives down in deepest darkest Africa,Who's the one who brought the jungle fame,Who's the king of animals in Africa,Kimba the White Lion is his name.When we get in trouble and we're in a fight,Who's the one who just won't turn and run,Who believes in doing good and doing right,Kimba the White Lion is the one.(Now I'm going to be humming that for the next six months!)Funny, I have the entire Jonny Quest collection, but she has no interest. And she's not too thrilled by the original Speed Racer, although she did recognize that they're coming out with a movie re-make. Must be guy things.
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MallinaBobina (Anonymous) says…
Hi! I'm new here… and I have a 3 month old daughter…..so I don't have a whole lot of people to talk to! So this is a great idea!…My husband and I are trying to find a reasonably priced house to rent in Lawrence while he finishes school. Anyone know of anything!? Today I bought baby wipes! ……. I have a goldfish…. his name is Trooper! He survived being a feeder fish. We tried to feed him to our Oscars… but he was too fast. I'm asking for an uninterrupted night of sleep for my birthday. I know this is probably boring and horribly written… but I don't care! It makes me feel better to think that I actually have a social life, even if it's just on ljworld. :)
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Welcome Malli.You found the place to do just what you did.Don't worry about writing skills, as long as we can figure out what you're trying to say, that's all that matters.The night of uninterrupted sleep…when it comes, you might just wake up startled as though something is wrong! But then when you are reassured, you will have a grateful, but silent laugh to yourself.It gets pretty quiet during the night, only a few post, but you know they are out there reading because something will eventually make them say something.Congrats on the new baby. Life will never be the same again. Just remember to take care of yourself, don't lose yourself and your health for the sake of everyone else. Too many women do that. It's okay to be a little selfish, just don't do it with a drive-thru dozen dunkin donuts.A word of wisdom. Just when you think you're ready to sell the baby, they learn to do something so new, wonderful and hilarious that you just can't, and you fall in love with them all over again.Keep the camera ready, once they're a teen, you'll need these discovery moments to get by!=D
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Ronda, at night, put a quarter or 50 piece between the thumb and forefinger of one of the hands. At night, then Handel can enjoy practicing it back and forth, making it seemingly disappear and reappear, roll it over and under his fingers like a baton.Get him a little table and he can practice swish, swish, swish, which hand is it in?When he gets bored with that, cards.And after he a master dealer…Juggling bean bags for Klutzs-hands.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
welcome Malli,congrats on the new baby…did I miss baby's name? you did find the place. good luck finding a house. apparently it is a bit of a buyers' market here, or so I read in the award-winning ljworld. tell us about your husband spousal unit too. ***just think nota, soon it'll be *Grand Theft Auto, 2012!* I vaguely remember kimba the lion and thanks for the verses. nota, if you pm me with your phone and real name, I'll phone you tomorrow afternoon. odd you got no rain. it was raining pretty soundly when we walked our short walk. I have dried off now. gnomedog is still a bit wet.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
It's raining here in the SW, a steady light rain it looks like, okay it is dark, but sounds steady.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says: “nota, if you pm me with your phone and real name, I'll phone you tomorrow afternoon.”You - asked for it - you got - it (Toyota). Or, as you'll see when you read the PM, you already had it (the name, at least).Rain finally started here about 10 minutes ago.
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MallinaBobina (Anonymous) says…
My daughter's name is Mallina. We call her Mallina Bobina for fun :). She smiles all the time and tries SO hard to laugh! She thinks she can walk across the room and gets very frustrated when I hold her in one spot… She's starting to grab things and put them in her mouth. :) My husband is sick right now.. he got food poisoning from Chipotle… SOOO .. don't eat there. He threw up all day yesterday. :( So I had to take care of Mallina AND him… interesting night.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Just wanted to add an additional welcome to the mommy of Mallina Bobina (it *does* sound like a fun name!). Hope the hubby is feeling better, I had food poisoning once in my life, and (obviously) it didn't kill me, but at the time I was wishing it would.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
nota, a very merry unbirthday to you, to you. Sorry about that! I don't drink but once or twice a year, multi, but I obviously misread or mistook JJ's birthday for notas!. nota, nota birthday bang, bang.Happy late, late birthay JJ!!! Hope you had a terrific all poet's day!You all have done a wonderful job of welcoming Mallina. It is nice to have someone so young and unjaded join our backyard. Anything you need around the house, just ask. It is also nice to have a new baby in our family. She is at an adorable age. I remember when my son (now twenty) slept through the night the first few times - I was so used to getting up several times to feed him that I still woke up. I missed getting the chance to see his beautiful face in the middle of the night so I would have to go in and look at him anyway. Seems with our little loved ones everything is a mixed message of emotions. I had always wished that each month lasted more like a year. Each stage is so precious and the one they were in at the time was always my favorite! Between multi, myself, jestmesis (who practically raised me, not because she was so much older and wiser just kind of bossy in a loving, wonderful way, so this is why I am somewhat screwed up! lol), and nota, who I know is indeed a father, you will have all the advice on parenting you ever wanted - or didn't want. Best advice I can give you is to follow your gut instinct and love her, love her, love her. :) Lucky you!I was hoping you were talking about the El Mat. It has been my favorite rest. for over thirty years now. Best darn Mexican food in Lawrence - I should blog about them! I am only sorry that my relatives and I went for Chinese last night - El. Mat. was in the running. So new one in the neighborhood, Mallina, go to the El. Mat for mexican food! I have a niece named Marlena - pretty name also!gnome and multi, thanks for giving me so many wonderful ideas of what to do with my hands! They are all winners - right now I am sitting on them just to know where they are. I will get them on their new schedule of exercise and routine straight off Monday morning. They will be washing dishes, other spring cleaning items such as windows and floors, and toliets, ironing, hanging out clothes on the line. They will be quite chapped by the time I put them in their handcuffs tomorrow evening!
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
“It is nice to have someone so young and unjaded join our backyard.”Yeah, we'll see how long *that* lasts. :)”gnome and multi, thanks for giving me so many wonderful ideas of what to do with my hands!”With that many suggestions, you'll have your hands full. (Sorry, that one has probably already been used, but the expression just came in handy.)
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Actually, nota, that one hasn't been used - at least I don't remember that it had. I should get a list together of all of them for a handy dandy reference! Oops, you just used the handy expression!Yeah, the poor new girl won't know what hit her - we're all nice though - she just has to avoid marion comments. marion, marion - whenever I say your name you appear. Oh, marionnnnnnnnn…….
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Marion got hit with a lot of bad flack yesterday on the threads. {8~[He's probably busy working on his work, and not viewing here..yet.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says: “marion, marion - whenever I say your name you appear.”You had to say “beetlegeuse” *three* times to make *him* appear.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
please don't elbow the drunk bear. ***nota, sorry, it'll be tonight when I call, maybe about 7. things behind schedule around here. ***yes, el matador is good. I have had some better food elsewhere in lawrence, but I absolutely love the family that runs it, the cozy place, and the style of service. don't get me wrong, the food most often is good. btw, they had tomales last night. for those who want to get 'em while they can. the band was doing country, but later they drifted into '50s music, they're pretty good in fact. well mallina sounds like a real joy. hope your hubby recovers. once he stops hurling, he will need to very slowly start taking water, and maybe broth. he's gonna be dehydrated. mallina, I can recommend freeman's used furnature at 12th and penn for furniture to furnish your new abode when you get it if funds are pinched. now, how do we know malli isn't jaded? she might just be saving the biting sarcasm for her fourth and fifth posts. her cynicism for the tenth post. seriously, I hope she will tell us more, like where she/they came here from. and what's her spousal unit do for work/study etc. later.
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Aisling (Anonymous) says…
Hello Ronda—and all the backyard bloggers.I've been a lurker for awhile in another incarnation (finnbar1) but I just love this idea and I wanted to join the neighborhood. I love most things Irish but I like the way 'aisling' sounds as opposed to 'finnbar' hence the name change.I have a laptop for work but I never wanted one for personal use….just because I'm still enamored of the handwritten letter or card. Since I now work every other Sunday (I work for a large telecommunications company headquartered in Overland Park, who's name rhymes with Print/Sprextel) I thought I'd use this time to join in the convesation. That, and there's nothing on tv.I don't usually comment on the other threads b/c mostly they're just mean-spirited and I have no use for that. I'm single, female and consider myself a democrat and a Wiccan. Otherwise I'm pretty normal.I take my cat, Finn McCool, for a walk about every night. When I'm not working or vacationing in Canada, I tend to go to Ireland by myself, just to unwind and absorb the atmosphere–-and Guinness…..lots of Guinness.Okay that's enough for me, I don't want anyone to skip this entry b/c it's too long.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Aisling, welcome! Yes, I remember seeing the name finnbar1. I wonder what I need to do to get a name change from the ljworld? You gave us a lot of insightful, interesting information about yourself. You seem quite forthright and I would have to say that for the most part those of us who would be regulars on the backyard fence blog are very nice human beings. We had some trolling going on in the original MOT, but we must have become either too boring for them, too long winded, or too nice. Probably a combination.Are you a commuter? Clinton or Barrack? Age group? Nosey aren't I? Do you walk your cat on a leash, carry it, have it run along beside you? I love the cat's name. We have Tedy (a beautiful grey Persian with the sweetest personality ever), and Panther ( black with a white spot on her chest). She is very small, business like - my son says she is a Pakinstanian woman. We just put a store bought toy that looks like a televison set on the front porch for her to sleep in when she desires. She is an incredible mouser, but has brought us gifts of bats, rats, mole, birds, snakes. She is quite a killer! Our cats live downstairs and the Maltese pups, who were never told they were able to climb up and down stairs, live upstairs. It makes for a nice separation -rather the way my ex-husbands and I lived! :) So, Aisling, have you been married, have children? Tried the El Matador yet? I don't believe they carry Guinness but I'm not for sure. Anyone out there know?gnome, I love their tamales! The woman who makes and sells them at the Farmer's Market does a great job also. The El Mat. has the best chips and sweet and hot salsa around. Their beans are to die for and I love their spicy pork burrito. Okay, now I'm hungry and they are closed!
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
I know these questions were for someone else, but:Are you a commuter? - YesClinton or Barrack? - Neither. Age group? - No, I only have the one (and it's more than sufficient).Nosey aren't I? - Yes. ;)
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Ronda says:a beautiful grey Persian with the sweetest personality ever.–––-Isn't that an oxymoron?______________________I used to take my young son to El Mat to watch the trains out the window. I always ordered the Gail somebody special, and he got a taco or something individual, small. One time, he was still hungry, so we ordered another something, like beans on a flour tortilla. That was the wrong thing, and I ate it and we got him the correct thing on a torilla. Both fit on a saucer size plate, and should have been around a buck or less.Since the waitress had made a lot of trips and was kind, I left a $5.00 tip, for a ticket that should have added up to less that ten dollars. Well, we got to the register, and the bill somehow came to over $20.00. The lunch cost nearly $26.00. I knew we were being ripped off somewhere.The trip before, they tried to charge me 8 something for my 3.75 meal as I recall. “Oops, I'm so sorry, my mistake” said the waitress. Since that was the only thing ordered, it was pretty clear to see they had charged me falsely. Sure, anyone can make a mistake on a bill, but a single mom can't risk multiple errors. It really made me wonder about practices there. If someone is the only customer for the night, does the staff try to charge more to cover wages? Overhead?I have met Joe, he remembered my dead parents from the 50's.We don't think he would condone cheating, but to have a mom and 6 yr old have $21+ lunch?I just told my son that we didn't have time to drive that far any more.I miss Pancho's pork, back when they were new. Portions were appropriate, and the meat was kept nice. Later things shrunk and the pork would be hard and dried out. Not once, but 5 different times. Hard times I guess. They lost us.
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Aisling (Anonymous) says…
Are you a commuter? Clinton or Barrack? Age group? Nosey aren't I? Do you walk your cat on a leash, carry it, have it run along beside you? I love the cat's name.yes, for almost 19 years nowBarack43not at all, we're neighbors after allno leash, he follows along beside memy other cats were named after cities in Australia (Melbourne & Adelaide) Adelaide had to be put to sleep and then 2 years later Melbourne. So when I adopted Finn I went for a cat that looked different and went with a different themed name. He was almost either Dublin or Donegal but as I said, different theme.I've never been to any of the Mexican restaurants in Lawrence but my fav in Kansas City used to be 'Manny's' but not so much anymore. My fav Lawrence restaurant is 'Free State Brewery'. My Grandpa used to drive a bus and growing up I heard stories about the bus station. Right after it opened I was able to take my Grandparents and my Mom to lunch there. Grandpa was thrilled and got such a kick out of seeing the place and talking to the owner. Both my parents are from Lawrence and my sister and older brother were born here too. My parents moved to Eastern Iowa where my other brother and I were born—yep I'm an Iowegian. My Mom passed away two and a half years ago and I still miss her every day. Although more often than not I think of her with laughter rather than tears so that's good.Let me see, I'm single and while not actively looking, I wouldn't rule the right guy out (see my Finnbar comments regarding attraction and the senses :) )
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Almost forgot, my cat story of the early morning. I wake up about every hour, pain, migraines,etc. Last night was no different. That is, right up until about 6am. I got out of bed, and in getting closer to the door, I heard this very loud unusual sound coming from the other side of the house. My only thought was the cat must have stepped on the remote and turned the tv on, but that the cable must be out. Like loud snow, but lower. I opened the bedroom door, a little afraid, and walked down the long hall, step by step. No cat in sight at this point.When I turned the corner into the living room, there was the vaccuum cleaner, sitting as I left it next to the couch. It was ON. And HOT.My guess is the cat stepped onto the arm of the couch and rubbed his head against the vertical handle of the vaccuum, knocking the lever switch on.I sure wish I would have seen the video of that cat lunching 3 ft up and 4 ft away in one half second.Where was the cat now? Sitting next to the computer tower, with really big eyes, saying, “Holy Mouse Droppings what happened”?I said, You screwed up? Didn't you?He blinked twice. I took that as a yes.I turned it off, and he stood up walking over with a Thank God that's over look about him.Amazing I woke up before something caught fire. It was really hot.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Did your older siblings go to kdg here?Some of the kids in my kdg class just disappeared during the summer, and it's bugged me ever since.And of course, I never remembered their last names. Just a list of first names on some group pictures. Little girls all in dresses.And other kids through the years..they just didn't come the next year.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
we've never had a problem with the bill at el matador, in fact, I am consistently amazed at the low price. mrs. gnome and I ate last night for $21 plus tip. we had two guacs, and full meals. no beers etc. and other times I've been there, if for example the homestyle enchilada was too salty, they would just make another that was fine. sorry you had so much trouble multi. yes a single mom has to be careful. ***welcome aisling1. nice name. don't know if that kinda beer is at el mat, kinda doubt it. ***nota, sorry I didn't get you called back. too much todo, too little time, only two hands. good luck on your new job man!***somebody's posting on the old moment of truth blog?!? it takes so long for me to load it I'm not going to check. I think they need a detour sign.
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MallinaBobina (Anonymous) says…
I used to work at a bank… and on slow days I would read some of your responses to different news topics… sooo I just want to say thank you to all of you (including Marion) for making my days a little less boring. I thought I would join in on the fun now that I have time to write on here. :) My husband is MUCH better… he is back to eating fast food… He is from Lawrence.. he's going to school for something…and changing oil for the paychecks…. I'm from Leavenworth.. I grew up on a dairy farm… hmmm.. what else.. I really like celery… I've been to Spain..I'm ready for warm weather. I guess you will see how jaded and cynical I am in the future! Those sort of traits don't come seeping out until the initial *meet and greet* period has worn off.
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MallinaBobina (Anonymous) says…
OH.. and my very first nightmare was of………. guess who??……. beetlegeuse
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
gnome, the last posts are one from ronda, then a couple from me saying, 1448 was Do I hear taps?, 1449 was 1449?Just getting it to where ronda could finish with a nice 1450, and thus her farewell comment.
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Glad your hubby's feeling better, MB.Never been to Spain (isn't there a song about that), I've been through a lot of the rest of Europe (France, Italy, Switzerland), but it's been a loooong time. And you don't have to hide the cynicism during the warm-up period, as a matter of fact I'm beginning to think it's a requiremnt of being a member on the LJW message boards.gnome, noprob, thanks for the good wishes.Well, all, as gnome alluded to, I'm off to start a new job this morning. A much longer commute, but you gotta' do what you gotta' do. Pretty sure you won't be seeing me during the daytime anymore, I used to work there and I'm pretty sure I won't have internet access, at least until/unless I build the bank account up quite a bit, and replace my laptop and get wifi or something. But there are a lot of other priorities to worry about first, including getting everything out of the pawn shop (been out of work for a while now) - can't keep convincing my five-year-old that the DVD player for the car is being repaired for this long - and getting my other car fixed (if possible). As I'll be commuting over 60 miles each way, I'd rather have my 32+ mpg car running than my barely 20 mpg car, especially since the 32+ car is bigger, more comfortable, quieter, rides and drives better, and has all the bells and whistles, and the one I'm driving is small, noisy, bumpy, all over the road, and a pain to drive. Today should be interesting, especially the drive home, what with - let's see - zero sleep. Anyway, if I make it home in one piece, I'll check in tonight some time.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Incidentally, I just checked the MOT blog, and it loaded relatively fast. Might have something to do with one of the LJW servers being down at the moment, the one that pushes the advertisements. I suspect these ads are somewhat tied in with the Flashplayer problems many people are having. Oh, well, I guess those kinds of things are the price one pays for using a “free” site.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
nota, congrats on the new job. Sorry about the long commute - you'll have to let us know what your gas bill for your auto is each month. That would be interesting.Any of the rest of you commuters, please tell us the same thing and how that is affecting your lifestyle.multi, I have to agree with gnome on the El. Mat prices. I take my daughter and her friend and we each have a spicy pork burrito, chips and salsa (which are free) a small side salad and we leave stuffed and under twenty dollars. They are sometimes slow with the service, but the food is worth the wait. I have known Joe and his children for years and it is like joining family when you walk through that door - regardless of how long it has been since you've last been there. We have had a lot of birthday celebrations there too. Joe has a great singing voice with songs from the 50's. He does a “Help Me Make it Through the Night” and “Stand By Me” in a truly incredible voice.I have never been to Spain, France, England, India, Africa. I would love to be able to have the time and money to travel more. I do love Nassau and Florida and New Mexico and Phoenix though!Cats, gotta love em unless you hate them!Well, need to go get my hands busy! We'll be sending good vibes to nota!
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
thanks multi, appreciate you letting me know what was that activity.***yes, el matador's spicey pork borrito is very very good. the meat they use is great. sometimes I just order an order of the pork by itself with flour tortillas on the side, yummmmm***I'm glad your husband is back to junk food malli. so you like celery, does that make you a celebrity stocker then? I know, I just couldn't leaf it alone. ***hey ronda, ever thought of having handle holding a book for you to read? that could be another service he could perform.
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Aisling (Anonymous) says…
multi—not sure if the questions regarding my older sibs going to school here—not even sure if kdg is in reference to kindergarten…but I digress. My sister was just over two and my brother just under a year old when my parents moved to Iowa so even though they consider it their hometown they never went to school here. Seems my Dad's family is pretty entrenched in Lawrence–last name Wiggins ( oops can I say that?) so there's tons of family history in town but none of us kids went to school here. Except me and college but I only vaguely remember those years.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Did you say Wiggins? Yet another family member!!! I was born a Wiggins and remained one until I was adopted at age seven. We may have to see if our family tree connects somewhere way back there. I am related to the Wiggins who Wiggins, Colorado is named after - how about you?
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MallinaBobina (Anonymous) says…
I need a part time job… but I'm not crazy about paper routes… and I don't want to leave Mallina with a sitter………. UGH. In a perfect world I could just strap her to my back in a little papoose and work somewhere. oh well. Renting in Lawrence is just ridiculous. We can't find a place that would really work for us under around 750 dollars. I don't really want to live in an apartment… I want a HOME or atleast a duplex that feels like a home.. because I have a *family*… but it doesn't look like it's going to happen. :( We need a solution to this problem….. some way to make more money……. without waiting two years for him to finish school…… I'm watching the Jeff Corwin Experience on Animal Planet… and I swear he just said “look at this snaaaaake!” about 20 times. Very dramatic… Mr. Corwin… i am looking at that snake. …. Now he is digging in the sand like a rabid dog….. he really needs some friends… HUMAN friends.. I hope everyone is having a great day! I wish I had an actual backyard of an actual house so I could talk to my neighbors.. . :( *pity party*
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
yes, ronda, joe's singing voice is pretty good. malli,Isure can relate. hope you can find the work that'll fit your needs and your abilities. a papoos bag is a pretty cool idea. malli you do have neighbors here and the fence is mythical. .
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
The commute was cheaper than expected. The best mileage I had gotten with my little sh**box was just barely over 20, but today it got over 29. I filled up before I went to work and when I got home to check how it was doing (and gas was 2 cents *cheaper* at the same station when I got home, by the way). That's only a little less than what my bigger car gets (when it's running). At that rate, It should end up costing me about $280/month at current prices, and I had figured on about $425. (Of course, it also used a whole quart of oil today, but even with the cost of oil, I'm still $100 ahead of what I'd budgeted.)Ronda, paying that much for gas isn't really causing us to cut back, actually the opposite - if I wasn't spending that much on gas to get to work, I wouldn't have any money to spend!
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Irony. I live in a three bedroom all by myself, all the tools anyone would need, nice neighborhood.I also need to hire someone to help move things out, keep up on house cleaning, but won't have cash until the house sells.Anyone know someone who could use a free $14,000 ceiling lift system? For transferring disabled/elderly up to 600 lbs. (No sex sling jokes, I've heard them LOL). This system has both straight track and curved track to go over standard bathroom toilet then bathtub.They would need someone of real building intelligence to learn about it, learn how to install (not hard at all, just need to not be stupid and screw it into any old material), and remove it very carefully. I don't want anyone to get hurt.I have a man who could be hired to do this.Anyone need a prefectly good large plastic horse tank? Either for the animals, orI got it for the kids to swim/sunbathe in. I also have a brand new filter/hose/etc that's still in the box. I'm told it's easy to do, with one of those like doorknob hole cutting bits.Some chemicals.You haul it.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
well congrats nota! maybe it was downhill both ways?the weather was perfect today. we had a wonderful walk on the levee.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
As I mentioned in a different thread earlier, on my way to work this morning I went past a guy who was putting his trash out at the edge of his yard. Apparently he'd driven it down the driveway in his pickup truck. Next time you think gas prices are too high - that's a perfect example of why!
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
since we talked about El Matador, shall we review other mexican restaurants while we're at it?next door to El Matador is Tropicana…la tropicana. their guac is very fine. the food overpriced for what you get and it is loud in there. we like Ixtapa (sp?) the food is very good, and sometimes it is quiet, and sometimes it is a bit noisey. that's at 23rd and iowa. anybody been into the new mex restaurant on the east edge of town, 3 mexicanos? oh, and there's tortas jalisco. haven't been in for a while so I hope they're still doing business, north of 6th and frontier. rather authentic mexican food, and the sauces are great, spicey. I love their green sauce. ***good luck multi. did you communicate your availability and the lift etc., to independence inc.?
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
yes,nota,where I used to live, 1985-1989, on 'powers st.' near 15th and harper…not a great place to live…every day there was this guy who would drive down the street, and about fifteen minutes later you'd see him headed, in reverse, coming back from where he'd been. no, he didn't turn the car around. very strange.thanks for the reminder, I need to get the trash out now.
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I have taken things over to Ind Inc before, and also paid someone to take things.When I had some equipment (wheelchairs, gait trainer, etc..a lot of pricey things) I called them to turn things into the loan bank. I explained that I could no longer load things into my van, or I would just do it myself,So they sent someone who had a back disability and couldn't lift much, with their own personal car that couldn't hold much, and I ended up figuring out how they needed to fit things in, and help lift.The pain and effort, I would have faired as well just using my own means.Not putting them down, that was just what happened when I called saying I needed specific help and why.So they wouldn't have anyone who could remove this from the ceiling, or haul 10 ft long sections of heavy (for a woman alone) beams. I did call someone who might need it, and who knows people who might, but she failed to return my call.It must be me. i was told to contact a church about something, and I sent an email, and got no answer.Same with the first realtor I emailed about listing my house..no answer.The one I did meet with, our first meeting was over a week ago, and my house doesn't have a sign in front of it yet.One more week of utility paying cash that won't be there later when they want to show the place.I feel invisible. Or just tossed aside as useless on someone's westward journey.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says: “maybe it was downhill both ways?”It also took a lot less time than anticipated. (I wasn't speeding - not that I'm categorically against doing so, but my car is barely capable of maintaining the speed limit.) Maybe there was some unusual compression in space-time; were there any unsual re-appearing 5 year old 'On The Streets' appearing yesterday?Actually, the radio stations were commenting that traffic was unusually light yesterday, which probably had an effect on both the drive time and my gas mileage. We'll see how it goes the rest of the week.
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Aisling (Anonymous) says…
Ronda-I don't think I'm related to the Wiggins CO group but who knows. My Dad's family farm is north of the airport in Lawrence and I'm told I'm related to the Wiggins' who live in what the old-timers refer to as 'wigginsville' in Lawrence. I think it's either Harper or Haskell. I say we all have a 'backyard blog' lunch at El Mat or Free State or someplace.Nota; are you commuting east or west?
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
aisling, would love to have a “backyard blog lunch” at the El Mat or about anywhere - let us know when and where. The El Mat has a buffet on Fridays for lunch.Gnome, we have apparently identical tastes in Mexican food! I love tortas's food as well - their green sauce is delightful and tangy and spicy and delicious. I love their fish tacos!!!!multi, any chance you could rent your house to Mallina? I would think that rent would be coming down with the housing market in a crunch, but rent is and has been extremely high in Lawrence. I'd say your best bet is to find a house that has been on the market for some time and do a lease with the option to buy - it worked for me. I am self employed and it was the only way I could get into a house. My house is about 2,500 sq. ft. and my payment with tax and insurance is still less than a lot of area apartments.nota, I am glad your gas price is affordable for you and I hope it continues to be that way. Tough times ahead mates! :)Have a great day all!The elderly and places like Independent Ink are always looking for part time staff ( I just looked to the right at the ads section! :) - and some of them might let you bring bambino along!
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tvc (Anonymous) says…
Gnome, I really like Tres Mexicanos. I think it is the best in town. Good food and good chips and salsa…it's hard to get both in Lawrence.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
good morning all, it is a beautiful day indeed! multi, I'm so sorry the response from indy was so tepid. that's sad. i hope your commute is equally so easy today nota. ronda, I'm completing the second alternate ending to that story. if I can work on it, I expect to finish later today.
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MallinaBobina (Anonymous) says…
today Mallina is wearing overalls…. overall, they look pretty darn CUTE! :) My husband gets off work at one today…… so maybe we can go for a walk or something… or buy a new fish! We have a 90 gallon fish tank. It's a pain to keep clean, but so nice to look at. Mallina is taking her afternoon nap… so nice to have a little break. I'm watching Nanny 911… it makes you feel scared about parenting.. those people blame their kids for all of the problems… but the problem is them! So.. I'm not worried. Mallina has started to grab at things and stare at grown up food… the doctor said at her 4 month checkup (she's 3 months old TODAY!) that we will talk about baby food….. just seems a little early to me. We would prefer to have a rent-to-own home… but it's kind of hard to find in our price range. I KNOW there is something out there… we just have to be patient. Has anyone tried the Crest pro-health line? It really is nice. I have no idea why I'm saying that…….. but I just got some of their toothpaste and mouthwash.. and it's better than anything I've tried. (I promise I don't work for Crest) Okay … I'm going to stop rambling.. I hope everyone has a wonderful day!!! And enjoy your backyards!
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Crest pro-health line? No, I haven't tried it. I have tried the Crest whitening mouth wash and then brushing afterwards - seems to work really well. Hey, this is a good place to post any kind of info! ;) Your baby in bib overalls? Too cute. They are so cubby and dimpled and smiley at that age. All coos! Enjoy.theyards will be performing with a jazz group Sat. afternoon at one at the train park. Hopefully the weather will be good and we can all go out and listen to some great jazz!. He posted the info on my “Interactive Miles Davis Song Title Game”.Yes, patience will get you into a place - I am assuming you are having a realtor help?Beautiful outside - multi, I hope you are having a good, pain free day. And you and mrs.gnome too! Nota, are you in pain? :)
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theyards (Bradford Hoopes) says…
Hey Backyardigans!It's true! The Yards will be playing at KJHK's Jazz in the Park this Sunday May 4 at 1pm.Here's the link to the info:http://www.lawrence.com/events/2008/may/04/27820/Hope to see some of you! Come on up and say hi!
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Hey, theyards, I am glad you posted here - I think I wrote you would be playing on Sunday. Thanks for letting us all know about this and I hope to see a lot of faces I'll never recognize there! :)
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Aisling (Anonymous) says…
oh I'll be there theyards, sounds fun. Law. used to do a music in the park thingy on Wednesdays during the summer and I loved going to that. Watching the color guard or boyscouts raise and lower the flag…..ah how fun. I was kicked out of girl scouts when I was in 4th grade. (evidently they don't allow smoking there either) so I like to watch what I missed….although I always thought boy scouts would have been more fun anyway. 4th of July is my very favoritest holiday. Probably for the same reason–just the old-fashionedness of it. Okay gotta sneak down the backstairs and join the rest of the 9 bajillion people leaving OP for Lawrence.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
aisling, drive safely. :)we'll be watching for you on Sunday afternoon. Guinness in hand, cig hanging out of mouth, old girlscout uniform stretched tight - Eagle Scout in tow.
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mfowler (Matthew Fowler) says…
“The male preference for cougars, however, is exactly opposite the hard-wired, species-survival needs. It's pretty much purely recreational.”LOL.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
I'm so glad you're back matt! nothing to be afraid of.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
TVC:how about some details please. please elaborate on your positive review. what did you like there? ws there something you had to just put up with?
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
aisling:I believe you are referring to the city band concerts in south park! that is truly one of the things that makes lawrence very very special. we haven't gone in a couple years but I think we will be able to go this year. whenever we go, we see people we know. the music is always just excellant! the people gathered to hear the music pretty much well behaved. I always enjoy the program close to the 4th of july most particularly. ***malli,your baby sound so darned cute! ***ronda,why would nota be in pain? I hope you aren't being profetic. if you were intending to ask about mrs. gnome, she is in a bit less pain today. arthritis still problem. carpal tunnel limits her and she's seeing the doc for that later this week. I'm sure they'll be talking surgeries. she's scared of the surgeries. I've had two surgeries, both hands…yes four carpal tunnel releases…as I said, I've been puzzling docs since I was born. so I have lots of experience with the surgery. ***nota, I hope your new job is working out very well. today, you probably wished you were driving a jeep, or a convertable.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
hey, gnome - no - not thinking nota was in pain, but since a few of the other people on here are I thought I better wish him well also. Hopefully the new job isn't a “pain”.Yes, welcome back, Matt. You do need to be afraid, be very afraid. :)Beautful evening and I'm off to ruin it by going grocery shopping - seize you later. I hope yellowrose doesn't have to have the surgery, gnome. Tell her hello
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dorothyhr (Dorothy Hoyt-Reed) says…
Speaking of backyards, this is the most awesome spring for flowers and trees! My tulips reached to the sky! My grape hyacinths had twice the blossoms! The redbud should be in a fancy wedding! I'm going to end up in an accident looking at the beautiful, lush greeness of everything! I'm going to have lilacs on May 1st for the first time in I don't know how many years. Maybe I should make May baskets for my neighbors. Life is good!
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
dorothy, wow, you sure are in a great mood. Thanks for stopping by for a chat/visit. I agree that it is an incredible spring this year. Not only did the extra long cold snowy winter bring much needed moisture to our trees, shrubs, etc., but we appreciate the beauty so much more.May baskets - yeah, drop one by here would you! I wonder how many little people still make those. Remember the May pole dance? :)Glad life is good - do you know how to make a lilac bush that hasn't bloomed for a couple of years bloom? I didn't cut it back last year and it does have another bush not too far away.
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dorothyhr (Dorothy Hoyt-Reed) says…
We had that problem with one, then I started dumping some grass clippings and leafs under it throughout the year, plus I put the free truckload of compost from the city near it, and now it's blooming.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Am I mistaken? Does it appear to anyone else that LJW has stopped comments on the Native Americans to March Through Lawrence Today thread?Even some of the inter-site links now say Page Not Found.There are so many removed comments over there it's flaming red.Let me know if you can see the post comment box. I don't have anything to add, but am very curious if this is real or a fluke occassional site thing.
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theyards (Bradford Hoopes) says…
OK…so to clarify.KJHK's Jazz in the Park this Sunday May 4 at Watson “Train” Park. The Yards will be playing first from 1 to 1:45, and here's a little taste of what we do. This is called 'Q Drive':http://www.lawrence.com/mp3/1244/Hope to see you!
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Aisling, I live in DougCo and work in eastern Jackson Co. MO.Took a little longer today, gnome, I think this was probably more typical of traffic I can expect - really slowed up around the 35/435 interchange in the morning, and along several spots coming home.Multi, nope, also got the page-not-found. Musta' been a doozy. Better check the member list to see who got booted (better check to be sure *I* didn't get booted just for what I was thinking of posting there - it was gonna' be my next stop).Not in pain, Ronda, just flat out exhaustion. The wife has a terrible cough, and that means hubby doesn't sleep, either. I got about 1-1/2 hours last night, after absolutely zero the night before. Makes the hour+-long drive kinda' - interesting.Thanks to all those asking about the new job. It's been kinda' dull, just settling in this week, lots of paperwork in HR and fixing up my office. Without going into detail (which, unfortunately, too many of the haters out there might use to link me with a former member - or two - by what I do for a living), can't say much more, but by next week I should be in full swing (hope so, cause it sure isn't worth the commute for the training pay).
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snap_pop_no_crackle (Anonymous) says…
multi, it does appear the LJW pulled the plug on that story. I cruised through that thread this afternoon. The comments were darned ugly & getting worse every post. I don't recall when that has even happened before.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
great nota!ronda will be pm'ing you with something interesting. glad your job doing good. ***dorothy, your backyard sounds simply radiant! wow. so, was it the genuine lawrence mulch? mulch madness…. that did it? ***anybody else notice on the cable:the Spangles ad is louder than everything else! very irritating! ***I'll tell her ronda. she's going to get the surgery as soon as possibl.
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dorothyhr (Dorothy Hoyt-Reed) says…
I was following the Native American Visit thread. I was going to post, but it was getting so ugly, I decided not to get into the middle of it. It was getting uglier than I've ever seen these forums get.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
snap,I think I've seen it once before. My memory isn't the best, but I used to be able to count on just glimpses of a memory being correct.I also can't remember if this was back when I was first one here a few years ago, or at the beginning of my return.Someone was found dead by the tracks, and then they learned who it was, and it just got bad. And then there were lots of red and no more comments. And come to think of it, what was the person's race? Or am I'm putting two track deaths together here?
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
gnome, yes about the Spangles ads.From their first one with the singing, I switched channels as soon as I could. To date, I think there is only 1, maybe 2 ads that didn't irritate me.I did try it a couple of times. The last time I ordered onion rings, and got this mass of tangled rings, with a knotted glob of pure coating mix (dry unmixed) the size of an English Walnut in the center, with still cold rings in the center.Of course I had returned across town before I found this out. As the food just just okay in the first place, I have given up on them.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Nota..I've seen relentless coughing in a few cases.One, the woman had contracted the same pneumonia that killed Jim Henson, she, like he, ignored it for too many days, and they couldn't save her either. With MRSA out there, you might want to get it checked.The other..now is a time when many with mold and dust allergies have increased irritation in their bronchs. This can cause a sensation right at the spot that makes a person cough, and cough forever. I learned that Cloroseptic cough drops will help deaden that spot, and make a world of difference.She won't even need to use the whole drop. I break one up into bits. Put some by the bed, and when the cough wakes me up again, another tiny bit dissolves quickly and does the job.The spring moisture feeds the mold and the wind blows it into the cracks of the house.She may have no other allergy symptoms. Mold and dust people don't tend to have the typical runny nose and watery red eyes. FYI to all.Most people acquire allergies after the age of 25, not in childhood like many think..
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
multi,that sounds revolting! yuck. ***multi is absolutely correct, mrsa can kill and you don't mess around with it! not ever. nota I hope your wife improves. coughing like that is very hard. thought of codine for its cough suppressant? codine also might help her rest, “in her happy place.”
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Already been to the doctor. And the hospital. She's already been prescribed and is taking codeine. (Can't take too much on top of 120mg of morphine.) And cloroseptic. [sigh]Well, off to try again. If you see a post from me about 4:30 or 5:00 this morning, don't expect it to make too much sense - that means I gave up again (I won't let myself fall asleep within an hour of when I have to get up anyway). If it's after 6:00, it means I made it through to the alarm (but I'm still not promising it'll make any sense).
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Good gracious Nota,Didn't know things were that bad. We're here for you.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Apology to neighbors.I'm sorry I woke you up this morning at 4:30. I happened to be looking online at some photos of some car race winners. #1 and #2 so I thought. The person I was reading about was #3. As I looked first at the one photo, then the second. They meant nothing. Then suddenly, like a flash from the past, I realized..That's His Nose! His eyes when smiling! The second pic was actually the #3 winner, my old high school boyfriend. I shrieked with glee!The boy that was certainly going to kill any future children we might have by his car stunts,(driving 40 mph backwards N bound on Iowa in the S bound lane just to show up at my car window and smirk) is actually a winning driver. I looked further, and yes, he holds titles.(I had been told this, but had no where to look) He's in Motortrend, scca, bmw, Mitisubishi, etc.Too much fun, I may not sleep for hours!Far out!
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Ironically I just realized, that I ended up with two dead children anyway.Oh F%^&
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
wow Nota,120Mg morphine…that ain't to treat a cough! that's one heck of a lot of that stuff! hope she improves. ***multi, that's funny, your ex-boyfriend.
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Aisling (Anonymous) says…
aisling, drive safely. :)we'll be watching for you on Sunday afternoon. Guinness in hand, cig hanging out of mouth, old girlscout uniform stretched tight - Eagle Scout in tow.Ah Ronda~you made me dork laugh! Thanks, I needed that. Of course, now that image is in my head. I may need to take up smoking again (I only stole smokes just the one time) and find an old gs uniform. Anyone out there an Eagle Scout, or know of one, I can borrow on Sunday afternoon?
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tvc (Anonymous) says…
I really like the chips and salsa Tres. The salsa isn't glorified ketchup or too hot. I am a vegetarian so a lot of Mexican food for me is beans in a shell with a side of beans. I had the veggie burrito, and the filling and the cheese on top were great. The second time we went my meat-eating partner and I shared the veggie burrito and the chili rellenos:it's hard to get him to pick something veggie:probably because he doesn't want to share. :) They have soft chili rellenos and ones that are crispy. I love all things fried so we got the crispy ones!Multi, my allergies really started in my late teens and early twenties. I have oral allergy syndrome:a vegetarian that can't eat most fresh fruits and vegetables:pitiful.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
aislinig, my son is an Eagle Scout, but he just turned twenty. My daughter was a girl scout until she was ten. - will that stretch tight enough for ya? :)nota, I hope your wife is much better. Some of the things going around this year have been downright scary! I hope the children are doing well.dorothy, thanks for the tips on fertilizer and mulch, etc. I haven't fed it anything so I will try that. I love the white snow blossoms flying through the sky this morning. I luckily do not have allergies!multi, dorothy, nota - I really missed out on the wild blog - too bad for me. I do remember when the person was found dead, multi and I believe they were of American Indian descent. So many prejudiced people in our world - too bad. I am glad you are going down a happy memory lane with the ex-boyfriend, multi. When I think of how I thought life would be before I turned eighteen and now to see the reality of what my life has been is quite an eye opener. We must continue to share, to dream. I will be doing a blog about life legacy soon so all of you start thinking about yours and the one for those you loved and lost.Best day to you all!
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
tvc,yes, when rellenos are done right, they are very very good. often I see restaurants skimping on the cheese sauce.
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Aisling (Anonymous) says…
Ronda-20 is almost legal :) I kid I kid! Oh and I'm guessin' that your daughter's uniform skirt might–maybe–fit up to my knees……would that be like an ankle sham then?
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mfowler (Matthew Fowler) says…
Ronda: “Yes, welcome back, Matt. You do need to be afraid, be very afraid. :)”Well, thanks for having me. Everyone here seems pretty nice. You mentioned that any one of my topics would make a good subject for a blog. That's interesting, because I've not yet posted a single blog topic; although I did briefly have a wild idea of digging deeper into the mysterious ALDI, you know, to try to get someone from the company to talk to me or something. That might be a long shot, though. I've just always been curious about them. They are a little-known company that makes an impact; yet they don't have much of a media presence. On the other hand, I did see that they're starting to air TV advertisements now.Don't know if I should comment on “cougars” any more, except to say that the main reason I brought up the subject was because I guess I just happened to encounter a bunch of new shows, web articles, etc. all having that…”theme.” There's that show called “Lipstick Jungle” that appeared almost simultaneously with a similar show on another network, and both shows looked virtually interchangeable.Personally, my sole…ahem…”experience” with a “cougar” came about five or so years ago…me: 29, she: 40; it was OK for a while until she started leaving voicemails in that cigarette-stained voice of hers telling me in graphic detail what our “wedding” was going to be like, etc.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
wow, matt. you tell it good. regarding aldi, if you just call the local store, speak to the manager and tell him/her you want to do an article on aldi and could you speak with the national organization's public information officer. also, I'll just bet aldi's has a website, too. ***one reason for the concentration on “cougars” I suspect is the babyboom population bubble, there are a lot of women around now, 45-60. these days, more than ever before, there are lots of ways for women to preserve their looks, care for their skin, hair, nails, etc. so, some of this is just the egocentricity of the babyboom. now for disclaimer: technically, I would be classed as a babyboomer but i reject the label because I was first born in 1959. my parents were too young to actually fit the profile of babyboom parents. I'm in the “tween” generation that rejected the self-centered hippy, freelove/freesex of the '60s. end of disclaimer.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
I should've added above, I think el matador doesn't have rellenos. at least, not as a regular item, they apparently sometimes have it as a special.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
and, elsewhere in today's paper, news of two local seniors in high school winning national merrit scholarships! now, there's something for a parade I say!
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Well, I just got off the phone with said boyfriend. He got a good laugh at my call and the story. It was nice to catch up.Same voice. Same pleasant fellow. Good to know his mom is doing well. HIs kids ended up with her flaming red hair, so he was pretty sure they were his..in his words LOL.
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mfowler (Matthew Fowler) says…
Good points, gnome. I never thought about how changing demographic trends could have something to do with the increasing number of cougar sightings.Now THAT's a sentence that could be interpreted any number of ways, couldn't it? :) Incidentally, I hope no one thinks I'm ageist or anything. I really don't have anything against the whole “cougar” idea; in fact, given the choice, I would much rather date a beautiful, rich 40 year old than a beautiful, rich 25 year old.Of course, this is all academic because neither would date me, if they had any sense at all.I just got taken aback with all the media hype on the subject. It reminded me of all that “metrosexual” nonsense of a few years back..Michelle Pfeifer just turned 50, and she can leave me cigarette stained voicemails any time she damn well pleases.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
national merit.I never heard of the psat/nmsqt, or “National Merit Scholarship” when I was in high school.I took the ACT, that was required, and at the time, it got you into KU. In fact, just graduating LHS got you into KU.The SAT cost extra, and it wasn't required for college, and so mom said we weren't going to spend the money. (We had it, she just didn't see the need). It wasn't something I new about then. I had no idea people compared themselves by their SAT scores.I did well on the ACT, was a KS State Scholar, got a Board of Regents scholarship.Several kids were National Merit finalists. I was like, What? How did they get to do this, I never heard of it?Years later, when my child took the tests and I learned more about them, she and I dug out the senior books, to see who had gotten what awards. I saw that many of the N.Merit kids, hadn't gotten the Ks State Scholar award. This got even more interesting, so I did the statistics. Very few of our class scored high enough to get the St of Ks Scholar. As I recall 8 kids my year, less the year before and maybe 3 the year before that. Maybe two of them also were National Merit kids. The rest of the Merit Kids didn't get the State Award. They hadn't scored high enough on the test at everyone had to take, to win the award, but on the test at some took, they got the NMS Finalist.This was so entertaining, that we looked back into the previous two years. Even fewer each year won either award, but few won the KS award.I wish I had known this back then.My best friend was talking about it, and I learned she had also won the KS Award. She was so surprised that the NMS finalists hadn't won the State Award.That was a WOW moment for her too.Maybe the teachers need to do a better job of getting more kids to take the NMS tests.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Matt,go for the ones who don't smoke. Lung cancer is a terrible way to die.My mom started smoking when my dad died, she was 40. It killed her when she was 77, so 37 years of direct smoking.My dad had smoked, and perhaps her parents, so I guess it may have been second hand smoke too now that I think about it.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
welcome back, Matt! I know exactly the two shows you are talking about. One of them has Brooke Shields in it and she seems a little bit better of an actress then when she was in Blue Lagoon, but I think she was only twelve then. :)I just kinda hate the term cougar - I am not sure why or what about it bothers me. I guess it makes it seem like the woman is cagey, prowling, aggressive, edgy, sexy, hungry, sleepless, needs to be dipped in flea repellent. None of those things seem very attractive to me - I guess that is the problem for me with that choice of words. I would go for lioness. That has some dignity, some richness, some flair. Others bring HER their kill and she lounges and lets them take care of her. Yeah, much better. Ah, the power of a word.Matt, you have done a blog or two - remember they are not the same as an article. You don't have to have a lot of background info. You basically speak your mind about a topic of interest. You can moan, give testimony, do something poetic. Just enjoy and give us some insight into your personality - your whims, likes and dislikes, etc. Go do one on cougars and I bet you will get a big response.multi, I am so proud of how daring you are to call an old mate up. I'll bet that did make for a fun trip down memory lane. Lung cancer would not be a good way to die. Interesting read in the paper today about the woman who was trapped under her dead husband for several days. Life and death are so strange and so fascinating.My daughter just got back the results to her ACT test a few days ago. We are waiting for the written test part to arrive. She thinks she will take it one more time without the written part for practice and then take the entire thing again. She did well. Her composite score was a 31 out of the 36, but she scored 35 on several parts of the test and is retaking because she ran out of time on the science and math. She actually scored perfect on the science part during the practice test so it surprised her on this one. It is good she is willing/wanting to retake. Every point helps at this stage of the game and as a single mom she wil benefit greatly with help with housing as well as other scholarships.My daughter's girlscout uniform, Aisling would maybe work as a tank top for you! She is quite tall now though. And, my son at twenty might be interested in a “cougar”. Yeah, I just used that dreadful term.Darn, I want some mexican food - I am going to make the recipe for the mexican fruit salad from the ljworld of these days. It looked good and I will let you know how it is. The veggie mexican food sounds quite good - I always get meatless tacos and burritos so that is right up my alley. Thanks! :)
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
Good points, gnome. I never thought about how changing demographic trends could have something to do with the increasing number of cougar sightings.Now THAT's a sentence that could be interpreted any number of ways, couldn't it? :)—matt—LOL.you are correct, in the media now, unlike past times, there are women in their 50's and 60's chiefly actresses, who are darned sexy. but then, I also think condoleezza rice is pretty sexy too, outside of the actress group. ***multi congrats on the bravery to call him up! very cool. and interesting note on the ks scholars vs nat'l scholars. makes you wonder. well, for a change, didn't see anybody hanging out at the 8th st. boat ramp doing things other than boating, parking there to bike/walk. thought with the nice weather there'd be some down there fer sure.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Multi;The psat/nmsqt is usually taken as a sophomore. I was a finalist, most finalists become “scholars” but it depends on family income as to where the cutoff is (at least it did back then), and my dad made too much. But I did get offers from over 250 colleges and many of them offered scholarships, including the one I went to out of high school.The PSAT and the NMSQT is the same test, they just use different standards, which I think is kind of insulting. There was a girl living in my dorm who got the same scholarship I did (except she only had to hold a 2.0 to keep it and I had to hold a 3.0) who was a NMSQT finalist, but her scores wouldn't have even gotten her honorable mention under National Merit. As I said, I think that was insulting to her, she went to a better school than I did and was far from stupid, but she wasn't exactly motivated (why should she be), and barely kept above that 2.0.Anyway, hi all, didn't post this morning 'cause I was running a little late. At least I did get some sleep, if not enough.Yes, gnome, that is a lot of morphine, and no, it's not for a cough. I think a physician might get into a little difficulty with his DEA number if he Rx'd that much for a cough. :) I just meant taking too much codeine is rather risky when you're already on that much of another opiate (and other meds that depress respiration), if you've grown accustomed to, say - breathing. She's been on that much for quite a while, it has been problematic at times; she's gone to the ER in pain and the doctors have told her flat out that there's nothing they can give her that would have much more of an effect than what's she's already taking.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Ronda,I used to study gardening.My ex bought me some new books. I was trying to plant the trees in the order that they bloomed..the first to bloom at the back, leaving bare trees in front (not blocking the blooming tree). If you plan, you can make it so each can be seen. (I wonder if anyone else has thought of this? LOL)I was choosing dogwood, redbud, and..oh heck, another one, not so typical. Maybe a chokecherry.One book said the Dogwood bloomed before the redbud, but after the chokecherry.The next book said the dogwood bloomed after the chokecherry, but before the redbud.And of course, the third book said the third sequence.Decided to ignore all the books, and stick to the booklets from the KState at the extension service, and this multi page stack that Pence's used to print, listing all the Trees,evergreens, shrubs, and then groundcovers.Priceless info.The woman next door took the Master Gardner course. This was years ago. She completed it. One day she came over to ask me a question. She told me, “Yes, I took the course so I would be able to keep up with you, and they taught us about improving the soil. I still have to come you for everything about the plants LOL”.I hear it's better now.
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nota,Thanks for the info.I had concerns about how they classify pain killers like morphine.With my son's numerous ortho surgeries, and the pain of his later sad existance, many discussion were had about meds.They would give Fentanyl, morphine, oxycodone, etc.When asked about one being better, they would say, These are all in the same class of drugs, they have the same effect. (Maybe not all of those I listed are the same, just saying things he was given)My thoughts on this “class” placement.I've been in “classes” before. Some of the beings in the class got 100% on their papers, even 97 -99, and these were good, productive beings who could retain nearly 100% of the material presented to them. Truly effective beings. In that same class were a whole lot others, some who could only retain 70% (average) of the material presented.I don't want a painkiller that only does 70% of what the class is supposed address.I want the drug that knows how to cover 97 to 100% of the pain.Give me the good stuff.My first major surgery was gallbladder. Afterwards, they gave me a demerol shot in my hip. In about 10 minutes i started to weep. The nurse and my husband became concerned (back then I didn't cry) and asked what was wrong.I said, “Nothing, it's just that this is the first time in my life that nothing hurts.”They looked at each other questioningly.I fell asleep in about ten minutes.I think my being a premie screwed up something in my sensory processes. Something has always hurt, usually a few things. I just learned to not say anything. In my family, if you fell and scraped all the skin off your knee, blood running down your leg and you cried, they would ask if you had hurt the sidewalk. No feeling for the injured.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
gone to the ER in pain and the doctors have told her flat out that there's nothing they can give her that would have much more of an effect than what'sshe's already taking.—nota,well I guess so! damn that's a lot of morphine. ***I did take the SAT in high school, scored rather well, helped me get accept to university of california eventhough I am white.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
multi, the class thing applies and yet doesn't apply to opioid analgesics. Depends which one. When you talk about classes of drugs, in many cases you're talking about completely synthetic chemical compounds that are classed together because they're supposed to work on the same system with a similar mechanism. At least on paper. But take SSRI's, for instance. One person may respond well to Prozac, and Paxil won't do a thing for them (except make them impotent). Paxil might work great for the next guy, and they won't be affected at all by Zoloft. Again, this is because while they're supposed to do the same thing (prevent the reuptake of just one neurotransmitter, Serotonin), they have completely different formulas.Opioids, though, are mostly derived from one of several natural compounds, which are found in our good friend the pretty red poppy. I've forgotten a lot of this, used to know more about it, but I believe there are three basic categories: the all-natural ones, like opium and codeine (not like in organic' but copied from the originals). Then there's lots that are modified, enhanced, and/or concentrated forms of those natural compounds. Morphine is derived from opium. Heroin is derived from morphine. (Did you know it was actually formulated as an early version of methadone, that it was created to get morphine addicts off morphine? That worked out well.) I'm not too sure, but pretty sure, that the 'codones (Vicodin, Oxycontin) and fentanyl are also semi-synthetics; so is Dilaudid. Then there's the pure synthetics, which are grouped with the opiates because of their mechanism and effect rather than their similar make-up, like propoxyphene (Darvon and Darvocet) and meperidine (Demerol).Fentanyl is some bada** sh**. I have known a lot of people on a lot of pain meds, and don't know anyone that doesn't respond to fentanyl, which is formulated to be about 80 times as powerful as morphine. If you really want a laugh, Google carfentanil, or Wildnil - it's used by animal researchers to bring down and immobilize things like elephants and moose, it's 100 times as strong as fentanyl, the dosage range being 1.8 to 5 *micro*grams per Kg (so, for a good-sized moose, you need about 2.5 mg to knock it down and keep it down until you administer the antagonist - in humans, it starts having an effect at 1 microgram). I have known some people who had problems with the transdermal patches, though.Anyway, when it comes to opioids, like I said, *most* of them are based on similar chemistry, but others in the same 'class' are not, and won't necessarily work the same. (If there's any pharmacists laughing out there, please feel free to correct me.)
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says: “well I guess so! damn that's a lot of morphine.”Well, first, it's an extended release formulary, of which she takes 60 b.i.d.. Second, you probably know that opiates are about the fastest thing you can develop a tolerance for. It gets to the point (fairly quickly) where you're at the point where any further increase will stop your breathing, and it doesn't help any more. After her last back surgery she was sent home with buckets full of oxycontin and vicodin, and she hadn't been lucid the entire 6 days in the hospital. They almost killed her the night of the surgery, couldn't understand why her breathing took a nosedive after they gave her her regular h.s. meds, including a PRN for sleep(!!!) when she was unconscious(!!!!!), when she hadn't come out from under the anesthesia completely, she was on a fentanyl pump, and she'd just gotten a huge bolus of morphine.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
I hear you.I started to relate our fentanyl story, it wearing off at 1hr 45 min, but was written for every 4 hours. (Child screaming in pain until next dose).The whole story is too long.Everyone should know before surgery that Fentanyl can be given every two hours.Always make sure before you go into surgery that the surgeon has written a pain killer plan for you AHEAD of the surgery, and what should be done if pain is still experienced.The next time I was with that surgeon, I got it all lined out before hand, saw the orders myself.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
gnome, you are white? Why are you on this blog then! :) Couldn't resist. This is an all black backyard fence blog.multi, and nota, wow pain! There are so many forms, so many causes and with all of the medications we have availabe it seems so few take care of a lot of pain that people have. I have a problem taking almost all pain meds. as they make me wired and not much is worse than being in pain and not being able to sleep. multi, you sound like a bundle of feeling nerves - it is hard being born into a family that doesn't understand, or care to understand, what a specific person's needs are and understand that someone else's needs may be so diferent from their own. I am truly sorry - so many hells on earth.Hope your first week is going well, nota. It is a downhilll slide at this point. Easy for me to say! :)gnome, I am obsessed with Mexican food now - I am thinking about it and even bought some salsa. Speaking of, how many of you make your own, or if you buy it which kind do you buy?I know it is early, but I have a killer headache and am going to carry my head to bed now! Nite
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Let me guess, she was at Overland Park Regional Med.I had a multiple surgery there, and they brought me back to the room later. I was still half out of it from the anes., but the pain was horrendous. I was on a morphine pump, with a self dosing clicker. I clicked that thing a lot, but never got any pain relief.When the night nurse came in, he looked at the pump and said, You've pushed this thing more than any other patient I've ever seen! (Please note, I can check IV lines, check pumps, but I was still powerless from the gen anes and never thought, hey, you ought to see if this is right! He then routinely checked the whole rest of the IV lines.He said, No wonder you've been hitting that button. They never hooked the morphine up to your IV, it's pumping out onto the bed. I asked if it could have been knocked loose, and he said no, see, it would have been attached here and it's still something or the other, he could tell. The bed had a big stain and blood on it. He hooked it up, and said he'd come back and change the sheets soon.(Someone was with me the whole day, but he sat on the window side of the bed, and couldn't see the big growing stain.)The nurse didn't come back, but people were going back and forth in the hall. Turns out, someone had come in wounded (shot or stabbed) and the people with him were causing problems, and others were seen in the parking lot, so they locked down the whole hospital, and medical care pretty much ceased for hours.The wet sheet never got changed until about noon the next day.More horror to the story when I had life threatening complications, and the thing they were doing to rectify it, wasn't working. After a day, I figured out the tubing was clogging every 15 mins, and good thing I knew about clearing tubing on my son, the nurses paid no attention to if the suction was working or not.That place could have killed me.Mind everyone, this is the operating hospital for one of the leading female gynos in Lawrence. Good surgeon, terrible hospital.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Nope, not OP Regional, but it's funny you mentioned that story - someone at work today was telling me a story about going to meet her husband at the ER and they didn't want to let her in because of some kind of shooting incident and they had the place locked down. Small world?No, it was at wondeful old KU Med. Before I left for the night the nurse checked with me on her night meds, and we looked at her (passed out) and agreed she wouldn't need the PRN sleep meds - then they gave it to her anyway! (Seems kind of silly to wake someone up for PRN sleep meds.)They also DC'd her when, as I said, she had not been lucid for one minute since the surgery. The nurse asked her if she understood the discharge instructions, and she asked the nurse how many tickets we needed to get on the plane. I mentioned we lived on a third floor and wanted to know how the heck I was supposed to get her home. They called back the rehab people, and she said they hadn't practiced stairs because it was too dangerous to get her out of bed and try that in her condition. After letting that sink in for a lengthy pause, I asked her if it was too dangerous to try stairs while in a frikkin' hospital supported by rehab people, why was it 'safe' to DC her to go home on her own? She tried telling me that wasn't what she was saying, and I pointed out that yes, it was, exactly what she was saying. The patient advocate finally alluded to the fact that it was an insurance company decision, and she didn't meet criteria for continued inpatient stay; the choice was take her home or send her to a nursing home.I had a similar IV thing happen a long time ago, not with meds, but I had an IV line in for fluids (I had food poisoning) and couldn't figure out why I was so cold, then when they pulled the blankets off to change them the bed was soaked and bloody.Ronda, the reason she's (finally) on those meds is the pain management clinic has her on them. This field of medicine is literally a godsend. After 15 years and countless doctors and tests and surgeries and procedures, finally someone said it doesn't matter if we can't figure out *why* it hurts, it *hurts*, and we're going to address that.Actually, the first week's not going real great - seem to have caught what my wife has, and it's not a lot of fun, but I really can't stay home my first week. Hope you're feeling better.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
wow, nota,your wife and mine can swap war stories. mrs. gnome is using the transdermal patches of fentanil. that is some strong-a$$ stuff! once they were inside my heart doing the angeogram thingy…kinda weird being awake for that…and my heart was starting to really hurt. dr. lawhorn gave me 75mcg of fentanil…swoosh, no pain, and didn't remember what pain ever was! mrs. gnome has had back surgeries too nota. and multi is right, always get the pain control plans thought through beforehand! ***may still be the case: the group with greatest difficulty to get into univ of calif system: asians; next being whites. they actually had different score standards for races! that is very bad indeed. night all and ronda, send handel out to get some f fentanil! no more headache! ***multi, that is a hospital horror story. they didn't connect the pca's line! damn.
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Oh, that was just one day. The woman in the bed next to me had a hysterectomy the day before, and so the day I was so ill, she up doing well. A person on another floor had company, but they were out of it, so those people came to hang out in my roomates area. And they talked and chatted constantly. No chance to rest.The next day, they were back, and I knew I wouldn't get rest, so while I was scheduled to stay two nights, I say, if it's okay, let me go home and rest. (I mean I hinted in conversations that these people needed to go they were too loud, but they ignored the nurses and me.)So I came home that evening. By 4 am, my body was turning into a balloon. My system had swollen shut from the surgery, and the natural gases were expanding me. I called, and they said to come to the ER asap. I did and they started what they could in the ER, xrays, etc. I went to the room, and they stuck a tube down my nose to suction everything out of my stomach constantly, so natural liquids and gases would not increase the swelling and kill me.They said, when it's working, there will be brown tea coming out.No tea came out. For over a day, and I kept swelling. A specialist came onto the case.Like I said, it finally occured to me that the tube might be clogged, so I told the nurse. She flushed it and forgot about me. Within 15 minutes, i checked and it wasn't working again. So I literally had to be my own nurse the week I was in there.It was truly criminal.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Jeez, guys! And I was complaining about a simple headache. Good heavens - the things people live through, but feel as though they are dying through. I thought my experience with a ruptured appendix a couple of days before my 40th birthday was a nightmare. I went to the hospital (lmh) feeling as though I had a knife stuck in my side and they kept wanting to give me vaginal exams. I had been vomiting all day and had extreme pain in the right side. This was on a Sunday evening. I finally got up and called a cab and went home so they would stop with the female exams. Monday morning I was in grave pain and felt as though scalding hot coffee had been poured over my stomach. I went grocery shopping to make sure my (now ex) husband (who didn't drive) and my two children (ages 1 and 4 at the time) had plenty of food and then I drove myself back to the hospital. By Tuesday evening the staff decided they should do exploratory surgery. I was lucky my intestine had come loose (although feeling that happening was incredibly painful) and wrapped itself around my ruptured appendix which sealed off a lot of the bacteria, etc. or I probably would have died. It took me months of being on antibiotics before the area inside stopped flaring up. I am 5' 9” and had dropped to a hundred pounds. I still wonder how they could have missed something as common as a ruptured appendix!We just made May baskets out of little bathroom dixie cups! What a lovely warm and windy day. Get outside and play all. I saw a three foot long snake down by the river yesterday afternoon. Black on top, but an almost white underneath. It was moving fast away from the river to the south - probably headed for City Hall. :)
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Aisling (Anonymous) says…
after hearing these stories I just have to say Thank the Goddess that I've never had any surgery (except for my tonsils when I was 5 or 6 and all I remember of that is the ice cream afterwards) and about two weeks before my very first out of the country vacation since High School I fell off 1st base (of the softball variety NOT the 1st base one plays with the opposite sex, and what was considered first base anyway?) and severely sprained my ankle. So there I was hobbling all over Greece with a backpack and a cast, which wasn't too bad b/c I was young, thin, tan and blonde then so I got a lot of help carrying my backpack.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Greece huh? Lucky you! Not a fun thing to happen though when vacationing, but it sounds as though you made the most out of a bad thing. I'll bet you did get a lot of help. :)
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Aisling (Anonymous) says…
yeh Greece, I'm going back one of these days. It wasn't so bad being in a cast except negotiating the steps at some of the sites. I was okay going up them but coming down–not so much. So I mostly hung out on the beaches and in tavernas. When I got back though, I was visiting with a friend of the family who was thrilled to know that I'd been to the country his parents were from. The conversation went like this:Tom: so you loved Greece? What did you think of the Plaka?Me: didn't see it but there was a great taverna beside the Acropolis.Tom: So, did you see the Oracle of Delphi?Me: No but we had ouzo and olives at a restaurant on the main road.Tom: (starting to look crazed) Please tell me you went to the Temple of Knossos on Crete?Me: Oh Crete, yes we were there. You wouldn't believe the beachesTom: dare I ask about Rhodes?luckily I redeemed myself b/c we did manage to tear ourselves away from the restaurants and beaches to wander aimlessly among the ruins, temples, castles. We even went to a turkish bath and a Greek wedding.
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mom_of_three (Anonymous) says…
The talk about the appendix, and surgeries makes me think about my eldest daughter and the bad dream we had with hers. She was a freshman in junior high at the time.On a Thursday, she wasn't feeling well, and her stomache hurt. Slight fever, no biggie. On Friday, she was feeling worse, so I took her to the doctor. Slight fever, no real pain to the touch, but they sent us to the hospital for a sonogram. With the pictures, they initially thought it was a cyst on her ovary which burst, which accounted for the slight pain. She didn't feel better over the weekend, but almost went to Grandma's with her siblings over spring break. No real fever, but just achy and didn't feel well. On Monday morning, she called me at work, and wanted to go back to the doctor. We went in and her fever was higher, and there was some pain to the touch. When she had pain standing on her feet, the doctor sent us to the hospital for cat scan. Wasn't quite sure what it was. The liquid stuff made her sick, so they put stuff in her blood. We sat there for several hours. Finally, they thought it was her appendix, and they thought it ruptured. So they were going to do surgery, should only take an hour or so, as appendix surgeries are much less evasive than the old days. 90 minutes into the surgery, the nurse came out and said there was a problem. Her appendix wasn't in the right spot! So they had to cut her open to find it. Turns out, what they thought was a ruptured cyst was actually her appendix wrapped around an ovary. The appendix had a small leak, and was infecting the ovary. But it had stopped itself. They figure on Monday it had began again. The surgery took over 3 hours to find the appendix, remove it and the infection. She was in the hospital for a week, and was on oxygen for 36 hours because the oxygen in her blood was low. We were also worried about pneumonia, for a few days, but we avoided that one. She still has occasionally problems with her stomach, and has to eat on a schedule or she has pains. Thank goodness we had insurance. It cost more for her appendix to her birth, and she was a c-section!
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wow, and double-wow! multi: usually “hinting” doesn't work with people like that in a shared hospital room. I try one of two tacts: speak directly to the irritating flapjaws visiting; or, do something so offensive to the other patient that he gets moved to another room. I've been hospitals a lot in my life. ***once my previous family doc was trying to do a lumbar puncture on me. I had a collection of weird symptoms that later (at the mayo clinic) were diagnosed as excessive cranial pressure. he had me on my side in the fetal position. he actually had an interning doc in training with him. he put in the needle…no problem, but didn't hit the spinal cord to sample the fluid inside. so, instead of taking it out, he just moves the damned needle around. I lost count of how many times he hit nerves! then, you probably guessed, he turned to the newby and says “I'm having trouble with this, you want to try.” having bad symptoms, I went along with it, newby got a new needle. however, he had no better luck than family doc did! meanwhile, I've nearly passed out, drenched in sweat. doc says to newby, “sometimes you just have to have the anesthesiologists do this, some people aren't organized down there as we expect.” few years later, I fired him. ***mom/ronda, in '93, two months before our marriage, mrs. gnome was still living on the coast. I called her in the morning, and she could hardly talk or move, so much pain. they did the proverbial “exploratory surgery expecting to find the apendix bursting or burst. what they found: appendix was “a little irritated, so we took it out while we were there.” but mrs. gnome had had a large ovarian cyst burst and it was bleeding significantly into her abdomen. and, two years later, after two more abdomenal surgeries, she had a large abdomenal cyst removed. came home after a few days, was resting on the couch. I was watching her. noted she felt like she was running a fever, so started measuring it:first 100.1. hour later, 102; another hour later after calling doc, do nothing: 103.5; and another hour later, 105F. needless to say, we went back post haste. there was an infection in the incision.
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oh, p.s. after calling the future mrs. gnome, finding out what was happening, I called the ambulance for her. they were skeptical, here's this call from kansas. made mrs. gnome a bit of a celebrity at the hospital. ***”turkish baths and greek weddings …”would it be interesting to go to:”greek baths and turkish weddings?” that's a great story aisling. it does sound like you had fun. apparently the people, the beaches and the food/drink were more important than the history, and that's okay too. ***in case any one is unaware, its pretty likely we will see severe weather starting west of us, they say between 6p.m. and 8p.m. so, you have two hours to go buy batteries, bottled water, a shotgun, ducttape, and spam. oh yes, battery powered radio, flashlight, and for somereason the survival kits always include toilet paper.
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ronda says; I am 5' 9” and had dropped to a hundred pounds. I still wonder how they could have missed something as common as a ruptured appendix!–––––––—But didn't your clothes hang like a dream!!!I once was very thin, and then got ill, had surgery and still lost weight for another month+. The clothes hang off the shoulders like beautiful draping fabric.I know three people who have had appendix problems. One was seen multiple times and sent home, before she got so ill they took her in by ambulance, and found her's was about to burst.One man was in surgery or on his way to, and it burst, darn near died for a few weeks.Another, it burst before they figured out what was going on.So it seems, there are a lot of things that have similar symptoms________________________Greece on a bum leg. A lot like mountain hiking!Don't you just love being injured or ill on vacation? Or at relatives far from home? Nothing like being dependant on in laws, especially when you're puking your guts out and can't leave the bed. And they think you're faking it (where the heck did that idea come from???) They finally got me into a doctor and yes I was very ill, pleurisy and infection.That's when my husband said they thought I was faking it.Let's just say, I was a better caregiver for him than he was for me. That marriage didn't last long.__________________________Mom3That's the down side of endoscopy surgery. They end up not being able to do it that way (but try for a couple of hours in my son's case) and they then have to do the long cut adding much more time. Plus, in many endos, they blow you up with air so the scope can see, and you get pain from the left in gases that rise to your upper areas trying to escape. If they would have done the regular cut in the beginning, the surgery would have been much shorter.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
heads up gangIssued at: 5:31 PM CDT 5/1/08, expires at: 6:15 PM CDT 5/1/08The NWS in topeka has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for: douglas county in east central Kansas, northwestern franklin county in east central Kansas, Until 615 pm cdt. At 530 pm cdt, national weather service doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing quarter size hail, and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. This storm was located near centropolis, or 10 miles northwest of ottawa, moving northeast at 40 mph. Locations impacted include, globe, lone star, baldwin city, pleasant grove, vinland, lawrence, eudora, This includes the Kansas turnpike between mile markers 202 and 206. Large hail, very heavy rain and damaging winds are likely with this storm. For your safety, take cover inside a building. Stay tuned to weather radio or local media outlets for the latest severe weather information.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Gnome.Oh aren't spinal taps fun! I know just what fun having the non-expert do procedures is. (When I'm thin, I'm an okay stick in a couple of places. When I'm large, it's very hard. I've had multiple people try in various places, then they call in the IV team. I've learned at LMH, to tell them to just not try, to call and get the best of the specialists. Of course, there are always those who ignore me and say, I'm good at this, or so and so is good, we'll be able to get it. They try, try, then give up and call IV.I had headaches in jr high, and after being released from LMH, finding nothing. I went home. Still pain. Dr Giles had me come into her office, lay on the table, and she did a tap. Must have done okay on the puncture, didn't take long. The she had me sit right up and go home.My head exploded into pain that lasted a couple of days. I learned years later, that they never have people sit up for a few hours afterwards, because it gives them a “spinal headache” . Laying still for a few, will often prevent the headache.I ended up being sent to I think KUMC children's floor. They finally all kinds of tests. Nothing.Had headaches for years.Turns out, they didn't used to think children had migraines.Oh, when my son was in the cmh nicu, another boy had to have a tap done. They brought in the newbie, and he stuck that tiny screaming premie 13 times, before the correct person did it on the first try.. I sat across the aisle, so angry and crying. If Andrew's parents knew about this, all hell would break loose.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
This comes in handy when at the computer and not the tv.Get Breaking News And Email On Your Desktop. Download Desktop Alert. http://www.kmbc.com/tu/5xv7nohqj.html
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
hehehe, I am loving reading about all of this pain since I am not in any at the time. Wow, what a bunch of nightmare stories and experiences. And who is responsible for this - nota?? multi??? gnome??? I guess we should have done “The Biggest Pain Story of My Life Blog”. I was beginning to think we were just being creative and trying to outdue each other's story. Yeah, mom, it is all very pricey. It takes so long to recover from these inside infection problems. With outside ones we just cut em off or cut em out! Sometime I will tell you all about three summers ago when my son had his sternum removed - that was creepy seeing his heart beating right under the thinly pulled skin. TP is a good thing to have around, gnome. It is an all occasion, all weather type of thing. I was at a in law's house after a funeral a couple of years ago and was rather taken aback that a group of the person's coworkers arrived and they each carried a big container of toliet paper rolls - something I never thought of bringing to someone's house (I do make a great moose mold in any shape you want), but I appreciated what a great gift it is - so pricey these days too.multi, yeah, I know what you mean about the clothes looking great - I wore them like I was a clothes hanger! :) They didn't have the bumps, the ride ups, any other nasty little problems - not too tight around the waste. They were, well, comfy!Aisling - nice thing about those vacations - we each have a different thought when it comes to what we do to enjoy them. Funny stories all - even the painful ones to a degree, but I am a sick mind.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
OK, pretty sure the email weather alerts are going to drive me nuts tonight.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
now,we're in warning, severe thunderstorm warning again. 6 60mph/hail. ***the one multi printed, it caught gnomedog and I *on the levee* that was so much fun! hadn't been *hit* by hail in many years! ***multi,I simply insist on the anesthesiologist to do the tap, and don't take no for an answer! wow, sticking your little one that many times! amazing. when I was at mayo's, there was an rn who did them on a specially designed table. fast, *pain free* easy. amazing. she said she does many dozens of spinal taps each week! ***ronda, you're right about the tp.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
Spaghetti carbonara (back to index)1 1/2 lbs spaghetti4 eggs, slightly beaten12-oz can SPAM, cubed 1/4”1/2 cups grated parmesan cheese1/2 cup chopped onion1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley3 tbsp olive oilground pepper3 tbsp butterCook spaghetti according to package directions. Meanwhile, in skillet cook SPAM and onion in oil and butter over medium heat until lightly browned. Setaside. When spaghetti is cooked, drain; return to pot. Add egs; toss to combine. Add SPAM mixture, cheese and parsley; toss to combine. Season to tastewith pepper. Serve immediately. Yield: 6 servings.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
the above spam recipe comes to you courtesy of:http://www.pitt.edu/~blair1/spam-recipes.html
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
I can't believe you are posting recipes now LOL.Hail here SW. 8:16 pm.
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Aisling (Anonymous) says: “So there I was hobbling all over Greece with a backpack and a cast,”We all went on a cruise many years ago for my mother's 60th birthday. Less than a week before departure, I was playing basketball and ended up with a - forget exactly what they call it, grade 1 or class A or something - sprain in my ankle. (The doctor said it would have hurt less and healed faster and better if I had broken it.) It was in a removable cast and I was on crutches for the cruise. I often wondered what the cabin attendent thought when he cleaned my room, with one black shoe, one brown shoe, one sneaker, one sandal…The first day out I was trying to balance in the shower with the cast off during the tail end of a hurricane.Lost balance.Landed (outside shower) on bad leg. Hurt. Lots.When we got to Bermuda, we tied up to a pier that must have been at least a mile long. I took one look at the pier, looked at my crutches, and never left the boat. Wasn't too thrilled with the prospect of walking on the beach on crutches, anyway. For most meals, I was almost the only one in the dining room. There were buffets all over the ship. Let's see, two hands for the crutches, leaving how many for the buffet?The night before we docked back in New York, after my baby brother and I had closed the nightclub, I decided to take a stroll around the entire deck. They were the aluminum crutches, which make a wonderful clip-clop sound like a campfire horror story on a deserted, foggy ship's deck. It took 2-1/2 hours to make one lap.Ah, memories.*************************Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says: “Oh aren't spinal taps fun!”Compared to a bone marrow test? Had a coupla' those, first when I was seven.********************************gnome, I thought you liked good food!!! It is an absolute mortal sin to make carbonera with spam instead of bacon. I'm relatively sure that's what got Julius Caesar stabbed to death. Incidentally, you could use a little more parmesan and a little (or lot) less onion.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Not having much in the way of storms here in NW city - no hail at least. Hail yes, gnome, Hail Yes!!!! You and gnome dog need to wear army helmets when you are out walking.Spam spag. huh? Sounds rather greasy and I think I am getting an upset tummy just thinking about it.Thanks for the link for the news and weather, multi. I love being the first to at least think I know something!Love the smell of the rain coming through my window - need to do that sexuality blog about taste now that spring tastes are here. I did life legacy blog instead. I hope this isn't a bad omen! :(Happy lightening strikes, ya all. nota, I hope you and wife are feeling alright!!
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The_Original_Bob (Anonymous) says…
Iposted this earlier, but I think the Gnomes and Trolls hijacked it.Howdy folks!I'm with MD… sometimes those online weather reports get to be a bit of an issue. If I know bad weather is around and I'm going to be near my computer, here are the sites I prefer…Strom Predicition Center… http://www.spc.noaa.gov/This is a gov't website, so no need to worry about hyped up hysteria to drive ratings. Also, they've been predicting that what could/did happen today four days ago. It is a pretty large area, but they funnel it down as the event come nearer. Play around on the site and have fun. Lots of good stuff.National Weather Service… www.weather.gov Same deal as the SPC basically. Different format.Gary Lezak's weather blog. www.kshb.com I just like this guy better than the others. He doesn't try to scare folks. Anyhow, his blog is updated often and you get insight into how the weatherguessers come to the conclusion on what to base their forecasts. Please don't read it and think that is what he is predicting unless he says so. It is more of his thought process on what might happen and the multitude of factors that go into a weather forecast.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
hello neighbor, obob! It is always nice to have a neighbor in the know - I live in a very smart neighborhood. I learn about spam spag., fertilizing my lilac bush so it will bloom, where the white petals that were flying through the air like a snowstorm came from, etc., etc., And I have learned a lot of the ins and outs of the medical field. Oh, our little neighborhood is looking mighty good.By the way, it is hard to troll this because it is an almost anything goes blog - but you have to treat your neighbor with respect - that is r e s p e c t
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Hey nota.I found more info on the comment count vs # of posts issue.You know I said that sometimes during the night or early morning, I will see an article that says it has comments. Maybe 1 or 2.But when I look, there are no comments, nothing “removed” to be seen.Last night before midnight, someone set up a new screen name, then before 3:30, they got on here and posted 13 nasty vile comments just everywhere. It stopped at 3:31, Merrill then posted at 3:33. Anyway, it was 2 minutes after the last nasty comment.I see they banned the poster, but not until sometime after 8am. I see one comment that I believe was in response to the bad comment, but nothing else.So we may have someone who enjoys trashing during the middle of the night.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Multi, sadly this is not unusual. Being as how all you need is an e-mail address to sign up as an anonymous user, and there are a trillion services out there where you can get a free e-mail account (check with your own ISP - you're probably allowed to set up 6-12 e-mail addresses under your account, even if you're only using one), lots of people post that way, or even sign up just to send harassing PM's. Also lots of people get bounced, and then come back as a 'new' user just to get in one last shot (usually vile since they know they'll probably get booted anyway).And le keeps popping back in for an hour or so at a time. I don't know how he does it. I've seen him back so many times, as recently as two days ago, I think. Maybe we should start another contest - where will le pop up next?
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
wow nota,I hurt just hearing your story! what a way to go on a cruise. ***the spam recipe was to help people know what to do when their emergency can of spam has been around for a while and needs to be used up. nota, I think you might be right, something about the ides of march and the can key…or was it that brutus stabbed caessar with a can key, that he had sharpened? I saw that recipe, and after I settled my stomach and stopped laughing, I knew I had to post it here.***TOB, gnomes had nothing to do with your post missing. on the other hand, the ljworld building is inhabited by incubi and sucubi…perhaps they had something or maybe it was pan playing a trick.
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MallinaBobina (Anonymous) says…
hello everyone!!!! just thought i would say hi…. :)
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Ronda,We are worried about you up there in the NW.
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Need help asap.Gonna need help people.One of my tall pines is leaning, ball is uprooted some.I gave away all my fence posts, but I have a pole driver somewhere. Chain and turnbuckle too if I can find where the man moved them to when he cleaned the garage.But I can't get back there to do it myself, and it'll need to be done soon or I'll lose the tree.I can't hire it done, no funds right now.House is supposed to be listed today too.Any helpful people out there?Know of a tree service kind enough to help a disabled woman out in a bind?
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Now that it's getting lighter out, (well kinda) I see that the tree is bigger around than I thought, and leaning more. More root is disturbed.Probably die if we could get it back up.This just sucks.I am so incredibly sad.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
multi, Has anyone been there to help you?Have you notified channel six so they can do a story on you and that might help you get people out to you. I am glad you are not without power. Do you want me to come get you?
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A man (well, more like a young man) called from PLS to come see if he could stake it up.It's probably too big, or the rootball is too disturbed.The wind keeps blowing it, so I'm sure bit by bit it's being worked up more.The other services said they would call before they could come out maybe over the weekend or next week.If he doesn't think he can save it, my friend will cut it down for me.It's going to be tough, spending the money. Maybe they can take a credit card. Spending anything means the sooner I'm in dire straights.If they can stake it up, I'm going to see if they will take the new snowblower. I say, new..it's only been used 3 times, I bought it what, 2 yrs ago. The big electric start gas blower.It's worth far more than I paid for the tree.
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A man from Mulford's tree service came and said it was too loose at the bottom to live.He wants a lot to cut it down, more than half of all the money I have left.He doesn't expect it to stay up through the day.which means it will crash onto the neighbor's fence, costing twice as much money.I'm going to send a email, then I may go down to see if I can pull it over onto the grass behind it.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Hey, multi. Let us know what is going on. My son and frat brothers could possibly come by Sat. morning and see if they can tilt it out of the way of harm.Let us know!
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wow multi,I hope that treee gets down without hitting the neighbor's fence! you haven't said so, but I imagine from your posts this situation is feeling pretty raw and troubling, facing it by yourself and with your limitations. hang in there and keep us aprised on here. I'm glad you did hear from tree services. ***the storm was amazing. wind rain, then hail lashing the walls and windows. wow. some woman was on 980 a.m. this morning in the 9 a.m. hour whining about how her grandmother is blind and depends on the tv to tell her about emergencies instead of just the text crawler at the bottom which does the grandmother no good. the whining granddaughter wouldn't get grandma a programable weather radio and show her the *two* buttons she would need to know for operation: shut off alarm, and listen to the weather broadcast. and, apparently, some nimrods in kc area were *complaining about the weather folkes interrupting their shows! amazing. ***we just had some limbs down in our neighborhood, never lost power. for as hard as the storm hit, it is surprising that we didn't have more injuries, power outages. the tornado on radar stayed out of town but we had very strong straightline winds.
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4:48I'm so fried I can't type. I mean super slow motion.Mulford showed up and said the tree wouldn't last the day.(As the wind blew, it wiggled itself from being at 11 o'clock this morning, to 10 am later. Each gust of wind made us fear it was going to go. )When I was going to walk down there to try to pull it over myself, I saw the neighbor's house, a few 30 something males, I thought, this is stupid. There are 4 cars in the driveway, ask them. Turns out only one was home (LOL) He came over to work on getting it over. Pulling with his vehicle ..now 5:16, phone call.Oh , this story is too long.Tree is down, not falling on fence.People who offered help, never answered.Neighbor (solo) will cut it up this weekend, but it's really a job for a 3-5 people.Met with someone to hold auction, all he wanted to talk about was listing my house. He left and I still know nothing about how they prepare for an auction.I need sleep and food. Just made some eggs (ick).Going to bed, I've been up for nearly two days.I don't think I can take this.PS, my backyard is NAKED!Oh, wait, the neighbor on the tree side must have come home at noon, and let their dog out. It came out, saw the tree move as they pulled it over, ran to the tree side of his fence sayingWTF?????? What are you doing with my tree? LOLThat poor dog is going to be spooked for a while!I tried to reassure him that it was okay, we just cut the tree down so it didn't destroy his fence and he wouldn't get loose.I wonder if it's parents have noticed the huge pine is gone LOL.Going to bed for a few hours I hope.Oh, tree service wanted over half of the cash I have to cut, remove and grind stump.Other service came to give me numbers for other tree services
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
so ronda,you or matt could do a blog about the conditions of lawrence today, write it like a national geographic article? now, a scandal because the sirens weren't sounded. I've met terri, and she's a very good person and good for the job of emergency manager. having a tornado warning though, would've thought we'd get sirens.***multi when you read this I hope you feel lots better. ***nota, I hope the wind didn't make your commute too difficult. I heard on the radio there were several traffic problems related to storm damage on 435.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Yes, this was not too pleasant of a day for multi. I hope she is sleeping peacefully right this moment - maybe she is a young girl (or cougar) and has climbed into the top of the tree enjoying the height of childish fun!gnome, it is my understanding that the sirens are sounded only if a tornado is spotted in our area. I used to think that when the siren went off we were to take cover and when the siren went off again it meant we could come out of cover. It means to stay in cover everytime we hear it. Also, sirens are only meant to warn people who are outside - we are expected to keep an eye on the weather via tv or radio for ourselves if we are inside. I was lucky my son came home and woke me up to make sure I went downstairs - I was fast asleep. I certainly understand how when storms hit in the night a lot of lives can be lost.nota, how are you feeling? Your first week under your belt, now you are an old hand and bored with your job!mult, my offer with my son and frat boys stands!I have food too, multi
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Yes, multi, I too hope things are looking better with the tree at least down. I'm surprised the tree company only wanted half of what you had. The day after a storm to a tree company is like Valentine's day to a florist. Surprised when you asked “How much do you want” the answer wasn't “How much you got?”Years ago when married to wife #1, we owned a house back east. We had a hurricane one day, which wasn't very common in that particular area. There was a tree in our front yard, and elm about 60 feet high that came to a fork about 10 feet up. At the peak of the storm, she called me to the window and said I'd better see something. I went and looked, and waited, and at the next gust, the 'fork' started widening, opening up all the way down to the ground!I was giving a relative a play-by-play on the phone when one side split off. That side got hung up in a large oak nearby and was precariously balanced there, in the direction of our house (including the new deck I had just built on the front less than a week earlier). The half still standing was leaning over our neighbor's half-million-dollar house.The next day one tree company came by and took down the half that got split off, and from what I heard, the cost was much more than most companies would have charged to take down a whole tree. But they didn't have time to do the surviving half - that had to wait another two weeks, and they (yet another company) charged twice what the first one did. And neither one took away the wood, we had to pay someone else to haul that off.As I said, hurricanes weren't too common around there, and I felt foolish the morning of the storm being outside boarding up the big picture window in the front, since nobody else was doing so. I felt a lot less foolish after the tree came down.gnome, I have to admit I'm one of those who complain about the TV coverage at times. All too often it seems like they're not so interested in giving people information ('cause nothing's changed in the three minutes that they last gave some out), but more interested in staying on the air longer than their competitors. And I think that's counterproductive, since a lot of people - including us - now tend to immediately stop paying attention when the special weather bulletin starts. Also, it always strikes me as funny that the coverage never seems to interupt commercials or the regular news, but it's critical enough to interupt regular programming.My little car was blown around a lot, but commuting was pretty easy this morning, thanks for thinking of me.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
It is Sat. morning, windy and cool, looking forward to jazz at the train park at one and the Kentucky Derby this afternoon. I do so love that race! What is it about horses racing against each other that bring out the competitive wild woman in me? It makes me want to be a horse again - I say again because I always pretended to be a horse when I was a young girl. Sometimes I wouldn't talk for days - I would just nod my head and stamp a foot once in awhile. I know I must have been an unnerving child to raise! :) I ate a lot of oats and carrots when I was a horse though; pretty good diet plan.Mexican food sounds good - maybe tonight, la te da!
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Aisling (Anonymous) says…
isn't the jazz in the train park on SUNDAY afternoon? I'm hungry for Mexican food as well. Mexican food sounds great (er not right now exactly, since it's 10:30am) right now it's Tang and an oatmeal creme pie—breakfast of champions.Don't get me wrong, Greece was both humbling and awe inspiring at the same time. That trip we just mostly took it easy. We went back two years later and that time we saw all the sites that one is 'supposed' to see when being a tourist. My philosophy, on vacation, is to not have any idea what we are going to do (or even where we're going to sleep) until we wake up each morning and see how we feel and what we feel like doing.I was watching tv Thursday evening (I'm afraid I was one of those people who were mad that Bryan Busby came on in the middle of 'Ugly Betty') so I went to bed and read. Around 1:30 or so, I woke up (on the alloted portion of the bed that my cat allows me) to see if maybe I should go peer outside to see what I could see. Finn-the-cat, opened one eye (from the pillow next to me) and looked at me as if to say, “sheez woman, all that moving around is disturbing me, just go back to sleep” so I did.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Yes, Sunday at one - I keep saying Sat. because I want to go to it today. Excuse me!!!Yeah, aren't the animals supposed to alert us and drag us to safety? One of my maltese pups pooped in my bed which was rather annoying to say the least - it got me up and out though! I'll have to remember to put stated pooch in another bed if I know storms are on their way.:Your kitty and you could have blown away together! :(My daughter and I wanted to watch “Grey's Anatomy”, but we luckily found out they replayed the show last night after the news so we taped it. There should be some way to tape a show and have the weather intrusions not be on the tape - great minds need to work overtime for that one!By the way, I was one of the lucky few who had my cable go out a couple of mintues before the end of our Champions BB game - we were mighty upset! There again we were taping the whole thing for my son, but we have the white noise on tape now too! Just another reason to actually go to the games.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Hi, I became ill shortly after going to bed (double side migraine with the rest of my head exploding inside, disturbed vision).Absolute horror of a night and finally got some sleep late morning. Now that I'm up, one side is still twinging.At least I can feel my hands, which I couldn't last night. Club arms.Ronda, I missed your offer about the boys. The tree is down, some limbs are off as they needed to get to the trunk to tie onto it.I'm going to look on here to see if they will be doing a special tree damage pickup.I emailed my neighbor to tell him it was down, he offered to cut it up. Haven't heard back. My worry is that it won't get done in time for a trash pickup.I did far too much yesterday. As they ask, They shoot horses don't they?
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
“As they ask, They shoot horses don't they?”Sadly prophetic words given the day's events (see Ronda's other blog on the Kentucky Derby).Multi, as long as someone can cut it up, I wouldn't worry about a deadline for removing it - just put a sign out front saying free firewood. Hope your migraine's better.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Thanks nota.I haven't been well today, but just fall out from the migraine and just being “the body that I have” hazards.The man who was going to help with the tree, called to say he saw it was down and some branches were cut off, and that he guessed it couldn't be saved, and to call him.No indications that he would help cut it up. (I thought we had talked about this).So, there's a good chance I will have to go down there and try to cut and haul it up to the curb myself.I have decided the consequences may not be a bad thing.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
mult,pm me with your phone number. an ex-neighbor is a pretty good guy and an expert with chainsaw. perhaps I can enlist his help for you with the tree. after the microburst, he had a big tree miss the north side of his by inches. he made short work of it and took care of the then firewood. ***I agree with you nota, many of the particularly kc weather droids can really overplay the weather. I've generally found on cable 6 they're pretty good about it, especially jennifer schack.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
10:30am) right now it's Tang and an oatmeal creme pie-breakfast of champions.—aislingLOL! creme de oatmeal pie? never heard of that. I have heard of tang though: drank by astronauts and astronettes. ***several of you were invited to join ronda and me at el matador. ronda brought her two offspring, and I brought mrs. gnome. we were surprised by the absence of three or four that seemed definite. the buffet was excellant, including the nopales (sp?) (cactus cooked with pork, yumm). I want you to know we had a good time without you. we would have enjoyed your company. ***beware, especially if you're reading this and driving: there's a really bad injury accident apparently on clinton pkwy. besides, if you're driving, what're you DOING reading this?
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says: “LOL! creme de oatmeal pie? never heard of that.”http://www.wral.com/news/strange/story/2827756/
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Funny link, nota! I enjoy an oatmeal cream pie once in awhile myself. My son absolutely loves them so I stock up at….yep, Matt's Aldies store! I think you get ten of them in a box for under a dollar - nice with a glass of milk - tang is way overload on sugar for me.multi, I hope you are having a better day today and no headache. I am worn out from crying about Eight Belles - I hate that feeling. I see marion went off on horse racing on my Kentucky Derby blog - made me sickened all over again.gnome, my children and I really enjoyed meeting you and yellowrose. She truly is a rose. I will check on the information we discussed about the event and let you know. Yes, the food was terrific, the company was even better. I left with a full tummy and a happy heart. :) Hopefully next time some of you can join us, but it was nice to get to know gnome and spouse well.theyards is playing at one at train park today - he said to be there or be square so we should all go 'round. Beautiful day for it.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
*OMG*!never noticed these thingys before. ***in the article you linked nota, two things stand out:the inmate wasn't allowed to have snacks? and, the *prosecutors want the guy to do hard time*! d—n! good thing this wasn't a peanutbuttercup! mcarthur, Ohio - A judge in southern Ohio must decide whether to send a man to prison for sharing a Little Debbie snack cake. The case involves 21-year-oldTimothy Caudill, who last year was held in a residential community corrections program in Nelsonville for breaking into a bar.While there, prosecutors said he bought the oatmeal creme pie from a vending machine and shared it with a fellow inmate who was on restriction and wasn'tallowed access to snacks.Prosecutors in Vinton County have asked Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Simmons to revoke Caudill's probation and put him in prison for nine months.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
ronda,we really enjoyed meeting you and your harmonics too. we had a very good time. ***ref the article above…I thought “sharing” was something we try to encourage by our children! this guy was only sharing. now they want him to do 9-months! wow, imagine if it had been a hershey's with almonds big sized bar.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
In many ways the attitudes of the criminal justice system (particularly Probation & Parole) can be found in most government bureaucracies. Those people who have at one time or another had to rely on government assistance know that the system isn't about helping someone to find a job or otherwise become self-sufficient, but rather to ensure they are following rules, period. For instance, the welfare-to-work system; recipients of TAF have to spend X number of hours per week at the workforce center and hand in proof of X number of applications per week, and they have to accept any job offered to them. And they will not pay for education that might help the recipient get a good permanent position that will keep the family off the welfare roles. But they're only interested in having the T's crossed and I's dotted when the federal auditors come around, not in actually making someone's life better.That being said, though, when it comes to probation and parole, following rules, *any* rules, no matter how insignificant they seem, is an important predictor in whether the parolee has made significant change. What got them in trouble in the first place was a belief that they can pick which rules should apply to them and which ones aren't important enough to follow.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
you are correct Nota, re the function of TAF/any bureaucratic system. ssdi/ssi programs through social security are estimated to spend far more money on verification and fraud prevention, than they actual do prevent in fraudulant claims! ***it does seem odd on the face of it, the inmate was not allowed snacks, and there is a snack machine in their area. and you are right that people get in “the system” because they choose not to obey the rules. I just wonder about that particular rule in that particular inmate's circumstances. ***anybody interested in doing something very different via the web: how about listening to a radio, you remotely operate it, that is on the far side of the world. www.globaltuners.comnovel idea. ***I am under the weather today: sneeze, cough, achey, tired. probably caught a cold or something. drank my tea at lunch.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
I have learned from this blog what the new meaning of a “cougar” is. and, in the interest of public service I will post a link below, it seems aimed at young men who want to date “cougars” and I assume they are recruiting “cougars,” too. remember, I am not liabel, responsible, or otherwise at fault. also, I have not received any remuneration or consideration for posting this. http://www.dateacougar.com/?aff_id=in…
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
gnome, hope you feel better, the wife and child have it too (and to a lesser extent myself), the little one missed four days of school last week and it's her second-to-last week.I have an add-on to my WindowsXP Media Center that pulls in TV stations from around the world over the internet, mostly news but some entertainment, too. Not the greatest quality but watchable, and kind of interesting trying to figure out what's going on.Anyone know if there are white herons? We were driving past the wetlands today and saw a blue one, and a little farther off a large white bird that looked similar.
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bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…
thanks nota,now after walking gnomedog, I'm just plain tired too. I hope this passes quickly. I feel like hell. that's an interesting ad-on, I assume you get the audio as well as video?
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
Yep, but like I said it's interesting trying to figure out what's going on. I can limp through snippets of French and some of the languages like Italian that sound a lot like Spanish, but Russian, German, Chinese, and a lot of others just sound like so much - Greek - to me. :)
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Woo Hoo, now we're talkin!I wish I could say that since you said bigger, it might be a whooping crane. I've seen them, and their nests (massive). But we also have other birds that fit in the white category.Snowy Egrets, Ibis, The immature phase of a blue heron is white. Etc. I could be fun hunting to find which.Here are some fast links that might answer the question.(I got a big surprise leaving the grocery store one day. The little run off creek that we drive over leaving Hyvee to go out to Clinton Pkwy west..one day something caught my eye, as there was a big blue heron standing there feeding in that creek, right by all the cars and noise, but hidden by the overhanging trees. How bold is that?!?!?!)Also fun at Clinton lake, are when the flocks of pelicans stop there for a few days during migration. If you see a big floating mass of white out there, it's not sea trash lol, it's Pelicans!Another fun birding place, is behind Sonic on 31st. Sometimes someone leaves the trash dumpster open, and the birds know to check there. When the gulls come through, that field is a swirling mass of seagulls, wonderful to enjoy. The regular birds know about this too LOL.Bird lists KShttp://www.gpnc.org/birds.htmWhooping Picture:http://www.kdwp.state.ks.us/news/other_services/threatened_and_endangered_species/threatened_and_endangered_species/species_information/whooping_craneMore infohttp://www.learner.org/jnorth/spring1998/critters/crane/index.htmlEgret Pictureshttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=gwya,gwya:2005-04,gwya:en&q=snowy+egretMore infohttp://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Snowy_Egret.html
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
gnome, I'm sending you an email.The neighbor that I thought would help with the tree didn't contact me back. His help would have been today, so I guess he can't.I would love for someone to be able to use this wood for something. If nothing else, the trunk is perfect for setting in the ground and putting a birdhouse or feeder on it.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Oh, gnome,Thanks for the link to the other stations.If I ever get a sound card, I'll be sure to check that out. I already hunt around the world for web cams that are running while it's dark here. The volcano cams, resort view, downtown far east cities.
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justbegintowrite (Ronda Miller) says…
Wow, you are so active on such a beautiful day! You all need to get outside.Sorry to hear you are not feeling well though, gnome. Hopefully the tea and some rest and you'll be back to normal quickly.The links are great everyone - thanks. And just saw the word bird and multi appears like magic. Bird, bird, birdnota, it is almost a Monday! :)
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
nota, it is almost a Monday! :)–––—Does this mean, hurray he gets to escape home cares, or does it mean he gets to return to his new job?_______________________Gnome has connected me with a nice man who wants the tree for firewood for his sister out of town. He want's to take the whole thing, not just the best parts and leave limbs, etc.Thank you Gnome! You are a truly kind man._________________________Nota,,if you find out what kind of bird it was, please let us know. I can't afford to cruise the lake anymore.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
I only got a quick glimpse of the bird. I have a rule when driving past the wetlands - that is to not drive *into* the wetlands. I have seen the blue heron (or *a* blue heron, can't say it's the same one) frequently in the water at the edge of the road on 31st just west of Haskell. Today he was in the water at the edge of Haskell just south of 31st. The white one was just a little ways further south, set much further back from the road, in the main body of water, and it appeared to be about the same size and shape as the blue one, but as I said it was hard to get a good look.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
I mean I don't think I could pick him out of a lineup.Unless all the others were blue.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Comically, in the group of rock doves that live under the interchange of 6th and SLT, when they sit on that nearest overhead line, it is a lot like looking at a line up.Most are the regular blue/grey mix, one is stark white, and I think this is the flock that also has one white with large brown patches. I see those and think of the cartoon before, what was it, Toy Story”, The “Birds on a Wire”.I went to see that on a Saturday night. Not a kids crowd, but mostly adults.I have never ever heard a group of adults laugh to hard and continuously about anything. Several terminal illnesses were probably cured right there in that theatre that night. Every possible human emotion was clearly portrayed on those birds faces.And my first thought when I quit laughing was, your know, I could leave right now and not feel cheated.Too often, I feel the price of movies is too high, but right there, that cartoon was worth $10, and the tickets were what, maybe $6?The movie was good too. That cartoon was the perfect use for a huge wide theater screen. It's only half as good on the tv.Remember the fake out takes after bug's life? Too funny.
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notajayhawk (Anonymous) says…
The birds on the wire cartoon showed in theaters (and shipped on the DVD) with Monsters Inc.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
Ah yes, I have the VHS, it's on there too.
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Multidisciplinary (Anonymous) says…
movie alert.It's a little late to share this, so few will see it, but one of my favorite movies (100's) is coming on tonight.10pm on IFC (channel 167)The name of the movie is 11:14. Just like a clock.Lots of stars are in this, too many to mention,Hilary Swank, Henry Thomas (from ET), Patrick Swayze, even Col