JWB FTW!

ME! Damn this 30 second rule

I don't want it.

I didn't want it anyways.

Well.... LoT didn't explode....

That's ok... You didn't wanna go anyway.

Hey, that used to say "not me"

WTF?

Haha... grats JWB!

Edited to add... HAHA! I got a warning message that there were too many images in my post! Thanks a LOT JWB!

Oh, I wanted it. I'm gonna go hang myself...

Sorry.... :(

Also known as an average day hour on Micechat

Careful. Someone might tattle that you said that! ;) We are being watched, you know...... :eek:



:D

God, I love this town...
 

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index...ges_again.html

Quote: A Multnomah County judge has cleared a Northeast Portland nude bicyclist of criminal indecent exposure charges, saying cycling naked has become a "well-established tradition" in Portland and understood as a form of "symbolic protest."

:D

At least he didn't say the 25,000 So's had more substance, unlike some other places...

Um, you do realize by saying "other places" that you've just insulted every other place on the internet besides this board? How could you stoop so low? Think of the mental anguish you've just caused!

;)

Well, I figured "Other places" was more P.C. than "the crack of my a$$."

Just how PC is the crack of your a$$ ?

I don't believe you.

Hang on....

[goes to Micechat]

DARN !! They don't show how many new posts anymore. BUT there are 250 new threads since I last visited.

[goes to Mousepad]

DARN !! Also not showing number of posts. BUT they have 439 new threads since I last visited.

[goes to Lounge Of Tomorrow]

DARN!! no new posts since I last visited.

Me! Me!! Me!!!!!

There are other message boards???

Eh... maybe. This is the only good one though.

CHeck this out: a crystal house:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle5097449.ece

This proves that you cand fine anything on the internet:
http://www.stupid.com/fun/FETS.html

OMG! Wolfette would be banned from school in a second.

You must be bored NA. :)

Nah I'm looking at my craft blogs and drinking coffee.

I also found this, which I thinks looks really cool!

Ever seen the Ice Hotel?

They also offer this gem.

I've seen it. I've always wondered who the hell would pay $450+/night to freeze their ass off.

Do trees get cold?

Do they call it a tree-hugger?

I think it's cute, although I'd choose different colors... :)

My avatar is what I am thinking of for my next tattoo, on the other shoulder.

This is on my left shoulder:

I like your cute mouse! (And congratulations on double-loserdom!)

I would like to get a tattoo but I have no idea what it might be. No logos, no text or words, no tribal art from a tribe I don't belong to.

Mice are pretty much a given for me. I have been collecting figurines, artwork, ect... since I was 10, that and my Girls (rats-current count is 7).

The balloon was the balloon we bought The Boy on his first trip to D-land.

I told myself I would get a tattoo when I turned 40 or got a divorce. I got it at the start of my divorce. Now I need another for hitting 40.

Ok, now you MUST say it...

in my experience, tats need to have a deep personal meaning (IMO) for those receiving it. those I know who've gotten them purely for aesthetic reasons seem to get tired of them after awhile, either when styles change or they just grow tired of looking at it. those who get them in tribute or for other reasons they hold dear, rarely do.

my dad had a slew of tats from his days on the high-seas (Navy lifer) and I have wanted one since I was probably 8 or 9, but could never decide on what.

finally got my first one this year (or was it last year.. /shrug...well past that 40 mark in any case). followed by another this past sept...

damn things are addictive. already searching for the next one
:rolleyes:

I want a Sorcerer Mickey tat on my lower back someday. :)

So, I was putting clothes away in my closet. I just put the last stack of sweaters on the top shelf, signifying the completion the end of the closet cleaning project. The whole top shelf collapsed sending the clothes to the floor and the heavy board to my foot. I'm now sitting on the couch icing the already purple and red spot. I wonder how this is going to effect the next couple of days of heavy duty walking - including Mouse Adventure, the party and the art walk tonight?

Ouch!!!

NA, I hope your foot feels better soon. Please get it x-rayed, because even a hairline fracture can cause a lot of problems. :(

X-Ray? I don't have time for no stinken x-ray! Damnit.

Yeah, but think of all the extra time you'd lose if it gets worse. :p

We're free after the protest on Saturday, if you need help setting up for the party. Let us know. :)

Oh! Sorry, I guess I did miss it... Sweet! :)

They are very addictive. This is going to sound weird, but I almost fell asleep when I got mine. The artist had a very gentle touch, and it was almost like getting a massage. Just having a man's hands on me felt great and relaxed me completly.

With all her pets, can't she get a free cat scan at home?












Get it: CAT scan. cuz she has all these cats? Oh, never mind.

With all the pets, she could get a PET scan.

Ugh. I'm SO craving Steak n' Shake hot peppers and unfortunately, there are none of the restaurants here, and it doesn't appear that they can be ordered and shipped. :(

I won't mention what I thought I read....

Well, depending on where it's purple, if you have immediate purpleness, I'll betcha there's a broken something.

OUCH!

At least you can legitimately claim the fainting cooch, and let the guests this weekend serve you!

The fainting cooch eh? I'm curious as to how that works, exactly.

I just had a mini-phone interview for a new job. Based on the interview, I have been asked in for the 2nd phase of their screening process tomorrow afternoon. I am trying not to get my hopes ip, but this is further than I have gotten, job-wise, in quite a while.

Yay for you MG!

Sending major new job vibes to you now
{{{{{{OmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMM}}}}}}}

oh damn!

I got a PERFECT score on a mystery shopper report today - out of about 200 every year, only 4 or 5 people hit that score. :D

My favorite typo in a while. Funny/apropos that this typo was in response to an NA post :D

My favorite typo is from another board: "Granola Bra."

It is surprising to me how many people search Google for how to draw footprints.

In my experience, if you're really that granola, you usually don't wear one.

I remember breaking my toes on my foot right before thanksgiving or thanksgiving day and went skiing the next day. Not a good idea. My foot was black and blue and swollen. Easy to put the ski boot on but to take it off major pain.
I would definitely go to get an Xray. No use walking around if it is broken or anything But that's just me.

I have 6 tattoos. They all have special meaning to me. And i am ready for more. Actually came up with another one i'd love to have done but i need to go for touchups again first. Maybe while i'm getting my touchups done i can talk about my idea for the next one.

It was TRYING to type Granola Bar (it was in a MA thread and I was responding to Adrian K about bribing her).


But, I suppose you could wear a granola bra while hanging out on (of it is with) the fainting cooch.

A typo in a post about a typo. Oh, the irony.

I wonder if Kevy will ever get over the fact that NA makes typos.

Sweet mercy I've made it through an entire workweek getting a full night's sleep every night. The apocalypse is upon us.

No, but close. It will be when gay marriage is approved. ;)

It is a constant source of amusement for me. Mainly because they are so often things such as "granola bra" or the very first quote submitted:

That wasn't a typo. It is standard for Lisa to speak of herself in the second-person neuter.

This allows it to show it knows it is better than we without getting all obnoxious about it.*


*That last it is not a reference to it but rather her.

Is it last night's new version of firefox, or something on the LoT that's causing my responses to take forever to load? Anyone else having this issue?

nope

You are a constant source of wonderfully intelligent and amusing posts Alex. I love it!

I don't remember getting a Firefox update, so I am not sure if my not having a problem is relevant.

Mine updated this morning. I'm not having any issue I've noticed.

Mine updated this morning as well. No issues to report.

Now I am wondering why mine HASN'T updated (yes, my options are set to automatically check for updates).

Mine didn't either, maybe it's not a Mac update?

So, stock market's in the crapper, and my company's stock has followed right along. However, while our stock price sucks right now, as a company we're in really good shape. Growth has slowed, but we're still raking in profit and have large cash reserves. And from what little they let a peon like me know about our near-term business strategy I feel like we're in a good position to capitalize on some changes in our market. If so, our stock price stands a good chance of increasing significantly from this artificially low point over the next couple of years.

So, as I wait until early next week before some funds clear so I can purchase some stock, is wrong of me to be grinning every time I see the price drop right now?

Nope nothing wrong with that. :)

Man submits drawing for payment of debt.

Somewhat amusing.

Okay - I just saw an ad for Bank of America - and it was narrated by what sounded like Keifer Sutherland. The ad was all about: you can trust us to protect your money.

I wonder if that's supposed to have some sort of subliminal message that Jack from 24 will make sure you're safe. Hmmm.

That's nothing! You should see some of the correspondence we get!

Man, LaWanda Page was freakin' brilliant. I was watching some of her Aunt Esther clips from Sanford and Son on YouTube. She was a wonderful comedienne.
:)

I earned my ears! Woohoo!

Congrats!!
:)

The wind is shaking the house.

What fun.

I have a sudden urge to watch Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day!

I watched Backdraft earlier.

Goodbye, crutches! You've served me well.

Even so, were you not made of aluminum we'd be having a bonfire today.

Be careful purchasing stock from the company you work at. I know it's a good company, but you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket.

My gastrointestinal system was in protest mode all last night, and I don't know why. I didn't get much sleep, so I stayed home from work today.

Almost got hit by a car.
Nice.
:rolleyes:
Luckily mousepod said something so I could get out of the way in time.

The intersection of Sunset and Crescent Heights is horrible.

holy sh!t ! Watch out! :eek:

Glad you're okay. But I have to ask, isn't just about any intersection at Crescent Heights terrible? I'm thinking Pico is pretty horrible, too.

Glad you're okay and Mousepod was there to lend a hand.

:eek:

Wait, I thought it was the Cricket that's supposed to whisper bits of good advice at just the right moment, not the mouse.

Psh, our Cricket is an auto accident magnet ;) Here's hoping Hawaii is less dangerous.

He's also a gay-marriage-controversy magnet.


There should be a series of experiments to determine the other magnetic qualities of Gemini Cricket. One of them might be useful.

Cooking dinner for my wife is one of my favorite things.

Cleaning up the kitchen, not so much.

Did you fry up that 7 foot chicken? I could go for 5 pound chicken leg right about now.....

;)

Men that cook are sexy!

Due to a link on Fark, I came upon an intersting website (NSFW). Sex furniture. Who knew?!

The ramp (I've seen it by other names) makes an appearance in Burn After Reading, the Coen Brothers movie earlier this year. If the house lights were up it would have been interesting to see who recognized it (it was not shown being used, but for those who knew what it was it immediately established why the George Clooney character was where he was).

I just want a Zeppelin

Is it bouncy?

I want a zombie. :cheers:

Fark, Hulu, Nolo, Yahoo, Flickr, Snopes, Boingboing, Jib Jab...
Thar be some funny soundin' names on the internets.
:D

I want a Zamboni.

If Palin has another boy his name might be Zamboni. True story.

That would have been funnier if the response had been stapled to the board.

Ha ha. I was thinking the same thing.
:D

Agreed.

Yes. But it is still funny.

I have some sort of foreign substance living in my intestines and it wants to get out.

oh dear!

I really hate it when people put lots of superfluous crap in their signatures. :p

I'll drink to that!

And so visions of Alien dance in my head.

Hello, my baby...
Hello, my honey...
Hello, my ragtime gal...

This is also where my brain goes when that topic is broached. And then I find myself feeling the Schwartz.

May the Schwartz be with you!

Tom gets turned on by Aliens?

Who doesn't?

Lou Dobbs.

I like you. :snap:

Check please!

As of today, I'm now a union shop steward, and I've been asked to join the core team for contract negotiations (I've been on the "B" team up to this point).

:)

Congrats!
:)

Someone get Lance a toaster...

Does this mean you are now part of the "A" Team?

Yes it does - so I guess I have to go into hiding now.

Hopefully things transform at the right trajectory and the paramedic rumor mill stays quiet.

Seriously dude, congratulations! :cheers: :cheers:

Just to be sure: your initials aren't all A, are they? Because if so that means your the token girl on the team.

Yay, Matt!

Congratulations!

Mister C?

Congrats!

Congratulations Matt!

I immediately thought 'Murdock'. Just sayin'.
:D

I gave Chris my alien.

That's true love right there.

So... called in sick this morning with the sensation that someone had rearranged and replaced some of my internal organs last night. Went back to bed and got a street sweeping ticket for being parked on the wrong side of the street. Now debating whether or not to do an urgent care visit.

What about an exorcism? I could be there tonight.

Congrats, Matt! :cheers:

Why isn't 12:00 here yet? I swear that the hands on my office clock aren't moving!

So, I guess I'll be scheduling some surgery soon

?

Time to repair my hernia - it's gotten worse

Yep.
Surgery time.

Oh hell, so sorry to hear that and best wishes for surgically aided recovery and recovery from surgery. But how did you get that from Not Afraid? And are you sure you don't still want an exorcism anyway?

Sorry to hear this Euro. Take care and in the meantime, if you can to dull the discomfort :cheers: (congnac)

...and no more lifting fridges !!

What's the deal with Cognac anyway? We were gifted a few bottles last year for some reason. I guess it was the business gift to give? Or regift perhaps. We gave away a bottle or two and have I think 2 bottles left... one I'm told is pretty good. But honestly, I have no idea and I hate to just open it to smell it.

Girly froo froo drinker I am. Cognac seems like a manly man drink to have in a study, by a fire, with a pipe or something.

Ugh.

On the plus side...morphine drip!

No. Everyone knows he got it from lifting too many cats at one time.

Nobody believe €uro! The hernia is just a ruse. He's going in for butt implants.

Sheesh! I told Lisa to quit kicking you in the groin, but would she listen??

;)

Good luck, my friend. I hope all goes well. My daughter had one done where they pushed things back in place and glued the small hole shut and sent her home. Took less than an hour. She's been fine ever since and that was about 2 years ago. She was in a lot of pain from such a small hernia, like you said- as if someone re-arranged her innerds! Hope it goes that easy for you.

Totaly! :snap:

Hope the surgery goes well, and a speedy recovery!

a good Cognac is a joy to behold...and yeah, in just that manner would be stellar.

however you should at least try it. a good Cognac is an experience, not just a drink. I recommend a good cigar to go with

___
sorry to hear about the hole in yer belly Chris. good friend of mines son goes in tomorrow to get his repaired. get that sucker patched before the next camping trip

I'm a willing taker for any regifting you intend :)

Cognac's my favorite sipping cocktail - Apparently it's being marketed heavily to the black urban demographic - I blame the Ladies Man.

I just realized....I will have BOTH an ailing pug and an ailing husband at the same time. God help me!

Thurston's sick?!?!

They were trying some new positions.

Without a ramp.

He has to have his LP surgery (luxating patella) on his left knee very soon. I'm probably going to schedule it right after NYE because the recovery time is about 6 weeks. It's going to be VERY tough on all of us.

Chris, I'm sorry to hear about your surgery and here's hoping for a speedy recovery!

I am having my knee (and my toe) operated on on Monday (a lateral patella release...I sympathize with Thurston). I too, am happy to accept regifted cognac. Not only do I really enjoy good cognac but I find it enhances pain medications quite admirably.

All of my friends seem to be moving from Myspace to facebook. Personally, I find facebook frustrating (certainly in searching out friends). It's not user friendly. It's not readily searchable. It really frustrates me that you can only "join", therefore "search" x number of geographical areas over any given time. Why the big exodus from Myspace? What is the deal? My cheese is frustrated...therefore sad. :(


(And don't even get me started on twitter. How many freakin' social networking sites am I supposed to keep up with?)

MySpace is annoying and seems to be full of juveniles.

I have a great pumpkin pie recipe that uses cognac. It's an unpublished one my mom got from James Beard at a seminar.

I prefer twitter over any of the other social networking sites (I like the word - and commitment - limit). Facebook irritates me and MySpace is only good for music (and even that is becoming a problem). LJ has been boring lately as well.

MySpace is still my preference for sampling new music. Facebook got a face lift recently that seemed to take all the annoying apps and hide them away somewhere, that's made it more pleasant and apparently more user friendly as I seem to get more comments from that site now. Of course, I've also linked in my Twitter Status so maybe that's the real reason.

How recently? Maybe I'll retry...

I have to say that I've never tried Twitter but I have noticed more and more people can be found there; not to mention that a lot of places (like NPR) use Twitter for discussion.

As an aside, I went through a period on MS where I was being contacted constantly by 16-19 yo guys (I don't know if I was in a weird/creepy loop or what). They kept telling me I was a MILF and such. Flattering as that designation may be, still infinitely weird. After responding several times that I had no interest in becoming a target of law enforcement, I had to make my page private for a long time before the contacts stopped.







Cognac pumpkin pie sounds yummy. I have a great recipe for sweet potato pie with rum. When I was pregnant I craved it constantly.

Well MySpace continues to serve me ads about young girls seeking older men and porn sites continue to want to be my friend so the site still retains a bit of smarmy in that respect.

Cognac is good poured over vanilla ice cream.

that's it - I'm pouring myself a cognac

Of course, if he would stop pursuing all of the ads and clicking on the porn sites, maybe they'd stop targeting him.

As a child I often received cognac soaked sugar cubes as cure for many an ailment

That explains a lot.

I used to feed dog food to the neighbor kid.

How else does one nurse a hedonist?

That also explains a lot.

That would give anyone a hernia. Hope all repairs go well.

A certain scene from "Leaving Las Vegas" comes to mind.

We always knew you were a cut above. I guess now you'll be a cut below as well.

That explains a LoT.....

:cool:

Is there anyone on board that knows how to fly this plane? :eek:

I missed hernias, cognac, and aliens? Damn it!

I have much to say of hernias and cognac, and have a small interest in the topic of aliens. And of hernias, man, sometimes I think an alien will pop out of one of those.

But cognac...

I may have to set myself up for a Bhura Peg soon. I need that sort of heady relief. Chris? Do you have the recipe once more? Oh, I'm sure I can find it here. I may just go on vacation this weekend. One spent on the couch with a good book, or perhaps just a punk rock documentary...

Here ya go.

Rather makes this a non-story.

Cooking Mama - the PETA version!


Seriously..... this makes me want to kill MORE animals. Hilarious Bloody fun :D

(The eggs that drip BLOOD when they crack is a nice touch)

Ewwwwwww!

yeah yeah - I just liked the part where they went and asked the passengers if anyone knew how to fly the plane. Like something out of a movie.

Uh folks -the co-pilots gone a little bonkers... can anyone help out here?

We (supervisors and managers) had a refresher training this morning on Constructive Feedback. They gave us examples of what not to say. One of them I would love to put on a big poster to hang in my office:

Can you instead stay, "Stop your worthless meetings and training courses and let me get back to work!"?

Bucherondin... a gift from the French to my taste buds.

*sigh*

Why is there not a Rank the Cheese or Food thing, sans restaurant and bar... har har... "Rank the Other"

Look! I CAN get another Pug!

We've tried, but it does no good. They obviously haven't learned about Active Listening...

Paid $1.99/gal at Costco tonight.

I had a killer sales day today.

Yay BTD i know gas is super cheap. I can't recall when prices were under $2 a gallon. It's great. Only wish it would stay this low.

The gas station across the street from us dropped prices 10 cents today (to $2.15) and is down $1.24 in the last month since we got back from Europe.

There is a gas war going on between two stations in Pasadena. The last I heard, they were down to $1.85 and $1.86 each.

Yay! It's interesting that it's that much cheaper in the Bay area and in LA. I used to buy my gas at a 76 station in HB but they have been more expensive then everywhere else lately. Costco has been running average with the rest of the HB stations. Regardless, I am happy to be able to fill up for about $25 vs. the $55ish it was costing.

My side of Bakersfield has gas averaging arounf $1.95. I have seen it as low as $1.87. The center part of town seems to be stuck at $1.99 and the East side at $2.09.

I wonder if we will ever see $0.99 a gallon again....

Nice thought, but doubtfull.

unlikely. at least not until the entire planet embraces something besides gasoline...

translation: only when we dont need it anymore (not likely in my lifetime)

I found this amusing.

Our yearly company wide inventory is being performed right now. Everything that's included on the inventory list has a property tag witha # and a barcode. The facilities people (plus some temps) are running around scanning things and slapping little green dot stickers on them to indicate they've been scanned.

Yesterday our CFO sent out an email. "Please photocopy the bottom of your laptop where the property tag is located and pin the copy up to your cubical wall so we don't have to flip your laptop over to scan the barcode." :rolleyes:

So, yeah, along this type of thought....

Watching the news, of course, we consumers love the low price. Er, wait, this is the price it was before they said prices went up due to demand? Then, the prices fell, and then they said they were going to stop producing so much so that they could charge more since there wouldn't be a surplus?

Okay, but, they say the low prices across the board are bad. I am so f'in sorry. I think, we've been paying way too much for so long that these prices are what, just may be, they ought to be.

Yep, I heard they don't like the low price of oil because then it isn't worth it for some companies to drill. And, with the price of gas low, the oil companies {or whomever} now say they don't have the resources to find other types of fuel.

So, yeah, screw the working people, middle class and your poor. We have to bail out the big companies, we have to pay $4. for gas to make it profitable for the oil companies. {how much did they make last quarter?}

I really feel badly for the people who work within the auto industry, I know at our dealership, they have cut back their number of employees.

Well, cars shouldn't ever have cost so much. Nor should have houses.

Maybe I'm dumb to feel that way but I do. And, athletes shouldn't make so much money, either. :p

Anywho, this is what I told my son when we drove past the gas station with a price of $1.959. I mean, we are so happy that it is this price but damnit, the reason why it went so high....why was that again? They are messing with us. The sad thing is now, the price is low but so many people are out of work or may be even have gotten rid of their cars, there aren't ever any long lines at any gas station I pass. Ever.

Actually, there are more cars on the roads right now with the gas price lower - less people using mass transit again.

It's Friday ya know! Woo-Hoo!

Gas is still a lot more than here in other countries. It always has been.

Oh. Hmm. That is interesting. Perhaps I just live in an area where there are more low income people who no matter what still can't drive? I do not see the lines like I used to.

Or, hopefully, those who do use the transit system are sticking with it?

Chula Vista is different than L.A., though. :D

LA mass transit is so horrible that most people CAN'T use it. It would take me 2.5 hours EACH WAY to take a bus to work, and I work less than 10 miles from home. Oh, ANd I'd have to walk half a mile to work from the bus stop, to,, so make it 2.75 hours each way.... As it is, I have a 35-50 minutes commute, up to an hour on Fridays. And I don't take a freeway!

Yay, it is Friday (and I played hooky yesterday) and my laptop shipped today. It's a happy day!

Where are you commuting to/from?

If you're in Garden Grove, that isn't Metro (LA's transit system) - so please, go talk to the fine folks at OCTA.

OC is FINALLY getting something equivalent to Metro's RAPID bus lines - their first one is supposed to be on Harbor Blvd., and there's a public hearing for that scheduled on December 8 - click here for more info.

http://spotlight.news.yahoo.com/v/10571345

I hope this is a direct link to it, but, if not, I wanted to share that the soap I watch, All My Children, have recruited war Vets for their latest storyline.

The main character that they've chosen, Brot, is amazing. When I first saw the show with the vets, I told my son they had to be real people.

I don't think it came out that these are real people until just a few days ago.

I love AMC.

Oh, and, they also currently are running a storyline about Bianca and her fiance, Reece. They wanted to christen their baby but the priest who came said he couldn't do it, didn't realize the two parents were both women.

Interesting how this is working out.

Oh, sure, though, a lot of the storyline is cheesy.

I might be able to work up at least some false sympathy for the oil fvkers if they hadnt been reporting record profits for multiple years in a row....Billions? yeah, screw you. let me show you the specific parts of my a$$ you can kiss

gas is too low, we need to make less..its not our fault
gas is too high....its hurricanes and uh..the war and uh...other stuff thats not our fault
comsumption is too low and folks are using smart transit...lower the price to bait em back in...pretend we didnt notice.
excellent, now theyre driving again and have made holiday plans involving travel...give em a month, then crank up the prices again.

dunno but y'all, but Im kinda tired of this game.
I think Im gonna build a big rig that runs exclusively on the blood of oil company execs.

All My Children is ok, but General Hospital is much better.
:)

Days of Our Lives Rocks!

Or so my wife says....

And the I stumbled onto this bit of info from Soap Opera Digest

My wife was not happy. And if she's not happy, I'm not happy. :(

OMG! My wife will hate that too. :(

What we will probably see is that we won't ween ourselves off of gasoline until we are forced to. Which means that we will never see lower overall gas prices.

1. Why shouldn't athletes (and entertainers) make so much money? What solid reason is there for not making so much? It has already been proven that the market will bear it.
2. I did the full research on another board that we were all on that crashed and lost all my research. But basically, the oil companies do not make any more than comparable companies on a percentage basis (if I recall correctly, it was around 9-10% gross profit). People just freak out when they see the dollar amount. But when they have sales dollars in the levels they are, even a small percentage of profit is still a huge figure.

Are you saying that gas here (the US is higher than other countries or lower? The correct answer is that generally, gas (and diesel) in the US is much less than most other countries (not counting oil producing nations such as Kuwait, Venezuela, Iraq, et. al.)

One of many sources.

I am saying that the cost of gas in the US is much cheaper than the cost of gas in Canada, Europe and Australia (and others).

Marlena and John, noooo! :( My mom will be devastated.

Correct.

I used to watch Days of our Lives regularly in grad school (a bunch of us actually confessed to relaxing with it LOL) and I catch it about...once a year now. So sad about John and especially Marlena who was the anchor of the show. Wish they'd gotten rid of ALL the sucky young people instead. When they brought the teens on, that's when I lost interest.

Sooo... We went to George's Greek Cafe on Pine tonight (Friday night special: Kleftico - marvelous). They just moved to a new location just down the street from the old one. We noticed that the old location already had a new tenant. Some restaurant called Melette Inn. We were trying to figure out just who or what a "melette" is when we noticed that there was an egg with a smiley face right in front of the name. Then it dawned on us....

Another example of bad logo design.

Well sure, athletes and celebrities make a lot of money and I haven't heard of them not ever being paid.

It doesn't make it right. If things were put into a more realistic amount, perhaps certain things would balance out. I am not saying they are the reason for the cost of gas, the two have nothing to do with one another. Just two thoughts that I had.

What companies are you talking about that make similar profit? Other companies that gouge us? It all sounds good but when you hear excuses why it costs so much and then why they won't process it or how if it doesn't cost so much they can't afford to research other means of fuel, it sure feels like people are being robbed.

As for other countries, I don't know the politics of it but I am only going by {what I know about} our own oil purchasing/consumption. I don't know how other countries obtain their oil/gas. If they have refineries or if they don't.

How else do you explain what has happened with our gas prices? Their reasons don't always go along with what is really happening and they've admitted, basically, to manipulating the oil/refineries to play with the price of gas.

That's all I'm saying . I don't like being part of their game. So, if for a while, the price is low, and they are crying, well, it's about time.

Agreed. Phooey on the twenty-something secret agents. And, I never quite got over the change in Romans.

Couple photos from today (amazing sunset, and a couple shots from DL)

I didn't say the two were associated (athlete's pay and the price of gas) - I addressed them separately. Athlete's et. al. are paid as much as they are because they are worth it. (In theory at least: as a Dodgers's fan, I would say that Andruw Jones is not worth what he is paid, but that is a topic for another thread). They help teams win and/or are exciting to watch, so it makes the team more entertaining.


Like I said, all the info was lost, but I do remember that Disney and Apple were two companies that made a HIGHER profit margin than the oil company I compared to (which I believe was Mobil as their announced profits shocked people at the time).

It's Saturday.

And I have to go to work today.

Bummer.......

:(

Here's a good article about this.

Profit margins aren't the whole story.

Sportin' a 'Stashe - for GD

I almost put this on the Vent thread but since it has a happyish ending...

Yesterday I drove from work in Costa Mesa to an employee luncheon at Five Crowns Restaurant in Corona Del Mar. Close to the restaurant my car started running rough and nearly stalling out every time I had to stop. This has happened before and the last time, three months ago, the mechanic said it was intermittant and I should bring it back if it happened again. Right. I got to the restaurant but I wasn't enjoying myself because I was worried about being far from home in rush hour traffic with a car that wasn't going far. I recently upgraded my AAA membership so I'm entitled to a 100-mile tow but there was a complication. I had intended to go back to work to change clothes and then head over to Disneyland to see Christmas finery so I'd left a bunch of stuff at work, including my house key.

Then my knight in shining armor arrived. He didn't even blink when I asked him to take me by work on the way to a repair shop 25 miles away. After we'd taken care of my car he drove me home. No Disneyland this time but a happy ending after all.

This time they're going to replace the part instead of just cleaning it. It should be ready in a couple of hours. And I'll get back to planning for the new car in my future. No more automotive adventures please.

So, today's been productive so far. Halloween stuff is just about down, and we'll pull a few Yule items to start the transition for winter decor.

Tonight, I'm going to finish a sewing project, and we'll probably play some games too. :)

It's a good weekend so far!

Check out Schweitzer Falls and his adorable kitty!

I'll post one part of the article that you didn't as it is the basis of my post:
In re-doing my research, using Income Statement data for each of these companies found on Yahoo Finance, I see the following data for each of these companies for their last complete fiscal year (typically 2007)

(all figures in billions of dollars)

• Exxon Mobil: $40.61 profit on $404.552 revenue: 10.0% margin
• General Electric: $22.208 profit on $172.738 revenue: 12.9% margin
• Wal-Mart: $12.731 profit on $378.799 revenue: 3.4% margin
• Disney: $4.687 profit on $35.51 revenue: 13.2% margin
• Apple: $4.834 profit on $32.479 revenue: 14.9% margin
• Altria $9.789 profit on $73.801 revenue: 13.3% margin (Altria is the parent corp of Phillip Morris)
• Hewlett-Packard $7.264 profit on $104.286 revenue: 7.0% margin
• IBM: $10.418 profit on $98.786 revenue: 10.5% margin

As you can see, EM's profit IS in line with many other companies. They just happen to be the largest US manufacturing company in terms of revenue, so their margin dollar figures will be also be the largest.

Or to put it in other terms, if each one of the companies listed about had the same revenue figures as Exxon Mobil, their comparative 2007 annual profit dollar figures would be:

1. Apple: $60.211 Billion
2. Altria: $56.660 Billion
3. Disney: $53.397 Billion
4. General Electric: $52.011 Billion
5. IBM: $42.664 Billion
6. Exxon-Mobil: $40.610 Billion
7. Hewlett-Packard: $28.179 Billion
8. Wal-Mart: $13.597 Billion

So, if you think that Exxon Mobil is making too much money, then you really should be going after Apple, Altria, Disney, GE, and IBM FIRST before criticizing Exxon Mobil.

FYI:

• GE was included in this comparison because they were in the story and because they are the largest US manufacturer that isn't an oil company or an auto manufacturer
• Wal-Mart was included in this comparison because they were listed in the linked US News story
• Disney and Apple were included because I referenced them in my previous post
• Altria, HP, and IBM were included because they are the rest of the non oil or auto listings in the top 10 largest manufacturing companies according to Industry Week.

I can haz tribulashuns?

For those too lazy to look:




This guy looks (to me) a little like Harvey Korman:


UNITED STATES—A friendship club, 1951.


Nothing like sportin' a bad 'stache to go with the bad toup:

CP's quoted section does include that paragraph and also includes a rebuttal explaining why that is perhaps not as significant as some people say when using it to suggest that ExxonMobil's profits aren't out of line with industry in general.

I have no idea which is a better argument and I'm sure everybody can find some way to measure that shows whichever point they want to make.

To me it is all moot. So long as whatever money was made was made legally, I don't care if they made $6 trillion last quarter while we all paid $45/gallon for gas.

It has been a great couple days. I had a great evening last night - excellent dinner, iasw looked beautiful, fireworks were great, snow was romantic (and extra foamy, for some reason), lines for most things were short (Nemo was a walk-on, and now that we've done it we never have to do it again), we gave the Pirates cast members something to watch on the cameras, and the evening topped off with running into some very excellent LoTers on the return tram.

Today was another delightful lazy morning of sleeping in and other bed-inspired activities, followed by actually cooking lunch, a movie, and some needed shopping. I can now roast meat while wearing lingerie designed for people my size. Yay! And someone is off picking up Thai food for dinner. I'm a happy girl!

I was rewarded for my hard work with a cup of cocoa on a balcony overlooking a very tall Christmas tree tonight. ;) Didn't get to go into the special space next to the balcony, but felt lucky even to be on the balcony, let alone be entertained with cocoa and marshmallows.

Speaking of which, park's a madhouse this weekend.

Oooo, I love GH. I've been watching it for about 35 years...okay, that might sound a little pathetic.

Thanks for the pics! They made me smile. :)


Going in for surgery at 5:30 am tomorrow...everybody keep your fingers crossed that they operate on the correct knee and foot!:p

One of the reasons people get more worked up about oil company profits is because we pretty much have to pay whatever price is charged for gas. People see the prices at the pump spiraling upward and feel powerless to stop the drain on their wallet. Apple's and Disney's products are much easier for most folks to choose to partake of or not, so they feel in control of their money spent on those companies.

That's true, Tom.

Also, the high cost of fuel is passed on to the consumer and thus raises prices. This helps to nudge up inflation. So the economy suffers because of it. This can't be said about Disney products. If people can't afford it, they'll avoid it. There's only so much you can cut back on fuel.

However, to speak to the Oil company's side, they make a profit on percentage of price. They have an obligation to their share holders to keep that up. The percentage hasn't changed, the proffits are up because the price per gallon has increased. Reducing the amount of their profit, while a kind gesture to our society, would be against the capitolisim this country is based on, and probably get some board members fired.

Note to Kevy- Looky! I changed my Avator finally! Club Swankadero! (From Disneyland Paris)

Earlier this month my mom started writing about her life with my father. She's sent out five installments now via email. Some of these stories I've never heard! We've been trying to get her (and my dad, while he was still alive) to record her memories for years. I'm glad she finally started doing it.

If you have elderly parents or grandparents, please encourage them to record their life stories for posterity!

My dad has been working on a family memoir for a while. Unfortunately we recently lost his aunt, who was 103 1/2 and an endless source of information (yes, at 103 1/2 she still remembered it all).

<good thoughts>

We're still getting used to the new venue ever since PBDA had to move the Saturday night dances to the Baptist Church but it's getting a little better each week. People still gripe about the dance floor (too sticky for some people) and the sound from the stage tends to get muddled at the back of the room. I like the free parking in the garage next door and getting a glimpse of the spectacular Pasadena City Hall just down the street. We're on the edges of Old Pasadena near a Gold Line station and across the street from a bar so there are more people in the area. Some of them hear the music and come by to peek in the door.

So, on Facebook, if you had someone on your friends list, but then suddenly they aren't, and "add as friend" is an option when you look them up... is that Facebook's programming suckage or does that mean they dropped you?

I just drove by a station today that had gas for $1.79. Never thought I'd see that again in my lifetime.

:eek:

I think they either dropped you, or ignored your friend request. I think you can still send them a message though. Might be something you just want to ask straight forward.

I do not know, I stink at Facebook!

That's how a friend of mine found out about the Prop8 Fallout end of a friendship.


Have you had any Prop8 fallout problems among the friend(s) that appear to have dropped you? I know you were a staunch supporter. I know many a friendship that has ended over this, and - yeah - the one where the Facebook drop was the telltale sign.

a 'friend' who would drop you over such a debate, youre better off without

(strictly IMHO)

That's how I found out about the end of a friendship over Prop 8 too. I was against, she was for. I'm sure she thinks I'm going to hell for supporting "teh gays". Oh well, at least I'll be with all my friends.

Damn... Fatburger is closed on Thanksgiving :(

Oh, my life is so difficult. I have 2 people providing free lunch for me tomorrow. However shall I choose.

choose? cant you wrangle two lunches in one day?

Considering that one of them is at Claim Jumpers and the other is pizza, my stomach would rather not.

Well, it's weird, because it's someone who would have no particular reason to drop me if they've accepted my request in the first place. I haven't seen this person since 1994, and they live in Leeds, England. Unless they decided there was simply no point?

I nearly unfriended some people during the political season just because I got tired of reading political tweets & stati. I imagine if you lived in another country that might be even more off-putting.

But at the end of the day, if you don't have the kind of relationship with this person where you could ask him/her directly, then they probably don't belong in your friends list.

Oh Boy! The red laptop is almost to my door! It's on the Fedex truck! Been a long, involved process just getting the thing between Dell screwup of the original order and a few changes in the delivery date. New shiny toy! Yay!

I'd like to get out and about today, but the guys installing our new heater are still here working on it. Not that I'm complaining... I'm grateful that the home warranty company finally fulfilled its obligation to replace it (yeah!), but I have a lot I need to do.

Gotta get the rest of Thanksgiving dinner groceries (resolving the issue of a chewed-up gift card along the way, thank you Gidget), and find a birthday gift for the bro. Oh, and I need a decent roasting pan so we have no repeats of last year's foil-pan spill disaster. (Of course, if I can't get a good price, guess who's going back to Big Lots for cheap foil pans)

:D Squee! The BigRedLaptop is here! :D

Why does the clock only say 1:44 and not 4:30? :mad:

Because it was only say 1:44 and not 4:30.

Now it is 3:13.

3:28 by my clock.
:p

I think I shall have a cup of cocoa before I head out :)

Soooo.... Where is everyone?

I'm loving the sound of the rain outside!

Not raining here, wish it was.

How can one be allergic to rain? Cause when it rains my allergies go completely wonky.

I have a theory about that... I think the moisture makes plants release something I'm allergic to.

I can't enjoy this rain as much as I usually do because of the recent fires. I am worried about the fire victims (or more specifically, the survivors).

Figures.

I finally get around to changing my avatar, and I'm without a picture of Brad.:rolleyes:

So, it's raining outside at 9:25, and DL is shooting off fireworks. What's up with that? Are they trying to drown people? They seemed short, though so they may have cut the show in about half.

Our teenage daugther stole my husband's camera... he thought he'd lost it. Eventually bought a new one. Then the new one goes missing. I notice a camera in daughter's room and it turned out it was the first one. She'd had them both.

Over 100 photos of her up to no good with her friends.

If she ever whines "but why don't you trust me?" again I'm going to go in-effing-sane.

I know I did this same sort of stupid sh!t growing up but WTF! :rolleyes: :(

I had a little 8-legged visitor in bed last night. Yup, I am sure it was an itsy-bitsy spider. How do I know this, it was cold outside and the little bugger bit me, twice, my eyes are swollen and I look like something out of a Twilight Zone episode.

I knew those Yahoo! Slurp Spiders I see in the who's online link were up to no good

Are you sure it wasn't four of the Dwarfs visiting?

You should post the pictures online. That'll teach her! :evil:

Yeah - I'm thinking of printing them up and posting them all over the house. Online though - other people might see them and although that would be a good deterrent, I don't want them perving on my 14 year old.

Ding dang darn kids.

Combine that with car trouble and it's been such a fun day already.

On that same note, you might want to scour MySpace and Facebook to make sure she doesn't have an account you don't know about created with an email address that you don't know about where these pictures may be posted.

Ate dinner with a friend from back home last night. Yay for visiting friends! And yay for Hank's Bistro, serving Italian/Persian cuisine. I can't speak for the Italian side of the menu, but the Persian side was DELICIOUS! It's close to work, so I imagine I'll be paying it another visit soon. SE corner of Rosecrans and Hawthorne, if anyone wants to check it out.

We had a client with Hepatitis C in the office this morning. The employee she was assigned to panicked and made her leave... sigh. I had to conference the employee on blood-born pathogens, and make her set up an appointment with the client to finish the interview. Then I had to fill out a Special Incident Report. And today is traditionally the busiest, craziest day of the year for Food Stamp applications…


Can I go back to bed?

Good point. Now how to find something like that... I guess I'll have to start with her names and those of her friends... I hadn't thought about this though - thanks for bringing it up.

Well - turns out that I'm a pretty decent searcher and found her myspace page. I'm half glad and half sorry that I did.

She's in for a world of hurt times 10.

Some troubling things on her page eh?

Well- the fact that she has a page for one. She was expressly forbidden and she's had it since at least june of this year from the comments. And yeah - things that are inappropriate. sheesh

this sux.

As a parent, I wonder if I contact myspace if I can get the page removed. Although we'll be demanding the username and password and that should take care of it.

It's an interesting view into her life. One I certainly wouldn't have gotten if she hadn't taken the camera (the photos from the camera are posted on her page.)

and she wasn't smart enough to make the page private so it's been a real learning experience.

The problem with MySpace and Facebook is that she can just create a new one using email addresses that she creates on a whim at friends houses and even school. Even if you let her keep it with the explicit rules that you have full access she can create a new one. The best defense is a good offense. Unfortunately there isn't really one of those for these sites.

Well blocking access to the computer at home is a good start. She has time in the morning alone that she's been using for this.

And yeah - I know she can just redo it. Doesn't stop me from letting her know how disappointed in her I am and taking away privledges / doing chores as a consequence.

I'm sad. Frustrated. And frankly concerned about what else is going on I don't know about with Miss Double-Life.

or you could start by posting a comment to her myspace page

"this is your mom. you are SOO freakin' busted! I know all, hear all and see all"

Maddie's dad let her set up a myspace over the weekend. Moron.

I agree with letting them know that you are looking and on the lookout for stuff like this. Not that you can stop them but at least making them aware you're looking.

I monitor Maddie's phone and text messages. I also have her phone set to upload her address book daily so I can see who's she's got in there. She's 12 and hasn't quite started to rebell yet but I want to lay the groundwork now so she knows I'm looking. She is also under the mistaken impression, which I may not have bothered to correct, that I can actually go online and read her text messages.

Also we have laptops which makes it easier to restrict access. Just unplug them and take them with me. She does have internet on her phone but that can easily be cut if I find an issue.

Grrr so my mom calls and says that they're feeding my nephew lunch at the mall and then heading to the condo then she'll come down to get me. It's like noontime already and it's like traffic is already a mess out there. I'd much rather just go to lunch here and the mall and then head up there in traffic screw this. I stayed home and waited for what....grrrr this is why i don't like holidays when i could have been up there already....

Huh. So I guess I'm alone in helping my daughter setup a facebook page, showing her how to atomize surfing so as not to leave a trail and how to enable the security features on her phone so only she has access to it?

BETTY:

I am not in your shoes, but I am wondering: should you let your daughter know that you know? While she has broken rules, are they bad enough to out her at this time? Could you use the new knowledge that you have acquired to keep watch on her?

Yeah: bust her for the camera and the pictures, but maybe keep the MySpace thing to yourself for now, just to see where it might go.

My not-a-parent-but-occasionally-has-insight opinion

First thing -- make the MySpace "friends only." Next, remove all inappropriate images. That kind of stuff can come back to haunt you.

No good advice, not being a parental type. Just hugs for you Betty. This is when being a parent can suck, I'll wager, good cop and bad cop. Someday, she'll thank you for all your rules, consideration and care, maybe not today.

Here's my parental advice (and yes, I'm a parent). Don't hold back information for strategic purposes of nailing your kid with it later.

Your child may be stupidly duplicitious because they are a kid. Don't stoop to that level. You be the adult and let them know you're on to them.


My too scents.

Patchouli & Lavender?

Alright, who made the clocks slow down?

Seriously! This is turning out to be one of the longest afternoons I can remember.

No kidding, this is two days in a row for me is extreme time slowdown days. The next four days wil rocket by, no doubt and I will wonder where the time went. Dammit.

I guess it is all about perspective. I have a gazillion things that all need to be done at the same time and the time seems to be zipping by.

So naturally, I am posting on LoT :rolleyes: :blush:



ETA: And as I am on hold waiting for a client to pick up, I am listening to Christian choral music.

Hey Kevy, why don't you give us the stuff you need to do which will make you less busy and us more busy, thereby altering time-space so that we all feel time pass at a normal rate?

Or, we can all just post some more. Whichever. :P

tic toc
6 minutes.

tic toc 36 minutes...................

I'm home. Yay.

I got off at noon - neener, neener!

Pphhhhhhhhhhhbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbppppppp ppttttttt!

;)

My plan to leave after the 3:00 meeting has been completely derailed. I'll be here for another hour.

I'm here until friggin 5:30. :mad:

I confronted her about it all. Got her myspace login and had quite the learning experience. Quite.

This sucks. I almost wish I didn't know - but now I do and we're dealing with it. You think you know what's going on with your kids - but you don't. At least I didn't.

Or maybe I didn't want to.

I did a lot of stuff from the age of 15-16 or so and on. What was I thinking? When I look back at it from an experience point of view, I had the best time, with the best of friends. We were boy crazy and into sex, drugs and rock and roll.

When I look back at it from a parental point of view, I'm just sick to my stomach.

F.

I'm not quite ready to deal with this entirely - or don't quite know how to do it right perhaps? Brian (my dh) will be home soon and then we can address it further in some fashion.

Ick.

Bite me - I'm still at work at 6:30 with still a bit to do.

Bite me - see above

Bite me - see above
Bite me... er, never mind

I came home to a FedEx package on my doorstep this evening.

It's my Adobe CS4!!!!

It's a very Happy Thanksgiving already!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE! :D

I'm with you...it's 2:30 am Thanksgiving Eve and I'm struggling with my young-teen son to get off the Xbox Live and Go To Bed NOW. My young self is cringing...but my mom self is...well: tired. Still I know he needs sleep, and I do too. The real problem is I don't exactly model good behavior here as I often stay up late on my favorite internet/online diversions... Drat!

I sort of tricked The Boy into spending last night with The Others. He thought he would be able to come back here after they got the deep pit going. The main issue with that was running him back & forth all day today would have been a royal pain. As it stands now, I will pick him up at 3 this afternoon. He goes back tomorrow for his scheduled weekend.

Yes, it was! :)

*hugs*

In this clip Anderson Cooper (in swimming trunks) races Michael Phelps.
You know, for anyone who may be interested. I think AC is cute.
:)

The only reason I watched that was because I thought they were going to make out at the end. Feh.

Betty, I'm so sorry. That completely sucks. It sounds like you are handling it as well as can be expected. I agree with being upfront about what you know.

O is 8...I am so not looking forward to the teen years. :(

I was just at my first "real" socal farmer's market today.

I have decided that I'm never leaving.

Madzers been cleaning her room for two days now. So far she's knitted a three foot long scarf. :rolleyes:

She did finally actually start cleaning around 9 PM last night, she started at 11 AM, cause I pointed out for the about 9000th time that she was not going to play Polo if it wasn't done. I guess it took 9000 for it to sink in because the 8999 times didn't actually work.

She has about another half hour in there, if she stops knitting. So hopefully she gets it done before Polo at 11.

You're lucky it only took 8999 times......;)

Hey, I've got this place to myself. Except for those spiders...

Sooo, I've found out I really like garden salad with Baked Beans as dressing.

I'm going to go on with my day under the assumption that post was simply an extensive typo.

I keep getting a "server is busy" error while trying to look around at posts.

I was getting that error message the other day.

I get that error for about half an hour almost every weekday around 2pm.

Santa Claus just visited our neighborhood. It was the weirdest thing. A Santa float is driving around, escorted by police cars. It's stopping every block or so for kids to get a quick photo, tell Santa their Christmas wishes, and get a candy cane. It's so random and bizarre I just don't even know what to think.

Well heck, run out and tell him what you want!

Ya i would. I almost did at Knott's since we were there for opening and no one was with Santa. :)

We put up our Christmas tree tonight- Samwise is in Mighty Forest Cat mode now. He loves to lurk under the tree and jump out at everyone. Today is also the 6th anniversary of Sam joining the Anderson clan.:)

I just solved my big schedule issue - yay!

BTW: Sunday would be a great day for a DL swanking (hint hint)

I went over to El Mio to help clean yesterday, and instead was put to lighting and decorating their 12-foot Christmas Tree. WIN.


(Tours today went exceedingly well.)

Anyone else entering Finals Season in college? I'm getting tired of studying for Ethics, Intro to Mass Communication, and working on a project for radio class as well as a project for television class.

Interesting. I've never seen that error myself, but we are apparently having some CPU usage issues on the host. I'm working to fix that to avoid being forced into paying for dedicated hosting (at more than 10x the cost).

Since nobody else ever mentioned outages I just assumed it was on my end. Our internal proxies go wonky all the time causing various access errors..

I'm trying to get the host to give me more detail on the supposed CPU over-usage. They haven't said if it was a one-time occurrence or if it's happened repeatedly or regularly. I do know that the average usage is at about 9%, so it's not like the board is continuously eating cycles. What's particularly odd is that I haven't touched the software in well over a year and I haven't noticed an appreciable change in board usage in at least that long, so I don't really get why this is suddenly an issue.

It could be worse. My co-worker in IL said it's a high of 34 and snowing.

Snow is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

I biked to work in a misty moisty morning today. Vision was down to a half a block. I put on my rain jacket, turned my lights on, and went for it. It was fun! Of course I'm only going a mile and half so it wasn't bad at all. As long as I give myself enough time to go slow, it remains enjoyable for me.

Woohoo!! I'm going to the Disneyland CM holiday party next Monday night! :D

CoasterMatt is throwing a Disneyland party? I wasn't invited and feel snubbed. :(

Yeah! Me too! Let's boycott everyone's Christmas Parties! That'll show 'em!

I personally plan on boycotting every Christmas party that I am not invited to. That'll show 'em!

Does this board get visited by search engine spiders? those can sometimes hit at once and cause some issues... I've seen it happen on my friends forums...

It does, but I rarely see more than a handful on at a time. If they give me enough info to correlate that I may stick a robots.txt file to block them. Which would be a shame, we've gotten pretty highly ranked on Google searches.

Huh.

Oh, am I being mocked?:D


I think I am, and it's funny. Per the Roger Rabbit Rule, then, it's ok.

Amended to, "D'oh!"

I didn't wanna go anyway...

^ Bastard!

Pffft... you think you were the first LoTer to snub someone? ;) 'Tis tradition!

Snubbing is... is... well, it's like bacon. Social bacon.

The Original Bacon was born of snubbery.

Hence my post. And the bringing up of bacon ;)

A Few Good Men!!!!!




no, that was not cheating ;) :p

Tis true. Little did we know we were launching a legacy that fateful morning.

I thought it was born of pancakes... (Mmmmm pancakes and bacon....)

No, pancakery far preceeded bacon. And is unrelated to snubbing.

It's entirely related to snubbing.

But snubbing's not related to me (well, not exclusively). Boycott mockery is my exclusive province, however. :p







(Boycott Mockery would usually be known as b0yc0ckery if it didn't have other implications also endemic to yours truly.)

Okay, that's it. I'm not coming to any of you guys' Christmas parties.

Fine, I just won't invite you then :P;)

Nice way to pass the sausage there. ;)

Pretty! (especially tonight when it's foggy)

1 down, 3 to go.

Are those your last papers, BTD?

Classes. 1 more final, one speech and that fvcking paper. Final and speech will most likely be done tomorrow and/or Wednesday. Hopefully the paper is done by Sunday.

And Brad...

I love that picture of Brad in your sig. He looks so happy.

He made fire! :D

I just got a call from my mother. My brother-in-law collapsed last night and was rushed to the hospital. He's been diagnosed with advanced acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He may not make it to Christmas.

He was looking ill at Thanksgiving. Now we know why.

OMG! That's terrible news! HUGS to you and your family.

Oh JW I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry to hear about that. The human body is a cruel thing sometimes.

JW, my heart sunk reading that. I'm terribly sorry for you and your family.

I'm sorry.

I just talked to one of neices. My mother got a one important point very wrong. My brother-in-law is expected to recover, but he is not not expected to get out of the hospital before Christmas. Big difference.

They started him on chemo, and they want to do a bone marrow transplant.

Whew JW. It's not good but not as bad as you thought. Let us know if any blood or platlette donations are needed, a coworker has been batteling Lukemia at City of Hope and some of us have done platette donations on his behalf.

Yeah, I'd call that a pretty key piece of information there.

Just a wee bit of a difference there. While the prognosis still sucks, it doesn't suck as bad as originally thought.

I hope they are able to find a match quickly JWB!

Okay, this is much better news.

HUGS nonetheless!

While this kind of thing is never fun for any members of the family at any time of the year, during the holidays, it's terrible.

Whew!

Still really awful news. Hugs to you and your family and here's hoping for a speedy/successful recovery.

Ugh, reminds me of my cousins spreading wrong details that my dad was about to die. Misscommunications are understandable during a stressful time, but would it kill people to fact check before declaring someone at death's door?!

Glad for the less grimm prognosis.

Ugh JW. At least it wasn't the other way around.

Here's to a full recovery.

Sorry to hear about your brother in law JWBear. You might want to check out the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for more info on ALL. http://lls.org/hm_lls

:( Hoping for the best, JW.

I'd rather hear the "sick but will get better" than "sick and won't recover" but either way it still sucks -- hope everything turns out okay.

I hear they let you ride the teacups for free !! :coffee:

I know I am new and all and do not know anyone here, nevertheless I empathize and understand what you and your family will go through.

As WendyBeth knows, I recently lost my father this past March to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. It was just my mother and I taking care of him at home on Hospice care; and we were both present when he transcended our terrestrial existence.

Anyhow, I wish your brother-in-law all the best and hopes he moves into remission so he can get any bonemarrow treatments or transplants.

S.D.

Thank you all for your kind thoughts.

What famous celebs would look like if they had mustaches.

Madonna's made me LMAO :D

hmm...suddenly envisioning Brit doing ZZ Top covers

I don't know who this is, but he's HAWT with that fauxstache!



This look works! He should totally go for it.

Miley was actually kinda cute with a 'stache


Um... no


I didn't know who about half of the people were.

Who’s the president that makes the Republicans hesitant?
Obama!
Damn right...
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his country man?
Obama!
Can you dig it?
Who’s the cat that won’t cop out when bringing change about?
Obama.
Right on.
They say this cat is a bad mother…
Shut your mouth!
I’m talking about Obama.
Then we can dig it.

Dammit Lance, you beat me to it! ;)

Mwahaha :p

OMG! :D

That's the first time I saw that.

Attention lovers of boobies:

Victoria's Secret fashion show is on CBS tonight at 10 PM

Well, they haven't said one way or the other whether anything's better, and though neither have they moved us back to our old server (they moved us temporarily to a different server since we were taking up CPU resources). At this point I'm not going to ask until they say something.

I sat through two hours of a mind-numbing exercise in group idiocy called a "meeting" this morning. There is another one scheduled for three hours this afternoon. I decided, for the sake of my sanity, to tell my boss I wasn't feeling well and come home.

Ok, I give up. I turned on my heater for the first this year. The temp is 41 deg (outside) and foggy. I think I may even get The Boy to finally wear a jacket to school this morning.

It's Friday - woohoo!!

Yes indeed. I second your woohoo! :cool:

It's 16* here right now, wind chill of 9*.

I'm beginning to wonder if I'm ever going to use a heater here at all. It's December, and we don't have heat on. With someone home all day and us being upstairs and the place being well insulated we don't have a lot of heat loss. We haven't even put the blanket on the bed yet.

I'll see your woohoo's and raise you a 'why the 773H isnt today over with yet?'