quote:Originally posted by chillas to the bone: Can you guys keep a secret?
WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT A SECRET CONCERT DATE, CHILLAS?
*snerk*
Too late. I already told her. She was quite excited.
Casey: Well done!
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On the brighter side, I do get to go to Cedar Point today. Yay for Halloweekends and roller coasters!
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Chillas and Lizzie, ya'll are lucky. I would love to go see BNL.
I'm hoping to be able to go out tonight if my car is fixed that is. Damn thing died yesterday and I couldn't get the positive battery cable off the old battery to replace it with the new one.
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17 year old DS waited in line all night in the freezing cold to win a year's supply of free pizza. Prize went to the first 50 customers this morning. He was customer #2. He's going to be on the news tonight! How cool is that?
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That's very cool! I'd do that for free pizza. What brand was it?
My son has been at the tournament since 9 AM (its now just after 1 PM) and he STILL hasn't done his events. He's judging the color-belt children events, but he hasn't competed yet.
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I thought I'd post and mention a really great product that I used to make the necklace Jocko has mentioned because I thought it might be useful for the other snopesters who work with beads. It's the Bead Stopper and I can say enough about how wonderful of a little gadget they are. As you can see here I was working on a multistand piece, plus it had a section that had to stay centered, and I would've had to use a bunch of tape to keep from losing beads or accidentally pulling the cord out. Whith the Bead Stoppers I used three, didn't lose a single bead, did not accidentally pull a cord too far and I didn't have to worry about the cats undoing my work when I had to run to the bathroom.
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I was talking to someone at work yesterday about how I didn't like the movie version of Breakfast at Tiffany's because the book was so much better, and she goes "Wow, there's BOOK?!"
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Hi everybody! I haven't been around too much lately, due to work changes and building a set for "Noises Off." If you're not familiar with the play, picture a two story set with seven slamming doors, a practical window, and three sets of stairs. Oh...and the whole thing has to rotate so that the audience can see front AND back. For two solid weeks I've been working my a$$ off. (Metaphorically speaking, unfortunately. Last I looked, the real a$$ was still there.) So I'm still around. Just busier that a one armed wallpaper hanger.
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I just had my picture taken with the lead guy from Gaelic Storm on my cell phone (I forgot my camera)...and the persont that took the picture DELETED IT! Wahhh!!!
On the other hand, I had a cute Irishman literally kick my ass.
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"Noises Off" is one of my all-time favorites! What a fun production - but I guess, not so much for you.
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One large pizza for a week wouldn't do much for my pizza budget. But that's awesome!
My son just called and said he got first place in breaking. Which doesn't surprise me. What shocked and amazed me was...
My 14 1/2 year old son beat two of his instructors! One is an older man who has been doing this for around 15 years, the other is a man in his late 20s who has been doing this for about 10 years. They've both been Jase's instructors for the last six years. But Jase beat them and many other black belt adults from other academies! Man, I wish I had been there!
For those who want to know- he broke two concrete blocks with his elbow, two concrete blocks with a palm-strike, and did two board breaks with a 360-degree turning kick (total was four breaking stations- I have pics in his album doing the kicks). Anyway, he did all his on the first try (you get three tries, losing points with each failed try).
My kid ROCKS!!!
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Mine too, Roadie! But I can see how creating a working set for it would be a real feat.
quote:Originally posted by Canuckistan: WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT A SECRET CONCERT DATE, CHILLAS?
You have been in rare form the last few days, Ducky! What is going on?
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My first experience seeing live performance was "Noises Off", and now whenever I'm anywhere that has even the most amateur performance of it, I go. It's the only play DH has ever enjoyed.
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Well, it's not my pizza, it's his. Five 17-year-olds each with a free pizza every week... I don't think they're complaining.
Congratulations for Jase! Although I have to say, reading what he did made me wince. I can't imagine trying to break anything with my elbow!
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I posted on the last page a link to the videos of Jason breaking concrete blocks. I'm truly amazed by that- because when he first started doing tournaments at the age of 9, I wouldn't let him break. Then, I found out that the wood they use for the very young kids was very thin and easily breakable, I let him.
He's been breaking concrete since he was around 12 years old. And he's consistently won first place in breaking because he exceeds the expectations of his age-group. When he was younger (before a growth spurt), he used to do a side kick, drop into the splits from that, then break a board with a punch. After the growth spurt, he lost some limberness and can't do the full splits anymore.
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quote:Originally posted by Roadie: My first experience seeing live performance was "Noises Off", and now whenever I'm anywhere that has even the most amateur performance of it, I go. It's the only play DH has ever enjoyed.
That was your first play? Was it hard to enjoy other works after that? It seems like that would kind of be like experiencing "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" before you saw "Hamlet."
On the other end, though I did paper on the script for a Self-Reflexive Theater class and watched the movie a couple times, I've never actually seen it live. I'd love to.
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Seriously, that is impressive, Frog_Feathers. It is quite a comeback from that broken arm, isn't it?
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I just got invited to be a Nielsen household...Cool!
They're giving me $15 cash, which was much more than I'd expected. I knew they paid you to participate, but for me that's some decent dough.
The only bad thing is that I'm supposed to receive the TV diary for the week of November 19th (I think that's what she said) but that's Thanksgiving weekend, so my regular shows might be pre-empted or replaced with movies for the holiday.
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quote:Originally posted by Roadie: My first experience seeing live performance was "Noises Off", and now whenever I'm anywhere that has even the most amateur performance of it, I go. It's the only play DH has ever enjoyed.
That was your first play? Was it hard to enjoy other works after that? It seems like that would kind of be like experiencing "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" before you saw "Hamlet."
Actually, I think it has made others more enjoyable because when the story line drags or the acting is poor, I can imagine what is going on off-stage to keep myself amused
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I bought a car through a dealership for the first time in November 2004. I took on a 5-year loan.
I wrote my last car payment check today. I'm paying off just over three years early.
Yay me!
Four Kitties
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There are few things more trying than attempting to do tech support for one's newbie parent. It's even worse when parent is a Windows user having problems specifically without Outlook Express and McAfee and child is an Apple user. I'm trying to convince him that it's really probably a good idea to keep the virus scanner up to date but he's not buying my arguments so far. Oy.
quote:Originally posted by Cervus: The only bad thing is that I'm supposed to receive the TV diary for the week of November 19th (I think that's what she said) but that's Thanksgiving weekend, so my regular shows might be pre-empted or replaced with movies for the holiday.
I was just called for something similar (the Canadian version of Neilsen, I suppose; I've done the radio diary for them before). My diary week is still within the time than a few of our regular shows are being pre-empted for baseball. They also specified not to count any shows that were recorded on a VCR or DVR unless they were being watched at the same time. If they'd stop putting the good shows on at the same time I wouldn't have to record!
They also sent along $5. When they do the radio one it's $2. Excellent.
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quote:Originally posted by Mickey is a ghoul: I just had my picture taken with the lead guy from Gaelic Storm on my cell phone (I forgot my camera)...and the persont that took the picture DELETED IT! Wahhh!!!
On the other hand, I had a cute Irishman literally kick my ass.
Knowing Murphy, I could so easily picture that!!
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Jason called. He came in second in sparring against an academy-mate. The master stopped the fight though, because Jase was limping around the ring. The ref asked him: "Can you continue?" and Jase said he could. Master P watched for a while as Jase hobbled around the ring and he said to stop the fight.
I like Master P. He likes my kid and I know he wouldn't want him to be injured permanently. But, Jase is disappointed with second place. I told him that second place was great and definitely better than a long-term injury.
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Oh, and a LAMU (Look at my uncle) post: he's an antiques dealer, and was interviewed for a segment on collecting antiques for the "Today" show!! He'll be on between 9 and 10am on October 23rd.
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Mr. P and I just pledged some money towards the local public radio station (NPR!)... we got a bluegrass CD as a thank you gift, yay
...Now we're waiting to see of they read our names on the air
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Whoops! I forgot to pop in and wish Happy Birthday to First of Two!!!
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quote:Originally posted by Mickey is a ghoul: I just had my picture taken with the lead guy from Gaelic Storm on my cell phone (I forgot my camera)...and the persont that took the picture DELETED IT! Wahhh!!!
On the other hand, I had a cute Irishman literally kick my ass.
Knowing Murphy, I could so easily picture that!!
When I started to lift my leg, he also turned to let me kick his in retaliation.
Oh! He also imitated belly dance on stage. When my friends and I saw that, we started cracking up and saying "Yes, they saw the parade..."
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quote:Originally posted by Four Kitties: I bought a car through a dealership for the first time in November 2004. I took on a 5-year loan.
I wrote my last car payment check today. I'm paying off just over three years early.
Yay me!
Four Kitties
Go 4K!! We pay off 1 car next month & will be adding to the payment on the other so we can get it paid off early. We'd love to have a few years minus car payments.
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I did tarot card readings non-stop for 3 1/2 hours. I had so much fun! The hostess came in and said, "Its already been two hours, would you be willing to stay a little longer?"... I said, "Two hours? Are you sure? It feels like I just got here!"
It was great and I made some extra cash. Now... Off to bed with me!
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Ages ago, I posted about how I had overcommitted myself, and managed to withdraw from the life-coach course I'd enrolled in, but could still re-enroll for the new semester in March.... and I was feeling really good about it, especially because now=>then is the busy season for weddings [our summer] and the TA I'm temping for wasn't really well enough to come back, so I'm still doing 8 hours a week and blah blah....
well.
I've just gotten an email asking me to confirm my request to withdraw from the course.
Why? It turns out [this is the first official communique - all the others were verbal, positive, and apparently, wrong] that if I withdraw this year, I will not be allowed to re enrol in either the March or July intake of next year, and if I wish to apply in 2008 I'll have to appear before the board to explain why I think I'd be more likely to complete the course...
Which is kind of fine, except that the reason I withdrew was because a] my teaching placement ended and won't be replaced until the new semester, next year, and b] they told me I could just defer the course until March, and carry on then, with no loss of grade, and nothing on my records.
What's worse, is that I attempted to withdraw about 8 weeks ago, when I realised that I would have difficulty completing the next assessment [which required me to be observed in specific teaching situations] so... not only was I already going to miss my deadline, I'm now eight weeks further in the hole.
Grrrr. Waaah. Boo-hiss!
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quote:Originally posted by Roadie: Actually, I think it has made others more enjoyable because when the story line drags or the acting is poor, I can imagine what is going on off-stage to keep myself amused
Well there ya go! That works!
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I was a bad boy last night. I snuck alcohol into my dorm room and me and some underage friends drank in my room. Now this wouldn't be a bad thing, except I live right next to the RA and could have been caught at any moment. I am so glad that he is oblivious most of the time.
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quote:Originally posted by SirKnight-A Mouldering in da Fridge: I was a bad boy last night. I snuck alcohol into my dorm room and me and some underage friends drank in my room. Now this wouldn't be a bad thing, except I live right next to the RA and could have been caught at any moment. I am so glad that he is oblivious most of the time.
Isn't it illegal for an adult to provide alcohol to unrelated minors?
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We're calling the other Dumpy a "her" because it's a lot smaller than Hammy...for now she's just "Hammy's girlfriend"
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