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Don’t go fantasy!
May 12, 2008 at 8:42 am
Comment #48900
Hi Wade, Claw Good morning,
Did I slip up somewhere and mention my surgery? Sorry, it is just that my whole life has just changed from being up and running to nothing almost overnight.
I will keep it at home from now on. Along with my personal life and blog. So I will see you in the afterlife ’cause I have nothing to say. I guess my life does not meet the social status of TMHQ any longer. Maybe you will get lucky and a celebrity will make a show in here or a serial killer.
I have learned a lot from you all Thanks.
Bye.
May 12, 2008 at 8:34 am
Comment #48899
*comes in dressed as madonna singing like a virgin* Hi Amy! O.K. Amy are we playing sluts or virgins today?* *i can also sing girls just want to have fun* hahahaha!
I just thought I would bring the “Edge Back”. I think it is like life in here, ups and downs. Fun day and blah days. Then we also have to watch out for the old folks rut that is not all bad, jusy friends being comfortable! I have not had a thing to say about the notes lately, I don’t know why. They just seem to be the same all alike!
Goodmorning Amy ♥
Haven’t seen much of you around in a long time. Is Wes keeping you busy? I bet you had a great Mothers Day after this last year? Is that too mundane? I am just interested in my friends.
Is this a bad time everyone?
May 12, 2008 at 8:20 am
Comment #48898
thanks for that last sentence, claw. i was afraid you were getting sentimental.
and thanks so much for fitting us into your oh-so-busy schedule.
May 12, 2008 at 8:18 am
Comment #48897
It’s not that I feel unwelcome here and I see the irony in my fear of breeching protocol, it’s just that there are often pretty sincere personal threads in the HQ that I’d rather not disrupt with irreverence. I mean, sometimes people start posting about surgeries and familial deaths. I don’t take offense to that but I don’t want to seem cruel by injecting my style of humor where it might not be appreciated.
Besides that, I run four blogs, post comments on the note threads here, contribute to several other discussion boards and I write at least two letters to the editor each week. I really don’t have time to participate regularly in the HQ.
Don’t take that the wrong way. The reason I lurk is because I love you guys. Most of you, anyway.
May 12, 2008 at 8:12 am
Comment #48896
hey again, amy
i think it ebbs and flows.
May 12, 2008 at 8:09 am
Comment #48895
CB, I see what you mean, to a point. We have been missing some of that va-va-vavoom that we used to have in here. We used to use tmhq as an escape from real life, to a degree. It seems to me, however, that it was always peppered with the readiness to surround one of our memebers with support, when needed.
I have actually been thinking about this recently, although less globally. I have lost my own spark and find that I have little of interest to say. It started with the main. I couldn’t find witty comments to make about the notes and then it spread to tmhq. I don’t know why. I bore myself sometimes.
May 12, 2008 at 8:01 am
Comment #48894
Aww man! My computer got hung up so I had to reboot and I’ve missed ya’ll. Guess I’ll have a conversation with myself for awhile.
May 12, 2008 at 7:54 am
Comment #48893
well, the lights are blinking off and on, so i think i will shut down until the wind dies down.
later
May 12, 2008 at 7:46 am
Comment #48892
bye glo ♥
May 12, 2008 at 7:45 am
Comment #48891
That was not a rule I learned last night, but I am happy to report that we (the motorcycle’s step-mother and me) beat the heck out of the motorcycle and his dad.
The motorcycle is very competitive, so I had a little fun with that! Hee hee.
Good morning, amy, hope you had a good Mom’s Day yesterday? I’d love to stay and chat, but it’s probably best if I sign off now.
♥ to you, my friends.
May 12, 2008 at 7:40 am
Comment #48890
hey amy
how was your weekend?
May 12, 2008 at 7:39 am
Comment #48889
Good morning Glo, Wade and Claw (if you are still lurking).
May 12, 2008 at 7:36 am
Comment #48888
more like bungee jumping out of an airplane
i remember my mom teaching my sister and i to play canasta. we were in a hotel lobby in italy on a rainy morning, waiting for my dad to get back from a meeting. all i really remember is that you get extra points for cutting the correct number of cards for the deal
May 12, 2008 at 7:35 am
Comment #48887
Um, yeah. Claw’s not exactly known for his reticence, now is he?
May 12, 2008 at 7:27 am
Comment #48886
Thanks, Wade. I was feeling a draft. I am hoping the motorcycle-riding cancels out the canasta. I suppose pinochle would require sky diving or bungee jumping?
May 12, 2008 at 7:26 am
Comment #48885
*tries to imagine claw hesitating to barge into a water cooler conversation. cognitive dissonance too great*
May 12, 2008 at 7:23 am
Comment #48884
*places shawl over glo’s shoulders. gives her a hug*
canasta, eh?
at least it wasn’t pinochle.
May 12, 2008 at 7:19 am
Comment #48883
oddly enough, glo, flying monkeys speak dutch.
May 12, 2008 at 7:07 am
Comment #48882
What do I have to do to make you more comfortable and a full-fledged TroubleMaker, claw? I’ve been known to be accommodating in the past.
Wade, please look out your window. Do you see any extremely short individuals holding very large lollipops or any women in prom dresses floating around inside a bubble? If so, click your heels three times while saying “there’s no place like home” and skip all the annoying flying monkey bits.
My mundane addition to the conversation: last night I learned to play canasta. I remember my mom having a canasta club. The neighborhood ladies would all come over, eat pretzels and m&m’s and we couldn’t watch tv, had to stay in our rooms. I remember thinking they were all old. They were probably all younger than I am now. Hand me my shawl (OH SHIT—I have made myself a shawl!), won’t you, Wade?
May 12, 2008 at 6:58 am
Comment #48881
Jeez…I lurk in the HQ but don’t post because I don’t want to jump into conversations that I’m not part of but, CB, you’re channeling my father with all that self-righteous nostalgia. If I may be so bold, it seems that you’ve taken a turn toward taking things so personally here. I know I can get serious on people but there’s nothing I take personally. Take a deep breath and appreciate the buffer the internet provides.
Secondsout is absolutely correct, you have the power to interject levity at anytime. Like I said, I don’t participate in here a whole lot because I feel like I’m barging in on a table full of co-workers having a chat but I’ll throw a non sequitor in here once in a while.
May 12, 2008 at 6:46 am
Comment #48880
oh.
and now it is appropriate.
Happy PAN day!
#48575
May 12, 2008 at 6:45 am
Comment #48879
*considers going on about wenches and golfcarts, but decides… screw it.*
well…. here’s the (boring and mundane) weather report.
wide spread flooding blocking my way into work… and power flickering on and off here at home. so, i may not be around much today.
May 12, 2008 at 6:38 am
Comment #48878
CB, the reason I don’t talk about taking over the world anymore is because I’ve already done it. You just haven’t noticed yet.
Chumley misses you, Crash.
May 12, 2008 at 5:02 am
Comment #48877
I’m not well liked, or had you not noticed that, Crash?
May 12, 2008 at 3:57 am
Comment #48876
CB and Crash, as a sometimes chess player, I like the analogy, but just to be contrarian, I would point out that in life, you’re not usually facing an opponent that will make moves in an ordered fashion. Sometimes you think you have a rook, and suddenly it’s gone. Pawns move backwards, and there are more than 64 possible places to go.
Anyway, I actually spent some time reading TMHQ posts from a long time ago. While you’re waxing nostalgic about how it used to be, it’s always been a bit conversational. OK, it was a lot raunchier at times, but I read long descriptions of people’s Christmas celebrations. I guess my advice to you would be to be the change you want to see in the TMHQ. Initiate conversations that you want to have. Don’t respond to dull posts. Be that made-up character you were hoping to be.
May 12, 2008 at 3:52 am
Comment #48875
Walrus goes to the highest bidder…
After you tell me it’s name.
I’m thinking of getting a Rhino, or a Hippo…
Or a Rhinippo…ya’
a Rhinippo…
Ya’
But I’d like to see you stick around C.B.
You got a few good cards up your sleeve still.
Probably more than I know too.
May 12, 2008 at 3:42 am
Comment #48874
There’s a lot more “Look what I put on my blog” than just plain on the fly imagination here now.
The “Look at me” is not why I am here.
I kind of miss that improv.
I’m ok with things as they are, it’s not my call, but I still have the right to express myself.
No one is tying me down making me stay here.
May 12, 2008 at 3:39 am
Comment #48873
Looking at that,
That’s a long F’ing post…
I wouldn’t want to read all that…LOL
May 12, 2008 at 3:34 am
Comment #48872
But,
HELL YA’ !!
I want a thought provoking conversation,
I like to know my brain still works how it used to…
If I don’t get something I’ll say so, or not.
But I liked Troy’s conversations…
They always made me think.
And W.P. too,
He kept me on my toes…
But they aren’t here anymore.
You keep me on my toes too C.B.
And so do a few others
with all the antics here.
Making me think…
But I also like to know how people are doing too.
What their daily life is like.
Which is why I ask how everyone’s doing,
Cause I don’t dislike anyone here.
But I do know what edge you’re talking about, I miss it too.
Didn’t I have a walrus ???
WTF happened to it ?
And for Christ’s sake…
WTF was it’s name ?
( I really don’t remember that either, but I do remember a walrus…)
May 12, 2008 at 3:26 am
Comment #48871
Kind of sad really. Our escape from reality has turned into a place to express our realities.
And to think that ‘Glo was once going to take over the world…
The antics that once took place in fantasy’s basement…
Oh, the dreams that have lived and died here…
Welcome new TMHQ.
May 12, 2008 at 3:22 am
Comment #48870
I know…
A little kick in the arse…
I know.
I lurk sometimes, and it’s obviouse that nothings going on when you have a 7 hour gap that no one post’s.
But people have lives too.
And I don’t expect anyone to post all the time.
But I know what you mean…
I just don’t know what to do about it.
Some people just bring in energy with them that’s needed for here I think.
And somehow it got a little more organised where people show up at specific times and leave at specific time and …best of luck catching them here.
I don’t know, I don’t know…
May 12, 2008 at 3:03 am
Comment #48869
Ya’
I back edited…
I think this place has lost a few people who contributed to the edge…
And gained new people here who aren’t familiar with how it used to be though.
So…it watered down.
I know there were people still in here after I went to bed and that’s rare now…
May 12, 2008 at 2:48 am
Comment #48868
White bread is plain, Crash…it has no flavor, no pizazz.
This used to be a place where we could sometimes be a little different than we were in real life.
But now it has become nothing more than a message board.
A sometimes boring message board.
May 12, 2008 at 2:42 am
Comment #48867
Ya’
It was…
I already said that though in #48858.
I like a conversation that makes me think.
I prefer them actually.
Okay,
Get the white bread now.
Like I said,
It could use a good kick in the arse,
But I wasn’t here for the begining either.
I know there was a lot more going on here though when I bounced in…
May 12, 2008 at 2:39 am
Comment #48866
Be honest. That was a more thought provoking discussion than spending half the morning talking about what was for breakfast and the other half talking about what will be for lunch.
This space has become watered down into family share time.
Nothing at all like it used to be.
This used to be the party zone, the think outside of the box zone, but now…White Bread.
May 12, 2008 at 2:31 am
Comment #48865
Don’t get the white bread thing…
But ,
G’Night C.B.
Sleep well too.
May 12, 2008 at 2:23 am
Comment #48864
Well, It’s late, so I’m throwing in the chalk for tonight!
G’nite, Crash.
PS: I hate white bread!! LOL
May 12, 2008 at 2:18 am
Comment #48863
Yes it does C.B….
Kills in Chess.
I don’t know,
I’ve done some impulsive things I don’t regret as of yet, and may never will.
Then again, theres some that I have regeted, too.
Depends on what’s important at the time I guess.
No matter what they say…LOL C.B.
You’re gonna make me paranoid ( j/k )
Ha !
You could be a teacher…lol
Just don’t throw any chalk at me though…
May 12, 2008 at 2:07 am
Comment #48862
OMG! Mom is right! I’m a fucking teacher!! LOL
May 12, 2008 at 2:05 am
Comment #48861
Impulsiveness kills in chess. I’m beginning to suspect it may be valuable in life at times.
You’re no idiot, Crash, no matter what they say! (j/k)
May 12, 2008 at 1:55 am
Comment #48860
Anyway…doesn’t matter.
May 12, 2008 at 1:52 am
Comment #48859
I suppose I’m more defensive than offensive…
Holy shit !
I understood all that, atleast I think I did…
Too cool.
Analogies require a lot of thinking for me cause I don’t always get them.
And compairing Chess to Life is analogy enough for me man…
That’s too cool.
Sorry if I sound like an idiot right now though.
May 12, 2008 at 1:44 am
Comment #48858
True,
because you can’t see their every move,
but you can always be prepared.
May 12, 2008 at 1:32 am
Comment #48857
I can see that too.
Strategy.
Most the time I take the consequences of my actions, or decisions into consideration before I settle on one.
Or I try to at least…I’m a little more impulsive these days though.
May 12, 2008 at 1:29 am
Comment #48856
Of course, with chess it’s pretty easy to play your own offense and defense and then work to understand your opponent’s offense and defense…life is a bit more complicated.
May 12, 2008 at 1:23 am
Comment #48855
I just meant that people make moves in anticipation of what others may do as a response.
Chess teaches us how to think a few moves ahead and view things as they will be in the future rather than in the now. It all depends upon what we do and what the other does as a response.
The key to chess, as with life, is to have more viable options left open to you than your opposition in the end.
May 12, 2008 at 1:15 am
Comment #48854
I just ment it as a game…
I never learned the history of it though.
So I don’t know that much about it.
But it was a game from childhood is all.
I guess if I used an analogy, you can chalk it up to accidental…
LOL
May 12, 2008 at 1:05 am
Comment #48853
Not sure if you meant to use the chess analogy, but weighing my pros and cons is what I have been doing for the last month or so.
I thought everyone played chess, even if they don’t know the actual game! LOL
May 12, 2008 at 12:59 am
Comment #48852
You play chess ?
Thats a game my mom taught us to play when we were kids.
She never did let us win,
We had to win by strategy.
You know,
Most of the time when I moved, I always weighed out pro’s and con’s…like most people do.
So far here there’s more pro’s that keep me here.
I think if you can live somewhere and call it home…
Why move away ?
But then, if you can’t stay and call it home…
Why stay ?
May 12, 2008 at 12:53 am
Comment #48851
I also like the hustle and bustle of city life around here.
There is always something to do if you’d like.
I live less than half an hour from NYC and there is just nothing else like it.
I can go to Military Park in Newark and play chess if I like or just go sit in Central Park in NY for a few hours on a summer evening.
I’ll really miss it if I make this move.
May 12, 2008 at 12:45 am
Comment #48850
Here in NJ we get freezing cold winters and hot, humid summers, but no drastic weather for the most part. The earth does not shake, hurricanes normally blow themselves out before they get here, no great fires, no tornadoes, no mudslides, no volcanic eruptions, rarely even hailstones. Just rain, snow, sleet, or shine.
Way too much rain in the Pac NW for me.
May 12, 2008 at 12:38 am
Comment #48849
Dude, you can fry an egg on the sidewalk there…
But then again, you could freeze water on the sidewalk here…
Ya’,
Here it’s the same way…
I’m a transplant myself,
but I’m not unfamiliar with a rural comunity.
Lot’s of people who move here are from CA or AZ so I find it.
Culture shock, if you’re not used to colder weather.
May 12, 2008 at 12:29 am
Comment #48848
The weather is great in AZ. Yeah, it gets hot, but not humid.
I like warm and sunny, personally.
It used to be mostly retirees and asthmatics but the area is one of the fastest growing in the US so nearly everyone is from somewhere else.
Of course, Mom is a 74 year-old retiree…
May 12, 2008 at 12:21 am
Comment #48847
Wasn’t trying to stick my foot in my mouth…
Sorry if I did…
May 12, 2008 at 12:18 am
Comment #48846
What, no dinner on you ?
That’s actually kind’a cool of your cousin though…
Might be facing the same delema I have,
not there yet…
Man,
Arizona,
why would Anyone want to live where it gets that hot ?
I’ve herd that it’s actually a bigger retirment comunity than Florida…
What I don’t get though is why all the “Great” retirment comunities are in the states with the worst weather ???
May 12, 2008 at 12:08 am
Comment #48845
I’ll find out in a few days. My little cousin (43 years old) took her out to dinner tonight.
May 11, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Comment #48844
That’s cool, that it was easy.
I had a busey one…
Still waiting on Gwenns gift though,
I’m hoping for tommorow, or she might think I didn’t get her anything.
But there were a lot of people, we had a good turn out…like Christmas or something, but more low key.
How’d your mom like the steaks though ?
May 11, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Comment #48843
Easy for me. My Mom is 2500 miles away, and I don’t talk to the mother of my kids.
May 11, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Comment #48842
Ya’…
Didn’t think about that,
We’d probably have the same issues like “The Jetsons”…
How was your Mothers Day C.B. ?
May 11, 2008 at 11:26 pm
Comment #48841
Great idea, if you really trust air traffic controllers!
May 11, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Comment #48840
Now all we need is a car that can morph into an airplain…
Traffic jams wouldn’t be a problem anymore.
They would come with warnings durring high winds though…
Which would be the most awesome time to use them.
May 11, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Comment #48839
Didn’t know the weather had gotten to the aquatic car stage, playa. Be safe!
Good night, wet Prince! LOL
May 11, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Comment #48838
Dude…
Thats a cool car Wade.
LOL…
But…can you still carpool ?
May 11, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Comment #48837
i think i am going to call it a night.
y’all have a fun evening
May 11, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Comment #48836
i was thinking more along the lines of a potential PA note, CB. but hey, go for it!
co-write it with her and get yourself paid!
May 11, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Comment #48835
C.B.
You could tell her that you’ll concider being a teacher if you can keep Rocky.
May 11, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Comment #48834
aquada
May 11, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Comment #48833
I’d be a wiz at chalk tossing!
Great
, Wade.
I’ll talk to Mom about writing her book on
torturechild rearing.May 11, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Comment #48832
You might have to pull out a boat for commuting Wade…
Unless your car is amphibious
Hi glo,
Bye Glo.
Have fun !
Hey C.B.
How you doing ?
Teacher huh ?
…?
Let’s not talk about the dog…
It couldn’t stay in the hotel room by itself…
And my sisters in-laws have dogs already…
So, my house was the designated place.
I did it for mothers day damnit…
But they leave tomorrow…
May 11, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Comment #48831
whew! heisa is being a real pain tonight, kicked me completely off line
hey cb!
hi/bye glo
May 11, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Comment #48830
ROFL
good night, glo ♥
May 11, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Comment #48829
heavy rain with wind blowing at 30mph, gusting to 40
and the low is current west of me, so its rotation is pushing water up the bay
commute is going to be fun, fun, fun
May 11, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Comment #48828
Can’t stay, my head is about to asplode from teh cyootness of baby crack kitty.
CB, I think you would be an entertaining teacher, one of the ones that throws chalk at the idiots!
Good news on the impending promotion, m-a! ♥
Batten down the hatches, Wade. If you land on any witches, be sure to get the shoes.
Hope you didn’t have any more doggie accidents, Crash?
And, good night!
May 11, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Comment #48827
hope that promotion goes through, morpho
LOL, CB - you mom should put all that in writing
May 11, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Comment #48826
Hey gang.
Nice kitties, Mishee (when you back read).
Rain due tonight and tomorrow but still dry here.
Talked to my Mom. She says she’s proud of me for holding it together in this bad economy for so long but wants me in AZ. Still without Rocky. Says she just put up with us having dogs because we were kids and kids need pets!
Ain’t she just the sweetest?!
Oh, and she wants me to become a teacher.
Hello children, I’m Mr. Freeman, would you like to die today?
May 11, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Comment #48825
wade - oh lord, if we had to pay for the fuel! he just has to pay for his personal gas (to get to the office in shreveport) the company picks up the rest. once he’s on the road, he only has to pay for his meals, and sometimes not even that. i think he is about to get a promotion and another raise too, so that’s good for us.
May 11, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Comment #48824
yergh, m-a
hope paying for the diesel doesn’t come out of his pocket
May 11, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Comment #48823
i think it is beyond repair
mostly heavy rain and wind, with some coastal flooding (pushes water up the chesapeake bay, along with run off and high tides - won’t get to me, but nasty nonetheless)
May 11, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Comment #48822
crash - don’t know yet. so far i’m hearing 6 weeks in ND then another 6 weeks over in des moines. so 3 months but it could (and probably will) be longer.
May 11, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Comment #48821
It was actually okay M.A.
Trent got to run around with a bunch of kids,
And it actually felt like a bunch of family around…
Good stuff there.
Wade maybe when you fix it, you could fix our weather too.
How long is he gonn’a be gone for M.A. ?
May 11, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Comment #48820
crash - sounds like you had a good time - i spent the day hanging out with T before he left for north dakota.
wade - did you break the weather machine again?
May 11, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Comment #48819