Post #105,078
6/5/03 11:52:21 PM
6/5/03 11:54:19 PM
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Happy Birthday, Norman!
Hey Orion,
Wanted to tell you Happy Birthday! I mailed you a card, but it will probably make it there late, sorry. :(
Have a great day! (I know it's tomorrow, I'm posting this early cause I'm going to bed tonight, so I didn't want to stay up till Midnight to post it, sorry!)
Brenda
"Only dead fish swim with the stream."
Linda Ellerbee
Edited by Nightowl
June 5, 2003, 11:53:47 PM EDT
Edited by Nightowl
June 5, 2003, 11:54:19 PM EDT
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Post #105,112
6/6/03 11:07:12 AM
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Thank you very much, I am 35 today.
It is nice of you to remember.
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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Post #105,128
6/6/03 12:44:31 PM
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*smile*
Congrats! Have a great natal anniversary!
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #105,185
6/6/03 9:33:44 PM
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Thanks
BTW when I was born, Robert Kennedy died. It also is the anniversary of D-Day.
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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Post #105,193
6/6/03 10:00:27 PM
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Heh.. my conatalist is Beethoven
I remember 35; beginning of a major er *change* in lots of circumstances.
It's (still) said, "use it or lose it" - I trust you're using all this blessedly free-of-Office time to learn the new
SunJavaBeans.ecom.con.nyet/Perl.cgi.Apache.script stuff - unless you want to bet on being at last freed from all the toy VB stuff floating around in head - and grokking to fullness in *nix [?] (I mean - just fixing up boxes for family who seem insatiable about 'upgrading' that which they shall never bother to learn the first thing about: what knowledge do you gain from that stuff? Might as well do the Crosswords to pass the time.)
And if'n you ain't gonna do neither: Hey! look at all the unrelated things you might be starting on. Do you Really wanna live in a hamster cubicle, next?
*TIME* - you are fscking Rich but don't even know it: you Own Your Own Time for this litle while; virtually no millionaires ever achieve that, because they remain on that autopilot called More --> And More YET. (Then start promo Tee Vee shows selling info to wannabe Yuppie-suckers: How *You* Can Get Rich in Real Esatate cha cha cha.)
Just a 35th Day thought fer ya,
Ashton
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Post #105,196
6/6/03 10:20:49 PM
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Use it or lose it
I've been too busy being Mr. Mom and taking care of my son, than learning Java, etc. I really want to, but I cannot afford the books and don't have the free time with a 4 year old son needing to be taken care of. Plus my attention span is still too short right now. I don't really see a lot of Java jobs out in my area yet, St. Louis is a Microsoft town full of Conservative Business People hard to convince them to consider using anything but Microsoft products.
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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Post #105,201
6/6/03 11:43:56 PM
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I am jealous.
I've been too busy being Mr. Mom and taking care of my son ...truly jealous.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #105,204
6/7/03 1:14:44 AM
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How so?
I cannot afford daycare, and he isn't ready for Pre-kindergarden yet. So the only option I have is taking care of him myself. Once he is in pre-Kindergarden, I'll have some hours to the day to myself.
I hope that the time I spend with him is time well spent and that he appreciates it later on in life.
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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Post #105,212
6/7/03 5:55:03 AM
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Are you missing anything?
If.. you'd rather be "learning Java" than this - if you *could* [?!]
I guess the Other options mentioned - just went Zooom. Again.
never mind,
A.
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Post #105,254
6/7/03 3:56:51 PM
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I'm missing a great deal
but I chose my family over learning "SunJavaBeans.ecom.con.nyet/Perl.cgi.Apache.script" etc. FOr some reason I feel that I should be spending more time with my son than learning new programming langguages.
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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Post #105,449
6/9/03 7:32:58 PM
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Ah.. you don't get that - you Got it, then ;-)
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Post #105,215
6/7/03 7:29:36 AM
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Ok.
I have no children of my own, though I have always wanted a family.
There ARE kids that I love, however - I've known them since they were born, and a couple years ago, I got the chance to be 'Mr. Mom' when I got engaged to thier mother and moved to MA. I was unemployed, and found the job market in central MA to be even worse than it is here and now, so I contributed by cooking, cleaning and taking care of the kids. The worst thing that has EVER happened to me was when things went bad between thier mom and I, and I was torn away from them. Only recently has thier mother relented and allowed contact again (they've missed me *smile*).
In short, money and employment may make life easier, but what you HAVE (your family) really does make life worthwhile. FORGETTING THIS IS A STEP TOWARD A LIFE OF MISERY.
Please, Norm. Appreciate your family.
It's more than I am likely to ever have, myself.
Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #105,252
6/7/03 3:51:46 PM
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I did not know
about your situation. I appreciate my family, I am doing what I can to keep us together and keep a roof over our heads. I had to file for disability because I was too sick to work, enough to make a house payment and have my wife's salary pay for te rest.
One day, I hope you find the right woman and have kids of your own.
Kids are a lot of work, I've found that out with my son of mine and babysitting my nieces and nephews from time to time.
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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Post #105,225
6/7/03 10:34:18 AM
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I'm Mr. Mom too...
On Saturdays, my wife works and I'm Daddy DayCare for my 3 kids, age 7 1/2, 6, and 2 1/2.
I joked with a friend of mine that maybe that's what I should do. I'll start a Daddy DayCare, because I've raised three kids (oldest to age 8), so know exactly what to do with each age kid.
My thought was to start a Daddy DayCare for 2nd shift workers ( 2 - 10, 3 - 11), since most day cares focus exclusively on first shift. Locate near a hospital. If the facility isn't full, accept hourly drop-ins in the evening for dates and stuff, too.
If you love kids, Normon, then maybe it's a career. I'm sure you can do better than Eddie Murphy, anyway.
Glen Austin
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Post #105,253
6/7/03 3:55:31 PM
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Daddy Daycare
I don't think I can handle that many kids. God gave me only one son for a reason, as that I can't handle two or more of them. Some day maybe I can have another child with my wife, but she is getting old as well, she's 36 and I am 35. Medicine I am on makes it almost impossible to have more children, I've been sterilized by it as a side-effect, but the medicine works.
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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Post #105,455
6/9/03 8:24:57 PM
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You don't want to know who mine is
My birthday's 20 April; it's also Adolf Hitler's birthday.
When I was a kid, I grew up reading about the riots in Germany on my birthday.
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Post #105,473
6/9/03 11:49:01 PM
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I share my birthday with my namesake...
Former Wimbledon champ and tennis pro Tracy Austin. July 1st.
Glen Austin
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Post #105,475
6/10/03 12:06:54 AM
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Fortunately for us all
(or if it's not 'fortunate' - we don't know enough to recognize what we might be missing) astrology is a science/art pretty much lost to the modrin homogenized human psyche, West or East - so most of our musings are about as valid as a political platform :-\ufffd
[link|http://www.metamaze.com/bdays/1216.html|Born on December 16th]
[link|http://www.metamaze.com/bdays/0420.html|Born on April 20]
So you gets Jessica Lange, Harold Lloyd and Joan Miro
I gets Margaret Mead, Stephen Bochco and Liv Ullman
;-)
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Post #105,482
6/10/03 2:31:22 AM
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Re: Thank you very much, I am 35 today.
It is nice of you to remember. No problem, did you get your card? I haven't been in here in a few days, things got nuts with my deceased aunt's son... Brenda "Only dead fish swim with the stream."
Linda Ellerbee
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Post #105,594
6/10/03 7:58:06 PM
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Congrats
Now you can use all that hard-earned lore, go out and er Kick Ass! (umm where that's an appropriate thing to do - like with visiting Pols.) They can't call ya girl any more..
The Truth will set you free,
but first it will piss you off..
Gloria Steinem
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Post #105,894
6/12/03 7:03:37 PM
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I got the card, thank you
it was late, as you said it would be. Thanks again.
"If you're going to cheat, cheat fair. If there's anything I hate it's a crooked crook!" -Moe Howard
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