Post #198,835
3/15/05 5:01:00 PM
3/15/05 6:59:04 PM
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Fess up, CRC!
You have a birthday this month. In fact it's the 41st birthday. However, I have no idea which day of the month.
So, for now, it's Happy Birthmonth! :)
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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March 15, 2005, 06:59:04 PM EST
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Post #198,849
3/15/05 6:49:49 PM
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The 41st of March?!?
(Doncha just love dangling modifiers...?)
jb4
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Post #198,850
3/15/05 7:00:00 PM
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Now edited to reduce ambiguity. :)
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #198,851
3/15/05 7:00:10 PM
3/15/05 7:00:26 PM
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Dupe.
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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March 15, 2005, 07:00:26 PM EST
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Post #198,913
3/16/05 1:30:49 AM
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OK... Saturday. (And a plea for help)
Yeah, yeah, all right -- *this coming* Saturday, the 19th. Thanks, Alex! (And, hey, what database manager are you using to keep track of all these birthdays? I could use that... :-)
More importantly, though, exactly one month later -- on the 19th of April -- is my darling [link|http://www.rake-sali.fi/helen-riska.html|Anki]'s 40th.(*) Anybody have any ideas for a birthday present for her?
(*) And two days before that, 17th April, [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=96943|Max Leif] is two years old.
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
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Post #198,917
3/16/05 1:41:26 AM
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Do this
Take Max for the night. Send her out to dinner with her girlfriends and/or sister, mother etc. My wife loves our girls, but every now and then talking to grown-ups is a nice change.
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Post #198,920
3/16/05 1:46:15 AM
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Word up.
...every now and then talking to grown-ups is a nice change. I get that feeling at work from time to time.
Peter
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Post #198,925
3/16/05 2:17:53 AM
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Great idea, but I've kind of tried that already. :-(
Bought her a voucher for a half-weekend at a spa, for Christmas. At first she seemed all grateful, talking about how she'd try to talk her Mum into coming with her too... But lately, she's been trying to foist it off back on me, saying how she couldn't be away from the little guy for twenty-four whole hours. :-(
So I dunno... Yeah, maybe just an evening would be better... I'll consider it. Again, thanks!
(But, keep 'em coming, everybody! :-)
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #198,927
3/16/05 2:36:55 AM
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If she says she can't, she *needs* to
For her own sanity, if not yours.
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Post #198,933
3/16/05 7:12:14 AM
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opium parfume, and a "keepsake" of your undying devotion
something she can put in a drawer and admire on her 60th birthday at how much you love her.
Or better yet ask her point blank "what do you want for your birthday?"
enjoy,
bill
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Post #198,953
3/16/05 9:22:46 AM
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For the keepsake, I recommend a box
Something really nice and may be even valuable. My wife still has the box I gave her when she was 14. But not the actual gift :)
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Post #198,960
3/16/05 10:13:39 AM
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That's really sweet...
The box idea is great. I had a college boyfriend who gave me a decorative box with a rock inside from the beach. I still have both.
And if you're not the sentimental type:
One Valentines Day my ex husband took my car and got it cleaned- inside and out, and detailed. That was the best gift I ever got. With everything else I was juggling, the car was always trashed. I hated driving it that way but didnt have the time to clean it up. It was the perfect gift.
It's like, "How much more black could this be?", and the answer is none. None more black.
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Post #198,942
3/16/05 7:46:16 AM
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I have trouble with that too.
My better half is very hard to buy for too. She gets upset if I go overboard, so I have to be careful. It's taken me years, but I've finally learned that books are generally not the best present (and who has time to read when they're overstressed as it is?). She may be getting a new watch next month for her birthday.
The time out of the house thing is probably best. Everyone needs time to decompress now and then.
[link|http://www.flowerbud.com/products.asp?catid=1&prodid=379|Flowers]? (Stargazers are very pretty but the fragrance can be overpowering.) A small [link|http://www.glass-art.com/ViewByStylePages/PaperWeights.htm|glass paperweight]? A pretty [link|http://www.uniqueboxshop.com/index.html|wood box]? A pretty [link|http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~ikeskine/sala.htm|photograph]? (Prints and posters can be tough because you have to have a frame for them and you have to have an appropriate space to display them. And, of course, tastes vary.)
HTH a bit. Luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #198,948
3/16/05 9:01:56 AM
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Be very careful
If Anki is like my wife, then this birhtday is a "landmark". She'll be 40 and now she is old. Any gift that indicates that she's getting older (cosmetics, spa, etc) will backfire.
Get her something that shows you still find her desireable (lingerie) and wanted (send kids off to g'ma for weekend and check in to a romantice retreat for the weekend, with a small gift (jewelry) for a rememberance).
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Post #198,951
3/16/05 9:11:33 AM
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Re: database.
Oracle 10g it's not! :)
Text file with lines consisting of the conventional US date format (which is most appropriate), followed by IWeThey userid, followed by name. Your entry:
03/19/1964 CRC Christian R. Conrad
But, you knew that.
Sounds like Anki is still at the stage where she is in awe of her creation. Drew's suggestion for time away from Max will be more appropriate next year. Max will be in his "terrible twos" stage, trying to re-assert his status as royalty.
No suggestion of a gift from here. It depends greatly on Anki's interests and priorities. But, perhaps something like a bouquet of flowers would work.
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #199,033
3/16/05 12:37:53 PM
3/16/05 12:39:10 PM
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Hehehee
Mine is almost a text file, (my birthday database for my friends and family). It's a series of tables in word, with each table being a month.* I put the names, ages, dates into each table and then when I go to buy my Hallmark cards for the month, I simply write down whom I need from that. :)
I also have the birthday reminders to fix the cards up and send them on time, programmed into my Anytime Organizer System on my computer... and as a backup reminder, I write the name of the person to send the card to on my huge wall calendar, with "send (name of person) card."
Organization is wonderful, isn't it?
Brenda
*Oh, and the tables all fit on one side of a sheet of standard 8 1/2 by 11 paper. :)
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
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March 16, 2005, 12:39:10 PM EST
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Post #203,052
4/12/05 3:50:53 PM
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Just how many of us
do you have in there?
And how did you find out that information?
lincoln
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Post #203,427
4/14/05 10:42:17 PM
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Couple dozen or so.
All volunteered info in one context or another.
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #198,964
3/16/05 10:21:18 AM
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No ideas here but...
if you try something and it is a hit, report back. I've got to figure out how to handle my SOs 40th in just a couple of years.
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #199,030
3/16/05 12:26:08 PM
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Interesting. You married an "older woman". :)
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #199,103
3/16/05 7:16:56 PM
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She wasn't older when she married me...
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #199,035
3/16/05 12:45:01 PM
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Some of the best gifts I've received from John
Came by him listening to me or observing me. If I saw something I really really liked (but maybe was expensive, so I didn't ask for it), he would take note of that and remember later. One of the best ones was a beautiful music box that played Pachelbel's Canon In D, and was shaped like a unicorn with tiny water ball alongside with a rose in it. And another one was tickets to see Mario Lemieux play a hockey game in St. Louis, (cause I was wishing I could see it).
Has she mentioned wanting anything, talked about seeing anything she liked, or wished for anything lately? Listen to her and see what you find out.
I'll keep thinking though, and see what else I can think of.
It might help if you gave us some idea of her tastes, what she likes, doesn't, etc. to give us something to go on. :)
Brenda
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
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Post #199,121
3/16/05 9:27:04 PM
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what kind of telepathy vitamins does he take?
All tribal myths are true, for a given value of "true" Terry Pratchett
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Post #199,050
3/16/05 1:45:32 PM
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Emeralds always worked for me.
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Post #199,214
3/17/05 12:22:25 PM
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The root of the problem has been found -
but not a solution.
A report in today's Los Angeles Times sumarizes a completed study of the human genome. The study concluded there is not one human genome, but two: male and female - they are that different.
Further, they found the genetic differences among women are often greater than the differences between any particular woman and men. This goes a long way in explaining the unpredicatability of women - what works for one isn't going to work for others.
Common knowledge was that women, in posetion of two X chromosomes, deactivated one of them, but that has been shown untrue. Various portions of the secondary X chromosomes are active, complexicating the problem beyond end. Further, some portions of X chromosomes can be fatal to men (but we all knew that already).
It pretty much blows the "nurture" folks out of the "nature vs. nurture" debate in any case.
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Post #199,216
3/17/05 12:29:20 PM
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Link?
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Post #199,219
3/17/05 12:44:32 PM
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I have it in dead tree version, but . .
. . here it is for the moment at least, [link|http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-xchromosome17mar17,1,5894056.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=2&cset=true|Women Are Very Much Not Alike, Gene Study Finds] - free registration may be required - I don't remember.
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Post #199,229
3/17/05 1:54:55 PM
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Of course this information opens a whole new . .
. . set of genetically hardened excuses for our shortcomings in the eyes of our SOs. Of course the approach, "Well, it would have worked with Jannet" is probably not the one you want to take.
They do not say if they have identified the chocolate sequence in the X chromosome or if perhaps the chocolate sequence in both X chromosomes is active in women.
A person near me who we will call "Fuchsia" maintains chocolate craving is not woman specific. On the other hand, I set out a fresh box of Rocky Mountain chocolates for her last Friday. I ate one. At the end of the day she closed up the box saying, "Oh, I've been a bit of a pig today I see. Well, I had to test enough of them to see if this batch was better than the last one. That's what it was".
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Post #199,221
3/17/05 12:54:45 PM
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Another link.
[link|http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/03/16/X-chromosome050316.html|CBC].
Alex
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