posted on February 5, 2004 07:09:47 PM new
I am resticted by my wife who I do obey in terror from saying too much online. She gets sensitive about small inconvieniences like home invasions.
We live near Detroit and I am retired and disabled by arthritis and almost deaf and profoundly hard of listening. I have been constantly fighting my weight all my life and finally found a tool that works in Atkins.
I have been a mechanic, parts man, shoe salesman, real-estate agent, bus boy, beer truck washer, plumber, frozen food salesman, truck driver, photoengraver, window washer, manifest clerk, moldmaker and aerospace machinist, gem sales, photographer, donut cook, restaurant equipment repairman, motorcycle salesman, smuggler, eBay professional, factory line worker, home renovator, janitor, and now I am trying to peddle a book I have written although I can't spell worth a damn.
I have a deep and abiding distrust of all things authoritarian through long hard experience.
I mostly figure things would be much better if people were kinder instead of smarter and minded their own business a lot more.
Given the basic materials I am capable of fabricating almost anything humans have devised - including the steel to make the tools. An integrated circuit or a Hydrogen bomb is beyond me. But a simple transister or small fission weapon is no problema.
The only guy here I'd trust to hold my ice cream cone while I duck in the John is Prof51.
He wouldn't lick it unless it was dripping on his hand.
posted on February 5, 2004 08:06:29 PM new
lol gravid...smuggler???? that's kinda just sandwiched in there!!! hahaa.
snowy, lol, yes, and I've tried to learn the tango, too. (thats why I said if you dont like your partner much...you really dont want to feel that sock right there and you definitely need to brush your teeth! lol).
Kraft, yes, more than half the fun. Well, I did say I was a military wife for years and thats true. But any of us could say anything, totally fictionalized and a mere fig newton of an overactive imagination. (But that doesnt last too long, does it? People usually talk about what they know, where they've been. Thats as tale-telling as anything.)
posted on February 5, 2004 08:25:50 PM newProf - Is it true your family heirlooms include Coronado's helmet?
I hope you were kidding, Gravid...but not seeing a smiley, I'm not sure. Coronado was vicious, greedy,rapacious, and a fool.
snowy...I've seen her...she does look a little like Sonia......Sonia was her most beautiful in the film "The Milagro Beanfield War"...made from the John Nichols novel of the same name. Worth a look, and especially worth a read if you haven't already...
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posted on February 5, 2004 09:05:08 PM new"lol gravid...smuggler???? that's kinda just sandwiched in there!!! hahaa."
As if nobody would notice, Gravid.
Neroter, I think that way in real life too - that everyone I meet is going to remember everything I've ever said since birth, so I better be honest. The true fact is, nobody listens and the ones that do, don't care.
posted on February 6, 2004 12:06:39 AM new
I think sometimes that I have worked in every imaginable field for at least a week and I eventually discovered that I am the worlds worst employee. It's hell to remain subserviant to fools I'm in my mid 30's (you do know I'll be saying that if you ask 10 years from now right?) single and living in San Diego. Six months ago I thought I would be in Mexico by now but two months ago I got hit up with a business prop that I could not pass up so I am here for at least another year while things get moving. I do some graphic design although try not to do it too actively because design clients irritate me (This is not what I had pictured... Not a problem, what had you pictured... I don't know, but not this........ ARGGGGHHHHH! Can I kill you now?) Most of my clients now are friends who own local businesses so that does not happen much anymore.
SInce I am rarely happy doing any less than four things at one time, as I work to set up the business that kept me here and run the business that is paying my rent I am also considering a third business doing native spanish & japanese translation of ecommerce websites which has me researching how to turn a Japanese student visa into a work visa. Between that and the research I have done on my own situation trying to move and start a business in Mexico I am tossing an idea around in the back of my head about putting my insomnia to good use and chasing a paralegal certificate and specializing in immigration.
Oh yeah... I have two crazy cats and there are some that think I need a little less caffeine in my life.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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posted on February 6, 2004 03:58:27 AM new
Oh Prof I'd never think he was even a cousin.
I just figured your relatives didn't drop out of the silly march they probably were already there and relieved him and his boys of any loose equipment and spare change that was burdening them as they passed through. You said you've had the ranch a LONG time.
posted on February 6, 2004 06:33:45 AM new
LOL! I'll bet Feniix is proud of that distinction, standing alone in the field of all those who would like to communicate with Twelvepole but are denied the priviledge.
posted on February 6, 2004 07:24:00 AM new
Gee I don't have anyone on ignore. I have never needed mechanical aids to ignore people.
What does it look like with people on ignore? Does 12 click on a thread header and there is just nothing there because everybody is on ignore?
posted on February 6, 2004 09:29:29 AM new
Over the years I've found that one of the first clues that someone doesn't really have others on ignore is that they have to keep mentioning it in their posts. It always makes them look more clueless than they already are so it's mildly amusing.
posted on February 6, 2004 12:16:03 PM new
Right, Kiara! He doesn't make it TOO obvious, or anything! But since he's never going to see what we post, might as well take advantage of the freedom.
posted on February 6, 2004 12:44:46 PM new
I was thinking about that. We can tell all and it's not like he can bring it up later and twist it around to his advantage because then he'd have to admit he was peeking.
In fact right now I have some heavy boxes that need moving and I'm having a fantasy that this guy just walked in and asked for a job. lol
posted on February 6, 2004 01:58:08 PM new
hahaha, Cherished, it's good to know that you don't let your degree override your common sense!
I'm disappointed, though, that the beverage you bottle is not two-buck-chuck; my sister thought she'd died and gone to himmel when she discovered it at Trader Joe's. I was hoping you could get me an even better deal on a case, for her birthday.
I'm in my mid 30's (you do know I'll be saying that if you ask 10 years from now right?) single and living in San Diego. Six months ago I thought I would be in Mexico by now but two months ago I got hit up with a business prop that I could not pass up so I am here for at least another year while things get moving. I do some graphic design although try not to do it too actively because design clients irritate me (This is not what I had pictured... Not a problem, what had you pictured... I don't know, but not this........ ARGGGGHHHHH! Can I kill you now?) Most of my clients now are friends who own local businesses so that does not happen much anymore.
