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Today’s quote is from a theologian: “Religion, so far as it is genuine, is in essence the response of created personalities to the creating personality, God.”
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If you’re going to start using quotes from real people, I’m out. I’ll leave it to the smart people.
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Don’t know the answer as to who said this, but I sure do like the thought.
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I saw in the paper today that New Jersey is anticipating apologizing for slavery. It seems NC, Va and some other states have already done so. I would like to take this opportunity to offer my personal apology for slavery, the holacost, the Chicago fire, and Illinois’ loss to Southern Cal.
I (seriously) want to take this opportunity to wish KIM a happy birthday Sunday. I’m sorry I can’t attend her party. We are leaving tomorrow for a week in Florida. I will wave at EYG as we pass Orlando.
We usually book a trip south during the first of the year to get a respite from winter. But we haven’t had much winter here so far.
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Chas,
Wave as you go by Georgia!
Happy Birthday to Kim!
My Avatar has finally changed. I found out what was causing the problem and fixed it. I think that’s a good way to start the new year off!
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We have plenty of winter here, Chas. It snowed again the past two days (our older son wasn’t thrilled about having to go out and shovel but he’s happy with the $20 he got for doing it). This morning is clear and quite cold. When my husband got home from work at 7 AM it was zero degrees (Fahrenheit), though by now I think it’s up to one or two degrees. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Here in northern Connecticut, we had snow on the last day of 2007 & on the first day of 2008.
Don’t know if there’s any significance to that, but I found it kinda neat.
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$20!? Wow. Too bad I live so far away, or I’d come to shovel for you at $20 per snowfall.
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Many is the year that I only have one birthweek, being born on the 6th and all, but this year I will be able to really stretch it and have two birthweeks since the 6th falls on a Sunday.
SERIOUSLY: Thank you all for your prayers and support. I don’t know how I would have made it through yesterday if I hadn’t felt I had the love and support and prayers of the people here. When I felt like crying, it wasn’t for long. I know thateach day will get easier. I have also gotten back in touch with my Adult Child of an Alcoholic self and have a CODA group. If nothing else it reminds me there are people out there more messed up than me:)
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We’re off to say good-bye to the kids and visit the newly renovated Detroit Institute of Arts.
They, of course will be glowing from yesterday’s victory over Florida. But this quote from one of the players about retiring Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, captures plenty:
“He made me into a moan. I came in at age 18 and I thought I knew everything. Now, I’m a little smarter. He was more than a coach.” Lots of other high praise to his character floating around on Michigan media.
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Arghh! preview!
of course not “moan” (tho’ I suspect some practices did), Carr made him into a “man.”
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Heh heh…. Man we need preview back!
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Karen O,
Since it also snowed here both Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, the $20 was probably for both. My husband pays him at least part of it out of his (my husband’s) weekly allowance (what he uses to get gas, snacks, and pop), so it’s not exactly hurting the family budget. We could simply tell our son he had to do it, and provide money for his expenses, but after taking Dave Ramsey’s FPU class last spring we took his advice to start paying our kids “commissions” for work they do. So it’s rare now that our son asks us for money for anything. When he goes out with friends, or even on a scheduled school-related activity (out-of-town choir or band competitions, for example), he uses his own money to pay for what he gets.
We’re hoping that next summer he’ll be able to get a job and start earning money that doesn’t come from us to begin with. He’ll have to, if he wants to have a driver’s license, since we certainly can’t afford to pay for his insurance.
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Well, I finally am back and another year older. So Old that when I went to get my eyes checked, I am going to have to have my right lens in my right eye will eventually require removal. But the Lord is Good and I am sure that he will help through the surgery when the time comes.
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EYG- Your ‘12 Days After Christmas’ song seems to be the first of the season for me!
I received a very wonderful YouTube video of Straight No Chaser, a Men’s A Capella group from Indiana University, performing a fun version of the ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’. Definitely worth your time.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8
Also had a friend give me a series of letters from the recipient of the gifts. There are a few versions online, some slightly off-color. Here’s one that’s not.
http://www.dezert-rose.com/humor/christmas/12daysreply.html
And to those of you who complain that Christmas is over- The 12 Days of Christmas actually refer to the twelve days after Christmas leading up to the celebration of the Epiphany on the 6th.
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I’m absolutely ecstatic since Georgia annihilated Hawaii in the Sugar Bowl last evening, 41-10. It seems that a month or so ago someone on here (I won’t mention any names) said that Colt Brennan wouldn’t have any problems picking apart Georgia’s defense. The only thing Brennan had a problem picking was himself up off the turf all night long.
BTW, Anlir, congrats on Tennessee’s win in the Outback Bowl (I’ll root for an SEC team over a Big-10 team any day of the week — except for Florida!)!
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Pauline – I’d be interested to know the reasons why Mr. Ramsay suggests paying kids “commissions”.
I know one reason against doing so is the thought that as a family we all pitch in to take care of the house & yard. It does seem more expedient to pay them a little something, but I know that what is expedient isn’t always right.
We have payed our girls now & then for some things they’ve done. I’m a little conflicted about the issue, so I’d appreciate your input.
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Paula, I read just the other day (in a newsletter from former missionaries in Russia) that Russian Christians (at least some of the Protestants) celebrate the coming of “Grandfather Frost” (their version of Santa) on New Year’s Eve rather than Christmas Eve, so that the focus is on the birth of Christ. Sounds like a good “compromise”, imho.
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Joe B. – Do you mean the whole eye will be removed or only the lense?
Either way, may God be with you & speed the healing process.
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I too would be interested in what you and your husband learned from D.Ramsey, Pauline.
It was always an issue for us – I feel much like Karen about anyone who lives in a family contributes but yet want the kids to learn how to manage money etc.
We would try the allowance thing and still end up giving them $$$ to cover expenses of various things etc.
I just never did feel comfortable about the money teachings with either of the kids. I’ve read various books on the matter, but just couldn’t seem to get it settled in my mind.
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Cheryl D: I tried to email you. My son-in-law may be interested in your trees. Let me know if you don’t get the email. I haven’t talked to him yet, BTW.
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TJ,
Georgia was playing pretty ticked off (they should be playing in the BCS Championship IMHO), but I think that Hawaii could’ve beaten another top 10 team. They surely would’ve manhandled Illinois as much as USC did. Regardless, just like 90’s BYU and University of Houston, and 00’s Texas Tech, Hawaii has a system that surpasses the talent of the individual players. When faced with superior players, they crumble.
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Well, since no one has taken a guess as to the quote, I’m going to say Jonathan Edwards.
Lynn, thank you for changing back to real people again. Perhaps in a few months you can do TV show quotes.
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While I’m no football fan, I’m glad Georgia won also. The whole setup in the bowl systems sounds screwy, and I’m glad that matchup proved it.
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Wrong again. Goodsearch shows me the quote is from a 20th Century theologian, not an 18th Century one. So I was off by 200 years. Am I allowed to say the name now that I looked it up?
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Thanks Karen. I am developing cataracts. It happens in older folks like myself.
You know what the problem is with getting old?
Answer” Getting Old.
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20th century? I’ll take a guess: Karl Barth?
I agree with MiM and RH that the whole bowl selection process is messed up, and that game proved it. The Rose Bowl was a blowout, the Sugar Bowl was a blowout, and I’m going to predict that the next two games will be blowouts as well (WV is w/o a coach and will play a very good Oklahoma team; Kansas should not be in the BCS — it should have been Mizzou instead).
I do have to take exception with this statement from Rob, however: “I think that Hawaii could’ve beaten another top 10 team. They surely would’ve manhandled Illinois as much as USC did.”
My disagreement? Illinois wasn’t a top-ten team.
Their play yesterday proved it!
Actually, this last point brings out the whole absurdity of the BCS process. Because of the stupid insistence of the Rose Bowl on a Big-10/Pac-10 matchup, and because Ohio State was locked into the championship game, the Rose Bowl selection committee has to scrape up the dregs of the Big-10 to fill a slot that should have been filled by another school. I’ll go on the record and say that a USC v. Mizzou matchup would have been a much better game (although I think USC would have still won decisevly), and then Va Tech could have perhaps played Arizona State (not a great team, but better than Illinois and would have given a better game that what we saw yesterday).
Just my two cents.
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And it’s not for sissies.
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one more guess on the theologian: Cornelius van Til?
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Getting old, that is.
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Karen O and VS,
I wasn’t altogether convinced myself by Dave Ramsey’s teaching on the subject of paying kids commissions, but my husband felt strongly about doing it, and I didn’t feel strongly against it. Previously we paid them an “allowance” and required chores, and they could lose some of the allowance by not doing chores, but there was not a direct tie between specific chores and the amount they received.
I think there are decent arguments on both sides, and left to my own I would probably try a hybrid of the two. Pay a per-unit rate for some work, especially bigger jobs like mowing, raking, and shoveling, but also give a flat amount per week as “allowance” and require other chores simply because they’re part of the family (helping with dishes and laundry and trash).
I’d have to look up in the book from the class to see exactly how Ramsey puts it, but as I remember he feels that it’s the best way to teach them from the time they’re young how work and money are connected in the “real world.” No one pays me a cent just because I’m part of any group, only if I do work. And I earn money based not on what I need it for, but because my work is worth a certain amount to someone else. No work, no pay. Poor work, poor pay or maybe no job anymore. Deciding I don’t feel like it today isn’t an option, even being sick costs me something. And I value the money highly because I know how much work it took – and how much time that I could have been doing something else.
Like anything else, it has to fit the family and be something you feel right about doing. Some of the best parenting advice I’ve read over the years is about trusting your own gut feelings about what is right for you and your kids. (Of course, that has to be balanced with your spouse’s gut feelings, which may be quite different, especially when your families of origin did things quite differently.)
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On the bowl games…
I finally found the video that my co-worker pulled up the other day. It sums the bowl games up in a gut bustingly hilarious but extremely ascerbic series of predictions. The description of the losing teams killed me. I’m still wiping tears from my eyes.
WARNING: This is a very “salty” video. If you’re offended by cursing and (a couple of) indirect references of a sexual nature, this is not for you. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Carl is not a nice guy.
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/85166/detail/
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Illinois is a young team. Did you notice how many freshmen and sophomores are starters? They should be a good team next year.
USC looked like they were playing against bunch of high-schoolers. They were bigger, stronger, faster. Give the Illini a year to mature and barring serious injury they will earn the right to be in another bowl.
All in all, the games I watched weren’t much fun. Except that my wife’s Michigan team beat my brother’s Florida team. That’s ok cause I sleep with my wife and not my brother.
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Make it Man, I can identify with George Yontz when he sang the song, “This Old House” in the farewell performance of the “Cathedral Quartet”
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Re: Dave Ramsey
If he doesn’t come on a talk radio station in your area (he’s all over the South), try his books from the library. It never made sense to me to pay money for something I could get for free, especially if someone already has debt (which doesn’t sound like it applies here). The only downside is that there are some worksheets in the back of the book that you couldn’t fill out pertaining to budgets and such.
As far as allowances, commissions, and chores that are simply part of being a family, I believe Ramsey says some chores are uncompensated (like loading the dishwasher) while some are compensated that they might pay someone else to do (washing the car, raking leaves, etc).
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OK, it’s official. Oil just broke $100 per barrel. I’m going to modify my lifestyle.
As soon as the SUV gives up the ghost (I currently don’t have a car payment and don’t want one) I’m buying a itty bitty car and a motorcycle for around town and renting a bigger car (cause I’m a big American) for going out of town on road trips.
I’m lowering my thermostat in the winter and raising it in the summer. I’m going to buy a goat to mow the lawn.
Ok, everything above is true except the goat.
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Well Joe,
I didn’t know who George Younce was so I had to look him up. The roof and floor might need repair, and window panes mighta been busted, but there ain’t nuthin wrong with that set of tubes! I’m envious of that voice!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afzKLHy4KpY
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Ki,
I checked, and your e-mail came through. I responded. Make-it-Man, I responded to you on yesterday’s thread (re the hackberry) that I live in Nashville, and gave my e-mail.
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Sorry, that should have been KI.
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A. W. Tozer? (I’ve been doing a ton of theology-reading recently.)
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Hey, MiM,
Your avatar looks great! Congrats on figuring it out. What was wrong?
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Yes, Janie. Tozer it is. I guess I’ll have to dig out The Pursuit of God and read it again.
In case Lynn doesn’t get around to it, here is a home-made chocolate chip brownie Daughter L #2 made:
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I would say it will go well with whatever warm beverage Lynn supplies.
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Well, I can sympathize with eye problems. My glasses are pretty thick. I was in the store once, carefully feeling my way through the aisles, when a cheeky little girl asked her Mom “why is that funny-shaped man wearing a pair of big binoculars strapped to his head?”
My glasses are so thick it even takes light a very, very long time to get through the lenses. I suspect that is why I always seem to be about three years behind in knowing what is going on around me.
For my prescription glasses, my optician uses the same company that supplied NASA with the large parabolic mirror used in the Hubble Space Telescope. That may explain why everything is still fuzzy and out-of-focus, come to think of it.
Last time I went to the eye doctor, I just asked him how much he would take for his big lens machine with all the different lenses and lights (the thing they use to determine your prescription, with the head mask and with all the lenses that go up and down while the optician repetitively asks you in an utterly bored tone what the 2nd line of the chart reads, a line that has not changed at all since the first Sumerian optician, suffering from a bad hangover, venomously inscribed it on a calf skin five thousand years ago. I myself have long ago memorized that particular line and simply tell the receptionist exactly what it says as soon as I check in, in order to speed my visit).
Anyway, I figured I could maybe put the entire opticians lens apparatus on wheels, strap my head into it, cart it around with me wherever I go, and just occasionally take a look at the world through the at, snapping lenses up and down and adjusting the focus as necessary.
It might just work, if cheeky little girls in stores could learn to keep their mouths shut.
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What is this wafting through the halls? The aroma of fresh home made chocolate chip brownie with all the earmarks of daugher L #2? A must find! Argh! Only an empty plate with two crumbs! Janie is going to be soooo mad. You are in trouble.. hehehhe
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Here’s a story about a Scottish guy who believes in evolution getting into an argument with a creationist. The argument got so heated the creationist wound up stabbing the evolutionist to death.
http://snipurl.com/1w9hj
Someone please tell me that Ed/QWERTY wasn’t Scottish!
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Janie,
I created a lowercase email address. I created a totally new account in yahoo and gravatar, and the avatar appeared immediately. I wonder what will happen if I changed it now?
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Well, I’m happy that Tennessee won their bowl game over Wisconsin. It was too close for comfort.
I’m glad Florida lost, even though I technically should have been pulling for the SEC team. I think Ron Zook is “Steve Spurrior, Jr.”.
I’m surprised by the Georgia/Hawaii game. I thought it would be much closer than that.
I’m disappointed by the Illinois loss.
Ah well, it’s still been fun. Probably wouldn’t say that if Tennessee had lost.
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MIM
This ‘gravatar/avatar’ thingy has taken top priority in your life, is it really that much fun? LOL
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Okay, who took my chocolate chip brownie? I was saving it to eat with my (hopefully) large whole milk latte later on.
Oh, well, disappointed as I am, since it was made by Daughter L #2, I could probably do without the calories.
But I still want to know who took it. It must have been Drill since he’s the only one through here after Peter and before Mumsee.
Hi, Drill. To what do we owe this unusual visit? Haven’t seen you much lately. Did you eat my choc chip brownie? Even with poor eyesight, you probably sniffed it out.
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Thanks, Cheryl D. I sent another. Drill, I can sooooooo identify! My uncle once told me my glasses looked like the bottoms of pop(soda)bottles. He was the same one who once told me I looked very matronly. Please, gentlemen, refrain from such remarks to the women around you. Who would think one could get so old and still be so clueless? Of course, I never said that!
Now I have lens from Nikon, which cost a fortune, but are worth every penny.
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Hi Janie (and Mumsee, I think, from another thread) and all: I did post a sort of an excuse for my absence on another thread a few days ago (’Something Light thread, or something like that) and also a Hobbit-themed comment on Random Name’s much-previewed and slightly over-analyzed sabbatical.
I have done a little bit of posting through the past couple of months, generally on obscure threads, but have not been able to visit much except to very minimally lurk, I admit.
You can be certain, however, that I have been very, very productive during this time period, although unfortunate complications have since arisen, due mainly to the schemings of a treacherous nun illegally in possesion of an unripe (but unusually large) purloined pineapple. It is, you must admit, a truly sinister combination.
Anyway, I trust that provides a sufficiently clear albeit concise explanation of my absence.
And how have you all been?
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Fine, Drill. The respite from six months of Random Name discussing his sabbatical 15 times a day is truly a (non)sight for sore eyes.
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Welcome back Drill,
I’ve missed your antics.
Now that Random is gone, and you’re back, I begin to wonder…
Victoria,
I’m very much a perfectionist. I can’t let it go until I understand and make it work. Fun? Only if it works.
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I still want to know who took my brownie.
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Hi, Peter L.,
Please thank daughter L.#2 for the great choc chip brownie for me. (Don’t tell her it was stolen with only Christians around–don’t want to disillusion her or anything.) Tell her I loved it! (That’s not a lie, because I love that she made it.)
Whoever took it, and whoever knows and is not telling the TRUTH should be ashamed!
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MiM,
I totally understand about the perfectionist avatar thing. I just go nuts if I can’t figure something out. (Like what happened to my brownie.)
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Janie,
Must not forget the lurkers, could have been anybody, but did anybody actually see Peter L place it on the table?
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oops, Victoria? How do you make it stop? I only wanted it to be see
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52. MiM “Welcome back Drill,
I’ve missed your antics.
Now that Random is gone, and you’re back, I begin to wonder…”
You have a point. Has any one ever seen them in the same room
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MIM –
I do too….LOL
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Kbells –
LOL, . . . and right on que, one shows up, when the other one leaves!
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Mumsee
You forgot to end the ‘end’ with the code marks.
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Thanks Karen. I am developing cataracts. It happens in older folks like myself.
Reminds me of the guy who was on a plane seated next to an older Japanese man. He noticed that the man had a very odd pair of eyeglasses; one lens was much thicker than the other one. He’d never seen a pair of glasses like that before,and it made him curious. He hated to pry, but finally he gave in to his curiosity and tapped the Japanese man on the shoulder, and said “I know this is really none of my business, but I can’t help but be curious – do you have a cataract?” The Japanese man replied “No, I drive a Rexus.”
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Mumsee:
You end the same way you started, only with a slash / after the first bracket.
On the old World blog, if you were italicizing or bolding at the end of a paragraph, you didn’t need the ending, because paragraph breaks ended it for you. Apparently now you always need them, as we’ve seen when people do a multi-paragraph post that’s all in bold or parentheses.
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Drill, it’s probable that no one believes your #42, except me. I’m afraid I may be getting there.
Joe B: I went to the opthamologist this morning on a return visit. A couple of months ago, I started seeing streaks in my left eye (kinda like lightning flashes, I didn’t have to have it open). So I went to see the Dr. He examined me and asked me to come back in 6 weeks. That was today. He examined me today and said I was ok. Well, for some time now, he has said I have cataracts, but not seriously enough for an operation. I want to avoid that. I told him that I have trouble reading in dim light. Then he gave me a perscription (+3.75) to get a pair of glasses from the drug store. Hence, I will probably have some reading glasses like Drill describes. (But I’ve had an astigmatism since age 24. I don’t know that these reading glasses will do. But I have to assume the Dr. knows what he’s doing and the glasses only cost $20.)
Who said getting old isn’t for sissies? He’s right. As my 86 yr old SS teacher says, “All your parts start wearing out.”. As someone said, “My worst problem is that this 25 year old man is trapped in a 77 year old body.”
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Testing. Just scroll on by, this is only a test.
speaking boldly, I am curious if I know what I am doing
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MiM: I think you live in a different part of Ga. than the part I will pass through. I enter on I-95 around Savannah. My son used to live in Augusta.
I said we didn’t have much winter here, and we haven’t. However as I was saying that earlier today, there was a dusting of snow outside, and the temp. was 16 degrees. It will be worse tonight. But it’s supposed to improve after that. MiM probably has the same situation.
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Speaking boldly, some of us wonder what Mumsee is up to.
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Testing, this is only a test, scroll on by, nothing to see here except a middle aged woman suffering from lack of computer skills.
this is bold this is not bold
<was I right or was I wrong
For those attempting to not laugh at my struggles, I am doing what my instruction card from Victoria tells me: starting with a saying the words and concluding with but it is not concluding. I am not yelling at anybody. Yet.
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Mumsee,
I’m worried about you. If you get caught up in this bold stuff I’m in big trouble. Please, please control yourself……LOL
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Okay, so I just showed you the funny marks I was using but they did not show up. At least the italics kicked in. Okay, I begin with the less than sign followed by a b and a greater than sign, type the words and conclude with the less than sign, back slash, and greater than. Stop if Chas, this is hard work, not to be mocked.
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Everyone is going to hate me Mumsee, and its ALL YOUR FAULT, you BOLDER LADY!
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I just wanted to say one word boldly..
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Mumsee:
Like this only with the less than greater than symbols:
[b]this is how to be bold[/b]
[i]this is how to place emphasis with italics[/i]
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If you use the greater than, less than symbols the forum software makes use of them, and they are not visible. If you’re trying to illustrate, then you’ll have to use the brackets like I did for anything to show up.
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Mumsee,
I’m going to try and help:
When you want to end the bold – first, all closed in together.
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It didn’t work. This is weird!
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Okay, how is this?
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Dude,
Word
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At last! LOL
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YES!!!!!!!!!!
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If you try to use the italics or bold tags on separate lines it doesn’t work.
You’ll have to do this:
[b]line number one[\b]
[b]line number two[\b]
If you have two lines right together this will work:
[b]line number one
line number two[\b]
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Nah, I’m not Random Name. We don’t exactly share the same world view. Unless he is schitzophrenic, right? But if he was me, we would both be schitzophrenic, right? And if I were he, his schitzophrenia would be my schitzophrenia, right? But how could he and I both be, when we so disagree? Or would my schitzophrenia really be his? Or, if all this were true, should it really be ‘if he is us’ or perhaps ‘if I am we’ and ‘then ours is us’? Or if he be me and I be he, who is us and why are we and how is them and who are you? What?
We need to go consult myself on this. I MEAN we need to go think by myself about it before I come back and share our thoughts. We mean my thoughts.
Oh dear.
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Thanks all
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Drill, you might want to read this over a time or two.
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Drill made me do it.
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Someone get Drill a cold compress and sip of something strong. This is gonna be a long one.
Good to have you back, Drill.
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Mumsee, #56,
Ah, yes, the lurkers. Of course. I did forget all about them. Isn’t it funny, they seem like they aren’t even here until something like this happens.
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Wow, it’s wonderful that Drill is back. I’ve missed him.
Chas, can’t say much about NJ apologizing for slavery. I have the feeling that most people in NJ would prefer that they do CURRENT business, like getting us out of bankruptcy. Of course, if this keeps us further out of debt, whatever floats their boat.
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Night Train (#51) –
Yeah, but you ruined it by mentioning it. Thanks alot.
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You people have way too much time on your hands.
And where is EYG? I want her to listen to that song! I’ve been gone for a spell. Is she taking a sabbatical as well?
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True, Paul Too Much Time on My Hands by Styx should be our theme song as WOW bloggers.
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Sorry! I meant to write Paula! Like so many others, I really hoped that Santa would bring us a preview post option.
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I don’t know about you people having too much time on your hands but I was seeing to my education. I took a break from that to soak in the hot tub and now I am awaiting the social worker and then the kids. Busy busy busy. sort of. sometimes.
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MakeItMan,
You mentioned on 12/29 that grits are yucky but hominy grits are yummy (your opinions, I assume, and not Platonic facts).. I always thought grits were all hominy grits. What is the difference?
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TRR,
I asked him the same question the other day; apparently he likes hominy (the vegetable), but not the breakfast cereal made from hominy, called grits.
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Thanks, Cheryl!
I visited the South(tm), but not long enough to learn about grits.
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I have friends who use some sort of method of paying their daughter. The school she is in is on a block system. She gets several hundred dollars for every A half that for a B and half that if she gets a C. BUT She pays for all of her clothes, all of her personal care items everything. Then she has regualar household chores she has to do because she lives there too. I did it on a much smaller scale with Chloe. 10 per A 5 per B but it really worked. Every time she wanted something and had to part with her money she thought about whether or not she REALLY wanted it.
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TRR: I never ate grits other than hominy grits. They used to make some yellow grits, but we never ate them.
Mumsee, #70.
Not for anything would I…
It would take a lot for me to…
I probably wouldn’t …
I really didn’t mean to mock you.
Welllll…
We all have trbulations in this life don’t we?
Since everyone was so patient with mumsee, maybe sometime I can get you smart guys to show me how to do the funny faces. All I can do is:
Bit some of you have neat ones.
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Victoria the bold, as Musing would say, is appearing but of course to be having an unduly bold influence on this smiley face blog.
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Chas – The best thing I ever did for my poor vision was the operation to remove my cataract and get a lens implanted. It was an outpatient procedure and I went from being unable to read street signs when driving to reading aloud every sign we passed on the way home just an hour or so later. Now I only need glasses to read or work on the computer. Before the procedure, I struggled for 8 years with recurring bouts of iritis, pressure problems, and edemas behind the eye, which kept me housebound for months at a time. The doctor told me that the implant may not improve those problems, but in the 2 years since the procedure, I have not had one recurrence of any of those problems.
For help with the smilies go here:
http://txfx.net/2004/08/18/wordpress-smilies/
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For those of you in northern climes it going to be a chilly 17 degrees here in the deep south tonight.
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Thanks, Kayvee–by the time I went to look up the smiley page, I couldn’t remember where I saw it.
Just to try
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Kim- I’ll take 17. I think it only got up to 15 here in NE Missouri.
Janie- here is another brownie: NOTE: for Janie only!!!
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Someone watch out for drill. I think he must have bumped into the table and knocked the last one on the floor, then picked it up thinking he had dropped his wallet or something.
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Kayvee, Thanks, I can use these.
and:-D
Or
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Thanks, Peter L.–got it! Yummmmmy!
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Chas,
There are some you can do by just writing the word in between :colons: like I just did.
Examples are smile, grin, sad, eek, shock, ???, cool, lol, mad, razz, cry, evil, twisted, roll, wink, !, idea, neutral, mrgreen.
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It’s going to be below zero in the Chicago area tonight.
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Not that cold here in N.Ga, but it’s cold enuff. 25 now, and supposed to get down to 17. Oldest son was supposed to camp out in Providence Canyon tonight, but thought better of it, and went back to campus for the night.
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There are some you can do by just writing the word in between :colons: like I just did.
And, if you see something you like in someone’s post, you can hold the arrow over it and the code will appear in a little box.
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did it work?
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Well! What do ya think of that? I have never made a smiley before. Excellent question Chas and thanks for the answers Janie and Stubob.
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We had it in the teens last night, below freezing all day. I keep reminding myself I could be still in Chicago. But except for a short walk with my neighbors this morning and driving to church tonight, I stayed home and inside. To me every day of the year needs to reach at least 50. If it does that, I’m satisfied. Twenty-five isn’t a proper high. But again, we had days in Chicago that the “high” was above zero, and when it would stay under freezing for a full week or more. So I just have to remind myself that this kind of stuff is rare in Tennessee, and I can deal with it a few days per winter. By the end of the week I’ll prbably be getting my mail in a T-shirt and summer pants.
Oh no. Mumsee can do smileys and bold. Next we know she’ll be getting a gravatar. Run people, run.
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Sorry so late, but Janie wins! A.W. Tozer is correct. How about a nice soothing cup of cinnamon tea?….
~0)
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fellow amateur
testing…
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Thanks Kayvee, Janie & StuBob. I didn’t know you could interpret it by holding the coursor onto it either.
It’s 11 degrees here, but we’re headed south soon.
If nothing happens, I’ll see you in about a week.
I just had to try that.
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If we keep this up with the smilies, soon we’ll be crowded with teenaged girls
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MMMMMMmmmmm–cinnamon tea! Perfect, Lynn! Thanks.
Maybe the smiley thing will wear off after everyone learns how and no longer needs to experiment.
And Victoria, please don’t worry! No one’s going to blame you–we all know everyone is responsible for their own behavior
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Stubob,
If too many teen-aged girls show up and start to get silly we can all roll
our eyes at them. Except for Liz–she’s nice.
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Stubob,
If too many teen-aged girls show up and start to get silly we can all roll
our eyes at them. Except for Liz–she’s nice.
Whatever
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I’m like
Then she’s like 
So I go 
Then she goes 
The possibilities seem endless. I’d better stop before my brain falls out.
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Wow! I think you guys are suffering from cabin fever or something. Unbelievable.
Janie, I confess I laughed out loud at your # 123.
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Hmmm…all of you are looking a little, well, yellow today. Are you feeling okay?
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