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Rants & Raves 10.4
Here it is, Rants! & Raves!, your weekly chance to sound off about the week past. Remember the rules:
1. A Rave! is something that happened during the past week that you’re pleased about and is signified by the word “Rave!” and/or an appropriately peppy emoticon.
2 A Rant! is something that happened during the past week that you’re ticked about and is signified by the word “Rant!” and/or an appropriately grumpy emoticon.
3. You may Rant! about something a person said, did or wrote, but you may not Rant! about generally disliking a person.
Have fun!
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The saddest line, “The only remberance I have of my mother is the telegram saying she had died.”
It’s a two man play about Mitch Albom visiting his former, and now present, teacher who is dying of Lou Gherig’s disease (ALS). There is lots of wisdom in the dialogue. But it bothered me greatly that, here is a dying man, discussing the purposes of life and death and no one mentions eternity. I think it is assumed in a nebulous way, but other than the line where Mitch will go to the grave and talk to Morrie, and Morrie says, “I’ll be listening.” Is there any discussion of forever.
That bothered me throughout.
Nevertheless, it’s a good play.
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Rave: After fighting with cheap tiny little irons that did little to remove wrinkles for years, I decided to go out and buy the biggest most expensive iron I could find. I ended up settling a bit but still spent about $60 on a very good iron.
It is such a relief not to have to engage into hand to hand combat with my puny $20 travel iron anymore as I battle my bachelor sized wrinkles with this new addition to the household! It rolls over wrinkles like the Red Sox roll over the Angels.
Moral of the story: Sometimes it’s worth it to spend the money!
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This is the wrong place to be spending time if you don’t like confrontation kbells. But may God give you the boldness and strength to say what needs to be said to the parents all the while filling your words with salt and light.
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Chas, that’s all just as well about the play. Mitch Albom has some peculiar views about the afterlife (e.g., The Five People You Meet in Heaven). You wouldn’t have gotten a distinctly Christian view, but more of a sentimental, popular, contemporary view, I suspect.
Rant: The so-called “idiot light” lit up on my truck about 2 weeks ago (that’s the check engine light for those of you who might not know the term). I managed to get around to taking it to the dealer this week. They told me it would cost $90 or so just to hook it up to the computer and find out what was wrong. Plus, had to leave it overnight.
Rave: Found out that the problem (a failed Powertrain Control Module) was still covered under the warranty! This is a 2002 truck, btw. I didn’t have to pay a cent, not even for the diagnosis!
Rave: Georgia doesn’t have to play today, so they can’t lose! And South Florida lost Thursday, so Georgia should be back in the top ten by the end of the weekend.
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KBells, #4: We have a similar kid on our street. It’s amazing the stuff I hear from Tess or Helena. I follow up with “And where did you hear that?” and whaddya know. It’s apparent that two little girls across the way are learning a bit too much from their teen sister and that sister’s pal.
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5. On the contrary, this is a safe place to practice confrontation. (There’s another reason for you, Random) But thank you for your prayers. It’s going to get difficult. Bad influence kid has a lot of pull with other kids in the neighborhood. This could mean being cut off from all the neighborhood kids.
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kbells and others, we’ve had somewhat of the same problem with undesirable influences from little kids in the neighborhood, but my younger brothers have not suffered from the “lack of socialization,” as they have friends from church and elsewhere who don’t need their mouths washed out with soap, etc., etc.
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Rio, my plan is to find other friends at church and elsewhere. However, first, he is an only child so when we’re home I’m it for a playmate and second, bad-influence-kid goes to our church. It’s a big church and he is in an older class but we do run into them.
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Kbells…I feel your pain. Right now I am the mother of the “the mean kid” who hurt anothers feelings. We once had a little boy down the street who clearly knew more about sex than Chloe did. I caught them in Chloe’s room with him on top of her. I tried to talk to that mother but the friendship ended immediately. Yesterday the mother of the child Chloe hurt sent me a text message that she was furious (she had gone to lunch at the school) I called her to get the details and started apologizing profusely. Chloe’s dad picked her up from school yesterday and dealt with it, but I still think Chloe needs to suffer just a little more and think about her actions. Didn’t you mention that you may be moving? Also I know that your child is bi-racial. My friend Debbie has a daughter that is going to have a bi racial baby in February. She and the father are married and have been together for 10 years, but have you found anything particularly helpful or anything to expect watch out for with your little boy. This baby is going to be a little girl…right now she is named Lola Rose…and Auntie Kim is dusting off her smocking abilities for baby girl to come home in a pretty dress.
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Rant!
I used to read and post on this blog a lot more. Now, I have to force myself to do so. I don’t like this new format.
Sucks to be me in this regard, though. It’s here to stay.
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Kim, if you can admit that your child is in the wrong you are ahead of the game.
The main advice I would give to someone with a biracial child is don’t be afraid to ask your black friends for advice. In her case her in-laws should be a lot of help. If she has a good relationship with them she should be okay.
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Double
Representatives who voted in favor of the taxpayer ripoff.
Triple
Those that did so even though they thought it was bad policy.
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Peter, I take it you like this young man?
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Peter, did he ask your permission? (This is a happier topic than the bailout.)
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Rant: My writing group has no sense of time. After we spent half an hour discussing some future writing project that someone in the group didn’t even bring to the group (in other words, not the work she was “officially” having us discuss), we spent an hour on just one person’s work. (There were five of us present.) I finally said, “I have a deadline.” So they decided to do my chapter next, but they rushed through it so I could leave–more than two hours to discuss two of us, with mine being rushed. We just added two new people to the group, bringing us up to six, and I simply can’t give five or six hours to the group every other Saturday, plus the hour of driving there and back (besides reading five chapters in the meantime and working on my own writing and editing).
Rave: Everyone liked what I submitted for critique.
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Rave: Last time I took care of Random Granddaughter she behaved herself. She is almost five years old. Will she be grown up by the time she is ready to start kindergarten?
Rave: I retire in about four months. Will I grow up by then? [Hint: don't hold your breath.]
Rant: I haven’t grown up yet.
Ranty Rave: CNN) — Fannie Mae said it will set aside the loan of a woman who shot herself as sheriff’s deputies tried to evict her from her foreclosed home.
Addie Polk, 90, of Akron, Ohio, became a symbol of the nation’s home mortgage crisis when she was hospitalized after shooting herself at least twice in the upper body Wednesday afternoon.
On Friday, Fannie Mae spokesman Brian Faith said the mortgage association had decided to halt action against Polk and sign the property “outright” to her.
Rant: She is in critical condition. Rave: At 90, she is a tough old bird. I hope she pulls through and has some time to enjoy the house she won by shooting herself.
Also look at
http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2008/10/addie-polk-refu.html
Especially, the heart-warming comments.
I congratulated my wife this morning on carefully making sure we built a house we can afford, though I chastized myself for not buying long-term care insurance when we could have afforded it.
So if I drop dead quickly and cleanly when my time comes, I will post a Rave. If on the other hand, I linger painfully, I will post a Rant. Consider both of these done in advance.
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Rave
My older daughter, who had temporarily lost her job last week but was taken back on part-time, will go back to fulltime hours on Monday!
Kim – At least you are dealing with the situation. Between what you & her dad say & do about it, I’m sure Chloe will see her error & learn her lesson.
When my younger daughter was in kindergarten, she was picked on, including being hit & pinched, by a little boy on the school bus. She finally told me after it had been going on for a while.
When the little boy’s mom found out (I think the teacher told her), she approached me at the bus stop with tears in her eyes. She felt terrible that her son could do such a thing.
Anyway, she found a way of making him feel empathy for Chrissy, & he changed his ways.
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TJ, I suspected Albom had that philosophy, but it still bugged me. But the alternative is a Christian evangelic work, and I know that wouldn’t sell, which is what they want to do.
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Rant: My husband is still traveling during the week, getting home around 10 pm on Friday and leaving after Sunday School.
Rave: He still has a job
Rave: I got the part! (to be sung to Beethoven’s Fifth) First audition in 30 years and I got the part!! Plus they said I was really good!!! I’m a know it all Drama Director in our Christmas Production. Last year close to 1500 attended.
Rant: I just made myself nervous.
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What happened to my post?,
I wrote #26 some time ago saying,
“Rave, Deb got the part! What has Deb been doing for 29 years?
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I don’t know if this is a rant or a rave.
Maybe it’s a rant and a rave….
I spent all day at work (9:00am-9:00pm) running new cat. 6 network cable over our dropped ceiling, and I’m still not done. On the one hand I’m happy to have the most difficult and dirty part behind me. On the other hand, I’ll have to go to work tomorrow and finish terminating all the ends, test the cables (keep my fingers crossed and say a prayer) and then make sure all the workstations and server are back online, and all the furniture is put back in place.
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My husband plans to be home next weekend!
Since the workers tore down the part of our house the dogs used to shelter under in the rain, I don’t know what they do. They have several options: carport, storeage sheds, insulated padded dog house deluxe hubby built for them. One is in his kennel in the house. They will be happy when the renovation is done but I think they are happy now. They are happy dogs.
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Rant: Too much rain!!! Chas, if I could send you some I would. We are supposed to be at the end of rainy season now, but it is still raining every day instead of having days or even weeks between rains. We usually have our last rain for the year in mid-October. Houses are falling all over town because the mud blocks are just saturated and turning to mush.
Rave: Ramadan is finally over. (It’s almost as painful for the people that don’t fast as the people who do.)
Rave: We had a few days away from the office because of the feast/prayer days at the end of Ramadan.
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Thanks Chas. I have been mothering and such for 25 years. When the director called me I felt like Sally Fields. They liked me, they really liked me!! Now I feel confident enough to at least show up at the community theatre auditions. On the other hand, I can’t make it to Tuesday night visitation because I’m just so busy and I want to take on community theatre. Whew! Looks like I need to prioritize a bit.
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Well, I found out where the dogs stay when it rains: in the carport which is directly next to my bedroom. It is amazing how loud three large dogs can howl at coyotes in the dead of night when they are five feet from your head. Louder than when they sleep inside the mudroom and terrify the houseguests. Music to my ears so this is a rave.
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Mumsee – I’m one who doesn’t mind certain sounds or noises when I’m trying to sleep (as long as I know what they are & they aren’t, too too loud) (yes, I meant “too too”), but my husband certainly does. If he’s trying to go to sleep or go back to sleep, he hears every little thing & let’s them annoy him.
Well, he does have to get up at 2:30 in the morning for work, so every bit of sleep he can get is important, so I can’t really blame the poor guy.
That is why I now no longer sleep in our bed on the nights before his days off. (He has Sun. & Wed. off.) I have this tendency, around 4 a.m. (by which time he is usually gone), to start talking or laughing or crying in my sleep, along with moving around. Some nights he woke up from this & couldn’t get back to sleep, which made me feel so bad.
So now, on the nights when he’ll still be in bed at 4 a.m., I sleep in the bottom bunk in my daughter’s room. I’m getting used to it, but I do miss my own bed.
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I wake up when the mouse traps go off, like this morning at one. And when I hear one running around my bedroom. I am not a fan of indoor mice. I don’t like mice in my bedroom. I abhore mice in my bed. When that one went off, I got up and set seven more but didn’t catch any more.
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We had a mouse in our newsroom last week, discovered when a reporter found her bag of granola (tucked away in a desk drawer) gnawed.
General panic ensued, with the top editors hovering around the suspect desk to engage in much chin-stroking and strategizing. One editor finally took matters into his own hands (literally), grabbing a pole to poke loudly around the reporter’s file cabinet. It didn’t do much, but it did look and sound quite impressive.
Alas, the mouse was finally slain by a snap trap set overnight.
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Congratulations again Deb. I hope it works out for you.
Mumsee, seems you have the same problem about the dogs that my wife has about the birds. Leave them alone, they’ll find some place to be, and in the case of the birds, something to eat.
Ajisuun, the farmers have had it rough here. Last year there was the Easter Deep Freeze. This year the drought, and last week a hail storm on the eastern edge of the county ruined a crop of apples ready for picking. They can be used for juice, but they’re too bruised to sell in stores.
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Our dogs find something to eat. Sadly, it’s the birds.
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Mumsee, I may sound cold hearted, but, any bird that gets eaten by a dog diserves it. We used to keep Chuck’s dog. She would delight in chasing squirrels. She never caught one.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEQz5dltmI
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I was struck by a couple stanzas in the hymns we sang today:
“Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of God;”
“To Jesus we for refuge flee, who from the curse has set us free;”
“Here we have a firm foundation, Here the refuge of the lost; Christ the Rock of our Salvation, Christ the Name of which we boast.”
Rejoice!
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KI-
The bluegrass festival sounds like a great way to spend the weekend! I’m jealous!
Where the Osborne Brothers there??
Or Ruby Jane Smith?
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Rave! The new season of “South Park” starts this week.
How old are you again, Anlir?
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KI, It was hard to believe at first, but the DC area is great bluegrass country.
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#18 Kim: Peter, I take it you like this young man?
Of course!
#19 NJLawyer: Peter, did he ask your permission? (This is a happier topic than the bailout.)
Again, of course. He asked first if he could court her a few months ago. Last week, he came over and asked if he could ask her to marry him. We told him yes on both accounts. He said he would ask her tomorrow, so we should know something in the next 24 hours.
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Rave: I went to a college football game for the first time in years. It was homecoming at Truman State (Missouri), my alma mater. They ended up beating Nebraska-Omaha (ranked #16 nationally in Div II) in double overtime! It was an exciting finish, as TSU kicked field goal to tie the game with 1 second left in regulation.
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Chas:For a great up-and-coming bluegrass band, check out The Mayflies. I would describe them more as “psychedelic bluegrass,” and their banjo player (Jon Eric) is totally amazing.
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That the media doesn’t ask tough questions of Biden and Obama, instead the talking heads publish the latest junk/mudslinging on Palin.
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Like Palin or not, you’d think most folks would know she’s the VP on one of the tickets!
But Sarah maybe also sings country music?
Who knows ….
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I do love bluegrass. American music. Sure, it can give you a headache, but when it doesn’t, it’s great stuff.
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RPN: Hmmm, not sure that exactly my point
But I’m glad you enjoyed the story.
My guess is that the person who thought Sarah was perhaps a country singer probably wouldn’t have a clue as to who Joe Biden is, either.
A jazz singer? Maybe …..
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This person is clearly a McSame supporter
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Rant – Forgetting the Past
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/10/021699.php
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