Imponderables: In The Beginning... by nvghostrider

Thanks for all the wishes folks.

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http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=2&t=35472&m=651588#651588

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 5:53 AM

BUMP

because I forgot to post in old thread.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 6:11 AM

Secondsies!

If it weren't for malfunctioning voting booths I coulda gots firsties!

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 6:16 AM

Nah, Firsties is yours.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 6:19 AM

7:45am - get to polls
8:15am - finally someone comes out to explain 7 out of 9 voting booths are not functioningh
9:00am - finally voted

I earned my "I voted" sticker.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 6:28 AM

Last week the poll at UNR was taking over an hour for early voting. The parking outside has a limit of 30 minutes and people we getting ticketed even as they were putting money in the meter.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 6:35 AM

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Originally posted by nvghostrider:
Last week the poll at UNR was taking over an hour for early voting. The parking outside has a limit of 30 minutes and people we getting ticketed even as they were putting money in the meter.

ouch. Luckily I didn't have to drive. I looked up my polling place and it was like literally right next door to my apartments. I just slammed the alarm clock threw on jeans and a t-shirt and walked over to stand in line for an hour or so. Fun. It almost started raining a couple times too. Luckily it just got to the sprinkling point and never started pouring.

Thing is as annoying as it was to stand in line like that I don't get the people who were being rude to the volunteers. At least I assume they're volunteers and don't get paid to man the polling stations. People were yelling stuff like "well you should have tested these things earlier" and "not very reassuring". Dude I'm sure they're trying to get stuff fixed. Yelling at them isn't helping.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 6:50 AM

Check this out. It was sent to me by one of my oldest friends who lives in Iowa. I'd take it halfwise as it is secondhand news to me, but I rarely let myself get this close to such things.

message:

I live in Iowa. I have a disabled 26 yr old son. I have never registered him to vote because 1. He is not mentally capable and 2. He couldn't read a ballot. He lives in a group home with others like him. They the homes staff registered my son to vote. When I found out I told them that he is NOT allowed to vote. I find out today they took him to vote and a home staff member told him who to vote for (Obama) and was actually the person who help him vote. I am livid. They tell me it is his right and the law. They knew I would probably get him on election day so they took him to vote early. I have already contacted a lawyer and the media will get back with me. I am shaking so bad right now. The staff used my son and others for political gains. Sorry I just needed to vent.I am off now to try and get someone's attention on this matter

I assure you this is true. My friend is very close to this family and knows the state of the young man. Pretty messed up.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 7:15 AM

Wow that's very messed up. I bet those staff members will be in some deep deep trouble.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 10:22 AM

Noon

BUMP

for a busy but less stressful day.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 10:53 AM

I think it's just you and me today. Everyone else is bogged down with work I guess. Or stuck in voting lines. Who thinks the results will roll into tomorrow before we have a set winner?

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:23 AM

If a gorram Zombie invasion just happened and no one told me I'm gonna be pissed.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:29 AM

KELKHIL

Quote:
Originally posted by nvghostrider:
If a gorram Zombie invasion just happened and no one told me I'm gonna be pissed.

But wouldn't that be the best way to make sure that there was someone left behind to slow down the Zombies????

(flees!!!)

Some men just wanna watch the world burn

Zombie Killing, Ninja in Training Kelkhil
The Shirtless Forsaken

Member of the Coalition for HK - Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:32 AM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

There's a zombie invasion in WoW, but I haven't heard of any others. I've been watching CNN all day, you would think they'd mention it. Unless Wolf Blitzer actually is a zombie, hmmm...

So I got up and voted early, walked the half mile or so over there and back, because parking was going to be gross. Waited for about a half an hour, got rained on while walking back (omg! rain in southern California during day light hours! the world is ending!), then drove hubby to work because apparently there's going to be some drinking there today lol. Now I'm all sleepy.

First exit polls in half an hour, then the first polls close in an hour and a half. Hopefully we'll be able to get some sort of indication on how things are looking before tomorrow morning. It'll take a lot longer to hear about the Propositions here in California though. I'm a total election junky, but I am so looking forward to not having to look at all the ads and crap anymore.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:43 AM

First off...

I LOVE SKITTLES!!!

Taste the rainbow bitchez!!!

Second, i would suck during a zombie situation. I can't run long distance, I get hungry easy, I care too much for other people, and I'm only a fair shot.

Tootsie rolls suck the brown parts, Starburst are really good after the Skittles dry up, and Zack And Miri Make A Porno was far too funny for this day and age.

END just found left over Halloween candy rant.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:54 AM

ooh, new threadness. shiny ^_^

so how's everyone this most tense of election days XD

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:57 AM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 12:07 PM

Hi all

1st the staff at that home should be FIRED!!

2nd sorry I was out at trainings for half the day and am now home working on a behavior report for a meeting tomorrow

3rd Zach and Miri was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!

4th...must vote tonight

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 12:30 PM

Whoa I turn my back for one hour and look at all the people. Wait a minute...you guys are all zombies now huh? I can't turn my back or you'll eat my brain!

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 1:13 PM

GORRAMGROUPIE

1. Went to the store(Walmart) on November 1, NOVEMBER 1st, and they are playing Christmas music. What happened to Black Friday? It put me in the opposite spirit, wanted to burn the &^(*%( place to the ground.

2. Brain is gone, not from zombies but from bad day at work. People are basically stupid, except the people on this thread.

'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'
Police Squad

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 1:45 PM

Time for me to go home and watch too much cnn.

*Zeek backs away slowly while facing potential zombies*

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 4:36 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by NVGhostRider: I live in Iowa. I have a disabled 26 yr old son. I have never registered him to vote because 1. He is not mentally capable and 2. He couldn't read a ballot. He lives in a group home with others like him. They the homes staff registered my son to vote. When I found out I told them that he is NOT allowed to vote. I find out today they took him to vote and a home staff member told him who to vote for (Obama) and was actually the person who help him vote. I am livid. They tell me it is his right and the law. They knew I would probably get him on election day so they took him to vote early. I have already contacted a lawyer and the media will get back with me. I am shaking so bad right now. The staff used my son and others for political gains. Sorry I just needed to vent. I am off now to try and get someone's attention on this matter

It doesn't even matter that they were telling them to vote for obama, the fact that this is happening at *ALL* in *ANY* capacity is more than fucking wrong, and it pisses me off.

Recount, anyone? holy shit, batman. good luck to your friend.

CK: LOLZ on the zombie emergency plan XD

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 8:33 PM

*cracks open ammo stockpile and checks weapons one last time*

NVG here! Results are in, let the zombie-pocalypse commence.

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Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.”-Dave Barry

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 5:22 AM

I don't know how the heck they project these results so quickly. Looking back now they projected stuff that ended up with like a 2% difference between the candidates and they were projecting them with like 12% returns. Drives me nuts. They even projected michigan for obama when mccain was in the lead for the results they had at the time. wtf is that about? They were right of course but still. You think there's a reason people don't think their votes matter? Maybe because they don't even need to count them before they call the race?

I guess I'm glad I didn't have to stay up late watching the boring political analysts argue, but the projections will always drive me crazy.

side note: my brother went to the obama rally in chicago. Didn't see him on tv or anything but sorta interesting that he was there. Not something I'd do, but he always has to do what the cool kids are doing.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 5:26 AM

was there a riot? :-P lol

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 7:01 AM

Are you kidding. That is what the zombie hoarde looks like.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 7:22 AM

lolz XD i'll get my shovel *looks up emergency zombie steps again*

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 10:32 AM

HUGS all..sorry busy day

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 10:35 AM

*hugs back* its ok MsA we still love u ^_^

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 11:20 AM

Included as an extra feature on the Samurai 7 discs was this awesome show

that you can now watch on HULU. Just sharing with some of my favorite folk.

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The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
-Loretta Lynn

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 11:22 AM

O_o what is it?

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 11:38 AM

A series of shorts about Mr' Stain and a cat that lives in Junk Alley. A little wierd but I (and my nephew) really liked them.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 12:02 PM

huh. interesting.

its dark out here.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 1:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by freelancertex:
its dark out here.

Yeah this time change seems to have gone in the wrong direction. Now it gets dark at like 5:00pm ick.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 1:41 PM

yeah. love it when that happens >< not.

6am "what the shit? why is it light out? ><"
5pm "why the hell is it dark *now*?"

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 2:08 PM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

At least they moved the time change back a week. It used to be right before Halloween, which seemed like the stupidest time ever -- just when millions of little kids are going to go tramping through their neighborhoods, let's make it darker an hour earlier.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 2:30 PM

lol true, i'll agree with u on that.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 3:31 PM

I love the fall back..hate the spring forward..I'm a big fan of extra sleep..

LOL CK I wish someone had told my PDA. It went all time changy on me the week before and I had to argue with it :)

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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 3:39 PM

yeah the spring forward sucks, but the getting dark at like 430 in the afternoon sucks as well ><

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Thursday, November 6, 2008 5:40 AM

I just gotta say south park is crazy. I'm impressed that they got obama's acceptance speech in their episode the very next day, but they of course had to go over the top with the episode too. The whole focus of the episode was that obama, mccain and palin were really like ocean's eleven. They were all in it together to steal some diamond necklace through a secret presidential escape tunnel in the white house. Anyway one part of it was that obama's grandma's death was faked so she could pull off one part of the heist. Not cool.

The rest was funny though.

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Thursday, November 6, 2008 6:09 AM

Timeless the South Park

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Thursday, November 6, 2008 6:35 AM

lol u should know by now theyre notorious for being over the top :-P

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Thursday, November 6, 2008 7:33 AM

ok I am now pondering just starting a new account ... 'cause I can't get my profile to update at all...

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Thursday, November 6, 2008 7:35 AM

aw man :\ well it would give u an excuse to change ur username ^_^

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Thursday, November 6, 2008 7:58 AM

There's a good ponder. What are women's thoughts on the name change with marriage? Is it important and why? Just a tradition? Status symbol?

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Thursday, November 6, 2008 8:12 AM

MSA

:) Yippee it's me... had to make a new log in, but oh well it worked

Ok Zeek in answer to your question for me it symbolizes becomeing a part of his family. We are a family together and taking his name represents that. Plus legally less confusing when it comes to registration of kids at school and such.

Plus it makes me feel connected :)

* working on this*

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Thursday, November 6, 2008 8:17 AM

YAY!! MsA!!!! ^_^

or ir you really hate your last name *points to self* you'll be really happy to change it

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Thursday, November 6, 2008 8:24 AM

The only choice I'm against is hyphenated names. What happens to the kids? Do they get the hyphenated name too? Then if they marry someone else with a hyphenated name are they going to end up with 4 names all jammed together? I don't see the point of that. I'm an all or nothing type of guy I guess.

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Thursday, November 6, 2008 9:06 AM