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| Brenda: I know. I was sorrly bent out of shape at my tv too last night. It went wonky around dinner time just when I sit down to watch the 6pm news and was still wonky when I went to watch the 11pm news from Washington state. Found out this evening what happened. There was a fire in the building of my internet and cable provider. At least I will be able to get the news from the US tonight. |
Brenda: Yeah, Yogi Bear was a thing when I was a kid too. Never watched Scrooge McDuck but I did watch some Donald Duck stuff. My tastes ran more to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the like. Duck Dodger in the 23 and a half Century.  |
| Brenda: Yeah, Yogi Bear was a thing when I was a kid too. Never watched Scrooge McDuck but I did watch some Donald Duck stuff. My tastes ran more to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the like. Duck Dodger in the 23 and a half Century. |
| Brenda: Oh, poor you. My brother has gone to church off and on since long before our mother died. Yup, I know that feeling as well. |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah... Boy... when my internet goes down for half a day it's almost as bad as when my power is completely out. Especially if it's cold out and I can't just go outside to get some stuff done. It's crazy how addicted we are to tech without realizing it. If it weren't for my pretty numerous outages around here, I wouldn't get that reminder all that often. |
6ixStringJack: "Smarter than the Average Bear". One of my two favorite cartoon catch phrases of all time. It was that from Yogi, and "Work Smart, Not Hard" from Scrooge McDuck. Always remembered a Donald Duck cartoon with his nephews too where he was trying to teach them why saving was important and the piggy bank he gave them would play a song that said "Take my advice, do as I say, save a little money for a rainy day" every time they put a coin in it.  |
| 6ixStringJack: The only person I know who likes talking about religion is my brother. If it ever starts coming up, I'll let him know I'll humor him for 5 minutes and we're going to need to change the subject. It's just about as annoying to me as my old man talking about Football. Just something I gotta suffer through on occasion while realizing I'm sure there are things I care enough to talk about that bores them out of their skulls too. |
| Brenda: I am grateful too. Civilization is nice with all the electronics around that we can play with Unless they decide to go wonky. |
| Brenda: Yup, and I can't stand it. I've said time and time again that I have no truck with their religion. But every so often it is trotted out and have to say leave alone. And I don't even have to luxury of swearing at them and trust me it is sooo very tempting. Well, here being I guess about 20years older than me probably makes her think that I should think like that. But no thank you. A friend of my mum's that these people knew tried that when I was a child. She found out the hard way it doesn't work with me. I know too much about the natural world and such to believe that. As my Blair used to say about me smarter than the average bear. |
| Brenda: Okay. I just didn't want to think that I had disrupted our nice conversation is all. |
| 6ixStringJack: I'm sure everyone had bad blood in their family at some point. I'm just kind of grateful that we've lived in such a relatively chill world compared to where or when we could have been born. Civilization is kind of nice, despite all the drawbacks and daily annoyances. |
| 6ixStringJack: Yeah, about the boss, right? I never had one that tried pushing God onto me myself, but then again I never had a job that seems as personal as yours does with them either. I've just been working the last 15 or so years on and off way below my abilities and that sets me up to have to eat a shit sandwich every night by a boss that is years younger than me. It usually works out... but the process can't be rushed and is such a chore every time I have to do it. |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh... No. Not at all, Brenda. I didn't think you came off as annoyed at all. Just kinda my thought processes at work is all. I don't mean to be dismissive of what other people believe by forcing my own dismissiveness of everything on anybody is all. You didn't do anything. |
| Brenda: I think a lot of people have some bad in their family tree. And freaking out about it isn't going to do anything about it either. |
| Brenda: Not asking you to find God or take what I think and believe as gospel. My boss certainly loves to do that to me enough. |
| Brenda: Sorry if I came across as annoyed. I didn't mean to. But I do get your point though. We all have our world view. And that is fine by me. |