So, what DO y'all do fer fun?? by Wishimay

Let's see. We know PN giddely follows cops around with video devices.

Chrisisall just melts fer models.

Kwicko likes, uhhhh plates and posters?

Riona likes to sing and all things Irish.

Rappy likes to look at the pretties.

I like ta paint walls and string beads and joke and have small mental breakdowns

Byte like tropes and tryin' ta pick holes in peoples logics.

That's all I knows...

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Saturday, January 7, 2012 3:14 PM

I have so much to do that I haven't really gotten anything done ;)

I like to code computers, or now I'm trying to learn apps.I haven't gotten far with that, God, so many hobbies haven't gotten enough attention, drawing, writing, music.

I have started exercising some, not in a gym, just going out to burn some calories. That and setting up the bookstore. I will hopefully have a car soon, and I'm way behind on my flirting.

I'll let you know when I get up to dry humping.

ETA: Mike likes cars.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Saturday, January 7, 2012 3:48 PM

So, do you consider yourself a right-brainer or a left-brainer?? Coding and drawing...

I haven't quite figured you out...

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Saturday, January 7, 2012 4:03 PM

Right brained and left brained is a somewhat inaccurate representation of brain activity. There's some degree of dominance, but functionality and activity occurs on BOTH sides for any specific task. Skill in a task is primarily the result of practice, which creates neural connections, not the other way around.

Another one: humans do use 100% of their brains, just not all at the same time. Except during grand mal seizure.

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Saturday, January 7, 2012 4:14 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
So, do you consider yourself a right-brainer or a left-brainer?? Coding and drawing...

I haven't quite figured you out...

Years ago I read an analysis of this from a neurologist who put it basically this way: "It's your brain, no one else is using the space." So I endeavored to try to make use of both.

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Except during grand mal seizure.

Speaking of which, my sister just had one of those. It's bad, and this is new for her. She's being rushed across the state in an ambulance right now.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Saturday, January 7, 2012 5:25 PM

And here I thought maybe she was doing better. Good luck DT, tell us when you know more.

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Saturday, January 7, 2012 5:57 PM

She's in the hospital, she had a cat scan, she's being transferred in a couple days. She has grand mal seizures, and they might be coming from the chemo or a new tumor, we don't know.

At any rate, I may disappear at some point. My car is in the shop until Monday, then I will go out there.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Saturday, January 7, 2012 7:02 PM

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Another one: humans do use 100% of their brains, just not all at the same time.

I don't think you and I know the same types of humans

Sorry 'bout yer sis, DT... Drive Careful, when ya do!

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 3:31 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Fun....?
What's that?

But, IF I had the time.... gardening. I have a nice veggie garden, with more time I'd like to try winter gardening, chickens, and bee-keeping.

IF I had the time, I'd clean and organize our house stem to stern. (I had a week off and got rid of 10 big boxes to give away, three bins of trash and two of recycling, bit I'd need another two weeks to do the whole house... man, we got 30 years of messy build-up! And my hubby and daughter are keepers, not throw-outers)

And then finally finish renovating.

I LOVE to read. And draw. I used to write.

I'd like to study urban planning. Learn how to sew (I tried woodworking... seems I'm allergic to wood dust)

Traveling. Especially to beaches. My dream vacation: start in PEI/Newfoundland on June and end in FLA in January.

When I retire, I'm gonna have the time of my life.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 3:34 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Hey DT.... the best thing I can say is that grand mal seizure trouble the viewer more than anyone. But as a new symptom, it IS worrisome. Hang in there.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 5:12 AM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
I think I've dry-humped what little there is to do here TO DEATH...

Speaking of dry humping....

(No, just kidding.)

Films and film music.

Current events, politics, philosophy, science, and medicine.

(Damn, that is pretty much the same thing I do here on FFF.

)

Traveling and languages. I occasionally write for a travel blog.

Cooking.

Homeopathy.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 6:25 AM

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:

Rappy likes to look at the pretties.

What guy doesn't ?

Fun is subjective. I do all sorts of things, I guess, but I've always been quite the avid dino freak.

What, my name didn't clue ya in on that ?

I've made trips to Chicago's Field Museum, The Museum of the Rockies, and The Black Hills Institute, specifically to see some of the coolest, bestest fossils in the world. As well as a few trips to the local Fernbank Museum, and caught a lecture by the awesome Dr Robert Bakker.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 6:26 AM

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Originally posted by canttakesky:
Speaking of dry humping....
(No, just kidding.)

Traveling and languages. I occasionally write for a travel blog.

Are you married, divorced, other?

I would LOOOVE to travel, But I'm so far away from that possibility I try not to think about it...

I also like woodworking, but my I need a LOT more tools. I looked into buying new doors for this place and have resolved to build them myself...

I tried gardening, but the only plants that I seem to understand are cucumbers and lettuce.

I'm really allergic to bees. And addicted to honey- go fig. Where does THAT make sense??

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 6:37 AM

America loves a winner!

When folks say they "LOVE" to travel, do you really mean it ?

Or do you really like being in different places ?

2 different philosophies, as I see it. One, is the destination, and the other, the experience of GETTING there.

I gotta say, post 9/11, the ' fun of getting there' really has subsided somewhat.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 7:38 AM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
When folks say they "LOVE" to travel, do you really mean it ?

Or do you really like being in different places ?

True travel nuts LOOOOVE both the journey and the destination.

Wish, I'm married with 3 kids. We travel a lot as a family. I've taken my kids traveling at 2 months old, 4 months old, 1 year old, etc.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 8:35 AM

America loves a winner!

I guess it depends on the trip. For my swing through S.Dakota, Wyoming and Montana, it was all about checking out the sights and the scenery. Other times, it's all about just gettin' there, where ever 'there' is, and starting the vacation.

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - Someone.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 8:43 AM

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As well as a few trips to the local Fernbank Museum, and caught a lecture by the awesome Dr Robert Bakker.

SUPERSTAR. You are so lucky.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 10:40 AM

HERO

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
I think I've dry-humped what little there is to do here TO DEATH...

Or would it be more fun to speculate what everbody ELSE here does fer fun

I mess with PN. It takes a lot of time watching all the videos, replacing his parents with Russian Nazi Look-a-likes, and hiring twelve year-olds to bully him. But at the end of the day that's why I went into government service.

Wait till he finds out Ron Paul is actually the secret Jew Nazi running the Fed and that Rand Paul is actually named Rothchild Bush.

H

"Hero. I have come to respect you." "I am forced to agree with Hero here."- Chrisisall, 2009.
"I agree with Hero." Niki2, 2011.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 11:30 AM

Hero, IOW, you have no life [/snark]

Anyway guys, thanks, this looks bad, and it means she goes back on the stupefier. No car yet, maybe tomorrow.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 1:02 PM

PHOENIXSHIP

Rollerblading! Though I'm having trouble getting my butt in gear on a lazy Sunday. The weather is beautiful here, and I'm staring at the computer.

"Why're you arguin' what's already been decided?"
Mal to Jayne, "Jaynestown"

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 1:04 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

If I had the money, I'd travel a lot more, but there are things here currently eating into funds that mean that it isn't possible right now. *Sigh*

I'm a great outdoors kind of girl. I love the beach...swimming and playing in the surf, but I also love camping by rivers and lakes, bush walking etc etc. When I am home, I love my garden although I never have the time to do it the way I would like.

I also love reading and I write as well.

I like hanging out with good friends and family with a glass of wine and some really yummy food.

Mostly I just like doing anything with my family, spending as much time together as possible.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 1:05 PM

PHOENIXSHIP

And my zoo... two cats and a dog!

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 1:36 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Fun is subjective. I do all sorts of things, I guess, but I've always been quite the avid dino freak.

What, my name didn't clue ya in on that ?

Which do ya like more, lookin at the pretties, or the dino's?? You see the recent articles about bringing dino's back again? Are you for that??

I've been meaning to ask is the AU part for aura like you have the personality of a dino, or is it some reference to gold, or golden oldie? I thought the latter ones improbable, but thought I'd ask...

Have you guys noticed how many celeb mega couples are tanking recently?? I'm amazed at how many of 'em can't stay married for more than 30 seconds...

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 1:47 PM

Oh ya, BTW I do like walking around the flea markets a lot...Only way I can get my subconscious ta shut up for a minute...

I got this great picture yesterday of 3 asian doors with really ancient doornockers on them.
Somebody Asian needs ta buy my house, hah.

Oh, and I went and bought the wood to make my doors today! This should be.......interesting.

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 5:22 PM

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Wishimay:
Which do ya like more, lookin at the pretties, or the dino's?? You see the recent articles about bringing dino's back again? Are you for that??

I've been meaning to ask is the AU part for aura like you have the personality of a dino, or is it some reference to gold, or golden oldie? I thought the latter ones improbable, but thought I'd ask...

Don't ask me to choose between the two... other than
lookin' at dinos is about all we can do , and pretties are more... interactive.

As for re-inventing dinos....I'm torn. I'd love to SEE one, of course, living, but anything we make would be a Chimera, a weird lab experiment, at best. It wouldn't be a real dino, in it's actual environment, mingling with its own kind. A sad relic, twisted by man's brazen curiosity.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 5:44 PM

CHRISISALL

I'm melting.....
Gots me some Vipers, Raiders, Lost in Space Robots, Robby's & phasers on my plate! Fun in spades!

The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 6:15 PM

Kid ina candy store

I guess I can relate. I get new beads, I'll spend an hour picking out special beads in the prettiest combinations... I get WAAAAY more compliments on the stuff I make than I ever do for the fancy gold and silver stuff.

Oh, and the thing I like about travel...

I like the excitement of knowing I'm going somewhere, and to some extent the travel- for the new and unexpected adventure aspect of it all(used to love flying, but it just stresses me out now). I have a love-hate relationship with actually getting to the destination, because it seems so awakening-ly surreal, and it satiates my curiosity, but often in a way that is less than my expectations... probably because I'm the one holding the purse strings, it's probably a LOT more fun to relax and let someone else handle that part...

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Sunday, January 8, 2012 9:15 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

Things I like:

Trad singing. Camping. Going to the beach. Playing in the water, ocean, lakes, rivers, streams, water is my element. Firefly, of course, talking on these forums and reading and reviewing Firefly fanfic, I'm well known for my reviews. My work, anything involving working with people with mental health differences or developmental differences, especially the touched ones, they're my favorite and why I do the work I do, my goal is to find a business partner and own the perfect group home someday. Playing freeform pretends. Going to Rennaissance faires and fantasy faires. Trinket and antique shops, you know, like the ones you find at the beach. watching TV and movies, reading novels, listening to good trad and choir music and chant. Eating, especially at resturants, but eating in general, yummy. Wooden boxes, tea sets, beautiful things in general. Ireland and Maui, my two favorite places outside of my state. Spending lots of time with family and friends. Humanity and love, I love deeply. History. Oh, and climbing structures, especially ones they let adults play on. Thrill rides.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 9, 2012 5:05 PM

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

Kwicko likes, uhhhh plates and posters?

Wow. Okay, posters, sure. I like a good poster, and have mounted and matted a few or more.

But how'd you get plates? I mean, you're not wrong, and that's the shocker. I have a pretty extensive collection of Fiesta™ Ware, both old and new, but mostly the old stuff from the 30s-50s. I love the colors and the simple and functional designs. I've also got some of the old Jewel Tea dishes, along with some Harlequin and Riviera Ware (both were also made by the Homer Laughlin Company, which made Fiesta, and came in many of the same colors).

We use the Fiesta Ware every day, too. It holds up great.

I've also got a few vintage McCoy cookie jars as well. I'm a big fan of art deco and mid-century modern design, so lots of this stuff just fits right in with the design motif of the house.

'Course, I also enjoy dogs, guns, and cars. But rarely all at the same time. :)

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Monday, January 9, 2012 5:12 PM

As for travel, I generally find the trip more fun than the destination, but that's only because I don't fly anymore, and I love seeing the sights on a 2000-mile road trip. I mean, seriously - Carhenge (Alliance, Nebraska), a Frank Lloyd Wright prairie house (Topeka, Kansas), Devil's Tower (Wyoming), Mount Rushmore, the Black Hills, Deadwood (South Dakota), Royal Gorge, Littleton and Durango (Colorado), a lovely WPA-built municipal park and bandstand (Arapahoe, Nebraska), Taos and Albuquerque (New Mexico - you've never seen colors like you'll see outside ABQ at sunrise, I promise), Moab and Arches National Park (Utah) - all in ten days, while never spending a night indoors?

Hell freaking yes. I'm in.

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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Monday, January 9, 2012 5:15 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

DT, how is your sister doing today?

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 9, 2012 5:21 PM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
'Course, I also enjoy dogs, guns, and cars. But rarely all at the same time. :)

Good to see you back on the board, Kwicko.

This is for you.

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Monday, January 9, 2012 5:33 PM

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
DT, how is your sister doing today?

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

Hopefully better. Our thoughts are with you and her, DT, in hopes of a good outcome.

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Monday, January 9, 2012 5:37 PM

Thanks, CTS! My li'l Jeepie doesn't care for gunfire, so I keep the guns away from her. She DOES enjoy a fast drive in the CRX, however - she leans into the turns, braces herself against me, and she gets quite impatient at traffic lights.

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Monday, January 9, 2012 5:44 PM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:

Wow. Okay, posters, sure. I like a good poster, and have mounted and matted a few or more.

But how'd you get plates? I mean, you're not wrong, and that's the shocker.

Somethin' you said in a thread a few years ago, and it just happened ta stick in my head, probably because I took 4 years of ceramics, and because it was a fairly unexpected thing to come from "The angriest cat on teh internets."

I'm rarely suprised by people, and that did...

I'm glad you're doing better. I had pneumonia last year. Not!! fun. Most of the people in my family have never had it, and think of it like a bad cold. Some things just don't translate...

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Monday, January 9, 2012 5:49 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

I didn't want to say it while Quicko was so sick but pneumonia can be really dangerous, its worse than just a bad cold, as Wish said. I'm glad you're doing better Quicko, more rest and you'll be back to your old self.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 9, 2012 6:04 PM

I like ceramics. I haven't had a chance to do much of it recently though.

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Monday, January 9, 2012 6:12 PM

Beir bua agus beannacht

I tried making things out of clay when I was a little girl and sucked at it. I was good at drawing, surprisingly, when I was a girl but once I hit about 18 I stopped doing it, it didn't seem so fun anymore. I'm probably pretty bad at it now, cudos to those who can still do it well. That was the only type of art I was ever good at, I've never been good at painting, I can't sew etc.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 9, 2012 6:25 PM

Riona, Mike,

She's doing better, thanks. She's feeling yurgy, she's in the hospital they're going to run some more tests. Then there's going to be a general meeting of the doctors on Wednesday.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Monday, January 9, 2012 6:42 PM

Yeah, "bad cold" doesn't begin to cut it. Fever for three weeks, that feeling of drowning in your sleep. I knew I was in trouble when I woke up in the middle of the night with a cough attack, tried to get to the bathroom, and next thing I knew I was regaining consciousness in the hallway, wedged between the walls. That's when I knew I was over my head.

Still coughing some stuff up, but much less, and much less often. It's been one month tomorrow since it started. Wouldn't wish it on anyone. Apparently the ribs will take a while to recover yet, but that's minor stuff compared to the rest.

Meanwhile, best wishes and fingers crossed for DT's sis. If you're the praying kind, now might be the time.

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Monday, January 9, 2012 6:50 PM

Please keep taking good care of yourself Kwicko.

DT, hope Wednesday is fruitful and positive.

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Monday, January 9, 2012 8:34 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Finally got the equipment to copy PAL VHS to NTSC DVD from my days in UK, part 1 of 8:

My participation in the death of the last racetrack in Tennessee 2011:

http://www.archive.org/details/FirstTrackDay

Part 1 of 4:

Lots more vids effing wit da popo.

All very low-budget, anybody can, just gotta be crazy enuff to do it. I was racin in UK with 1% of the budget of the top teams run by British royalty, but often beating them to the finish line.

And I've started homebrewing a kegger by Herr Brewski.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:51 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Let's see. Sulkying with my huskies, going to the beach/hills with the huskies, playing with huskies, going to the dog park with the huskies. It's a pain to get them out at least six days a week, but once out, I always enjoy it, even with the pain. Riding my motorcycle, writing, and anything with colors. Went from embroidery (traditional Balkan) to Xmas ornaments to jewelry-making to planting in hanging baskets (yes, it IS about color) to now making protest signs.

USED to love hiking, but the bod's fallen apart to the extent where hiking is a thing of the past, which tears me up, I miss it so much. Still two places I can manage, but it breaks my heart not to get on the Mountain...I've run or hiked or both every single trail on it. To quote someone else "I try not to think about it".

Gawd, I miss traveling! For me, if it was by air, I loved it from the time I got to the airport until I got home (I love airports so much I drive people and pick them up when they could easily take the Airporter--I know that's because when we lived in Afghanistan we traveled on stand-by and did some sleeping in airport lounges...at that age, it was FUN!). If it's camping, which we used to do when we had a camper, it's the being there, 'cuz that meant a new (or familiar) place by the ocean, in the hills, in the BIG redwoods, by a lake, etc. and once there we could hike places I loved. I HATED the preparation (because I was always the one to do it, AND the cooking, AND the cleanup when we got home) and the driving somewhere (campers are slow and ponderous and we always had at least two dogs and three or four cats with us).

But by air...oh, how I wish. Never will again, I pretty much know, and will always be grateful for the three trips Jim and I were able to make back when we worked in the City and could afford it. Interlaken & Locarno Switzerland, Verona Italy and Venice each time; we fell in love with them. But what gave me my love of flying and traveling was our time in Afghanistan, where we flew anywhere but the states for 10% (dad worked for Pan Am). Been to airports in Karachi, London, Frankfurt, Beirut (back "then"--soldiers all around with guns and sandbag outposts), Kandahar, Kabul, New Delhi, Srinigar (Kashmir), Hong Kong, Bangkok, that's all I can remember right now. Driven through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, Italy, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan back then too. HOW I wish I could do it all over again; at an older age than when I was there (9-12 then) but at the same time, as in "THOSE days" (now the world sucks in comparison, in my opinion). Probably will never travel again, at our age, finances and with the dogs. Doubt I'd trust anyone with them (or THEM with ANYONE!). But until the day I die, airports and airplanes, sigh... Will never forget my time in New Orleans, thanks to you guys, and flying there and back may well be my last foray on an airplane, for which I'm reeely grateful, too. I don't even mind what one has to go through these days to fly, it rolls right off my back.

Aside from New Mexico once, Montana once (Glacier Nat. Park), Idaho numerous times and New Orleans, have seen NOTHING of America outside California, tho'. Never really interested me...my heart lies overseas.

Enough dreaming...the activities I loved most I can't do anymore...we'll probably sell the motorcycle as soon as I accept THOSE days are over, too. So it's stuff I can do in the recliner and ways I can get out with the dogs now. Pffffft...

And good gawd, Raptor and I have ANOTHER thing in common...sort of. When younger, I was absorbed by dinos, to the point where I can still identify some of them, and I still love them, but it's just affection, I don't do anything about it except head for the dino exhibits when I'm in a museum (which is rarely, I can't stand for long and walking hurts too). This is getting weird.

Mike: Be well. That's serious stuff, I hope you feel 100% soonest. DT: My heart goes out to you and your sister, and my hopes all works out okay.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:43 PM

America loves a winner!

Ha! Mike Rowe , of Dirty Jobs, is out and about with ... PALEONTOLOGISTS !!

James Kirkland, I recognize, and others, where I'm guessing is somewhere in Utah ? James, err Jim, found UtahRaptor, back in the early 90's, and the terrain looks sorta kinda like that, but just speculatin', until they actually say. ( missed that part )

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:28 PM

Mike

Take care, i've had this one, it's nasty, and it can come back if you jump back in the saddle too quickly,

We're off to see the wizard tomorrow. Hopoefully he can help the scarecrow out here,

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:38 PM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Mike

Take care, i've had this one, it's nasty, and it can come back if you jump back in the saddle too quickly,

That seems to be what happened; I thought I was doing better, but it jumped me and kicked me right in the lungs.

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We're off to see the wizard tomorrow. Hopefully he can help the scarecrow out here,

Best of luck to you and yours. If I have any karma to send, I'm sending it your sister's way.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:30 PM

AURaptor: The Badlands of Montana are also a popular spot. But we do have some lovely fossils in the Morrison formation.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:45 PM

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AURaptor: The Badlands of Montana are also a popular spot. But we do have some lovely fossils in the Morrison formation.

Oh yeah, I know. Bakker and Horner ( and many others ) have found lots of stuff out there.

Just did a quick search...

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Utah paleontologists to be featured on ‘Dirty Jobs’

By Amy Joi O’Donoghue, Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — Crews from the popular TV show “Dirty Jobs” recently went on a dinosaur dig in eastern Utah with some state paleontologists who will now be featured in an upcoming episode.

Set to air on Tuesday, the program will showcase what it is like to dig in the dirt and encounter all that accompanies that process — from smells and unpleasant, surprising discoveries.

State Paleontologist Jim Kirkland and Utah Geological Survey paleontologist Don DeBlieux traveled with the cast and crew of the show to an undisclosed location in eastern Utah for the one day shoot to look for and dig dinosaur bones out of the side of a steep hill.

“We picked that site because it is such a spectacular location, but it is a difficult location and one which requires lots of hard and strenuous work,” said DeBlieux.

According to the show’s website: “DIRTY JOBS profiles the unsung American laborers who make their living in the most unthinkable — yet vital — ways. Our brave host and apprentice Mike Rowe introduces you to a hardworking group of men and women who overcome fear, danger and sometimes stench and overall ickiness to accomplish their daily tasks.”
On the day of the Utah filming, the weather did not cooperate.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:27 PM