In the New Year I will.... by SignyM

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In the New Year I will....

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 5:56 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Hey, the New Year is coming up (altho honestly, I feel like we should be celebrating that Dec 23, but that's another story.)

So.... what did you do last year that you're going to quit? Or what will you be starting this year? Any plans for 2010???

Personally, I plan to take more vacations and learn to say "no" more often.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 6:15 AM

BYTEMITE

I have a couple bad habits I usually try to stop. Tape on my fingers works pretty well for a while, then I get annoyed with it and stop taping and the bad habits come back. But I keep trying.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 7:04 AM

KWICKO

"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)

Well, I quit smoking in July, so let's hope THAT still sticks...

Other than that, I'm looking to get back into bicycling, because I feel I'll die if I don't DO SOMETHING. I do physical work all day, every day, but I still don't feel like I'm getting any real "exercise", and as such, I feel like I'm getting old and brittle. Which I am, but I refuse to accept that. :)

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 7:39 AM

DREAMTROVE

Probably, alas, quit posting on FFF, but more, quit my job. It's taken too much out of me and I'm not well. I need to focus on research, cause i don't take things lying down, and I know better than to rely on the medical community. I guess, if you want something done right, do it yourself. So, that's a project of major time investment.

Otherwise, just be less critical of others, it's not nice, bites you in the ass, and wastes everyone's time.

Also, I have to admit that my news is pirate news, I'll still come here for one reason: It's just more informative and more efficient to keep up with what's going on in the world by coming here than it is by reading the news.

Mid-year, a friend sent me an article by the author of black swans, and one of the things he said was "don't read the news, just know people who do" and I have to say, trying it, yes it's a great time saver, and also as I said, better information. I'd rather read about Molech eating babies if in the middle of it is actual info about secret prisons, unfair trade agreements, etc, then read typical MSM lies, when all that's underneath is a partisan bias on one side or the other. That said, I think that Tiger Woods is not a news story for any purpose other than humor.[/snark]

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:19 AM

NIKI2

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

Quote:
I think that Tiger Woods is not a news story for any purpose other than humor

I don't consider that any kind of a snark, merely the truth, tho' I would add "sadness that we put people on such high pedestals that when they behave like humans, we tear them apart". :bigsmile:

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 9:29 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Meh, for me, pointless.

I like my bad habits too much, and too damn set in my ways to change now, so anything I'd resolve would be a lie and I know it.

So.. (mind you, this while lighting a smoke following a big greasy cheeseburger with fries)..

Bah, screw it, happy new year.

-F

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 9:38 AM

HERO

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
So.... what did you do last year that you're going to quit? Or what will you be starting this year? Any plans for 2010???

My plans for 2010? Same as last year and 2008, put people in jail, vote Republican, cheer the Browns, and rescue puppies.

Not all those things worked out like I wanted, but over 2009 turned out better then 2008. 2010 will be pretty much the same, although I get another week's vacation (up to three now).

This is also the 2nd year in a row I've had someone jailed at 4pm on the day before the long Holiday Christmas weekend. They went in Wednesday afternoon, got out Monday morning...makes me feel all jolly inside. Did they deserve it...daytime purse snatching at a grocery store, victim an elderly woman...I'm sure PN would say I'm abusing my power, he may even be right, but that don't make it wrong, but you don't assault little old ladies in my town and not make my special Christmas list.

Happy New Year!

H

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

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:57 AM

GINOBIFFARONI

Quote:
Originally posted by Niki2:
Quote:
I think that Tiger Woods is not a news story for any purpose other than humor
I don't consider that any kind of a snark, merely the truth, tho' I would add "sadness that we put people on such high pedestals that when they behave like humans, we tear them apart". :bigsmile:

The only part of the story that interests me is the possibility that doctor administered steroids ramped up Tiger Woods sex drive to the point of addiction...

unfortunately the coverage is more tabloid

Either your with the terrorists, or ... your with the terrorists

Lets party like its 1939

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:12 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

Tiger Woods:

"Guy couldn't help himself, he just had to go thru a full 18 holes."

(Cue Frosted Mini-Wheat Commercial Music) "The black side of me likes to cheat on my wife. The Asian side of me likee to crash car!" Win-Win!

"Tigers wife has been hanging around him too much. First she gets all ghetto, then hits him with a golf-club."

lol!!!

ETA:

What’s the difference between a car and a golf ball?
Tiger can drive a ball farther than 300 yards.

What does Tiger Woods have in common with baby seals?
They both get clubbed by Norwegians.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:38 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

In any case....

Merry Christmas (late, I know),

and Happy New Year! New decade, new year.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:44 AM

BYTEMITE

*long slow blink*

Okay, um. I don't really get the car thing, I suspect the cheating on wives thing is a stereotype/generalization. But I'm not going to say anything else about that.

Why is his wife ghetto for getting violently angry at Woods for his infidelity? Is getting upset over the infidelity of a significant other not justifiable? And was she born in a ghetto? Was Tiger? Why would hanging out with Tiger make her ghetto?

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 5:38 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Plans here are to keep up the 5k walk/run most every day and increase the 'run' part. Madame Geezer has similar plans. We're looking to get out of town for a week or ten days most months. Looking at the map for places we've never been. Also a few Broadway shows. We love being retired. We really love it. Seriously. No kidding. I mean, on a scale of one to ten, being retired is infinity plus one. Chortle.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 4:39 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

Quote:
Originally posted by Geezer:
Plans here are to keep up the 5k walk/run most every day and increase the 'run' part. Madame Geezer has similar plans. We're looking to get out of town for a week or ten days most months. Looking at the map for places we've never been. Also a few Broadway shows. We love being retired. We really love it. Seriously. No kidding. I mean, on a scale of one to ten, being retired is infinity plus one. Chortle.

Retirement sounds great except I'd be freaking about the savings part, like how do you keep it from melting? Or how do you keep from WORRYING about it melting?

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 4:48 AM

DREAMTROVE

Byte,

Ignore the wolf, even if he is trying to expand his racism to asians. Got any new year's resolutions?

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 5:07 AM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Well, I quit smoking in July, so let's hope THAT still sticks...

Other than that, I'm looking to get back into bicycling, because I feel I'll die if I don't DO SOMETHING. I do physical work all day, every day, but I still don't feel like I'm getting any real "exercise", and as such, I feel like I'm getting old and brittle. Which I am, but I refuse to accept that. :)

First: congrats on the new avatar, hi-larious and sad. I wanna find an animated one of someone getting gut punched. ETA - close enough. You'll know it's real bad if I switch to the smoking donkey wearing a sombrero.

Your "real exercise" comment along with having read too many posts on RWED for the last year

got me thinking about ideas that started as real world solutions but ended up in scifi land: We need an "Under Government."

Not real a "Government" per se, that term is really to mock the idea of Government, but a resource, organization for people to solve their own problems without waiting for the government. My ideal gov would have thoroughly researched nutrition and health and would have a plan for you, for all of us, for effective exercise and not just a food pyramid that gets flipped every 10 years. Our nation's health and nutrition is horrific (it's embarrassing) and a lot of that is the due to the back room connections between gov and Big Food. It's not that different than Gov and Big Insurance.

The idea is if the Gov isn't going to do what we want them to, what we hired them to do (like health care) then f*ck 'em, we'll do it without them, and we don't need guns or violence. Just go around them. You waste too much energy fighting when you can just side step and keep moving.

Health Care: People connecting with Drs that want to be a part, creating their own insurance companies, creating their own whatever instead of waiting for the gov to provide some water downed, bureaucratic shell game that we pay too much for.

Unfortunately, that's where the idea crosses over into the realm of science fiction. Organizing something like that would take hundreds of people to volunteer on their off hours or quit their current jobs altogether.

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:07 AM

ZZETTA13

My goal for 2010 is to find out why…….on the History Channel they call The Naked Archeologist, The Naked Archeologist? Hell, he’s wearing cloths! Heck I guess it’s better that he does. I wouldn’t tune in if he were standing there all bare-assed.

Z, the ponderer of tv mysteries

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:15 AM

NIKI2

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

I'm not that offended by Wulf's jokes. I didn't find the Black/Asian one funny, nor the Ghetto one, because I don't think either is FUNNY, not because of the stereotypes. But it's no less than I'd expect from Wulf, so to me it'd be a waste to castigate him on them.

The car thing is saying Tiger can't drive a CAR more than 300 yards...and I found that one and the first one mildly amusing. None were really good tho'...are they from late night? I would have expected a bit better from those guys...or maybe not these days...

Geez, I'm jealous. Jim and I would ADORE to travel...him across America, me across the Pond and Beyond. But we're with Piz, we're too scared to spend much. The times they are a-changED! So you get out there and have fun for ALL of us, y'hear?

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:22 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

My favorite quotes:

"Did you guys ever WATCH the show?"

and..

"Well, he's outside"

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 8:47 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Retirement sounds great except I'd be freaking about the savings part, like how do you keep it from melting? Or how do you keep from WORRYING about it melting?

Madame and I both worked civil service for 35+ years, so our retirement's pretty good, and we dumped all we could into TSP, the govt's IRA plan. Our home is paid off, so we got few expenses. We never have bought anything, aside from the house and a couple of cars, we didn't pay cash for. Oh, and we got no kids. Mostly just dumb luck.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 9:29 AM

NIKI2

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

Nope, that's not dumb luck, that's smarts.

Got a friend similar to you. She worked for the Park Service, so had housing, horse, skiis, etc., provided for her. Her husband was an air traffic controller in Tahoe, so you know the kind of money they make! Neither spent much, they get their food thru a co-op (living in rural areas, no supermarkets or many stores within 50 miles). Their entertainment consists mostly of backpacking and rafting.

So when they retired, they were good. They built their own house and are free to travel and pursue their interests without worrying.

Jim and I, on the other hand, were stupid. We had custody of one or the other of his two kids, yet he let his wife go on getting child support. He let her have their house, too. We spent money on camera gear, motorcycles, traveling and buying "things" all our lives. I've always lived up to the limit of my earnings, whether they were good or bad.

I made the mistake of bringing someone mentally ill here from England; keeping her for four years put us badly in debt. It took years to pay off, and now we don't buy anything we can't pay cash for, nor own credit cards.

Luckily Jim insisted on using all our savings to pay off the house, because the next year I got laid off, and he followed the year after. We've never had jobs that paid so well since. Yes, we can get by decently (for now!) because our needs are few, we don't spend anymore, and because despite our previous spending, we never really lived high on the hog. But we weren't smart, and we're paying for it.

You WERE smart, and so was Paula, not lucky. Yes, working for civil service or park service or something is really helpful, but it's not the whole story by a long shot.

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 10:10 AM

CHRISISALL

In the New Year I will....work out more & gain 5 - 10 pounds of muscle (I plan on being built like Harrison Ford when I'm 65).

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:01 AM

JAMERON4EVA

Loose some whight, try too look better, build up my self-esteme, and post more here. Also get more stuff loaded on my laptop.

"Mom, he has her chip. He has her."
John Connor,"Born To Run", TSCC EP 2x22

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:02 AM

JAMERON4EVA

OHHH!!!!!! And by more AC/DC CD'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Mom, he has her chip. He has her."
John Connor,"Born To Run", TSCC EP 2x22

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 3:01 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
The idea is if the Gov isn't going to do what we want them to, what we hired them to do (like health care) then f*ck 'em, we'll do it without them, and we don't need guns or violence. Just go around them. You waste too much energy fighting when you can just side step and keep moving.

Brilliant, Piz, brilliant.

That's kinda what my podunk little security company does, since the local police was too busy makin money on tickets and forfeiture to actually, yanno, protect the communities - which then hired us, and this past month CUT half the police force when they got all obnoxious about being less relevant, and exposed for the protection racket they really are.

So not only did we manage to sidestep, we subverted the one problem most folks have with that, still having to pay the bill for services you don't get (kinda like insurance indeed!) cause we cut the living hell out of their budget.

It's an excellent concept, and while it may sound ironic on the face of it given that it's an "organized" concept you're proposing, I would suggest contacting any local Anarchists in your area, because they're as a rule quite happy to mutually cooperate, despite rumors to the contrary, and the idea would appeal to them.

-F

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 3:24 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Stop drinking... no, wait... not that one.

Exercise more... heh. You mean in addition to going to the gym 4X/week and playing tennis on weekends??? Not bloody likely!

Clean out the house. Now, THAT'S something I can get into! (There are two kinds of people in the world: keepers and thrower-outers. I'm a thrower-outer.)

Re-landscape. I like the idea, but I doubt I'll have the time.

Be nicer to my family. Sigh. I try, but sometimes it's just so damn... difficult.

You know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to write all my resolutions on a piece of paper, and NEXT New Year I'm going to burn them up in the fireplace.

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Saturday, January 2, 2010 9:16 PM

DREAMTROVE

Pizmo

This is the glory of poverty. What irks me about the medical bill is that to be poor and not on social services is actual freedom. Here it seem either tax or sign up. argh. I'll have to go talk to them, but you know how i feel about it. The only problem with mad max is too much order ;)

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