Imponderables: Medicinal Sleep by nvghostrider

Man you pounced on firsties like a spider springing from a dark corner. :-P

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:50 AM

KELKHIL

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Man you pounced on firsties like a spider springing from a dark corner. :-P

It's the 8 eyes! Help me see!

Bwahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

(Flees!!!)

Zombie Killing, Ninja in Training Kelkhil
The Shirtless Forsaken

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:01 AM

Seriously if I ever saw something like that in my house I think I would pick up my cat, drop a lit match and walk out.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:21 AM

ZEROKIRYU

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Originally posted by freelancertex:
if that utube is about spiders i aint watchin it

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
Navy- ok so you're blaming us for your lack of sleep?? HUGS ok we'll just make you go to bed!!

Tried, it don't work.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:26 PM

That's it we need skype tranquilizers... you know some sort of subaudible knock out :)

Ewwwwww on the spider

OK I have got to get sleep tonight...which means I have to work out when I get home

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:48 AM

*Zeek pissed*

My intertubes aren't working at home! I had junk to do last night so I went out and hoped they'd heal while I was gone. Unfortunately they did not. I called the support number at like 11:30pm and they left me on hold for over half an hour. Their support was as helpful as a space heater in hell. They wanted to schedule a repair man on Saturday. I complained until he agreed to put me on the "emergency repair" list which mean "maybe" I could get someone out today. So, there went a good 45minutes - 1hour of sleep and still no intertubes. My bet is some moron shut off my service when he was supposed to be shutting off someone else's. I'm basing that on the cable modem not getting any flashing on the "cable" light. Bah!

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:54 AM

We get sporatic outages too (though not yet with the new service).

V-D Day Saturday, anyone planning anything?

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 7:44 AM

NAVYSEILS

I might be going to play some laserquest and bowling on Saturday. Should be alright.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:01 AM

I'd hella go with you Navy.

Will you be My Valentine?

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:28 AM

Now all you need is the plane ticket...giggle

Laser tag and bowling.. ooh will there be pizza???

HUGS Zeek good luck on your interweb

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:28 AM

I'm planning to storm the time warner offices on Saturday if I don't have interwebs by then. I'll go out in a blaze of glory I tells ya.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:08 AM

NAVYSEILS

Sure NVG, swim on over and come along. I dont have much faith in the hand eye coordination of the other people playing, I'll need someone around that can shoot straight.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:51 AM

Hey between you and NV you can sweep teh whole lot of them:)

OK Zeek I shall be watching the papers avidly awaiting the news report of crazy man storming time warner:)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:00 AM

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OK Zeek I shall be watching the papers avidly awaiting the news report of crazy man storming time warner:)

I live in crazy Austin though. That's just like a blip on the radar down here. We have crazy people strangling their girlfriends with wii controller cords for waking them up. Even that didn't get much national attention I don't think.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:13 AM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

< popping in to say hi >

Hi!

< /popping in to say hi >

~CK

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

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:22 AM

Actually no it didn't Zeek, but I'd bet you didn't hear about our nutjob who held himself hostage on teh freeway. ( they had to close one whole freeway for hours and hours)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:30 AM

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Originally posted by MsA:
Actually no it didn't Zeek, but I'd bet you didn't hear about our nutjob who held himself hostage on teh freeway. ( they had to close one whole freeway for hours and hours)

Oh that NVG. What will he think of next? :-P

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:38 PM

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Originally posted by ZeroKiryu:

OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU!!! XD

What is *that* thing?
What thing?
There's something on your head.
What, is it a spider? Get it off!
No, it's not a spider, it's like a blue thing.
What, like a blue spider? Get it off!!

poor Donut XD

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:41 PM

Well, I was bored.

Really though, dude was drunk and held himself hostage on the freeway interchange and shut it down for ten hours or so. Negs, failed, the hostage got killed.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:43 PM

If you're going to go nuts...could you at least do it at home where you aren't inconveniencing everyone else?

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 4:59 AM

Well the time warner raid is off. They got my webbies all fixed up. The technical jargon was "the 8 way switch was worn out and stopped working". Now I know they can see info about my cable modem when it's up and running. So, shouldn't they put up a red flag when even say every modem attached to an 8 way switch drop offline and never come back for hours and hours? I'd think they'd just say "hey we have a problem here" and send someone out without a phone call. Bah!

Anyway happy Dollhouse day everybody. I'm still not very enthused about it and I refuse to be a downer in the "who's excited" thread. I'm extremely reserved about it. Though I do like that in a few hours Joss will finally return to television.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 5:10 AM

HUGS Zeek glad you have the interweb:)

I'm afraid to get excited. I got all excited about this show called Firefly and they jerked it around and dropped it. Then I sort of recovered and got all excited about a show called Drive...and they dropped it in seconds.... so I'm just not trusting them

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 5:12 AM

Luckily I never fell for Drive. Just didn't do it for me. It actually took me a while to really fall for Firefly. The promos seemed weird but I figured it's Joss so I have to watch. I watched and when he kicked crow through the engine I was like "ok I'll keep watching". I think by Our Mrs. Reynolds I was hooked.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 6:23 AM

Good morning Ponderers.

Our internetty-deal was wonked early this morning. I figured that is what I deserved for speaking too soon. It was up at seven this morning. I figured it was weekly maintenance time. MSA was like "Who's gonna notice except nine geeks and they guy who gets up at odd hours?"

Lovingly I verbally flipped her off.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 8:11 AM

CHARLIE SHEEN ROASTED FOUR KUMQUATS.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 8:17 AM

FLT drink lots of water and go lie down.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 9:35 AM

PIKACHU rode with LORD FARQUAD, on the back of a humpback whale, to the island of GUAM!!

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Friday, February 13, 2009 9:37 AM

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Originally posted by freelancertex:
PIKACHU rode with LORD FARQUAD, on the back of a humpback whale, to the island of GUAM!!

Drink more water. Call poison control. Try to concentrate long enough to tell them what you took.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 10:44 AM

SOLARFLARE

Okay, I don't post here much, but I need to rant, or ponder, if you will:

My 15-year old son will not do his homework. Seriously, it's gotten very frustrating. He's a great kid. Is very respectful (within normal reason). Stays out of trouble. But sometimes he stops doing homework, or even in-class work, for weeks at a time. Right now, the interim report he got was 3Fs, 3Ds, and a C-minus.

He's very smart - always scores in the 90+ percentile on all of the testing. But he just stops working sometimes. I've tried grounding. I've tried to micromanage his homework (checking everything every day), but any time I take my eyes off of it, he just, at random, quits. We even homeschooled him (online) for his freshman year. And that seemed to end it (because it's very obvious when you don't hand in your assignments). But he hated home school. I've told him that we'll go back to home school if he doesn't improve the grades. But he'll hate it. And I'll hate it for him.

Okay, thanks for letting me rant. If anyone has a magic wand they know of for fixing this problem, I'd love to hear it.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 11:07 AM

Send MsA after him. I hear she body slams kids who misbehave. That's old school teacherin'

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Friday, February 13, 2009 12:26 PM

Magic wand...here you go.
OK first I'd have you son evaluated for ADD ( not ADHD) and dyslexia. His behavior sounds exactly what my parents went through, I had an A on every test and turned nothing in. I was very smart but produced no work and it drove them nuts and they had to do the same thing watch me every min. Turned otu I had ADD and once I was diagnosed and on meds and learned some coping skills things got loads better.
Second. Behavior contract with him. It's time for let's make a deal. http://www.parentcontracts.com/
Third- remember it is easier to ground his stuff instead of him. Take cell phone, ipod, computer, game system, etc and lock it in a closet. He earns back one component per day for having all assignments completed. Fourth - Have a daily tracking sheet or planner that he has to get signed by each teacher. If he does not bring it home... he loses television time, friend time, etc. It's going to require you to manage him. Part of the contract deal can be that he earns his way off the daily tracking sheet, but the minute his grades drop he's back on it. If you need more specifics or help, email me at oncemorewithfeeling321@yahoo.com
Oh and in case you're wondering what my qualifications are I have 9 years teaching experience and now serve as a behavior consultant dealing with difficult kids( or kids like your son) for a school district. Hang in there

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 12:39 PM

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Originally posted by MsA:
Oh and in case you're wondering what my qualifications are I have 9 years teaching experience and now serve as a behavior consultant dealing with difficult kids( or kids like your son) for a school district.

Plus mad body slammin skillz!

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Friday, February 13, 2009 12:43 PM

LOL HUGS Zeek

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 3:02 PM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Quote:
Originally posted by freelancertex:
PIKACHU rode with LORD FARQUAD, on the back of a humpback whale, to the island of GUAM!!

Drink more water. Call poison control. Try to concentrate long enough to tell them what you took.

Heeeey, those werewolves strike randomly throughout the cereal. EN GUARD! WHERE IS OUR SHIP??

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Friday, February 13, 2009 3:05 PM

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Originally posted by solarflare:
Okay, I don't post here much, but I need to rant, or ponder, if you will:

My 15-year old son will not do his homework. Seriously, it's gotten very frustrating. He's a great kid. Is very respectful (within normal reason). Stays out of trouble. But sometimes he stops doing homework, or even in-class work, for weeks at a time. Right now, the interim report he got was 3Fs, 3Ds, and a C-minus.

He's very smart - always scores in the 90+ percentile on all of the testing. But he just stops working sometimes. I've tried grounding. I've tried to micromanage his homework (checking everything every day), but any time I take my eyes off of it, he just, at random, quits. We even homeschooled him (online) for his freshman year. And that seemed to end it (because it's very obvious when you don't hand in your assignments). But he hated home school. I've told him that we'll go back to home school if he doesn't improve the grades. But he'll hate it. And I'll hate it for him.

Okay, thanks for letting me rant. If anyone has a magic wand they know of for fixing this problem, I'd love to hear it.

I second MsA's response, because I'm pretty sure she knows the most about schoolin' on this forum. ^_^ hope u figure it out

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Friday, February 13, 2009 4:35 PM

DANCINGNEKO

To add to MsA's suggestion:
I'd also suggest talking to your son's counselor for additional support. They'll probably do something similar for your son (behavioral contract, work monitoring -- a.k.a. "dog tag", alerting the teachers about the situtation, and behavioral contract) plus they should be able to offer a few other options that MsA hasn't mentioned. (Counseling for your son and what the teachers notice about your son for instance.) It's also a way to start the ball rolling for other evaluations (ADD, depression, etc.).
It would put your son on notice that the adults in his school life are aware and all on the same page.

...and in case you're wondering about my qualifications: I've been a teacher for 7 years and worked as an aide in special education for about 3 years. Hang tight.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 5:02 PM

LEOPARDFLAN

I really can't add anything to what the others above me have said... Just hang in there, follow their excellent advice, and you should come out all right.

And does anyone know how to make yourself ignore a person's hurtful comments? I'm trying, but it isn't working out too well...

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Friday, February 13, 2009 5:47 PM

The way I get over hurtful comments is to realize I don't respect the person making the comments. I don't really value the opinions of jerks or idiots. If someone's trying to be hurtful they're probably a jerk.

So, dollhouse...what did you guys think? I thought the episode was ok but I don't see where echo's character is going. She gets wiped all the time right? Seems like everyone around her that might be kind of interesting. Who's wondering if some of the people we've met are programmed and don't know it? Like the handler, the boss lady, even the cop investigating them. Seems like a potential twist that's coming up. Obviously I'll keep watching, but I hope it's not just a procedural.

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Friday, February 13, 2009 7:17 PM

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Originally posted by LeopardFlan:
I really can't add anything to what the others above me have said... Just hang in there, follow their excellent advice, and you should come out all right.

And does anyone know how to make yourself ignore a person's hurtful comments? I'm trying, but it isn't working out too well...

uh oh what happened ><

speaking of updates, how's your friend? :\

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 2:56 AM

WHITEFALL

I saw Dollhouse, frankly I loved it, as pilots go. I'm really excited. But the whole point of Echo's character from Day 1 (from the original original premise) was that she is slowly going to start remembering stuff. So her arc is very different, but it'll be there.

Next week, I think, is supposed to be the original pilot, so that'll be exposition heavy I suppose, I'm waiting until the third episode before saying what it'll be week to week.

As for the homework doing issue... I can't say I have anything to add except... don't give up on him. My eldest sister stopped doing a lot of her homework in 7th grade or so, and she... well it complicated her life a good deal. And it always hurt me that she wouldn't listen to me, and my parents sort of... stopped trying. It was always an issue, but my sister kept avoiding a lot of her work for most of high school. From my own experiences, when I considered not doing my homework and such it was because I didn't see a point in the work, or in grades or book-learning. But I enjoyed getting good grades, still do. Sort of a self-justification thing. Anyway, I wish you the best of luck.

"But, these strong women characters?"

"Why aren't you asking 100 other guys why they don't write strong women characters?" -Joss Whedon.

"All love is unrequited... All of it." -Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 6:46 AM

HUSG LF usually I try to figure out what problem in their life motivated the hurtful comment. Ignoring it is really hard though...just remember we love you

I did like Dollhouse, but it felt incomplete and I am sure the full episode Joss intended is much more...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:13 AM

LEOPARDFLAN

Well, what happened specifically is that mom called me fat and is putting me on a diet ((and normally it wouldn't hurt so bad except I really don't think I'm getting fat >_<)), and that really hurt, so... yeah

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:24 AM

Ok sweety I have totally been exactly there. I finally had to realize that my mom ( and probably yours) have issues of their own. They equate being skinny ( unnaturally skinny) with being popular and good so they push you toward it because they think if it would make them happy it would make you happy. I'd ask your mom to go with you to the doctor have the doctor weigh you and decide if weight loss is in order and have the doctor ( if for some odd reason he thinks you need to diet) set up a nutrition plan for you. Mom's are not health professionals.... hopefully that will get your mom off your back Plus it'll shut your mom up big time when the doctor says there's nothing wrong with your weight. What's she going to say " the doctor says you're healthy but I want you to lose more weight and be unhealthy?"

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 8:23 AM

OH MY GOD JOSS WHEDON GRADUATED FROM WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY????????????? Unless there's another wesleyan in the country, that college is about five miles from my HOUSE. WTF BATMAN O_O

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 11:31 AM

There's only one Wesleyan.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 11:48 AM

thats crazy :P wtf was he doing going to wesleyan? *i know, going to college, but around here most people dont even consider that school as an option*

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 11:54 AM

SOLARFLARE

Wow. Thanks for the awesome response guys - especially MSA. I'll talk to my wife about your suggestions. There's no giving up here. He's too important.

Anyway, I found Dollhouse intriguing. And it's Joss, so I'm going to watch it. But it's odd, so I worry that it will get cancelled.

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:14 PM