DDC XXIV - What Bacon Shortage? We're Full Of It!

[theduck619]

Good morning everyone. T-minus 81 hours until Turkeyfest 2012

 

[Jousey]

mourning all. I hope everyone recovered from a great weekend of football and are able to drag themselves out of bed for what will be a short work week for most.

 

[Jousey]

700
post and counting, I know small compared to most but I will take it.

 

[moose615]

Good morning fellow dads 20 hour work week this week, don't think I have ever had one of those, well never mind I had a 16 hour work week last month to go to WDW looking forward to Thursday, not looking forward to tomorrow, DD has her first major dental work in the morning, she can't eat or drink anything till after midnight so the mornings going to be fun

Hope everyone is doing well

 

[Jousey]

Good morning fellow dads 20 hour work week this week, don't think I have ever had one of those, well never mind I had a 16 hour work week last month to go to WDW looking forward to Thursday, not looking forward to tomorrow, DD has her first major dental work in the morning, she can't eat or drink anything till after midnight so the mornings going to be fun

Hope everyone is doing well

Good luck keeping DD from eating or drinking, I do not envy you this AM.

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

Hey Andy (afwdwfan) and Ben (BenA81)!

Sorry I'm late. ​

 

[scott2997]

Mornin' All


Happy Birthday Andy and Ben!

 

[BigTikiDaddy]

Hey Andy (afwdwfan) and Ben (BenA81)!

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Happy Birthday Andy and Ben !!

Also Happy 8th Birthday to my DD Amelia!


Hope everyone had a good weekend, might try to go through the 10+ pages tonight after dinner when I get a chance. We had a decent weekend away, although it ended with a lot of "drama", you know, the type you wern't involved with, but you end up the one who has to deal with the fallout.

 

[twokids0204]

 

[twokids0204]

 

[DisneyDadC]

Well Goodmornig All.... Nemmy I know it is a good morning for you!!!!. So all can see I am here to congratulate my nemmy on his teams win.I would also like to mention as a result of his teams win he has won himself a fresh dole whip in Jan complements of me.Normally I might hope he chokes on that Dole Whip but not this time.I want him to enjoy it right down to the last mouthful..

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Hay Andy!!!

It appears that my subtle plans are not working quite as anticipated.
I suppose that means I’ll just have to wish you a…

Happy Nemesis Birthday!!!

(Enjoy it while you still can, Bwaaaahaaahaaahaaahaaahaaa…)

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

OK folks… I had a little bit of time to put together the stats from the last thread.
There have been a few interesting changes.

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

I have been mostly absent from the boards for a while now.

My office building was severely damaged by Sandy and we were forced to re-locate 75 of us to a temporary office designed to hold 25 people. We actually consider ourselves lucky under the circumstances as some offices will never re-open and so many people lost everything.

Anyway, we are one of the buildings on Water Street in downtown Manhattan that was on the news. There is a parking garage in our building off Water Street and a basement and sub-basement where most of the electrical and mechanical for the building are.

The building is completely dark right now and we won't be back until January, probably. They have temporary generators running one freight elevator for a 40+ story office building that normally holds several thousand workers.

We've been up to our office with flashlights moving the computers and files to the temporary office. We got an e-mail last week from building management saying they finally pumped the water out of the basement and sub-basement - 5 million gallons of the East River. The stench is horrible.

5 maintenance guys from the building were trapped in the basement when the water came in. They were telling us all about it. In 2 minutes, the water went to the ceiling and pushed them through layers of drywall and a steel door. Guys in the lobby lowered an emergency firehose to them and pulled them to safety. They just have some cuts and bruises and were lucky to escape with their lives.

Incredible. Amazing how close we are to being sent right back to the dark ages. I'm glad those maintenance guys made it out ok.

Me either. I am putting all extra spending on lock down. I want to cancel cable, but DW is finding it hard to imagine life without certain shows? That would save $600 over a 10 month period! My estimate for the adoption is between $30-35k so every little bit helps.

That is a very good estimate of the cost... With Ethan we were somewhere in the neighborhood of 35-40k. Part of that was because of having to stay for nearly a month in NY and having to fly with him to Salt Lake to finalize. Luckily our work had a program for adoption assistance and then the government offers a 12k (approx.) adoption tax credit that also helped. I wish that I had used the Lawyer with Lauren that I used with Ethan it would have saved us thousands, but I did not know sthat time. With Lauren our expenses were only about 15K. Good LUck!!!

Already done. I think it is ridiculous that adoption is so costly. You guys that do adopt are special people.

I agree with CJ. Wish we could make it easier for families to be able to do this. So many kids that need good homes. I really respect and admire all of you guys that have gone/are going through the process.

We've looked into adoption a couple of times and it seems like things always come up to stop it from happening. The first time we started down that road, my DW got pregnant with our 3rd child. Then we started looking into it again and MIL passed away, leaving us to care for FIL who can't really take care of himself.

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

Happy birthday Andy and Ben! And Amelia! And whoever else has a birthday today!

 

[Jousey]

I am headed to bed for the day, see you all tonight.

 

[declansdad]

Morning All,

Happy Birthday Andy, Ben and Amelia!

 

[Cinderella's Fella]

OK folks& I had a little bit of time to put together the stats from the last thread.
There have been a few interesting changes.

Thank You Rob! Page 1 has been updated!

Norm!!!

 

[mm1971]

Good Morning All!

You guys were busy posting this weekend. Off to read the pages for a while. Sorry to all those from Indiana. Pats put up 59! and sailed to the victory. Looks like we may have a good chance to meet again is the playoffs though.

 

[mm1971]

david continues to be happy. Will it be a notre dame vs oregon championship game?

nope!