10/24/2009 Bash On the Boat (I'm with BOB) - Thread #7

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Already have seen over $4 here, heard rumor that we may hit $5 by this summer and they don't expect it to stablize until it is over $6. This guy on the Today show was saying he doesn't think that the Saudi's are holding oil back, he thinks that they are giving what they can produce because they are running out.

About $10 a gallon over here

 

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Sorry wrong board

A Welcome F.O.....anytime!

 

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Holiday Weekend here in the States this weekend - we have Monday off.

It usually is the considered the beginning of Summer, although it isn't too warm yet here in WI.

Any big plans for anyone?

We have Monday off as well Jeff...its called Spring Bank Holiday! Go figure

 

[JLDSMD]

The DS are having a rugby tornament on Castaway...if you're interested. Very much like American Footbal without the padding! ouch!

Yeah, they've been planning that for quite sometime.

I think they're doing that on the Adult beach.

We'll stick to the Family beach then.

 

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Our plans are nothing exciting for the weekend.

Seeing some friends on Saturday afternoon/evening. My Bro may stop by on Sunday. Monday and all the other open times on the weekend will be used working in the yard.

We have friends coming on Saturday - we have Eurovision Song Contest on TV. All european countries submit a song and then we can vote for a winner. Sunday...I have wedding flower planning with my SIL and then Monday...not sure what we'll do.

 

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Busy day at work today Jeff? I'm hoping it's slow. So slow that everyone ditches out early and I'm all alone. I'll lock the doors and turn off the lights in the front of the office. My office has it's own lights, so I'll make it look like we're closed and then DIS all afternoon.

With Karen MIA this weekend, it was a slow read this morning. Thanks for entertaining me a little this morning though.

I have to get some checks out this morning and then have a webinar for the budgeting component for my accounting software from 1-2. After that, should be quiet.

Taking the small car in to get it repaired today. Once that is done, I'll head home.

 

[JLDSMD]

About $10 a gallon over here

We're heading that way. Sad thing is we have our own oil here and can't get at it. Opponents will say it won't have an effect for a few years, but the price of oil is up on speculation of a shortage in 5 years. Sounds to me like we could take care of that shortage by starting to drill for it now.

 

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We have monday off as well Jeff...its called Spring Bank Holiday! Go figure

Just trying to give you UKers another day off. Do you have off the first Monday in September?

Wonder if they time your holidays with ours.

 

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Good afternoon Heather!

Hiya Nancy...how's you're morning?

 

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Heather, I love your tag line!

Thanks Nancy...corny but true.

 

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Paige,

when Jay and I were last in DC (summer 2003) we spent an entire afternoon at the Holocaust Museum and it was absolutely incredible - emotionally wrenching and strangely illuminating.

I know it's not possible, but I really think it should be mandatory for people to visit there. Not only to ensure that no one ever forgets it, but to remind all of us of the horror that people are capable of visiting on each over such inconsequential things as skin color, politics, national origin, cultural identity, and religious beliefs.

When I find myself making sweeping generalizations about someone I disagree with I always try to think of The Merchant of Venice and that speech that Shylock gives in the third act:

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? ...

At the end of the day we're all the same ... our individual differences make us beautiful and interesting but we're all members of the same human family. That's one of the things that the Holocaust Museum drove home most powerfully to me.

Sorry ... I'm getting down off my soap box now.

Well said, sistah! I want to take Emily to see it this summer, because this year they have covered a lot about this subject.

I just taught Anne Frank this year for the first time in several years (back in 8th grade). Anyway, it all hit me again, it is always moving to see how involved all the kids get. Have you heard of PaperClips and Freedom Writers. I used those movies (with permission) in the unit.

Many of the kids chose Anne Frank as their most memorable character of the school year.

Have you ever heard of the the book The Girl with the White Flag? Great for teaching about survival. It made me think of Anne Frank when I was reading it. It is actually classified as a young adult book, but I only read it a few years ago when we lived in Oki. Very moving! It makes you realize how much of WWII we were not taught--not only the holocaust but also the lies that the Japanese empire told to their people. (The Okinawans thought that the US Marines would eat their babies.)

 

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Yeah, they've been planning that for quite sometime.

I think they're doing that on the Adult beach.

We'll stick to the Family beach then.

We're with you on that one. Rick wants to snorkel.

 

[disgrits]

Just a quick hi and bye....off to take Alex to school. Have a great day everyone!

 

[JLDSMD]

Well kids, nice chatting. I have to get ready for work.

I'm dropping DS off at school early so I can run the car in.

I'll be back on this afternoon.

 

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We're heading that way. Sad thing is we have our own oil here and can't get at it. Opponents will say it won't have an effect for a few years, but the price of oil is up on speculation of a shortage in 5 years. Sounds to me like we could take care of that shortage by starting to drill for it now.

Heard on the radio that crude oil has reached an all time $$ high.

 

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Just trying to give you UKers another day off. Do you have off the first Monday in September?

Wonder if they time your holidays with ours.

No, last Monday in August....that's called Summer Bank Holiday.

 

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Just a quick hi and bye....off to take Alex to school. Have a great day everyone!

Hi...Bye!

 

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That's it...I;ve scared you all off.

My lunch break is now over...so chat later folks.

 

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Hows this for a cool picture:

 

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Some cool stationery at:http://disney-stationary.com/stationary/disney-magic-cruise.php