8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #11

[lbgraves]

One of the best ways scouting can counteract the WWW factor are the honor camp programs (Order of the Arrow or Mic-O-Say) offerred at the summer camps. Make sure that your son's council has a strong Order of the Arrow program. If so, OA will help keep your son motivated to stay involved to continue to grow within Order of the Arrow. When I was 17, I was flipping burgers at Wendy's and had no intention to go to summer camp. I was still a little involved in Scouts (already had Eagle), but still had room to advance within our council's OA program so I told Wendy's that I needed 10 days off and I went to camp. Twenty-four years later, I'm glad I did it as I reached the highest level.

The timing this week about scouting is odd. I hardly ever mention the fact that I'm an Eagle anymore, but I received a resume from someone this past week and he mentioned that he was an Eagle Scout even though he was in his mid-30's and has been in the workplace for 15 years. It did tell me that the person stuck with something and didn't give up!

ITA! I was in GS for 12 years and they added the gold award (equivalent to Eagle in BS) when I was a Senior. I got it the second year it was offered and the work required was quite extensive. I had already gotten my First Class Award which was previously the highest available. That went on my resume, along with the fact that I financed 100% of my college expenses and earned my BA in three years instead of the usual four. I have great memories from 9 years of summer camps.

 

[MrsScooby]

Dog out and into the DIS? Scooby Doo, where are you?????

 

[lbgraves]

That's interesting.... I have a friend that had to cancel a trip to WDW because Arlington moved their start date up and they already had a trip booked -- almost a year in advanced so her dh could get the time off work! The principal of their elementary school told her that if her dd missed the first 3 days of 1st grade it was an automatic failure! I was so angry for her!

This was a few years ago.

That is absurd!!!

 

[lbgraves]

That looks fantastic!!!

 

[MrsScooby]

HAPPY 40th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CHERYL AND JOHN

40 years is a long time

 

[dahuffy]

I was soooooo excited when I saw your message. I went straight to the DCL site to see if I had been assigned a room as well.

<sigh>

I'm still in the lifeboat . . .

Same here Mike.

 

[lbgraves]

Originally Posted by lbgraves
From what I understand this is a NC regulation/law. I wasn't aware of it either until she told me and every teacher who I have talked to since said that is right. It should at least be a district wide thing so I would call the school board and verify their policy.

Is this school an improvement over your last school district??? I remember somethings you were not so happy about!!!

OMG YES!!! It was like going from the dark ages to the 25th century (yes I know that hasn't gotten here yet but that is the extreme). It is a shame that there is such a vast difference between two schools in the same district. The principal there was extremelly supportive of the teachers and got to know all of the students. Each 9 weeks she personally signed and commented on all 425+ student report cards. The teachers were all happy and that reflected on their students and therefore in the test results. The final end of grade test results for the school were INCREDIBLE!!! The average for the 3rd grade was 97.8%, 4th was 96.4, and 5th was 96.7. The writing test scores for the 4th grade were around 86%. Meanwhile the old school fell from a 30% passing writing test score to a 22.3% rate.

DS has academic peers at this school and though he got the top overall score on the first run of the EOGs in September, there were 4 of them in his class that rotated the top 4 scores all year. It is great that he has kids who he can relate to now. They are all at a 7th grade or higher reading level so they can talk about books that they are reading for example. He no longer gets teased for being "the smart kid".

DD did very well too. To give a specific example of the difference in the curiculum between the two schools, DS's 2nd grade introduced double digit addition and subtraction in May. DD's 2nd grade class learned this in October.

Needless to say we are very happy with our decision to buy a house so the kids could attend a better school. We haven't regretted it for one second. We actually signed a contract a couple days ago for the old house and if things go the way they look so far we will be closing the end of this month.

 

[MrsScooby]

I was soooooo excited when I saw your message. I went straight to the DCL site to see if I had been assigned a room as well.

<sigh>

I'm still in the lifeboat . . .

Us too. Those lifeboats are going to be crowded.

Us too...it will be real lesson in togetherness!

Same here Mike.

DITTO

 

[rillsung]

There you go topping me again. First with that Celebrity Circus and now this. I think I am going to like you!

 

[lbgraves]

Wow everyone is getting their packages today.
Has anyone who had the unfortunate honor having the last mailings for the stimulus checks,gotten their checks yet??? We got a notice Wed that they were coming.Just curious.

We got ours last week.

 

[lbgraves]

Isn't it nice to have those sons to keep us in line?

That is too funny! I need to take DS9 shopping with me more often. Last week when we went to Kohl's he kept telling me that I should get that shirt and this dress would look great too.

 

[dahuffy]

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I shared some Mochi with your family

Tom,what is that? Looks good whatever it is!

 

[lotsofboys]

and here is my real post.
just wanted to post a HUGE PUBLIC THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to Michelle (lotsofboys) for offering to get the so-cal discount tickets for us. the check is the mail (for real hehe)
We really appreciate it because to be honest.. depending on how much overtime DH can get before the cruise and how much other things were gonna cost- I was beginning to get a bit worried if we'd even be able to squeeze in the cost of DL tickets to even be able to go to DL while there!
So this helped a WHOLE lot- saved us hundreds. We can't ever thank you enough!!!!!

Thanks Shelley, I am so embarrassed, what I am doing is NOTHING compared to all the work EVERYONE else is doing. Maintaining the website, arranging busses, arranging tours, t******, wristbands, lanyards, FE exchange, SM exchange, dining rotations, nametags, keeping track of the kids and I know there is a lot more I am missing.

WE HAVE A GREAT GROUP

Michelle

 

[ga9497]

Have to look this up, but I think I just heard new Sam Brown show on Cabo starting Thursday....

Thursday 10:30pm eastern time

Samantha Brown: Passport to Great Weekends
Cabo
TV-G

Los Cabos, Mexico evokes images of spring breakers and tequila. But on Sam's first visit to Baja Sur, she chooses to spend a weekend off the beaten path. She's rented a villa just outside San Jose del Cabo, an artistic town packed with personality.

 

[dahuffy]

Dinner is served!

Kevin loves MREs!* He want's to know what's for lunch?* Please, we were still eating C and K Rations or "Rats" as we called them, when I was in the service!!

 

[dahuffy]

Ok, a 1 1/2 foot deep mud pit.....



Anyone else thinking M volunteered for bikini mud wrestling

Where's John Candy when ya need him?

 

[allshookup]

Tom it was Halloween 10/31/02. Here is another one but unfortunately Julianna is not looking at the camera. I know you were taking pictures that day, you had a new Canon (may a G-3) that we talked about.

That is so cool! It's a small world after all....

We all had a great mini meet!!! I am sure Pamela or Tracy will have pictures to post!!! Great weather....great food.....great fireworks.......and great friends. What a wonderful day this has been.:

I'm jealous!!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY JOHN AND CHERYL

and I did it with photobucket


Roger and Crash that is so cool.

Work today. Dreary morning but no rain here.

Nice cake there Arlene! Sorry you're working & it's dreary!

DH packs himself. He's a big boy and travels a lot for work.
HOWEVER...for vacations, trips home, etc., I help him pick out his clothes. The man has been wearing a uniform since he was 5 years old! If it isn't a light blue shirt and dark blue pants he is totally lost. He really needs "Grown Up Garanimals"




There ya go Stace. Tryin' to get me in trouble again!

ummm, I think the Mickey pool might make a better mud pit. Not quite as deep.



Dinner is served!

I let DH pack once & he brought maybe 2 pairs of shorts & a pair of pants & 2 shirts. He said, "That's all I need!" He ended up doing laundry every couple of days & it drove me crazy. Next time I put a pile of clothes next to the suitcase for him to pick & choose what he wanted from that pile & NOTHING got packed except for maybe a bathing suit, t-shirt & shorts. He said he didn't see it. Now I just do MOST of the packing for him. Saves us all a lot of trouble in the end.

Not that his outfits look any better mind you, because it's hard to work with green & red t-shirts & bright green & orange shorts, black socks & sneakers. Grown-up Garanimals? I think you have something there!

 

[tom31b]

Cheryl and John

Congrats on 40 years of marriage!!!​

 

[allshookup]

I totally KWYM.

One of the saddest things I've seen in 25+ years of firefighting continues to be the number of memories that are in the pile of burnt and ruined things after the fire, photo albums, video tapes, photos in frames, etc.
This stuff can't be replaced!
Its one of the reasons I pay for a photo storage site (with redundant servers). Just in case (God forbid) something bad happens, not just fire, etc but hard drive crash. I couldn't imagine losing ten years of digital photos.

That's so sad! After reading this, I'm thinking we need to make some copies & at least leave them with somebody else.

A stalking post? Hate when that happens. Usually it disappears when you finally let it post??? Maybe if you dog out and into the DIS?


Regarding the tickets....

The people on this thread are great!!!

I love the way everyone jumps in and helps each other out!

When I dog out & dog back in...it gets rid of those pesky stalking quotes.

ITA! What a caring group!!!

Happy Anniversary Cheryl & John!


We had a great time yesterday. Thank you Cheryl & John and Pam & Dan for your wonderful hospitality. Getting ready to pack up and make the trek back home. It was so great meeting everyone and having a 60's flashback seeing Mickey Dolenz of the Monkeys too! Only a month left!

I loved the Monkees!!! What a great idea for a meet!

Thanks to all of you for anniversary wishes. John was going to take me for lobster but DD thought we need to go to the zoo today. SOOOOO of we are spending the day at the zoo with DGC. It will be nice. See you all later.I still thing 40 years is a long time!!!


I have not see that cake before!!!


Yes people are great on this thread and in person too!!

Aw Cheryl if you've been married 40 years....you must've got married as a baby because you look awesome!

ITA....I've met some fantastic people from this thread!

 

[junesgoofy]

Being a small town, it's like a giant game of "Telephone". I'm so sick of all the rumors (none of which are true) and questions. We were talking tonight about how we'll be glad to have the person caught so that maybe it will put a rest to all of that nonsense. Besides the obvious reasons we want him/her/them caught, that is.
One of the victims friends said today at the memorial that he wanted this person caught and brought to justice, and he almost slipped and said "I hope they (the police) catch him before we do...." Yeah, a lot of people still think this is the old west.

Those of us that have had bad things happen to us know what the 'catch him before we do' attitude is all about. I never thought I would have those feelings but when my young family member was kidnapped and murdered, those thoughts just pop into your head. Thank goodness for our sanity and keeping us from a long trial, he (the kidnapper & murderer) took care of himself when he could not escape the police! I hope to never have to go through that type of thing again. Hugs to you and your family for this difficult time.

BTW: this happened very, very close to you in Arizona back in 1989!