8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 12

[lbgraves]

Really upset!!!!​

I just had my teenage neighbor girl come over to my house. She was almost in tears. There was a bomb threat at our highschool. I guess this has been going on since yesterday. The school did a locker check of all students today and found blueprints of the school in a locker. The authorites evacuated the school. Helicopters from the news stations are flying over my house. We are only 8 blocks from the high school. Where will this all end????? Sorry I just had to vent!!!! I am so angry that it might just be a copy cat or maybe not. How can anyone take chances!!!!

Unfortunantly things like this have been going on all week long. It is just sick.

 

[lbgraves]

I just got back from dropping Angelina off at the school so she could get her make-up on for the musical. I told her all the "Break a Leg" wishes that were sent her way, she smiled from ear to ear and asked me to say THANKS from her to everyone...................

This is when it is nice that we live only two minutes from the high school!!!

I hope that the performance went off without a hitch tonight & continues to do well all weekend! Be sure to take pictures.

 

[lbgraves]

Hope everyone is having a good week. It's been a bit stressful here but we are looking forward to a relaxing weekend to recharge.

 

[Friend_of_Piglet]

Good Evening!!!

1. What is your favorite word?Peace
2. What is your least favorite word? War
3. What turns you on [creatively, spiritually or emotionally]? nature
4. What turns you off? stupid people
5. What is your favorite curse word? None of them, I don't curse.
6. What sound or noise do you love? laughter
7. What sound or noise do you hate? nails on chalkboard
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? actor
9. What profession would you not like to do? vet. I love animals. It would be way too hard.
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? Haha, just kidding.You're not done yet.

Have a very Happy and Safe Friday everyone!!! ixiedust:

 

[ohanafamily]

Hi everyone!!!

Hey Lisa, RRBB and I don't knw the web addres, or our access. Would you pls PM me with the info....

To everyone else, PLEASE forgive me, I try to keep up, but can't. We have a baby coming (who is listed as TBB on our room) I have no free time...

 

[lbgraves]

There is no website right now. I have no idea what the status is.

 

[Esteri]

Sorry I haven't been on in a few days. OBE. Course, you probably didn't miss these silly Pirate Jokes anyway...


What is a pirates' favorite pronoun?

Ayyy!!!


I'm way back there trying (and failing) to play ketchup. Jakob says "Thanks" for all the birthday wishes and congratulations. I left one of the birthday wishes up when he woke up - so it was filling the screen when he came in for breakfast before the show. Left a big grin on his face.


OH! One of my coworker introduced me to a new acronym that I really like (it even sounds like what it is)...

SCGAC = Suitable Chastened, Guilty As Charged

Given this crowd, I figured we'd have much use for it around here.

 

[DiaLady]

Hi All --

Been catching up a bit. . . it's been a challenging week. As a VT alumni, we're still working to overcome the shock . . let alone the fact there are so many connections to folks that are immediately effected. . .as one of my Hokie friends recently said, Hokie Pride runs deep . . . my heart goes out to everyone impacted by this barbaric crime.

Yes, Lisa, there is a website . . .I thought I was waiting on another update from you on "THE list" . . . I can use what I have . . . I may be confused . . .please let me know and I'll get it moving again I'm sorry if I missed it . . .

 

[DiaLady]

oh goodie . . another list of questions . . .

1. What is your favorite word? chocolate
2. What is your least favorite word? No
3. What turns you on [creatively, spiritually or emotionally]? strength
4. What turns you off? ignorance and lack of listening
5. What is your favorite curse word? Although I don't curse, I do admire the amazing Russian curse words . .
6. What sound or noise do you love? joy in my children's boices
7. What sound or noise do you hate? angry shouting
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? lawyer or artist
9. What profession would you not like to do? psychologist . .. can't sit that long
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? Oh, heaven exists . . . well done good and faithful servant . . . I got lots more for you to do . . .

 

[DiaLady]

I hate it when I lose the quotes!

Yes, we are keeping and renting our AK house. We plan to retire here (first retirement in 6 years), so it will give us a place to live for a few years while we look for our 'forever house'. I love my house here. Of our 7 houses (in 12 years) this is by far our favorite! We can't afford to buy in DC & we want to own something, somewhere.

How sad is it that we both have professional, executive type jobs with decent pay, no debt, and can't afford a freekin' house within a 2 hour commute to DC??????

Sadly, it's not just DC, but most of the East Coast. The house down the street from us just sold for over $300. We bought our house for about 1/3 of that 7 years ago (praise God DH decided to buy when he did!) . . . And our house is about 400 sq ft bigger! Even in SE Virginia the market is insane . . . be glad you aren't moving to Seattle . ..LOL.

By the way, you'll be much closer for WDW . . .much cheaper flights . . maybe that savings will help make for the cost of house

Have you lived in DC before?

 

[DiaLady]

Well after the initial insanity of this board, I'm kinda sad that I'm here all alone on a Thursday evening. Guess everyone else is as busy or crazed as I've been over the past few weeks. . . we need a vacation!

Hope to chat tomorrow night!

 

[Esteri]

DS8 has problems with reading. Smart kid, his brain is just wired differently. He gets 100% on all of his spelling tests, but he has trouble reading the test back to me! He is doing very well in school, just needs extra help with reading. I pushed since 2nd semester of K to have him tested. They finally did it 2nd semster of 1st grade. At least IEPs are for 3 years, so his is good for another year and a half, so they will have to provide the help he needs.

We had a similar problem with Jakob. His Dr administered a reading test when he was 8. He read the paragraph out loud correctly, and the dr showed it to us. Every word with more than 4 letters had the interior letters reversed. (Boat was Baot, for example) she then showed him a second paragraph which he read correctly. It was the same paragraph spelled correctly. with the two paragraphs side by side he was unable to identify any differences in the paragraphs. Well, he did notice that one word was misspelled.

Basically, he was reading with only the right side of the brain. the right side recognizes the first and last letters and the lenght of the word. The left side recognizes the interior letters. Both sides of the brain don't integrate until 9 years - so she wasn't terribly concerned, but did prescribe several courses of physical therapy focusing on balance, and cross body integration, she also wanted him to swim a lot - that cross body thing. (This is the reason our school delays having children read. Though spelling is started off right away. Of course, by the tiime they start "reading" they've pretty much figured it out on their own. It makes for a pack of 3rd and 4th graders who are voracious readers.)

The good news was that even handicaped like this he was still reading above grade level. She said he had an astonishingly large "dictionary" in his head.

He still has trouble with interior letters. Calm gets pronounced Clam. But, it's getting better as his development catches up with his peers. At least he's seeing the problem when you draw his attention to it. I think he got into the habit of being a lazy reader and only looking at the first and last letters and the length of the word.

Don't know if this helps...

 

[Esteri]

Yeah, thanks for your support Andy.

Well.... You're the one who announced all that you accomplished in 72 hours. We've got high expectations now.

That's like saying the White House is nice shack!

Well, it is...

... a couple of years ago I had this happen to me (pink eye) for the 1st time ever... and boy oh boy was it an annoying experience. So - I am happy to see you're emerging from it! Remember, it is really contageous - so conduct yourself accordingly...

Give it to everyone you can find under the age of 8 so that they can give it to their parents!!

 

[sk8ingmom]

By the way, you'll be much closer for WDW . . .much cheaper flights . . maybe that savings will help make for the cost of house

Have you lived in DC before?

Never lived in DC before. The only positive thing I could come up with when we first found our is that it is a 1 day drive to 'home' (Cleveland) & a 1 day drive to WDW. So far we have 4 trips to WDW planned between when we get there and the end of TOAL!

We had a similar problem with Jakob. His Dr administered a reading test when he was 8. He read the paragraph out loud correctly, and the dr showed it to us. Every word with more than 4 letters had the interior letters reversed. (Boat was Baot, for example) she then showed him a second paragraph which he read correctly. It was the same paragraph spelled correctly. with the two paragraphs side by side he was unable to identify any differences in the paragraphs. Well, he did notice that one word was misspelled.

Basically, he was reading with only the right side of the brain. the right side recognizes the first and last letters and the lenght of the word. The left side recognizes the interior letters. Both sides of the brain don't integrate until 9 years - so she wasn't terribly concerned, but did prescribe several courses of physical therapy focusing on balance, and cross body integration, she also wanted him to swim a lot - that cross body thing. (This is the reason our school delays having children read. Though spelling is started off right away. Of course, by the tiime they start "reading" they've pretty much figured it out on their own. It makes for a pack of 3rd and 4th graders who are voracious readers.)

The good news was that even handicaped like this he was still reading above grade level. She said he had an astonishingly large "dictionary" in his head.

He still has trouble with interior letters. Calm gets pronounced Clam. But, it's getting better as his development catches up with his peers. At least he's seeing the problem when you draw his attention to it. I think he got into the habit of being a lazy reader and only looking at the first and last letters and the length of the word.

Don't know if this helps...

Funny how little boy brains work, isn't it?

 

[captaincrash]

Wow!

Last week I did 14 hours in a car spread over 4 travel days... that was ROUGH at times... making me rethink doing anything like that anytime soon ... <wry chuckles>.... and I'm not sure but I bet those 20 hours you're referrin' to might have been done in less days than my whimpy 4 travel days for 14 hours of driving... and I did ALL the driving... as usual.

I will answer this since Mark probably won't see it. Yep that 20 hours was done straight thru. Talk about a flat butt!!!

I've got my computer back and it's mostly working again! Wooo HOooo! I even have a new docking station my friend found for me... and now I don't have any power issues (like I had before)... and my photos were saved! However, I don't have the wifi working yet. I am working around that by plugging the docking station directly into the cable modem.

At any rate, yeah... being a little tender in the tail is common with long haul driving for me - but not quite int he same way as our bunny rabbits suffer above. <chuckles>​

 

[radioclash2]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDY !!!
& MANY, MANY MORE

​

 

[captaincrash]

OK...

... I'm turning in now... I'll maybe wander in tomorrow in the day - but I'll try to hook up for chat... except now that I'm thinkin' about it - I have a community meeting in the evening to discuss the proposed additon of a Home Depot near by (we don't like it), plus the girls both have gymnastics tomorrow noon and 5pm - so I have a busy evening which will keep me from chat plus light chores during the day (as usual). We're supposed to get some steady rain tomorrow too...

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[Verandah Man]

"Good Morning One and All"

"TGIF"​

 

[Verandah Man]

"Happy Birthday"
to
Sharon B/scubamom
Megan/DD cinderella mom3​

 

[Verandah Man]

Just heard tonight that my sister is in the hospital. She tried to pick a caalous off her foot then ignored the pain in her foot and my lose her foot tomorrow. Like everyone else in our family she thought it would go away if she ignored it. s__t happens.

Oh John, so sorry to hear about your sister, sending prayers and her way.