8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 16

[Verandah Man]

WOW!!! Looks like some pirates and wenches were busy overnight, 10 pages of fluff to ketchup on this morning................

 

[sk8ingmom]

Hey Monica - I hope your mom is on the mend.

Nawww.... it's down ta 88 posts now.

And where are the SWABBIES?

Oh YAY! The sailors are back!

Just back for a moment after brushing my teeth (probably TMI!)...



If he listened to the DIS Unplugged podcast he would know he is supposed to be "Anniversarying" (yes, it has become a verb!)

Pamela

Anniversarying...I like it. With my new car, my kids have turned 'convertle' into a word. "Mom, can we convertle to top?" "Is the car convertled?"

Might have a new toy by sometime next week...

OH FUN!

Ahhh neighbor's with bennie's ....

******

The Volunteer Thing

Don't even get me started on PTA volunteering! Our last school, meetings were at 10 am on weekdays. I had a flexible job, but it was so not worth messing with my schedule for a useless meeting. I volunteered to help with the yearbook since it seemed like something I could do at home or at least in the evenings. Oh yeah, and I have 3/4 of a degree in photojournalism (changed my major senior year!), 3 years as YB editor & 2 yrs as advisor for a 500 pg. college book. I left work early to make a 2 pm meeting. Turns out that by yearbook, they meant scrapbook! They were still doing layouts with actual cutting and pasting (like scissors, punches, rubber cement, etc.) The yearbook meetings were really 'scrap meets' and I was essentially told that my services were not needed. Oh well.

Oh yeah, and I'm your kid's cub scout leader and hockey coach, serve on the chamber of commerce board, and cook for the homeless shelter once a month, so please don't lecture me on volunteering!!!!!!

 

[yargrnhoj]

Oh yeah, and I'm your kid's cub scout leader and hockey coach, serve on the chamber of commerce board, and cook for the homeless shelter once a month, so please don't lecture me on volunteering!!!!!!

That's the one that really sets me off. Our eldest's swim coach did that last year at a "Parent meeting" -- complaining about lack of volunteers, lack of support. Except the people AT the meeting WERE the volunteers -- I told her she needed to go lecture those who didn't show up, not us.

 

[LITTLEKID58]

GM

Presently 73 going up to 90 with 50% chance or rain here in Central Florida

Question of the day..

Where/what were you doing today 6 years ago????

and prayers to everyone who is going to need it today

aboard to all the newbies

Remembering 9/11

 

[yargrnhoj]

We just got home from choir practice (Naperville Chorus for those Chicago area folks who know where that is). This was the first practice of the year and I guess I'm out of practice since it was totally exhausting! We are doing Handel's Judas Maccabaeus this time which I haven't sung before so I think it will be a lot of fun.
Pamela (pdarrah)

Down in my neck of the woods. Let us know when your concert is and we'll see if we can make it. DS13 was just nominated for IMEA Choral Festival so at least someone in our family can sing. (I can't carry a tune in a bucket with both hands).

 

[yargrnhoj]

Courtesy of dams, hydropower in the United States resulted in the avoidance of 30 million metric tons of carbon emissions in 2002.

Wow, a lot of dam information on the DIS last night. Reminds me of the time we took the dam tour in Nevada. They didn't have any dam food, though, which was disappointing.

 

[yargrnhoj]

Wow!

and on another note - the lawns are all cut now - gotta edge em' tomorrow though and we're maybe fixin' to replace on section with sod this weekend. GOtta lot to do in the days to come.

Oh, that reminds me -- SWMBO allowed me to purchase my lawn tractor over the weekend. Well, actually, that's stretching the truth, it was HER idea to purchase the tractor. I think she thought we were going to kill DS13 making him mow our lawn with a push mower.

 

[yargrnhoj]

I get to the feast & this same woman comes up to me and says, we have too many moms here, you can leave I looked her square in the eye and said tell one of the other moms they can leave. I'm staying.

Way to go. I don't even think about volunteering at school or PTA -- they are not at all welcoming to Dads trying to help out.

 

[Verandah Man]

I was driving in my work car headed to the area where I would be reading water meters when I heard on the car radio that a plane had crashed in the first tower. The first home I went to, the woman answered the door with tears streaming down her face. Not long after, as I was still in the area reading meters I walked into a home just as the first tower came crashing down. My knees buckled and I had to sit down, I sat that there in shock and disbelief. I stayed at that house until it was time to go home for lunch. Needless to say, only a few meters got read that day.

 

[yargrnhoj]

Where/what were you doing today 6 years ago????

and prayers to everyone who is going to need it today

aboard to all the newbies

Remembering 9/11

I was at work. A co-worker paged me and said a plane had crashed into the WTC. I went to the hallway where at the time we had MSNBC running and they were just reporting the second plane hitting.

I called Janie, who was on a business trip in Seattle and woke her up and told her to turn on the news. Me and the boys had been planning to fly out that weekend to visit Seattle and obviously had our flights cancelled.

I left work early that day to pick up my kids and tell them what happened.

 

[dahuffy]

I like the Buddy 50 cc. (closer to ground; feels safer)

DH likes the TGB Laser.... I think it's too dirt bike looking....

My first was a Buddy 125! They're good little scooters. Now I'm on a QLink Legacy 250. Have fun!!

 

[Verandah Man]

I had to leave to take Angelina to school, and now am getting ready for work, but I wanted to add. We had a young man (Nick) from our town that died in the South Tower on 9-11-01. Nick graduated in 1997 from the same school that Hazel and I did. Nick graduated from college in 2001 and had just been working at the South Tower about two months when the attach happened. Nick's remains were never found. Hazel, Angelina and I attended his memorial service a few weeks later. Well over 1,000 people were in attendance for his service.

In just so happens, that I am reading meters in the same development today, that I did six years ago, on this date.

 

[arlenesp]

GM

Presently 73 going up to 90 with 50% chance or rain here in Central Florida

Question of the day..

Where/what were you doing today 6 years ago????

and prayers to everyone who is going to need it today

aboard to all the newbies

Remembering 9/11

Our DS was the first to watch it and called to say to turn on the tv.What a way to be woken up. At first we thought it was an office fire but as we listened to the confused newscasters we realized the severity of the event.sat transfixed at the set as the second plane did it's horror. We watched those buildings go up floor by floor everyday on our way to work, and remember when they topped the first tower with a tree.(some tradition the workers have) Seeing the devastation was so surreal. My Mom used to live 6 blocks away. I was so glad she had permanently settled in Fl as she would've been right in the middle.Needless to say work was extremely difficult that day and the silence of the skies was eerie.That day someone draped the playground with the largest American Flag which covered the jungle gym. .Noone touched it for months.

DH got his CC card yesterday and he tried to get on the website. Didn't work. Will have to check it for myself but this is just another episode in the saga of the cards I may have to get Cheryl to straighten it out for me

 

[winotracy]

GM

Presently 73 going up to 90 with 50% chance or rain here in Central Florida

Question of the day..

Where/what were you doing today 6 years ago????

and prayers to everyone who is going to need it today

aboard to all the newbies

Remembering 9/11

I was at work getting ready to fly to San Diego the next day to meet my DH who was already there when I heard about the first plan. I spent the next few days wondering when I would be reunited with him. Since we were planning to spend about a week in San Diego, Bill couldn't get his return flight moved up with all the cancellations so he ended up taking a bus home - 57 hours to Des Moines where I drove to pick him up. Scary times! I remember hearing many more military planes flying over our house (where in a flight path for the Madison airport) for months after 9/11.

 

[m&m's mom]

go to bed, you must be tired, you're reading the numers wrong, you've still got 100 to go

Oh Gawd! That is tragic

 

[PBader]

I was at work--where we had no TV or radio, just muzak. Customers kept coming in throughout the morning and telling us bits and pieces. The pawn shop next door lent us a radio. I talked to Alan and my Mom (she had just went to Boston on the 10th) on the phone a lot that day. Our Shell rep called and said the pipelines were being closed down and they had no idea when they would reopen---
I want to say it was about 2 o'clock when the lines started to get into the parking lot with customers filling up their tanks----they went on for hours and hours. We got 3 price changes that day and we were lucky we had gotten a delivery early that morning, we didn't know when we would get another fuel delivery and didn't know what to do about the price--We never changed our price and decided to sell until we ran out. It was after 10 pm before I finally made it home and could actually see what had happened---then I was glued to the TV and the tears started.

 

[goofyforlife]

My first was a Buddy 125! They're good little scooters.

Unfortunately no 125's in stock and this place is the only dealer in the area.

If i wanted a 125, you have to have a motorcycle license in MD and from what i understand there's like a year wait to get into a class around here.

With a 50 cc, which should be ok for what i need it to do... After a year or so, i may think of taking the restrictor off and it should get 55-60 then at top speed. Which would be nice on the off chance i might have to travel a short path across the interstate (to use local roads is very out of the way)

The horrible thing is that in MD, an un registered "scooter" can't legally go over 30mph (well it can but that's the speed limit placed by the state)

As for 9/11:

I dropped off my DD at school at 8am. I didn't need to be at work till 11:00. I usually had the Today show on or something but that morning i was cleaning up the kitchen. scared1: shocker)

My DH called me around 9:30 'ish and
he says: " guess what's happening?"
i answered, "the world's ending?"
He said "close, turn on the TV"

As i watched the next few minutes, the first tower fell....

I still had to go into work but it was sad there. It was a call center and our only news was whatever was on MSN or CNN.com...

 

[m&m's mom]

I was at work when I heard on the radio there had been a plane that hit the WTC. They did not know anymore. Progressively more info came in. I went downstairs at work where our cafeteria was full of people glued to the TV. We actually saw the 2nd plane hit live.
My DH called and said his building was being evacuated as they thought it might be a target. He picked up DD's from daycare and took them to my Mom's. I followed on MSNBC.
God Bless America!

 

[tom31b]

dammmmm

Hoover Dam

Aswan Dam

Shamokin Dam (for any Pennsyltuckians)

Damn Yankees....

In 1999, the Department of Energy identified 21,000 megawatts of unused hydropower potential at existing dams in the U.S.

the earliest dam in recorded history is said to have been built on the Nile River at Kosheish around 2900 BC, to supply water to the capital city of Memphis

Dams are constructed to supply water for human consumption, irrigation, and industrial uses.

Courtesy of dams, hydropower in the United States resulted in the avoidance of 30 million metric tons of carbon emissions in 2002.

Embankment dams...
are the most commonly built dams in the United States.

Damn he's hot

LOL...

OK, what *is* it with the DAMS?

Wow, a lot of dam information on the DIS last night. Reminds me of the time we took the dam tour in Nevada. They didn't have any dam food, though, which was disappointing.

Too much dam information!

(feel free to groan)

 

[Downrivermama]

Morning every one!

Six years a ago on 9/11 I was at work and dd was in daycare, she was 3. Someone said what was happening and we all went on CNN website to see what was going on. I was thinking of calling my dad, when my phone ran and he asked me if I knew about what was going on.

At about noon, security told the County Executive (I work for county government) that everyone should go home, because of security concerns. I left, called daycare to see if they were closing, they weren't and went to my dad's. Got there and saw the video of the towers falling. Stayed for a while and then decided to get started with my Christmas shopping. Went to Toys R Us and hardly anyone was there. Then went to Target and the same thing. It was very eerie. Living 8 miles from Metro Airport and along one of the runway paths, when they shut down all flights it was so quiet. The silence is what I remember most, it was weird.

Prayers and pixie dust to all today. It's hard to believe it's been 6 years.