Cheeky Chicks (and a rooster) Can Cyber Chat For A Whole Year! Part 2

[Sthronds]

A couple of years ago I was driving 3 hours to my home town and drove into a James Dean memorial. The route I take goes right by the place he died, there has always been a tree with a plaque (he didn't hit the tree, it just had the plaque), but now they named the intersection for him. I never understood the big deal of that either.

So Grim, are you saying you don't believe Donny's age? It's true! Dec. 9, 1957.

 

[jtnsami]

If he's only 50, then I'm still in my late twenties. Look at my screen name and you will see that, alas, neither is true.

Well, I've been holding at 25 for ummmmmmm, quite a few years . I'm still 2 years younger than Big G (grimley) though

I had to come back to commemorate Dead-Elvis-Week.

Hello Arkie! What the fetch is Dead Elvis Week? Personally, I like Jailhouse Rock.

I just wanted to post a driveliciously wasteful post saying that I'm a mere 40 posts away from 2,000. At this rate I should be there in a mere few days or less, assuming I'm not blocked again soon. Woo hoo!

Go grimley! You can do it ! 2000!!!
Why were you blocked anyway? Were you hangin with some sleazy character that was kicked outta here?

Grim, you can easily make 2000 today. Just remember back to the good ol drivel days.
Donny will be 50 in December so he's not quite there. You have to realize that I've been crushing on him since I was about 3. It is by far my longest crush at 31 years.

Arkie, glad you are here but why exactly *do* we celebrate Elvis' death? I've never understood that.

Ahhhhh, the good ole Drivel days.

I do remember the day he died. I was staying at my grandmother's house in Memphis. We drove by his house, and I said "I wonder what he's doing right now". Then we heard on the news that night that he was dead!

That's not funny. YES IT IS!!!!!!

It's been a long day.

 

[Sthronds]

We've been pretty active today! I love it! Especially since it's been very slow today. I've done nothing but airline tickets today. Talk about exciting.

 

[jtnsami]

I wonder if being a TA is exciting. Mine is heading out for a Disney Cruise in a couple weeks. Lucky dog.

 

[Sthronds]

I wonder if being a TA is exciting.

The answer would be NO! Not usually. The benefits are few and far between. I get two weeks off a year like a normal job.

 

[jtnsami]

Maybe this is how I should have handled my ex-husband

A couple was celebrating their golden wedding anniversary on the beaches in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Their domestic tranquility had long been the talk of the town.

People would say, "What a peaceful & loving couple".

The local newspaper reporter was inquiring as to the secret of their long and happy marriage.

The Husband replied: "Well, it dates back to our honeymoon in America," explained the man. "We visited the Grand Canyon, in Arizona, and took a trip down to the bottom of the canyon by horse. We hadn't gone too far when my wife's horse stumbled and she almost fell off. My wife looked down at the horse and quietly said, "That's once."

"We proceeded a little further and horse stumbled again. Once more my wife quietly said, "That's twice."

"We hadn't gone a half-mile when the horse stumbled for the third time. My wife quietly removed a revolver from her purse and shot the horse dead.

I SHOUTED at her, "What's wrong with you, Woman! Why did you shoot the poor animal like that... Are you crazy?

She looked at ME, and quietly said, "That's once."

"And from that moment.....we have lived happily ever after."


Come on women! Let's take them all horse-back riding!!

 

[Grumpy's Wife]

Good Morning People. Happy Hump Day as well.

Grim it's so nice to have you while we can. Maybe they don't realize you're not blocked.

Hi Arkie. How is our very own Dr. Pluto doing these days? Has he started school yet?

Susan are you going to visit your friend this weekend? She may need some girl talk.


Wendy I loved your joke.


GD did they have a big crowd singing along to Elvis?

FAB and Chris stop in more. Jeanny too.

They announced the new codes for Disney. Up til December. It's not me yet but I'll be in on the next set of dates. I'm hoping in October they will announce something for February.

 

[grimley1968]

Well, actually, since we're on the subject, I do remember the day he died. I was staying at my grandmother's house in Memphis. We drove by his house, and I said "I wonder what he's doing right now". Then we heard on the news that night that he was dead!

The King may have been on his Throne the very moment you thought that.

Okay, please don't kick me off the DIS for that comment.

 

[grimley1968]

Why were you blocked anyway? Were you hangin with some sleazy character that was kicked outta here?

Sleazy character that was kicked out? Did someone get crazy with you all in my absence?

As for being blocked, it wasn't me personally being blocked off this particular website. We have a Websense server here in my office that blocks certain types of material to all employees. The types of material included, of course, porn, but also groups websites, message boards (the DIS definitely fits under that category), and even offsite storage sites such as Google documents, which I use heavily as well, but only for personal documents, and not to offload company data. I think maybe Websense got tweaked to allow message boards again and the offsite storage, since I don't know of any employees here that have abused those categories of sites. We have, unfortunately, had to fire people for viewing some porn sites, and abusing some sites like myspace, etc. You'd be amazed at the variety of people who seem intelligent, but are absolutely addicted to porn sites and try to feed that addiction even at work in the midst of a cubicle environment. Of course they're always caught eventually and end up being fired. Imagine going home to your wife/kids and telling them you got fired and then explaining why.

I could be wrong, and Websense could be back in all its message board-blocking glory at any time.

 

[Sthronds]

Good morning!

It is a beautiful day here today. I didn't even hit that normal patch of fog this morning.

Tricia, I don't think I'm heading to see my friend this weekend. She has a wedding to go to. She is hoping they can come see me again in a couple of weeks.

I hope that you all have a wonderful day!

 

[fabumouse]

Chris stopped by?? Ugh, I'll have to go back and find that.

Okay, finished Harry Potter (sorry, it had to be done) and was so distracted in the process of taking care of baby and 6 year old and house that I put DH's "dry clean" only suit pants through the wash. 2 pair.

Er. Do you think he'll notice?

About the King. I remember I was in California and we were living with friends - who were just devastated at the news. I believe there was a midnight vigil they all rushed out to.

So Trish - around here they package up school supplies and sell them in bundles at the grocery stores. Which is GREAT. Except nobody seems to be in stock for 6 year old's school. I could write down the list from the grocery store, but that would require more duct tape on the 1 year old than I usually carry around in my purse.

 

[arkansas mom]

Hi Arkie. How is our very own Dr. Pluto doing these days? Has he started school yet?

Hey!
Will goes back to school on Monday (I can't wait! )
We went to open house today to meet his teachers. Here's my dilema. He signed up for band. I'm trying to reign in my own high school issues with the whole "band geek" thing. Now, just so you know, I was in band. And HATED it! I am really trying to let go of my aversion to band. My plan is to at least try to get him to play drums--the top of the middle school band heirarchy, right? So when we left open house, I set my plan into action and took him over to the music store and bought him some drum sticks. Hopefully he'll fall for it. And not be lured by the shiney saxophone. (he said he might want to play saxophone so he could be like Lisa Simpson ) So now I must vow to never complain (or yell) when he's beating on my dining table with his nice new sticks.

 

[fabumouse]

Arkie - too funny! We do drag our stuff around when it comes to our kids. Kailey is really really excited to take the school bus for the first time - but my experience of the school bus was a rural "lord of the flies" scenario for 30 minutes each morning. Most excellent!

Here's to hoping our kids have different experiences.

 

[jtnsami]

Good morning Chicks and Roosters! I'm getting ready to head off to work and just wanted to pop in.

It's raining here today. We definitely need it.

Have a great day!

 

[Grumpy's Wife]

Good Morning.

Lori good luck to Will and his band decisions. I was never in the band but do enjoy seeing them at the half time shows at football games.

FAB I'm sure Kailey will do fine on the bus. My kids ride and two out of the three really like it. The teenager has problems with it not being cool.

I'm having a fun day of shopping with my SIL. I hope to come back loaded down with packages.

 

[GoofyDad869]

I need to apologize for the premature Elvis death anniversary. It seems our Market Square Elvis is calendar-challenged. And I was Google-challenged for not fact-checking before I posted the other day. Sorry for that. But if you can't trust Market Square Elvis, who can you trust?! I guess the proof will be in the pudding (so to speak) if he wears his black jumpsuit today - although I suppose he might take a road-trip to Memphis today...

By the way, prior to his black jumpsuit, he (Market Sq. Elvis) had two performance outfits. One was a white satin ensemble with an American flag on the cape. The other is a baby blue leisure-suit type of thing, with light blue shoes. Except it appears they've been spray-painted and have blue glitter glued on 'em. "You can do anything, but don't step on my blue Krylon shoes" just doesn't have the same ring to it...

In other, non-Elvis news - I hear ya on the band thing. I was never in the band in high school, but was a jock. Never played the big sports like football or basketball, but a jock nonetheless. I played soccer (fullback & goalie) and swimming (long distance freestyle) and lettered in both. So you may think I had an anti-band attitude. Au contraire, mon frere... Most of the girls I dated were band girls. "...This one time, at band camp..." truly does mean something in my experience. My son is in the middle school band. He plays alto sax. Seeing school from a band perspective rather than a sports perspective is strange to me.

 

[grimley1968]

I was definitely a "band geek." I played trumpet. I never got to first chair in high school, but then I kept on playing in college, improved greatly in my chops and in technique, and eventually became principal trumpet (first chair) for my last 2 years in college. Pretty cool. I played in the symphonic, jazz and pep bands (for basketball games) and pretty much got to play all the high parts and solos I wanted to. I had the credits to be a music minor, but didn't bother with the paperwork, as I never felt like doing it professionally. It was fun while it lasted.

Then I had a second ear surgery a year after graduating college and my otolaryngologist said it was probably never a good idea for me to have played a wind instrument, especially a brass one, and never to play again.

I still get my trumpet out now and then and play some stuff I still know. Forget you, Mr. ENT guy! I know my high school's fight song, note for note, which happens to be the same fight song the University of Kentucky uses: "On On". But I have to limit myself to the low octaves now, which kinda stinks. I did, however, compose On On as a cell phone ring tone on a previous cell phone I had.

As for busing, my DD Maddy, in 2nd grade now, is driven to school every day by my wife. We would certainly have her take the bus, but we are technically outside our school district, so busing is not an option. I actually lived virtually next door to the school system while growing up. I walked to school (about a 3 minute walk) every day from grades 1-6 and then 9-12. For middle school I had to ride the bus as the middle school was separate from the rest of the school system's buildings by a couple of miles. It wasn't too much of a zoo, but I was glad to be able to walk again when I entered high school. I was able to sleep later that way. I would literally sleep until about 7:30, shower and dress in about 25 minutes, start walking to school at about 7:58, and walk in to my homeroom by about 8:03, between the first bell and the tardy bell. It was swwweeeeeeet, compared to getting up 45 minutes earlier to catch those yellow behemoths that stop every 10 feet.

 

[Sthronds]

Morning.

So much to talk about. . . Happy Dead Elvis Day.

I was not in band because I played the piano and that was enough for me. In high school my two best friends were Flag Girls which was a source of amusement for my other friends and myself. In college my roommate (now my Best Friend #2) was a music major with clarinet. I ended up hanging with all the music majors for 4 years. All of us friends who didn't play or sing called ourselves the "Friends, Roommates, and Significant Others Groupies." So. . . I was a band geek by association.

As for the bus situation, we lived outside of town and were not a regular stop. On certain days in Kindergarten I would take the bus home but it was a special stop and the bus driver always looked for "the little blond girl " One time she didn't see me and didn't stop. I was taken to the bus barn and had to be brought home by the driver in her truck. I was a wreck! After that, my family worked it out to pick me up.

 

[grimley1968]

We could use a break with the weather. It is now 99 degrees at 1:20 PM, en route to a forecasted high of 102. That is almost unheard of for this area.

Yesterday's high here was 100, and it reached 100 once last week as well. I think it had been something like a decade or so since it last hit 100 in this area, and that was only once, in the middle of July. Typically, although it is still hot in August, mid-to-late August is usually too late in the summer to have the extreme temperatures we can have in July here.

We could really, really, really use some rain here. A dam that holds in our drinking water/tourism/power plant cooling lake is being repaired by the Corps of Engineers, so they had to lower the lake as it was before the summer even came, and it's expected to take 7 years for the repairs. Meanwhile, our local power plant is risking losing its intake water supply that cools it, and houseboating tourism $$$ have gone elsewhere to find more plentiful lakes with dams that actually work. The lack of rain isn't exactly helping to keep the lake levels up. It's always amazing to me how there's always a nationwide equilibrium with rainfall. That is, when one area is parched, another area is drenched. If there was some way to simply evenly distribute all the flooding rains Texas has gotten this summer over the South and Ohio and Tennessee Valley areas, everybody would be copacetic. As it is, though, it's been a rough summer for both areas for opposite reasons, but with only one factor: rain.

 

[grimley1968]

Okay, I am choosing this thread to bestow upon everyone .....



MY 2000TH POST !!!

Woo hoo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay John!