P.O.T.C. On Stranger Rides! The Missing Chapter,,Final Thoughts,, Preview Thoughts.

[shan23877]

In the picture of you two on Buzz, the guns look like b**bies!

Glad you didn't have to get that other shot!

I thought the same thing!!

 

[Grumpy's Wife]

In the picture of you two on Buzz, the guns look like b**bies!

Of course I had to go back and look.

Great update! You always make me laugh.

 

[sewmess]

The only thing about being trapped on the phones at work: I can catch up with Nebo and friends.

Oh my, so much to comment on, so little time (and memory - can't remember half of what caught my attention and forgot to multi-quote and am now too lazy to go back and find the stuff.)

Smidgy, your eulogy was beautiful. Those pages, the actual report and the responses made me tear up and miss my Dad, who passed in 1999. I never realized how thankful I should be that my Dad passed before he lost what made him who he was. Blessing be on all of you who have, or are going through, losing someone right before your eyes.

And then there was the sonambulistic ice wanderings. I have moments on elevators here at work. In the main part of the building, three of the floors look pretty much the same on the way out of the eleveator and if I'm not paying attention, I'll get off on the wrong floor and make the customers look at me funny when I grumble and head for the stairs up/down. Or roll my eyes and get back into the elevator. And this is after at least one cup of coffee.

Y'all know what? If I eveh get my own trippy up and running (I'm working on it in my free time - which is about 10 minutes a day) I'll have those 15 minute chapters too. But you might have gotten that from the length of this post. I just hope I get the same caliber of readers.

 

[Thumper_Man]

Hey Nebo/Smidgy.

I've been keeping up, just really haven't had time to post. Getting ready to take my annual hunting trip this weekend. Lady H and I were in Phoenix last weekend. So I've been busy at work trying to stay ahead so I don't come back to a ton of work. Glad to hear you didn't get stuck in your good eye. Sorry to hear you got stuck again in your bad eye. I don't know if the Sunny D trick would work with me or not. They might not make it to MK. They would be gone before we even got to the TTC. Hopefully I don't fall too far behind while I'm out in the mountains.

Glad to see you let Ponzi out. I thought he was behind me when I went to go get him. I hired Marie as the lookout, but I guess she took off for a dole whip. Oh well. At least he's out and all is good on this TR again. Great updates.

 

[winkers]

By the way, what's in Texas?

My little sister moved there in July and is hating it, so I went to cheer her up for awhile.

 

[mmeb144]

Glad to see you let Ponzi out. I thought he was behind me when I went to go get him. I hired Marie as the lookout, but I guess she took off for a dole whip. Oh well. At least he's out and all is good on this TR again. Great updates.

Dole whips are meh. Now, I would take off for an ice cream sandwich...

 

[Thumper_Man]

Dole whips are meh. Now, I would take off for an ice cream sandwich...

Abandoned for an ice cream sandwich.

 

[pkondz]

Nebo: Knock knock

Treading on thin ice, here. Aren't you buddy?

Readers: No knock knock, here's a knock knock for you:
Readers: Knock knock
Nebo: Ok, fine, "who's there?"
Readers: Police
Nebo: Police?

Readers: Yes, Police don't attempt any more knock knock jokes.

And there was great rejoicing.

You know, every once in a while I'll come across something that just strikes me funny,

You mean like a mallet to the inside of your elbow?

This is from Golda Meir, the ex- prime minister of Israel a long time ago:

"Moses dragged us through the desert for all that time to the one place in the Middle East that doesn't have oil."

Hadn't heard that one... and yes, it is pretty funny. Hmmm.... good at parting water, not so good at finding oil... or was he? "Okay, gang. We'll camp here. Good land. Not floating on that gooey black stuff."

Fill in the blanks:

Come listen to a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family ____,
And then one day he was shootin' at some food,
And up through the ground come a bubblin' _____.

Oil that is, black _____, Texas _____.

Is it sad that I didn't have to Google that?

Back in the room, I put the ice bucket down, and Smidgy said, "You know, the cooler is low on ice too."

No, I didn't go for her throat but I wanted to, instead I just went over and peaked in, "Yep, it can wait until morning, or later on when I feel like it, whichever comes first."

Even before I read the 2nd sentence, I was thinking, "And she lived to tell the tale!"

I'm still trying to shake myself awake, and the last thing that sounds good to me right now is a drink, I'm more in a coffee and toast mood right now, but I FORCED myself to adapt.

That's our Nebo. Always willing to fall on his sword in order to help others. A true man among men, a model for all others, a devoted husband, a hero....

sorry, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little there.

Darn gag reflex.

Almost as bad as eating brussels sprouts... which of course were invented by Satan...

Did you know that brussels sprouts and Disney will be forever (since I was a little kid) entertwined in my mind?

We finally came up with a solution to this vexxing situation, at least, Diane did.

Just one x shy of a really entertaining TR... just sayin'

"Steve is always right!" "Steve is always right."

I used to kind of chuckle to myself at the wisdom of this statement,
but lately it seems like it's said with more and more, contempt.

And at that, I'm betting Smidgy's showing great restraint!

Even when we checked in here, there is only one bed plus a pull out,,, and I asked her which side she wanted,,,,,

"Steve is always right, Steve is always right."

Hey! She could've said, "The top side." And if the bed is on the opposite wall, are you still on the right? What if it's in the southern hemisphere? Or turned 90 degrees clockwise, or counter-clockwise? Ya know which side you're on if the bed is attached to the ceiling? The floor side.

See what I mean?

Nope. Missed it.

There was some fear in my heart when we turned into the short elevator hallway. Once inside I was just about jumping up and down pointing out to her how there is no 13th floor.

She responded by yawning.

I don't know why, but I LOL at that. I do that sometimes to my DW. I'll point something out that I think is the greatest thing since sliced bread... What's so great about sliced bread? I mean is it really that great?

"I discovered penicillin! Now many, many lives will be saved!"
"Well I discovered that you can take a loaf of bread and cut it... lots."
"Whoa, dude, wish I had discovered that instead."

...

where was I?

Oh, yeah. So I point out something that I think is the greatest thing since penicillin (there's some reeeeaaal careful typing there) and I usually get a blank stare followed by a, "That's real nice, honey. Now will you please pay attention to the road so you don't run over the little old lady trying to cross the street?"

Now, I ask you. What's more important? Some little old lady that I probably don't even know? Or the fact that the sign for the vaccuum repair shop doesn't really suck... and shouldn't it?

Aren't you glad I'm commenting on your TR?

It was at this time that I started to definately think that BLT is not as close as advertised, it's quite a walk.

Interesting. I didn't think it was that far. I used walking directions in Google maps and it came out to about 1/2 mile. I think if you are predisposed to think that it's "right next door" then it becomes a long walk. If you think, "It's about a mile", you may not find it so long. Whadya think?

Right to Tomorrowland, took a picture. By the way, in the room I noticed the date was off on the camera and tried to reset it, messed it up again though, this time we went back in time.

You should've gone back to wherever you were to meet yourselves. Nah, you'd probably just annoy the heck out of yourselves. And Smidgies would just talk about both of you while shaking their collective heads.

"Steves are always right."

Right, those "Hold out the camera in front of you and press the button" are always great shots!
And you should see the ones that didn't make it into Photobucket.

Just one more reason to go digital.

Time for Buzz,

no, not my little friends, Lightyear,

oh.

I just kept my trigger pressed the entire ride, as soon as I saw her aiming for something I'd spin the car around!

Now that you've let that little gem out, do you really think she'll let you steer next time?

Steer? Stere? Stear? It's steer right? And yes, I know that's bull.

She wanted to cause me great bodily harm!

Kindly ask her to stand in line like the rest of us.

On the way out Smidgy wanted a picture of us on the ride, no problem, got the camera out and took a picture of the picture. Yes, this is how we do things up here in Redneck Carpentersville, Illinois.

Up here in igloo land, too.

There was more to it than I thought there would be, now you almost have to choose a line,,,, the cool stuff to look at is on the left with the fast walk line to the right.
Take your time going through here, there's some interactive things too.

Count the disembodied heads everyone!

And of course the trick is to catch her with her eyes open:

Nice catch. Love that tombstone.

Oh, and I forgot right after we did Buzz, we also got in Casserole of Progress, I had a little airplane bottle with me too which didn't see the exit alive.

Let's all say a little prayer for the little bottle. Taken before its time.

Right before Wishes, the castle did some lighting I had never seen before:

This one too, doesn't this look different?

Hadn't seen both of those before. Interesting. Like the first one more.

As I'm standing there trying for the best pics and it's coming to an end I decided to try something;
that's right, it's time for,,,,,,
ANOTHER NEBO VIDEO!

Thanks for that. I was sitting there with a silly grin on my face the whole time.

The monorail was down again, and not intentionally.

Well, no. Of course not. It only goes down when the DIS tells it to go down.

It was a nightmare out there for those people that were dependent on it,, yes, BLT came through this time as we just walked back to our resort.

Ah, ha! And was the walk back as long as you thought it would be?

When we got to the elevators though, a woman was standing there with about six little kids running around her, all yelling, bouncing off the walls, running in circles, and all wearing mouse ears hats. It was kind of freaky looking, with the woman just standing there waiting for an elevator to arrive while the demolition squad went at it all around her.

Probably by then she was so tired that she just didn't care anymore.

"Mommy! Mommy! I'm setting fire to the building!"
"That's nice, dear. Now could you please let Mommy rest for just one minute?"

As they say in M*A*S*H, Suicide is Painless, as long as you're high enough, or that's not a BB gun.

Last night I thought I'd unwind with a couple of episodes... Ron Howard (credits called him Ronny Howard ) guest starred in the first one. John Ritter and Pat Morita in the second.

I could easily picture it inside the elevator with them, be like
violently shaking a snow globe with yourseld inside of it.

Good imagery!

and lastly,,,,, this is a you had to be there picture I guess.

You can tell what it is, right?

Yep, a full moon, and I was just fascinated by it, not sure why but it was just so clear to me, maybe Prof. Lupin can explain it to me.

The moon is actually very difficult to photograph. It's actually quite bright. If you can, set your aperture to f16 and depending on your ISO (film speed) use 1/ISO shutter speed or 1/100 for 100 speed film. That only works for bright full moon.

Well, this turned out to be a very pleasant evening for us, therapeutic, if you will.

That's good. No snide remark. Just, I'm glad that it helped.

Tomorrow is a resort day for us, meaning, no parks, the only thing we have to take care of is getting our car back from the Goodyear Car Care Center.

I should have realized that the Beast would be waiting for us there!

Night all, sweet dreams, don't let the bedbugs bite.

Uh, oh! Find more problems? Hike the price up from the already astronomical price? Waiting to find out! Thanks for the update!

 

[nebo]

I thought the same thing!!

Of course I had to go back and look.

Great update! You always make me laugh.

Ok, it's not just me. And those things were loaded!
I used to say I'm targetting,,,now I'm lactating.
Poor Buzz, he never saw it coming that his new saying would be, "To maternity, and beyond!"

The only thing about being trapped on the phones at work: I can catch up with Nebo and friends.

Oh my, so much to comment on, so little time (and memory - can't remember half of what caught my attention and forgot to multi-quote and am now too lazy to go back and find the stuff.)

Smidgy, your eulogy was beautiful. Those pages, the actual report and the responses made me tear up and miss my Dad, who passed in 1999. I never realized how thankful I should be that my Dad passed before he lost what made him who he was. Blessing be on all of you who have, or are going through, losing someone right before your eyes.

And then there was the sonambulistic ice wanderings. I have moments on elevators here at work. In the main part of the building, three of the floors look pretty much the same on the way out of the eleveator and if I'm not paying attention, I'll get off on the wrong floor and make the customers look at me funny when I grumble and head for the stairs up/down. Or roll my eyes and get back into the elevator. And this is after at least one cup of coffee.

Y'all know what? If I eveh get my own trippy up and running (I'm working on it in my free time - which is about 10 minutes a day) I'll have those 15 minute chapters too. But you might have gotten that from the length of this post. I just hope I get the same caliber of readers.

Hey, welcome back, I'll have to go look for your report, I'm sure you'll do fine.

Hey Nebo/Smidgy.

I've been keeping up, just really haven't had time to post. Getting ready to take my annual hunting trip this weekend. Lady H and I were in Phoenix last weekend. So I've been busy at work trying to stay ahead so I don't come back to a ton of work. Glad to hear you didn't get stuck in your good eye. Sorry to hear you got stuck again in your bad eye. I don't know if the Sunny D trick would work with me or not. They might not make it to MK. They would be gone before we even got to the TTC. Hopefully I don't fall too far behind while I'm out in the mountains.

Glad to see you let Ponzi out. I thought he was behind me when I went to go get him. I hired Marie as the lookout, but I guess she took off for a dole whip. Oh well. At least he's out and all is good on this TR again. Great updates.

T man, have fun, but be carefull. Just read an article on a guy in Indiana who shot a buck, then went to get it and found it still alive. In the process of finishing it off for good they got in a struggle, he killed the buck and called for the DNR to help him load it. They found him dead sitting up against a tree with a lacerated liver.

My little sister moved there in July and is hating it, so I went to cheer her up for awhile.

yeah, right, sure. You were just trying to get away from your Mil.

Abandoned for an ice cream sandwich.

Could be worse, could have been an Itzakadoozie!

 

[dwheatl]

Ok, it's not just me. And those things were loaded!
I used to say I'm targetting,,,now I'm lactating.
Poor Buzz, he never saw it coming that his new saying would be, "To maternity, and beyond!"

And what was the little voice coming from the lazer gun? "Oooh, I have been squozen!"
Sorry, just had to "milk" it for one more joke.

 

[nebo]

And there was great rejoicing.

I like that, it should have, "throughout the land" at the end, though.

Hadn't heard that one... and yes, it is pretty funny. Hmmm.... good at parting water, not so good at finding oil... or was he? "Okay, gang. We'll camp here. Good land. Not floating on that gooey black stuff."

Yeah, struck me as funny. Israel gets this lttle postage stamp parcel of land with no oil and their scenic vacation waterfront is the dead sea!
No wonder Moses dropped dead on Mt. Nebo.

Fill in the blanks:

We had a local band out here for a long time named, "Phil 'n the Blanks."

Come listen to a story about a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family _fed___,
And then one day he was shootin' at some food,
And up through the ground come a bubblin' _crude____.

Oil that is, black _gold____, Texas tea_____.

Is it sad that I didn't have to Google that?

What's even sadder is I still remember the second verse.
"Well the next thing you know 'Ol Jed's a millionaire,
his kinfolk said, "Jed, move away from there."
They said "California is the place you want to be," so they loaded up the trucks and they moved to Beverly, Hills that is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"
You do realize you are giving me very bad ideas for upcoming chapters, with me, doesn't take much.

Even before I read the 2nd sentence, I was thinking, "And she lived to tell the tale!"

This definately was a time where being half asleep was very beneficial to her.

That's our Nebo. Always willing to fall on his sword in order to help others. A true man among men, a model for all others, a devoted husband, a hero....

sorry, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little there.

I was expecting you to cut your tongue out, oh, sorry, chop off your fingers. There's still time,,,,


Almost as bad as eating brussels sprouts... which of course were invented by Satan...

Did you know that brussels sprouts and Disney will be forever (since I was a little kid) entertwined in my mind?

Ok, not quite sure how we morphed over into Brussels sprouts, but I have to agree, how anybody ever even tried to eat them after smelling them cooking is beyond me. But I can't remember any place in Disney selling those things,,,,so I'm guessing that when you were younger,,, Mama said no Disney for you if you don't eat your BS. Am I right?
I think if that happened to me it would have been,
"Fine, Universal here we come!"




Hey! She could've said, "The top side." And if the bed is on the opposite wall, are you still on the right? What if it's in the southern hemisphere? Or turned 90 degrees clockwise, or counter-clockwise? Ya know which side you're on if the bed is attached to the ceiling? The floor side.

Ok, who's giving Ponzi the vikes?


I don't know why, but I LOL at that. I do that sometimes to my DW. I'll point something out that I think is the greatest thing since sliced bread... What's so great about sliced bread? I mean is it really that great?

"I discovered penicillin! Now many, many lives will be saved!"
"Well I discovered that you can take a loaf of bread and cut it... lots."
"Whoa, dude, wish I had discovered that instead."

Well of course. People get sick, what else is new?
But sliced bread? Holy cow, before they knew it could be sliced they would have to punch a hole in the end of the loaf with their fist, then try and jam baloney and American cheese slices inside the hole and then try to break off the section of sandwich they had just made by breaking it over there knee!

And you think discovering Bacterium growing in a pot of water is more important than sliced bread?

...

where was I?

Um, not sure.
Where was I?

Oh, yeah. So I point out something that I think is the greatest thing since penicillin (there's some reeeeaaal careful typing there) and I usually get a blank stare followed by a, "That's real nice, honey. Now will you please pay attention to the road so you don't run over the little old lady trying to cross the street?"

Now, I ask you. What's more important? Some little old lady that I probably don't even know? Or the fact that the sign for the vaccuum repair shop doesn't really suck... and shouldn't it?

Aren't you glad I'm commenting on your TR?

I think it's safe to say that it's obvious to us all that a doctor has definately changed Mr. Ponzi's meds.

Interesting. I didn't think it was that far. I used walking directions in Google maps and it came out to about 1/2 mile. I think if you are predisposed to think that it's "right next door" then it becomes a long walk. If you think, "It's about a mile", you may not find it so long. Whadya think?

Right. One half mile = 2640 feet, or 4 blocks. Hey, you're not of this country, why aren't you speaking in kilometers? That's it, gig's up, first the Hillbillies, now the miles, face it and confess, you're not from Canada at all, you're from Sheboygan Wisconsin, right?




Just one more reason to go digital.


Ponz, that WAS on the digital.




oh.



Steer? Stere? Stear? It's steer right? And yes, I know that's bull.

Done?


Nice catch. Love that tombstone.

I think they changed that too, it's spookier than I remember it, good ol Leota.

Let's all say a little prayer for the little bottle. Taken before its time.

Oh no, it was Canadian Mist, it's time was up. Eech. Not my favorite bourbon.


Thanks for that. I was sitting there with a silly grin on my face the whole time.

Heck, I did the same thing when I posted it, as crappy as the sound is from that little thing, it still did it for me.

Probably by then she was so tired that she just didn't care anymore.

That is exactly what it looked like to me.




Last night I thought I'd unwind with a couple of episodes... Ron Howard (credits called him Ronny Howard ) guest starred in the first one. John Ritter and Pat Morita in the second.

I watched one not too long ago that bothered me,,,
it was Hawkeye telling a very young Patrick Swayze he has cancer.

Good imagery!

I had to think, and think, what you are talking about here,,,,,then I got it, the snow globe.

The moon is actually very difficult to photograph. It's actually quite bright. If you can, set your aperture to f16 and depending on your ISO (film speed) use 1/ISO shutter speed or 1/100 for 100 speed film. That only works for bright full moon.

Ok, let's see if I've got this;
Set my appendix to an F-16 fighter, then depending on my ISP I might get to see a USO show sped up 100 times. That it?

Or, I can set the camera on the Fireworks setting and press the button like I did.

That's good. No snide remark. Just, I'm glad that it helped.



Uh, oh! Find more problems? Hike the price up from the already astronomical price? Waiting to find out! Thanks for the update!

As we used to say when we were much younger,,, you are getting much warmer.

Great breakdown Ponzi, remember last year when you first started doing this how short the chapters were and easy it was?

 

[mrsksomeday]

The door dinged, and quickly I held out my arm to stop Smidgy, "After what I've just gone through getting the ice today, the last thing in the world I want is to be trapped in a little tiny room with a bunch of feral mouseketeers."

I love this, I hold back and let the crazies here in our building use the elevators before we go up. Bill laughs at me.

I try to take pictures of full moons at WDW too, they just look huge and gorgeous to me there, especially when we are in the World Showcase.

Looks like you had a really good day. We haven't seen the Memories castle show yet, but we might be seeing it in 14 days . Toni aka oregonmommyof2 guilted me into starting a PTR, if you need something boring to help you sleep click on the link in my signature .

 

[pkondz]

Originally Posted by pkondz

And there was great rejoicing.

I like that, it should have, "throughout the land" at the end, though.

Nope. I was thinking this:

NARRATOR: And so Arthur and Bedemir and Sir Robin set out on their
search to find the enchanter of whom the old man had spoken in Scene 24.
Beyond the forest they met Launcelot and Galahad, and there was much
rejoicing.
ALL: Yay! Yay!
NARRATOR: In the frozen land of Nador they were forced to eat Robin's
minstrels. And there was much rejoicing.
ALL: Yay!

What's even sadder is I still remember the second verse.
"Well the next thing you know 'Ol Jed's a millionaire,
his kinfolk said, "Jed, move away from there."
They said "California is the place you want to be," so they loaded up the trucks and they moved to Beverly, Hills that is,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"
You do realize you are giving me very bad ideas for upcoming chapters, with me, doesn't take much.

Swimming pools, movie stars.

Ok, not quite sure how we morphed over into Brussels sprouts, but I have to agree, how anybody ever even tried to eat them after smelling them cooking is beyond me. But I can't remember any place in Disney selling those things,,,,so I'm guessing that when you were younger,,, Mama said no Disney for you if you don't eat your BS. Am I right?
I think if that happened to me it would have been,
"Fine, Universal here we come!"

When I was a kid, my sister and I were 'allowed' to go downstairs on Sunday to watch "The Wonderful World of Disney". We watched it on a black and white TV while our plates were precariously perched on TV trays. Almost every freaking Sunday we'd have brussels sprouts. Roast beef with gravy and mashed potatoes or roast chicken or something really good.... and brussels sprouts! Talk about annihilating a good meal. Anyway, I'd leave them until last... wait 'til my sister finished her meal and went back up for dessert... and toss my (required) two brussels sprouts under the couch. I got away with this for a while until one night when my parents were watching a show they spotted a small dried up ball under the TV. Apparently the cat had played with it (Smart cat... even he wouldn't eat the darn things).

Right. One half mile = 2640 feet, or 4 blocks. Hey, you're not of this country, why aren't you speaking in kilometers? That's it, gig's up, first the Hillbillies, now the miles, face it and confess, you're not from Canada at all, you're from Sheboygan Wisconsin, right?

Nah. I automatically convert for you. I don't want your brain to explode from doing math until after the TR is done. Besides, we still have the Queen as the titular head of state, and they use metric in Europe. So that's why we're metric.... oh, wait. They use miles over there in Britain... never mind.

I watched one not too long ago that bothered me,,,
it was Hawkeye telling a very young Patrick Swayze he has cancer.

Just a little prophetic, no?

Originally Posted by pkondz
The moon is actually very difficult to photograph. It's actually quite bright. If you can, set your aperture to f16 and depending on your ISO (film speed) use 1/ISO shutter speed or 1/100 for 100 speed film. That only works for bright full moon.

Ok, let's see if I've got this;
Set my appendix to an F-16 fighter, then depending on my ISP I might get to see a USO show sped up 100 times. That it?

That's right! See? I knew I wouldn't have to dumb it down for you.


Great breakdown Ponzi, remember last year when you first started doing this how short the chapters were and easy it was?

Yup. Now I have to think, "Do I have a couple of free hours before I start this?"

 

[nebo]

I love this, I hold back and let the crazies here in our building use the elevators before we go up. Bill laughs at me.

I try to take pictures of full moons at WDW too, they just look huge and gorgeous to me there, especially when we are in the World Showcase.

Looks like you had a really good day. We haven't seen the Memories castle show yet, but we might be seeing it in 14 days . Toni aka oregonmommyof2 guilted me into starting a PTR, if you need something boring to help you sleep click on the link in my signature .

Tracy, You're going back already? Cool, i'll look for your report, oh yeah, siggy, duh.
Tell Toni I'm still mad she didn't stop by at Teppenedo, or is she Terry, there should be a law against two people with non gender specific names marrying each other.

Yup. Now I have to think, "Do I have a couple of free hours before I start this?"

Ponzi, what you see here is all that comes up when I click on the quote button, the rest is still hidden in the post from me that doesn't copy,,, so STOP doing it that way!

It sounds too like we had similar upbringings.
I just dreaded Sundays at dinner time.
That's when my mom would go out of her way for the best meal of the week, which often translated into Fried Liver and chicken hearts, or ,,,,,, shudder,,, smoked butt,,,but the worst was pork shanks, I couldn't even look at them, and I still can't. But even if it was something good, like you said, it would be ruined by either brussels sprouts or broccoli, or asparagas or cauliflower.

And what was the little voice coming from the lazer gun? "Oooh, I have been squozen!"
Sorry, just had to "milk" it for one more joke.

Nice one Danny, even I cringed at the milk line, mostly cuz I didn't use it myslelf.



Ok, try to keep your excitement down but I should have a new chapter up in a little while, the Hillbillies are going to the Grand Floridian!

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Ok, try to keep your excitement down but I should have a new chapter up in a little while, the Hillbillies are going to the Grand Floridian!
__________________

 

[pkondz]

Ponzi, what you see here is all that comes up when I click on the quote button, the rest is still hidden in the post from me that doesn't copy,,, so STOP doing it that way!

Yes, my Liege.

And you heard it here first, folks! Nebo wants me to keep doing it! .... just not that way.

But even if it was something good, like you said, it would be ruined by either brussels sprouts or broccoli, or asparagas or cauliflower.

Ah yes, Satan's choice and the un-holy trinity.

 

[mrsksomeday]

Tracy, You're going back already? Cool, i'll look for your report, oh yeah, siggy, duh.

Tell Toni I'm still mad she didn't stop by at Teppenedo, or is she Terry, there should be a law against two people with non gender specific names marrying each other.

Well we go back in 13 days. Then we will go back 180 days from today for a trip in May . We are addicted .

I will tell Toni, I get the names mixed up sometimes too .

 

[nebo]

Am I the only one who thinks that at the end of America's Funniest Videos there are at least 20 better videos than the 3 pieces of crap they choose for people to vote on?

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Knoock knock

Take it easy, I'm just teasin

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Not long after we arrived in our room after escaping the feral kindergartners, we heard the music outside again, but this time we were in a better frame of mind to enjoy it so we went out on the balcony to watch.

I found that with the zoom set on high, you could not jiggle the camera in the slightest bit on a night time setting or it would blur up, but using the railing helped me steady it a lot.

The music was plenty loud, even all the way up here.
Smidgy was in the bathroom with the door closed when it started. The balcony sliding door was also closed at the time but she still heard the music start and came running out.

But then again, Smidgy can hear sign language so this is no surprise.

With that capping off the evening, it turned out to be a pretty good day, the only thing missing tonight was SpectroMagic and we hope they bring that back soon.

No, we are not Main St. Electrical Parade fans, we really love Spectro and even have the music on a few home made disks.
Heck, who am i kidding? I've got the BTMR warning speech, "Howdy folks, this here's the...." on disk as well.

Tuesday morning, September 13

(yes, this was the lost version of the Moody Blues famous song)

No parks scheduled for today, it was going to be a just lie around and swim most of the day, we'll decide if it will be teh BLT pool or the CR pool when we get up. Another reason for it to be a no park day was once again, the Magic Kingdom closes at 7 tonight, I think this is the first night
for the MNSSHP. Our plan while staying at BLT was to just go to MK and Epcot whilst staying
here, and save DHS and AK for when we are at AKL.

No sense in taking busses when we are at a Monorail and Ferry resort, know what I mean?

So, for what pool we want to hang around at today, we decided all right, decided ourselves right over to the Grand Floridian.

It's like this:
By now, I had gotten to feel more and more like we are staying at a nice resort in Miami Beach, especially when we are down by the pools, any of them.
I guess it's not a bad feeling, it's just not a true Disney feeling for me. Maybe it's from growing up in Chicago, it's just that when I'm on vacation I don't want to really see high rises and buildings tall enough that they can skip the 13th floor if they choose to do so.

And before you yell at me for pool hopping, that little KTTW card in my wallet has DVC Member stamped on it, which entitles us to use any Disney Resort pool our little hearts desire,,,, except Stormalong Bay, Beach Club Villas pool and the Uzima pool at Animal Kingdom Lodge. I'm not certain about the Luna pool at Boardwalk but I think that's open game.

The Grand Floridian is in season for us today, and I plan on bagging the limit!

We also know that the moron from the CCC is going to call at sometime and we'll have to meet somebody at the TTC to get picked up and brought there, so GF made sense again for this, too, we'll just pick up the car when we are done and on our way back to our room.

After putting our suits on first, we got dressed and packed a bag with what we'd need for a good part of the day: snacks, books, vikes,,, whatever. And of course, our mugs. I'm sure if she had thought of it, the Yachtsze game would have been in the bag too, but I was not going to bring it up to her myself.
Why would I want the torment for no reason?
There's something about the way she says, "Oh look, another Yachtsze", which has almost the same cadence as
"Steve is always right."

Around nine oclock we picked up a Sentinel next door at the CR store, and headed to the monorail.

One thing about the main level at the Contemporary, the 4th floor;
all along the main walkways past the stores and restaurants aare these gigantic kidney shaped stools? I don't know what to call them. Some are bigger then ten feet by ten feet but with odd shapes. The problem is, they are only less than knee high, and they blend right in with the patterns on the floor.

I never did a forward somersault onto one but came close a couple times, especially after making the walk from the bright sunshine on the catwalk into the CR interior.
I can't imagine how anybody thought this would be a good idea, contemporary design, or not.
I thought for sure I had some pictures of these dreaded land mines but can't find them today.

But boy, getting to the Grand Floridian was almost too easy by monorail.
I also learned you have to be carefull here how you shorten or abbreviate things.
For example, telling your partner in a crowded elevator that you think it was a good idea catching the mono like we did yesterday will not endear you to others.

Getting off at the Grand Floridian is like entering an entire new world.
It is just gorgeous!

We didn't like it much here once, it just seemed too stuffy to us, too white and prissy.
Right, how our views have changed; we'd love to spend a week here sometime, but of course no way would that ever happen with the rates they charge. I can just see myself though, twirling about in the lobby singing, "I feel prissy, oh so prissy,,,," (I'm sorry, never mind, struck me funny)

I believe this resort probably has the highest census of per capital palm trees of any Disney resort,,,,people born in Chicago love palm trees!

We found a nice table by the pool, with plenty of lounge chairs in a row behind us, Diane then always tries to separate two of them from the pack because they are always so tightly lined up.

You have to be carefull though, sometimes the alpha male cast member in charge of the pack by the pool doesn't like you thinning the herd, separating any from the pack, but if you stand your ground, don't show any fear and threaten to lift your leg on the nearest chair they will usually back down, they know when a territory is marked it's marked for at least a day, or the next thunderstorm.

Sometimes I'll just throw a stick to get rid of the Alpha male.

While Diane was getting settled in, I took a walk around for some pictures before it got too peopley.

They do the pool scene backwards over here:
The main, centrally located large pool is really the quiet pool, no slides, no waterfalls, just mainly peacefull and serene, at least that's the way it was that day.

The much smaller pool is on the beach, with a nice slide, waterfalls and fountains. There's a pool bar over there i think too.

We started out in the lungers before it got too hot, and it really was very relaxing.
Looking around was like therapy for the eyes, like getting a full treatment eye massage if you will. And the palm trees around the pool are just gigantic! These are the Redwoods of palm trees, tall, stately, majestic, if you don't mind me working out my adjectives.
Always got to work the ads or they go to flab. That was a three pack, that's the most you can get from me now.

Now, before we got ourselves buried in our sections of the newspaper or Uncle John's, or this paperback I am still reading from the last July trip because I'm too embarrassed that I might have a serious injury or illness and be caught with this book, and then I'd die of embarrassment if anybody was to skim it and connect it
with me.

As we lay there talking Smidgy asked me a strange question.
This is not a new occurance by any stretch of the imagination, but it is often entertaining, and usually causes pause in me to have to think of a way to properly answer her question.
No, I'm not talking, "Why is the sky blue?" type of question, but maybe not too far from it.

She wondered, "How come my face and arms get darker from the sun before the rest of my body does?"

I thought for a second;
"Oh, that's easy, it's because those parts are closer to the sun than the rest of you."

She didn't say anything, but glancing at her out of the corner of my eye, it looked to me as if she was thinking it over, that's where the "entertaining" part of it comes in for me.

After we started on the paper, I see once again my Sox have lost, they went from still being in it when we left home to "They shoot horses, don't they?" in just over a week. This is why I often like the idea of just sticking to books, leave the regular world outside till the trip is over.

You know what would be great reading material for by the pool or late at night in bed on a Disney trip?

About ten MAD magazines from the early '70's!
Now you're on vacation and you are STAYIN' on vacation till it's over! Or you finish the last "The Lighter Side Of....."

About a half hour later Smidgy broke the silence:;
"Oh, here's an ad from Disney, they are now hiring."
Just a few short years ago, this was a dream of ours, to live and work there. Now it's questionable about exactly what I can see well enough to do that would actually make people pay me for it.
Not too many employers looking for fools nowadays, but
anyways, whe went on reading the advertisement;

"Custodial, housekeeping, bus drivers, no thanks, and, oh, character look-a-likes, well, I guess that let's me out of that, too."

Now, are little cautionary red flags just shooting up in all
of your minds right now reading this? Even if you haven't thought it out yet, or why?
All because you have gotten to know me?

Now, sometimes what I am really thinking does not come out in what I say. I really mean no harm, no sarcasm, but it just seems to come out wrong.

Then there are other times I would just be better off if I kept my big mouth shut, period.

And once in a while it is all of the above.

Wanna guess which category I'm about to fall into?

Did I say, "Hey, honey, what about Jasmine, better yet, Pocahontas since your part Indian, you'd make a great Indian princess!"

Did I say that?
You know I didn't.



"What about Mrs. Potts?"


I was thinking of a warm, happy, motherly figure, well respected and admired as teapots often are.
But as soon as it was out of my mouth, I knew I chose poorly. "Paging Tom Moron." "Paging Tom Moron."

She heard, "Mrs. Potts." voiced by 90 year old Angela Lansbury and with the shape of, well, a teapot.

I didn't think she was too mad though because she didn't say anything.



For hours!


As the day went quickly by, it never got crowded at the pool.
I guess she wasn't too mad cuz at one point she took my picture, maybe for blackmail purposes or for a proper coffin fitting?

All the while sitting here, Smidgy has gone and gotten us hot drinks at first when we got here, coffee, tea, and then later pop, in our refillable mugs. And you better believe that we have no problem using mugs bought at CBR a few days ago over here at GF on the same trip.
As a matter of fact, these mugs may have just set a record: bought and used at CBR, then used at BLT, CR, GF, AKL and Kidani Village all during the same trip!

Hey, we can really show a mug a good time!

One thing about the set up here though, it's not too convenient to fill the mug either, it's a bit of a walk to Gasparilla and Games, or whatever it's called.

I think it was just before two when we got hungry and the Little Debbie snacks we brought were no longer in a solid form so we went to the Gasparilla food court.

Even this is really weird here. For one thing, nobody besides us in in here, customer wise, not at first, anyway. and secondly, when you give your orde over the counter, they hand you a buzzer.

Really!
At a food court! A buzzer.

It's like stopping at an egg roll cart in the Magic Kingdom and having them make you take off your shoes and sit on the ground when you eat it.
( ok, ok, I know, don't be picky)

I'm pretty sure we both got burgers and fries, she can correct me if she wants to change anything. But what always amazes me at Disney, and something I have always respected them for, is that for the most part, a hamburger and fries at Grand Floridian is the same price as a hamburger and fries at Pop Century.
It should be, it's the same food, but you would expect them to tier the pricing at where you are staying.

Very few tables in here, this is mostly carryout, with the arcade I think next to it, but there was a nice al fresco patio outside.

This would have been a great place to sit and eat, but we wanted to get back to our stuff and walked back to the pool with our tray.

Back at our table, I got two fries in my mouth, and was just taking my first bite of what was to be I think the first burger I've gotten on the trip.

I basically live on hot dogs and burgers on a Disney trip without the dining plan, ok, heck, even with it cuz you get a counter service meal everyday, too.
And when we pay out of pocket like this trip, I'm usually eating a lot of dogs and burgers, normally starting with a food court burger on the first night, and then early on my cheeseburger from Planet Hollywoood.

But none of that happened this trip.
So, by normal standards Im way behind this trip,and I was really looking forward to getting back to normal.
..... and I think you can guess what is about to happen.

Dianes' cell phone went off.

I jumped up and yelled, "Great, our room's ready, I hope it's that one right up there," and I was pointing at a second floor room overlooking the placid, pristine, cerulean blue, pool.
(hey, I've still got an hour left on my adjectives subscription, you know what they say," use em or lose em.")

It was about a 5 second fantasy trip in my mind, but I enjoyed all 5 seconds of it.

I didn't need to answer the phone,.

I knew who it was.

It was the beast!

Good Night everybody let us all hope our respected football teams win this weekend excpet for those of you out in Southern California.

and I just know now that I think of it, if I didn't type this now somebody is going to say, "Take it easy, I'm just kidding, who?"

 

[winkers]

But then again, Smidgy can hear sign language so this is no surprise.

This may be the single funniest sentence I've ever read! I just laughed so hard I nearly had tears running down my legs.

For example, telling your partner in a crowded elevator that you think it was a good idea catching the mono like we did yesterday will not endear you to others.

no, but it will get you a little more personal space....

I can just see myself though, twirling about in the lobby singing, "I feel prissy, oh so prissy,,,," (I'm sorry, never mind, struck me funny)

I've been known to sing "I fell pissy oh so pissy" before....my kids don't find it amusing.

or this paperback I am still reading from the last July trip because I'm too embarrassed that I might have a serious injury or illness and be caught with this book, and then I'd die of embarrassment if anybody was to skim it and connect it with me.

so what is this oh so embarassing book???

"What about Mrs. Potts?"

Nebs....are you sure it's just your eyes, knees, back and feet that are impaired?

But as soon as it was out of my mouth, I knew I chose poorly. "Paging Tom Moron." "Paging Tom Moron."

ummmm.....this almost looks like you're in just your birthday suit there....what I'm sure you'll claim as swimming trunks is really the shadow from the paper......

 

[jcc0621]

No, we are not Main St. Electrical Parade fans

That's it, we can't be friends anymore

, we really love Spectro and even have the music on a few home made disks.
Heck, who am i kidding? I've got the BTMR warning speech, "Howdy folks, this here's the...." on disk as well.

And before you yell at me for pool hopping, that little KTTW card in my wallet has DVC Member stamped on it, which entitles us to use any Disney Resort pool our little hearts desire,,,, except Stormalong Bay, Beach Club Villas pool and the Uzima pool at Animal Kingdom Lodge. I'm not certain about the Luna pool at Boardwalk but I think that's open game.

Oooohh, so did not know this.

For example, telling your partner in a crowded elevator that you think it was a good idea catching the mono like we did yesterday will not endear you to others.

Getting off at the Grand Floridian is like entering an entire new world.
It is just gorgeous!

Meh

it just seemed too stuffy to us, too white and prissy.

Exactly!

. I can just see myself though, twirling about in the lobby singing, "I feel prissy, oh so prissy,,,,"

"What about Mrs. Potts?"

Oh, no you did not

I didn't think she was too mad though because she didn't say anything.



For hours!

That short of a period


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ARe we doing TV THem songs now? OK, here's one...

The end of the Civil War was near and quite accidentally
A who sneezed, abruptly siezed and reversed into vic-tory!