FOR THIS, WE ARE TRULY THANKFUL

Or at least, we were last night.

(Thanks to Punky B. for the assistance)

Comments

[PETER]

PERI, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT, I'VE MISSED YOU GUYS.

THERE IS NO ONE ANSWER RE: HOW TO DEAL WITH YOUR ELDERS/PATRIARCHS/MATRIARCHS. DO YOUR BEST. THAT WAY YOU WON'T HAVE ANY REGRETS. BOTTOM LINE, LOVE IS ALWAYS, IN ALL IT'S MANY FORMS.

[neophyte]

And Peter, I'm sure my mother didn't have a clue. She and my grandma used to talk about how filthy Grandma's soap operas were, what with all that oral sex going on. You'd better believe that piqued my interest, so one time I watched with them. What they were calling oral sex was really French kissing.

[Kafaleeni]

Peri.. my gran was in a unit like that (in Sydney, Australia). Her block of units was associated with a rest home, and when her marbles got loose and went rolling to places unreachable, she was moved to the rest home (where she currently resides) and the cost of that is deducted from the sale of the unit. It's a good little scheme.

Peter... I've heard people using the phrase "getting licked" in a negative way. I'm still trying to work that one out.

[Peri]

Graz, I just LOVE the directions your brain goes in! My brain takes that road, too.

[PETER-RIP VAN WINKLE]

AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT! I'M WIPED (BUDED).

[Kafaleni]

*SERIOUS COMMENT FOLLOWS. PLEASE TAKE IT IN THE SPIRIT IT IS GIVEN*

Deal with your patriarch/matriarch the way you would wish to be dealt with. Remember your children (if you have them) are watching so that they'll know what to do when the time comes and you leave the house with your underwear on your head. Also dignity is hugely important when you get beyond looking after yourself (I have recent experience of this - work not personal). Sometimes as your faculties/abilities go, small things that give you "independence" gain major importance, and while it makes life difficult for others around you, it sometimes is all that is left.
*/SERIOUS COMMENTARY*

[Kafaleeni]

G'night Peter!!

[Peri]

*feels sad and inadaquate* *goes away to sleep on this very sobering thought*

[Alex D.]

Kaf -- Thanks. It's always good to be reminded that we'll be old people, too, when things seem too frustrating.

neo -- I was gonna say...if it were really what we'd define as "oral sex," then I'd suspect that your grandma wasn't really watching a soap opera. ;-)

[Susan]

Trying to get caught up and it isn't working. I had dinner out tonight, with my Sunday school class, and my contacts went nuts. Turns out there was a very fine hair in my left eye. Still hurts, so I am off to bed.

And my mother is waiting for the computer, groaning on the other one...AUGH!

Peri-I hope your grandmother gets better, and your hand too!

Josh-I'm thinking of you. You were thinking about a move to the Carolina's, right? ;)

Sly-your family is amazing.

To everyone else I wanted to say something to and can't remember what it was-

Drat. Booger is the only word that comes to mind. Take it as you will.

Night!

[Alex D.]

G'night PETER!

G'night Peri!

Come to think of it, I sure as heck better set a damn good example for taking care of parents. I'm a severely warped medical train wreck now, which leaves me being one messed up old person later in life, when those things are supposed to get worse.

[Kafaleeni]

Peri... I'm sorry. I've just dealt with this sort of thing at work lately. I can give you all a synopsis, now that there's not a lot of people around. It's made me really aware of things like care and dignity.

*This is kind of a bummer, which is why I'm glad that you guys make me laugh, but you can skip it if you want, I won't mind.*

Most of you know that I work as a nanny. I do this through an agency, and most of my work is a few months here and there rather than long-term postitions. This is mostly government funded, which means that I'm dealing with one of two situations (for the most part, and there are variations on these themes), 1) helping a mother with post-partum depression or 2) working with families where the mother has a chronic illness. My current job is a variation of (2). I was assigned to work with a family (Mum Dad, 2 yr old twin girls) because the Mum was terminally ill. It's been really difficult, and the Mum died 2 weeks ago now, so now I am working with the Dad and the girls, trying to keep things as normal as possible. For the last few weeks of the Mum's life, it was a case of letting her do as much as she could for herself, and letting the children have as much time with her as she could cope with. Towards the end, it was more a case of caring for the everyday things like feeding, cleaning etc, without her losing her dignity (I was not doing this by myself, there was a lot of family around). All of this has made me a little sensitive to these sorts of things, I didn't mean to go off on you at all

*Resume hilarity*

[Alex D.]

G'night Susan!

*remembers his Sunday school classes*

Wow. If you had one of my groups, you definitely wouldn't want to take them out to dinner. Consider yourself lucky.

[Alex D.]

Hey, on a completely unrelated note, I can have my first *legal* adult beverage in 441 days.

[neophyte]

Kaf, that family is lucky to have you. Even though they were going through hell, your being there had to be a great help. It must have been very rough on you the past few weeks. ((Kaf))

[something shiny]

Look at me!

[neophyte]

Alex, I can't believe you are actually counting down the - hey, what was that?! Something shiny?

[Alex D.]

*was in a good mood*

*gets stuck in web of thoughts that causes insomnia instead*

*tries to no avail to return to humor*

Look! Something shiny!

*runs off after talking penny*

[Deon]

Hi Kaf. Hi Neo.

[manly nod to Alex D]

Hey, whazzat? something shiny?

[neophyte]

Ooooh, look, it seems that other people besides us like *Something Shiny*. (I promise this link isn't as weird as my last one. Note that they are bracketed by asterisks!)

[Kafaleni]

Free Willy 2 (Who has two willies and where can I meet him?)is on TV2 at the moment... *snicker*

Hehehe.. Google is fun.. the only Willie I could think of was Willie McNab (a mouse puppet from a children's show in my youth.) So I googled it to see if I could find a picture, but no luck. The best reference I could find was an online bio for the show's presenter, Chic Littlewood (yeah I know..) It gets worse. This quote was part of the bio... Chic is probably best known for his ten year relationship with ‘Willie McNab – a cheeky Young puppet Sounds more like a Michael Jackson special. I have to say that I loved ChicChat when I was a kid. It didn't seem that pervy then

[Kafaleni]

Sleep well Neo.. here's something for your dreams...

It's not something shiny but it would certainly distract me.

[Joshkr]

Deon...LOL!

*Joshkrish video warning*
Gotta post this in honor of Worship of Tools Day (hey it is still Friday here!)

Women With Power Tools (high speed recommended, no actual nudity)

Djt, ever hear of this guy?

[Bangi]

oh gr8..now who's gonna keep the mouse population down?

HI JEFF!!! glad u'r back

*thinks of the words 'kinky', 'Joshkr' and 'whipped cream' in the same sentence*
*erases sentence with mental erasers*
must...be...nice....

[Kafaleni]

Bangi... are you still there?

My computer keeps freezing trying to load this page. Stoopid frickin dialup ... I'm timing it when I post this.. to see how long it's taking these days. I don't want to complain .. and there are a lot of people E-Moat-ing on this thread, but I need to have a bit of a whinge. That's Aussie/Kiwi for whine. I want to hang here long enough that we can go dock at Wilsford-Cum-Lake when we have run this Moat dry. I think we could raise a ruckus, even make a Cum-Moat-ion over there.. ok.. the sick puns will stop.. and the timing begins... NOW

[Kafaleni]

It's not too bad at the moment.. a little over 3 mins. I'm okay really. I just look and act bitter. It's part of the job description. Being Mistress of Darkness (and Champion Cookie Baker (tm thingy)) is a tough job somedays. Speaking of which, can I have the sauna kept free for the next few hours.. I'm whippping up a batch of strawberry & almond tartlets... (the edible kind) (I mean the FOOD kind!!!), and I need to use the hot rocks. NO.. I need to use the flat stones in the sauna. Dang, but you have you have to think twice before saying nothing round here. No wonder we have so many blurkers.

[Kafaleni]

*takes tartlets out of sauna*

*pours water over sauna rocks*

OK.. all done.. and the pastries are ready for anyone brunching at Cafe M.O.D. this morning. We're also serving a full continental breakfast, along with a really really Good Coffee,(slight change from Killer Coffee, although that's available too....) a Fruit Juice Cup for those who would prefer a cold drink.
Meanwhile, I'm gonna blog off for the night.. If you have me on IM, ping me... for about the next hour anyway. Ka kite!!

[Bangi]

Sorry Kaf... i wondered off to seduce my bf.
he's at work..so its fun seducing him. he has to worry abt not getting too distracted by me. hehe.
im evil.

Canu u tell me how to bake cookies..sth simple?
is chocolate chip simple? and tartlets :D ?

[Kafaleni]

tartlets are a lot easier virtually than in RL... I can find you a bunch of simple cookie recipes.. no probs... *goes off to search her recipe Moat...* I might find an old blog here and make it a Recipe Moat. Maybe the cookie girls articles.. nah.. that's too obvious.. I'll go look for something and post recipes there

Oh and Hi Shoeab! Did Bangi distract you sufficiently ... ooooh sth shiny!!!

*going to search for a bit now.*

[Bangi]

i love that Moat song
*marching around Moat and singing*

[Bangi]

thanx Kaf

Hope the Moaties wake up soon...why is no one blogging on the main blog? or is the number jus wrong?

g nite Kaf!

[Kafaleni]

*applauds wildly for Bangi*

*tries to figure out why all the Moatettes just jumped out of their hammocks*

Oh yeah... the clapper..

*looks around innocently & walks away whistling*

Does anyone here know what the minimum bribe level is to get Judi to strip spam off a post, so that I can use it as a cooking Moat? I don't need bestiality before I serve up a chocolate cake.

and from another piece of spam on the same thread... Why be a man when you can be a success?.... I'm neither a man, or visibly successful - so what does that make me?

[kibby F5™]

Key quote in Deon's link: We had so many news media and interviews thanks to the wonderful work of the Public relations that I lost the count,

Suppose announcing a topless parade could be good PR? *turns to MOATittes* WELL?

And loved the sign Feminity develops intelligence, wonder how much thought went into that one?

[slyeyes]

Re: Deon's post: The article was signed "Andre Pinsonneault; Responsible for Florida" And here everyone blames Jeb.

[slyeyes]

Because you just never know.

Belleville, IL. Two sisters, 69 and 72 are at a hair salon, which is in the home of their stylist, a 62 year old man. All three are later found stabbed to death. It's now known the intended victim was the hair dresser, the sisters were "incidental".

Shrewsbury, MO. 64 year old fire chief was driving down the street on a beautiful March morning. Out of nowhere, his car was hit headon at highspeed by a man who had just shoplifted a bunch of $10.O0 watches from a Walgreens. The firechief died instantly.

Springfield, MO. A 52 year old woman had breakfast with her husband before he left for work. That night, he returned home to find she had died of an apparent heart attack in the kitchen, most likely within minutes of his leaving.

All of these people started their days, thinking they were going out to a normal day, doing their normal activities. They, and their loved ones, did not know that goodbye hug, kiss, and/or hurried "love ya" was going to be the last.

Try not to rush the morning goodbyes; 'cause you just never know.

[kibby F5™]

*flashing in*

*scans posts*

YEP!

*flashes out* (zipping's already taken)

[slyeyes]

Kibby's flashing.

Pass it on.

[kibby F5™]

Darn! Forgot my cape!

[Marvin]

Hey, um, Kibby, I don't know how to tell you this, but your URL is leaking out onto other posts. Just FYI.

[slyeyes]

Jeff, you've got quite an interesting uncle there, as well. Is he still "practicing" law? Glad to have you back.

PETER: Darn, I missed you!

Graz: Tough job, having to do that. But sounds like they've got the right guy for the job.

Kaf: speaking of jobs, God bless you for what you do.

Peri: Good luck! (how's the arm, by the way?)

Here's a bit of irony for you all to enjoy today:

My basement is a wreck. When the kids come and go, they tend to bring stuff home they don't want and dump it in the basement. I've tried to get them to help me organize it, but it's truthfully not a priority for any of us.

Today, I'm volunteering with other members from our church to clean out a basement in an area that is being renovated. My daughters are cracking up over that. They said "Mom, charity begins at home". I tell them, "Then get your butts home and help!"

Later!

[kibby F5™]

*returns with Super Hero skills, Toe Grips of Steel and Cape of Can't Touch This!

*looks down*

URL's leaking? Oh, how embarrassing...

*tip toes out to change*

[kibby F5™]

*returns with Bounty®, The Quicker Picker-Upper™ to clean the MOAT*

After I'm finished here I'll head out to the other posts.

*dab here .... dab there*

[slyeyes]

A little dab'll do ya.

[slyeyes]

A little dab'll do ya.

[Marvin]

Don't overdo it, though, sly.

[PETER]

YABBA DABBA DO!! MORNING ALL. HEY SLY! KAF, LOVE THE STRESSED OUT CAT - HOPE MY COWORKERS APPRECIATE IT TOO. MORE COFFEE...

[Alex D.]

Just great. I think I'm cursed. This has to be one of those "...when pigs fly" moments.

Apparently, my computer got somewhere around 23 trojan viruses just from opening IE. (Damn you, Bill Gates!!!) They should've been stopped, but the server to my virus protection went down. Then, this morning, after installing and using my college's virus scanner (free for me, but not everyone) to fix this mess, a Windows update downloads to patch an IE security flaw.

What impeccable timing.

Kaf -- Sorry, but my mood just didn't jive with the serious posts last night. Lemme try this again:

Thanks. That would explain why my mother goes through all this aggravation to keep Grandma at home.

Painful as it is, I'd imagine you've got the good part of the job. That's a tough, but good thing you've done for that family.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Peter's link.

Morning all! Interesting night around here, what with the sucking and blowing and all the rest.

Peri, good news about your gramma. Of course I'm a lot older than you so all our grandparents are gone. And Jackie lost both her parents in the last two years. But when I was a kid I had not only grandparents (3 + 1 step-grandfather, as my mother's father died long before I was born) but 3 Great-Grandparents. In fact my mother's grandfather, an amazing man who lived with my greataunt across the street from us, lived until just before I got married. Even though he was over 90 and had lousy eyesight he used to cross the major street we lived on -- two lanes of traffic each way and they moved fast! -- to get to our house or his small temple down the block. It scared the crap out of us that he wouldn't make it across one day but he always did. He didn't even want one of us to walk him back at night.

Finally at 94 he'd had enough and decided to die. Up until then he always had discussions about Israel or other issues. Fortunately, the day before he died I drove my mother to the hospital so she was able to say goodbye, something I've always been glad I did.

This was brought to mind in a roundabout way by the discussions of Peri & sly. There have been way too many cases like those sly mentioned to put things off that you want to do today (assuming you can afford to do them).

A woman was working to her new job at a law firm in downtown Brooklyn when a board from scaffolding fell from the roof and killed her instantly.

When they still allowed helicopters to land on the roof of the Pan Am Building (forget what it's called now), one crashed on the roof. A rotor broke off, bounced off two buildings and killed a woman walking two blocks away.

My cousin Heidi was sledding in her back yard when she hit a big rock. By the time they noticed something was really wrong and got her to the hospital, her spleen had ruptured and she died. She was 13.

Whoa, sorry about that. Didn't mean to be such a downer on a nice (if cold) day.

Hi, Bangi!! How are the cats in Dhaka this fine day? I missed you.

And now for some optimistic news. Assuming everything goes well with Jackie's surgery & recovery, we've made plans to go visit my parents in Arizona next month (even though they're in good shape they aren't getting any younger, so we decided we should see them at least once a year). Jackie discovered (surprise, surprise) that it would be much cheaper to fly to Las Vegas instead of Phoenix, so we'll be doing that, and FINALLY getting to see the Grand Canyon along the way.

And for Rita, who loves scary roller coasters: the new "Insanity" coaster ON TOP OF the Stratosphere Hotel in Vegas (850 feet high) will NOT be getting any of our business. It twirls people OUT OVER THE STRIP!!! You'd have to be insane to do it.

Anyway, we're going out. Hope everyone's Saturday is a good one.

[slyeyes]

So, I'm on this work crew this morning helping clean out this woman's basement. She's my age, has a cute little house in an area of town that had been blighted, but is being renewed. At least twice a year, sometimes more, our church goes over there to help with clean up projects. I don't know if what we did today was what they had in mind, but if we helped someone, that's a good thing.

Part of her basement had gotten flooded at some point in time. I was throwing things in trash bags and went to reach for some stuff and I saw this sleeping cat. I thought that is the most laid back cat I've ever seen. Then I realized it's not breathing. I said, "that cat's dead" and the 4 of us down there went flying out.

"Your cat's dead."
"I don't have a cat."
"Well, there's a dead cat down there."
"You know, I smelled something awful awhile back."
DUH!

It didn't smell now -- that part of the basement just smelled musty. When they shoveled it into a garbage bag THEN it stunk. We all went flying out of there again. We got Lysol and that helped. Then she brought down some incense -- which we thought was worse.

As I nwas leaving, my best friend called me from FLorida with one of those "the weather is great, wish you were here" phone calls. She went on to tell me the fun stuff she's doing today and asked me what I was doing. "Cleaning dead cats out of basements."

Hoo boy. Well, it's inspired me to go work on my basement. I'm going to try to do at least a half hour a day.

Wish me luck.

[Kafaleni]

*channeling Blogchik*
"Sorry I forgot to say this last time- I had 2 minutes left at the internet cafe! Josh, I was so sorry to hear about your breakup. It did sound like it was coming. I know she meant the world to you, so I'm sorry to hear about it. *cyber-hug from Blogchik* *hug* *hug* *hug* *and a pinch on the ass cause you like that stuff*"

*/channeling*

[Eleanor]

HI! I'M BACK!!!!

I haven't had a chance to look at anything yet, but I just wanted to say I missed everyone!

It was my BIOS, whatever that is!!!!

[Alex D.]

Hi, El!

Dell sold my family two computers that were defective from day one (but now work fine), but I've never heard of getting high-speed internet access making a mess before. Weird.

[sandy beach]

Welcome back, El! I was going to suggest a trip to the computer store. Glad it didn't come to that.

Kaf, I really admire what you are doing for that family. So tragic for those kids to lose their mom so young. I'm glad they have you. I just saw the movie My Life as a Dog again after many years. One of the best movies of all time, IMO--about a child with a terminally ill mother and his perception of the situation. It's in Swedish with subtitles.

Much else to comment on but I have nothing that others haven't already said. Love the stories, keep 'em coming.

[Kafaleni]

El.. are you still *zipping*?

[Bangi]

Kibby--HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
my heroooooo!

Jeff--i missed u too dude *punches jeff so she doesnt appear mushy*
A BIG HUG for Jackie.

Sly-- ur post made me realize i should make an effort to talk to my sis. who's a big pain, but i still luv her. i guess it's genetic.

PETER-IT'S NICE TO SEE U POST. UR POSTS ALWAYS SEEM EXCITING. I IMAGINE U RUSHING INTO THE MOAT AND PANTING AND YELLING LOUDLY.

i have a vivid imagination.its pretty handy when im imagining y'all naked.

oops...did i jus type that out loud?
heh.

I LUV U GUYS! ( don go dying anywhr, it has a nasty permanent effect)

[sandy beach]

One reason I sometimes disappear for a day or two at time is because Rocky gets annoyed when I have my head in the blog too much. He wants me to be present in RL. I don't blame him.

So last night we went to a wonderful presentation by a jazz pianist--it was a lecture/history presentation, illustrated by the prof's piano playing. Really great--I loved it.

We'd been asked to drop in at some friends house after so we did, despite my raging headache. There were just a few people there. There were two guys there that would just drone on endlessly about their favorite subjects, whether anyone was responding or not.

First we heard--in exquisite detail--about one guy's transmission. What's wrong with it, how much it was supposed to cost. All the steps he took to secure a cheaper one. Who he was going to let put it in.

We finally emerged from that story. The other guy took over at that point. Seems he had a printer problem. He went to a techie chat room to get advice. Everyone told him to download some specific software and run that. He was able to download the software (yay!) but had some problems installing it. His computer kept asking him to put in disks. It even opened his CD-Rom drive for him so he could do so.

Still with me?

Eventually he got the software all loaded--and it worked!! He can print! Yay!

Finally, our hostess started a new subject, I think hoping it was one the guys knew nothing about. She is reading a history book about the Reconstruction era in the south. Big mistake. Guy number two took a deep breath and started in.

Rocky, bless him, jumped up and said we had to leave.

I'll tell you, sometimes RL can make the blog seem extra-wonderful.

[Bismuth]

Yay for El!

I'm no computer expert, but I know that when it's the BIOS, you're in deep trouble, and you need to go suck up to that computer nerd you made fun of in high school. Or in my case, the computer nerd that made fun of me...

[Eleanor]

*zips in*

The computer tech guy who just left a while ago said my computer f*&king up had nothing to do with high speed - that it was the BIOS - just a coincidence, which I find hard to believe, but....

He's going to build me a new computer with Pentium 4, WindowXP, blah, blah, blah... Most of the time he was speaking in computer language;, i.e., bitmaps, jpeg, BIOS, which I did not understand at all, but I nodded intelligently (something I learned to do as an attorney when listening to a client's very convoluted story!)

Anyway, he cleaned up my computer (however you do that), installed and ran someting called Adware which found 686 bad things, whatever they were and took care of that - he also uninstalled Real Player which I hate, but after he left I went to play Susan's radio station thru Media Player and a box came up that said there was no connection to Media Server - but I don't care right now because I'm so happy to be online again -

Besides you guys, I haven't read the NY Times for 3 days, et c.

So, I browsed through catching up and what did I miss:

cats, both dead and alive
spiders
mice
snakes
alcohol
chocolate
sly's family (The Adams Family)
sex
more alcohol

In other words, the usual!!!!

Hello Moaties, well hello Moaties
it's so nice to be back here where I belong
it's going swell Moaties, etc

*zips out to zip over to MB to catch up there*

*zip, zip, zip*

[Eleanor Silvers]

*zip*

just posting so my info will be remembered -

*zip*

[Bismuth]

Just posting so Eleanor will remember my info...

[Mike Weasel]

Aww, man, somehow yesterday I must have skimmed over Joshkr's breakup (and all the interesting ways of cheering him up). Sorry dood, and well, just think of all the wonderful ladies here! Anyway, I'm off to Arrowhead!

[Eleanor]

AlexD. That BIOS faq was quite informative (or would be to someone who understood it), but my problem seemed to be that since there was something wrong with my BIOS, the computer wouldn't boot up at all, so it would seem logical that there would be no way to get to the info in one's time of need - which was my problem the past few days - every time I wanted to know something, there was no where to go to get it!!!

I was bereft!!!!!!!

[slyeyes]

Zippy's back!!!!! Good to see you again, El.

OK, I have a decision to make. Moving. *cue panic attack*

I can move into a smaller place, save $300/month rent and save up to buy my own place. AND have a garage and yard. But I did not know it would be possible to have a smaller kitchen than I do now. YIKES!!

I'm gonna do it, but oh my gosh, I hate moving.

[slyeyes]

Zippy's back!!!!! Good to see you again, El.

OK, I have a decision to make. Moving. *cue panic attack*

I can move into a smaller place, save $300/month rent and save up to buy my own place. AND have a garage and yard. But I did not know it would be possible to have a smaller kitchen than I do now. YIKES!!

I'm gonna do it, but oh my gosh, I hate moving.

[kibby F5™]

Sly,

ooops!

*flashes in, cape fluttering*

Sly, helps solve the basement cleaning issue!

*flashes sly*

*flashes out*

[kibby F5™]

*as he's fading away*

ALEX! It's always necessary to flash!

[kibby F5™]

*tries to get this right*

It's a wild snake?

It's from the ocean?

It needs a PERMIT to go home?

Must be from New Jersey*

*not that there's (not they'res) anything wrong with that.

[kibby F5™]

Whoa! FIRST! I've done that, wrong thread!

That'll be my second FIRST! for today.

[Joshkr]

El...BIOS, eh? That would have been pretty low on my list of wild guesses! Glad to have you back, Snookums!

Di...How was the date with Jason Y'all? (odd last name, BTW)

*sending Sly some moving help.

[kibby F5™]

Joshkr's present to sly is allot nicer than eadn's imps I was going to send.

In little over 30 days the MOAT will turn 1,

Please stay tuned to an announcement I'll be making early next week.

that is all.

[Joshkr]

Kibby...An announcement? Early next week? Hey no fair!

(is this our first MOAT cliffhanger?)

[Eleanor]

Joshkr - Rent the DVD of the Hitchcock movie Rear Window - a classic!!!!!

Do you watch movies? Or rent them to watch?

I feel like I'm starting over

Hey Joshkr, Come here often?
What's your sign?

[Joshkr]

Eleanor...that is a good one! *thinkin about running to video store...checking late fees*

I come here sometimes :)

My sign? Oh the other one...Pisces. Hmm, I should make that a poll on the Y!

[Alex D.]

*snork*

Soda spewage..................1 oz. Pepsi

Laptop damage.................5 min of cleaning

Enjoying a post on the MOAT...Priceless

[Alex D.]

I may just wind up writing a long parody of Psycho to celebrate Hitchcock day...in between Calculus problems.

Stupid RL.

[kibby F5™]

*flash on*

*silhouetted on the ski line, cape billowing in the breeze*

*flash off*

[kibby F5™]

*flash on*

Practicing my appearances.

*flash off*

[Jeff Meyerson]

That was very very weird. I came on a while ago and wrote a long post, only to be told that "you are not allowed to post comments." WTF? I wondered which of the Gods I'd offended. Then I thought maybe I had been sacrificed to enable Eleanor to return from the Other World. Finally I went offline, came back and it was OK. I still haven't posted here yet but will try.

Sly, I was saying, in answer to your earlier question, that my uncle was disbarred after that last little shenanigan. He then turned into Mr. Super-Orthodox Jew and has spent much of the intervening years telling other how to live their lives to get right with God. When my cousin was in her "Exploring the Boundaries of Her Womanhood" phase and brought her then-girlfriend to a family wedding, said uncle took it upon himself to tell them off. I thought it showed remarkable restraint on the part of the girlfriend, an NYPD cop, to not shoot him, but she was a lovely woman and took it for what it was worth. (My cousin has now returned to the land of the heteros, got married in her 40s, and is now suffering through a difficult pregnancy at 44 after many many fertility treatments, by the way.)

When I look in the dictionary under "hypocrite" I see my uncle's picture.

And Welcome Back Eleanor!!!

Kibby, now you've got me all excited. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

sly, good luck with the move, something I hate doing with a passion.

[wolfie]

*perks from the shadows*
Kibby flashing?
*drools n faints*

[Eleanor]

Hey Jeff - I'm having somewhat of a dfficult time re-acclamating (sp?) - don't know why - and my computer has a different rhythm, which is bothering me, but it's working so......so........so....... I don't know how to finish this sentence so....

*semi-zip out*

[slyeyes]

Jeff, sounds like tonight, you win the "bizarre relative award."

But what would family get-togethers be like if it weren't for the oddballs?

Decisions decisions decisions.

As I said, I'm moving into a duplex and I have my choice as to which side. I like the upstairs of one and the basement of the other.

BUT, I'll be living in the upstairs.

BUT, the downstairs of both have one room that is finished off. Not enough for living space, but can be a spare bedroom with both daughters are home.

BUT there is a possibility that one side leaks...and that's the side of the upstairs that I like.

The reason I like the upstairs more is because of the kitchen. Both are the size of a postage stamp and have an outside door. The one I like has an outside door that leads to a nice porch where I can barbeque, and in nice weather, eat outside; which I do a lot. The other just has stairs that lead down to a footwide yard.

They both have front porches.

I think I'm gonna go with the one with the kitchen I like better.

Of course you realize, I'll change my mind by tomorrow.

[Alex D.]

There's always the entrepreneurial approach -- buy the whole house and sell the half you don't like later at a higher price.

[Eleanor]

Hi sly - you sound like an attorney - very good at arguing both sides of the issue!

My prediction: whichever side you pick, at first you will have "pickers remorse" and wish you had chosen the other one, but after a short time (a week or less), you will love, love, love the one you chose and hate, hate, hate the other one - and then you'll be totally pleased with yourself and how smart you were!!! :)

[Alex D.]

Heh. I always thought "picker's remorse" was when you picked a booger and couldn't find a tissue to get rid of it.

[Eleanor]

AlexD. I knew that would be a set-up for a bad joke!!!! You just couldn't resist, could you? And you really didn't want to either!

Well, it's a bad joke in the true Dave Barry tradition!!!! :)

[Tamara]

HEY MOATies!!

Just spent an hour cleaning out the closet...
Will do the rest of the apartment tomorrow...after we move out the rest of his stuff; Soon-To-Be-Ex signed the lease to his own apartment today!

Mixed feelings. Relief to have him gone. Glad he found a nice place. Glad we're still friends. Excited to be living without roommates or adult family members for the first time ever. Disappointed that it came to this. Frustration at now not-having a sex partner, not that I had made use of him since making the Divorce Decision (overactive Moral Compass). Broken-hearted that we won't likely have more incredible children together.

I guess I'll celebrate by looking at porn & crying. And probably at the same time.

Overall, though, I feel good. I'm excited about the future.

Welcome back, Laynie!

[Marvin]

Woah, that's really weird, Kibby. When my browser text encoding is in Japanese, your TM gets messed up and causes the post right after yours to be completely linked to your e-mail. Just sayin. We aint got none o da Japanesians blogging, does we?

[Eleanor]

Hey Tamara -

Is the email addy here good? I have another one in my address book?

[Tamara]

Laynie, do you still have my hotmail addy?? (It's on the Y! if any of y'all ever need it!)

[Eleanor]

T - check your hotmail!

I'm out of here for the night!

It's good to be back -

til tomorrow!

[steven]

My nephew got married today.
I met the preacher who married them, ad he said "I know you!"
"you know me?"
"No I know of you"
Seems that the preacher is married to my highshool girlfriend!

Lucky man!

[julietine]

Steven,

that's cute!

Ely,

WELCOME BACK!..BIENVENIDA AMIGA!!!

[Alex D.]

Steven -- It's better than the clergy my family knows. (Also some stories to add to the Goofy Relative files)

One guy's a distant relative who blesses things that break. He blessed a car that broke down, and ALL of the marriages he presided over have ended in a bitter divorce soon afterward.

Another decided that his Polish last name would make folks in an American church uncomfortable, so he changed his name to "John Vincent." He was then assigned to a Polish parish, whose parishoners felt uncomfortable around a guy with an American name like "Vincent." Whoops!

[Alex D.]

Whoa.

SIGN THAT YOU'RE (NOT YOUR) DOING TOO MUCH CALCULUS NO. 485,948
You're (not your) working with 3-D graphs, and suddenly, while reading the MOAT, your (not you're) mind tries to twist the text from 2-D into 3-D space, making it completely illegible.
Time to quit and try something else for a while.

[Marvin]

SIGN THAT YOU'RE (NOT YOUR) DOING TOO MUCH CALCULUS NO. 1

You have calculus work somewhere in your immediate environment

[Mr.Fishair]

Fish On!

*shakes head in disbelief that someone actually followed him to the basement (Not that there's anything wrong with that)*

*is impressed really*

So, Sly's movin, Several wrists are sprained, Jeff and Elaynie are back in action, Joshkr and Tamara's feelings are mixed, Graz need a Chin up brother! (I have no idea how we have been doing this almost a year and are never on her at the same fekin time), Sandy's squealing (so said the mice), Alex has newfound talent, Di's Jack'n, and until I go get another glass of (grabs bottle and types) Jacob's Creek Cabernet Sauvignon,

that's all I got.

Hey to everybody else!! (Be right back)

[Alex D.]

That's the spirit, Marvin! Unfortunately, I can't afford to take care of that one until May. I think the next math course in line is [not Calc.] for the first time since my senior year of HS. Two...months...left...!

The wrist is better, BTW. Typing helped whip it back into shape.

Hi, Fish!

[Tamara]

Yeah, what IS up with all this wrist-spraining, people?! Josh, can you offer these fine people some options?

[Alex D.]

Joshkr, thanks for the TrumZilla game on the MB. Just got done with it. Please tell me you sent it to DB. That is one funny productivity enhancer.

[Alex D.]

Uh, make that TrumpZilla. I'm trying to blog while exhausted again, and reading is tough due to condition mentioned earlier. Hopefully, nothing else is misspelled.