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12959. Snowowl - 12/30/2004 3:53:38 AM Bali is not affected. My oldest son and his family are en route to Bali right now, to stopover for a few days on their way down here.
I'm a little bit concerned because there's a terror warning out for Bali, but they have assured me that they're staying well away from the big tourist resorts so they're not worried themselves.
That won't stop me biting my nails down to the quick until they get here. 12960. iiibbb - 12/30/2004 4:43:59 AM It is the strongest in 4 decades. There was a 9.2 in Alaska in the 60's. 12961. Absensia - 12/30/2004 5:42:13 AM Jakarta, on Java, was not affected either. At least that is what the Jakarta Post reports, as well as an online friend who is in Jakarta right now. 12962. iiibbb - 12/30/2004 5:43:55 AM Good news... that Swedish 2 yr old dad was found alive. Mother's fate still unknown. 12963. Dubai Vol - 12/30/2004 7:07:29 AM Tennessee has a basketball team? 12964. Frankster - 12/30/2004 11:30:49 AM Arky,
Fraaaaannnnk! Hope you have a great holiday season! I'd love it if we could see you this summer!
We had a nice quiet Christmas with my parents, bro, and SIL. Today it's a huge bunch with Bob's fam--5 boys under 4. I'm bracing myself.
Here's the scoop: I had a great Christmas, particularly since I really don't care for the unctuousness and crass commercialism this season brings on with such empasis. Thank you.
Sis and her family are in for three weeks from Maui, and my brother also was in town for Christmas from mid California for a few days. It was great to gather all under one roof -- a new roof mind you under my sister's recently remodeled LARGER home -- for what can be for the last time, if not one of the last times, given the frail health of those such as my father's and other older persons assembled there. It was also neat to see the teens do their gift exchange for the first time, followed afterward by the adults doing their thing. I thought my gift card for the ubiquitous 7/11 would be a hit, but the DVD sets and power drills won out in take-aways, of which I received one mind you, thank you very much.:) Someone actually had the nerve to contribute a punch bowl -- A PUNCH BOWL ??? It must have been a rewrap from a recently attended wedding and certainly in jest I would hope, huh ? Hee-hee...
Continued: 12965. Frankster - 12/30/2004 11:32:07 AM Continued:
I think we only have a few years with the kids at the most given how fast they are growing and I would surmise, eventually moving out or on to college, et all. On top of all that, I received a gift from my mother that I'll actually utilize and not return. She gave me the new box set of the Beatles'early capitol releases on CD which I had planned on purchasing soon. I constantly tell her that I don't need or want anything for Christmas or my birthday, particularly given her propensity for getting me undersized clothes which have patterns that can be tracked by satelite, but you know moms. Hee-hee! Well,anyway ...
What's up this summer, by the way ? What's going on THIS summer ?
I hope everyone here had a great Christmas season, however they may celebrate it. 12966. judithathome - 12/30/2004 7:02:30 PM Frank!! This summer MsNo is coming for the gathering at Arky's that you and Seadate went to with us a few summers ago. See if you can swing a trip out here and you can come along this time, too!
Anyone heard from Seadate lately? 12967. arkymalarky - 12/30/2004 7:45:53 PM How nice, Frank! So glad you enjoyed a family reunion of sorts. That's how Bob's was this year. People are so scattered--not all the way to Maui, but to Miami, anyway--it's going to be a rarer occasion as the years go by, and when Bob's mother is gone (hopefully many years from now) it will probably stop altogether.
I've enjoyed the Mote holiday stories this year as much as I ever recall in 8 Christmases.
Funny how when you're a kid at the card table with your cousins at Grandma's house filling up on family recipes you don't ever remember not having at holiday meals, it never occurs to you that anything has an end.
And Judith is exactly right. You and MsNo air-pool and get your butt down here! ;-)
People here would love to see you again. 12968. Max Macks - 12/30/2004 8:32:10 PM Snowowl
thats good news about Bali not being affected
but when I look at the map of Indonesia I simply cannot
understand how Bali could NOT be affected.
Can someone explain?
the only thing I can guess is that Bali is on
the side away from the epicenter of the quake. 12969. judithathome - 12/30/2004 9:31:57 PM I decided to drop Seadate a line and he is doing fine...very busy with work and not on the internet much at all lately. He says Hey to everyone! 12970. arkymalarky - 12/30/2004 10:22:31 PM Good to know he's okay. Hope he finds time to stop in soon! 12971. alistairConnor - 12/30/2004 10:46:16 PM Max :
Indonesia is a huge archipelago. Bali is pretty near the eastern extremity, facing the Pacific. The earthquake was at the western extremity, on the Indian Ocean. 12972. alistairConnor - 12/30/2004 10:51:44 PM The friends I have been staying with these last couple of days have close friends, whom I have met, who recently moved to Sri Lanka and bought a house there, about a kilometre from the coast.
They are OK, but severely shaken by the events. Dead people everywhere.
Sensitive souls. They left France to get away from a stressful situation -- they got fired from running a cultural festival -- and walked into a nightmare. 12973. Max Macks - 12/31/2004 6:08:54 AM alastair,
Ya, I figured that is the reason that Bali did
not get affected..
But when I look at the map and see how close it
is to Jakarta and those other places, it does
seem impossible that Bali would not have been hit also.
I thought among the strange things of this tsunami
was that parts of Ethiopia were affected. 12974. Magoseph - 12/31/2004 4:47:17 PM Good morning. I'm back in business now after a whirl of visitors up here-- I wish you all a happy new year. 12975. wonkers2 - 12/31/2004 5:52:48 PM Good morning, Mago. Happy New Year! 12976. Magoseph - 12/31/2004 11:31:32 PM Ah, merci, Won--Bonne Année! Do you have plans for tonight? Are you going to welcome the new year, or are you going to be sound asleep as I will be? 12977. wonkers2 - 12/31/2004 11:42:09 PM We'll probably be sound asleep, too! 12978. wabbit - 1/1/2005 12:39:55 AM Nous aussi.
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