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19532. wabbit - 5/31/2006 8:25:44 PM Beautiful, as always! 19533. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 9:22:54 PM Oh man, that's fabulous, Wow.
Mags, you probably wouldn't want to hire me because I can't see what's wrong with it. What am I missing?
But I'm in a fog. At 46 years old I got my first speeding ticket today. Mose bought me a coke float, which helped a little, but I'm thoroughly depressed. I was going 56 in a 40, so I'm told by experts Mose and Bob that it may be expensive. I could go to court and fall on their mercy, but I took a day off work to do that for a $150 late-fees ticket (outrageous, when you already pay a penalty, etc) and got a whole $25 knocked off the price. This court date is in the middle of that seminar which I can't miss any part of.
First day of summer break.
sigh 19534. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 9:24:21 PM That grass is toe-wrigglingly appealing. 19535. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 9:47:23 PM Wonk, I never met her, but one of Bob's grandmother's favorite memories of him was when he caught a fish without a worm when he was a kid. For years she was bed-ridden and wouldn't talk, but when he came to see her not long before she died, she mentioned that event.
Kids up the road, who've since moved away, would walk or ride four-wheelers by the house on the way to go to that same creek to fish and swim and it just mortified me. Bob lived in and around that creek his whole life and it's probably safer and less polluted now than it was then. 19536. judithathome - 5/31/2006 10:39:10 PM and we had a great small-town lunch buffet, which is like the best of Southern holiday family potluck, and stuffed ourselves to the gills.
Would this be the infamous Annie's? I'd kill to go there tonight...been starving all day. 19537. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 10:54:28 PM No, but it's about as good. It's in the town where I work. It's not soul food like Annie's, so the flavor's not up there with hers, imo, but it is home-cooked Southern comfort food--the good kind, not like a lot of restaurant buffets. 19538. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 10:57:09 PM The town where Bob's school is has a good place like Annie's too, but more bbq oriented, called Mama Maxine's.
19539. robertjayb - 5/31/2006 11:42:45 PM Arky,
re: your ticket.
In texas you can go to the court and arrange a defensive driving course (for a fee, of course) that you take
online (another fee) and which will wipe out the ticket. Plus you can get a discount on your auto insurance.
The online course is a bit of bother but you do it in your own time and it is far, far better than listening to some bored "instructor" drone on and on.
Here I think the costs run about 50% of paying the regular fine and court costs.
19540. arkymalarky - 6/1/2006 12:12:14 AM Thanks Robert! I'll look into that.
I also got a letter and form about possibly being in a jury pool. Another first for me. I do not like the current judge in this particular court, though I don't know whether I'll be in his court or not. It's not just because he was such a drip about my late fees fine, but other stuff unrelated to me personally. 19541. arkymalarky - 6/1/2006 12:14:32 AM Chris Matthews makes me nervous just sitting listening to him. I want to holler "just shut up and let him answer the damned question without rephrasing it or clarifying it ten different ways and answering it for him.
We just got back from picking Gus up from his haircut. Judith, you remember Gus when he appeared in the yard at the end of the gathering last year? He's completely peeled now. He looks like that cat with the "lion cut" whose picture you sent a long time ago. But unlike the cat, he's happy as a clam. 19542. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 6/1/2006 1:03:57 AM Tanks 4 da kind words my DEARS!
Seven times down, eight times up–such is life!
19543. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 6/1/2006 1:56:25 AM 
19544. jexster - 6/1/2006 3:17:07 AM To hell with AC...tired of waiting for his vacation diary
I had for some reason read of the place before I went and asked my granfather why we didn't stay THERE!
The answer, self-evident
AC's Venice Hotel...
19545. jexster - 6/1/2006 3:25:11 AM Any of you EuroTrash vacation in Tenerife??? Met a guy from there. Had never thought much about the Canary Islands other than military history-wise. Talked to him and googled up some pics.
HOT PLACE. Probably crawling with Germans 19546. jexster - 6/1/2006 3:26:29 AM Cute Wizzer! 19548. Magoseph - 6/1/2006 11:01:14 AM Post 19547 was my post.
Arky, I thought that Flexi and I not followed by a conjugated verb was incorrect and should have been “Flexi and me.” Too bad that you can’t fight the speeding ticket—you’ve a real chance that it be dismissed.
Chris Matthews gets most of my hollering at the TV. There was a time when I had to leave the room when Bush was on, but now I just make snide remarks.
Wiz, I’m so glad that you don’t forget us and afford us the pleasure of your art.
Cap’n, not naked, mini skirt and rather demure blouse, here I come out of the fake cake speaking only French. It took a long time to persuade the audience that I wasn’t a hired actress. A Foreign Language class organized the stunt and only the bridegroom was to ask me questions. He did in both languages and my answers in English had everyone laughing so uproariously to the point that I took umbrage and then, they had to consol me. The bridegroom to this day remembers this episode fondly, (his adjective). He is now a professor of English literature.
Jex, great pictures!
Web, tell the Marquise that when Butch attracts the attention of kids on the road when they are just by themselves, he immediately sits--a sign that means he’s willing to be petted.
19549. anomie - 6/1/2006 11:01:22 AM Quickies in the morning...
I remember those cane poles, Arky,although I don't fish myself. Also riding in the back of a pick-up truck on gravel roads going about 100 MPH...bumpy and scary.
Good to see you WOW. Nice piece!
Mago, you write better than many of us natives. Spell better too.
Jex, I spent a week on Tenerife. You're right about the Germans...lots of them. More Brits though. Along the beaches looking at all the store and restaurant signs in English you'd think it wss a British Island instead of Spanish. And then there's the wild Ibiza-like nightlife for the young set. Anything goes all night long it seems. I'll see if I can dig out a few pics this weekend for Escapes. 19550. Magoseph - 6/1/2006 11:06:51 AM Tell me, Ano, did you write the above post in eight seconds or did you see the post I deleted? 19551. anomie - 6/1/2006 11:10:09 AM That was back when you didn't see pick-up trucks everywhere. I'm talking about like a 1949 Dodge or Chevy used to actually haul cotton to the gin. Quite a novelty to a city kid. My uncle like to scare the hell out of us in the back by turning off all the lights while hurling down a gravel road doing about 60 MPH. 10 seconds of total dark seemed like 10 minutes. Looking back I think he was crazy and dangerous. I suppose that's obvious. 19552. iiibbb - 6/1/2006 2:27:58 PM The wedding went pretty well. I was running around like crazy doing errands both Saturday and Sunday... didn't shave and shower until 2:15, and I had to be ready by 3pm.
The ceremony was a bit longer and a bit more religious than I had envisioned... but when you have a Rabbi and a Pastor... they're gonna talk. It was mostly Jewish, but my pastor also had a couple of prayers and a reading. Overall we were quite pleased with how well they blended the two elements rather than a dueling banjo's kind of service.
People seemed to like it... even my ardent athiest friends.
We even got some very nice comments from some Moslem bystandards that were on the grounds and watched the service. My mom was stopped by some other bystanders that watched. Apparently the mixed service we developed with our celebrants struck a chord with some people.
P had a good day... which is all I cared about... and even though my Jewish mother in law and her were fighting the week before... when it was all said and done she only complained about the size of the plates and the length of the food line; that, is a moral victory.
Trying to decide if I like the ring on my left or right hand now. I'm very left handed... the ring is a bit of a distraction when I'm trying to do things. The right hand doesn't seem to mind so much... so maybe I will follow the German tradition of putting it on that hand.
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