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14955. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 12:06:18 AM I'll get Bob to read this thread when we get home. He asked me to let him think of a name, which means we wait until I can't stand it, he comes up with zip, and I name the dog, after which he claims that I didn't let him name the dog.
In 24 years with a number of strays and a few we actually wanted, I'm very familiar with this routine. 14956. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 12:11:40 AM Gee. My parents have DSL. It sort of makes you begin to understand why people clump together in masses like they do.
We have it at work, but since I don't Mote at work it's not so obvious what I'm missing at home--and everything else I would otherwise do at home, like checking news, etc, I do at work. 14957. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 1:15:51 AM While I'm here on DSL, I want to make a general post, applicable to the other threads:
GREAT PICTURES, EVERYONE! 14958. robertjayb - 5/13/2005 2:15:50 AM Arky, In that time and place there probably wasn't much need for documentation. I suppose they picked it up as needed. I remember my parents, farm people, getting SSNs late in life. 14959. Magoseph - 5/13/2005 11:52:16 AM Posted by Mr. Porter at Mind's Eye Revisited:
Me and her
aradan/Nik (Aradan) 14960. uzmakk - 5/13/2005 1:51:50 PM I hope y'all don't hold it against me that I'm not here more often, but I thought I'd tell you that the news-talk show that I've been hanging with for a while now won best news-talk show in the state recently.(Associated Press Award?)
I was actually an employee for a short while,(years ago) but when I was selected as moderator of the forum the bitter, small-minded and envious masses who composed 95% of the forum rose against me. I was draconian in response and had a very enjoyable couple of days giggling to myself.(I have already expressed my shame at spending so much time with these particular people, however, the conversation concerning local politics is improving, a situation in which all Moties will surely take pleasure.) 14961. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 2:49:05 PM We just miss you, Uz! Congrats on the award and (I suppose?) on your apparent forum house-cleaning. 14962. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 2:53:55 PM Judith, Bob loved "Kashi," but he's still noncommittal wrt anything as a dog's name. I think he's just trying to irritate me. Don't know why he finds doing that so appealing. 14963. thoughtful - 5/13/2005 3:34:40 PM Way to go Uz! 14964. uzmakk - 5/13/2005 5:50:15 PM Thank you, Ladies. Arky, last time I was here your daughter posted in your stead that you were recovering from surgery and doing well. I hope all is well with you.
How is your political battle going? Mine is going interestingly and well.
Thoughtful, I recall that you once gave me a piece of political advice which you probably don't remember giving, but I think I remember it verbatum: "You can't beat the pols without becoming a pol." 14965. wonkers2 - 5/13/2005 5:53:12 PM Nice going UZ! In what state/city do you live? 14966. arkymalarky - 5/13/2005 6:01:17 PM Thanks, Uz. I'm really doing well, except for losing my little dog, which has been very upsetting and depressing. I'm almost completely recovered from the surgery. Yesterday the doctor told me to limit my activities to what hurts for the next three or four months, and that's it.
My political battle has gone to the long-term organization, foundation-building, and recruitment phase. We have non-profit status and the legislature will not meet again until the end of 2006, so we have a break from legislative battles.
Things are a mess with many of those district consolidations that did occur, for various reasons. I wrote a booklet that we published and presented at the capitol, and that didn't receive much praise or blame (we were very much ignored this session, but also very much avoided, which was good--consolidation is apparently now the "third rail" of education discussion in AR politics), but the material in it will continue to be useful to us.
All in all, it's less stressful, but less interesting. Of the two, after the past couple of years, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat. I'm glad it's finally slowed down.
I'm also glad to hear things are going well for your battle. You can build on those victories in the future, too. Some ground we lost last year we will never regain, but at least in this last session we held what ground we had. You may find, like Alice Through the Looking Glass, that you will have to run fast for a good while just to stay in one place. That's how this last session was for us. And we can't really stop now. We can just breathe a little better. 14967. thoughtful - 5/13/2005 6:10:19 PM hahahah...Uz, you're right. I don't remember giving that advice, but it still makes a lot of sense. 14968. judithathome - 5/15/2005 3:35:11 PM Well, I am truly a golf widow today...Keoni just left for the Byron Nelson and my friend who usually comes for Sunday breakfast is home sick with a cold. So I have a bottle of chilled champagne and a carafe of OJ and no one to drink mimosas with.....poor me. 14969. arkymalarky - 5/15/2005 5:56:21 PM Oh wow, what a bummer!
14970. judithathome - 5/15/2005 6:32:26 PM I decided to leave the champagne unopened and settled for a Diet Lime Coke. 14971. PelleNilsson - 5/15/2005 7:38:08 PM the doctor told me to limit my activities to what hurts for the next three or four months
!! 14972. arkymalarky - 5/15/2005 8:49:35 PM Hahaha. What DOESN'T hurt, that is. I had my surgery at S&M Memorial Hospital. 14973. PelleNilsson - 5/15/2005 9:39:16 PM S&M?
How appropriate. 14974. The Summer Woman - 5/15/2005 11:18:09 PM If you hate "cute" dog names you'll hate this name, but there's a story that goes with it. When our son was two, a young calico cat adopted us. She was very small - had been eating out of garbage cans for quite some time. Four weeks later our "kitten" had kittens. All the neighborhood kids wanted to come and see them, of course, and we let them. As soon as "mommie kitty" as her name came to be, quit nursing them we sent her off the vets before she come into heat again. One afternoon, while the neighbor kids were playing with the kittens, a discussion developed about which were "boys" and which were "girls". Our son, who knew which was which because we'd told him and showed him how to tell, started point to the black male and saying, "Penis, penis". "What'd he say?", one of the girl's asked. "Peanut", I lied quickly, "He wants to name that one 'Peanuts'" This pointing and saying 'penis' went on for quite some time, because, wouldn't you know - that was the kitten nobody wanted. It lived with us for another 19 years.
Anyway "Peanut" sounds like a pretty could name for a dachshund.
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