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19145. anomie - 4/15/2006 11:40:57 AM Good book, Mago? I read Amsterdam years ago. I think it was his first one or maybe won the Booker prize. 19146. anomie - 4/15/2006 11:41:56 AM Belated Happy Birthdays. In the words of Yahoo, may this event, "repeat every year". 19147. anomie - 4/15/2006 11:48:09 AM I thought I should post an update on the assignment to Italy since I discussed it here about 4 weeks ago. I haven't heard anything, and it has been a month since the first referral, so I'm assuming I didn't get it, which is fine because I had all but decided to decline the offer anyway. I could still get the call, but it's not likely at this point.
The good news is that I should be settled in Vegas by the end of the year, so anyone who had planned to stop by in Italy is welcome to detour to the west a wee bit. 19148. judithathome - 4/15/2006 6:40:41 PM As everyone knows, Keoni and I have a rather love/hate relationship with sharing the same computer. But I do bow to him in matters of hardware and the printer because I know nothing about that crap.
In January, we bought an H/P printer/scanner and got a great deal on it and it has worked perfectly since day one. When we got it, we noticed there weren't any replacement ink cartridges on the shelves (got it at CostCo) and I was rather appalled at what those things cost and worried the ones we needed had been phased out...he says no, they were just "popular" and sold out at the time.
Also told me not worry because he could get an ink kit and refill the one that was in there.
So here we are this week, out of ink. He orders the kit online and in anticipation, removes the cartridge. There it was, sitting on the low shelf next to the printer. Three days later, kit arrives and last night he gets ready to refill it. Suddenly, I hear all this frantic scrambling in the printer area and he says...did you see those two cartridges I had over here by the printer? I say I saw ONE...did he not just take one out? NO... he took two and now one is missing...am I SURE I didn't see it?
Now he is saying this perfectly calmly but I am receiving it it as: it was here and now it's not and you are the one here all the time and did you toss it into the trashcan sitting next to the desk and which I just emptied yesterday?
Normally I would get a little miffed and snap back and we would soon be steaming at one another but I decided to remain calm and detatched...I rarely print anything, anyhow...and I suggested it might still be in the printer. Well, he is getting huffy and says it is definitely NOT in the printer and he starts yanking things out of the desk and muttering to himself and is getting very bent out of shape.
I try to ignore it and let him stew, then I suggest again it might stll be in there...to which he snarls it is not because that was where he first looked.
So he takes the black ink cartridge and goes off and refills it and comes back and starts to insert it....I hear this very low and vicious "son of a BITCH" and I ask if he can't get the thing back it, what's going on, what did you say that for? knowing full well that he had just found the other cartridge in the printer....which he had.
Later, we were in bed and I casually asked him if seriously, hadn't he thought I'd tossed that thing into the trash and he SWORE he hadn't thought that at all and we started laughing and it built into side-holding howling....and I think this is maybe how we should always have disagreements or spats or whatever they are in the future.
19149. anomie - 4/15/2006 9:32:37 PM Now you see, Judith, if I had had a perfect wife like you I'd still be married. Too bad all the perfect women are taken. 19150. arkymalarky - 4/16/2006 12:01:08 AM Great story, Judith! 19151. arkymalarky - 4/16/2006 12:31:40 AM Went to bed around midnight, to sleep about 2am, left at 6:30, drove an hour and a half, attended a three hour meeting, drove two hours, visited inlaws for Easter (houseful from ages 2 to 75), and am not moving another speck until Easter morning church with Mose--which doesn't start until 11am.
I have two huge tests this week, have to finish two huge papers, do other assignments, catch up on my real job, and after about May 5, I will be chilling with all of that in my rearview mirror.
Hope you enjoy the move (back?) to Vegas, Anomie. 19152. Ulgine Barrows - 4/16/2006 9:52:09 AM I went for counseling years ago when my dad died. i think I got a horrid person.
I spilled my guts and then I went back the next week, and this counselor person looked up from her notebook and asked me what my problem was.
I watched a movie in the middle of the day
Kinda fun! 19153. Ulgine Barrows - 4/16/2006 9:54:31 AM Maybe I need a higher dose of can't give a care 19154. alistairConnor - 4/16/2006 10:06:10 AM Counsellor had premature Alzheimer's perhaps? 19155. alistairConnor - 4/16/2006 10:10:00 AM I just had a phone call from my mother,telling me of the death of my late father's younger brother (I didn't know him well) but, much more distressing, the Alzheimer's of my father's sister, whom I am very fond of.
My mother showed her a series of pictures of her great-granddaughter, and at every picture, Marge would ask: "and who's this?" 19156. anomie - 4/16/2006 12:56:54 PM Thanks Arky. Moving day can't come soon enough.
Happy Easter. 19157. RickNelson - 4/16/2006 2:11:22 PM alistair, I'm sorry about your aunt's diagnosis. I've known just a few persons with Alzheimers. I'm very sorry for Marge.
That's the name of my favorite maternal aunt, who passed away a few years back. Hers was an undiagnosed tumor which caused death related to swelling of the brain. I don't remember what that disease is called, it's that strange one that apparently kills some many college kids? She was so far from home, with strange church people, she accepts. They're Seventh Day Adventists, and dying to them is very good, because of going off with Jesus, etc.... When my mother and I drove down, and just arrived in time (11 hours) for the funeral, we learned their ways. It was not our custom and felt very strange. Plus, no casket, just the urn and ashes, without saying goodbye first. We two were very disappointed.
I did get to talk to the three cousins I hardly ever got to see, and that was nice.
19158. RickNelson - 4/16/2006 2:12:22 PM Judith, that's the best story!
Anomie, good luck in Vegas.
Ulgine, my best counselor story is the one that falls asleep. 19159. arkymalarky - 4/16/2006 7:14:30 PM Dadgum, Rick. That is pretty bad.
I'm sorry to hear about your aunt, Alistair. I've had friends whose parents had it, but no one in our families.
A lot of girls and young women I know--including Mose--love the book and movie The Notebook, and have urged me to watch the movie. I accidentally caught the last part of it the other day, and even though it was cheesy, even for me (which is saying a whole lot), I could understand its appeal and its depiction of the difficulty of Altheimers for the patient and the patient's spouse, in particular. The movie alternated past and present scenes without context, best I could tell in the last 30 minutes of it, I assume to capture the effect of the illness on the people most directly involved. 19160. Max Macks - 4/17/2006 1:45:02 AM Judith , I was also surprised at the cost of cartridges
for printers.
but I had a interesting experience , --one of the few
in regard to computers--.
I had printer not fuction because one of the color
cartridges was out . so I replaced it . mayhe it happened
a second time and then for reasons I do not know
I left the color cartriges out and the old printer
has been printing fine since with just the black on in.
However, I don't use the printer often.
19161. Ulgine Barrows - 4/17/2006 4:53:18 AM RickNelson, yeah, that is the best ever counselor story. 19162. RickNelson - 4/17/2006 1:28:40 PM Ulgine, I like to think I've a soothing voice (at times).
If you had opportunity to listen to my dad, you'ld know a soothing voice. Just relaxed, layed back, inviting.
19163. RickNelson - 4/17/2006 1:30:17 PM Arky, that trip had its sad points, but the end, with my cousins, did make up for some of it.
I've had some good emails with the youngest. She lives in Spain. I like that about her. 19164. jexster - 4/18/2006 5:08:13 PM Hello?
Is this the Dirty Deeds?
Yes?????
Its me.
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