Mmmmm, bagels.

(Don't have to count thought-calories, right?)

The place we went to had flat bagels..never saw those before

I sure could use a bagel about now - with smoked salmon, cream cheese and a few capers, please.

Speaking of words that start with the letter B...

Where is that baby we have been waiting for?

I really thought I was going to miss the birth going coast to coast last week...

Oyi! The computer would be the last thing on her mind!

Well here's another B-word for ya...

Baloney!....

Knowing MRSAUGIE I am sure the first thing after the spankin' was..."Honey, where is the laptop...I need to get on THREADKILLERS fast!"....

So we must assume...this is one looooong labor....

MRSAUGIE

Oh I am SURE she is thinking of us THREADKILLERS!

THAT'S what I'm saying!!!

kind of like the kidnapper ...taking my daughter home on their wedding night...

HELLL-OOOO...she just got married for crying out loud....wouldn't you think she wants to spend time with her daddy?....

he has no clue

Funny !

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone - "to relax," I told myself - but I knew it wasn't true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself. I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read writings of Plato and Aristotle. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

Things weren't going so great at home either. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother's.

I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker. One day the boss called me in. He said, "Skippy, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job." This gave me a lot to think about.

I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey, " I confessed, "I've been thinking..." "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as college professors, and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking we won't have any money!" "That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to cry. I'd had enough. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door.

I headed for the library, in the mood for Clinton's latest book "Family Morals in America". Listening to a PBS station on the radio, I roared into the parking lot and ran up to the big glass doors... they didn't open. The library was closed. Later, I realized that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster.

Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Jerry Spinger" talking about the song "I'm bad" by Michael Jacks. Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting. Life just seemed .. more bland .. without purpose or meaning, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking, and avoided thoughts about the meaning of life and my future. I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home and the office. Now I stare for hours at the T.V. and receive my daily dose of brainwashing instead of contemplating the mysteries of life.

Have you joined Thinker's Anonymous yet?

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*crawls out from under the pile of text*

Are we at 250 yet?

2 letters Virginia Robin Born yesterday 8lbs 4oz. Pictures after i get them on the computer.

Congratulations!! I love the name! Looking forward to seeing pictures

and, on the occasion of your first post,