I brought the image posting problem to the Admin's attention and they fixed it. It was turned off in all the Misc. Clubs.

Hmmm. Sure is quiet around here. Hope all is well with everybody.


Ella

Way to go, Cookie!! I figured they had that turned off for some reason; I never bothered to ask. Excellent -- sometimes you just need a picture in the midst of your text. Who was it wanted to put that pic of a bishop swinging a ........... dang I can't come up with the name. Censor, sceptor, incubator, smelly thing?

Anyway, thanks!

My mom had her hip replaced today. I can't get hold of anyone, but I'm sure I would have heard if there were any complications. I talked to my sis yesterday and she was talking about how it was really good that it all happened so fast so mom wouldn't have much time to think about it, and then she went on about Can you imagine getting cut open and having all that bone removed. Suddenly I was not feeling so good... and I have even more respect for my mother for managing to face this with a good attitude!

I went to a very interesting luncheon lecture today (don't I sound all "Ladies Who Lunch"? ) about the geology of Maine. It was given by a retired Maine professor who knows all about glaciers and ice ages and stuff. Fascinating. He says we're hanging on the brink of an ice age, and more global warming will trigger it maybe. Very complicated but I understand a lot more now than I did. DH went with me and enjoyed it too, but remains totally skeptical about global warming. I suspect it is because he doesn't like Al Gore...

I have a cute pic of my nephew to share, but must have email addresses so I can send the url. It's on my facebook. If you were my facebook friend, you would already have seen it... Actually I can pm it , can't I?

Kiwi

That would be me. Your welcome. I like to be able to add pictures sometimes.

The nephew picture is almost heartbreaking. I was thinking of these boys today and all boys and girls and how they delight us by growing older.The kids at school are So Excited to be entering Kindergarten.

Best of luck to Kiwi-mom also. And Cookie is a swinging smelly thing? No!!

What's Facebook?

I swear it is a case if mistaken identity!

It was this guy, -->

What category is that guy in? Couldn't find him.

Facebook is a ... I don't know .. Kiwi is so "in the moment." I read on wikipedia that Ira Glass dumped Lynda Barry because she wasn't "in the moment." He would like Kiwi though.

I will PM you the link to my photo. Facebook is used mostly by college kids to network, but a lot of other people are getting on it as well. Great place to share photos, I think.

He's not a smilie on 3fc, Cookie uploaded him herself from somewhere.

Isn't that the truth. I don't know how my SIL hangs on. Maybe she doesn't think about it. That is how I'm dealing with VATech nightmare, not thinking about it too much, because if I do I lose it. 3 weeks my DD will be home, then I can think about it.
No no no -- I'm thinking "censer". I could look it up, but I was actually hoping to come up with it using my brain. Because I am so "in the moment". I might not be all that "in the moment" though, because I've never heard of Lynda Barry. Ira Glass on the other hand, he's the NPR guy, right? I saw him on Letterman and he knocked me over. I'm such a sucker for a NY nerd.

I need help naming my facebook photo album where I put pics I don't want to plaster all over the internet, but want to share with my favorite people. I started calling it Invitation Only. But I don't like that. I thought maybe Eyes Only, but I wasn't sure anyone would get it. I also considered Need to Know, as in need to know basis, but it sounds too serious. Granted this is probably the MOST trivial problem you all have ever been asked to address, but I have had a long day.

My mom is doing well. Surgery apparently went very well; she was in recovery for a very long time because her pressure kept yoyoing, but I talked to her this afternoon and she was feeling good. A tad groggy, but quite her chatty self.

Speaking of chatty selves, DH and I spent the evening with some distant relatives, who happen to live just up the road from us. They wanted to share geneological info and family pictures (the endless project DH is doing instead of looking for a job). They were quite the talkers. The dh is a guy we both knew from the paper mill, and the wife is the relative, so there was plenty of common ground to carry the conversation. We only got home about 10:15 or so.

Here's another somewhat more serious question I have for all of you wise women: I am trying to invite my half-sister and family to go with me to DD's chorale concert on Sunday, and I sent her an email 2 days ago. Have not heard anything. Really hate to call; I find it just SO awkward. I was hoping I would hear from her before having to make phone calls. I know I'm totally neurotic, but I hate the thought of having to identify myself on the phone to people who ought to know me. I just picture this conversation: "Hi DSis, it's Kiwi!" "Kiwi Who?"

I'm not sure what the question is: obviously I should call her, but I would rather wait and see if she answers my email, or forget about the whole thing quite honestly. How late do you think you can invite someone for a Sunday afternoon concert?

My doggie is having an ear problem; I must go investigate. She is rubbing and shaking.

Ta.

Are you un-close to your half-sis? DID YOU SEE BUSH DANCING ON LETTERMAN? WAS THAT REAL? Personally, I would not hesitate to call and let her know you'd like to see her and this would be a good time to do so. People in Dogpatch NEVER RSVP but I thought it was just here.

I may start a Will-Peaches-Make-It-To-The-End-Of-The-Year blog. It's hard to feel I'm not paranoid sometimes. A teacher (whose room it is in the daytime) came into my room and snapped at two boys who had blocks (one each) on the floor and cars on top of the blocks. "That's not how we play with those is it? Put them back!!" Etc. Then she hung around and told other kids what to do. Then someone told me she had told her kids they couldn't paint anymore because my class used all the paper. We use very little. 0-6 sheets a day for painting.

Also, I took a big baking pan to school for sand painting. They'd put glue on paper and dribble sand over it. Knowing it was my pan and I'd just brought it and it was next to my purse, the cleaning lady gave it to another teacher who made rice krispie treats in. I had to wash it. I can not use a pan frm the kitchen to put sand in since they cook in them and I'd have to sterilze it but mine I can take home.

So will I make it? Don't know.

Lynda Barry is a cartoonist of whom I first heard when her work appeared in Los Angeles Free Press periodicals along side Matt Groening's work when he drew the rabbit populated strip "Life is ****" I still see her work from time to time but don't remember where. She and Groening were buddies and went to school together and I loved his stuff so she was ok too.

I will continue:

I have a friend whose ds is about to graduate high school. He has a required senior project and has done very very little on it. He can not graduate without this. Deciding that he's depressed, she took him to a specialist for a $480 diagnosis. Yes, they will put him on antidepressants but about the paper ... it's just a silly paper requiured at the end of a long career in school where the boy has already worked hard and she should write it so as not to endanger his future. Isn't that practical? Would you expect that from a $480 / 80 minutes guy? I wonder how many parents are writing these things? I know I could not have written DS's.

OK, someone else may speak.

Oh Ellabella spoke at the same time as me.

I will share my secret.
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