Check-In Thread-The Final Frontier

[blablover5]

We had a nice little snowfall this morning. Then we had a weird ornament exchange in the office. I have never done one before, but now I have a pretty boring angel to um do something with.

I'm also going through some confusing women things that has me a touch worried, but I'm probably just over reacting a bit.

[Sean]

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Cayla, I school ends on tuesday...only 5 more days!

Good evening everyone. I'm pissed. Just watching the news is depressing. NYS is apparently so in the shit financially, that they've started taxing everything they can. The tax for clothing under $110 has returned, they've decided to tax all cigarettes on the Indian reservations ( which is fine by me, but will definitely sour relations), and, they have come up with an obesity tax. So, anything that makes people fat, they can now tax. Pop, will now recieve an 18% tax...and other high sugar/calorie/fat could recieve a tax just as high, if not higher. Juices, will recieve a lower tax, which I don't see as fair, because some contain the same or more sugar than soda. However, they have decided not to tax diet soda. Which...is actually worse for you in the long run, due to all the chemicals and stuff they put in there to replace the sugar.

UGH!!!! That's it...I'm off to

On the bright side, we have learned that Andre Thomas has picked 12 pieces for us to perform under his lead. Better yet, upon our request, Mr. Zogaib is reserving Slee Hall at UB again!

Glad to have you back jgc!

I'm off to vent...and do some homework. Have a good day everyone.

[Cayla]

Good evening!

I left work two hours early, to beat the traffic and the ice storm home.

My sister wants me to spend the day with her and Addie on Sunday for Addie's first Christmas cookie baking. I thought that was sweet of her to ask me. Of course I am going. Also, she invited us to Christmas dinner at her house with her dad (we are having our family Christmas on the 27th at our grandmother's). If someone would have told me a few years ago that one day I would be eating Christmas dinner with the "evil drunk stepfather from my childhood" I would have never believed them. It's strange how things and people change after so many years. I'm actually looking forward to Christmas day.

[australis]

Morning all.

2nd PC still not fixed. After fiddling withit last night (ugh), it seems like it was, as suspected, either a hard disk failure, RAM failure, or both. I have to get another stick of RAM to test this. A different hard drive just brought up error msgs or boot loop, so inclined towards RAM.

I get a newletter from the Scotsman newspaper (being born there), and heard about this big thing they're organising for next year, Homecoming. I wish I'd known about it sooner! I have to take some of Mum's ashes back, to scatter in her favourite place, with her father's, but wasn't really planning to do it until 2010. Now I may have to accelerate things considerably.

The funny thing was I found there was an ad for it on YT
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pszgxCKz-0s
and when I watched it, I was unexpectedly moved to tears by it.
Maybe it's a sense of belonging that I'm missing here.
Mind you, it might jsut be the dire singing!

[jgc]

I'm home. Home! Home! Home! I've never experienced something like that before, and I hope to never experience it again. Being a refuge is no fun!

Tipper is thrilled to be home. He keeps climbing up in my lap. My family was great. Dad took us in for four days and nights and my sister and her husband helped me keep the water pumped out of the cellar. Thank God for family!

I'm very glad to be back with you, my friends, on a regular basis once again.

[Cayla]

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We are glad to have you back!

[RJDiogenes]

Good evening, everyone.

Just a quick check-in. Dad has an early check-up this morning at the hospital. Just routine.

Good luck, but it sounds like everything is going very well.

I'm also going through some confusing women things that has me a touch worried, but I'm probably just over reacting a bit.

Well, I hope so. Good luck with that.

It's strange how things and people change after so many years. I'm actually looking forward to Christmas day.

It's nice when things change for the better.

Mind you, it might jsut be the dire singing!

How can you shay that about Shean Connery?

I'm home. Home! Home! Home!

Tipper is thrilled to be home. He keeps climbing up in my lap.

Aw. That reminds me of when I brought my cat home from the vet after he was hit by a car and nearly killed. He kept curling up in everybody's lap for two seconds and then jumping up and moving on to the next person-- he wanted to be everywhere at once.

I'm very glad to be back with you, my friends, on a regular basis once again.

We're glad to have you back. It wasn't the same without you.

[Sean]

Good evening everyone! I'm ready to turn in...finally. It's going to be a long three days...I can feel it already. G'night everyone.

[RJDiogenes]

Good morning, everyone.

Too many people are losing their jobs these days.

[jgc]

Morning folks.

It's morning.

[Cayla]

Good morning!

Despite already having three cups of coffee, I want to go back to sleep.

Too many people are losing their jobs these days.

It's scary, isn't it? Every day I go into work to hear some poor patient is out of work. It's sad most of them are in their 50's, worked for their company 20 years or more, and lost their medical benefits.

On a lighter note, I find it amusing _dane notified the moderator to report Flukie at Flukie's own board!

[jgc]

The 15 minute drive to work took me an hour and 15 minutes this morning.

[Lupine]

Gald you're back home, jgc.

On a lighter note, I find it amusing _dane notified the moderator to report Flukie at Flukie's own board!

I'd love to see that. I should check in there more often.

Dad's check-up went OK yesterday. The doc basically told him what we've been telling him: "You need to eat more". But even before the operation dad has never been big into eating. He was also taken off a couple of his meds that the doc decided he didn't need anymore. Dad's also switched from a walker to a cane now. In a bit of luck it wasn't snowing yesterday, otherwise the Cajon Pass might have closed and there'd been no way to get to the doctor's. It snowed the previous day and it's snowing as I type this.
As for the snow, we have the weirdest batch of barnyard cats right now. Most cats would be hiding, staying warm. This bunch is out playing in it. I wish I had a camera out earlier. The little female named Squeeky was swatting at the falling flakes.

[Cayla]

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It's in the Hangman game thread in Ghost's Forum.

I love when cats are playful. They can be so cute!

The 15 minute drive to work took me an hour and 15 minutes this morning.

Yuck! I hate commutes like that. One time it took me three hours to get home from work due to a snow storm and ice.

I want to go shopping, but the roads look icy. I think I'll wait another hour or so before I leave.