ChasUFarley

No. It's my x-'s. Since he left me with a couple of thousand of $$$ of debt that I'm still paying, it's the least he could do! LOL! (I also got back his wedding ring - it was my dad's and I wasn't going to loose that!)

Nice idea about the bonfire - we're actually going to try to have one tonight. Our neighbour's rotten tree fell over in a windstorm some time ago. Since she didn't want it, or want to pay to have someone clean it up, we were left to cut it up and dispose of it. We still have a lot of branches to get rid of... I think it would be a great weekend for a little bonfire... bring the hotdogs and marshmellows and come on over! I know there will be some people who will be into some of these things - I figure I haven't looked at any of them in years, so I probably won't want to, if you know what I mean. The one thing I did reread a little was the By The Way articles. There were some neat subjects covered in those articles. Weirwille seemed so much more 'reachable' or 'approachable' in comparison with the writings by Martindale or anyone, really, from TWI2. There was more heart in the writing I guess...

Here's my listing: Word Over The World (WOW) Ambassador Pin The Way of Abundance and Power Syllabus – Foundational (Working Syllabus) Rev. L. Craig Martindale 1995 Advanced Class on Power for Abundant Living by Rev. L. Craig Martindale syllabus 1995- Foundation Class on Power for Abundant Living by Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille syllabus 1971 Advanced Class on Power for Abundant Living by Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille syllabus, 1981 By The Way articles by Dr. Victor Paul Wierwille - 09/12/80-10/20/83 – Complete Collection Defeating The Adversary syllabus by Rev. L. Craig Martindale (1992) The Rise and Expansion of the Christian Church by Rev. L. Craig Martindale (1991) syllabus Maybe there's something here for somebody... I HOPE! Please go bid... proceeds to go to Kristopher's college savings - promise! Here's the link: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZgtrmath

It was AWESOME! I tried to post this a couple of times the day after the concert but da' boss kept popping into the office... Pat Travers opened the concert. We were in the 5th row and there was next to NOONE infront of us. Travers really rocked and has a new album out. I wasn't really sure about who he was or his hit songs (Boom Boom Out Go The Lights and Snorting Whiskey). I was very impressed, and quite deaf, by his performance. The Yardbirds were the second act of the night. I believe there was only one original member. It was a good set but nothing super-memorable. Hubby, a good musician in his own right, was really into who's who in the band and backup musicians. Vanilla Fudge was excellent! It was all of the original members. They hadn't toured in 35 years. They did try to do their set the way you might have heard it 35 years ago - long pauses between songs, long, weird intros to songs. But they absolutely nailed "You Just Keep Me Hanging On". As the night wore on, more and more people began filling in the seats. John Kay and Steppenwolf. What a stage presence! WOW! Magic Carpet Ride and Born to Be Wild really got the audience jumping - the place just went nuts. Finally, there was The Doors. Ian Astbury was out of this world - you would have thought it was Jim Morrison on the stage. He even had some of the theatrics down - holy cow! I'm a big Doors fan - got all the albums, some collectors editions, bootlegs, you-name-it - this was better playing than any of their live stuff I'd heard before (probably because they weren't so chemically impaired as they were in the late-60's!) Even though they did some songs that I'm sure Morrison would have detested doing live (like Light My Fire) - it was a great show! At one point, Ray Manzarek, who's got to be 60-something, was playing the organ with one foot on the keyboard, thumping away at it with all his might, and gave his stool a good ol' rock-n-roll kick to the side - even though they're old farts now they can still rock! They also got off on the fact that New Hampshire's motto is "Live Free Or Die". Astbury made some comment about how he liked the motto and how NH-ites didn't have to wear motorcycle helmets by law. He said "They wear $%# pink helmets in California! I'm with you!" He also said something very rock and roll at the beginning of the show: "This ain't no %$#%$ Storyteller's concert. This is ^%$^%$ rock and roll. Ain't no Viagra in their cupboards!" (referring to Kreiger and Manzarek).

Why not just get a flash drive? They're very portable, and very easy to use - I've got one for work and even got one for the boss for Christmas (read: brownie points!)

Belle - Ever try chocolate covered coffee beans? I love those things! I used to keep a little jar of them on my desk at work. One day, a co-worker who couldn't tell them from chocolate covered peanuts, devoured a handful - she was a spaz for the rest of the day and night! LOL!

EXACTLY! I always felt like I had to be super woman - all things to all men, yaddy, yaddy, yaddy - it was such a crock. Not only were we NOT allowed to have "excreatment happen" but had to be solid as a rock through it all. Not allowed to feel, think outside of the handy-dandy present truth box, or anything... Maybe this is more of what was expected of us as women or wives, but I felt like I had to act like the LC's wife all the time - and this was a woman who spoke freely and openly about how she, her husband and region coordinator considered whether or not she should have an abortion when she found out she had an *unplanned* pregnancy. SICK! She was down right cold about it - you'd have thought she was talking about getting a mole removed - not a baby!

George - it's not that I'm trying to "work it out" here - but that I don't want to just make him out to be the "bad guy".... I know by now that in any marriage it takes two to fight... Since I was sharing about a recent incident, well... Sorry if it made you *uncomfortable*.

What I find interesting in all this is the fact that TWI places any emphasis on their being a RESEARCH ministry anymore. Also, I don't remember hearing the words "P.I." or "Private interpretation" anymore because they are so into PI that it's not even funny! I believe that they went to the OT more and more because they like LAW, not as a way to steward creation, but as a way to lord over and abuse people. Since people were told that TWI was not a religion and would not fetter them, then they believed it and, in essence, call the "bitter sweet and the sweet bitter."

It seemed like every now and then something would happen - something that was just "life" - that would be like you had exposed your spiritual slip to leadership... ("Your slip is showing" = "Your weakness is showing") For whatever reason today I was thinking back to the time shortly after my dad died and how leadership got in my business. We were on the WOW field and hubby & I were having a tough time of it. He figured it was "me" who was causing the problems and tried to "drill down" to the root of it. Of course, after loosing one parent, who wouldn't be thinking, "What if I loose my other parent...?" When I shared this thought with him, you would have thought he had single-handedly unmasked the biggest debbil spurit on the face of the earth. He called all kinds of leadership about it - you'd have thought he was planning an exorcism. I learned to be very guarded with who I shared my thoughts, feelings, memories, past - anything at all - because any little thing could be taken to the extreme of being weakness. Yesterday I found myself in a situation with my husband where I was accused of loving our children more than him. He told me I had "forgotten" about him. Those words cut me to the bone and I felt he was saying our relationship was over. I found myself being more than defensive about it - again, because I felt he was there to "sniff out weakness" so that he could "take it to the wall". Needless to say, the situation turned very ugly. Honey, if you're lurking, sorry, but you know I've got some baggage and I'm doing the best I can. I've come a long way and am a lot stronger than I was even a year ago. And I do love you. Somedays I feel like my brain was run over by TWI - it's so frustrating at times because when I think I'm detecting an old pattern, like something my fist husband did, I get... well... MAD AS HELL! The casualities from TWI wasn't just the individuals, but it seems to be anyone who encounters the individuals after they've left the organization. God help us.

Marvin is invited to NH where he will be taken on a cruise across the largest lake in New England, Lake Winnipesaukee, on the MS Mount Washington. He will enjoy a prime rib or seafood newburg dinner and dance to the tunes of my husband's band. So, when he's ready to come to NH, please let me know. I would be happy to host him! chasufarley1@yahoo.com

You can usually find him on the computer tech forum - maybe post a thread there that you're looking fer him.... He checks in there from time to time...

Isn't there some web site that you can go to and pull up old web sites that are no longer "live"? I believe Igotout or one of other resident geeks know what I'm talking about. You can do a search on "Waydale" and come up with the ol' waydale.com site.... Couldn't that work in this case? Hmmmmmmmmmmm?

I'd like to add to this: Anything bad ever happened to leadership and it was because they were being attacked by the adversary for their stong stand on the Word or because someone in the fellowship was a conduit for the adversary... What a mind (rhymes with puck, begins with 'f') it was.... I don't think I've ever written about this before, but here it is: I, too, lost a baby with my first husband. It was rather early in the pregnancy - of course it happened after we had announced that we were pregnant. It happened at the beginning of the second trimester. I remember my husband was very, very upset about it all - he was much more emotional than I was. Don't get me wrong - I was upset but he was... over the top with grief. A little over a year later, when we were in our "exit interview" with Rev. T#orpe at HQ (I'll call it what it was - we were getting kicked off staff and they were taking a romp through our private lives) - hubby confessed he had been "renting movies" at about that same time that I had the miscarriage. He thought that it happened because he was "out of alignment and harmony" "out of fellowship" whatever you want to call it - he thought HE was the reason for the miscarriage. It was then that I understood his "grief". Thinking that YOU are sooooo responsible for such things is really a form of egotism, isn't it? It would be like saying YOU are responsible for the sun rising, the rain falling or the car not starting. Sometimes things happen. That's LIFE.

The Sing Along The Way books took several changes in the few years that I was in. After the fog years all the songs that were written by "cop outs" were elminiated from the book. Then, they began to add songs that they had written. When I say "they" I mean Way Productions - not any one person. Certainly not someone with loads of talent and a vocabulary beyond the 3rd grade. New songs would have something like four to six lines and be waaaayyyy too simple.... Just so I don't break any copyright laws, I'll make up one for an example... Oh, I love my cat and my cat loves me I love my cat when he is up a tree I love my cat when he's under the car I love my new cat strings in my guitar Yes, that was horrible wasn't it? But that was my point. The songs were horrible! Like the example I have above, they all seemed like they could have been written in a couple of minutes - it was mindnumbing, drivel that was demeaning even to the youngest children in fellowship. Thankfully those songs were in the back of the book and we seldom went there. Whenever someone ran twig who used a lot of the songs from the back of the book it only meant one of two things.... they were either locked in with hq pretty tightly... or .... they were retarded!

IMOH the low-key installation of RFR was to keep things at a low profile for the outside world. The news of LCM's law suit and fall from power hit public newspapers. I don't think TWI wanted people to really know or care about the fact that LCM had a golden parachute, his family still got to live at HQ with all the staff help (read: slave help) and RFR was movin' on up. I don't think TWI really wanted to field questions on who she was, where she came from or her qualifications for president. If you think about it, her rise to the president's chair was much different than the others': #1 Pres = VPW - it was his ministry, so he was the prez #2 Pres = LCM - not a BOT member, chosen by VPW to be prez #3 Pres = RFR - a BOT member, became prez by default during a time of crisis. Now, what if Dr. Don had still been VP? Do you think he would have been prez next? I doubt it because he wasn't the "company man" that RFR had been. Also, not that this will ever happen, but who do you think would be CHOSEN for president if there was ever a vote by the members (innies, whatever you want to call them)? Interesting thought, eh? However, since peer pressure is the norm in TWI, the same jerks would probably still be in office because they'd bully themselves there.... Things in TWI are so dull now that no one really wants to know or cares to know who RFR is - and that's exactly how she likes it.

My dad, who was born in 1915, could find water using find water using a branch from a tree. He also taught me how to do it. The challenge of doing this Maine is that there is a lot of limestone, bedrock and granite under the topsoil. Finding a good vein of water isn't always easy. He would first look for branch from a willow or white burch tree that was dry. He's strip any old leaves or smaller branches off it so that all he was left with was a big "Y" shaped branch. He'd hold the ends of the top of the "Y" in his hands, at about waist-level, carrying the branch so that it was parallel to the ground. Then he would begin to walk around an area where he thought there might be water. The wood, because it was dry, would pull down towards the water source. As another poster said, finding water wasn't hard - it was finding the best source that was the challenge. There are some woods that are just naturally drawn to water - like burch or willow. A white burch tree's leaves will turn bottom-side up before a rain shower so they are facing the clouds. It's another way you can tell if overcast skies mean rain is coming or not. I don't think this is "woo-woo science" as some say. I think it's using natural signs and natural "tools", for lack of a better word, to get a job done. It's not uncommon here in rural New England to still hear of people finding water using this method. I think it's really just "old science".

Someone did that back in the early, early days of Waydale. It was a pain in the arse, in my opinion, as I often lurked from work or the local library. I didn't want to be discovered lurking and always had to make sure that the sound was turned down very low or off, just in case. Thankfully, the sound sign-off was short lived. Personally, I don't want ANY sounds coming out of my speakers unless I ask for it. I don't even have incoming email or signoff sounds ("You've got mail!). I spend so much time with computers - at least 8 hours a day - usually 10-12 hours - that those sounds begin to twang your last nerve after a while. I do like your graphics and GIFs you've used - that is unique to you - keep it up - it's refreshing!

Not to derail this but.... No... and Yes.... they are K-cars on steriods - at least the Spirit R/T was, but there weren't very many of those made. Check this out: http://www.allpar.com/eek/k/k.html Especially this paragraph: Love my Mopar!

Most kids just write "WASH ME" in the dirt...

Hills - it's not the computer - it's the printer. How old is it? Sounds like a memory issue - some of the older printers just can't handle a big dump of info that some of the newer computers can crank out. When an old printer gets filled to overflowing they end up speaking in tongues (printing in digbat fonts)... If your computer is networked to another printer, try printing to that one. If not, and you have another printer in the house, see if you can set it up to print. Steve had a good suggestion about printing one page at a time - also, make sure you don't have a lot of other applications open when you print. That could make a difference... Finally, you could also try printing at the local library, if they have computer access. Good luck!

One thing about those Carfax reports - they include recalls - even customer satisfaction recalls - not just defective parts. Here's an example: My PT's steering wheel makes a funny sound when I'm making sharp turns, like when I turn in to a parking space. After checking with a dealership I found there was a customer satisfaction recall - not a safety recall on it. What's the difference? A safety recall is paid for by the auto maker - the other kind is NOT. Just because there's reports on a car, it doesn't mean it was in an accident - Carfax is mo' than that.

As someone who works for a non-profit, I don't suggest you go there unless there's something that really, really, fits for you. to say the pay isn't great, is an understatement. The benefits usually suck, to be honest. I'm sticking with my job because I only need about another year, maybe less, and I can quit to be a SAHM. If it wasn't for that, I'd have peeled out of my office (which is the size of a postagestamp) a long, long time ago. I think some of the bookstore/coffeeshop/retail suggestions are good. It also sounds like you'd do well in an art gallery or museum or artisian/craftsman type of atmosphere. Are you well connected with anyone in these fields? Check into your connections. Even if someone says they aren't hiring at the moment, let them know you are in the market. Get your feelers out and give ol' friends, relatives, classmates, former co-workers, etc. a call. By the way - not to derail this but - What is an intutive reader?

Those are known as "K-Cars" - no self-respecting 17 y/o male is going to get within 6 feet of one of those! (At least, I'd hope not!) Another thing - several posters have mentioned 'establishing credit' - not a bad idea, but not the smartest thing to do with a car - he'd have to carry full insurance on the thing - big $$$. Most places have kids under 18 y/o have a cosigner. Absolutely stay away from those "Buy Here/Pay Here" places - the interest rates are usually pretty steep...

You can look for cars, check Blue Book values, look into car options/equipment, even apply for loans, insurance, etc. all here: http://www.cars.com I got my PT Cruiser via that web site and got a GREAT deal - it's worth checking out. Also check eBay - I'm serious - I've seen some great deals there and I'm sure there's got to be some in your area for him to consider. ===================================== My advise: Get something BIG - he's 17 y/o, so his insurance will be thru the roof on a little sport coupe. He'd probably do well with something like a Dodge Stratus or Dodge Intrepid (lots of power for not a lot of money), Ford Taurus, Chevy Monte Carlo, etc. I'd stay away from anything GMC, including Saturn's right now. A Saturn at $2700 is going to be a piece of junk because Saturn's retain a lot of their value. Same for Suburu - at least in my area. He should stay away from anything Nissan or VW - insurance reasons, again. Consider a V6 engine over a V4 - 6-ers last longer than 4's. Also - I haven't used it but have friends who swear by it: http://www.carfax.com - to check out his (potential) car's history.