Jim

What Not said. Most states have Legal Aid Societies that will gladly supply this kind of advice: http://www.floridabar.org/tfb/TFBConsum.ns...77?OpenDocument Scroll down for a list of Florida offices by county.

My opinion is that it's much simpler than that. VPW (and his mighty ego) picked the biggest foot-kisser.

I vote: Brandenburg Concertos, Hotel California The Weight If that's my old man, he's back.

Almost as smart as these guys: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000C3L2I...?v=glance&n=130

Here's the military version.... • Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you. • If the enemy is in range, so are you. • Don't look conspicuous -- it draws fire. • There is always a way. • Try to look unimportant -- they may be low on ammo. • Professionals are predictable -- it's the amateurs that are dangerous. • The enemy invariably attacks on one of two occasions: 1. When you're ready for them. 2. When you're not ready for them. • Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at. • Radios will fail as soon as you desperately need fire support. • If you can't remember, the claymore is pointed at you. • If your attack is going well, you have walked into an ambush. • When you are short of everything but enemy, you're in contact. • Don't draw fire. It irritates the people around you. • The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire. • Incoming fire has the right of way. • When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend. • When in doubt, empty the magazine. • Tracers work both ways. • Recoiless rifles ...aren't. • Suppressive fires ...won't. • Friendly fire ...isn't. • Anything you do can get you shot -- including doing nothing. • Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out. • Mines are equal opportunity weapons. • The easy way is always mined. • Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last, and don't ever volunteer to do anything. • The quartermaster has only two sizes: too large and too small. • Five second fuses only last three seconds. • It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed. • The enemy diversion you have been ignoring will be the main attack. • A "sucking chest wound" is nature's way of telling you to slow down. • When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy. • Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder. • No OPLAN ever survives the first contact. • A Purple Heart just proves that you were smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive. • If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.

Did you say a prayer before you went up? A/V crew did before they climbed the tower at HQ.

Although I do electronics/computers for a living, I've become more and more interested in metalworking. I have a small machine shop in my garage with a metal lathe and a vertical mill. I'm currently designing and building a small gas engine from scratch. Anyone else into metalworking, either as a job or a hobby?

My wife smiling at me. My daughter laughing. Happy customers. Happy, productive employees. Designing and building stuff. Strong, dark beer. Ribeye steaks. Mr. Peet's coffee. Good health. Dogs and birds. Metalworking. Bach. Books. Cameras. Engines. Airplanes.

Excath thus spake.... You weren't fired because you were good at what you did. The vast majority of companies are willing to put up with a little weirdness if you're good. And a lot of weirdness if you're very good. I know, I've been very weird at times. Contrast that to TWI where nonconformity, especially in front of people, is flat-out unacceptable. I have to say that I did get away with a little bit of weirdness on staff, but it was highly controlled. I worked AV and could pretty much fix anything. So nobody complained if I was working alone in the shop with Jackson Browne cranked up all the way. Then there was the time I fed an NFL football game into the television camera viewfinders during the SNS, but I digress.....

Resonating

If I built a cold fusion fireplace would it keep me warm?

Belle said: I'd love to, but I'm old enough to be your dad

Catcup - your perception and wit is exquisite.

Would I have to go door-to-door witnessing? Sit in the mud in an Ohio cornfield? Fight to stay awake during 20 more PFAL aka WAP classes? Listen to more fractured Greek teachings? Believe that Ephesians 6 is really an athletic metaphor? Give 15% so God might spit in my direction? Stop reading Greasespot? Umm, No.

Roy I've been a lay minister of the Beer Church for 36 years. Thanks for the offer, but I don't think I need the added responsiblity of being ordained. Everyone has to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

I say that if a person believes in taking off all their clothes and howling at the moon, it's ok with me as long as they don't do it in my livingroom. If a subject is opened for discussion, that just opens the subject to discussion. it does not automatically open for discussion the beliefs of the participant.

Sure, but it's also a secular metaphor as in "People that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones". That's the way I read it.

I'm not particularly happy with the town I live in. OTOH, the servers are all up, the females in my life are relatively happy and the vehicles are all running. So yes, my quality of life is pretty good.

Cool. For what it's worth, I'd agree with your decision.

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I had to put my Border Terrier down in December. He was 16 years old and a big part of my life. Without going into a lot of sad details, I made the decision based on the fact that he was clearly in a lot of pain and he no longer get pleasure out of the things he had always loved; walking, playing and eating. I got some closure by giving way his stuff to people that could use it. His prescription meds went to a free vet clinic. His bed, extra bowl and grooming stuff to a neighbor with a similar sized dog and our Border Terrier book to Belle and Vixon. I sent the book before I had to put him down, but the handwriting was on the wall. Not much else I can say, except that the hurt does start to go away in a month or two.

To answer your question directly Oak, yes, I think people say things in a forum that they wouldn't say face-to-face and one-on-one. I think that people just tend to be nicer face-to-face, plus there's the tone of voice and body english feedback. OTOH, if we could get *all* the GS participants face-to-face at the same time, I hate to think of what a shouting match it might turn into.

I'm sure they'd love to. The problem is a sticky little legal issue called the 1st amendment.

About all I can add is that my wife and I have agreed that the phrase "just get over it" is one that we *don't* say to each other. The reason is simple. Telling someone to get over something doesn't work. If you could get over something by someone telling you to "get over it", chances are you'd have done it already. Besides that it's rather condescending.

You got me this time Belle. Watch out for the payback