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The Hobbit Hole VIII - Still round the corner we may meet...
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Posted on 04/06/2004 6:53:09 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Still round the corner we may meet...

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

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To: All
Good mornin'!
So Fallujah smolders...so what ? :)
...and I guess all y'all PA folks know you're going to have to hold your nose when you vote straight ticket, knowing who managed to weasel onto it again...
5,741 posted on 04/28/2004 6:40:13 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (I've applied for nine Iraq job openings with Halliburton. Money co-located with mouth.)
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To: Overtaxed; 2Jedismom; Corin Stormhands; osagebowman; RosieCotton
Good morning everyone!

Havin' some coffee and ecurbh just rumbled to a start....
5,742 posted on 04/28/2004 6:45:01 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)
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To: HairOfTheDog
How did the interview go?
5,743 posted on 04/28/2004 6:46:31 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Re: The Jr. meltdown; When our kids were being 'drama queens', I just let em stew. If they wanted to scream and yell, I told them they could go to their rooms and have at it, that I wasn't going to listen to it, but when they were ready to have a more reasonable discussion I'd be there.

Don't remember that happening too often. I guess they learned that the yelling wouldn't work with me. But then, they didn't have computers and other entertaining things in their rooms. Clare has a computer, but I haven't had more than a couple episodes with her, then we just unplug the computer.

5,744 posted on 04/28/2004 6:47:59 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 2Jedismom
With the minister? - Real good. We are going to meet with her two more times, she has a little program she is gonna run us through, and meet one time at the beach house.
5,745 posted on 04/28/2004 6:49:20 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)
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To: HairOfTheDog
No...didn't Ecurb have an interview yesterday? Or am I confused??

I thought it was yesterday...for a tech support position?

Eye-yi-yi! I'm so out of touch!
5,746 posted on 04/28/2004 6:52:08 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
I says, "Deal with it."

Yep, he's gotta learn to sometime.

5,747 posted on 04/28/2004 6:53:47 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 2Jedismom
Yes, he had an interview too on Monday.... went good. We'll hear more about a second interview this week maybe.
5,748 posted on 04/28/2004 6:55:30 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)
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To: SuziQ
then we just unplug the computer.

Yep, that's next.

5,749 posted on 04/28/2004 6:55:38 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I've never been to Spain...and now I'll never go...)
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To: Ramius; HairOfTheDog; Wneighbor
Sorry, for posting and splitting last night...one of those 15 hour days and I just crashed. Yes, I do know who the officer is, as of last night his name had not been announced officially but it probably has by now. I will freepmail the name to you. There should be a news story by now, the Trib tried to call me last night but I was at another event and didn't their call till after I posted here. I suspect the morning paper here has the story now.
5,750 posted on 04/28/2004 6:56:15 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: g'nad
Thorin laughs at rocks...

LOL! Those dwarf names are so perfect for the 'big iron'! At least the 'at home' sized, big iron. ;o)

5,751 posted on 04/28/2004 6:56:55 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Corin Stormhands
I says, "Deal with it."

Good advice always IMHO... hehehe

Good morning!

It's five o'clock somewhere...right?

Yeah, it is, and I'm glad I ain't there yet! That's the time my night teachin' starts! 'ts when I gots ta go ta werk!

5,752 posted on 04/28/2004 6:57:42 AM PDT by Wneighbor (Texas. Land of opportunity! No restrictor plates here!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast; Ramius
The trib does have a story.... went and looked it up this morning.

  
DREW PERINE | THE NEWS TRIBUNE

Tacoma police officers examine the accident scene at the corner of South 55th and South Alaska streets. Officer Jim Lewis was thrown into the air when his motorcycle struck the Saturn in the background.

Tacoma officer dies in crash

ADAM LYNN AND STACEY MULICK; The News Tribune

A Tacoma police officer rushing to the aid of a colleague died Tuesday after he crashed his motorcycle into a car on the city's South End.

Jim Lewis was a 19-year veteran of the police department, said Mark Fulghum, Tacoma police spokesman. He became the 10th Tacoma police officer to die in the line of duty, the first to die in a motorcycle wreck.

Colleagues said the 45-year-old Lewis was a model cop who upheld the highest standards of the department. He was hardworking and dependable, they said.

"He was everything you'd ever want in a police officer," said Pat Frantz, police union president and a friend of Lewis. "We'll honor his memory and pray for his family."

Tacoma City Manager Jim Walton announced the officer's death to a somber City Council at Tuesday night's meeting, and Mayor Bill Baarsma immediately called for a moment of silence to honor Lewis. Fulghum said Lewis was married and had one son.

The collision occurred about 2:30 p.m. at South Alaska Street and South 55th Street.

Witnesses said Lewis was southbound on Alaska with his department-issued motorcycle's emergency lights flashing and its siren blaring. He was headed to help another officer on a high-risk traffic stop a few blocks farther south on Alaska, Fulghum said.

A line of cars also headed south on Alaska stopped in the street just before 55th as Lewis approached, witnesses said, and the officer swung his motorcycle into the northbound lanes to pass them. That's when a woman driving a gold Saturn two-door near the head of the line tried to turn left off Alaska onto 55th. She unknowingly steered her car right into Lewis' path, witnesses and police said. She might have been distracted by the police car down the street, which had pulled over a suspected felon, according to witnesses.

Lewis never had a chance.

"I knew he was going to hit her," said Terence Williams, 16, who witnessed the crash from his school bus. "He was going way too fast to stop."

Lewis' Kawasaki Police 1000 motorcycle slammed into the car near the front of the driver's side door.

The impact left a large hole in the Saturn's outer skin and cracked the car's windshield. It also destroyed the nose of the motorcycle and threw Lewis into the air, witnesses said.

Lewis hit his head on the pavement when he landed and lost consciousness, said Mikayla Strickler, 13, who saw the collision as she was walking home from school. "It looked real bad,'' Strickler said. "He wasn't moving."

Paramedics took Lewis to Tacoma General Hospital, where he died about three hours later. Several police officers, including interim Chief Don Ramsdell, were in the emergency room when Lewis died, Fulghum said.

The woman driving the Saturn was taken to St. Joseph Medical Center with minor injuries, Fulghum said. Her name was not released.

Minutes after the wreck, more than 20 police officers descended on the scene. They cordoned off the intersection, interviewed witnesses and began to reconstruct the crash. The investigation was continuing late Tuesday, Fulghum said.

Tuesday's collision was similar to a fatal crash involving a Pierce County sheriff's deputy in 2002. In that incident, a deputy on his way to back up a colleague was speeding south on Pacific Avenue in his patrol car with his emergency lights and sirens on. He turned into oncoming traffic to pass a line of cars and collided with a truck trying to turn left from Pacific onto 121st Street South. The truck's driver, 75-year-old Norman Pribnow of Parkland, died from injuries suffered in the crash.

In general, law enforcement officers have discretion over when to activate their emergency lights and how fast to drive when responding to calls. Once they activate their emergency lights, they are authorized to run red lights, exceed speed limits and drive into oncoming traffic if they deem it safe to do so, according to state law.

Lewis spent his entire career as a patrol officer but transferred to the motorcycle unit just recently, colleagues said. He also was involved in the department's search-and-rescue team and spent nearly a decade as a volunteer for the Tacoma Mountain Rescue Unit, they said.

"He was great to have on a rescue. He did everything by the book," said Gus Bush of Tacoma Mountain Rescue. "He was super safe."

Minutes after Lewis died, a police dispatcher broadcast a message over department channels notifying officers of his death.

"Information all cars. Gone but not forgotten," she said.

The time was 5:16 p.m.


5,753 posted on 04/28/2004 6:58:47 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog (I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)
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To: Ramius; HairOfTheDog; Wneighbor
I'm kinda hopin that Dubya had a 'come to Jesus' meeting with Arlen before the election. Maybe he made the deal that he'd come to PA and stump for him if Arlen would make sure to not stand in the way of pro-life Justices when it comes time for Dubya to appoint some for the Supremes. Arlen is in line to be head of the Judiciary Committee next year.

By the closeness of the results, it looks as though the President's trip may have been what provided the margin of victory. I hope Arlen remembers that!

5,754 posted on 04/28/2004 6:59:55 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 2Jedismom
Hey girl! I'm fixing to put on another pot of coffee, wanna join me? I'm having some Cinnamon-Hazelnut.
5,755 posted on 04/28/2004 7:01:31 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: HairOfTheDog
Excellent!

The minister that did our premarital counselling and our wedding was also the respiratory therapist where I worked. Great guy...we met with him during my dinner breaks at work!

He was Church of the Nazarene...you heard of them?
5,756 posted on 04/28/2004 7:01:54 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: SuziQ
Yes please! Thank you very much!

I gotta get these clothes on the line! Matthew ate too much sausage right before bed last night...he loves the stuff, but it didn't sit well on his stomach.

Barfed it all up at 4:45am.

Praise God he made it to bathroom, but I had to wash the bath mats! LOL!!
5,757 posted on 04/28/2004 7:06:00 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Agree with Hair on 22 or 24, based on my kids.
Although, with me, I figure it was more like 40, now that I can look back...

I like Junior, though, he's a good kid. 'Course, you know that.

Hi everyone, sorry not to have been around much, will try to be better next week. Heading to Bimini for the weekend, will definitely be out of touch for a few days.
5,758 posted on 04/28/2004 7:08:01 AM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: HairOfTheDog
God Bless Officer Lewis's family.

I'm not a big fan of motorcycles. I've only ridden on one once, back in 1969 with my older brother. He had just finished the AF Academy and had taken a trip from CO up to Washington, then down the Pacific Coast. One of his friends with whom he was riding had an accident near SF, but wasn't injured too badly. When he got home he rode me from our house to our Aunt's house about a mile away. That was plenty for

I guess I was always skeered because when I was in the 6th grade, one of the really cute and sweet guys in my school died in a motorcycle crash. Obviously it made a big impression. I can see the attraction, but it ain't for me.<

5,759 posted on 04/28/2004 7:08:31 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 2Jedismom
Praise God he made it to bathroom, but I had to wash the bath mats! LOL!!

That certainly IS worth a "Praise God"!

5,760 posted on 04/28/2004 7:10:45 AM PDT by SuziQ
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