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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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niters! :-)
Evening!
Weirdest thing happened to me today: someone stuck a chain letter under my windshield wiper. It was in Spanish. Oddly enough, even in a foreign language I can recognize a chain letter...
Now, must get to 14k tonight if I have any hope of being on track by Monday...
I've been hanging around on Baldilocks' blog lately ... so refreshing, to find another black woman with sense.
Thank you for your service, Master Sea-man. How're you doing today?
Hiya Rose! How goes the writing? I have not seen you in a while since I've been offline in the evenings.
I'm only... 5000 words behind, right now, but as soon as I go to bed that goes to almost 7000. Ungh.
While you're quite welcome, it's only fair to insist that my service was nothing much. It was a four year cruise vacation before having to get a real job. :-)
I think I've seen that blog before. Rings a bell for some reason. But you're right that it's all about the content. Good stuff there. I like her already.
Howdy Jen... good luck on the nomorimobodomodoobeedoobee thingy. :-)
Hehe. Thanks. It's really a great creative outlet. My fingers are burning up the keyboard. I'm gonna be a Real Author someday, you know, and then you can all say "We knew her when"!
And when I'm a trillionare like J.K. Rowling I can buy the Castle for our vacation spot every year. ;-)
Evening, and probably good night - We are watching a history of the Coast Guard on History channel.
But I don't forget what the military means to me, and to this country that I love. I honor you, our HH veterans. It's because of people like you, who put your bodies between the enemy and people you never even met, that this country exists, and still stands today.
Thank you.
Hey, at least you have some words ...!
I'm collecting blogs ... they're all interconnected, and fascinating.
I take it you're in LaLaLand tonight (it's a state of mind)?
Yes, and sort of a plot. Sort of three plots, I guess, but they all turn out to be one at the end. And loads of angst. Any time I feel a slackening of the words, I add more angst and feel the flow...
Rose... did you see that thread today about the Old Guard (3rd Infantry) at the Tomb of the Unknowns? It was a very fine write-up, and very moving, I thought. I'll try to find the link... here it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1277878/posts
Honors and ceremony are not just decoration. I happen to think that this stuff really matters. There's a quote at the end of the story that says it really well:
“Some might wonder why we put such effort into this instead of something that shows a product,” Roe said. “But this is our product. What we do at the tomb has a vital place in a democracy. Because democracies honor those who serve. “We don’t simply use people up, and then throw them away.”
I've heard lots of the trivia about the traditions of the Old Guard, but I learned something new in this article that I didn't know before:
The Sentinels at the Tomb of the Unkowns do not wear any insignia of rank. This is because they do not wish to presume to possibly outrank whomever is the "unknown" soldier that lies therein.
[snif]
Lala land? More like [sticking fingers in ears];
lalalalalala Icanthearyou land. :-)
You should do that to your boss ... just once ... after you get the next job ...!
So, how long do you have to pretend to listen to the Chief?
Who-hoo! 14,037. I can go to bed. But as a reward, one song and as long as that takes to surf before I disappear. Good night!
Guards at the Tomb are required to have no more than a 30in waist, and be between 5'10 and 6'4".
30in waist?? Criminy... when I was 19 and in the best shape of my life I never had a 30in waist. I was rowing crew *every* morning, I was working out with weights and running stairs every day. I did over 1500 half-sit-ups a day in rowing drills every morning at 5am.
yeesh... even then I had dunno... a 34 or more waist. Criminy. Don't ask what it is now... ;-)
I guess I just don't fit the profile. :-)
Tell Captain Matthew, GOOD JOB!
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