I am not a poster. I am a crispy critter.

[The Zontron 7000]

I am an internet java script sent to infiltrate your site and transform you from political neanderthals into a modern 21st Century progressive mode.

This is your first warning.

Do not try and resist.

It is useless.

Accept your fate.

You will be assimilated.

[Darksheare]

Hello!

Not much going on at the moment.

[tuliptree76]

Hi freedumb! Long time no see. I'm doing okay. How about you?

[freedumb2003]

Somehow or another, I am hanging in there.

In Texas and we have a freeze warning for tomorrow. It was 80+ a few days ago.

I am headed down south for a very badly needed and deserved vacation next week.

Still in school and working thourgh classes, exams, etc?

[King Prout]

a note in passing on the way to slumberland.

I shall have triumphal dreams: I just fired the first arrow from this Yumi.

There is plenty of final shaping remaining.
I must still install the bindings.
I have yet to apply the surface sealant.
I don't have a proper bowstring.

Nevertheless... I just finished up rouging out the nocks, and I couldn't resist temptation...

I took some cheap nylon string
I fought like hell (having only one good arm didn't help, but stringing this monster will be a bitch even with two) to string it
I took it outside
I nocked an arrow
I drew it as best I could
I loosed
...
...
...
holy $#!+

TRIUMPHAL dreams, I tell you.

[Darksheare]

Ya-HAR!
A job well done!

[OSHA]

Neat! I can't wait for the pics. (Or a copy of the accident report.)

[tuliptree76]

Congrats, KP!

[freedumb2003]

Buenos Noches amigo

[tuliptree76]

No classes right now, but I'm still in school. I'm teaching and working on my dissertation proposal.

[Delta 21]

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

[freedumb2003]

What's the subject?

btw: a few years ago (OK, many years ago), a study was done and it was found that dissertation titles with colons in them do better. Something like:

Free Republic: A study in Controlled Chaos

Gotta have that colon! :)

[EsmeraldaA]

Hey Tulip!
Still here?
I am now....

[tuliptree76]

LOL! Okay, I'll remember to have a colon in the title. My area is tax. However, the exact topic keeps evolving as I try to refine it and narrow it down. So I won't really be able to say exactly until after I defend the proposal.

[tuliptree76]

Hi Es. I'm still here. :-)

[King Prout]

hard to tell at the moment, but I think this bow's draw-weight well exceeds 80lbs

the arrow speed is... unholy, even from an incomplete draw using nylon (which stretches and eats some of the power)

[EsmeraldaA]

Hi, How was your day?
Mine was rotten, I thought it was Monday all over.....
AnyHoo!!

[King Prout]

great poem, an old fave

I shot the arrow into the ground - it is night and in town, after all :)

IF I *did* shoot it into the air, only God knows where it would come down... DAMN but this monster is bastard strong

[tuliptree76]

I tried archery once in high school. I had a terrible time drawing the bow.

[NicknamedBob]

"Gotta have that colon!"

Well, sure. All that effort -- all that crap, and no colon? It just wouldn't be healthy.

(That's one way to remember it!)

[tuliptree76]

My day was okay. Up and down... LOL!