Posted on 07/28/2006 5:00:29 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness
I have some 'fit' issues with my kayak. The deck is somewhat low, compared to other models and my left leg always falls asleep. I am in the process of re-doing my seat, which will hopefully cure it!
When I had my snake, she rarely ate in the winter. I think the longest she went was about 4 months. I'd put a rat or a hamster in for her, she'd look at it but wouldn't take it. It was odd, but saved me money!
It sounds like pure heat exhaustion, to me. I had similar symptoms once when I worked in a melt shop at a steel mill.
Not fun.
well there are three of us here who kayak. Need one more for an outing and if it rains we can play bridge!
gotta get busy & do a power point for chruch. I am leaving town md week but committed to this along time ago (for VBS)..
I wouldn't be the one to ask, my advice would probably make your computer explode!
Sorry I couldn't help.
Download "SpyBot Search and Destroy" and "X-RayPC" and use those. They are both free and will do a thorough job.
sometimes I thnk I would be better off if my computer exploded. The HOURS I spend at this "machine"!
LOL!
You've seen OfficeSpace, right?
I think I had spy bot once.. Guess I should remove ad aware. If it is NOT working, no sense in having it.
Right now instead of cleaning my house I am doing the power point. such discipline. and then later will be at FReepatoon & the Dose..
thanks Phil
no don't think I have.. will need to look it up on rotten tom to make sure. I see a LOT of movies. I have been known to tell people I have not seen a movie & then once in theri DVD player & it starts, I have a "oh yea" experience.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/office_space/
looking it over.. think not. Looks like fun though
I would try reinstalling Ad-Aware first.
Do you have any other anti-virus programs (e.g. Norton; TrendMicro PC-cillin, McAfee, etc.) installed on your computer.
Another one you might want to consider is Spybot S&D.
Never heard of X-Ray PC...
Have to look into it...
avg * Webroot spy sweeper both installed & running
I'm sorry to be so slow getting back to you. I got through a couple of replies last night, but I started dozing at my desk.
I have one close friend who lives about 650 to 700 miles from here. We should phone more than we do, but we don't get around to it. He's not in great health, so I don't like to take too much of his time. I have another good friend who's a missionary in Cameroon. Needless to say, we don't have many casual conversations. I talk to my folks once a week. Otherwise, there's no one that I talk to in tremendous depth. I've lived in five states and moved seven times since 1994, so I've had some challenges there.
Bill
I know that many people in church will disagree with my use of the term "passive" to describe what the teachers of different churches and different Christian fellowship groups were saying. I still think that the term is accurate. I was in Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship as an undergrad, and I remember that The Navigators, a similar evangelical fellowship, was often called "The Never-daters" because of their discouraging approach to dating. While Inter-Varsity wasn't as blatant as The Navigators, I saw enough of each fellowship to see that their messages were similar. The fact that others picked up on that "never-dater" message and even made it a joke tells me that my interpretation of that teaching was not unique.
I still believe that if you cite all of the "be careful" type Scriptures every time you talk about dating and rarely cite the "pursues a good thing" Scriptures, you are encouraging passivity. They never talked about diligence in the dating teachings the way that they talked about diligence in the studying or working teachings. Now that I look back on the Bible reading that I did in those days, I can see different ways of looking at the Scriptures. I can see a overall view that would be mostly positive towards the active pursuit of romantic relationships. However, at the time, those whom I respected were spinning things to try to put the brakes on any part of that pursuit.
On your second point, I'm aware that I'm not tremendously self-confident and that I was in many ways even less self-confident when I was younger. I've also come to believe that self-confidence is the quality that seems to make a woman's heart go pitter-pat. The quickest way for a young lady to get a young man's attention is with her appearance. I'm not saying that appearance is everything. I'm not saying that all guys do or any guys should let appearance be a big factor. I'm just saying that appearance is usually the first thing to draw a man's attention. I think self-confidence has the analogous affect on women. The guy who is 80% self-confidence and 20% able to accomplish things will seem more attractive to women than the guy who is 20% self-confidence and 80% ability to accomplish things.
I'm not going to give any more details about specific women that I've mentioned here, but I'm pretty certain of where I've stood with them in the past.
On your third point, I disagree that I'm in the prime of my life. My prime was at least ten and maybe fifteen years ago. I understand hypothetically that finding someone may be possible, but the value of anything on this path can never been as great as the value of what could have been on another path. Admittedly, the moving that I've had to do to rebuild my career has hurt my chances to build social networks, but one factor that weighs heavily on me is that I haven't been in a relationship that seemed to be even a remote possibility for years. Finding someone may be possible, but I don't see any evidence that it will happen. You mentioned your sisters who married at 37. I had much more hope at 37 than I do now.
Finally, I disagree with the statement that my understanding of God is "small." My understanding of God is very different from yours because we've had different experiences. I understand that God and the Christian pursuit of God has been a very positive thing in many people's lives. When my missionary friend was a freshman in college, alcoholism had such a strong hold on him that his liver was visibly swollen on his stomach. A doctor told him that he'd be dead of alcohol poisoning in six months if he didn't change. He was saved a few months later. He's had his challenges in life, but he's doing wonderfully. From what you've said, your son was no more diligent than I was in the pursuit of a relationship, and things have worked wonderfully for him. I've seen much of the church. I've been in numerous conservative evangelical and even some pentecostal churches. I have a broad base of background in the Christian faith. I've just found that when an unmet desire reaches the point of becoming an unmet need, the issue is no longer about timing. At that point, I had to accept that the faith didn't work for me as it has for others.
Bill
I probably won't get to more of your specific posts prior to this one, but thanks for the encouraging words. I'll try to look at later ones if you've made them, but I haven't even hit the refresh button on my "pings" page.
Bill
Bill
OK--no Norton or McAfee?
no, just avg (which I understand is rated pretty well).
My bro uses it for the state of Ok in the division he is IT director
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