Posted on 08/21/2008 10:54:36 AM PDT by submarinerswife
Can someone help?
Yah...color is what we have in abundance. I mean, the mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman, was a mob lawyer and does not apologize for it. He also has his face on certain batches of Beefeater Gin, because that’s what he drinks! And doesn’t apologize for that, either!
My friend goes out of town once in a while, and I hate it when he’s gone. We spend a lot of time on the phone and IM when we can’t be together. Not to mention the fact that I was a WestPac Widow for years....
Neglect is a terrible thing to endure. *sigh*
Long flights truly suck!
I hope your friend is amazed at the amount of diversity in this country. He should come to vegas one day and see the Grand Canyon.
Be safe!
It is. But since James Morrison isn't going to turn up on the doorstep batting his eyelashes at me, I'll just have to go to bed early with a fairly interesting biography of Joseph Conrad. "Heart of Darkness," and so on.
I had a co-worker I really liked. She was funny, and quick with a pun. We often met in the break room, and I always knew when she was fighting with her beau...she’d pull out a paperback, wave it in front of me and say, “Now it’s time to read a trashy novel!”
LOL! I’m guilty!
She was the only woman I ever ran across who had to pay child support.
She was married to a guy from Iran or Iraq, and when they got divorced, she decided since her husband was from a totally different culture, she owed it to the son to learn of it. I’m sure she has regreted that since, but....
She was a great gal. I wish I’d kept in touch with her.
Babies are nice too.
That’s interesting. A warning about marrying foreigners...
I’m going to bed with dead old Joseph Conrad and some catz. DP’s going to call at 9:15.
Downtown itself, at the Fairmont. All the conferences I've been to in Dallas have been downtown, though this is the first that wasn't headquartered at the Adam's Mark.
Just had dinner with Swiss and Canadian colleagues/competitors at one of my favorite restaurants here, a slightly pricey (but good!) steakhouse called Dakota's with an outside patio a floor and a half below street level. But instead of hiking halfway across downtown, this time it's right next door -- I can see it from the hotel room.
I'm in a bit of a shock over restaurant prices this trip. My *minimum* expenditure so far is well over my normal average.
I’m not too far behind myself. Dinner was a bit rich (I don’t do “rich” very well) and a bit filling. Plus I’m doing internet over cellphone and ought to call LoM soon.
Good night, all.
Your in Texas now, that is Good night Ya’ll.
wiping tears from my eyes.... “I’d rather have dead rats in my walls, than Hillary for President.” ...llloll.....
That’s an inspiring thought to start the day.
lol! Good morning, Tax-chick :). Amid all the taglines posted on that post, that one single tagline just grabbed me by the ribs. That someone would endure dead rats decaying in wall (the process taking quite some time) rather than.. The visual just got me.
This one is nice, too.
(What can you say about Liberals that hasn’t already been said about hemorrhoids?)
We had rats in our attic in San Antonio for a while. We’d bait a trap in the morning, and every evening we knew the minute we walked in the door that we’d caught another one. (It was summer.) Took about two weeks to kill the whole batch. The rent there was very low :-).
Years back, a main road near my home was tore up. The entire area was awash in rats, mice, and insects. My hunter cats went so far as to patrol even the neighbors' yards, to kill, and bring the corpses home to me. Why, they'd even sneak in the house with half-mauled Roof and Norwegian rats the size of small cats, to lay at my feet when I wasn't looking. Every morning, one daughter and I would do a "corpse mining" tour of our land so that no one would inadvertently find a corpse with their bare feet. The neighbors venerated my beasts.
I thank God I didn't have to smell these things.
Agnes used to bring us dead critters (and occasionally live ones). When we lived in the woods in Tennessee, I’d have to check to see if she had anything in her mouth before I let her in the house!
This reminds me that I haven’t seen Wednesday this morning. I’d better go look for her.
Thanks buddy for the picture of the ‘not so little anymore’ guy. I am slow in getting caught up on my FR reading. We had satellite tv installed yesterday. That is awesome.
GrammaBear
P.S. Where is breakfast this morning? I didn’t find it yet.
I had generic raisin bran again.
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