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I'm sorry about that remark about collecting unemployment. It just sounded like your husband was doing very well. I know how tough it is in the IT industry right now, and how unpredictable contract work is.

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LOL! I knew what you meant. Arafat is under seige again and refuses to vacate his headquarters. Israel believes there are 20 some wanted people inside. It was reported earlier that the IDF was going to blow up the buildin.

[Mo1]

LOL ... Maybe this time for Arafat to start hiding under the bed huh??

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Or behind skirts. No sign of any mass Pali demonstrations or stone throwing yet.

[andysandmikesmom]

Oh, I did not mind at all...my husband is doing well, tho he works at the trusty post office(am waiting for the boos and hisses to commence)...

My son also does realize how unpredictable contract work is...so he does save lots of the money he makes, just in case he needs it...The IT industry in Seattle has really taken a beating, so dont know what the son eventually does intend to do...he does enjoy working overseas, and I think that really his ultimate goal is to work overseas for a few years...luckily for him, he just has to worry about himself, no wife or kids to worry about...and hes smart about money, so he will be fine, no matter what...

If the IT industry stays lax for a while, he said he might just try getting a job in the field which he has an actual degree in, Physics Applied Engineering...he really landed in the IT industry by accident..

[lodwick]

If everyone at the PO were like BigDom, there would be none of the booing and hissing and stamps would still cost a nickle.

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has an actual degree in, Physics Applied Engineering

Wow! Sounds like a pretty smart kid. There is a big difference working "at" the post office than working "for" the post office(union). No boo's or hisses from this end.

[andysandmikesmom]

Thanks Loddy, you are so right...the hubby works his butt off at the PO...his biggest gripe is the management....they sit around behind the spy cameras, and lurk at what everyone is doing...and then management always wants big bonuses for themselves...My husband really has no use for management, at least where he works...he figures if they just left the workers do their jobs on the docks, instead of constantly spying on them, ,and harrassing them, things would be much better...

But management seems to be there, firmly entrenched with their hands out...

[andysandmikesmom]

Yea, Andy is very, very smart...

Thanks for the kind remarks about the post office...the hubby does say tho, thank goodness he just has 2 1/2 yrs left there, if he still had to work there for another ten years, he would be quite unhappy...

[ValerieUSA]

I heard on the radio yesterday that the Irish Travellers live in big expensive houses that have the front windows all covered with aluminum foil so no one can see in. There's a house about a block from here with foil in the windows.... Not a fancy house, but it's weird.

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Hmmmm.. There was a black family that lived down the street from me in NC that had aluminum foil covering thier garage door windows. I just assumed they had a pot growing operation going on.

[ValerieUSA]

Global warming strikes again!

100 Feared Dead in Russia Avalanche

By YURI BAGROV Associated Press Writer

GIZEL, Russia (AP)--A 500-foot-high chunk of glacier crashed down a Caucasus mountainside, burying a village in ice, rocks and mud and leaving as many as 100 people missing and feared dead Saturday--among them, a Russian movie star and his film crew.

...The avalanche raged down the Karmadon Gorge in the Russian republic of North Ossetia late Friday after a glacier 495 feet tall broke off from below a peak in the rugged Caucasus Mountains, gathering a mix of mud, rocks and uprooted tree trunks its path.

Moving at more than 62 mph, the avalanche slid 20 miles before it stopped on the Gizel-Karmadon highway about 6 miles from the regional capital of Vladikavkaz. Seen from the road, the path of destruction was about 300-400 yards wide.

[Windshark]

Spank you and send you to bed early....

[lodwick]

The Guild does Miss America, so to speak

[Windshark]

Does this mean you have a sub-human medula oblongata?

Or is it something more obvious?

:-)

[Windshark]

That's why they call them the fighting Irish....

[Windshark]

We have a great post office in our town. They are friendly, and seem to have it together as well.

Can't say that about a lot of other Gov. offices around here.

[Windshark]

Speaking of skirts...did you see that Cinci came close to beating Ohio State today.....

Really should have.

[Windshark]

Yesss....

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Moving at more than 62 mph, the avalanche slid 20 miles before it stopped on the Gizel-Karmadon highway about 6 miles from the regional capital of Vladikavkaz. Seen from the road, the path of destruction was about 300-400 yards wide.

That would have been something to see... from a distance.