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The Hobbit Hole XXVI - Home is behind, the world ahead
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Posted on 12/11/2005 8:37:40 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Home is behind, the world ahead

New verse:

Upon the hearth the fire is red,
Beneath the roof there is a bed;
But not yet weary are our feet,
Still round the corner we may meet
A sudden tree or standing stone
That none have seen but we alone.
Tree and flower and leaf and grass,
Let them pass! Let them pass!
Hill and water under sky,
Pass them by! Pass them by!

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate,
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden paths that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun.
Apple, thorn, and nut and sloe,
Let them go! Let them go!
Sand and stone and pool and dell,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We’ll wander back to home and bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!
Fire and lamp, and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

See also: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net

Web page for our moot reports and troop support information!

Regulars and lurkers welcome, and please see and bump the thread about our ongoing troop support projects (and of course donate, if you will)

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To: RMDupree

Nitey nite Rutheee!


3,841 posted on 01/02/2006 7:32:44 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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To: RMDupree

G'night, Ruthy! Sweet dreams!


3,842 posted on 01/02/2006 7:33:08 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: SuziQ; TalonDJ

According to the younger, nondrinking folks in the game, our whole end of the table (me, Talon, Mom, and Dad) just kept getting louder and more laughter prone. And since Talon won about half of the time when it was my turn, I got accused of cheating. However he and Dad kept winning off each other, so...

We were also accused of having secondary personalities who emerged after too much alcohol. Er. That was maybe a little weird even for my family.


3,843 posted on 01/02/2006 7:37:12 PM PST by JenB
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To: RosieCotton

Next Hobbit Hole Moot must include a round of Apples to Apples. I bet we all have each other's personalities pegged right off the bat.


3,844 posted on 01/02/2006 7:37:57 PM PST by JenB
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Guess I put the thread to bed for a while. I should go myself. Night all!


3,845 posted on 01/02/2006 8:26:28 PM PST by JenB
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To: JenB
According to the younger, nondrinking folks in the game, our whole end of the table (me, Talon, Mom, and Dad) just kept getting louder and more laughter prone.

On one of our last nights in Tokyo, we had to go out to eat because the rental company had come in and taken the furniture they'd lent Gina, because hers was coming by ship on the day we left. We went to a little neighborhood tepanyaki place just across from the Yoyogi Uehara train station. We sat at two different tables, the 3 girls at one, Gina, her son and I at another. Gina and I started ordering beer (we weren't driving, after all), and ended up the night with 3 each. We also got louder, which is VEY unusual for a Japanese resaurant, though the little, local places tend to be more boisterous anyway. The girls kept saying we were drunk. We weren't but we were sure heading that way! Had a blast cooking our supper on the grills at the table, I can tell you!

3,846 posted on 01/02/2006 8:34:59 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: RosieCotton; Ramius
Good to be back, Rosie!

About a drinker who won't drink and talk business, in a social situation, he's obviously a trickster, as Gollum would say. You really have to assume he is basically dishonest.
3,847 posted on 01/02/2006 8:35:05 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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To: JenB

Oops...sorry I missed ya!

But yeah, we should definitely bring Apples to Apples to the next moot. We've got that hugh edition here - should be perfect for marathon rounds! ;-)


3,848 posted on 01/02/2006 8:52:02 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: HairOfTheDog

I need Corin's nun picture.


3,849 posted on 01/02/2006 9:02:48 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

I saw it.

What's a nice gal like you doing in a place like that? :~D


3,850 posted on 01/02/2006 9:03:49 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

*hangs head*


3,851 posted on 01/02/2006 9:04:48 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: HairOfTheDog
OK, I need to get to bed.

-Incidentally, the military thing he's spouting is what dragged me onto the other thread he keeps referencing. Grr...I'm all for supporting our troops and veterans, but *he* doesn't deserve the title...

3,852 posted on 01/02/2006 9:20:25 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

Exactly.... good night. :~D


3,853 posted on 01/02/2006 9:24:10 PM PST by HairOfTheDog (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
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To: ecurbh; JenB; RosieCotton; RMDupree; Bear_in_RoseBear; Ramius; HairOfTheDog
I hate it when the pointy-haired bosses pull stuff like that.

I brought theworklaptop and stuff to work on home over the holidays, but I just never got to it (gee, what have I been doing?). So I signed on and did some work today whilst watching the Rose Parade.

Had an email from Rasputin regarding a request from "higher up" that came on on the 20th and was due on the 30th. I would be the keeper of that information needed, but I couldn't have done it from here anyway.

Rasputin got most of it done, but I'll have to review it in the a.m. We'll be a few days late, but fercryinoutloud...

3,854 posted on 01/02/2006 10:06:28 PM PST by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands
a request from "higher up" that came on on the 20th and was due on the 30th.

Now that is just plain STOOPID!! Anyone with a brain should be able to figure out that not much work at all will get done during that 10-12 day time period!

3,855 posted on 01/03/2006 12:09:03 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Corin Stormhands; HairOfTheDog; JenB; RosieCotton; 2Jedismom; Overtaxed; SuziQ; All

Happy New Year all my FRiends here in the Hobbit Hole. I am sorry that I stay away for long periods.

Alas, that is a Ranger's lot in life. ;^)

(I still love all of ya though)


3,856 posted on 01/03/2006 3:55:46 AM PST by ksen ("For an omniscient and omnipotent God, there are no Plan B's" - Frumanchu)
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To: ksen; Corin Stormhands; SuziQ; Overtaxed; 2Jedismom; JenB; RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog

Goood morning! Itsa new year!


3,857 posted on 01/03/2006 4:19:38 AM PST by Lil'freeper (HAPPY NEW YEAR!!)
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To: Lil'freeper

Is it Friday yet?


3,858 posted on 01/03/2006 4:37:29 AM PST by Overtaxed (Parts is parts.)
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To: Overtaxed
Not yet. Let me just say that thus far my day is unspoiled by irksome-types and by extension, my YEAR is unspoiled ... so far.

It's kinda nice. :)

3,859 posted on 01/03/2006 4:51:44 AM PST by Lil'freeper (HAPPY NEW YEAR!!)
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To: ksen

Happy New Year to you too. Stop by more often!


3,860 posted on 01/03/2006 5:51:27 AM PST by JenB
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