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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:
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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! |
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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! |
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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! |
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To: RMDupree
Does that change your ideas of moving elsewhere?
You could do it, I bet! No problem - you're in a field that is in demand everywhere, and you're darn good at your job. The world is your oyster. ;-)
To: RMDupree
4,342
posted on
01/05/2006 8:45:41 AM PST
by
Ramius
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To: RosieCotton; Ramius; HairOfTheDog; All
Hi!
Anyone about?
(or are you still dressing guinea pigs and cradling coconuts?)
LOL!
4,343
posted on
01/05/2006 9:24:29 AM PST
by
Pippin
(I Believe You Have My Stapler?)
To: RMDupree
I got the daily bberry report this morning like I always do... and it struck me:
There's a few users here that get well over two thousand messages a day on their crackberries. This is ~after~ spam filters have already taken out the bulk of spam.
Fer tha luva... How does somebody even ~function~ with that sort of volume of frap? I don't get it. You'd think that the volume alone would make it impossible to use.
I'm more amazed than anything else. That's about one message every thirty or forty seconds. At that rate it would be all but impossible to even ~notice~ each one let alone read or reply to them. Any message you reply to means that you let four or five slip by. Given that they inevitably flow in lulls and floods, there must be times when they're coming in faster than you could even scroll down through them.
It's pure chaos. If only there were some way to capture this energy...
4,344
posted on
01/05/2006 9:25:51 AM PST
by
Ramius
(Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
To: Pippin
Morning! I think everybody went to get more coffee.
4,345
posted on
01/05/2006 9:26:43 AM PST
by
Ramius
(Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
To: Ramius
4,346
posted on
01/05/2006 9:28:42 AM PST
by
Pippin
(I Believe You Have My Stapler?)
To: Pippin
Need to restock my at-work tea drawer. Caffeine fading...
zzzzzz
To: TalonDJ
Quick!
get more tea!
Oh! No!
Too late!
Talon's gone! ;o)
4,348
posted on
01/05/2006 9:36:52 AM PST
by
Pippin
(I Believe You Have My Stapler?)
To: Ramius
I haven't had any yet. Somethin' wrong there...
To: RosieCotton
My original plans being scratched, it's become more difficult to think of a way to move elsewhere.
I'd love to do it, but I just can't wrap my mind around how I'd be able to go somewhere, find a job, get child care/school set up, etc - without having some sort of support system for the initial weeks.
I don't have enough to allow me to grab an apartment and who would watch the girls while I interview??
~sigh~
Where God shuts a door, He opens a window. Let's see what happens.
4,350
posted on
01/05/2006 9:58:17 AM PST
by
RMDupree
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To: Ramius
Good morning Ramius!
If only there were some way to capture this energy...
Oil would no longer be a problem, that's for sure! :-D
4,351
posted on
01/05/2006 10:00:01 AM PST
by
RMDupree
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To: RMDupree; RosieCotton
Where God shuts a door, He opens a window. Or in my case, drops you thru the attic ceiling...
4,352
posted on
01/05/2006 10:00:02 AM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. - P Henry)
To: Corin Stormhands
~snicker~
I hope it doesn't come to that!
4,353
posted on
01/05/2006 10:00:52 AM PST
by
RMDupree
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To: RMDupree
All I'm sayin' is that in ~my~ case, I've gone from asking "Why?" to asking "What next?"
;-)
4,354
posted on
01/05/2006 10:02:56 AM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. - P Henry)
To: no one in particular
2006 Planning Calendar Review...
Bored meetings - check
Alumni bored meetings - check
Jr's choir tour - check
Beach week - check
Christmas production - check
Moot - ?????????
I'm just sayin'...
4,355
posted on
01/05/2006 10:05:42 AM PST
by
Corin Stormhands
(The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. - P Henry)
To: Corin Stormhands
I've gone from asking "Why?" to asking "What next?" A philosophy I should embrace, it appears....
4,356
posted on
01/05/2006 10:07:12 AM PST
by
RMDupree
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To: Corin Stormhands
All I'm sayin' is that in ~my~ case, I've gone from asking "Why?" to asking "What next?" I'm not sure I'd wanna know the answer to that, in your case. Sometimes it's better not to know...
To: Corin Stormhands
Yeah. Is there gonna be a Moot this year or what?
4,358
posted on
01/05/2006 10:07:32 AM PST
by
RMDupree
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To: RMDupree
I dunno...I think the idea of a RockyMoot kinda got put on hold, what with certain people's plans being up in the air right now...
To: RosieCotton
Heh..
Well, decisions must be made soon. We must not be made to wait, right?
Certain plans need to take HHers into consideration after all.
*grinning*
4,360
posted on
01/05/2006 10:14:51 AM PST
by
RMDupree
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