Posted on 06/16/2006 3:41:15 PM PDT by RockinRight
Now, for some fun questions to kick off tonight’s thread!
1. Have you been on a date with someone you met on the Internet?
2. Did the date go well? Did a relationship result?
3. Did you meet them on a dating site or elsewhere? Was it totally by accident or chance?
4. Do you have a funny, gross, scary, or otherwise entertaining internet dating story to share? Either one that happened to you, or someone you know.
5. Any funny or interesting “meeting the parents” stories?
6. Has meeting the parents ever caused a breakup?
7. And, finally, have you ever set up a “backup” scenario to get out of a potentially bad date?
XP
Shouldn't be a problem. XP runs on NTFS (usually), but can also work on a FAT32 partition. Either way, you shouldn't have a problem with filenames.
If you have a lot of images, it's possible that explorer.exe (which in XP handles the directories) is overloaded. Lots of pictures require a lot of memory as explorer shows most all the thumbnails--learned that the hard way...8^)
Then if that's the case, then I would recommend splitting the images over several directories. That way, Explorer won't have to work as hard and suck up memory.
If that doesn't work, let me know, describe the problem as best as you can, and I'll put up a TechSupport thread.
That's a very nice picture. May he rest in peace. Your life is an honor to his legacy.
I had a good day today. I went skeet shooting for the third time in my life and the first time in four years. I shot five rounds, and my left shoulder is a little tired from holding up the gun. My right shoulder is fine which says that I got the gun in the right position every time. I'm not a great shot, but I did okay for a guy who's done so little shotgun shooting. I'm hoping to shoot a little more regularly from now on. It's an expensive hobby, but I can afford to do a little bit. I joined the gun club again, and I hope I'll go out to do some handgun shooting as well.
The other nice event of my weekend is that this little girl ate her first frozen and then thawed mouse last night. Getting them to eat frozen and thawed food makes owning these animals much easier and usually safer for the animal. It's been a pretty good day.
Bill
Hi Dolly-
My Dad has had tremendous luck on Match.com - he has been seeing a woman for about 7 years now and they are best friends and happy together. Although I wish he hadn't sworn to never marry again after my Mom passed, I give his girlfriend credit that she can go this long without a proposal!!! She is sweet, my family loves her and she treats all of us (grandkids included) just great.
The man I met was back in Buffalo about six months after my husband and I seperated. He was divorced with three kids, a kind person and good father. I let him know in the beginning the circumstances of my marriage breakup and that I would probably be moving to NJ (I did) so I was just looking for companionship until the divorce was final and then I could move... It turned out to be a very good experience and since we had both tried so hard to save our marriages, we had a connection with each other that is hard to have with others that have not been through it.
I did learn that dating a man with three children is tough, and his situation was even tougher because his ex-wife had become involved in some sordid things, and he had to be both mom and dad to his kids.
I hope he and I will always be friends, but I suspect that since we are both in our 30's, we will likely drift apart when we meet someone special. I'll always be thankful to him for getting me thru a difficult time. He even met my family a few times and it was a good experience.
Again, I'd recommend Internet dating to anyone, as long as you can tell yourself that you have no great expectations. Then if it turns out to be just "ok" then you've had a good time, but if it's wonderful, then its a BONUS!
"your friend sounds very lonely, gullible & not too bright worldly wise...I guess it will be the school of hard knocks for him along the way. It must break your heart to be able to see this happening & look at it objectively. "
You know, looking on the bright side of things, at least she moved to be with him. And it doesn't seem like he's really had to give anything up for the girl at this point. I'd give him props for having the girl come here.
I've heard horror stories on the Internet and from an acquaintance about women and men just picking up their lives and moving to another state or country to live with someone they met on the Internet and how it turned out so badly.
At least your friend has the upper hand and maybe at 41 he is just taking a wild chance. Give him support, and I LOVE DollyCali's idea about the home business. If she can't work legally in the country, then online is a good place. If she becomes a drag on your friend financially, then its time to say something, IMHO of course.
Boo!
AAACK!!!!
Gotcha!
And Phil comes jumping out of the shadows.
Unexpected, isn't it?
You are always unexpected phil...
Yep.
i'm just tired out, so I'm sitting on the couch and watching something I TIVO'd from before.
...and dangerous.
Howdy all!
Sounds like fun.
Hello Jon.
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