USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Montrovant]

Big drama on the board yesterday. It was like watching a train wreak in slow motion. Nice to be back in the sanity of the CS.

I hope Ringel and Foxy stay warm. Sending a nice cup of java your way.

Darn. I venture out of the Coffee Shop so seldom, I miss all the really good stuff. Would that be the thread that was closed and has now vanished? And everybody who wasn't there will not be eternally curious?

Yes. It is the thread now closed. It went on all day. Oy vey.....It truly was like watching a car crash in slow motion.

Such threads generally result in one or more people being banned. So I hope none of our Coffee Shoppers were involved--at least to that point. But alas I didn't see any of it. I really need to get out more.

I admit to a certain horrid fascination, but now I just feel creepy and sad for the people involved. I won't talk about it anymore, Foxy. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place. I guess I had to vent a little. Just glad I can hang out here without the drama.

I was going to chime in and say now I'm curious.......but as it turns out, I really don't give a #*%@.

I keep myself pretty limited in how much silliness I read on the board.

 

[R.D.]

Big drama on the board yesterday. It was like watching a train wreak in slow motion. Nice to be back in the sanity of the CS.

I hope Ringel and Foxy stay warm. Sending a nice cup of java your way.

Darn. I venture out of the Coffee Shop so seldom, I miss all the really good stuff. Would that be the thread that was closed and has now vanished? And everybody who wasn't there will not be eternally curious?

Yes. It is the thread now closed. It went on all day. Oy vey.....It truly was like watching a car crash in slow motion.

Such threads generally result in one or more people being banned. So I hope none of our Coffee Shoppers were involved--at least to that point. But alas I didn't see any of it. I really need to get out more.

I admit to a certain horrid fascination, but now I just feel creepy and sad for the people involved. I won't talk about it anymore, Foxy. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place. I guess I had to vent a little. Just glad I can hang out here without the drama.

I was going to chime in and say now I'm curious.......but as it turns out, I really don't give a #*%@.

I keep myself pretty limited in how much silliness I read on the board.

Lol...I actually called it silliness in that thread. I bailed early on...no drama mama here

 

[saveliberty]

Got a call earlier today, automated VA medical reminder of an appointment I didn't know I had, tomorrow morning........ at the Albuquerque VA Center.........

Hope it goes well. Keep us posted.

It's just to get fitted for another Borg device.......
Thanks.

A Borg device? Should I ask what that is?

I already wear one on my left knee. Now i get to wear one on my right knee.
I figure with both on I'll get dressed up like an old time cowboy, hide them under some batwing chaps, that way people won't ask why I'm walking bowlegged.........

Did you have knee surgery or just bad knees or something? I'm sorry, if I'm too nosy, just tell me.

Your nose looks fine in pictures...

 

[peach174]

Hope it goes well. Keep us posted.

It's just to get fitted for another Borg device.......
Thanks.

A Borg device? Should I ask what that is?

I already wear one on my left knee. Now i get to wear one on my right knee.
I figure with both on I'll get dressed up like an old time cowboy, hide them under some batwing chaps, that way people won't ask why I'm walking bowlegged.........

Did you have knee surgery or just bad knees or something? I'm sorry, if I'm too nosy, just tell me.

Your nose looks fine in pictures...

I think so too, she has a cute nose.

 

[saveliberty]

Were there llamas at the drama?

 

[peach174]

Were there llamas at the drama?

I don't know but here is some Lama drama

 

[Nosmo King]

Well, it's Friday! The best day of the work week. Of course Friday is also Game Night!

Since 2007, my brother and some of our best friends get together and play board games. Not Risk or monopoly, although those are fine games, but board games either imported (what we refer to as 'Eurotrash Games) or games made here in the States (Ameritrash games)

The differences are, in Eurotrash games the mechanic of the game is usually worker placement or tile placement and the strategy leans toward a long term goal. Ameritrash games have mechanics like dice rolling, area control and a kind of screw your buddy to win. Both are fun, but we tend to the Eurotrash games for more mental stimulation.

I stopped at the grocer last evening and bought a big beef soup bone for Daisy the Mutt's birthday. I wrapped it in what Mom calls 'tin foil' and roasted it for about an hour. After it was cool, I mopped any grease from the surface of the bone with paper towel and put it on the floor. Daisy went ape! At several points during the evening, she actually looked up at me with a big dog smile plastered across her face. Her tongue hung out and a glazed look fell across her face.

I'm not sure if I completed my Nosmo in Europe stories. I told you about my experience in Naples with a robbery. But did I ever tell you about the time I was kicked out of the Vatican?

One weekend while my Naples project was winding down, I thought I should drive up the coast to Rome and check out the Eternal City. I saw the Forum, the Pantheon, the Coliseum and the Trevi Fountain of 'three coins fame. The next stop was St. Peter's.

It was hot in Rome that summer, and, as the Ugly American, I dressed as if I was visiting a Theme Park. Shorts, T-shirt and tennis shoes. I approached the massive doors of the basilica primed to see the treasures within. One of the famous Swiss Guards, outfitted in Renaissance regalia (with all the colors of a Sherwin Williams display, extended his pike (yeah. he was armed with a pike) and said briskly "No!".

"I beg your pardon?" I replied, not being used to a refusal of entry in my American experience.

"American?" he asked.

"Sure! I'm an American." I said proudly.

"No short trousers." he replied.

At that point, I noticed another man, dressed in tye-dyed spandex pants (tight enough to determine that he was not Jewish) and a fish net mesh tank top escort his paramour who was wearing a white mini dress that left little to the imagination enter the Vatican without objection from any guard.

"Look, if I got a pair of trousers like that, could I come inside?" I asked pointing to the ty-dyed spandex.

"Sure. No problem." answered the guard.

I wanted to explain that the last thing he wanted was me waddling around St. Peter's in spandex, but I complied and walked a few blocks away to one of the hundreds of souvenir shops surrounding Vatican City. I bought a pair of sweat pants with ROMA stenciled down the left leg. I brought them back to the steps of St. Peter's and pulled them over my khaki shorts. The guard offered no further resistance to me and my new, appropriate pants.

I walked through the center door and around the massive hand carved wooden screen. There before me was the nave of St. Peter's. I was awestruck. Turning to my right, I saw Michelangelo's Pieta. I looked forward and saw the high altar framed by those spiral columns.

"Jesus Christ!" I muttered to myself, overwhelmed with the magnificence of the place. Then I thought, "well, yeah. Jesus Christ indeed!"

 

[saveliberty]

Watching an older Black Trailblazer with Batman logos in yellow on both sides and the liftgate...I'm going to have to Mapquest Gotham...

 

[007]

Bright and sunny here this morning, but chilly in the low 20s. We haven't gotten hardly any snow at all this year, but I think we are expected to get some this week some time but only a couple of inches. Last winter, we were literally bombarded with the stuff. At this time last year, there were huge snow banks all over the place! I'm not really that sorry because the snow tends to make everything that you have to do more difficult and time consuming.

Sunny here, too, but single digit temps. Girls gotmhot mash for breakfast this morning.

You're in Alaska you said, didn't you? Is it dark there during the day at this time of year? When does that happen and for how long does it last?

Sunrise in these parts right now is about 9:41 am, sunset: about 4:40 pm. The temps have been in the teens the past day and it's snowing right now.

You should check out that Wild West Guns joint in Anchorage before you ever depart Alaska... say hi to Phred...

Wild West Alaska Facebook

 

[007]

The EAGLE... has LANDED...

 

[peach174]

That's really nice 007

 

[007]

That's really nice 007

Thank you peach.

I stopped at Menards and bought one of those portable garages, 13x20x10, 11% off deal, and the guy that helped load that in the Tahoe said, "nice machine." I also stopped and got gas and a pop at a little gas station on the way home, and another guy said "nice tractor." I wasn't really expecting to get compliments on it, but, I guess maybe there's more people than just me that likes a nice John Deere. It certainly wasn't cheap.

 

[Foxfyre]

Big drama on the board yesterday. It was like watching a train wreak in slow motion. Nice to be back in the sanity of the CS.

I hope Ringel and Foxy stay warm. Sending a nice cup of java your way.

Darn. I venture out of the Coffee Shop so seldom, I miss all the really good stuff. Would that be the thread that was closed and has now vanished? And everybody who wasn't there will not be eternally curious?

Yes. It is the thread now closed. It went on all day. Oy vey.....It truly was like watching a car crash in slow motion.

Such threads generally result in one or more people being banned. So I hope none of our Coffee Shoppers were involved--at least to that point. But alas I didn't see any of it. I really need to get out more.

I admit to a certain horrid fascination, but now I just feel creepy and sad for the people involved. I won't talk about it anymore, Foxy. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place. I guess I had to vent a little. Just glad I can hang out here without the drama.

I can relate to how you're feeling as I have experienced much the same when people I generally think a lot of completely wig out and things go sour in a hurry. Especially when it gets really angry and hurtful. But, within reasonable limits which almost all of us seem to have a good sense of, I never want the Coffee Shop to be a place where folks can't be themselves. But I agree that drama is not what I want for the Coffee Shop and I do try to distance myself from it elsewhere as much as possible.

 

[Ringel05]

Made it back in one piece, I'm exhausted. Hit icy conditions going over Raton Pass then heavy fog from Springer to Wagon Mound and for some strange reason had to stop ever 45 minutes to pee so I ended up being 20 minutes late for my 20 minute appointment....... Had to wait 40 minutes but they were cool about it and saw me.
Drove around Albuquerque for a while had lunch at Freddy's then up to Santa Fe for a while before heading home.

 

[Ernie S.]

I feel like I got run over by a truck. Stomach cramps, indistinguishable fluid coming from both ends and everything but the nail on my left index finger, hurts.

Oh! One of the dogs must have brought it a tick. I pulled one off the inside of my knee last night. I'm just waiting for a bulls eye rash to appear.

 

[Noomi]

I feel like I got run over by a truck. Stomach cramps, indistinguishable fluid coming from both ends and everything but the nail on my left index finger, hurts.

Oh! One of the dogs must have brought it a tick. I pulled one off the inside of my knee last night. I'm just waiting for a bulls eye rash to appear.

You should get yourself checked Ernie, just in case.

 

[Noomi]

Have an appointment tomorrow to be shown how to fit my new contact lenses. I am getting new glasses as well, the contacts I will use mainly for karate tournaments. I get the new glasses next week.

Last week when my mates and I wen to Inflatable World, I ended up with a pretty nasty burn on my elbow, which I found out was a second degree superficial partial thickness burn. Long name eh? That's according to google and the pharmacist I decided to go and see. I have been looking after it, keeping it covered, changing the dressing daily, and I removed it today to have a look at it, and it has almost healed! It is still quite deep a wound, but fresh skin is growing quite nicely around the edges so I think I might leave the dressing off for now. Its no longer an open wound, thank goodness.

Hope all is well with everyone.

Ouch! Sounds painful! How did that happen?

Took a slide down one of the bouncy castles and didn't lift my arms up. Its a really severe friction burn that unfortunately went quite deep, but thankfully, won't leave any scarring. I took good care of it, did the right thing, and its healing well.

 

[Ernie S.]

I will if I develop the rash. My ex has chronic Lymes'. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

 

[007]

I feel like I got run over by a truck. Stomach cramps, indistinguishable fluid coming from both ends and everything but the nail on my left index finger, hurts.

Oh! One of the dogs must have brought it a tick. I pulled one off the inside of my knee last night. I'm just waiting for a bulls eye rash to appear.

You need to get yourself in and get a shot, bro.

 

[Sherry]

That's really nice 007

Thank you peach.

I stopped at Menards and bought one of those portable garages, 13x20x10, 11% off deal, and the guy that helped load that in the Tahoe said, "nice machine." I also stopped and got gas and a pop at a little gas station on the way home, and another guy said "nice tractor." I wasn't really expecting to get compliments on it, but, I guess maybe there's more people than just me that likes a nice John Deere. It certainly wasn't cheap.

Another human being who says "pop"...everyone here says "soda", and it will never feel natural for that word to come off my lips.