When i took over this forum i said i would give it back to space if/when he returned ... and here he is
:D
... i will remove my own name in due course...
'Welcome home!' to all those who have found this place ... hoping we'll grow back to full strength ...
8)
Cassie, I'd rather keep your name where it is, cuddled right up to mine :D
As before, I am tickled to be associated with the very notion of "moderate" and that's what I'll try to be: opportunity for growth, for sure!
Cassie's offer to return me to the moderator fold is one of the nicest, kindest things to happen to me in a long time.
I am determined not to disappear again: with the exception of a few in-hospital surgery days, prolly around mid July, I hope to haint you all daily. Barring complications, my long medical odyssey will be over.
Moderator philosphy? Be good to each other. If you write something in anger, set it aside a little while and reconsider when you are cool again: there's always time to be hurtful--all the time in the world may not be enough to raise a bridge from the ashes.
And don't yell at me. I hate that. :wink:
Quote from: "space"Cassie, I'd rather keep your name where it is, cuddled right up to mine :D
Cassie's offer to return me to the moderator fold is one of the nicest, kindest things to happen to me in a long time.
I am determined not to disappear again:
Moderator philosphy? Be good to each other. If you write something in anger, set it aside a little while and reconsider when you are cool again: there's always time to be hurtful--all the time in the world may not be enough to raise a bridge from the ashes.
------------------------------- Wow :) , how we have mellowed in our 'advanced' years :lol: :lol: :wink: (stay around ya jerk :D ) senorsal
And don't yell at me. I hate that. :wink:
Oh, I can still come up with enough juice to fight the good fight, senor--I'm just a little clearer about who I should be a-fightin' with!
You couldn't chase me outta here with a stick...well, maybe a Thai...
Welcome back, space. It's good that the old members are slowly trickling in.
Congrats Space. Not taking any lime light from you but where is Zen.
yeah space, good to have ya back. Yer vibe is strong and clear.
And as another who is well into the bonus round, ain't life sweet in spite of it all?
i guess ill have to wait for the bonus round but yea life is a marvelious thing
how one could be happy one minute, and the very next minute everything can be fucked up. life is swell!
would happiness even exist without sadness to compare it to, Sid?
yea the great balance, i know
oooh, ok ... i'll stay in place with space ... feels good!
Thanks, Cassie--it's great to have you there, esp. while I dot the i's and cross the t's on this surgery thang. When I do go in-hospital for it, I'll be offline for a week or so, unless my recovery room is a hotspot: hell, it's Yale--must be a wireless net somewhere in the area I can hack or social engineer.
Just think: after all these years of avoiding that very thing, I'm actually going to pay somebody to cut my throat!
Looks like it will be early to mid-August: I'd like to do it now but the preop process is slow and careful. I guess that's good, but I'm eager to sign up for the tree-climbing school that starts early next year, and I need time to recondition my buns of steel.
Say, that reminds me...I need to put up an avatar...
:lol: :lol: ---- Space my man :lol: --- You just crack me up!!! Good luck on the hospital thing......... senorsal
Thank you, senor, you often do the same for me. Let's keep that wave movin'.
good luck on medical issue, space...
tree-climbing school? wow :)
i saw this bumper stick the other day:
"Trees are the answer"...cool, eh ;)
Thanks, cen.
The odds are good on the surgery, which has become routine (at least for the surgeon): 90+% chance of significant improvement, less than 1% chance of serious complication.
Trees are definitely the answer; soon, the question will be, Gee, what are we gonna breathe now that we cut down all the trees? Once out West I was tempted to answer those bumper stickers that say something like, "If you don't like turning trees into paper, try wiping your ass with one" with a sticker saying, "If you don't like tree huggers, try breathing sawdust, ass-wipe." Cooler heads prevailed.
Yeah! Tree climbing school! They teach a cinch rope-technique which includes the means to cable-up a sleeping platform high in the sky for overnight sleeping (the final night of the course). They run just outside of Atlanta, and I was set to go a few years back when the accident forced me to cancel. Not being able to get back that capability with meds and physical therapy is what brought me to the OR decision.
I'm just a boy who loves to climb trees. At a company picnic around my 50th birthday (pre-smashup) I got trashed, climbed way up and refused to come down, despite the pleading of the grownups, giving them all palpitations: most people don't grow up, they just grow dead.
Eventually though, my drink and stick were gone, so I did.
hehe nice one space! climbing trees is the way to go, both an physical and spiritual feat climbing even the smallest trees...
the inner child always exists somewhere, but seems many were very boring as children...hehe... it is especially funny to watch parents and thier generation get a few drinks into them and start acting like they are teens... pity more xcant embrace the child w/out needing a 'lubricator' of sorts...
vb~