Obviously your problem Shibb is you just take your own competance for granted. Me though, I had my Map of Ohio, and my Map of Columbus and the printout of think’s invite with written directions and phone numbers. Belt and suspenders, that’s the key.
But don’t worry. It really wasn’t any fun. Everyone left about 8:30. It was real boring.
I was just checking out the weather that will await me when I drive north to see my sweetie tomorrow. (not you, Rue, my other sweetie…)
It’s supposed to be freezing on Saturday morning. Yeah, I know, it’s November and November is supposed to be cold. But it was 87 in Jax yesterday. I’ve had to turn the air conditioning back on. And in two days, it’ll be freezing.
Life can be so unfair sometimes… On the other hand, I’ll have someone to share body heat with me, so there’s that.
It that just a shot in the dark? :smack:
Oh, geeeez, you better smack yourself for that one!
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*Originally posted by Exgineer *
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*And I hereby request that Mac users (including Rue) refrain from saying “Ha, ha” ala Nelson Muntz.
Oh, Ex, you silly boy. Mac users, such as myself and Rue would never laugh at you for not being enlightened enough to own a Mac. We understand that only a minority of people are advanced enough to see the superiority of the Mac, and we are sure that some day you and others like you will be able to make the necessary adjustments to your thinking (such as it is) and join us as fully developed Mac users. We’re pulling for you, Ex, and hoping that you make it to our ranks soon.
Kallessa–I don’t need to add the winking smilie, do I?
I have an iMac and a Compaq Laptop. I never surf or post from the iMac because it runs so danged slow. Any idea what might be wrong with it, oh-holier-than-thou Mac folk?
And Rue, thanks for saying it was no fun. I wouldn’t have got there until about 9:30, so I’m sure everyone would have been home asleep by then. Right?
Well, I have XP Pro and it runs just fine, thank you very much. And so I feel confident in saying:
[Nelson]HA-ha![/Nelson]
Oh, my, I’m going to heck for that one …
Is it a bad thing that I don’t know what my OS is? And that I’m too ashamed to ask Parallax? I do know it is some flavor of Windows… we don’t need no steeenkin Macs here 
Oh well as long as it works…
Did Midwestern Plumbing just take a cheap shot at me? Sheesh! BTW, if you’re really in Pittsburg (and I can’t imagine why anybody would be in Pittsburg on purpose) why is your monicker Chicago Faucet?
I don’t use a PC or a Mac, I chisel my posts on a tablet which I toss in the ocean and in a few hours another tablet floats back to me with a thread chiseled on it.
Shibb you have to feed the hamster inside every so often. Do you see the slot on the front? Stuff a slice of cheese into it, that’ll fix it.
PCs are already pretty cheesy, so their hamsters are all fat and sassy.
Hey! My sister had a baby today.
My Dad called me with the news and he was pretty excited. It’s his first grandchild, but he didn’t get to hold her yet because my Mom was hogging all the baby time. I asked what she looked like, and my Dad said “about like you’d expect,” which I took to mean “like a cross between a frog and a turnip, and kinda squishy.”
So I called my girlfriend to tell her, and the conversation went like this:
Me: Dad says the baby’s here.
Her: What’s her name?
Me: I dunno.
Her: Did Eric make it home from his trip in time?
Me: I dunno.
Her: Which hospital? I want to send flowers.
Me: I dunno.
Her: Just give me your Dad’s cell number and I’ll ask him. (She added something under her breath at this point.)
Me: I think I have that written down at home somewhere.
Her: Do you know anything?
Me: Girl. Six pounds, five ounces. Two hours ago.
Her: That’s all?
Me: Dad called her a “little peanut.”
Her: <big sigh> I’ll call tonight.
Shhesh. The kid isn’t alive for a day and I’m already the irresponsible uncle.
I don’t know much about babies, so maybe you folks could help me out. About how long will it be until I can teach her to play baseball? How old does a kid have to be to understand the concept of the New York Yankees, and why we must all hate them? What’s that miniature turkey-baster thing for? Are diapers really as gross as people say? My brother-in-law has arm-length gloves and a respirator, just in case.
I’m going to spoil that kid, just to give my sister a taste of what she was like.
Ex, it’s never too early to teach her to hate the Yankees, you can explain the rationale later, for now, just whisper it in her ear every chance you get, or make up a song or story and be prepare to sing/tell it over and over.
Ditto for teaching her to play baseball. They make really cute little baby-sized mitts–I’d say that would be a great first Christmas present, get her used to the smell of leather and all. Her coordination will be pretty bad for a few years, so rolling a ball to her is a good idea, and you may need to be careful if she’s swinging a bat. If she were my neice, I’d try to avoid the whole T-ball experience–hitting a ball off a stand is just wrong–I was hitting pitched whiffle balls when I was four (okay, they were very slow, and easily thrown, but I was still hitting them). By seven, I lived for baseball. Hopefully your neice will be as blessed by the passion for the game as I was.
And yes, diapers are as gross as everyone says they are. Avoid having to change them. Congratulations on the new addition to your family!
We call the turkey baster thing a snark bubble and it is for sucking snot out of the kid’s nose when they have colds.
The gross diapers are the poopie ones… if it just has pee in it that’s not so bad.
You’ll probably be able to teach her to hate the yankees by age 2 but to actually play baseball might take a couple extra years… to play where you are not horribly injured every session may take a couple years on top of that.
Be happy she’s a girl. If you get diaper duty she’s less likely to pee on her head or on you. We had the boy a month ago and it’s been an experience in improving the reflexes!
As the uncle though you get to say things like ‘hmm I smell something… time to give you back to mommy/daddy’ and I’ve discovered that while they’ve forgotten most of what they knew - grandmothers are generally willing to do anything with that first grandchild. This includes diaper duty.
Thanks ladies.
I’ll be sure to emphasize the importance of early coordination training to my brother-in-law, and make sure he takes her to Fenway at least twice a year to get her properly indoctrina… uhm, educated in the sport of baseball. Yeah, educated, that’s what I meant. I figure hatred of the Yankees comes naturally to normal humans, Kallessa, but I say “why take a chance?” As soon as that kid can sit up I’ll be rolling little plastic balls to her and trying to get her to fling 'em. You have to walk before you can run, and you have to fling before you can throw.
If she takes after her father, she’ll be a great shortstop. If she takes after her mother, she’ll pitch. I hope she takes after her mother. The Red Sox always need pitching, especially middle relief.
While snot excavation is gross, tanookie, it’s a lot less gross than my first two guesses. I don’t understand why you were surprised by your son’s random targeting behavior, though. Surely you know by now that a fella’s best friend is full of surprises.
Trust me, I intend to take full advantage of the “I’m not the parent” thing when it comes to icky stuff.
Oops, forgot two things.
Her name is Lidia, because my sister has trouble with spelling, and they’re going to keep the annoying little brat in the hospital for post-natal recovery until Saturday.
That means the baby has to stay there too.
I would really like to go on notice for one thing:
I killed this sucker dead when I started talking about my sister’s baby.
Says something, doesn’t it.
Oooh.
That wasn’t very nice.
Sorry guys, I’ll ask a mod to lock the thread, and it’ll go away.
Damn, I feel like a jerk.
I’d talk babies all day … but it was your thread and you usually don’t like them populated with girlie talk but chat about tools and stuff!
I’ve been wondering all day what those first two guesses were about the snark bubble myself…
Guess with the impending locking… I’ll never know.
Awwwww, Uncle Ex - sounds like a great new user name! Congrats on unclehood!
Don’t forgo all the icky duty. You gotta change at least one nasty diaper, then you can torment the kid about it for years! When I as tiny, Uncle Bud had to babysit me while everyone else went to church. Until he died (no, I didn’t do it), Uncle Bud would tell the story of how I screamed the whole time everyone was gone.
Anyway, it’s an uncle-y duty to have at least one embarrassing story to share at every family gathering. Go ye and do it! 
Closed at the request of the OP.