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VunderWife and I are moving to a different shady spot in the octopus’s garden. Yeehaw! It would be nice if it was because of the transfer I want, or a new job, but it’s just a new place for the present salt mine. Even better, it puts me in cycling distance of the Chesapeake Bay :cool:

My present apartment complex has pissed me off continuously since Christmas, and our crackerbox is too small for our respective asses. We found a townhouse to rent on the east side of town for the same amount of money, but is nearly double in floor space from what we’ve got.

The last two checks to TheApartmentComplexFromHell have had ‘bite me’ written in the memo slot, annoying the manager. Tonight I get to write my notice and tell her why she can bite me. :smiley: :cool:

We’ll be in the new place by Memorial Day.

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They must be a bitch to light…

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Damn. Swampy beat me to the smart-assed remark.

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And this surprises you?!?! <snerk>

Congrats on the move! I suggest you name the many ways and places the apt. manager can bite you in the notice VunderBob. And post it for us to read. That’d be fun.

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I’m excited too Taters. I’ve already started this thread to entice Seattle area Dopers to entertain me. Everyone kindly direct Seattle area Dopers that way. I’d hate it if they missed out on a chance to meet me. They would be sooooooo disappointed!

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First off, I’m really sorry I didn’t e-mail you like I said Taters. My day, and night, got away from me and skittered up onto the roof where I couldn’t get it back. That happens to me a lot. I’ll try to make a list today and get it to you.

And forget about the menthol salmon, they’re just nasty.

I’ve been giving this re-upping thing some thought myself. I still read the boards, but the MMP is almost the only place I post anymore. Also, I’d just like to point out that Ex and some of the other cool kids post over on Skip’s Magic Board too, so you wouldn’t necessarily be losin’ him permanent like. But that being said, I’ll prolly re-up myself. "Cause some of you don’t post over there, and I’d miss you. sniff

P.S. Saturday evening (not too early) might be more do-able for me as well. I’ll have to speak to my travel advisor. (Herself) :smiley: We couldn’t get there before 6pm Sat. though. And we’d have to head back Sun. Afternoon. We’ll see.

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Already done did it. After all, youse guys are my bestest and almost onliest friends! If I couldn’t come here for persiflage and innuendo, well, I don’t know what would become of me! I’d have to change my name to FairyChatBagLady only no one would know if I wasn’t here. So I’m good for another year.

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Urr. Sleepy. If I have a nap, will someone shoot me? I guess my personal ninja will still be awake and on guard.

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I was up till friggin’ 2:30 AM because of a slight work problem. Then I got up at 8 am. I’m tired. Tired. Tired.

snore

Susan

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Wow. That was just beautiful, Bumba. I’ve never seen anyone pimp something so subtly before!

I was going to talk about spring skirts and shoes, but I think I missed my window of opportunity.

So I’ll flirt with Ex instead. Say, Ex, what if I offered you a way to work off those cookies if you stay on the board? I have to swing by the pet store to get some cat food tonight anyway; I could pick up a nice big studded dog collar and maybe some chain just for you… :wink: :smiley:

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Y’all will note that I am posting from my home computer at approximately 7:28 PM EDT. From my puter that I said was dead. I fixed it. Well, sorta. See, I was in here about 6 PM to take it down. You know, unplug stuff and all that. Well, I was unplugging the CPU, Monitor and Printer from this Master Control thingy that sits on top of my computer desk. I thought to myself, “What the hell, ain’t got nuttin’ to lose, what if I just plug all this stuff into the surge protector and see what happens.” See, the Master Control thingy itself was plugged into the surge protector, the other stuff into the MC thingy and the surge protector, of course, directly into the outlet. Well, I did it and LO AND BEHOLD THE COMPUTER WORKETH! Apparently the MC thingy has gone on to its’ reward.

I’m still gonna get my new one though. This one is six years old and it’s about time I upgraded myself a bit. This one will go to a lady I know who has an ancient and really, really about to die 'puter. She uses it for email purposes and to look at, I swear, sites dealing with cross stiching, scrap booking, quilting and crochet. This puter oughta be just fine for that stuff. So, I get to be nice and get the price of a brand new 'puter off’n my taxes next year. It’s all win win.

I feel like a cross between Billy Graham, Oral Roberts and the next Pope for computers. :smiley:

-swampbear (faith healer for 'puters)

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So… can you send e-mail with that thing?

Coz I even double-checked my spam filter and no mail for me from swampy.

:frowning:

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Ha! The guilt ploy worked!

I get to meet swampy! Neener!

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Well, so do I. So neener, neener to you too! :wink: You just get to meet him sooner than me is all.

I am hoping the weather will be cooperative when he arrives. It would be nice if he could see the mountain and all.

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I’m back from dance class. It was fun. We did taxim, which is… uh… let’s see if I can explain this. Taxim music is usually a one-instrument free-form solo, with no beat. Dancing to it means using all fluid, connected movements, no hip accents or anything. It’s very pretty, and also hard work.

My husband isn’t back from class yet. I wonder where he is.

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Why Mistah Swampy, I DO declare! titter
{coyly drops kerchief, bends and retrieves it}

How was that for flirting? Hunh? Hunh? (yeah, I’m outta practice too, although I do try and do some flirtin’ with the wife, but she usually says things like ‘put some pants on, you’ll scare the animals’ and stuff. She’s no fun, dammit!)

EX Noooooooooooooooo! Don’t leave us! You CAN’T go! {drops another kerchief in despair}

Merry, no Management’s not in mawphiya, but they made ME go inside, for a bit. It was like one of those Stallone movies, where you have to go inside and get the truth out of someone. Except it was really, real and it was scary. Let me go on the record right now saying ‘I don’ wanna go to mawphiya, cos it’s scary’. Oh, and Swampy if I might borrow from your own parlance, ‘Day-um’, cos that’s what I wanted to say, except I was trying not to speak. Or make eye contact. Nosireebob! Yipes!

Why thank you Tuppy. I dunno why I always post late, I could say it’s cos of work and being busy and all, but I suspect there’s some kind of Time Paradox thing going on here. Like if I tried to post on a monday, when there is no MMP yet, I’d disrupt the space-time continuum, and it’d mean that events that were s’posed to happen wouldn’t, all cos I posted on a monday. So… it’s a good thing I post late. Really! phew (I think they’ll believe that, it sounds plausible, and all, doens’t it?).

I better go renew… $7? That means it’s like… yeah, a Billion gazillion bucks for me, just like Lissla said! Damn economic disparity! Blah blah blah!

oh, and Lissla, just to ensure Mr Lissar has something to grouch about this week {drops kerchief coyly, etc etc etc}. Taxim? Sound rather um… blushes

So howsabout that Swampy the ‘Puter-healer, hunh? Ain’t he summin’?
still blushing

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Lissla, you take the most interesting-sounding dance classes… And…ummmm…which husband hasn’t returned yet? (You gotta specify when you got multiples…).

Ex, check your MMP participants’ agreement. It requires you to re-up. That goes for you, too, Bumba.

It is extremely unfair that everyone gets to meet swampy. When are you coming to Ohio? (OK…so my schedule is annoyingly full till July or so, but how about after that?) We could do TornaDope III (I’m sure Rue wouldn’t mind 2 TornaDopes in one year). Oh, and did I mention that I am in awe of your computer healing abilities?

I’m sure there was more, but my brain is mush as I had a late dinner at the nice restaurant around the corner. Pasta with gorgonzola cream sauce. Yum. But sleep-inducing.

GT

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You do know that I take bellydance, yes? Everyone knows that I’m a bellydancer? Yes?
Good.
Mr. Lissar came home eventually. He stayed late to get beaten more.

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Y’all are impressed with my ability to unplug stuff from one place and plug it in another place? Heck, y’all should see me operate a blender and waffle iron at the same time then. :smiley:

gardentraveler Ohio is on my list of places. I’m kinda hoping for something somewhere’s between Cincinnati and Columbus, being as there appear to be several MMPers (plus our fearless leader Rue, well, not completely fearless, he’s afraid of bears) in those places. Maybe I can figure it out soon, since these days I get to pretty much pick and choose my out of town work places except for sometimes.

Looks like several Seattle type Dopers might be innerested in a get together. WOOHOO!!!

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Fool. My Mom used Dad’s computer for e-mail and quilting and stuff, but it was too old and slow. (I think she was talking about the computer, it might have been about Dad. Dunno.) So Dad had to buy Mom a brand new computer and get a high speed connection for her quilting. Downloading those patterns takes forever without a brand new computer and a high speed connection.

It’s not that Dad wanted a zippy new computer. Not at all. It was all for Mom.

Winnie, it’s always a good time for you to talk about skirts. The shoes though? No, I don’t care about your shoes. But the skirts will be fine.