Falcon, I’m here if you want to email me. My work addy will get you a fast response between 8-5 Eastern. My personal is a once a day thing. I’ll send you my work addy and the personal is in my profile.
Falcon, I’m here if you want to email me. My work addy will get you a fast response between 8-5 Eastern. My personal is a once a day thing. I’ll send you my work addy and the personal is in my profile.
Oops, server problems. Bet this double-posts, but I want to make sure it posts at least once.
Twenty-Four Things to Always Remember…
and One Thing to Never Forget
Your presence is a present to the world.
You’re unique and one of a kind.
Your life can be what you want it to be.
Take the days just one at a time.
Count your blessings, not your troubles.
You’ll make it through whatever comes along.
Within you are so many answers.
Understand, have courage, be strong.
Don’t put limits on yourself.
So many dreams are waiting to be realized.
Decisions are too important to leave to chance.
Reach for your peak, your goal, your prize.
Nothing wastes more energy than worrying.
The longer one carries a problem,
the heavier it gets.
Don’t take things too seriously.
Live a life of serenity, not a life of regrets.
Remember that a little love goes a long way.
Remember that a lot…goes forever.
Remember that friendship is a wise investment.
Life’s treasures are people…together.
Realize that it’s never too late.
Do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.
Have health and hope and happiness.
Take the time to wish upon a star.
And don’t ever forget…
for even a day…how very special you are.
Thank you, Verrain. I needed that right now.
TroubleAgain - I never got the email, and I can’t check the email in my profile until I get home tonight.
Today is another kinda bad day already. I know worrying about things makes them worse, but I have no way of letting this worry go for a while. I have so much I wish I could say to people, and I can’t, because I’m scared that if I’m honest, I’ll lose the friendship. In some ways it’s already lost, but I think I’m holding on to what WAS, and wishing it could come back. And part of me knows it never can. I’m getting into that mood I have occassionally of trying to pick fights with people so they leave, instead of dealing with why I’m so hurt. I hate that part of me, so I’m trying to hold it back, but I don’t know how much longer I can. 
sighs We really DO need a crying smilie…
It’s not that there’s anything wrong, per se. It’s just a lot of little things. And more than likely, there will be more than one person thinking, if not saying “Oh quit your whinning, it’s not that bad.” You know something, at this point, I don’t care. Think that I’m whinning if you want, the mood I’m in says if you don’t like it (or me) go take a flying leap.
Right now, today, I’m feeling like nothing in my life is going as right as I need it to. My job sucks, I hate it and I’m glad to be getting out of it, but it seems like now that they know I’m leaving, either I don’t exist at all, or when I do, it’s to be a piece of furniture to be moved around. I leave in one week… ONE WEEK. And “they”, those wonderful powers that be, have decided that I need to be moved, with my multitudes of stuff, to a cubicle. They need that room for “training”… However, they leave the other person… who deals with highly sensitive documents… in there with the trainees… I’m not as mad about it for myself, though moving is a big enough pain in the butt as it is. I’m more mad at the BS they’re putting the other woman through.
I was told by my step-mom last night that I have to get out of the house, one way or the other. If I don’t get a job in NY, then I have to find some place here in FL to move to… which pretty much means I don’t move to NY. I can’t afford to pay for a place on my own and save to move 1200 miles. It just can’t happen. So there goes all those carefully crafted plans.
I’m scared to death I won’t get a job up there. I can get a different hair style, change my “look”… but I still don’t know the job market up there. Things here are so much more relaxed. Will they want me? And if they do, will they pay me enough or will I have to get a second job, meaning even less time that I spend with lurker? And if I don’t find a job there, I’m going to have to find another job here. I’ve pretty much given them my notice here… I have to turn my packets over to someone else when I leave…
And then there’s the fear of moving to NY and having things go bad there… I have a few friends up there, but most of them I haven’t seen in years. What if something does happen and I lose all my friends… even lose lurker as a friend? What if my roomie-to-be can’t manage to move as he’s planning? What if I’m a failure in NY?
Then there’s my other friends… so many of them are going through so many hard times right now. And there isn’t a damned thing I can do for one of them. Listening doesn’t seem enough… and they’re all too far away for me to put my arms around them and hug them. I try giving advice, but a few of those have even blown up in my face. I don’t feel like I’m doing the right thing with anyone any more. I feel like I’m failing my friends when I can’t be there the minute they need me. I feel like I’m failing everything right now.
And, stupid as this sounds, I can’t even seem to keep a flirt going with any guy in private e-mail… or even on the boards any more. Flirting has been a really nice distraction for me lately… a good break from reality, since the guys that I’ve been flirting with know that I’m dating lurker so the flirts are nothing more than a game… but I can’t get anyone to pick up on them lately. And I want to flirt with someone via e-mail today, because it’s so much harder for me to be on the board than it is through e-mail right now. (Since the place they moved me to isn’t quite as private as my old office was) But there’s the part of me that’s too shy to start a flirt with someone that I’ve been flirting with on the board… am I being to forward, maybe? Will I offend? I just don’t know if I’m losing my flirting touch or what the hell is going on with me right now!
Part of me wants to throw something, part of me wants to scream, part of me wants to cry… part of me wants hours and hours of mindblowing sex. I just don’t know what to do to get these frustrations out.
Yes, I know they’re silly. Yes, I know they’re stupid. But right now, I feel like I’m over flowing with all of it, and I just don’t quite know what to do. I needed to unload. This is it. Sorry if it bothers anyone, but I started this damn pick-me-up thread, and I’m going to use it! So some one, please
HELP!!!
TP,
Being scared is normal. Hold together one more week. You have a number of leads, I’ve seen them. If you come up and get a hit, there was nothing to worry about. You can stay here a bit while you look for a place. You need to make a move of some sort, you can’t stay where you are in that situation. You’ve assessed your strengths and weaknesses, and have made steps to reduce your vulnerabilities. I can’t tell you about your proposed roomie. If they’re delayed, and you don’t find anything fast, you may have to delay the move. Not cancel, delay. You know I’m in your corner. It may not be much, but you can rely on that.
TP,
Being scared is normal. Hold together one more week. You have a number of leads, I’ve seen them. If you come up and get a hit, there was nothing to worry about. You can stay here a bit while you look for a place. You need to make a move of some sort, you can’t stay where you are in that situation. You’ve assessed your strengths and weaknesses, and have made steps to reduce your vulnerabilities. I can’t tell you about your proposed roomie. If they’re delayed, and you don’t find anything fast, you may have to delay the move. Not cancel, delay. You know I’m in your corner. It may not be much, but you can rely on that.
TP,
Being scared is normal. Hold together one more week. You have a number of leads, I’ve seen them. If you come up and get a hit, there was nothing to worry about. You can stay here a bit while you look for a place. You need to make a move of some sort, you can’t stay where you are in that situation. You’ve assessed your strengths and weaknesses, and have made steps to reduce your vulnerabilities. I can’t tell you about your proposed roomie. If they’re delayed, and you don’t find anything fast, you may have to delay the move. Not cancel, delay. You know I’m in your corner. It may not be much, but you can rely on that.
lurker, I know you are… and it does help… the problem is it just feels like it’s too much. And leads don’t do a damn bit of good if no one wants me. As confident as I try to be, I’m not. I’m scared to death. Everything I want right now could come crashing about my ears. And I can’t even go home and let out my frustrations, because I have to be Miss Happy at home, otherwise I’m brooding. This week isn’t going fast enough.
TP hon…check your email. And you know I’m here for you whenever and however you need me.
hugs
{{True Pisces}}
I’d be more worried about you if you weren’t scared, my friend. Have faith though. You have too many people pulling for you to fail now. I think we’d take up a collection to float you for a while if it came to that. 
You know my Email and ICQ if you wish to vent more.
{{{True Pisces}}}}
Ever since we’ve starting emailing each other you have been nothing but wonderful. You helped me through the Epic Mystery Doper Saga and have always given me the best advice-even if I didn’t realize it at time.
( and yes I’m being careful with the new Mystery Doper…check your email for an update )
If I could do anything to help you I would…our situations are a lot alike.
You have both my email addys and you can ALWAYS drop me a line-I think you know my hours better than I do:)
One of these days…thinga ARE going to work out so me,you and our triplet sister Falcon can go out and paint some town the color of my hair.
{{{True Pisces}}}
Candle on the Water
From “Pete’s Dragon”
Written by: Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
I’ll be your candle on the water
My love for you will always burn
I know you’re lost and drifting
But the clouds are lifting
Don’t give up
You’ll have some where to turn
I’ll be your candle on the water
'Til ev’ry wave is warm and bright
My soul is there beside you
Let this candle guide you
Soon you’ll see a golden stream of light
A cold and friendless tide has found you
Don’t let the stormy darkness pull you down
I’ll paint a ray of hope around you
Circling in the air lighted by a prayer
I’ll be your candle on the water
This flame inside of me will grow
Keep holding on you’ll make it
Here’s my hand so take it
Look for me reaching out to show
As sure as rivers flow
I’ll never let you go
I’ll never let you go
I’ll never let you go
Thanks, everyone… I’m still scared, a lot, but I’m coping a little better than I was yesterday. It’s good to know I have other options, and that I do have some people out there that care about me.
{{{EVERYONE}}}
“This book is dedicated to my brilliant and beautiful wife
without whom I would be nothing. She always comforts and
consoles, never complains or interferes, asks nothing, and
endures all. She also writes my dedications.”
Albert Malvino
There’s something different about us – different from people of Europe, Africa, Asia … a deep and abiding belief in the Easter Bunny.
Gordon Liddy
I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING in science called the “reindeer effect.” I don’t know what it would be, but I think it’d be good to hear someone say, “Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer
effect.”
Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988
Calvin:People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
Hobbes: Isn’t your pants’ zipper supposed to be in the front?
“Now son, you don’t want to drink beer. That’s for Daddys, and kids with fake IDs.”
Homer Simpson
“I want to share something with you - the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, ‘cover for me.’ Number two, 'oh,good idea, boss.
Number three, ‘it was like that when I got here.’”
Homer Simpson
“Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.”
Homer Simpson
“Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.”
Homer Simpson
“Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way.”
Homer Simpson
"Maybe, just once, someone will call me ‘sir’ without adding, ‘you’re making a scene.’’
Homer Simpson
The OSI seven-layer stack does not appear to have been invented by the followers of Zen. A cornerstone of Zen is the focusing on reality and the avoidance of misleading conceptual abstractions.
Alex Gillespie “Access networks: technology and V5 interfacing”
“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
Susan Ertz
“Winston, you are drunk”
Lady Astor
“Yes my dear, but you are ugly, and in the morning I shall be sober”
Winston Churchill
“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist”
General John Sedgwick, Union commander in the Civil War, speaking his last words as he was watching enemy troops during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
“The problem with the rat race is even if you win you’re still a rat.”
Lily Tomlin
“Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in.”
Rich Jeni
“My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.”
Emo Philips
“The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you’ve got millions of pals out
there. Type in ‘Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire’ and the computer will say, ‘Specify type of goat.’”
Rich Jeni
The problem with the designated driver program, it’s not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
Jeff Foxworthy
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
Lewis Grizzard
If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
George Carlin
They say that if you build a better mouse trap, the world will beat a path to your door. It isn’t true. If you build a better mouse trap, people will go right on using the
Microsoft Mouse Hammer. It makes a hell of a mess, and about once a week the head flies off the handle – but you can easily glue it back together.
It’s the most popular rodent killing system on the market.
Mouse trap, you say? Who’d buy that?
http://www.infidels.org/~meta/
Say something witty and you’ll be remembered forever.
Anonymous
Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.
Dave Platt
A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it
adds up to real money.
Everett Dirksen
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese
Former French President Charles De Gaulle
They’re multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips
on, but they take them off.
Pratt & Whitney spokesperson
explaining why the company charged the Air Force nearly
$1000 for an ordinary pair of pliers.
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the
only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder
in school so I could converse with those people
Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle
You can say any foolish things to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, “My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!”
Dave Barry
Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams
I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was, “You’ll never find anyone like me again!” I’m thinking, “I should hope not! If I don’t want you, why would I want someone like you?”
Larry Miller
Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.
Roseanne
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
Billy Crystal
According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.
Jay Leno
I am not the boss of my house. I don’t know when I lost it. I don’t know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss’s job and I do not want it.
Bill Cosby
In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women’s breasts?
Jay Leno
We have women in the military, but they don’t put us in the front lines. They don’t know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, “You see the enemy
over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.”
Elayne Boosler
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
There’s a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what’s the problem?
Jay Leno
{{{Verrain}}}
Thanks again for the humor
{{{{{TP}}}}}
I just wish that I could do more for you. You don’t know me very well, but if you ever need someone just to talk, or a shouldere to cry on, know that I’m here for you. I know what it’s like to have all the little things add up until you really feel that you can’t deal with it anymore. It would’ve really helped to have someone that cared right around that time, so if you need it, the E-mail and ICQ and AIM sn are all in my profile. Just remember that lots of people (including me) love you whole oodles and oodles.
Kitty
{{{FPK}}}
Thank you so much. Days like I had the other day are happening less and less, but they still happen sometimes. Unfortunately, I was at work, so anything other than the rant at on the board really wasn’t an option. But I am feeling much more in control right now, things are starting to slide a little more into place… The fears are there, but back where they belong… in the back of my mind. Thanks for caring, and the offer of the shoulder. I still may take you up on it someday.
Ok, I’m in need of some hugs here today. I don’t feel like going through the whole story, I just posted it here in the Pit, but suffice it to say, today has not been a good day. Anyone want to go get trashed with me???
{{{{{True Pisces}}}}}
First drink’s on me my dear, and I just swept out the fireplace.
Some humor, some wisdom, and a reminder all those body parts are avaailable when and if you need them.
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes
in my own programs.
Maurice Wilkes, designer of EDSAC, on programming, 1949
In a recent television show in the UK, actor and comedian John Cleese explained three reasons why the British are superior to Americans:
- They speak English.
- When they host a world championship they invite other countries.
- Visitors to the head of state are only expected to go down on one knee.
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the Four F’s: 1. fighting; 2. fleeing; 3. feeding; and 4. mating.
Psychology professor in
neuropsychology intro course
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
Richard Harkness,
The New York Times, 1960
Slogan of 105.9, the classic rock radio station in Chicago: Of all the radio stations in Chicago … we’re one of them.
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Ransom K. Ferm
Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw.
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Dave Barry
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Andrew Tannenbaum
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes when you fall, you fly. --Neil Gaiman