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06-19-2010, 01:24 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Charleston, SC
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Been so long....
Hi, my name is Sarah and I've been away for far too long from my early retirement peeps that I felt I needed to post a "Hi, I am"! 
But I have been busy in the interim, wrapping up my classes next week to finish my bachelor's degree. Commencement is on July 10th. The best news of all is that I got a boat for graduation! She's just outside of Annapolis now and will be coming home via the ICW by the 4th of July.
I've missed this place so much as school dragged on and on, but I'm so happy to be done. It was worth it to lose my social life for 8 months, I suppose....so....what'd I miss?
Here's a picture of the Stella Rose. She's a 1976 Marine Trader Double Cabin trawler and she's just lovely!
Coming to Charleston? Get ready to go on an sunset cruise--we'll be waiting at the dock!
Sarah
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06-19-2010, 01:31 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Collin County, TX
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On the forum?.....nothing...it's just later that same day. 
I sure missed you...glad you're back and I LOVE your boat! 
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06-19-2010, 01:37 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Charleston, SC
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Awww, thanks! I missed you very much, too! Now I can return to wasting as much time as I want to on whatever I want to do! I love being a grownup all over again. 
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06-19-2010, 01:39 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Oregon Coast
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Originally Posted by Sarah in SC
Coming to Charleston? Get ready to go on an sunset cruise--we'll be waiting at the dock!
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Well, we *were* going to go to England next month, but.....
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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06-19-2010, 02:01 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2008
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Congratulations on the finishing the bachelor's. As one who done it well past my twenties, while w*rking full time, do appreciate the effort required.
By the way, nice tub for a present. Enjoy.
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06-19-2010, 02:29 PM
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I figured that you'd moved to Mongolia.
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06-19-2010, 03:11 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Congrats and very nice boat. 
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06-19-2010, 03:30 PM
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Location: Hooverville
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Sarah, I am so happy to have you back. Congratulations on getting your degree, and on that excellent graduation present.
In your absence we decided that members can post in any language they desire; it helps the mods to avoid the idle hands problem. And the forum is just as useful as before, even though we often can't comprehend the posts.
Ha
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06-19-2010, 04:45 PM
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Wow, that's a nice boat. Wellcome back, Sarah, and congrats.
And just a minor clarification: 
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Originally Posted by haha
In your absence we decided that members can post songs in any language they desire...
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06-19-2010, 06:13 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Sarah!
Glad you're back! Congratulations on the degree, and the boat's a beaut!
Rita
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06-19-2010, 06:19 PM
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Stella reminds me of the Bubba Gump shrimpin' boat from Forrest Gump. Glad to have you back.
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06-19-2010, 08:03 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Sarah, welcome back.
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06-19-2010, 08:26 PM
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Sarah! Congrats on school. I know you've been working your butt off to get it done. So glad to have you back. Everybody has been so cranky with you gone.
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06-19-2010, 08:27 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Congratulations on getting your degree. You've got a beautiful boat and I hope you enjoy sunset cruises for many years to come!
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06-19-2010, 08:36 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Sarah ,
Welcome back and you probably do not know but all political references are allowed no matter what forum !  Nice boat !
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06-19-2010, 09:22 PM
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While you were gone we discovered that the safe withdrawal rate is 4%
All my boats have paddles. Hope to kayak in Charleston sometime, home of Folbot kayaks.
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06-20-2010, 12:51 AM
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DINKS, 39 and 47, plan for his ER at 50, mine few yrs later...or not, since we bought this danged boat!
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Congratulations... or bummer!
Or is that a liveaboard?
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06-20-2010, 07:01 AM
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Congratulations on earning the degree!
I was in my 40's and DW was, um, north of 50 when she earned hers so we know the effort it takes.
Nice boat!
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06-20-2010, 08:16 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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So appreciate the sentiments! And it would appear that the forum has been well-populated in my absence but I will have to see about that song/language business. Politics, politics, blech.
I'm just glad I wasn't here to hear any smack talk about my home state's charming crowd of politicos.
The first place I went was to the joke thread. Y'all tell me if I missed anything else!
And 4%? Good to know! I work with a man who has nine foot spreadsheets for solving those kinds of problems.
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06-20-2010, 09:39 AM
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Welcome back! Great boat! I am partial to sailboats, but if I had a powerboat it would most likely be a trawler style...
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