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08-03-2009, 02:32 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Oahu
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23rd wedding anniversary yesterday.
We also celebrated the passage of Tropical Storm Lana with 6-8 feet of south shore surf.
Today is our kid's first day of 12th grade. 377 days until college!
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08-03-2009, 02:49 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas Hill Country
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Originally Posted by Nords
Today is our kid's first day of 12th grade. 377 days until college!
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Wow, school sure starts early in Paradise. Guess you have a short growing season and don't need much of a summer vacation, eh? 
Will she go nuts her senior year? How will you know? 
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08-03-2009, 10:09 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Oahu
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Our growing season never ends! Our tangerine tree popped out new blossoms while I was still picking the ripe ones, and our lemon tree has been in continuous fruit for over a year.
The public schools are all controlled by the state, which elected to go to a year-round calendar. Barely enough summer vacation for summer school, with a week's break in the fall & spring and a couple weeks over the holidays.
Aloha Stadium is being renovated next spring so there are very few public venues for high-school graduation ceremonies. (Her class is about 500 kids, with about 10-15 attendees for each graduating kid.) Because of the space competition, her graduation is 15 May and she probably won't start NROTC/college until 15 Aug.
One of us will crack first...
She only has four classes this year, she's finished every day at 11:30-12:30, plus she has her driver's license and a car. I don't see how anything could possibly go wrong. And even if it did, we'd surely be the last to be notified.
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08-03-2009, 10:30 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Lone Star State
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Bad morning at the p.d.. Better afternoon at home. Looking forward to a bunch of zzzzzzz's tonight.
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08-04-2009, 01:40 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
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Celebrated oldest son's 21st birthday. Steak dinner at a great under-the-radar steak house and key lime pie instead of cake.
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08-04-2009, 09:17 AM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Went for my annual medical check up - took 4 hours. I think I have gained 2 lbs since my last medical but I think there are other more important things to worry about like cholesteral which likes to head up north every year. Went back to work and attended to about 70 emails (that's not too many as its summer vacation for most people). Went to the gym to try and lose the extra weight, cooked and surfing the web. It's 10:30 pm now and I won't hit the sack until about 2 hours time. So, time for a nice glass of white wine, some chips and a movie.....
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08-04-2009, 11:28 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: At The Cafe
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Originally Posted by Moscyn
Went for my annual medical check up - took 4 hours. I think I have gained 2 lbs since my last medical but I think there are other more important things to worry about like cholesteral which likes to head up north every year... Went to the gym to try and lose the extra weight, cooked and surfing the web. It's 10:30 pm now and I won't hit the sack until about 2 hours time. So, time for a nice glass of white wine, some chips and a movie.....
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Love that last line; yeah, "nice glass of white wine, some chips and a movie" late at night are on my weight-loss/lowering the old cholesterol agenda, too. If we leave out the dip, that might do it? There goes five pounds right there. 
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08-04-2009, 01:26 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: 43N Latitude, NY
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Mowed the back forty before more rain moves in tonight. 
Visited the garden and was astounded at the weed growth in 3 weeks. 
I have my w*rk cut out for me for the rest of this week. Who needs a gym? 
My mini vineyard is doing great, with the vines are reaching the tops of the lower boards. I have a lot of green tomatoes and the pole beans are flowering and forming little beanlets. 
With all the rain we've had, I'm surprised everything is not rotting. TG for having a sloped garden. 
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08-04-2009, 10:22 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: WV Panhandle
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The weather has been good so more motorcycle riding. DW is excited about the trip to DE later this week to see my sisters and the anniversary party for my half-sister and her husband. That anniversary is significant for us because it was at their 35th anniversary party that I met DW-to-be 25 years ago.
I only went along with meeting her after a niece's repeated harassment that "you need to meet this girl". At the time I was fresh out of a divorce and wasn't interested in meeting anyone wearing a skirt, having every intention of remaining a crusty bachelor for the rest of my life. However, she was kind of cute...
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08-06-2009, 02:57 PM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Sep 2008
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I'm updating my spreadsheet on my IRA/ROTH.
Have been thinking of converting some of my IRA or even my 401k at some point to my ROTH. So many things to look at... which is a subject for another thread I'm sure. But one thing I did find over the past few days of sorting, shredding, trashing and organizing 28 or so years worth of financial/tax documents is that I probably didn't report to the IRS very accurately. I noted in my Fed Taxes that I didn't always send in a 8606 form the years that I did a non-deductible IRA contribution and It also doesn't look like I reported my prior years contributions always accurately when I did fill that form out. Looks like I've got a few more days of getting this all straightened out...
I think I will start separate threads on "What Papers to save for tax purposes" and another on my "IRA basis fiasco". Well it's not really a fiasco as I have essentially all the documents I need to straighten it out. Seems I made more errors on my taxes back when I was in my early 20s than I do now. Wish I knew how to be more organized back then.
I did play golf yesterday though..
Life is good.. R
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08-05-2009, 05:00 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: MD's Eastern Shore
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I'm curious, FB and W2R, are y'alls states implementing the "no smiling in your driver's license picture" rule like we do in VA? I haven't had to renew mine yet, but everybody that has comments on it. VA used to be fairly libertarian, but it's sliding into statism fast now. Just wondering if the rest of the country is setting people up for the facial recognition systms too.
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08-05-2009, 05:09 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
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Harley, I don't think Louisiana is implementing this yet. They didn't say not to smile, and there were no signs to that effect. In fact, almost nothing was said or communicated. Once I got to the person who takes your photograph and makes the license, and handed her the form showing that I had paid, it was approximately 3.98760987 seconds until my photo was taken. I didn't even have time to brush my hair or sit up straight. I smiled but very gently - - not a big, broad "I just won the lottery" smile like this but a "hi, how do you do" smile more like this . My choice.
She told me to take my glasses off because the glare ruined the first photo, and retook it (with the same type of smile, in about 1.2309876 seconds). No problem. About a minute later she handed me my license and I waltzed out of there.
Amazingly, it actually looks like me. Not a bad photo at all, considering that I was absolutely melting in the heat. 
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08-06-2009, 09:43 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: 43N Latitude, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by harley
I'm curious, FB and W2R, are y'alls states implementing the "no smiling in your driver's license picture" rule like we do in VA? I haven't had to renew mine yet, but everybody that has comments on it. VA used to be fairly libertarian, but it's sliding into statism fast now. Just wondering if the rest of the country is setting people up for the facial recognition systms too.
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State is NY. There was big SMILE sign taped to the photo machine. So I did.
Passport photo at local post office was a different story - the photo taking guy asked me to look natural, with a minimal smile.
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08-06-2009, 12:37 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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08-06-2009, 08:06 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Austin
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Went to a fundraiser for Ronald McDonald house last night. It was a dinner at the local Le Cordon Bleu cooking school followed by a preview screening of Julie and Julia. It was a cute idea because Julia Child first learned to cook at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris; and they served boeuf bourguignon, which figured prominently in the movie.
I might get into trouble for saying this, but the dinner was awful. Now I know where bad restaurants come from.
The movie, on the other hand, was delightful and laugh-out-loud funny. It is the story of a young Queens woman who decides to cook her was through Mastering the Art of French cooking and blog about it. Meryl Streep nailed Julia Child's speech, mannerisms, and maybe even some deeper something about Julia Child's character. It a great performance.
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08-06-2009, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by IndependentlyPoor
The movie, on the other hand, was delightful and laugh-out-loud funny. It is the story of a young Queens woman who decides to cook her was through Mastering the Art of French cooking and blog about it. Meryl Streep nailed Julia Child's speech, mannerisms, and maybe even some deeper something about Julia Child's character. It a great performance.
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This is one movie I definitely intend to see! I'm a sucker for Meryl Streep and I'll bet she's a hoot doing Julia Child! Thanks for the review.
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08-06-2009, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Meadbh
This is one movie I definitely intend to see! I'm a sucker for Meryl Streep and I'll bet she's a hoot doing Julia Child! Thanks for the review.
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Ditto! I just added it to my Netflix queue.
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08-06-2009, 10:19 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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08-07-2009, 08:21 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Landed an awesome opportunity for where I work and myself....to do chair massages for a local police department while they play golf at a country club on Monday! Yay....now if they were only in uniform
Got my own massage, went to a meeting, ordered a brooklyn pie for dinner, and plan on relaxing tonight
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