I love my UPS guy and hate my FedEx guy with a blazing passion. Anyway, I'm going to look into UPS for the computer delivery, but it's possible they don't go to my home town, which is a tiny rural community. The nearest town with a population over 10,000 is 45 minutes away. The nearest big city is 2 hours away. I e-mailed my mom to find out about UPS. If they don't go there, we'll look for a Plan B. I think she'll be the one to hook up the computer because she has a PC and knows what it's supposed to look like.

I don't think I wrote about talking her through a virus crisis last month. What a nightmare! When she first bought her computer, I told her all the virus protection stuff to do, etc, etc., but she ended up with a virus anyway. Her first reaction was that she was going to ignore the results of her virus scan because "I think McAfee is trying to sell me something." So the first hurdle was convincing her that this was serious. I dug up URLs and sent them to her, I talked her through half this stuff over the phone, we got the 5760 infected files down to 95 infected files, and then we both got stuck. We ended up determining that she should call the town's optometrist (smartest guy in town), police chief (friendliest guy in town), and high school Spanish teacher (a woman who manages to get other people to solve her problems), because they are people Mom knows who probably know of someone knowledgeable enough to fix her PC. All this nonsense took the better part of a week. And in the end, Mom spent another 6 hours going back and forth on the McAfee site and solved the problem herself. But it was only after we mapped out how to find help if she completely crashed her system that she felt confident enough to do that. Anyway, she's smart. And the connections on the computer I'd send my brother are color coded. Now, if UPS goes there, we may have a plan. Thanks for the suggestion, TheSchnauzers.

Congrats DariaG and good luck Thursday at your check-up.

I gave up sugar for Lent this year like I have for the past 3 years. I don’t have a sweet tooth so previously giving up sugar was always a little bit of a cop-out because it wasn’t really a sacrifice. But this year? It’s been a near impossible feat of will power. I can’t explain why I’ve been craving sugar left and right. I’m afraid that this Sunday I’m going to celebrate the end of the Lenten season by smothering myself in a giant tub of chocolate mousse. Wish me luck so that I don’t put myself into a diabetic coma.

I wish I had some really exciting or interesting news to share about my life over the past year. Not like M.Darcy taking classes at Oxford and appearing on Jeopardy. Or various people’s trips to Europe.
I do have a few vacation trips coming up including a road trip down the Pacific coast.
In September I will be flying to Washington D.C. (my hometown and where my parents still reside) to participate in the gala opening of the National Museum of the American Indian. It's the last of the Smithsonian museums located on The Mall. Anyway, my mother used to work for the Smithsonian so she gets to go to the gala anyway, but in addition there are various Native American tribes, groups, and families that have chartered and funded a portion of the museum's construction and we will all get to participate in the celebration. It's very cool.

I’m still living in Seattle. And I’m in the process of buying a new house which is much more stressful than it’s worth but oh well. Anyway, even with the questionable changes to the upcoming TAR season, I’m so excited that it’s only 3 months away that I can hardly stand it!

ETA:
If UPS was able to deliver a package for me to the tiny town of Tonasket WA, they can deliver ANYWHERE.

My parents live in a town of 1,000 that is the largest town for 50 miles in any direction and UPS delivered their new iMac. Left it right there on the front porch where they didn't see it for three days. Sigh.

I think that most courier companies will deliver to small communities if you have a street address (they won't deliver to PO boxes). I recall reading about a tiny Navajo community that had to create street names and addresses to receive deliveries (don't remember the context, though).

One other possibility if UPS doesn't deliver there, and your mom is going to set up the computer, is to deliver it as a parcel by bus. Seriously, I sent stuff to my brother when he was on a gig in Regina that way (of course UPS delivered there, but he was on a tight budget). You take it to your closest bus station, and it gets picked up from the bus depot on the other end -- if it's okay with her, by your mom. Assuming there's a bus station not too far away (pretty big assumption). Erg. No longer forming sentences properly. Must go home....

Daria, if there's a zip code, then UPS can deliver. The key sounds as if its whether someone is home when the shipment would be delivered. That's where special instructions can be provided, or you can permit delivery without an actual signature. The other thing is having the tracking number, which would permit you and your mom to track the package using that web site. UPS, Fed Ex, Airborne and the Postal Service all now use tracking numbers and permit someone with a given tracking number to enter it at the appropriate company web site, and see where the package is at. When I purchased my desktop from Dell last fall, I discovered that the shipment originated in metro Atlanta on a Saturday, less than a day after I ordered it, and it was delivered that Monday after travelling 30 miles. In my case, I knew it was on the truck headed towards me before they made it to my door. That might make a difference for your mom and your brother from what you described.

I don't live in a doorman building, so I have to rely on neighborhood businesses to take my (infrequent) UPS packages. Starbucks SUCKS. They try to act like they're part of the community - bullshit. They're physically located in the same building as my apartment building, but won't take my packages. I don't drink coffee, but I never buy anything there. I do sit there taking up space and read the paper sometimes on Sundays, and I do use their bathrooms, but they get no cash from me. The liquor store across the street is a godsend. They're open late enough that I can usually pick up the package the same day, unlike the dry cleaner/tailor I've tried using in the past.

iMissEthan, is it a common thing in New York for businesses to accept packages? As you know I just moved here and have been wanting to order stuff, but was wondering what UPS will do with the boxes. The one time my parents sent me something they left it with a neighbor, but I don't know if they just buzzed until someone let them in or how they got to them. Do you just go and ask the businesses? Do you put their address down as the ship-to? I never would have thought of that.

awwwww People remember me!

Yes, Daria G., I did get the second dog...Jemee. She's great. You can see a pic of her (along with my other dog and cat) at my work website...www.pekin.net/pekin108/contribute/lbraley Jem has finisheed her obedience and her first agility class. I am going to start showing her this summer. In fact, I've already registered her at some trials in May. Saucy's been plugging away at agility also.

Right now I'm catsitting for a friend. I have the cat at my house and she is quite the b*tch. She'll let me pet her for about 10 seconds and then smack me and hiss. Its sort of funny. He comes back Friday night.

Yes, I am dating someone. Believe it or not, I met him through the internet. He's a vet (which is ironically perfect) in Champaign. He's taking over a clinic here in Peoria in May so he'll be back closer to me then. He very nice and gentlemanly. We've been to the rodeo (I was calling him rodeoboy for a while), movies, art exhibits. he bought me flowers...twice!!! (I've never, in my now 33 years, had a guy buy me a bouguet of flowers!). The last time, he had them delivered to my house....my neighbors had to take delivery. When I got home, she came out with this huge bouquet and says 'someone has an admirer!' So that's nice.

Doug, I think so, ask around in the shops close to where you live, especially if you're a good customer they will probably do it. That being said, I rarely purchase alcohol by the bottle, so my liquor store guys are extra nice. I must remember to make them cookies come Christmastime.

With talk of all natural foods and such, I have a question for everyone.

Background: I do a lot of backpacking, sometimes solo, and frequently with my husband. Sometimes with a large group. As someone who wants to maintain a healthy diet, good hiking food is difficult to find. Carrying fresh fruit and vegetables into the backcountry just isn't practical. Common backpacking foods, like power bars, ramen noodles, and instant mashed potatoes are nauseating to me. Unfortunately, although I am a damn good cook at home, I am the most uncreative person when it comes to backcountry cooking and I end up eating the crap foods with everyone else.

So, in an effort to remedy this problem I went out and bought a food dehydrator. Now my plan is to dehydrate my own home cooked foods for rehydrating and cooking on the trail this summer. This way I have control over what goes in to my foods, while also keeping weight and packaging low (a must - I'm a lightweight minimalist backpacker). My problem...I have no idea where to start. Can anyone here offer any suggestions, websites, or books where I might find good ideas for dehydrating meals?

Oh, by the way, hi again. I've missed the action on the TAR boards, and I can't keep up over at the Apprentice. Sigh. I'm out of practice.

So Dougintx you did actually move to NY! That's awesome. I remember talking to you about it at TARCon. See what I miss when I ban myself for a few months.

Every time I see a post by Doug, I automatically think "DouginNY" now.

Everytime I see my username, I think of how stupid I was the day I picked it. I thought about changing it, but then I'm lazy.

How did you survive TWOP exile piperdown? I couldn't do it. What am I supposed to do during work? I'd slit my wrist at my boring temp job if I didn't have internet access.

I did do the big move. Quit my job that I absolutely hated, sold all my stuff and moved to Manhattan. I've been here two months and am absolutely loving it. The weather is taking a little getting used to, and adjusting to living with a roommate is a challenge (especially an extremely loud roommate who is involved in a lesbian love triangle).

I was in Grand Central on Saturday and was remembering how much fun BarCon was. Hopefully you (and girlfriend) and RachelRSL can make it down for TarCon this year for BarCon2. Hopefully they'll be no dead dogs this time.

europa1057, first off, let me congratulate you on solo backpacking. That's just not something I've worked up to. I've mostly gone out with groups, so even the trips I take with my husband feel sparsely attended.

Second, congrats on the dehydrator. I'm waiting until my mother forgets she has one so I can snag it. It seems like most of the backpacking recipes I come across involve dehydrating. Here's a book for you: High Trail Cookery by Linda Frederick Yaffe. She's kind of an aging hippie so her recipes are all-natural, etc. I also find a lot of recipes through Backpacker magazine.

As for UPS, they'll deliver anywhere pretty much. I read a book called Miles From Nowhere that included a chapter about the logistics of being the UPS delivery guy for the most sparsely populated county in the US, down in the corner of west Texas. And they usually read and acknowlege the post-it notes I leave with alternate delivery requests. Though I cringe at their new slogan about "brown". Blech.

Doug -- fantastic news! Although cold days and loud, dramatic lesbian love triangle nights are a drag.

Heh. Well, now, like RachelRSL, I'll just edit your name mentally.

I didn't know that you did dog agility labral. When I had my Australian Shepard years ago I also did agility but on a very amateur level. My friend Robin however took to the sport and has been competing in trials for several years now. She's also taken up teaching agility which is really cool for her.
If I ever get another dog I'm definitely going to do it again, unless I'm too old and my knees are too weak. Ha ha

Well after I embarrassed myself at TARCON last year by thinking that Doug's screen name meant "Doug in treatment" (that's what I get for working in healthcare for so long) it'll be hard for me to get the Texas out of my head - but congrats on your move to The Big Apple, Doug!!

Ah, BarCon...so much fun! (Except for the dog incident and that scary-ass bartender!) I've been saving my pennies so if there's a TARcon 5, I'm so there! We can all crash at Doug's place and complicate the lesbian love triangle!

(I'm kidding, we won't all crash at your place. Put down that restraining order!)

Thanks SurlyBooty, I just looked it up on Amazon and saw that she has another one that came out last year, and it is available at my local library. I'll be stopping there on my way home from work today!

I'm trying to plan a solo trip for Memorial Day weekend. Usually hubby and I head to Joshua Tree NP for the week, but he has a stupid conference to go to this year. I've decided on something lower-elevation northern CA to avoid having to pack for snow, but at the rate it is melting right now maybe I'll be able to go higher.

Yeah, the ban turned out to be pointless. I thought I'd actually get my thesis done if I stopped visiting TWoP, but that all turned to crap real fast anyway, so I thought I'd come back.

I was looking at TARCon pictures the other day, and it drew me back to the boards. Well that and the news about TAR5 (Still in shock....pissed off shock). The girlfriend and I are definitely coming down for TARCon 5, but I should mention that said girlfriend is now just Friend, and is living in Boston, but I think she'll still come. I mean she's still in shock from the Dog incident, but she's a trooper

If you really wanted my attention, it would have been "the ass incident, and that scary dog bartender."

I've had some nights like that.

Who hasn't?

What the hell was the dog incident, anyway? --lots of talk about it, but nobody ever said what happened. Somebody tell me a story <pout, pout>

Welcome back labral and good for you all around, on the pup, the vet, and everything.

My experience is that almost anything will dehydrate; the big question is will you want to eat it rehydrated. I'll look around on our bookshelves, since Mr Rabrab used to be seriously into camp cooking, he's got all sorts of guides and cookbooks for campers/hikers/backpackers.

Congrats on making the big move, DougNotInTxAnymore.

Other than that? not much--I've got a truckload of trash to go to the dump, (I'm slowly decluttering the house, and I've got almost a truckload to go to Saint Vinnie's too-that's the next trip.) and I think I broke a tooth. I'm trying to decide whether it hurts enough to go to the dentist about.

Rabrab - way to go on the decluttering! I always intend to do that...do good intentions count? Usually the best I can do is dehair the house (2 dogs and a long haired cat? it gets pretty hairy!...Plus the cat I'm watching for my friend sheds enough to knit a coat...every day!!).

DougNotInTxAnymore - did you just make your move blindly? or did you have a job lined up and friends there already? Either way...moving into a big city is a very brave thing!

DouchessKitty - I almost got an aussie this past summer when I was looking for a 2nd dog...then I discovered that the energy of a Brittany was more than enough for me...why would I want to add a pet with even more? I love Aussies, though...they are probably my 2nd favorite breed (tied with Tollers). I don't know if you call my agility amatur or not. I do the shows, but only if they are close and I can afford it. This summer I am making the effort to get Saucy's AKC open title (2nd level of ability). He's had many tries and can't seem to get a qualifying score. What I need is to get him to pay attention to me OUTSIDE when there are so many wonderful distractions for a hunting dog. I'm also trying to get his UKC champion title...he needs 60 more points (he has 40 already). I also want to do more obedience with Saucy and start Jemee's 'career'. I got a great training book for my Birthday (last sunday) that I'd recommend to anyone ... even amatuers!!

Or get a border collie or another Aussie and train them well enough so that you can stand in the middle of the ring and just point. Believe it or not...I've seen that!!!

piperdown - so banning yourself doesn't work. What if we get MissAlli to ban you? I've discovered that I can't discipline myself anymore. But...and this is a huge BUT, my grad school research paper is due in two weeks and then I am allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll done with grad school!!!!

Blindly. I do have a cousin here and through a friend of hers got into a good temp agency, but overall it's been a dream to live in NYC for a long time and I hated living in Dallas. It's a great place for many people, but I had no desire to get married, move to the suburbs, have 2.5 kids and join the 10,000 member Baptist church. I'm born and raised in Florida, but I'm not ready to retire and move back there. It's definitely one of the scariest things I've ever done, but well worth it.



I forgot about him. Granted, we did want to spend money on drinks, so clearly he had a reason to be pissed.



As long as you promise to be loud and very, very annoying. Cause she is. Also, she mocks me for watching TV. I need back up.

Ah, it's great to come in here and see all the BarCon fav's. Good times...


We did? Who were you with? Congrats on the move to NY, DougNotInTxAnymore. I'm glad to hear it's working out for ya.

And until you brought it up, I'd managed to block that poor dog out of my brain. Simply put, what happened to it was just wrong. Sick and wrong.

Vera... er.. Rachel:

Was I the only one who sat and thought about that one for about five minutes? Yeah? Ok, nevermind.


piperdown, you foolish, foolish man... I could've told ya better. I was noticing you hadn't been around in a while. Pull up a chair and a beer and forget all about that school thing.

Europa...guilty of the flaked mashed potatos myself, but crackers and port wine cheese have worked as part of the lunch for me. Having some cheese is a nice little variant. Any hard cheese with a wax coating can work also, you just have to remelt the coating onto the cheese to seal it up. The port wine cheese is pretty well preserved so that I never had to worry about it. The ramen sucks, but I would use any kind of regular noodles with a homemade spice packet and the occasional 3 oz. can of tuna/chicken for variation (1 can per trip, the kind with the peel off top). Yeah the can is something to deal with, but once it's empty it doesn't weigh anything and there are lots of empty baggies by then. Sometimes 'fresh' meat is really good. Heck, even adding powdered milk on occasion to the noodles gives it a bit of body.

Work that dehydrator for all it's worth. Any combination of food you like should be great.

I was MUCH more of an amateur than you labral. Even though I no longer have my dear aussie (RIP Louis) I still go to trials to watch my friend compete. It's great to be a part of it but also on the outside of it.
I've seen this too - it's totally initmidating.

The yummiest thing to happen to my backpacking diet was when I found pesto in a tube at the gourmet grocery store. Of course that was also the trip I decided to download a bottle of wine into a platypus. Mmm, good times.

europa, I grew up around JTree and went there often as a kid on car camping trips, but moved away once I got old enough for backpacking. I have to admit that a trip into the desert sounds pretty nice right now.

Wow. I've seen one agility event, and I can imagine what it must be like to see the handler just standing there pointing (although no-one did that at the one I was at.) Last summer, Mr Rabrab and I happened onto a sheepdog trial while we were out on a ramble, and that was truly awe-inspiring to see the way the dogs responded, even from the other end of a five acre field. All the various dog owners watching were really great about explaining what was going on, too.

One dog had a ewe get away from him, and he got in a stare-down with her, and she started to try to back him down. When the handler came down off the stand and went over to give her dog some back-up, everyone in the stands started applauding, which confused me no end, because the announcer said that that disqualified the dog. The lady I was sitting by explained that, to the handlers, it's more important to respect your dog than it is to win, and that because of that, the woman on the field couldn't let the sheep back the dog down.

That's so cool, Rabrab. If you ever get the chance to see the Scottish Games, which are held annually in various cities, they often have border collie demonstrations. Scottish Games are fun for a lot of reasons, that's just one of them.

We had a border collie when I was a child. The summer I was 9, I took my new camera and followed Smokey and my youngest brother (then 2) around the yard taking pictures. My mom saved the pictures, and now when we look at them, we can see that Smokey was trying to "herd" my brother from the outer parts of the yard closer to the house.

One of my coworkers has a Australian Sheepdog named Chase and a couple of years ago we were all at my office for the 4th of July. Everyone except me was in one of the offices watching the concert on PBS (I had gone to the kitchen area to get a drink) and Chase kept trying to herd me back to the office along with everyone else.

That's always my favorite part of going to Scottish Games. I like to see the dogs herd ducks, which they often do at least at the ones around here. Once a sheep got too close to the audience (sitting and standing in a circle around the arena) so the dog had to leap over some of the sitting people to herd the sheep back to its proper place.

It's particularly good, though, when they have puppies there, although holding the puppies always makes me want to take one home. I'm terrified of big dogs that I don't know (and sometimes a little wary about the ones I do know, even if they're old and wuffly -- that's when they make a wuffle, wuffle noise when they breathe), but border collies don't scare me. I think it's because my grandfather had one, and she was incredibly nice and patient. She didn't even get mad when we tried to ride her. She just sat down.

Now I want a little fat border collie puppy to play with. (Play with means "hold while he sleeps and breathes his hot little puppy breath on my arm.")

speaking of border collies...
I told you all I was watching my friend's cat for him...well, on my way home after school, I picked his dogs up at the kennel. I now have two brittanies (mine), two cats (one mine and one Michael's), and two Border Collies (Michael's). The BC's are great except the youngest one will play for HOURS if you let him. And, if he finds a toy, he will whine and cry and yelp for up to half an hour for you to throw it for him. Michael thinks he's ADHD. I think he's OCD. The other one is two and is a velcro dog and reallly calm (really!).

Rabrab - you live near Chicago, right? Our trial on Sunday is in Manhattan, IL (near Joliet). If you're bored and want to see one, its at the Rush-N-Go Agility center in Manhattan. I'm not sure of the address.

Michael's dogs eat this nasty, nasty food...sweet potato and fish. It REAKS of fish...I have to keep the bin in the garage. ugh. They have to eat it because one of them has food allergies. ugh.

edited to add that I think Jemee is part border collie...at least mentally. She's outside having a stare-down with a leaf. She's been there for 20 minutes and won't leave that spot...wierd dog!! But I love her!

Woo hoo - dehydrating beef jerkey (okay, that's for hubby - HIS food is the trial run with the dehydrator). Good ideas out there. A friend of mine just sent me her spaghetti sauce recipe that she dehydrates for the trail. Mmmmm! Believe it or not, I JUST bought the pesto in a tube the other day for the trail.

I have a border collie - watch out for their stares. Max's eyes are freaky sometimes. I think he's hypnotizing me. The funniest thing he does is herd people when we have a large number of people over. He'll walk in circles around people and try to move them into one room. Once everyone is in the same room he is satisfied and can go back to his bunny-chasing (or is it sheep chasing?) nap. He's also very agile and flexible. He chases his tail and then catches it. Then he'll refuse to let go and walk around all twisted up for 20 minutes. Ball of laughs, he is.

Unfortunately no, I'm up in Wisconsin, near Madison. But I may see whether there are any agility meets going on around here; I'm certain there are, we've got almost everything.

Europa he is trying to hypnotize you. Well, pretty much. That's something else I learned from the nice lady. It's a quality called "eye" and it's bred for in working sheep- and cow-herding dogs. Dogs with good eye can stare a sheep into submission. Yellow or golden colored eyes make it easier for a dog to have good eye.

Daria, I've been down to Highland Park (Palos Heights? one of them,) to the Highland Games there, and ever since I've been dreaming of making it to the big one in Nova Scotia someday. It helps that I'm a sucker for massed pipes, too. And men in kilts. (Big brawny men in kilts. Little wiry men in kilts. Tall slender men in kilts. Kilts....mmmmm. What? Oh, sorry, drifted away there for a bit.)

Rabrab - so you've heard the song about the Scotsman?

More to the point, do you know what's worn under a Scotsman's kilt?

Ooh, there was a guy in a kilt -- actually a Utilikilt -- on my bus home from work today. Kind of dressed like a Celtic-Man-In-Black-on-Casual-Friday look, actually. Two stops before mine, a seat opened up directly across from mine and he sat down, spread out his legs, and plunked a carrier bag between them.

My high school's mascot was the Highlanders, so I saw a lot of kilts then, since they were part of the marching band -- and bagpipe band -- uniform. It was about 15/85 coy responses vs. "SHORTS, OF COURSE!" when asked. Which probably led to my friend Sara's 'curse': "May all your kilted men be wearing underwear!"

Well, you know, most men are thus equipped...

Oh, yes, labral, I know the song about the Scotsman's kilt. In fact I 've had a Scotsman in a kilt sing it to me.

Zron Nothing's worn--it's all in perfect condition!

Useless trivia of the day, in case any of you have a brain cell or three you don't need: Why is going without underwear under a kilt called "going regimental"? According to best sources, at some point in time, someone made a stink about various Highland units in the British army adding non-issue items to their uniforms (which included kilts,) and insisted that they only wear regimental-issue items. Overlooked was the fact that undergarments were not issued. The Scotsmen, being somewhat po'd at the order, decided to adhere strictly to it, and stopped wearing undergarments. True? No idea. But it's a good story.

My aussie was notorious for this at parties. You’d walk away from the crowd to get a glass of water and all of a sudden you had a dog nose nudging your rear trying to get you to join the fun again. It was comical and sweet.
Those are the things that I miss about having a dog, but right now it’s just out of the question to get another one. Mr.DuchessKitty and I travel so much that we’d have to leave a dog with friends or in a doggy hotel all the time. Hopefully soon our schedules will slow down.

Going regimental? You learn something new everyday.

I spent 4 years in the Queen's Bands as a Highland Dancer, and I have to say that Kilts are the most comfortable things I have ever worn. I'd wear one all the time if I could. Sure there a few accidents where the kilt flew up a few times, but hey I have no shame so I didn't really mind. In fact it got the boys and me quie a few beads (and drinks) when we were playing the Mardi Gras parades. Oddly enough it usually worked at the Legion too.

Hey! Look at me all killing the conversation and everything

Who knew that the thought of me wearing a kilt would leave the whole board speechless.

Okay, I know there are lot of library types on this board. Are any of you planning to go to the American Library Association conference in Orlando this June? And more specifically, are you planning on attending the Universal Studios scholarship bash? It seems that ALA automatically includes this $35 ticket to the bash unless you opt out. What it means is that we'll have the park all to ourselves for the evening of June 26th. (Woo hoo, drunken careening librarians doing the Men in Black Alien Attack!)

*hiccup*

piperdown I don't remember meeting you, so I'm unsure as to whether I should be horrified or drooling at the thought of you in a kilt. Since I'm dreadfully afraid of an inappropriate reaction (yeah, except when I'm not, which is most of the time,) I just didn't react at all.

(Did that sound at alll convincing? Yeah, I didn't think so. Ah well, I tried.)


I now have proof positive that I am just way, waaaay too easy to amuse, by the way.

Since the weather has gotten warm, all the little ladybugs and ladybug lookalikes have come back out of the woodwork. One has been doing laps around the top of a pop can beside the computer for, no shit, ten minutes, and I have been sitting here watching it. It sometimes gets bored with going clockwise, and turns around and goes counterclockwise for a couple of laps, then it turns around and goes clockwise again. Sometimes it's on the outside, sometimes the inside, and once it did a circuit on the very top edge.

Is it sadder that the poor little bug has been walking its little bug feet off all this time and not going anywhere, or that I'm watching it?



(I really don't need an answer to that question.)

What's really sad is that when I first read that, I wondered what a poop can was and why the hell one would have one near the computer...

And that's a perfect description of what I've been doing all day.

Of course that would be the perfect companion to my great-grandmother's novel invention, the "pee bucket". Ah, the things you remember from childhood.

Ok, but how about I've already justified in my mind the need one might have for said poop can. I mean, sometimes you just don't feel like getting up. Right? Right?!

Anyway, Rabrab, I found your story quite poetic. Kinda like a children's book the way it put me in a trance and all.

I came in here for something...ohhhhh...ok.

Does anyone remember the hints on how to win on ebay? Someone gave them out last season. Was it miss dona? I forget the reason, but it was after a TAR-related auction. The thread is gone now, but I would like to have this info.

Miss Dona's sneaky way to win on e-bay is E-Snipe.

Go Sens Go!!!!