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Spring is on the way, ha! Not for me, at least until the groudhog weighs in.

Hey, must have been a real mix up at the hospital. Poor ma, first one comes out, "Doc, are you sure we can't do any better?"

I am a descendant of Daniel Boone. I used to tell my kids I "kilt a bar" with my trusty pen knife when I was only two.

Paw may need a new category for this one: "Just plain weird".

I think that's it. Have to let it "breath" heh heh.. but the fresh stuff can kill even weeds.

There was another circus, forget the name. They found a novel way to get rid of the stuff- sell it for fertilizer. The poor people that bought the stuff found it was the quickest route to the death of a garden..

Holy cow! There may be hope for Rosie after all.

Well, not too much of that yet. Only a couple of gray rascals in my beard.. but eyebrow hairs- seems a couple of them go kind of wild by themselves. I think they sneak out when I am not paying attention..

And growing less of it where I want it. Whoever says that you stop growing hair doesn't know what they're talking about.

I have found as I grow older, I am growing hair in places that I would rather not say..

I'm impressed! Nice to see at least one other individual knows the "secret handshake" around here!

Dah, di di di dit, dit di dah dah, di dah, dah di dah dah di di dit, di di dah, dah di dah dit, dah di dah, di di dit.

And Steve, I really like contesting when I can do it. Those guys move around close to 40 WPM, almost fast enough to melt your brain.. but I learned to be able to pick out call signs and exchanges at those speeds. Kinda tough to distinguish between an "S" and an "H" that fast though..

Actually Belle, it was not a real big threat. She had a way of "convincing" sometimes, heh heh.. you know, refuse da food and you breaks her heart.. I think she saw my reaction to the meal. Liver never came up again.

"have to have an open mind"

Hey Steve.. you know, if you ever want to come back, you never would have to take a morse test again.

Yep. I passed the 20WPM exam, when it was required back then. I do have a current license. Going back to school kind of curtailed a lot of the activities, so I put a station in the vehicle. Last couple of days though, particle storm.. bands sure awful.

1. I drilled a hole in the top of an almost new car. The radio antenna would not work on the car until I bolted a ground strap to the roof with said hole. I almost cried.. but it was either a mangled car, or a radio that did not work. Not too tough of a choice..

4. I sling the fastest soldering iron this side of the Pecos, but am returning to my first real interest, chemistry.

3. Sometimes I cry at weddings- feel sorry for the poor "suckers", heh heh.

2. I like to feed squirrels. They get about half a pound of walnuts a day around here (shelled).

6. Steve, I only can recite pi to eight decimal places :(--> , but Greens, Stokes and the Divergence theorem look pretty darn primitive to me.

5. I can comfortably listen to a conversation in morse code close to a speed of 30 to 35 words per minute.

7. I have eaten liver only once in my life, after my mother threatened me.. after that, no amount of threatening could get me to ever touch it again.

10. I used to remove eyes from fish when I was very young.

9. Thought that some day I would be a doctor (medical)

8. To this day, I still cannot eat fish.

A lot of this makes me think that ALL of us were screwed. Not just the few unfortunates that came closer to the mog-to-the-world's lecherous grip. He broke a trust with all of us. I can't see how somebody can deny that.

Maybe most did not experience the worst, but any good received from that organization was paid for in terms of suffering and worse of our sisters.

Makes me feel used, deceived. Kind of sick.

Yep Galen.. my friend described the frenzy on deck as the sailors warfed down gallons of fresh milk..

But I would like to know, after this little report, what is the general impression of the community? How do they feel about a place that won't let you visit your departed loved ones and friends without jumping through more hoops than a circus cat? Plus you have to be "escorted", as if you need help to keep from getting lost. What is with that? What are they afraid of?

IMO, TWI deserves any beating they get on this one.