What did they do to deserve this?

Being born a dumb@ss.

 

Rip em then!

Being nice because it is the holidays is a lame excuse anyways!

 

I did.  I love calling Cali in the middle of their day and ruining someone elses!  >:D

What did they do to deserve this?

Being born a dumb@ss.

 

Rip em then!

Being nice because it is the holidays is a lame excuse anyways!

 

I did. I love calling Cali in the middle of their day and ruining someone elses! >:D

 

As long as its not my day you're ruining then it doesnt bother me!

What did they do to deserve this?

Being born a dumb@ss.

 

Rip em then!

Being nice because it is the holidays is a lame excuse anyways!

 

I did.  I love calling Cali in the middle of their day and ruining someone elses!  >:D

 

As long as its not my day you're ruining then it doesnt bother me!

 

His boss, who I greatly respect, called me to discuss the "error" and "leak".

 

When I tell people to do something I expect you to do it as instructed.  They dont keep me here because I'm cute, they keep me here because I'm smart!

:whip:

They dont keep me here because I'm cute, they keep me here because I'm smart!

 

THAT'S for sure!  :laugh:

They dont keep me here because I'm cute, they keep me here because I'm smart!

 

THAT'S for sure!  :laugh:

 

I had gifts hidden at my parent and I found this the other day when I was pulling things out.  I didn't see it when I hiding things.

 

 

God, I wish Higbee's was still around.  :'(

 

 

^ Cute bear!  It reminds of the "Lazzie Bear" that the department store Lazarus had for a few years in the 80s. 

 

Hmmm...I wonder what happened to my Lazzie Bear...

Guys, I need help.  I'm completely head over heals for Cincinnati.  I want to be there every moment of every day, and I've had this feeling for 3+ years now.  I just have 1.5 more years of school to go...I can't focus on my education when I'm thinking of running away to Cincy all the time. 

 

My two current options are:

 

1) Completely write off Cincy and forget about the place

 

2) Get a sugar daddy there and spend a weekend there every three months, calling it my second home.  (Personal favorite solution ;) )

 

3) .....help me fill this one in...

 

 

Guys, I need help.  I'm completely head over heals for Cincinnati.  I want to be there every moment of every day, and I've had this feeling for 3+ years now.  I just have 1.5 more years of school to go...I can't focus on my education when I'm thinking of running away to Cincy all the time. 

 

My two current options are:

 

1) Completely write off Cincy and forget about the place

 

2) Get a sugar daddy there and spend a weekend there every three months, calling it my second home.  (Personal favorite solution ;) )

 

3) .....help me fill this one in...

 

 

 

Better yet, how about option no. 4. 

 

[*]Give up this Cinci wet dream

[*]You're too old and have too much mileage to be a "boy toy"  [hey I don't make it up, I just report it]

[*]I know some boys who will fill in your blank!

Now get back to class and make it on your own.  No man will take care of you!  Didn't you read waiting to exhale?!

Its just a city.  Get over it.  Serious people go where the opportunities are.

The key to moving to a city where you want to be is knowing somebody in your career field that works there.

The A potential key to moving to a city where you want to be is knowing somebody in your career field that works there.

 

Fixed that for you.

I think it's about 95% of your effort in getting a job out of college is networking.  That remaining 5% is the resume.  IMO, the numbers switch places once you become experienced and people care less about who you know, but what you can do for the company based on your many years of experience.

 

 

... You're too old and have too much mileage to be a "boy toy"  [hey I don't make it up, I just report it] ...

 

"Old" is a relative term. Heck, from where I look at things, MTS is practically a whippersnapper! :wink:

... You're too old and have too much mileage to be a "boy toy"  [hey I don't make it up, I just report it] ...

 

"Old" is a relative term. Heck, from where I look at things, MTS is practically a whippersnapper! ;)

 

True, but I'm not looking for a sugar daddy.  No man can take care of me!  In sugar Daddy world, ProkNo5 is too old.

 

[*]Give up this Cinci wet dream

[*]You're too old and have too much mileage to be a "boy toy" [hey I don't make it up, I just report it]

[*]I know some boys who will fill in your blank!

Now get back to class and make it on your own. No man will take care of you! Didn't you read waiting to exhale?!

 

Ouch, MTS.  You're harsh.  I can get a sugar daddy if I want.  But just in case, I might have to check out your option #3.  I am looking for a place to stay in Indianapolis in two nights :cough cough: Atlas ;)

I wish just once, that the snow blower would start the first night I need it to.

 

I'm pretty sure my sister's Twigbee bear is sitting around my parents basement.  I believe it's a 1988 one.

I wish just once, that the snow blower would start the first night I need it to.

 

I know the feeling. Although mine was stolen two years ago (13 years old and worn out, hoping to get one more winter out of it - thief got what he deserved) I dealt with that whenever I got careless about putting it away the previous spring.

 

If I took the time to drain the gas and empty the carburetor bowl when putting it away, and then started the new season with fresh gas, it always would start on the first or second pull. If I didn't drain it in the spring, I'd end up draining it and flushing it in the driveway in freezing weather, not a pleasant task.

I had to pull the cord like three times to get that damn thing running! :whip:  I started the walkways, then it stopped.  I couldn't figure out why it stopped.  Then about 10 minutes later my Dad yells out, "Put some gas in it ya big dummy!"  It worked.

Like I say about most of the south, "move along, nothing to see here!"

 

I overheard some people talking and one guy said Atlanta is a "black paradise". Some girl asked him why that is and he said they have a black hooters and then mentioned "slushies with alcohol in the underground".

 

If it weren't for media like BET and Def Jam South do you think Atlanta would be nearly as popular for black folks?

 

It seems like they love Atlanta like white folks love LA.

 

Like I say about most of the south, "move along, nothing to see here!"

 

I overheard some people talking and one guy said Atlanta is a "black paradise". Some girl asked him why that is and he said they have a black hooters and then mentioned "slushies with alcohol in the underground".

 

If it weren't for media like BET and Def Jam South do you think Atlanta would be nearly as popular for black folks?

 

It seems like they love Atlanta like white folks love LA.

 

 

That's "Black Mecca"  It's no mecca.  ATL has two of the most well known HBC and the city was dirt cheap back when the Olympics came.  Business banded together to bring black entrepreneurs to ATL.  Houston, at the time, was the place for black americans to move.  The train of black cities to live  went DC then Houston then ATL, now some are saying CLT will follow ATL. 

 

BET is in DC and Def Jam has only been in ATL for a short time so that has nothing to do with it.  It's more the idea that freaknik and the "new south" were marketed and appealed to blacks.  People move to ATL in the late 80's and early 90's because cheap labor was leaving the north and ATL was super cheap, young and fun.

My Dads Frenemies have returned.

 

 

He hates geese!

I'll second that! They're nothing but nasty, aggressive, flying poop machines. They crap all over everything, and their poop can be host to disease-causing organisms. During nesting season they attack anyone who encroaches on what they consider to be their turf. They stake areas along our Rivergreenway, cover the path with poop, and chase walkers, skaters, and bicyclists.

3.5 hours late, but what the heck.

Happy New Year UrbanOhio!!!

When I was growing up I found that if you capture a Canadian Goose and release it that they tell all their friends and don't show up in your yard for 2-3 months.  If you corner them they'll eventually give up and play dead.  All you need is a stick (to assist in corralling) of sufficient length but not too long that you can't effectively swing it about to counter the juking of the goose, and some obstacles like a house and a tree-line  so that the goose feels it can only take off by getting around you.

I'll second that! They're nothing but nasty, aggressive, flying poop machines. They crap all over everything, and their poop can be host to disease-causing organisms. During nesting season they attack anyone who encroaches on what they consider to be their turf. They stake areas along our Rivergreenway, cover the path with poop, and chase walkers, skaters, and bicyclists.

 

I'll second that! They're nothing but nasty, aggressive, flying poop machines. They crap all over everything, and their poop can be host to disease-causing organisms. During nesting season they attack anyone who encroaches on what they consider to be their turf. They stake areas along our Rivergreenway, cover the path with poop, and chase walkers, skaters, and bicyclists.

 

They pee everywhere, the snow in the front is all yellow and green (their poop is green or dark green/black) and their "hiss" sounds like a bears roar.  I hated their noise the most when I lived with my parents.  We had an upstairs balcony and they would land there and it would drive me nuts!

 

My father is very protective of his lawn.  My brother and I could never walk or play on the front lawn.  The paper boy cut across our lawn (hell as big as the yards are I would too) and my father watched him do it on several days.  One day my father open the front door as he was dropping the paper and chastised him for wearing a path in the grass.  ::)  The kid was terrified.

 

My father cannot stand the geese.  They come in packs.  If you dont shoo them away they return with friends.  My mom said my dad was out on the lawn with the remains of the turkey yelling at the geese, "You see what happened to the Turkey?  Any one of you could be next!"  She said it was so funny.  But neither of them realized why the geese showed up.  My youngest nephew (who we call "nature boy") came over.  He wants to be a vega-tanarian (when he was younger he couldn't pronounce veterinarian) he had the day old bread from his house and came to get it from our house so that he could go to the lake and feed the birds.  Hes worried they don't get enough food in winter.

 

Not knowing my nephew was around.  My father couldn't understand why they would be so far away from the lake so early in the year.  They usually don't venture far away from the water until right before the chicks are born.  My nephew saw some in the neighbors yard when he was on the way out.  So he gave them some bread.  Next thing he knew 10 birds (ducks, seagulls and more geese) showed up.  In an effort to get them back to the lake he left crumbs, which brought more birds to the front lawn.  That set of my dad's "lawndar".  My father sees my nephew feeding them and goes off.

 

Rob, geese are territorial, but nothing is worse than Swans.  They take the cake.  A couple attacked my nephew and niece.  They were 3/4 or 4/5, I know that they weren't in school yet, so they were about the same height/size as a sitting swan.  They made a nest at the end of our side yard and one day the kids were out playing and saw the nest.  So they came running into tell my mom.  The three of them go out so my mom could see where the nest is, because she didn't believe them.  She said there as big as day, hidden in the green bushes was a big white swan on a nest.  It was camouflaged in the snow on the bushes and the ground.  My mom said she wouldn't have even seen it.  They go back in and my mom gives them so bread so they can feed it.  She calls the city and asks what they should do.  They go back out and apparently my niece go to close with the bread and the bird on the nest charged her and knocked her down.  As my mom was running toward the bird another bird come out of nowhere and joins in on the attack.  So they run back to the house and the birds grab all the bread and stand guard on the nest.  My mom was like it was unreal.  The shaker lakes people were like, they've just laid eggs, so the nest couldn't be moved.  Next thing you know, there are 6 gooslings making noise.  My nephew finally wore them down and was able to get close enough to touch them without being harmed.

 

These swans were from Bratenhal, but could make a nest on Shaker Lakes because the dominate swans already had territories, so the female took refuge where she could as she was about lay eggs.  One day they disappeared and were later found on green lake.  Thats a long walk for little chicks.  The rangers think they followed the golf course to the park as it was a safe route with no activity.

 

Happy National Hangover Day!

 

I'm watching the Kardashians.

When I was growing up I found that if you capture a Canadian Goose and release it that they tell all their friends and don't show up in your yard for 2-3 months.  If you corner them they'll eventually give up and play dead.  All you need is a stick (to assist in corralling) of sufficient length but not too long that you can't effectively swing it about to counter the juking of the goose, and some obstacles like a house and a tree-line  so that the goose feels it can only take off by getting around you.

 

The geese and swan in the Shaker Lakes traditionally come at the same time, so there is not stopping them.  Plus the golf courses provided refuge.

Happy National Hangover Day!

 

I made it til midnight.  With a 7 month old baby, this is no easy feat.

Happy National Hangover Day!

 

I made it til midnight.  With a 7 month old baby, this is no easy feat.

 

So the baby was up later than you were?  LOL

How about a new reality show starring MTS's family?  I want credit for the idea.

 

You really have it all within 1 large family!

 

Multi-racial

Multi-sexual

Multi-lingual

Crazy in-laws

Eastside

Westside

Insanity

Sanity...  Oh-never mind

 

How about a new reality show starring MTS's family?  I want credit for the idea.

 

You really have it all within 1 large family!

 

Multi-racial

Multi-sexual

Multi-lingual

Crazy in-laws

Eastside

Westside

Insanity

Sanity...  Oh-never mind

 

That would be difficult. Too many people (I'm one of 31 cousins) and too many story lines.  My grandfather alone would need his own show!

 

Especially now that my nephew is playing with fire!  Last week while at my parents house we had a "discussion" on skinny jeans.  So when he was in the shower I threw away his jeans.

 

So this morning I go into my bathroom and there is a note saying my rubber ducky has been kidnapped!  I've had that duck longer than he's been alive.  If that duck is harmed in any way, he'll be buried in the end-zone at the new giants stadium!

 

BTW, I think UO in Greece would be a great reality show!

You mean one about gay guys pretending to be straight?

Especially now that my nephew is playing with fire!  Last week while at my parents house we had a "discussion" on skinny jeans.  So when he was in the shower I threw away his jeans.

 

So this morning I go into my bathroom and there is a note saying my rubber ducky has been kidnapped!  I've had that duck longer than he's been alive.  If that duck is harmed in any way, he'll be buried in the end-zone at the new giants stadium!

 

BTW, I think UO in Greece would be a great reality show!

 

That's what you get for throwing away his clothes!!

Especially now that my nephew is playing with fire!  Last week while at my parents house we had a "discussion" on skinny jeans.  So when he was in the shower I threw away his jeans.

 

So this morning I go into my bathroom and there is a note saying my rubber ducky has been kidnapped!  I've had that duck longer than he's been alive.  If that duck is harmed in any way, he'll be buried in the end-zone at the new giants stadium!

 

BTW, I think UO in Greece would be a great reality show!

 

That's what you get for throwing away his clothes!!

 

Please I did him a favor!  If he keeps it up he'll be staying at the hotel with his mother!  Besides, it's not like I threw him away!

If he was smart, he would find a similar rubber ducky and slowly dismember it, mailing you each little part until he gets his jeans back!

If he was smart, he would find a similar rubber ducky and slowly dismember it, mailing you each little part until he gets his jeans back!

 

We saw that Golden Girls episode.  If the duck is harmed in any form, it's curtains for the kid.  I have two other nephews.  Once still in the "cute" stage.  Nobody will miss my oldest nephew!!

 

The jeans are gone.  Skinny jeans should be banned.  My nephew is 6'2".  Skinny jeans are ridiculous on tall people.  He was warned.

If he was smart, he would find a similar rubber ducky and slowly dismember it, mailing you each little part until he gets his jeans back!

 

We saw that Golden Girls episode.  If the duck is harmed in any form, it's curtains for the kid.  I have two other nephews.  Once still in the "cute" stage.  Nobody will miss my oldest nephew!!

 

The jeans are gone.  Skinny jeans should be banned.  My nephew is 6'2".  Skinny jeans are ridiculous on tall people.  He was warned.

 

Be careful. One day he'll be bigger and stronger than you, and you'll be aging and going toward frail. And he may not have a rubber ducky that you can hold for ransom.

If he was smart, he would find a similar rubber ducky and slowly dismember it, mailing you each little part until he gets his jeans back!

 

We saw that Golden Girls episode.  If the duck is harmed in any form, it's curtains for the kid.  I have two other nephews.  Once still in the "cute" stage.  Nobody will miss my oldest nephew!!

 

The jeans are gone.  Skinny jeans should be banned.  My nephew is 6'2".  Skinny jeans are ridiculous on tall people.  He was warned.

 

Be careful. One day he'll be bigger and stronger than you, and you'll be aging and going toward frail. And he may not have a rubber ducky that you can hold for ransom.

 

Nobody said life was fair, Christina.  He may grow to be bigger and stronger, but I'm jaded, smarter, and more cunning.  I'll always beat him!

 

Ok, you guys have to help me.

 

I have a backpack I need to salvage.  The strap part in the back where there is the little plastic hoobajoob where you can adjust the length of the strap - one of them broke.  I cannot wear the backpack without the other strap attached, it's too awkward to carry just over 1 arm.  Without getting too specific, I cannot get another backpack, because the contents of this one are attached/encased and can't be removed without voiding an important warranty (ok, ok, it's my pump. Sorry.).  I called the mfgr and they do not provide that type of part.  However, they offered to send me a new one. But I have to fax them a copy of my receipt, which I am not sure I have - I may have it somewhere, but who knows where - when you have a baby, everything seems to get lost in the shuffle.  And then I have to ship back the original at my expense.  This seems awfully wasteful, costly and problematic when all I need is a new little clip hoobajoober.

 

I found them online: http://www.nwbackpack.com/products/ladderlocks.php for only .38 each. But shipping is $9!  Surely there is some type of store I could buy these at here in town, rather than pay for shipping or get a whole new backpack.  I tried calling a couple of craft stores but they don't have them.  Is there any kind of a camping/backpacking type store I might try in the Cleve area?

I don't know about the part or retailers in Cleveland, but would the whole specialty backpack fit inside an ordinary inexpensive, easy-to-replace backpack, one that you could pick up at any outdoor store or even a <shudder at the mention of the name> Wal-Mart or Target?

It might, but I struggle with bulk already, and the plus side of this backpack is it's really trim and rather small, and somewhat fashionable as it doesn't have a lot of junk on the front as it's really not meant for hiking or what have you.  I have a big, heavy tote to lug back and forth each day and I really don't want a big, sporty backpack on top of the tote.  My tote is kind of fashionable too and a big, sporty backpack, I mean, I'm 40, I don't look like a college kid anymore and that's really pushing the realm of bad fashion. I know that seems petty, but it seems like I should be able to just get a new plastic piece.  Who knew this would be so difficult?

OK, it's out in Lorain County on 611, but worth a call: http://www.backpackersshop.com/

 

Did you try calling Dick's Sporting Goods?

 

Also, Geiger's in Lakewood (http://www.shopgeigers.com/lakewood.html) or Newman Outfitters also in Lakewood.

I didn't think of Geiger's, that's a good call.  I did consider dick's, but everyone that works there is so stupid and worthless, I wasn't going to bother.  I have to basically call around, I can't just drive everywhere anymore to find what I want, and it's hard to explain what I need.  Thx for the suggestions, I will try all of these.

I didn't think of Geiger's, that's a good call. I did consider dick's, but everyone that works there is so stupid and worthless, I wasn't going to bother. I have to basically call around, I can't just drive everywhere anymore to find what I want, and it's hard to explain what I need. Thx for the suggestions, I will try all of these.

As someone that worked at Dick's in college I would recommend skipping it. The store isn't specialized enough so the employees tend to know a little about all kinds of stuff but aren't experts at anything. Of course the same could be said for most larger retailers. Also just a word of advice from a customer when I worked there, their website is NOT dicks.com.

LOL grumpy, good thing I didn't try accessing it at work.

 

I called Geiger's Lakewood, they sent me to the Chagrin store. The guy was very nice and seemed to know what I was looking for.  The problem lies in the fact that the top bar is sewn shut with the ladderlock type thing on it, and they don't sell ones that have a broken middle such that you could slide a new one onto the sewn-shut loop.  If I cut through it, I don't think I can sew it back together as it's canvas and made up of hundreds of little bits of thread woven together, and that would be really hard to sew by hand (especially by someone with very little sewing skills).  He said he was going to send one of them with some stuff looped through it in such a way that if I replicated that with my backpack, it might work.  I don't know, I guess we'll have to see. But he is sending it over to the Lakewood store so I can take a look, with no committment to buy anything. 

 

I wonder if I could just get a new ladderlock but then some kind of loop clip to put through the loop part of the canvas that's sewed togther. It wouldn't hang straight/even but would be better than abandoning the whole backpack for a new one just because of a broken plastic piece.

Update.  I knew there was something, I found some guy's website where he had switched out his ladderlocs for a different type and there is one that has a split top, made just for repairs:  http://www.supplycaptain.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_ID=11&ParentCat=30

 

I called Geiger's back, the guy said he was thinking I could just take a tiny saw and saw through the one he's sending me and then it would be a split as well, he could picture what it needed to do but didn't have anythign that did it.  He asked me for the website where I found it and said he was going to inquire with his suppliers as to getting something like that in at some point (but not as soon as I would need it, which is immediately).  If I wanted to pay exhorbitant shipping, I could just buy them online, but I don't.  I will try the saw trick and if it breaks/doesn't work, then I'll buy online. I think that is much more sensible than replacing a $250 pump. 

 

You kids all know I love quoting The Devil Wears Prada.

 

Over the past year I would use lines from the movie on my persnickety Grandfather. He never knew how to respond.  So for a Christmas stocking stuffer, I gave him the movie.  He hasn't stopped watching it. 

 

On Christmas we popped it in the DVD player to watch during our card tourney in and he thought it was hillarious.  At one point he stops the movie and asks, "Why didn't any of you kids take me to see this movie??  I love that Miranda.  We need more people in the work place with her work ethic!!"  Since seeing the movie he's been using all the lines in his own warped way, which just cracks me up.

 

My grandmother just called me to tell me that she broke the DVD in half because my grandfather called her "Emily" and when she was explaining her plans for the day he said, "that's all" while she was in mid sentence. She explicitly told me not to buy him anything like that again or she would put him out and "that would be all"!

OMG that is hilarious.  Your grandpa is a diva!

OMG that is hilarious.  Your grandpa is a diva!

No he's crazy!  He called my mother a "clacker", since she rarely wears flats and when you walk through our foyer, it's just as Andy describes a "clacker" in the movie.