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This guy’s walking down a street, when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep, he can’t get out.
A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up, "Hey you! Can you help me out?" The doctor writes him a prescription, throws it down the hole, and moves on.
Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up, "Father, I’m down in this hole! Can you help me out?" The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole, and moves on.
Then a friend walks by. "Hey Joe, it’s me, can you help me out?" And the friend jumps in the hole! Our guy says "Are you stupid? Now we’re both down here!" And the friend says, "Yeah, but I’ve been down here before, and I know the way out."
From The West Wing, Season 2, Episode 10 - "Noel"
A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up, "Hey you! Can you help me out?" The doctor writes him a prescription, throws it down the hole, and moves on.
Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up, "Father, I’m down in this hole! Can you help me out?" The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole, and moves on.
Then a friend walks by. "Hey Joe, it’s me, can you help me out?" And the friend jumps in the hole! Our guy says "Are you stupid? Now we’re both down here!" And the friend says, "Yeah, but I’ve been down here before, and I know the way out."
From The West Wing, Season 2, Episode 10 - "Noel"
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Well, after the first carosel (and the exercise in how they *should* be loaded in), roughly half the slides are in too rough shape (the cardboard bit, not the actual picture) to be loaded by the projector.
Have found some lovely shots of my father as a 8-15 year old, with all the attitude that entails, as well as some great ones of my aunt, from roughly 3 through to around 16 (the japanese ones, where I actually have a date I know from talking to her).
Contemplating what to do about the hit/miss ratio (if there is anything I can do).
It's interesting, at least.
Have found some lovely shots of my father as a 8-15 year old, with all the attitude that entails, as well as some great ones of my aunt, from roughly 3 through to around 16 (the japanese ones, where I actually have a date I know from talking to her).
Contemplating what to do about the hit/miss ratio (if there is anything I can do).
It's interesting, at least.
Huh.
What I'm finding most interesting about the polls today is that far as I can tell, most people have a real squick factor for talking to their opposite sex parent about sex and/or masturbation - or at least when they were teenagers.
Nita is an odd duck again (gee, freaking surprise). Yes, my father was more reluctant to discuss matters of a carnal nature with me, but I never saw it as anything all that bizzare or odd. It's my health, both physical & mental - of *course* the man who's been half responsible for that my entire life would be able to give me useful advice. I eventually didn't ask him mostly because it made *him* uncomfortable to discuss it.
Huh.
Neat.
What I'm finding most interesting about the polls today is that far as I can tell, most people have a real squick factor for talking to their opposite sex parent about sex and/or masturbation - or at least when they were teenagers.
Nita is an odd duck again (gee, freaking surprise). Yes, my father was more reluctant to discuss matters of a carnal nature with me, but I never saw it as anything all that bizzare or odd. It's my health, both physical & mental - of *course* the man who's been half responsible for that my entire life would be able to give me useful advice. I eventually didn't ask him mostly because it made *him* uncomfortable to discuss it.
Huh.
Neat.
This happened a while back (few months ago).
Sitting in the living room at CFRQ. One of the Moms is going through a bag of hand me downs for her little girl to see if any of them would fit. She pulls out this *VERY SHORT* skirt. My first comment is "that's not a skirt, it's a belt."
There is some discussion about the length of skirts when we were all younger.
Words out of my mouth, "If I wore a skirt that short, my father would have had a coronary."
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cielf pipes up with, "Sooner."
*brief pause - like maybe 2-3 seconds.
Nita bursts out giggling and rolling around.
Yah, I have a messed up sense of humour...( If you don't get the joke )
Sitting in the living room at CFRQ. One of the Moms is going through a bag of hand me downs for her little girl to see if any of them would fit. She pulls out this *VERY SHORT* skirt. My first comment is "that's not a skirt, it's a belt."
There is some discussion about the length of skirts when we were all younger.
Words out of my mouth, "If I wore a skirt that short, my father would have had a coronary."
cielf pipes up with, "Sooner."*brief pause - like maybe 2-3 seconds.
Nita bursts out giggling and rolling around.
Yah, I have a messed up sense of humour...( If you don't get the joke )
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Another email:
I think I have one now.
Hi Sweetie
By the time I heard your voice mail, it was too late to reach you. Well, your Dad is green with envy. Culloden Moor is on my Life List along with three other places in Scotland: playing the Old Course; walking the Golden Mile in Edinburough after seeing the Military Tattoo in the Castle; and making a pilgrimage to Castle Kilgour ( actually just a small keep - but none the less still our ancestrial home ).
I want to hear all about what you saw and felt as you walked across that Moor. I'm told the cairns (sp?) list the clans buried there and there is one which lists the "others" where our kin folk would be. If you took pictures and have a way of scanning them into your computer, I'd love to see.
My first paragraph brought a thought to mind? Do you and Paul have a Life List? Places you want to see sometime in your life? I think I probably started making my list as a child of 10 or 11 when I read a book by a writer named John Hunter. Most likely I'd squirm if I read that book now - but at the time, it made me long to see the places and animals he wrote about - East Africa mostly. The more books I read as I grew up and even thru adulthood, the more places that were tacked onto my Life List.
God forbid that I die now, but if I did, there are few places high on that list that I haven't seen. There is no question I have been lucky in my life, visiting those Life List places like: Kenya, with its abundance of animals that have always intrigued me; Athens, with the ancient wonders literally everywhere - and standing on the Acropolis; Egypt, being inside the great pyramid of Cheops and entering the tomb of King Tut; Istanbul, seeing Topkapi Palace and the Blue Mosque; Tokyo, because of the mystique of the Orient; Hawaii, for the tropical beauty; and Paris, simply because it is Paris.
Still to see is Venice and Rome, Scotland, the Winter Palace in St. Petersberg, the Great Wall in China, and the Great Barrier Reef off Australia. Fortunately, Nancy has a desire to see these places as well. Even if we don't see them all, I can count my life well lived.
So much for your Dad's philosophical musings.
I think I have one now.
Email from my father from the physical he had where they said he was good:
Every once in a while, I want to get my hands on that doctor.
We've both had our physicals and as would be expected, Nancy rated as an 18 year old - an 18 year old in excellent condition. I, on the other hand, appear to have the physical conditioning of that 55 year old male we all hear about. Everything functioning but just not as efficiently as it did in my 20's or 30's. Nothing to be worried about at all. The ECG says I have a great heart and blood work says no diabetes or any other troubling disease. The only thing the doctor wants is for me to lower my cholesterol level a tad. Alas, gone are the steaks! Chicken and fish for the next few months to see if that makes a difference.
Every once in a while, I want to get my hands on that doctor.
