|
Grex > Agora46 > #6: If You're Happy and You Know it Write it Down! | |
|
| Author |
Message |
| 25 new of 673 responses total. |
russ
|
|
response 539 of 673:
| 
Aug 24 01:43 UTC 2003 |
Got a really nice workout on my bike tonight.
|
jaklumen
|
|
response 540 of 673:
|
Aug 24 04:58 UTC 2003 |
Went to the in-laws fam reunion today-- went a little better than I
thought. No swimming after all (it was too cold for the beach and the
heated pool cost about $4), food was marginal, but the people were
pretty cool and easy to warm up to. I'm rather reserved, and deep
down, I'm still rather shy, so I wasn't looking forward to being
introduced to a lot of strange people... especially as my wife has had
a habit of abruptly doing so. (She's not terribly shy.)
|
lynne
|
|
response 541 of 673:
|
Aug 24 17:21 UTC 2003 |
I haven't gotten any bounced sobig messages yet. I feel left out!
IHB I spent most of yesterday sleeping and feel *much* better.
|
fitz
|
|
response 542 of 673:
|
Aug 24 21:02 UTC 2003 |
My kneecap got an affectionate hug from a very young, little girl who
recognized that I am Santa Claus. Her father was grateful that I played the
part for her.
She's a good girl, of course, and she will get lots of presents.
|
russ
|
|
response 543 of 673:
|
Aug 25 03:01 UTC 2003 |
Took the poor bike light apart, and found that all its little
spring contacts had been bent out of shape by the impact and
weren't letting juice flow. Bent them back and it worked!
The dings add character. ;-)
Got some proper chain lube and it really made a difference too.
Was tossing out the trash tonight and found a nearly-new set of
off-road mountain bike tires in the dumpster. The mold lines
were still visible! I can't believe what my neighbors pitch.
They were the same type I used to have before, so I snagged 'em.
At least my neighbors are recycling. Maybe it was the bottled
water everyone was drinking, but I see overflowing recycle bins
where they used to be empty. This is a good thing.
|
gull
|
|
response 544 of 673:
|
Aug 25 13:06 UTC 2003 |
Re #543: Good for you. I've always been of the opinion that a broken
item that's been creatively patched has more class than a new one. ;>
|
michaela
|
|
response 545 of 673:
|
Aug 25 17:05 UTC 2003 |
IHB I had a decent weekend watching the boy's band play at two shows, and I'm
here through Labor Day. Yay.
|
dcat
|
|
response 546 of 673:
|
Aug 25 23:13 UTC 2003 |
Living in a frat house doesn't seem to be turning out as badly as I'd thought
it might. There are about a dozen of us transfers that all got stuck on a
floor of a fraternity (Delta Sigma Delta, a pre-dentistry majors' frat)
together. the few of the others i've met are pretty cool. as far as i know,
i haven't seen any of the frat guys yet, but there aren't very many of them.
among the things we lack, however, are a lounge. our hall meeting tonight
is on the plaza in front of the building, on the first day all week that it's
actually cooler *inside* the building (which isn't air-conditioned) than
outside.
happy nevertheless.
|
bru
|
|
response 547 of 673:
|
Aug 26 03:20 UTC 2003 |
Got our phone and thus our internet back tonight.
Originally thought we were qa part of the general cable outage from the
Broadway bridge cable cut, but a tech showed upa nd checked the line tonight
and said it was fine, that it must be a brokeen wire in the house that would
cost$100 to fix. But when we tried it it worked fine.
|
naftee
|
|
response 548 of 673:
|
Aug 26 14:50 UTC 2003 |
It's called wireless internet, D00D
|
anderyn
|
|
response 549 of 673:
|
Aug 26 15:49 UTC 2003 |
No we do not have wireless. We're Luddites and still use a modem and a phone
line. If I could, I'd go back to the days of text-only internet browsing that
I did at home until maybe the year 2000. (I have never been a big fan of all
the bells and whistles.) Happy happy that I have home internet access back!
And that Dr. Krasnoff managed to fix my broken tooth w/out any major problems.
|
mynxcat
|
|
response 550 of 673:
|
Aug 26 15:54 UTC 2003 |
You can go text only - just log on to grex and use lynx
|
tpryan
|
|
response 551 of 673:
|
Aug 26 17:00 UTC 2003 |
re 546:
There is a training video about frat house living out today
at most stores. It even features a Delta house.
|
anderyn
|
|
response 552 of 673:
|
Aug 26 18:23 UTC 2003 |
I do in fact do that half the time. But at work I need to see other stuff.
Grin.
|
gelinas
|
|
response 553 of 673:
|
Aug 27 02:37 UTC 2003 |
(FWIW, our wireless access point went out with the power. As did our ISDN
adapter. Both came back, of course, after the power was restored, but not
as quickly as we would have liked; we had power for twelve to twenty-four
hours before the ISDN line came back up.)
|
richard
|
|
response 554 of 673:
|
Aug 27 08:54 UTC 2003 |
IHB I attended a rally here in nyc tonight for presidential candidate
Howard Dean, a physician who was formerly governor of Vermont. I got
to meet him afterwards and he comes across as a genuinely decent
person. Dean's candor is refreshing, and he is unapologetic in his
bashing of Bush and vowing to repeal Bush's tax cuts to pay for
universal health care. The event, at Bryant Park behind the main
branch of the New York public library, was well organized. There were
tables all around the park with laptop computers linked to the
campaign's homepage, so people attending the rally could sign up
online. In fact, a fair number of people I talked to there said they
found out about the rally via the homepage or email, not because of any
local publicity. The Dean campaign seems to have come a long way via
online organizing.
There were several thousand people at the rally, and afterwards, when
the event had ended, Dean hung around for a while and some of us got to
talk to him before he left. He mentioned that he's a native of New
York City, born and raised on the upper east side, just up the road
from the site of the rally.
I was also impressed because he made a point of having a local college
student introduce him, a girl from Vermont who proudly proclaimed as to
how she was raised by two mothers, i.e. she has lesbian parents, and
she supports Dean because as governor of her home state, he signed the
bill legalizing civil unions of gay couples. This gave formal sanction
to her parents relationship, and Dean says he supports and will push
for a national law conferring the legal benefits of marriage for gay
couples.
There was a lot of energy and enthusiasm evident for Dean. I'm
undecided between him and Kerry, but I like everything I've seen of Dr.
Dean so far, and he was candid with his answers to questions, seems to
be an excellent public speaker, and has a firm handshake which is
always a good sign.
|
gull
|
|
response 555 of 673:
|
Aug 27 12:49 UTC 2003 |
I like Dean, but I think Kerry will be more likely to win if he's
nominated. For one thing, he has a real military record that would
stand up well against Bush's questionable record and Cheney's
nonexistant one. That takes away one of the Republicans' strong issues.
|
happyboy
|
|
response 556 of 673:
|
Aug 27 17:27 UTC 2003 |
CLARK.
|
senna
|
|
response 557 of 673:
|
Aug 27 20:29 UTC 2003 |
Uh, repealing Bush's tax cuts will PAY for national health care? I don't
think that's really what Dean is proposing, is it? It might help, but paying
for national health care is a whole lot more expensive than that.
Just a thought. Every time I start getting annoyed at how the media will
overhype something like the DC sniper, Kobe Bryant, or the New York side of
the blackout, I am reminded that almost anything is better than the incessant
politics available as an alternative.
|
jmsaul
|
|
response 558 of 673:
|
Aug 27 22:14 UTC 2003 |
Re #556: Yeah, that'd be interesting.
|
slynne
|
|
response 559 of 673:
|
Aug 28 01:21 UTC 2003 |
I have said it once, I will say it a thousand times: Kerry can win
because has the THE HAIR(tm) ;)
Seriously though, I havent yet formed an opinion about which Dem I
like. I think I prefer Dean over Kerry though.
|
eskarina
|
|
response 560 of 673:
|
Aug 28 01:35 UTC 2003 |
IHB I'm back in love with the math deparment at Holt High School, where I am
student teaching. Almost every high school math department has one or two
really good teachers... smart teachers with strong content knowledge who
really care about students and the way they teach them... this math department
has several. My cooperating teacher is one of them. We line up
philosophically much more than I did with my mentor teacher in Chicago,
although she was certainly one of the better ones in the program.
Today I had an interesting first. I put my last name up in bubble letters
in a window next to the door of our new classroom. It was strange and
invigorating.
We get kids on Tuesday. Aieee!
|
russ
|
|
response 561 of 673:
|
Aug 28 03:16 UTC 2003 |
I have to do some research on firewalling and such to be secure,
but I should have real ISP service in use pretty soon.
|
michaela
|
|
response 562 of 673:
|
Aug 28 14:30 UTC 2003 |
Re #560 - good luck. That sounds exciting. I can't wait to teach. :)
IHB the boy and I had something of a fight right before bed last night, but
it was resolved this morning. Yay.
|
tod
|
|
response 563 of 673:
|
Aug 28 16:16 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
|