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RedmondLonghorn said:
Wife just spotted a 18 month old corgi at a shelter about an hour from here on the Humane Society website.

So if that little fella isn't gone by morning, it looks like we will have 3 dogs, 2 cats, 5 kids, an uncompleted house and no money. 

Yes, she cruises animal adoption websites in her spare time, I guess.
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Want me to go over and scoop her on the adoption?  I could use a corgi.

 
krista4 said:
Are you kidding me?  Do you have me wiretapppped?  I just used this word several times today (in fairness, I was at the hairdresser at the time).  What am I supposed to say?  Stylist?
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This is what I'm wondering.  I think they use stylist.  I haven't heard anyone say hairdresser in a while. 

edit to acknowledge the spelling of wiretappped.  

 
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It confuses me to see "fish" and "the rover" as the other two people browsing the forum. 

 
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So bizarre.  It's 11 20 pm in Boise and I'm usually thinking of going to bed in an hour , but was just served breakfast at 7 20 am flying over London.  #fakeallnighter

 
-fish- said:
This is what I'm wondering.  I think they use stylist.  I haven't heard anyone say hairdresser in a while. 
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I was thinking my "stylist" looked at me weird when I said it, but she always looks pretty weird.

Oh...welcome to the new guy, by the way.  I don't like the "xs" in sequence in your screenname.  But welcome.

 
K4> when I narrow things down to a couple houses, you want to come check them out before I make an offer?  At this point, it's me and a 13 year old making decisions, and I'm pretty sure roverkid has better judgment.

 
-fish- said:
K4> when I narrow things down to a couple houses, you want to come check them out before I make an offer?  At this point, it's me and a 13 year old making decisions, and I'm pretty sure roverkid has better judgment.
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I would be happy to come look at any number of them.  I sort of specialize in looking at houses. :lmao:

Seriously, I'd love to help.  Do you like your realtor, I hope?

 
krista4 said:
I would be happy to come look at any number of them.  I sort of specialize in looking at houses. :lmao:

Seriously, I'd love to help.  Do you like your realtor, I hope?
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Yeah, realtor is a good friend.  She's known me for years and knows roverkid.  She gets me.

 
-fish- said:
K4> when I narrow things down to a couple houses, you want to come check them out before I make an offer?  At this point, it's me and a 13 year old making decisions, and I'm pretty sure roverkid has better judgment.
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Didn't she have Michigan State winning the NCAA? I lost like 5 racks on that little brat.

In all seriousness it's kind of fun looking for new homes. Unfortunately it will be 10 more years before I get to sell this place and retire.

 
-fish- said:
My dad just turned 88 (the same age his dad died) and my mom is 84.   They live by themselves.  He's deaf and she's blind.  He still drives.  When he was 74 he got run over by a truck and broke almost every bone on the right side of his body and bruised his heart.  Coded on the operating table twice, and then once again in his hospital bed.  Took him a year and a half to be able to walk again.   I never had a good relationship with them, but I make sure they see my daughter a few times a year.  She's visiting them right now.  I wish things were different, but they were pretty ####ty, abusive parents.   I try not to hold it against them and to maintain a decent relationship.  It's very difficult.
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Man that's terrible. I am so lucky to have had such wonderful parents.

 
tommyboy said:
Didn't she have Michigan State winning the NCAA? I lost like 5 racks on that little brat.

In all seriousness it's kind of fun looking for new homes. Unfortunately it will be 10 more years before I get to sell this place and retire.
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Kansas.   Stupid kid.  Led Frosty's pool at the sweet 16 two years in a row and hasn't done better than 5th place.  I'm gonna disown her.   

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
Man that's terrible. I am so lucky to have had such wonderful parents.
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I wasn't really trying to compare situations.  It sucks watching your parents go downhill.  But I guess if it's any consolation, you have good memories.  Sorry again, man.   It's never easy.

I have four older brothers and an older sister.  for years, they have been pooling money to take care of my parents.  my parents paid for their college, grad school, and in two cases bought them houses (my siblings, in birth order:  neonatologist; chemist; PhD in the history of science; lawyer; ob/gyn).  much younger than all of my siblings, I was clearly not intentionally conceived, and my parents were done parenting.  at 11 my parents gave me a 10-speed and said good luck and I raised myself (mostly through selling drugs and gambling).  I had no supervision, no curfew and no questions were asked.  my older siblings, who were older and didn't live at home, had no idea. when I was home I was abused and when I turned 16 I moved out.  I paid my own way through college and grad school  (again, mostly through drugs and gambling).   none of them went through what I did.  when I was in college for nearly two years I lived in a walk-in closet for $100/month in a house with 9 other students.  that was an improvement over the years when I just couch-surfed, or the short time I lived in my car and showered in the gym while working and taking classes.  

when we had a sit-down with my brothers and sister and I explained why I wouldn't be contributing and would  be focusing on funding my daughter's college fund instead, they were shocked and some were pissed off.  since then, I decided to throw some money into the pool to help out, but not all of them know.   now I pay as much or more than the rest of them each year.  only my oldest brother knows how much I'm putting in, by agreement.  I don't want the rest of them to know.

my daughter is my life.   I'll never let her worry about money.  I feel guilty even raising my voice toward her, but feel like I'm doing a decent job of guiding her.  

you've documented your struggles with parenting.  it's clear that you are just trying to get it right.  you are blessed that you had models in that.  I hope that you and your mom celebrate her life and your relationship, and that you and she have an opportunity for her to share all of the family history that she cherishes.   I've met you and read your struggles here; you're a good man and a good dad.

TL, DR:  roverfish had a ####ed up upbringing; RL is a good dad and son.  you do what you can.

 
Limp Ditka said:
This.

One of Gacy's victims was just identified this week, about 40 years after the fact.

you know why?

####### clowns, man. That's why
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Are you kidding me?  Do you have me wiretapppped?  I just talking about John Wayne Gacy several times today (in fairness, I was killing a hitch hiker at the time).  

 
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-fish- said:
Certain people have certain specialties.   

K4:  purchasing houses; naan; birthdays; cavernous ######

GM:  netflix; food; procreation

BobbySac: occasional updates

Tre:   nothing

Frostillicious:  see Tre

Shuke:  food; Cincinatti; gout; PM's

El Floppo:  scarves

Redmond Longhorn:  frustrations in parenting; spending money on houses

Proninja:   bicycles; brain surgery

Henry:  law; sarcasm

Homer:  teenagers; sobriety; living vicariously through others

Pickles:  Iowa

Mr. Furley:  not posting videos

Uruk Hai:  insomnia; sleeping with spies

Rude:   keeping us from being banned

Tanner:   jeopardy; central california; boneless chicken wings

The rest of us are just drunk.
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:banned:   from amalfi, Italy.  There are a many many smoking hot wimmens over here. :eek:

My villa is so f'ing high up the cliff side, the climb up the stairs will kill nearly any buzz known to man. Going to have adjust accordingly.  Ridiculous view however   10:30am isn't too soon to start is it? Dumb question, Italian beer, prosecco, rose or limoncello?

They were shooting off fireworks at 9:30 am, it's not clear why and seemed odd.  The yachts are mind boggling.  

Thats all I got  

 
They are building the villa below me and they have a donkey carrying the raw stones for the retaining wall they're working on.   I wonder if I can get the donkey to bring me up the hill. 

 
-fish- said:
K4> when I narrow things down to a couple houses, you want to come check them out before I make an offer?  At this point, it's me and a 13 year old making decisions, and I'm pretty sure roverkid has better judgment.
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It's almost like you didn't read k4's post about scooping the Corgi ahead of the RL family.

 Or his follow up saying someone already got the Corgi and he was disappponted. Countdown until k4 introduces her new Corgi in her new house...

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
cosjobs said:
How old is she? Mine's 90. Watching her go is pretty painful. Long, slow, inevitable decline, while we wait with no hope but minimal pain for her. She met my Navy Dad at the end of w2 in Oakland
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My mom is 86, dad is almost 88.
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really sorry to hear about this guys. :(

my mom (82) is in town for her annual house swap. lost my dad suddenly 10 years ago to pancreatic cancer. she's a breast cancer survivor, but :knockingwood: she's doing great. like her son, always been a little loopy- and it's definitely getting more pronounced (as it is for me too). but she's still all there physically and mentally; still working (teaches and writes/publishes poetry) does yoga daily and still jogs 2x week and hikes 1-2x week.

my absentee (to me, not her) brother is in town next week for a night and I'm thinking we need to talk about how things should go if/when that decline begins to get more debilitating. ideally with her too. she's part of something called, IIRC, the village (I think it started out of Cambridge MA). much better than that shamalamadingdong movie... it's a communal independent living platform where everybody who signs up (and pays a fee) has access to a switchboard that will take care of literally anything they need- social activities, stuff around the house, travel, medical, etc. like a concierge that allows these older people to live at home, but manage without full-time help.

 
krista4 said:
Damn, that's lovely.  The second picture is killer.  Redmond Longhorn says you should tear out that perfectly nice kitchen and install an unfinished one instead, though.
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:lol:   had the exact same thought. looks almost identical... minus the appliances and whatnot.

 
DA RAIDERS said:
They are building the villa below me and they have a donkey carrying the raw stones for the retaining wall they're working on.   I wonder if I can get the donkey to bring me up the hill. 
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only one way to find out. yell loudly, but slowly, in clear American to the man with the donkey. let him know that you will pay him many euro for a week's donkey rental. if he doesn't understand, yell louder and more slowly until it sinks in. 

then pat him on the back and give him a noogie

the eye-talians love that

@OrtonToOlsen

 
Killed it on the omelet today.

Took some salami and ribbon cut it. Threw it in the microwave to crisp it up.

Used that, shaved Parmesan, hot giardiniera.

damn tasty.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
My mom got "well" enough to come home from the hospice yesterday. Which means she is now on home hospice care.

We don't know if she has weeks or months left. It sucks to even type this, but at this point I am just hoping whenever she goes she doesn't suffer too much.

At least she is pretty lucid (though gets a little sleepy and loopy from the pain meds now and again) and says she is very much at peace with her predicament. She is more worried about my dad and my relationship with my kids than she is with her impending death. 

She does have a bit of a short term memory issue right now, again probably due to being hopped up on vicodin so much of the time. She couldn't remember how many times I had seen her in the past several days, but she was recounting in all sorts of detailed anecdotes about John McCain's parents. Apparently everybody who was anybody in Navy and Marine Corps circles during the earlier part of the 20th century knew each others' business backward and forward. :lol:
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Sorry to hear this Red.

TPW

 
DA RAIDERS said:
They are building the villa below me and they have a donkey carrying the raw stones for the retaining wall they're working on.   I wonder if I can get the donkey to bring me up the hill. 
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we need a picture of you on a donkey drinking limoncello.   seriously.  

 
Day drinking is neat. Gonna have an aperol spritzer tomorrow. I forgot to order one today. I saw a lady drinking one as we started to climb the goat trail home.  Made me envious.

Vacation goals, they're important. 

 
-fish- said:
I wasn't really trying to compare situations.  It sucks watching your parents go downhill.  But I guess if it's any consolation, you have good memories.  Sorry again, man.   It's never easy.

I have four older brothers and an older sister.  for years, they have been pooling money to take care of my parents.  my parents paid for their college, grad school, and in two cases bought them houses (my siblings, in birth order:  neonatologist; chemist; PhD in the history of science; lawyer; ob/gyn).  much younger than all of my siblings, I was clearly not intentionally conceived, and my parents were done parenting.  at 11 my parents gave me a 10-speed and said good luck and I raised myself (mostly through selling drugs and gambling).  I had no supervision, no curfew and no questions were asked.  my older siblings, who were older and didn't live at home, had no idea. when I was home I was abused and when I turned 16 I moved out.  I paid my own way through college and grad school  (again, mostly through drugs and gambling).   none of them went through what I did.  when I was in college for nearly two years I lived in a walk-in closet for $100/month in a house with 9 other students.  that was an improvement over the years when I just couch-surfed, or the short time I lived in my car and showered in the gym while working and taking classes.  

when we had a sit-down with my brothers and sister and I explained why I wouldn't be contributing and would  be focusing on funding my daughter's college fund instead, they were shocked and some were pissed off.  since then, I decided to throw some money into the pool to help out, but not all of them know.   now I pay as much or more than the rest of them each year.  only my oldest brother knows how much I'm putting in, by agreement.  I don't want the rest of them to know.

my daughter is my life.   I'll never let her worry about money.  I feel guilty even raising my voice toward her, but feel like I'm doing a decent job of guiding her.  

you've documented your struggles with parenting.  it's clear that you are just trying to get it right.  you are blessed that you had models in that.  I hope that you and your mom celebrate her life and your relationship, and that you and she have an opportunity for her to share all of the family history that she cherishes.   I've met you and read your struggles here; you're a good man and a good dad.

TL, DR:  roverfish had a ####ed up upbringing; RL is a good dad and son.  you do what you can.
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I find it puzzling that your parents could do a seemingly good job being decent people and parents to your older siblings, then go completely off the rails with you.

And thanks. You are too kind. Especially for somebody who describes himself as a misanthrope.

 
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