"Violence at Citizen's Bank Park tonight as a local Indian boy was severly beaten after a verbal altercation with several Mets fans turned physical."

I have now written eight sentences in my thrilling novel.

td11 wrote:where ya goin', mrs. vox?

crazy.

that and south carolina to see my folks. they left the area about nine years ago and I've only gone to visit them once. so it's totally guilt-induced, but it's the first time I've been able to do something like this. three years ago I was working, two years ago I was pregnant, and last year we were selling our old house.

me and the boys and about 15 hours driving.... good times.

Warszawa wrote:Well I figure if all it takes to make the Golden Gate Bridge famous is to paint it orange (unless there is something else I'm missing) lets try something different.

You could do the Walt Whitman Bridge up like the Teletubbies and it wouldn't approach the fame of the Golden Gate Bridge.

there's actually a reason the GOlden gate is orange -- because of all the fog, orange is easier to see than the traditional blue-gray.

/insufferable know-it-all

MrsVox wrote:

td11 wrote:where ya goin', mrs. vox?

crazy.

that and south carolina to see my folks. they left the area about nine years ago and I've only gone to visit them once. so it's totally guilt-induced, but it's the first time I've been able to do something like this. three years ago I was working, two years ago I was pregnant, and last year we were selling our old house.

me and the boys and about 15 hours driving.... good times.

Memo
To: Mrs. Vox
From: Tenured Vulture
Re: Weather in the South in the Summer

It's hot. And humid. You should visit in early May or late September. Much nicer then.

I think Chelsea Handler is funny

WilliamC wrote:I think Chelsea Handler is funny

I quite agree. But can the guests get any more D list? The guy from Sugar Ray?

Didn't I? wrote:My co-worker has been gone for 3 weeks. We're turning his office into a bathroom. Leaving soon to go to Home Depot to buy a toilet.

So we went to Home Depot, but they didn't have any real cheap toilets that we could leave with, and delivery would have taken two days, which we don't have. But luckily someone here at work has a spare toilet in his parent's garage, which he's bringing in tomorrow. So far, all we've gotten are some bathroom accessories.

We did go to a prop store to get some fake poo. Here's how that went:

Me: So, we're looking for some fake poo.
Store Clerk: Cat or dog?
Me: Uh, human if you got it.
Store Clerk: Hmm, we had some human poo. I think we're sold out. But our dog poo looks human if you take it out of the package that says dog poo.
Me: Ok, I'll take the dog poo.
Store Clerk: The human poo is more brown.
Me: Ok.
Store Clerk: And it's longer.
Me: Ok.

TenuredVulture wrote:

MrsVox wrote:

td11 wrote:where ya goin', mrs. vox?

crazy.

that and south carolina to see my folks. they left the area about nine years ago and I've only gone to visit them once. so it's totally guilt-induced, but it's the first time I've been able to do something like this. three years ago I was working, two years ago I was pregnant, and last year we were selling our old house.

me and the boys and about 15 hours driving.... good times.

Memo
To: Mrs. Vox
From: Tenured Vulture
Re: Weather in the South in the Summer

It's hot. And humid. You should visit in early May or late September. Much nicer then.

Dude, I know (my grandparents retired to the Outer Banks -- we went every summer -- at least the beach was there). This is just a small part of the crazy that we deal with.

I need to visit them. I won't make Vox go and waste his vacation to sit around and do nothing (which is what any trip will entail). I won't fly because of the cost-value ratio, and jeeze, flying alone with the kids would be worse than driving alone. And I won't have VoxJr missing school for it. It sounds like I'm being miserable, but there are basically extenuating circimstances around my whole relationship with my parents since I had my kids.

I could go into the crazy details, but basically, there are just small windows of time available for me to visit them -- on their side. This week is basically the only time I could pick.

It's not like there's no air conditioning or anything. Their apartment is only a couple years old and has a pool, and there's a lake and my Dad talked about taking the boat out, but I can't figure out if it's his boat or his friend's.

I'll take my laptop, and barring that will have my phone and camera, so, there will be good stories.

And here's one to get you started. I emailed my folks and said I'm moving the trip up a day, leaving NJ Thursday and going home Wednesday. The reply I got back is what do I want for dinner on Wednesday and what do we want for breakfast on Thursday.

MrsVox wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

MrsVox wrote:

td11 wrote:where ya goin', mrs. vox?

crazy.

that and south carolina to see my folks. they left the area about nine years ago and I've only gone to visit them once. so it's totally guilt-induced, but it's the first time I've been able to do something like this. three years ago I was working, two years ago I was pregnant, and last year we were selling our old house.

me and the boys and about 15 hours driving.... good times.

Memo
To: Mrs. Vox
From: Tenured Vulture
Re: Weather in the South in the Summer

It's hot. And humid. You should visit in early May or late September. Much nicer then.

Dude, I know (my grandparents retired to the Outer Banks -- we went every summer -- at least the beach was there). This is just a small part of the crazy that we deal with.

I need to visit them. I won't make Vox go and waste his vacation to sit around and do nothing (which is what any trip will entail). I won't fly because of the cost-value ratio, and jeeze, flying alone with the kids would be worse than driving alone. And I won't have VoxJr missing school for it. It sounds like I'm being miserable, but there are basically extenuating circimstances around my whole relationship with my parents since I had my kids.

I could go into the crazy details, but basically, there are just small windows of time available for me to visit them -- on their side. This week is basically the only time I could pick.

It's not like there's no air conditioning or anything. Their apartment is only a couple years old and has a pool, and there's a lake and my Dad talked about taking the boat out, but I can't figure out if it's his boat or his friend's.

I'll take my laptop, and barring that will have my phone and camera, so, there will be good stories.

And here's one to get you started. I emailed my folks and said I'm moving the trip up a day, leaving NJ Thursday and going home Wednesday. The reply I got back is what do I want for dinner on Wednesday and what do we want for breakfast on Thursday.

Tell me about it. While our situation is less complicated, it does get to be a bit of a drag when you stay with your parents. But at least my parents still live in NJ, and Lil' Vulture gets to see all her cousins and Mrs. Vulture's family all live nearby, so she can go visit the ones she's talking to at the moment.

But I agree, driving is the way to go, especially if you factor in the cost of a car rental.

I actually don't mind staying with them, it's just that for a "vacation", nothing is planned. No activities for kids or anything. When I visited them in Florida, I had to find stuff to do for us, or we literally would have sat around and just watched TV (oh, wait, I did end up re-installing Windows on my Dad's laptop -- fun times). We ended up going to Kennedy and watched the shuttle launch from Cocoa Beach.

I'm trying to find stuff to do around their new place, and there's not much. And I can barely fit three adults in my car with the two kids carseats, so there's that factor too, which limits longer trips to Atlanta or the Smoky Mountains.

Fernando Torres's girlfriend got a boob job. And the nearly naked pictures of Torres that ended up in the Torres thread on RAWK (not to self, don't click on that at work) made an awful lot of the straight posters there oddly excited.

Didn't I? wrote:Me: So, we're looking for some fake poo.
Store Clerk: Cat or dog?
Me: Uh, human if you got it.
Store Clerk: Hmm, we had some human poo. I think we're sold out. But our dog poo looks human if you take it out of the package that says dog poo.
Me: Ok, I'll take the dog poo.
Store Clerk: The human poo is more brown.
Me: Ok.
Store Clerk: And it's longer.
Me: Ok.

I'm really tempted to buy a PS3 just for the NCAA football game coming out next week.

Do women find Alex Rodriguez attractive? I always thought he was kinda goofy looking.

The Dude wrote:

mpmcgraw wrote:

Drugs Delaney wrote:

WilliamC wrote:What PPV movie should I get? There is a few that I'm interested by.

Is Charlie Wilson's War good? What about Waterhorse?

Charlie Wilson's War is very good, but it's one I can see not appealing to everyone. Read a little bit about it and decide if it's a subject matter that you find interesting. If so, you'll probably like it.

It was terrible because pretty much everything was made up/wrong.

Is that true of the book, too, or did they change a lot of things?

From what I understand the book was pretty accurate.

My uncle who read the book was disgusted by the movie and he loves Tom Hanks.

whoop.

walmart got a new logo

Just found 215 pounds (and 20 Euros) on the bus. some unlucky tourist left it behind, along with their lunch. I think.

Man, tho', people are still bad about unattended packages. I mean, there's this bag of stuff sitting on the seat, and no one has mentioned it to the driver. It's like we're asking to be blown up.