The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

Oh, more good news, bad news. The donkey jerk face (that has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? ) informed me that he's moving out this month. But he's going for 75/25 custody, which isn't necessarily bad news because I just don't see him getting it when there's absolutely no basis for it.

And the judge is going to ask him what he is going to do with the kid when he is working the odd hours he works.

 

[Gabe1]

moar!

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Great Photo's! I love the Universal Parks. : )

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Gabe1]

I hope you can be rid of him, and you and DD can get on with your lives. Why does he think he can have control of DD with no money? If he can't take care of himself, how can he take care of a second dependent? He still doesn't get the way life works.

If I had to take a stab at it, he wants to be full time care giver and collect both child support and maintenance for himself.

 

[donaldtoo]

Those were mega boat of a car. And they lasted forever.

Yep, although there was a redesign in '77, and they were downsized a bit, they were still pretty boat-ish.
As far as lasting forever for that newer generation goes, that darn thing went through 3 of the new THM 200 transmissions before my folks finally dumped it. Pop was not amused. He finally got everything covered in full by writing several nasty letters to GM. As far as I can remember the engine and the rest of the car were OK, but, that newly designed tranny became a well-known piece of carp.
Your're probsbly thinking more along the lines of the '76 on down. Definitely pretty reliable boats, for the most part...!

 

[Gabe1]

And I've finally reached the first posts of the day for today. Woot.

 

[donaldtoo]

Had a Jason's Reuben over the weekend. DD the MaryJane Potato. I so wanted soup too just knew something would go to waste as those sandwiches are huge.

Yep, I had originally planned on taking the other half to the office tomorrow for Half-day Friday lunch, but, that other half was screamin' my name...!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

And I've finally reached the first posts of the day for today. Woot.

I'm just now at the top of page 3211 from Tuesday on my ketchup...

 

[Gabe1]

Well, personally, I don't understand the point because beer is nasty stuff anyway...why drink the non-alcohol kind when you don't even have the benefit of feeling warm and fuzzy?

I wholeheartedly agree.

 

[donaldtoo]

It's ten degrees here. The first time this year I've had to use the fireplace.

We haven't used our fireplace even once in the last few years, 'cause it's mostly been pretty warm winters down this way.
I've got wood rotting in the shed...

 

[Gabe1]

Yesterday was height weight day at school and he called to gloat, the not so little.................

Our PE Department started that several years ago along with fitness tests. So many ticked off parents. And yet another policy drafted, we don't do that anymore. We leave it up to their pediatricians. It was just pandora's box.

 

[donaldtoo]

Well, personally, I don't understand the point because beer is nasty stuff anyway...why drink the non-alcohol kind when you don't even have the benefit of feeling warm and fuzzy?

Hahaaa...!
I DEFINITELY disagree on the "beer is nasty stuff anyway" part , but, I do understand if he has to drive and still wants a beer-like (there is still a trace of alcohol in them) drink.
I've tried those beers before, and although they're OK, they're just not the same.
If l'm drinkin', I ain't drivin'. As I've posted before, if DWifey and I go out somewhere where we drink, she drives 'cause she drinks the equivalent of about 4 glasses of wine in an entire year.
It's all good. Whatever works.

 

[Cesar R M]

I love Seuss Landing! I bought the book Green Eggs And Ham as a souvenir from there.

My sister's son bought a few souvenirs there.
including the "thing #1" shirt and other memoralia!

my only annoyance.. the train ride is sooo short.

 

[Cesar R M]

All I'm going to further say is I HAVE met her and talked to her and seen her in action during the MANY, MANY SWW I've been to over the years. She is an odd individual who believes Luke is her husband, thus she changed her name to Linda Amidala Skywalker, believes the face characters are really who they portray and for arguments sake she is a harmless passholder that doesn't know any better.

I've seen these kind of people online...
claiming they are "true boyfriends" or "wives" of the characters..creepy as hell.

 

[Gabe1]

But the people you bump get some sort of compensation, right? When hubby nd I were coming home from our honeymoon, they asked for volunteers. We were checked in, waiting at the gate, and they asked if anyone was willing to take a flight the next day, and we would get a voucher for our next trip. We volunteered as we had nowhere we HAD to be the next day, and we had no children or pets or anyone to worry about. They ended up having plenty of volunteers so our seats weren't needed, but it wouldn't have bothered me to wait since we had no other obligations. But if I have somewhere to be at a certain time and I've paid for my ticket, I'd be pretty angry that they suddenly told me I wasn't getting on that flight. If they asked, I'd probably try to work something out and volunteer to give up my sear for a UM or a medical issue, but to be removed without being asked would make me angry and if they did that, they'd have to compensate me for it or I'd be making some problems for the airline. I'm a pretty mellow and patient person, but there are limits, and one of my limits is when I've paid a lot of money for a service and someone tries to duck out of the agreement. I won't stand for that.

Yes, like I said in a previous post they usually got this flight free and a voucher for "x" amount of dollars and guaranteed next flight out and if that was morning, hotel and food coupons. The gate agent always asked for volunteers so often it wasn't the person that I bumped that often stayed back.

If it is a flight that is a basic overbook they ask before they bump but if nobody volunteers, they bump. Me, my job was to get these special service passengers to their destination ASAP and the power and expectation to get them out. The liability of hanging onto a minor, the expense of hanging onto a minor, you just can't give them a hotel voucher and a food coupon with a sorry come back tomorrow but I could do that to the general passenger. If the bumpie threw a big unruly fit, I called for a Chicago Police Officer. They'd miss the flight in the holding pen. I sure many bumpies wrote letters, maybe received $$ for inconvenience but it never haunted me. Protocol was to not leave vulnerable passengers behind or in harms way. It didn't take me long to go numb to passenger anger and threats, there is a cap on what an inconvenience is valued at. We had blocks of rooms always at hotels and bought food vouchers in bulk. All this stuff is a line item on the overall ticket cost when setting pricing. It is all very routine for airlines and happens every single day. Now when it happens to me I am not amused. Accept it, but not amused.

When I traveled with my kids when they were small I ALWAYS booked through a travel agent. If something went wrong they had the ability to reroute me and get us on our way or nicely compensated. A simple phone call. My previous example of booking with an agent through Walt Disney Travel Company. I'm a big fan of travel agents booking trips.

 

[Cesar R M]

The popular kids in my school did talk to others, but it was the peer pressure and conformity thing that got to me.

peer pressure as in being surrounded by yesmen?

 

[Cesar R M]

Right, but then the jealous girl....does he like her? I mean, obviously he's taking someone else to the movies and sitting with her on the bus. What right does the other girl have to be angry with him when he doesn't seem to be that into her?

Its just a strange illogical thing. I dumped one of first girlfriends because of this.
I couldnt even ask another girl for homework info (because Im deaf and even the teachers told me to copy the assignament info from other students) yet she still threw a fit. Almost felt like she took me as her property lol.

 

[Gabe1]

did, they gave me another mushy one lol.

I'd be in heaven with an additional mushie pillow. I use to travel with my own pillow but once the bed bug thing started I feared loosing my beloved pillow and they are expensive.

 

[Cesar R M]

Great pics, Cesar!

I have a shot of one of those light fixtures in your second image. They caught my eye, too...!

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I will tweak my shots once I get back. I only have minimal tools to process the raw images.

anyway.. might be a bit slow once I'm back, I got like 30 sites to ketchup, emails,work stuff..etc..etc..
I will need a week of vacations for my vacations.

 

[catmom46]

Has he done the orientation and such? You'd think once he saw the examples that he'd figure out that he's not going to be able to manipulate it the way he wants.

But I think he has such a skewed perspective of himself, that he's the "perfect" parent, he doesn't even see that his behavior will count against him. Even when trusted friends disagree with him, he still holds his position.

Tonight he had the nerve to tell me that the only time our daughter has meltdowns is with me. Plus he said I have an "illness". But she's had tons of meltdowns with him - I even have an email from him telling me she had one with him back in the fall. He clearly does not see himself as not creating any problems or drama and yet that is all he's been doing since the divorce process began. I try so hard to ignore it and not let it bother me, but it's times like these where I want to put my fist or head through the wall.

 

[Cesar R M]

Just polished off a Reuben THE Great from Jason's Deli. Haven't had one in years. Oh my, so dang goooooood...!!!

pics or it didnt happen!