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Post by TullSkull on Jun 16, 2008 0:10:38 GMT
We all have so many ups and downs ~ good and bads in our lives... So What Made Your Week?? This was a great week for me.. Got the garden planted, got a new garden bed built.... GOT My Tickets for the Tull Show at the Greek LA.. YEA!!!!! ;D ;D YIPPIE, Get to meet Gurl and Skate and Jackalynn ...
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 16, 2008 12:03:05 GMT
What made my week? Seeing my daughter and two granddaughters on Father's Day and getting beer as a present. Didn't last long! And it's nice and sunny here in Cornwall.
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Post by admin on Jun 30, 2008 9:54:31 GMT
I had a lovely weekend of music...Saturday was Bon Jovi at Twickenham Stadium (my wife & daughter are both Bon Jovi nuts!) and yesterday was Rachel Unthank & The Winterset at Leigh On sea Folk festival playing on the back of a truck in the Peter Boat pub car park! With a pint of London Pride & a tub of cockles & crayfish tails.....heaven
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Post by TullSkull on Jul 7, 2008 22:47:38 GMT
I was at work this past week and my cell phone rang, was a good friend of mine from Tbilisi Georgia. You know over there near Turkey.. That was .. Being we have only ever chatted on line... Surprise!!!
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Post by skatingaway on Jul 12, 2008 15:43:15 GMT
Calling in everyday, and still not having to appear for Jury Duty
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Post by TullSkull on Aug 13, 2008 2:08:11 GMT
Seeing my good friend Nino show up on the Island Sunday morning, and knowing she was safely home....
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Post by TullSkull on Aug 26, 2008 1:47:10 GMT
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Post by broadsword on Sept 10, 2008 22:57:36 GMT
Despite the fact I lost something I was bidding for on Ebay,( see what p----d you off this week), I see I've been promoted to Junior Member
Yahooooooooooooo
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Post by admin on Sept 12, 2008 21:03:44 GMT
Despite the fact I lost something I was bidding for on Ebay,( see what p----d you off this week), I see I've been promoted to Junior Member Yahooooooooooooo Lol, that's just the software counting your posts mate, I don't want to give you too much excitement in one day but actually you are most definitely a senior member here amigo. ;D
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Post by electrocutas on Sept 13, 2008 6:42:52 GMT
The particle accelerator..Big Bang machine never sent us all into a black hole....
OR maybe it did and we just never noticed ??
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Post by onewhiteduck on Sept 13, 2008 7:48:20 GMT
Electrocutas. Its ok man the guy in charge is an ex hippie from the next village here in South Wales. Sure he knows what he's doing!! Cosmic.
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Post by steelmonkey on Oct 19, 2008 21:42:33 GMT
Years ago Halloween was the most important day on the SF social calender..a local outburst of fun and acknowledgement of everything that made SF different from the rest of the country...then AIDS and drugs and violent buttheads from the 'burbs, looking for fights, pretty much knocked the street parties on the head and halloween faded in importance...now I have a three year old and...voila...Halloween is a BIG DEAL!
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 5, 2008 23:30:37 GMT
The election results made my week...it's about time this country tapped on the brakes of the hurdle into paranoia, nationalism, military big dickedness and general idiocy...I don't expect miracles form the new boss but he sure beats the old boss...and many before him...hey world, can we re-join you now?...we're gonna try to be good...really...
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Post by steelmonkey on Nov 29, 2008 2:34:44 GMT
Big, positive step in the battle to keep my house....all thanks to a referral to a friend of a Tull Board member...should be able to hang on to the place at least thru Xmas, if not longer. I won't embarass the heroic member...maybe a clue....a very hard clue: M.A.
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Post by broadsword on Nov 29, 2008 8:17:31 GMT
Got my rotovator working real good - built up from bits of others. Then I saw steelmonkeys' news and thought my good news is pretty damned insignificant - nice one Steel, got my fingers crossed for ya.
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Post by maddogfagin on Nov 29, 2008 8:56:46 GMT
Big, positive step in the battle to keep my house....all thanks to a referral to a friend of a Tull Board member...should be able to hang on to the place at least thru Xmas, if not longer. I won't embarass the heroic member...maybe a clue....a very hard clue: M.A. Excellent news steel - hope things get better & better. I've always thought that Tull fans are a better breed of individual than some of those encountered elsewhere.
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Post by rayman2112 on Dec 3, 2008 20:44:29 GMT
It would appear as though my wife is knocked up. i suppose i could add it to the what pissed you off this week thread as well. (kidding!)
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 4, 2008 8:53:50 GMT
Baby Tullies all around then. Congratulations to both of you. How about baby Tull merchandising then? Nappies with the Anderson logo on one leg?
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 4, 2008 20:48:07 GMT
Cappuchino song was my infants favorite...now, at 4, she's on to countless other Tull favorites and charming mis-interpretations of lyrics ( the rhino sleeps, cold coat, lined by the mummy section). Her first gig was red rocks this summer and she fist pounded with the best of them during aqualung!
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Post by TullSkull on Dec 28, 2008 15:52:18 GMT
We now have a real winter Got 3 feet of snow over Christmas, stayed plowed out....
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Post by rebecca on Dec 29, 2008 18:33:46 GMT
I had dinner Saturday night with an old friend from college. I've seen him about once a year at parties, but not had any alone time with him for about 4 years. Wow, and we used to talk the paint off the walls back in the old days! He also used to do a mime to "Aqualung," but I wouldn't want to remind him of that! We've always gone through periods when we were really close and then go our separate ways for awhile, but I know he'd move heaven and earth for me if I needed it, and vice versa. But what was also great is that on the way, my tire (right front) blew and I ended up stranded in a very iffy area. Within a minute, two young guys (late teens or so) came along and the darlings stopped, asked if they could help, and put my spare on. That could have been a much worse experience, in a lot of ways.
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Post by rebecca on Jan 23, 2009 21:28:40 GMT
Can I just say....Tuesday
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 8, 2009 11:06:10 GMT
My daughter telling me she's getting married ;D
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Post by maddogfagin on Feb 8, 2009 11:25:32 GMT
My daughter telling me she's getting married ;D Congratulations etc etc. It starts getting expensive from now on
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Post by jioffe on Feb 8, 2009 21:35:46 GMT
My daughter telling me she's getting married ;D Cheers, Jioffe.
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Post by rebecca on Feb 10, 2009 23:51:42 GMT
This is good, at least for now. Having received a master's degree but looking for a job during a time when funding is being cut and layoffs are happening, I've been eaking out an unreliable living in various ways, and I contacted my old friend who is in charge of the studio where I used to work pre-layoff. He went to bat for me and worked it out so that I could come back for two months while somebody is on maternity leave (my other old friend Erin alerted me to this). This is completely unique and they just don't DO things like this at this company, so I'm really touched by that. This is my second day back and it's been really, really nice. People have been so glad to see me and I'm so glad to see them - as anybody who knows me is aware, I am the most sentimental creature on the planet! I don't want to stay there - it's not for me anymore, but it's wierd in a very lovely way to be able to step back into it for just a short time.
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Post by jioffe on Feb 11, 2009 18:33:34 GMT
This is good, at least for now. Having received a master's degree but looking for a job during a time when funding is being cut and layoffs are happening, I've been eaking out an unreliable living in various ways, and I contacted my old friend who is in charge of the studio where I used to work pre-layoff. He went to bat for me and worked it out so that I could come back for two months while somebody is on maternity leave (my other old friend Erin alerted me to this). This is completely unique and they just don't DO things like this at this company, so I'm really touched by that. This is my second day back and it's been really, really nice. People have been so glad to see me and I'm so glad to see them - as anybody who knows me is aware, I am the most sentimental creature on the planet! I don't want to stay there - it's not for me anymore, but it's wierd in a very lovely way to be able to step back into it for just a short time. Two bits of excellent news! Well done, Becca! Cheers, Jioffe.
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Post by rebecca on Feb 11, 2009 23:27:27 GMT
Thanks Jeff. Wish I had a teaching job to be happy about. But on the other hand, it's really nice stepping back into this, knowing that it's not going to be for that long. It reminds me who I am when I already know instead of when I'm trying to learn (and not getting that much support - you'd think teachers would be better at teaching how to teach, but instead it's like they feel like they have to jealously guard what they know and not let you in). And subbing erodes your self-confidence on a daily basis. So I needed to be reminded.
Oh, I was thinking of something else. I spent awhile yesterday morning talking to Todd, my old office roommate for so many years - while working, of course! It occurred to me somewhere along the line that personality wise, you two seem quite similar in some ways. There's even something of a physical resemblance.
Only, I did sell him on Maria McKee!! He mentioned how, before he heard I was coming back he'd seen a greatest hits of hers and bought it, and how that felk kind of precient. He thought it was a shame it was only $2.00! I gave him cassettes years ago - maybe it's time for me to update those! (you win some and you lose some!)
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Post by nonrabbit on Feb 12, 2009 8:29:05 GMT
- you'd think teachers would be better at teaching how to teach, but instead it's like they feel like they have to jealously guard what they know and not let you in). This seems to be the case here too Rebecca generally speaking with the Primary or Elementary schools. My daughter is at university training to be a Secondary teacher ie ages 11 to 17/18 years. She had her first placement in a Primary school teaching the older class. The staff were awful to her, not supportive, wouldn't let her sit in the staff room at breaks. She has now moved on a year and in a second placement in a Secondary school - a school within a catchment area with poverty and social issues and the staff are absolutely brilliant to her. My best friend left teaching (primary) years ago because of lack of support and general bitchiness amongst the teachers. There are of course exceptions.
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Post by rebecca on Feb 13, 2009 2:45:01 GMT
Oh my gosh, I'm sorry it's like that there too. Being back at my old job has reminded me of all sorts of things, like how there the employees are friendly and WANT you to be able to do well! At the school where I did my student teaching, I was expected to show up at all the staff meetings but I was never told directly when they were. I got fussed at because I missed the first one, when the teacher I was working with didn't tell me. I was told "it's in the staff notes". What staff notes? "Your teacher gets them every week. You should be looking at it." Okay, fine, so if I'm responsible for knowing this stuff, how about giving me my own copy? How about a mailbox? How about an email address? How about a parking space? I wasn't even considered good enough to park with the honor students!
Oh well! I'm not surprised about what you say about the secondary school being better, considering its nature - the good schools I've been at, the ones where I would most like to be, are always the ones designed for kids who have such disadvantages. They really try harder to run things with dignity and respect for everyone.
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