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No. No I dont' I need a 12 step program. First step: stop eating cities.

Wingy I was just happier when it was smaller. Better yet when it wasn't out at all.

Great. Now what, JP, huh? Breathmints do really bad things to hallucinogenic skydive deprived nuclearmutant lizards. Where's my shorts!

Oh shit. Bad Idea.

Better that than nothing, eh?

Whoop, there it is.

Oh. OK. It never ocurred to me to have video and stills without the ringsight Never mind.

Can I vote? Now I'm a permanent resident alien I can vote in some things, just no one can tell me what. -Ben You can vote in property owner elections, Ben. They are mail-ballot only. Since you live in San Francisco you can pick yours out of any ballot box you find floating in the Bay!

But you said i was a good girl... He has confused nasty with evil. Good nasty.

See Q, us terrestrials have to have a reference to where the cameras are pointing when the helmet is on our head. Just cause you can extend your left eye on a stalk and compare the viewfinders to what your right eye is seeing through the site, doesn't mean us mortal humans can. Stop rubbing it in.

Yukon Jack is the official breakfast whiskey. It is simply nasty as any other meal.

You gotta be kidding. The people who've gotten divorced usually want to validate their choice by increasing their ranks. Having difficulties? "Get divorced and be like me!" When I was looking for encouragement, I had plenty of people telling me how to get out and save my retirement, and keep my house and what lawyer to use, but only ONE MAN who told me to stick it out. He was right. You bet we'da both probably walked away at some point if it was no-harm, no-foul. There are always times where the bend in the tunnel prevents you from seeing the light at the end. At those times when you lose hope. But the more of those you survive, the more you can retain hope when there's nothing to see to give you hope. When faith can sustain you. Yeah, we're happy. Geez, Roy, you spent the weekend with us camping at the USA boogie. We've got projects, both personal and relationship-wise that we've got to work on, but yeah, I'm happy with being married. If I could get you to stop trying to put that Ronco spray-paint on my head, I'd have it all.

No. It wouldn't have. Having kids was fundamentally life-changing. Then I got hurt at work and it was a hot, dark, miserable place for a while. We started with nothing and had a very comfortable lifestyle and two beautiful kids at that point. Yes, in California after 10 years of marriage there is a "lifelong commitment", meaning the stay-at-home Mom gets financial support forever. That wasn't a real big deal, cause my wife makes good money. The hard part was calming the hell down and talking about how neither of us liked the life we were in then, and describing a future that both of us could agree on and work toward. I think of this as "renegotiating the deal". Before either partner makes a big directional change in thier life, they have to agree to it. A challenge is when one partner wants to make a change that unintentionally causes discomfort to the other, and then the other INTENTIONALLY causes discomfort back. Something like: "I want to skydive" "Fine, I want to go on a singles cruise" See, those two things aren't connected. ( And Corinne never said that) Something similar might be, "OK, then I'll watch the kids on Saturday while you do that, but on Sunday I want you to watch then while I play in a coed volleyball league" Yeah, Roy, the institution of marriage is supposed to complicate breaking it up. There's gonna be that notice in the paper that one of the pair wants out, and doing that public statement that you want out is much harder than making the public statement that you are in it forever. Thanks everybody for your thoughts. JP

HH in the house!

Wendy is an onion without a middle. You keep peeling her back and there's always more. I was so sorry to have missed you at Perris. I hope you pull a rabbit out of a hat and make it to Eloy. Me you and Ben were the only ones out of what, 50 , who made contact in some of those funnels?

I am blowing box wine Zinfandel out my nose! Ach! BEE EH YOU TI FULL! You one funny monkey! BWAH!

That is pretty much all two people have to do. Loveandhappiness. JP

My main green-machine man, if you're gonna get serious, you gotta get a PC or TRV. It's a neat camera, but it won't displace the mini DV for a while yet.

I know one other couple who's made it work as long as me and the fair Corinne. Skydivers, too. My parents didn't, my sisters (3) didn't, and recently my in-laws have hit the skids after about a zillion years. But just because it doesn't always work, is that a fair reason to condemn it? Maybe. But I fed my girls tonight, and their Mom is working late doing her Executive Secretary thing, and she'll be home after they're asleep. I'll probably be reading after giving the girls a bath, and they will definitely be asleep. (They're watching Tom and Jerry now) We've been doing this for about 20 years. (7 with kids). It's OK. I've been a bunch of different things (PLC Candidate, office pogue, Deputy, Cop, Bureaucrat, fat guy, fit guy) and so has she. It's OK. It's hard. Don't fear it. You can do it. With some luck and a lot of very hard work.

Yes, you gorgeous creature! That or your amazing morning blast-furnace happiness. Who doesn't love Sunshine? I do!

THat is a bad idea. But you can find 3M velcro already on adhesive at Home Depot, or Ace Hardware. But don't do it.

Actually it should be a Clay story and involve sheep.

That's a bull story, but whatever. Newbie: "Lets run down the hill and screw one of those cows" Vet: "Lets just walk down and screw all of them"

Negative ghostrider, the pattern is full. The candidates to fill the office will be on the ballot. So will the racial privacy initiative. So will the State Infrastructue fund initiative. Once this thing is in motion, and it is, the Governor can't quit and let the Lt. Governor take over. He could quit, but he'd get recalled anyhow and his successor selected.