Chit Chat Thread for the week of June 16th 2008

I find it hard to believe that no one noticed that I forgot to put up a new chit chat thread this morning.

Miss POI

I am amazed that Charlie didn't start one when he couldn't find it.

It had me so shook up that I thought Mercury was coming out of retrograde tomorrow, and it won't be until the 19th, and with a full moon on the 18th I'm just beside myself.... If the wheels don't come off the trolley.......

The price of....

Whoaa some one's some sort of rocket scientist

She's a witch, her coven meets every new moon, oh and she’s also a goddess, her favorite whine is ‘I want to go to’... I just am somewhat interested in astronomy.... As you should have guessed by AOphiuchus…. Ophiuchus a constellation near Taurus, a = alpha the brightest star in a constellation and since I’m so bright my mother calls me…… and now you know the rest of the story.

And if you want me to believe that , I have a bridge for sale in Saskatchewan, Ca.

ohwogo nuvi 750 Have a great night.

It's been so warm around here I thought I would give my pet hot dog Sparky a cooling off period at the local pool.

He seems to like it.

Happy Tuesday. Just got a Nuvi 260W. With 2009 map pre loaded.

Everyone go grab Firefox 3. Just released today. The best browser in the world! http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ Should show on site in 9 am pacific time.

yeah Happy Tuesday hope it's good for everyone.

Just stopped in to say Hi! Been too busy lately.

I was wodnering if it was me. I was looking for the post, but couldn't find it.

Oh well, at least we all know you are human and make mistakes on occasion...

Alan

I think we can make one allowance for your forgetting with all the other stuff you do.

If anybody sees a beagle puppy running through central NJ, please grab him. One of our pups broke his collar and I haven't been able to find him. Just venting, a little depressed.

In Parkersburg, Iowa...the town that got seriously damaged by a tornado a couple weeks ago...there was an auto salvage guy who was picking up destroyed cars from the lot where they had gathered and placed them from about the town and in the back seat of one of the cars was a dog...so the salvage guy looks around in the car...finds the name of an insurance agent...the agent locates the car & dog's owner who had been looking for their companion since the storm. Wherever the dog ended up, he made his way back to town, found his master's car, and crawled in....dog & owner were happy to be reunited.

Great story of a happy ending. Thanks for sharing.

Alan

Very cool. I hope ours turns out the same way, We definitely are not going through anything like those folks.

My son turned 21 today.

Attended one last week (grammar school). Got another to attend this Saturday (college). Believe it or not, the college graduation is set to start earlier (at 8:30am -- poor graduates!) than the graduation for the grammar school which was at 12:30pm.

Saw and ad today on TV for the Nissan Rogue (a new crossover SUV) and they said it had a Garmin Navigation system in it. Just got a glimpse of the inside and it looked like a dash mounted instead of a built in. At least someone is recognizing a good GPSr in the car business.

Say goodbye Lakers. 22 years is too long, but I'm glad to see Boston finally win one. They've been pretty mediocre for quite a while.

I figured they would win tonight, but I didn't expect the blowout I'm watching.

I like what I see so far, I just wish all of my add-ons worked! I may have to downgrade until some of my critical ones get upgraded.

You think we will ever see gas/diesel prices come back down to "reasonable" levels?

Not until we find a better way to make biofuels in the U.S.. Corn isn't the answer. Oil producers are going to continue making as much money as they can until there is a good alternate energy source. You can be certain that they don't want offshore drilling to drive oil prices lower. They just want something to pump at $200 per barrel when their current fields go dry.

Will the big 3 be back for more next year?

Now if the Pat's had won, we could have had a trifecta! It still hurts to think about that one.

Oh well, Rolling Rally downtown tomorrow in Beantown! Everyone behave and have fun.

Hope you find your puppy very, very soon. Once you get him back, time for a harness. My Westies (hunting dogs like your beagle) like to wiggle out of collars, but they can't get loose from a harness.

My prayers are that you get your pup back soon, safe and sound.

Keep us posted.

Hope you get your puppy back, when you do you might consider having it microchiped. Both our chessies are and I know of a couple of cases where it has lead to a speedy return

Hope everyone is having a great week - Hot here in ETEX and doesn't seem like it is gonna get any cooler - dog days of summer here, so will take my NUVI and find somewhere cooler - Ya'll have a great rest of the week

Believe it or not, we just had two pups done last week and this week he was scheduled to get done. Thank's for all you encouragement.

Thank you! It means a lot. We have 4 dogs who are all like children to us.

Just stopping by to say hi. I just got a nuvi 360 and love it! Not sure how I was able to get around w/o one of these things lol

Thanks for letting me vent. My beagle is home. One of the tow truck drivers I deal with at work found him about 5 miles from our house and called to him. Sonny came running over, the driver grabbed him and brought him home! Thank you for all of your messages and well wishes. My wife and I are so happy.

Thought I was going to be stuck out West. Amtrak service has been suspended indefinitely between Denver and Chicago due to flooding in Iowa. I was able to book a flight [at considerable expense] from Denver to Detroit for Saturday, so I get to spend an extra day in the Mountain Time Zone. Now, all I need when I get home is a ride from the airport ...

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it's the dog's fault

Can the Rays snatch another W tonight from the Cubbies (the best team in baseball)?!?

GO RAYS!!!!!!

p.s. - Hey Lou, welcome back to St Pete!

Rays - 2
Cubs - 0

So, what do ya think of your old team, Lou?

WOW! 91 holes of golf! And also, how 'bout those Celtics! Mediate fought hard; Lakers didn't.

The Rays sweep the 3-game series from the Cubs (the team with the best record in baseball).

GO RAYS!!!!!!

Why I haven’t seen a go cubbies lately....

It's about that time of year. The Cubs should slide quickly now. They always have in the past. Sometimes it's hard to be a fan!

The Dodgers.... I quit following sports.... Used to be a Rams fan also, Clippers, Lakers...Never a Raider fan, but my kids were/are....

Oh yeah! Just LUV Firefox - and I agree that it is the best.

Well, my c550 got me to Dubuque Iowa from L.A. Without a hitch. We had to detour around Cedar Rapids on the way in on Monday. Drove down to Cedar Rapids yesterday to pick up relatives at the airport. Took a detour thru town to video the aftermath of the flooding. Quite dramatic. Drove by a railroad bridge that collapsed into the Cedar River with freight cars on it! Quite a lot of ruined furniture piled up at the curbs. Who knew there were so many disaster mitigation companies? Hundreds of trucks.

It probably looks a lot like New Orleans did after Katrina. I couldn't get over the devastation and the smell! My wife and I spent months rehabing a couple of houses down there.

Oh great, the environmentalist will say this is the cause of global warming. Then they make off shore drilling unavailable. We need more oil and without more oil we will face even higher gas prices. People might say it will take 10 years to build them. But, 10 years ago they also said that it was a waste to build them in 10 years.

Go Cubbies!

There you are....

Notice, he didn't say too much more.

Wait till the Chinese demand 90% of the worlds oil, thats just around the corner. The USA uses 30% now.

Then what? I have to ask the environmentalists.

However,
Oil prices could be driven down over the next few years and the reason can be summed up in one word:

IRAQ

With major western oil companies locked out of most countries with large reserves and OPEC therefore having a strangle hold on increasing production the U.S. has looked to Iraq to provide access to it oil and push down prices by ignoring OPEC quotas and ramping up production. Oil may not have been the only reason for the U.S. invasion, but it was certainly a big one. With up to 115 billion barrels of light sweet oil Iraq has the possibility to become the second largest producer of low cost, high quality oil in the world after Saudi Arabia.

For those interested:
http://tinyurl.com/3tpwsn

I'm going to hold out for the Fuel Cell, if Iraq exported bananas the war would have never happened, and the fuel cell would already be on the road. It's not like NASA didn't perfect them for space travel years ago.