She knows who she is...Quote:
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She knows who she is...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brina
Your news is worthy of Cadbury chocolate Lise. That's yummy stuff (as FishJr would say). I was in the pharmacy yesterday waiting to get the new meds and came up some gigantic cadbury bars. Dairy milk. Yummmmm.... I had one of these in Newfoundland and ate just a little bit each night.
Cadbury chocolate.... mmmmmmm........
Freaky - another slow night in TD.
I've been shopping for books for my classroom. So far I have nearly $200 worth in my Amazon account, and I'm not done. I'll add more... I'll have to decide just exactly what I'm going to focus on first and the rest will sit in the Wish List, Save for Later or whatever Amazon calls it.
It takes good books to foster a love of reading in kids.
Beginning of the year topic choices - The Holocaust, Native Americans or Explorers. Tradition is Native Americans. :)
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All is not happy here. We're hooked on the new SciFi series "Eureka." The on-screen and internet program guides both say it should be airing. Instead we have the infantile and moronic super heros series. Of course, Dish Network has no way to talk to a human being. Very effective customer service. If it doesn't fit into one of their FAQ recorded messages, you are SOL.
We Tivoed it at 6. Haven't watched it yet.
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Do you have Dish Network? Is it showing now? I swear the software goes screwy when it downloads here. Weird things happen.
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Originally Posted by fishdr
She does!!!
Ah, Eureka is on now. Happiness is restored. Only program we're currently regularly watching these days.
And I for some unknown reason am sitting through Hellboy.....:rolleyes:
No, we have DirectV and Tivo.Quote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
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I just looked at this and saw there were over 2600 replies to this thread. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to try to catch up on what everyone said..... :D
Beta, you're not allowed to post until you read everything from the beginning!!
Just kidding...
Heh Heh Beta - okay, you only have to read the last week's worth ;)
SK - we watched Eureka last night, too (DirectTV and Tivo).
I was at work at 6:15 this morning - starting a new experiment. This is going to be a long day. I don't sample until 2:00 pm.
Considering I have these 2 major projects to do, and I've been motivated to do everything else BUT them the past 2 weeks, I suspect I just might read the whole damn thread.....
Yeah, Beta. You have to read the whole thread. It's like hazing.
It takes me an hour to catch up every time I go away for a week!
I was just reading a post from Jenny's Sister about how she hopes the family will be at the memorial ride, but it is hard for them to go there after the time spent up there searching. I can understand that. In Florida, there are official (with DOT signs) and unofficial roadside shrines for where people have died in traffic accidents. It makes me wonder why it is important for some families to memorialize the actual site where the person was last alive. You see the sites all over down here- fresh flowers, white crosses, photo albums...When I lived in MN, people didn't do that. But in Black Hills South Dakota, you'd see signs (official) on the side of the road at the scenes of fatalities, and in FLorida the signs actually have the person's name printed on them.
Just what I'm thinking about.
Switch to Direct TV if you can - O man - they have the *best* customer service. When we were having freaky problems with our box (it kept deleting all of our channels off of the recieved list every couple of weeks) not only did I get a live customer service person, but when she couldn't figure out what was wrong she connected me with the enigineers who actually program the thing. I've never had that happen before and they actually fixed the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
our dish network REALLY goes screwy here. then again we are so far away we have 6 foot dishes that are almost pointed to the ground. at least we have tv.Quote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
i read the whole thing and got caught up, ok so almost the whole thing, and did more scanning then reading. does that still count? was i hazed properly?Quote:
Originally Posted by maillotpois
Thanks, I'll remember that. I started shopping around when it appeared that Dish wasn't going to get OLN back but then they brought it back in the nick of time.
I may still go look at rates. I hate the channel packaging. We have to pay for a bagillion channels when we use about 20. OLN, Cartoon, SciFi, etc., gotta have those.
Dish didn't work for almost a year after the installation. They replaced everything but the dish itself. They sent out a supervisor to look at everything. Still had problems. Bubba finally got up on the roof himself and pointed the dish. Voila. Amazing how actually applying the rules of azimuth, altitude and magnetic north makes a difference. Buncha of idiots that can't use a basic compass.
Of course, I was petrified the entire time because our roof has a steep pitch and I hate having loved ones up there.
Only time we ever used a dish was on our RV (rented) in France when we were trying to watch the Tour on TV while waiting for the Tour to come by. We finally had to ask these old Belgian firefighters whom we befriended to help us. The book was pretty confusing. And there was the language barrier. And the pastis. All of which made climbing on the roof of the RV and getting the signal right a little confusing at first. Once we got the system "down" (knowing which channel and setting to be on was key) it got much easier to put it up there every time we stopped the car.
People have their sat TVs facing out of their RVs there, so if you don't have an RV, you can just walk by and watch on someone else's TV. It is all very social and fun. The year before we didn't have a RV/TV, and we'd just seen the tour go by and walked back down the hill to watch on someone else's RV-TV just in time to see the infamous Beloki crash. Having just seen them live 10 minutes before that was really chilling.
Some friends who went to the Tour last year brought back the directions for a TV they bought and could never get to work. Something had obviously been lost in the translation because it kept talking about a cowgirl. That was only the start of the list of "huh?" items.
Yeah - I know what you mean - the hubby installed our dish. We had our Talkabouts out and he was up on the roof (he's afraid of heights too) and I was down watching for theQuote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate
signal ...nothing....nothing...hailstorm!!!....nothing... then there it was!- so I started shouting stop! stop! into the radio. Poor guy - he's been loosening the dish to turn it some when it slipped down and he had to catch it and that was the exact right point to get a good signal. So there he is up on the roof in the hail, hanging on to the dish so that it doesn't move and trying to figure out how he's going to tighten it down without messing it up and answer me as I'm down there telling him to stop its perfect.
Just hold it there, dear. That's fine! Don't mind the hail. It's not putting dents in the cars yet so it's tiny. :D
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Originally Posted by SadieKate
Those crazy frogs....
Ce sont les grenouilles fous....
Hé, je suis Ã* moitié français ! Explique beaucoup . . .
I hope Babelfish translated correctly.
i like this babelfish thing. its fun!
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Originally Posted by SadieKate
Computers. I have never tried a computer translator thing. I just rely on my rusty archetypal childhood French.
"These are the crazy frogs..." Roughly.
I know what you said, just not sure if Babelfish translated my response correctly. Sure hate to find out I said something completely rude, only partly rude would be okay though.:p
You can tell my 2 years of college French really stuck with me, huh? I can read a bit but not speak it at all.
http://rinkworks.com/dialect/ (Don't look if you need to get work done...)
Here is an example of MP's RV comments:
Only time we evah used a dish was on our RV (rented) in France when we were tryin' t'watch th' Tour on TV while waitin' fo' th' Tour t'come by. We finally had t'ax these old Belgian firefighters whom we befriended t'he'p us. Th' book was purdy cornfusin'. An' thar was th' language barrier. An' th' pastis. All of which made climbin' on th' roof of th' RV an' gittin' th' signal right a li'l cornfusin' at fust. Once we got th' system "down" (knowin' which channel an' settin' t'be on was key) it got much easier t'put it up thar ev'ry time we stopped th' car. Varmints haf their sat TVs facin' outta their RVs thar, so eff'n yo' doesn't haf an RV, yo' kin jest walk by an' watch on someone else's TV. It is all mighty social an' fun, as enny fool kin plainly see. Th' year befo'e we didn't haf a RV/TV, an' we'd jest see th' tour hoof it by an' walked back down th' hill t'watch on someone else's RV-TV jest in time t'see th' infamous Beloki crash. Havin' jest see them live 10 minutes befo'e thet was pow'ful chillin'.
work, duh...uh...? what's work, duh...uh...? i'm a gobehnemnt workeh who's boss is out of town. i don't know de meanigg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
I received a spam email one day (you know - the nigeria dead relative ones) that was in french. That was unusual. I gave it to one of my colleages that is French. She thought I had suddenly remembered the 5 years of french that I took and can barely remember and had become creative. Unlikely.
I gots one uh de wasted nigerian relatives ones some few years ago, and ah' had Dillbird reply sayin' he would be happy t'hide deir bre'd fo' dem, but he had some few quesshuns fust. Dey neva' wrote back. Ya' know?..
I have to go run and sample - so no time to do the dialect thing. Having dillbird reply reminded me of something Mr. Fish did. He replied to some survey or something with our dog's name (Roux). He called him Roux DeDog. That dog has received newspapers, magazines, and all sorts of junkmail and phone calls. You never know who you name will be sold to! Off to sample the fishies!
That's really funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdr
I have a mental image of my dog (pictured here) sitting at the computer, looking intently at the screen, looking down at his credit card, carefully typing in the numbers... as he orders stuff online.
"Chili - put down my credit card! Get your own."
It's a good thing it's not toooo easy to buy stuff on line, or I'd have stuff arriving from all over that Isaac that cat ordered when he felt it necessary to sleep on the keyboard.
Love the dialectacizer. Can I find one that translates my (very good) Spanish into Spanish that my patients from the highlands of Ecuador can understand? One day I walked in the room and said, "Buenas tardes, yo soy Lise, la partera." The little Ecuadoran woman tapped herself on the chest and replied, "NO SPEEK ENGLEES!" I said, (in Spanish), "But I'm speaking Spanish!" She replied, "NO ENGLEES!" Sigh. :confused: :rolleyes:
Good news on the medical front: All the tests were normal. She checked iron level, electrolytes, thyroid. All fine. Echocardiogram is next Tuesday. I'm working on the less-caffeine thing. Again, sigh. Glad to have the good news from the doc.
PS: Beta, yeah, you gotta read all the posts. Sorry. We did, and we can't let you slack, much as we like you. That pesky doctoral program will wait!
Well, you know how Isaac translates in Hebrew, don't you? At least according to all the baby name dictionaries, it means "Laughing One." I keep telling Izaak the Wonder Poodle that it doesn't mean he can laugh at us as we jump to his every whim (it's really my hubby that does the jumping :rolleyes: ).
Thanks for the medical update. Keep us posted on the next step. Lowering caffeine intake sucks, doesn't it? I also found out I could tolerate caffeine better with no BC pills. Better living through the right chemicals . . .
Oh man, Nanci - here I was struggling not to play with Babel fish all day and now you give us this!!!
Lise - god news about the medical tests. However, for me having to cut back caffeine would be EXTREMELY difficult. I only have one a day, though... :rolleyes: