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    Quote Originally Posted by KnottedYet View Post
    Try putting one of Trek's Dove chocolates on the pillow instead. Might get better results than a rat. Just a thought...
    But the consequences of chocolate not working are that it melts and soaks into the pillow. The consequences of a rat not working? Do they pee on pillows?
    Oil is good, grease is better.

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    I've never seen rats not work. Gebo's such a hound for attention, he'll roll over on his back to get more cuddles and petting if he's not getting enough as-is. At worst, there are a couple rat hairs upstairs, but they stick to clothes anyway... *shrug*
    Concequences are more likely that she'll want to go downstairs for coffee etc instead of tarrying upstairs awhile, but I can handle that.

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    fish - glad to hear that fishjr is doing better and your getting settled in just fine.

    mailotpois - i grabbed some of the photos off our shared drive at work. i have access to a ton of photos that people have taken over the years around here. some of them are quite funny. you should see some of them from when we go eider banding. blackmail central!

    kit - no need to thank me. i'm just helping the hippies along on their natural path. sometimes certain ones - no names coughkitcough - need a push now and again so they don't forgit. though its helping though, so you have nothing to complain about.

    ah yes... sitting here at my other job as a postie and no mail to put up. the mail plane is about 3 hours late and they haven't brough it over yet. oh great... angry townies... hope they don't bring the pitchforks again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chickwhorips View Post
    ah yes... sitting here at my other job as a postie and no mail to put up. the mail plane is about 3 hours late and they haven't brough it over yet. oh great... angry townies... hope they don't bring the pitchforks again.
    Is it worng to begin stalking my mail carrier for my SS package? I know it is coming and I want it. I swear he keeps my packages for days on end.

    I doubt staring out the window at the letter box will make him come any sooner. Last night I received my mail at 6:30pm!

    Yes, the highlight of my life is the hope that something besides junk mail and bills will come to my house. Sad I know. I need a life.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3 View Post
    Is it worng to begin stalking my mail carrier for my SS package? I know it is coming and I want it. I swear he keeps my packages for days on end.

    I doubt staring out the window at the letter box will make him come any sooner. Last night I received my mail at 6:30pm!

    Yes, the highlight of my life is the hope that something besides junk mail and bills will come to my house. Sad I know. I need a life.
    Maybe he takes time to open them to see what's in. In that case, he probably wore your bra from Knotted before you did.

    heeheehee... Now you know why it felt a little stretched.(Yeah, we definitely need a "Blech" smiley!)
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    na... nothing wrong with it BMof3. just make sure you don't threaten him. last thing you want to do is make the posties mad. trust me there are a couple in this town that did.

    found a where's george dollar in the register today. i promply put it into www.wheresgeorge.com. if anyone wants to track this one the number is L66291710B. series is 2003A
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3 View Post
    Is it worng to begin stalking my mail carrier for my SS package? I know it is coming and I want it. I swear he keeps my packages for days on end.
    Better than the postie who died in Massachusetts and had huge amounts of undelivered mail in his apartment, some 20 years old. http://www2.townonline.com/brookline...ticleid=597888
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    At 5:35, my mail finally arrived with NO packages.

    At least I have the Kona Ironman to watch.
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    Bikingmomof3 "At least I have the Kona Ironman to watch. "

    where? vs has some body-builder-strongest man contest. Where's the "bleah" smiley?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3 View Post
    Is it worng to begin stalking my mail carrier for my SS package? I know it is coming and I want it. I swear he keeps my packages for days on end.

    I doubt staring out the window at the letter box will make him come any sooner. Last night I received my mail at 6:30pm!

    Yes, the highlight of my life is the hope that something besides junk mail and bills will come to my house. Sad I know. I need a life.
    Yeah, me too. Did the mail come ? did the mail come?
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    MP- RAAM, you've gotta be kidding! I saw some chick today who really is racing RAAM next year. She rode a 4:30 Century today. I am too tired to rewrite- I'm going to copy my e-mail to two girls from my group I ride with on weekends:

    (I started one hour early at 7:30, and am very glad I missed an hour of broiling sun)

    So how did it go? I thought a lot more people would catch up to me, but I never saw the A riders till right before 50 miles, and then others just trickled by.

    Kathy, that girl in the BMB jersey rode it in 4:30!! I saw her at Watermelon Park- some guy she was with says to her- pointing at my bike- "Look, you could get a rack like that for your bike," and she says, just dripping with disgust, "Yeah, right." She's from Miami and a friend of Barb's, who is going to race RAAM next year.

    Barb caught me at about 70 miles. I was really having trouble staying awake, right after Rob drove past, so I stopped at this little store. (The owner was mad- she said some guy from GCC had stopped by a month ago and told her that her store would be a designated stop, so she'd bought $1000 worth of extra stuff, and no one was stopping...Anyway, I wanted a Coke Blak or something, but I had an Amp, guzzled it down. Then my stomach felt like crap. (But at least I wasn't falling asleep!) So Barb and some girl caught me at about 65 or 70, and I tried to hang with them, and made it till past the rest stop in Worthington Springs- didn't stop. My stomach was upset. They just gradually left me.

    At Hague, I got a Coke for my waterbottle and a sweet tea, and ate some peanuts. After TWO bathroom stops there, (the bad kind, the second time) I felt pretty good again. My total time was 6:35 riding, 7:15 total. So an hour less riding than last year, and 20 minutes less of stops.

    The weather wasn't like I thought it was going to be...

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    Blech, then I came home and took a shower and went to bed, where two people managed to call in an hour.

    Fish, I'm so happy FJ is settled in, and Roux is doing well.

    Lise, that guy's totally checking availability.

    Knot- now that you're single, I think you should call Jessie. You and Lise could double date (well, if J doesn't mind) with her and Peter. Seriously, I don't have any insight, other than the usual, but I think of you often and hope things are going better.

    BMO3, we don't have cable, so I have to wait till the DVD comes out! Wow, someone probalby won by now! Or do you mean you're watching live feed? Doh!!

    IM Florida in two weeks. That whole trip is a financial fiasco- I can't even go into it, but rather than staying home and pouting while BF slept on someone's floor, I found a hotel for $44/night that even takes pets. A mile from HQ.

    Gotta take the torts out to graze.

    Number Two (think of Dr. Evil's guy, not the other meaning!) is picked up and settled in. I don't know what to call Number One yet. But I had this idea of if I have to keep them over the winter, I can just feed them the same way I do the snakes, in a container with crickets or nightcrawlers or whatever.

    Not sure if I'm going to let Fagalo hibernate out in the yard or bring him in. He is VERY heavy- would be fine to hibernate. And the bathtub wouldn't be tied up for months.

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    OMG, it's a sign! I was listening to a podcast interview of Jessie, and she said, on the bus to Escape From Alcatraz, PR peed in his wetsuit and it got on her!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nanci View Post
    OMG, it's a sign! I was listening to a podcast interview of Jessie, and she said, on the bus to Escape From Alcatraz, PR peed in his wetsuit and it got on her!
    A sign of what?!? Good Lord. I'm sure she misspoke. Sure of it.

    I am sure J. wouldn't mind if I dated either PR or Jessie. I mean, one has to take such opportunities when they arise. Think I'll not mention this to him until such an opportunity does arise, however.

    I'm watching the live feed of Kona--Natascha Badman just started the run. Her ability to smile the whole time is dumbfounding to me. I'd love to see her win her 7th Kona championship. I love these guys.

    Nanci, who are #1 & 2? Beasts, no doubt, of the herp variety.

    Mimitabby--*I* only delivered one baby last night. The midwife on before me delivered one, and that lady ended up having a very rare complication of internal bleeding, ended up needing a hysterectomy and blood transfusion. Scary. Fortunately, it was her 2nd baby, and she's mid-30s, not planning any more babes. My other two ladies needed to be delivered by c-section. I don't do surgery, but was with them the whole time. The first lady pushed for 3.5 hours before we finally called it, at 4 AM. So I was up, working with her, trying, trying, trying. The other lady was sectioned at 5:30AM. I have delivered six babies in 12 hours; I think that's my personal record. How? Caffeine. The killer is the paperwork, no joke. I have run from one room to the other, pulling off my gloves as I go, to catch one baby after another. The nurses and the docs back me up, we work well as a team.
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