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[emily_in_nc]

So sorry, Crankin. I am glad you got some good visits with your father before he passed.

My sympathies to you and your family.

Emily

[Crankin]

I am worried about my brother. I called him twice yesterday and texted once. He's doing everything right for himself, but still, I worry. I told DS #2 to please go down and visit him this weekend, but of course, not sure if he can.

[chickwhorips]

Just stopping in to say hi! I just wanted to let you guys know I miss ya. Big hugs and loves!

[crazycanuckoz]

Me too..popping in to say YO!!

[shootingstar]

Hi chickiworps, crazycancuckoz!

Sorry to hear about our father's passing, Crankin. Brother sounds like a great person and hopefully encouraged he spend time with a friend or 2 now.

[Xrayted]

Sorry to hear about your Dad, Crankin. I'm glad you got to see him this summer.

Chickwhorips is in Seattle this week!! She has some appointments while there but I'm sure would love to see a few of you ladies while in town. She's staying with my partner at her ranch in Woodinville. I'm driving back up tonight after work and will be up there till Sat. We have stuff going on on Tues but at this point, are open through the week unless more appointments come up. So, if any of you would like to get together, go for dinner, do some sightseeing, come over and pet some horses or whatever, let us know. No biking right now, sorry. Don't plan any big adventure things either, I want her to take it easy and that's a challenge for her. It would be a cool thing though, the PNW ladies getting together again with the AK connection. Send me a PM and I'll send you my phone #. Texting is best today yet because I'll still be at work.

Namaste.

[Trek420]

Crankin, sorry to hear about your dad

Crazycannukoz, down to 20 posts?

Chickwho, good to see ya!

Xrayted, keep me posted. Thursday a through Sat works best.

[Catrin]

So glad to hear you won't need surgery! Take care and feel better soon!

[Pax]

Thanks! I was really sweating it. I am so sick of having knee surgery I could scream. Now I just have to rehab it and be more gentle with it. He says I really need to stop lifting or carrying heavy objects because it just puts too much stress on the damaged joint, so if I'd like to avoid knee replacement surgery for a few more years I have to be more mindful.

[OakLeaf]

Phew! So glad you won't need surgery. Good luck with the PT!

[Catrin]

For some reason I scrolled down to the bottom of the main forum page this morning and actually read this (it isn't new, I just usually ignore it):

Spam-O-Matic StatisticsSpam-O-Matic Statistics
89985 Spammers Denied Registration
385 Spammers Permanently Banned
437 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam
445 Spammers submitted to Akismet
5163 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated

THANK YOU TE and the forum administrators for dealing with this. I know these statistics are from those things that get caught automatically, but it makes me wonder how many posts get past the spam software that the rest of us doesn't see...

[Pax]

For some reason I scrolled down to the bottom of the main forum page this morning and actually read this (it isn't new, I just usually ignore it):

Spam-O-Matic StatisticsSpam-O-Matic Statistics
89985 Spammers Denied Registration
385 Spammers Permanently Banned
437 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam
445 Spammers submitted to Akismet
5163 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated

THANK YOU TE and the forum administrators for dealing with this. I know these statistics are from those things that get caught automatically, but it makes me wonder how many posts get past the spam software that the rest of us doesn't see...

When I was in my insomniac phase I was constantly reporting scammers in the middle of the night, that ticker at the bottom has been fun to watch!

[snapdragen]

For some reason I scrolled down to the bottom of the main forum page this morning and actually read this (it isn't new, I just usually ignore it):

Spam-O-Matic StatisticsSpam-O-Matic Statistics
89985 Spammers Denied Registration
385 Spammers Permanently Banned
437 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam
445 Spammers submitted to Akismet
5163 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated

THANK YOU TE and the forum administrators for dealing with this. I know these statistics are from those things that get caught automatically, but it makes me wonder how many posts get past the spam software that the rest of us doesn't see...

Spam-O-Matic is the best thing since sliced bread, I kid you not! The largest number of spam posts by one person I've nuked was about 170. None of them made it past the moderation wall. And no, I didn't have to delete each post. The software manages to search and find all posts by person that is being nuked, and deletes them all. It's lovely.

[Catrin]

This made me laugh!

[lph]

I had the joy of overhearing two young teenage girls, psyched from the climbing gym, loudly and very eagerly discussing exactly how dishonest one could be towards ones parents. One of them had obviously lost or broken some item. They agreed that she didn't have to say how it happened, and pretending that she forgot and put it into the washing machine by mistake was fine. But she could NOT say that her mother had put it into the washing machine by mistake, because that was LYING. "You have to take the responsibility yourself, right?"
On and on. Very amusing :-D