The Quarter Century Random Discussion for TPBM (25)

Great card, Dan. I love the hands over the shoulder stance.

PERMIE - hope you get over what you got. Sounds like your rumbly is beginning to settle.

Becky N wrote in post #8038161
Great card, Dan. I love the hands over the shoulder stance.

Yeah. I thought it was super sweet.

I finally took a picture of my very cool new plant this year... I can't remember it's exact name... but it is a "trumpet plant." A purple one to be exact... Check this sucker out...

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Evening folks.

That is neat, Jenn. Looks like a hybrid Clementius.

Hi, Ick.

mtnphtgrphr wrote in post #8037874
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #8038130

Thank you Dan, I love it.

mtnphtgrphr wrote in post #8038192
I finally took a picture of my very cool new plant this year... I can't remember it's exact name... but it is a "trumpet plant." A purple one to be exact... Check this sucker out...

Cool

A quick stop through and we are off to check on the boys. Back a bit later.

Ouch I have a headache over my right eye.

Permie! Feel better!

Evening folks.

First things first:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZANE!!!
and
Happy BELATED BIRTHDAY ERIC!!

Second....great shots posted by folks...meet up shots, soccer and flowers...wow, the flowers...real nice. Kona shots were cool as always...and the mountain shots...nice...I wanna go there.

eddarr wrote in post #8032533
Ebay is so funny. I'm just sold something on there. The bid was $125 for the longest time. Within the last 12 seconds it went to $133.01 and then $160.27. I would have been happy with the $125.

Nice, congrats on that.

Permagrin wrote in post #8032976
Chris and us are like 30min away from one another and yet we never see one another. In fact sometimes we pass him on the street and think "we know him don't we..."

cfpackerfan wrote in post #8033070
I put peanut butter in Amikah's Kong tonight.

It kept her happy for about an hour. And now, even though it is licked clean as a whistle, she won't leave it alone. She has been carrying it around, and right now, even though she is sleeping on my legs, she's got her kong under her chin.
Because, heaven forbid one of the other dogs get it and maybe find some peanut butter in it.

I wonder how Joshua would react. Does the peanut butter get on the carpet?

Permagrin wrote in post #8033090
oh yeah we ask them for 3 at the chinese place and once he got this really cool fortune and Dan (this is no joke) got the only negative fortune I've ever heard. It was total doom and gloom (I don't remember what it was but oh my gosh it was funny).

doom and gloom doesn't sound like a good fortune to me.

eddarr wrote in post #8033133
I wanted to share this because my wife just reminded me that we do this. The organization is Kiva and they provide micro loans to entrepreneurs world wide. We have been lending out the same $25 for three years now and every time it gets paid back we just send it out again. Micro loans are an incredible boost to many people in developing countries.

http://www.kiva.org/

I've heard about that before....never looked into it. May now.

Woolburr wrote in post #8033189
Well...Happy belated Birthday anyway.....I just figured you were afraid Chet would make you a special card!

Who wouldn't?

neil_r wrote in post #8033862
The perfect opportunity for that "Thong Pic"

Yeah....I didn't need to see that.
Does anyone know where the industrial strength brain bleach is at?

sevillafox wrote in post #8034626
Oh, GOOD NEWS!!!!!
Corey got the grain elevator he owned sold!!!!
He's very excited to have $180K+ in his checking account. Of course, we have to set aside $$$ to pay capital gains taxes but WOOHOO!!! Remodel here we come!!! Designated studio space for Fafa!!!! YAY!!!!

Congrats on that....tell him I'd like a 5D MkII.

gjl711 wrote in post #8035320
I'm nervous and scared. Just found out son #2 (kid #3 not including fur kids) just joined up with the Air Force. He's swearing in Thursday. He's been thinking about it for a while and went through the process last year. He tested high, passed the various other tests and such, but put off the decision until he had a couple of years of college under his belt. He just finished his first year in college and decided to not delay it any longer. He says he want's to get into the medical field and feels this is his best option to do so. Dang.. I wish he would have waited.. Sorry for the rant.. I'm babbling.

Is he going in ROTC or enlisting then through the Boot Strap program while in the Air Force?

He'll be near me if he enlists.

Guineh wrote in post #8035355
Sure, just hang them on a barbed wire fence somewhere in Texas, and I'll get to them... eventually..

short5 wrote in post #8035364
You are way behind on your work

So that is what that was?

gjl711 wrote in post #8035446
He has two years of college credit now and the program he is entering provides an additional 1 1/2 years of medical training. From what i understand he will finish the program with an additional 87 credit hours. There seem to also be opportunities to get into a med school as well if he chooses that route. But then this is the military well known for selling you a great line then sticking a m16 in your hands and shipping you to one of earths armpits.

Some med training is done here also...depending on the field.

gjl711 wrote in post #8035521
That is the one thing I am pushing. The recruiter tried to entice him into a crypto program with a 10k bonus. I kind of asked him to look in the paper and see how many jobs are available for mid-east cryptographers.

Crypto is a great field. That is here also AND he can use it when he gets out of the military. I used to do background checks on the guys here in the military...I'd say about 90% of them stayed on as civilians after separating from the military here on the base doing civil service and getting paid some good money. I couldn't apply to those positions due to not having the required experience in the field, but I could never get it to begin with.

You can still go with your son to talk to the recruiter and get everything sorted out. Like anyone says...be sure to get the tech field in writing because when he gets to basic or OCS they'll stick him where they need him. Saw that often with the guys I interviewed. My cousin's fiance was going to enlist, but went back after me and everyone else talked him into going to college first and having the ROTC program pay for it all....he did that. Now he is going JAG in the Air Force.

At one point before my current job...really during the time I was doing background checks...I had a fire in my a$$ about getting into the Air Force as an officer to be an intel officer...pilot was out of the question due to asthma diagnosis that is in military records since I was a dependant so I couldn't lie about it. Anyhow, when I was talking to a Reserves recruiter the guy was trying everything to get me to go enlisted as a Sr. Airman....yeah no. Told the guy get me as an officer or not at all. He told me he'd call me back since intel slots were full. You can assume I never got the call.

Belmondo wrote in post #8035543
Of course that could lead into something with one of the intelligence services, and I seriously doubt they advertise much in the help wanted ads.

There are some 'wanted ads' here....just have to know where to look. They don't advertise the website....but I know it.

Belmondo wrote in post #8035917
Fury Me has been purged from POTN.

ROFLMAO!!

Woolburr wrote in post #8036095
The daughter of one of my friends decided to do the whole Air Force thing as she wanted to become a doctor. After basic training and her initial Air Force medical schooling....she spent 18 months in Korea, 18 months in Alaska and is now stationed at a base in the state of Washington....she is now on the verge of becoming a full-blown M.D., only having to finished her final year as an intern. The AF picked up the whole tab....she does have to serve 4 additional years on active duty to pay them back, but she will also be a Major....I suspect that will give her a reasonable paycheck.

Yes. Yes they will. That is a good way to do it.

eddarr wrote in post #8036873
I always liked that picture. I remember it from when you went down there and saw the two goofs.

:p

Permagrin wrote in post #8037095
Note:

when one is on one's 2nd day of worshiping the porcelain goddess, it is not a good day to boil el corazon del toro (if I have that correct) for dog treats unggh

Hope you feel better.

thanks guys.

I'm feeling a little better.

Dan's taken Kona to class (I don't know how that will go...Kona doesn't mind him so well & D gets way frustrated) and I'm trying to clean the house for company. And do laundry and everything so that I can get to bed early and head out to Portland in time tomorrow.

I forgot to mention that Kona was kept hungry today (orders) and when he's hungry he behaves badly...so that's gonna go over well in class Although he'll have plenty of treats to work for so perhaps it wasn't so dumb afterall.

Lol on kona....

Hey, hop on yahoo for a sec please.

Does anyone perchance have Heather/John's texter number, that would be willing to pass MY texter number along to her/them?

mtnphtgrphr wrote in post #8038192
I finally took a picture of my very cool new plant this year... I can't remember it's exact name... but it is a "trumpet plant." A purple one to be exact... Check this sucker out...

Look...it is still alive!