The 38th 'How'd We Ever Do It Without Jon?' TPBM Silliness Chat

cfpackerfan wrote in post #10521078
And I'm all caught up.

Lisa, I really liked that horse shot. A LOT.
Zane, I didn't get the Dots video.
Deb, sorry to hear about Paris, glad she's doing better. How's the art show?
Crissa, I enjoyed Eli's lemonade stand photos!
Jim, how's the palsy? All back to better?
WoolyDan, I've enjoyed the last few photos that you've posted. Great owl lynching!
Pea, Ruger is SO freaking cute!
Harmeet, *nods* How goes it today?
Becky, sounds like you've been busy lately. Can't wait to see the studio!
Lonnie, sorry I haven't been keeping up on your pioneer blog. I so enjoy it when I have time to read it! Anyone interesting lately?
Chief, I missed why you need to wash your bag in baking soda. What happened?
Dan, loved the rodeo toon!
Chet, don't listen to one person's opinion. Do what makes you happy.
JJ, why the 404 error? Find your humor!
Neil, I loved the photos of your girls. How was the wedding??
Terri, it seems I always miss you! *leaves dark for Drache*
John, I'll be doing the HWAC run this week. I'll PM you details.
Sid, *tips hat* Did you go to the rodeo with Chris and the permapuddles?
Kody, That was a great shot of Finlay!
Diane, any new seniors lately?
Beefy, that series with the rodeo horse was amazing!
Jay, how's it going today?
Heather, that sucks that you'll be working when we're in CA this week.
.tif, I am never here the same time you are, but always enjoy reading your posts in catch up.
Donders, you showed up then you left again. Flakey.
Jon, WE MISS YOU!
Suzy, nice to see that you drop in every now and again.
Jen!!!!
Guineh-Mike, build anything new and geeky lately?
Kathy, sorry I wasn't here last night when you visited! Glad you got your LR problems worked out. Come and visit again!
Alyssa, haven't seen you in awhile... where'd you go? I miss your scrapbook page layouts.
Eric, come out come out wherever you are! We need pics of your hikes!
Mark, come and hang out when you can. You're missed.
Jamie, you ain't nothing but a hound dog.
Deeds, I enjoy your photos when you pop in. Pop in more often!
Ninja, *waves*
Fafa, looks like your senior business is booming!
Bulldog, Lazuka, Squashed, Bagman, and Brain Mechanic: You gotta stick more than just a toe in the water to get a feel for it.

Nice rant.... no, I didn't make it to the rodeo. We were at the coast visiting my family.

misspix wrote in post #10521285
I am up to March, on my photo processing

Painted Desert:
[IMG]http://i90.photobucket​.com …20Forest/Painte​dDesert-14.
We traveled parallel to Rt 66 and were actually on it through parts of the Painted Desert
[IMG]http://i90.photobucket​.com …20Forest/Painte​dDesert-15.
Saw Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs
[IMG]http://i90.photobucket​.com …20Forest/Painte​dDesert-26.
Agate Bridge
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A piece of the Petrified Forest
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More HERE if you wish

Pretty pictures!

neil_r wrote in post #10521801
We had a bit of bad news today that we were not expecting. Whilst I was away Norman, one of out two 14 year old cats has been playing with his mouth which has caused some soft tissue damage. T took him to the vets last week and they suggested that he may be having some trouble with his teeth, so an appointment was made for him to go in today, and have his teeth looked at and scraped under a general anesthetic, Unfortunately it is not his teeth, they were simply a symptom of a bone tumor in his skull. The vet has removed the teeth that were lose as a result of the tumor. It is on the top mandible below his eye, all we can do is keep our fingers crossed that it is not a fast growing tumor and ensure that we understand what affect it is having on him. The prognoses is not so good

Sorry, Neil.

Permagrin wrote in post #10522170
*plasters the Chief with jello*

GAH!! What is this? (cautiously tastes a sample).

Oh, it's Jello. (heads for the pool)

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #10523084
Have Dollie clean them.

Good idea, except that being her mother's cat, she'd want to be paid.

Chet wrote in post #10522615
Get of the puter and snap some pics!

I am too slow. It has all melted. We must have had an inch of moisture in 15 minutes.

short5 wrote in post #10522768
I just noticed you removed me Dick.

For a minute there, I though you were making fun of my first name.

theague wrote in post #10523058
I'd rather come here to keep in touch with you all though. Got to be too hard to follow my local friends with everything going on with POTN people too.

Facebook, with my local friends and family, combined with all the POTN folks on there, is WAY easier to keep up with than this thread alone is.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #10523368
Facebook, with my local friends and family, combined with all the POTN folks on there, is WAY easier to keep up with than this thread alone is.

really? man. Not me. Even with all the games removed, I still miss stuff that I would like to see. Maybe it's because notifications don't always work.

Anyway, I've got it figured out now. Well partially. SOMEDAY I may understand the techniques of cyber interaction. Then again, maybe not.

Thanks for everyone's help. Jen, I did quote you! Crissa, I wish you'd used some of your juicier language, then I'd have quoted you.

Don't know what's up with FB but my page seems to load different stuff every single time.

It's become something of a Social Media random number generator... <Shrug>

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #10523411
Don't know what's up with FB but my page seems to load different stuff every single time.

It's become something of a Social Media random number generator... <Shrug>

same here! It's crazy. Sometimes I'll get news that's 12-24hrs old and nothing new and then 20 min later have 15 notifications all from the last few hours...

Permagrin wrote in post #10523393
really? man. Not me. Even with all the games removed, I still miss stuff that I would like to see. Maybe it's because notifications don't always work.

Well, I have likely made only a dozen or so posts myself. I just respond to what everyone else puts up on facebook.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #10523084
Oh, come ON. Put some effort into it.

You forgot:

Larry, I hope that grows back.
Finkerton, that's not a cookie jar. It's something more... disturbing.
Clem, get a real name, OK?
Nigel, nice try in downplaying your preppiness. Ain't gonna work, tho'. You got IZOD written all over your face.
Celeste, no, really, oysters are bad in smoothies. Really, really bad.
Ross, Googly Moogly, man, quit it with the Clown Rap videos.
Lori, I've never seen a tattoo on the bottom of a foot before. Sorry 'bout the infection.
Francine, I agree that it's always good to have role models in life, but Kody ain't one of them.
Jerkface Slimeball, I don't know why you think people don't like you.
Xantrenker8, the narshabell injector goes in with the flanged warbolizer, not in the glaxtonk housing. I think that will solve your problem.

Have Dollie clean them.

I would like to see this in the Chainsaw Sculpture competition in Reedsport.

Beauty shots, Drache.

Neil, you forgot to tuck in your shirt.

LOL!!! this whole post cracked me up.

Chet wrote in post #10523108
Don't worry I've had him hidden.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #10523148
*unfriends Jenn*

Lol!

Yo Z-ness

and lol! Doesn't the orange cat look like Pacha??

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This is in reply to Chet's/Chris' earlier posts in re: his father's comment. It's out of my usual boundaries for posts, so, if you're not interested, skip this. Act like I never said anything at all.

I'm writing this here instead of sending Chet a PM simply because it's something many of us deal with when it comes to our parents. I'm not saying that I'm the last word on the subject or that I'm an expert on this stuff; I'm not. But I, and many of you, seem to have similar experiences in life. I'll just share mine.

For many of us, "Dad" was the ultimate hero in our lives. For me, it was. He was Superman, Batman, Lone Ranger, Einstein, and the strongest man alive all rolled into one. I was that kid that would be on the playground and tell all the other kids that my dad was better than their dads, combined. Times infinity. And I meant it. I was, and am, a serious Dad fanboy.

Everything he did was amazing. The way he wrote, the way he fished, the way he let that Lucky Strike unfiltered just sort of hang off of his bottom lip. Whatever Dad did, it was incredible.

Grandpa was like that, too. Bigger than life. Seriously. Greek mythology level stuff, like Zeus had to ask permission from Grandpa before Big Z let loose with just one lightening bolt.

When Grandpa died, I was crushed, but there was still Dad, who took on some of the Grandpa mantle and carried on with his life as a superhero.

I still remember when I came home with a question from school, some inane Trig question that I wasn't getting and Dad said, and I quote, "I don't know." My stepmom, who's a math whiz, came to my rescue, but I was stunned.

Dad didn't know. I mean, He. Didn't. Know.

He was human. His armor wasn't impervious. He had a Kryptonite.

As I grew older, of course, I began to see Dad less as a God-like persona, but he always maintained that Superhero status.

I know that's not the way it is for everyone. Some people have rotten dads. Cruel, abusive, and/or distant or even non existent. I've always been amazed, however, with the amount of guys that I know that have rotten dads that still have that Superhero mentality with them.

This went on, well, forever, I guess. People who are smarter than me will be able to give the right psychological names for whatever this is, but, as a boy growing up, Dad is the epitome of "Man". He is that Golden Standard by which all other males are judged.

No, really. It's automatic. If I see someone smart, funny, strong, steady, I compare that person to Dad's impeccable levels of smartness, funniness, strong-ness, steadiness, aaaand they usually fell short. It's almost a given. You v. Dad, and Dad wins. Nothing personal, it's just that you cannot compare to Dad.

Yeah, I know, "Awww, Dan loves his Daddy." (or, "Ewww, the guy's flippin' obsessed") The problem with this is that all men are compared to Dad. All males.

Including myself.

And I could never measure up. How can a goofy guy like me measure up to Zeus? Superman? Incredible Hulk? I couldn't. I could never measure measure up to that IDEAL of Dadism.

He wasn't pleased with my career path. NOT pleased. He never understood my desire to be a pastor. Many of my decisions were anathema to him. I took risks that he KNEW were going to end in tears (and many did). I lived with the understanding that I never measured up to that Dad Standard.

This issue, really, is that Dad was never like Superman. Or Zeus. Or even Aquaman. He was a guy, working hard to keep the bills paid, raising two whacked out kids and trying to have some fun hobby on the side to keep himself sane. Just like me.

Dad, all in all, was a man. Like you, like me. He had good points, and bad points. Flaws, chinks, quirks, all that.

He. Wasn't. Perfect. No matter how hard I believed him to be.

He's been dead now for 5 years. I think back to all those years when I didn't want to interact with him because of all the things I wasn't.

Never realizing that, all the while, I was sacrificing all the things that I was.

I was his son. Yes, he never understood my course, but he did love me. I could've been a friend. I could've called more. I could've made more of an effort to visit.

The fact of the matter was, he, being just a guy like me, he had his opinions of me, just like any one else. I wish I had toned down that Dad Hero Worship gene in me earlier in my life, while he was still here.

I regret missing out on all the love and friendship because I was so busy worrying about "honor" and "respect", the latter being the least important things in life.

There, now you all know more about me than you ever wanted to know.

I'm not demeaning your pain, Chris. I KNOW it hurts. I don't know why your dad said those things, or if he meant to crush you or if he was just voicing an opinion. It's possible that your dad is very set in his ways when it comes to photography, which happens very often. I bet if I was a fisherman, Dad wouldn't like the way I was doing it if I did it differently than him.

Perhaps, if you cannot see eye to eye in regards to photography, shelve it. Just not going to happen. Find something else the two of you can connect over if you can. Treat him, respectfully, as a man. He may, or may not, do the same in return. That's the most you can do.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #10523530
This is in reply to Chet's/Chris' earlier posts in re: his father's comment. It's out of my usual boundaries for posts, so, if you're not interested, skip this. Act like I never said anything at all.

I'm writing this here instead of sending Chet a PM simply because it's something many of us deal with when it comes to our parents. I'm not saying that I'm the last word on the subject or that I'm an expert on this stuff; I'm not. But I, and many of you, seem to have similar experiences in life. I'll just share mine.

For many of us, "Dad" was the ultimate hero in our lives. For me, it was. He was Superman, Batman, Lone Ranger, Einstein, and the strongest man alive all rolled into one. I was that kid that would be on the playground and tell all the other kids that my dad was better than their dads, combined. Times infinity. And I meant it. I was, and am, a serious Dad fanboy.

Everything he did was amazing. The way he wrote, the way he fished, the way he let that Lucky Strike unfiltered just sort of hang off of his bottom lip. Whatever Dad did, it was incredible.

Grandpa was like that, too. Bigger than life. Seriously. Greek mythology level stuff, like Zeus had to ask permission from Grandpa before Big Z let loose with just one lightening bolt.

When Grandpa died, I was crushed, but there was still Dad, who took on some of the Grandpa mantle and carried on with his life as a superhero.

I still remember when I came home with a question from school, some inane Trig question that I wasn't getting and Dad said, and I quote, "I don't know." My stepmom, who's a math whiz, came to my rescue, but I was stunned.

Dad didn't know. I mean, He. Didn't. Know.

He was human. His armor wasn't impervious. He had a Kryptonite.

As I grew older, of course, I began to see Dad less as a God-like persona, but he always maintained that Superhero status.

I know that's not the way it is for everyone. Some people have rotten dads. Cruel, abusive, and/or distant or even non existent. I've always been amazed, however, with the amount of guys that I know that have rotten dads that still have that Superhero mentality with them.

This went on, well, forever, I guess. People who are smarter than me will be able to give the right psychological names for whatever this is, but, as a boy growing up, Dad is the epitome of "Man". He is that Golden Standard by which all other males are judged.

No, really. It's automatic. If I see someone smart, funny, strong, steady, I compare that person to Dad's impeccable levels of smartness, funniness, strong-ness, steadiness, aaaand they usually fell short. It's almost a given. You v. Dad, and Dad wins. Nothing personal, it's just that you cannot compare to Dad.

Yeah, I know, "Awww, Dan loves his Daddy." (or, "Ewww, the guy's flippin' obsessed") The problem with this is that all men are compared to Dad. All males.

Including myself.

And I could never measure up. How can a goofy guy like me measure up to Zeus? Superman? Incredible Hulk? I couldn't. I could never measure measure up to that IDEAL of Dadism.

He wasn't pleased with my career path. NOT pleased. He never understood my desire to be a pastor. Many of my decisions were anathema to him. I took risks that he KNEW were going to end in tears (and many did). I lived with the understanding that I never measured up to that Dad Standard.

This issue, really, is that Dad was never like Superman. Or Zeus. Or even Aquaman. He was a guy, working hard to keep the bills paid, raising two whacked out kids and trying to have some fun hobby on the side to keep himself sane. Just like me.

Dad, all in all, was a man. Like you, like me. He had good points, and bad points. Flaws, chinks, quirks, all that.

He. Wasn't. Perfect. No matter how hard I believed him to be.

He's been dead now for 5 years. I think back to all those years when I didn't want to interact with him because of all the things I wasn't.

Never realizing that, all the while, I was sacrificing all the things that I was.

I was his son. Yes, he never understood my course, but he did love me. I could've been a friend. I could've called more. I could've made more of an effort to visit.

The fact of the matter was, he, being just a guy like me, he had his opinions of me, just like any one else. I wish I had toned down that Dad Hero Worship gene in me earlier in my life, while he was still here.

I regret missing out on all the love and friendship because I was so busy worrying about "honor" and "respect", the latter being the least important things in life.

There, now you all know more about me than you ever wanted to know.

I'm not demeaning your pain, Chris. I KNOW it hurts. I don't know why your dad said those things, or if he meant to crush you or if he was just voicing an opinion. It's possible that your dad is very set in his ways when it comes to photography, which happens very often. I bet if I was a fisherman, Dad wouldn't like the way I was doing it if I did it differently than him.

Perhaps, if you cannot see eye to eye in regards to photography, shelve it. Just not going to happen. Find something else the two of you can connect over if you can. Treat him, respectfully, as a man. He may, or may not, do the same in return. That's the most you can do.

Fantastic words Dan that really touched a personal note with me. Thank you.

I'm looking forward to Friday more this week than ever. Well, actually it's Thursday this week but either way, I visit my parents (mostly my Dad) every Friday after work.

Nice words Dan.

theague wrote in post #10523200
lol you wish

Bet you still looked.

Awesome post Dan!

Don't let your dad get you down Chet
Maybe he could teach you some things, you could likely teach him a few tricks also.
As long as you have fun with it is all that matters. Without this little hobby I would've gone crazy these last couple of years.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #10523530
This is in reply to Chet's/Chris' earlier posts in re: his father's comment. It's out of my usual boundaries for posts, so, if you're not interested, skip this. Act like I never said anything at all...

Lots of truth.. lots..