Big Top by Rob Harrell for November 08, 2010

Hello

Hi Big Sister

Good Morning Tribeandall

I still say send the dog out.

Hi Big Brother.

Good Morning, Lil’ Sister & LuvH8!

Great menu, Lil’ Sister!

May I please have a medium rare Sirloin Steak with mushrooms, mashed potatoes and gravy & a large mug of Doc’s WFNC with 2 shots of Johanan’s CocaMocha?

I’d say about half of each, mob.

Magnificent breakfast menu, Little Sister. At the Usual Time:

Fried potatoes with bell peppers and onions The fish from the fish-&-chips meal V-8 (instead of the usual OJ) AND My kind Boss’s CocoMocha (with Silk’s Pure Almond, Chocolate Flavor, as base - it’s in the big fridge on the left in front) PLUS a scoop of Godiva’s Belgian Chocolate Ice Cream

Chris Alan left you a tip - a quarter sovereign of pure gold by weight. At well over $1000 an ounce right now, 24-karat gold should net you a pretty penny. His generosity is as legendary as he is. ;)

Hello Lonewolf & Little Sister

Yes, poodles are icky anyway. Boot Dusty out!

Help yourself to Breakfast and feel free to add whatever you want. Good night everyone.

Your order’s ready Big Brother

Good night.

Thank you, Lil’ Sister. Good Night and rest well! Have a good week at school, too.

Good Morning, Johanan.

Hmmm….. I have Snickerdoodles if anyone wants some.

Little Sister , the menu is excellent as usual. I am not hungry right now but just in case I will reserve a medium rare (just past bloody) top sirlion steak, mushrooms, mashed potatoes and gravy with a biscuit for in the daylight morning.

Tonight I will just have milk and cookies.

Good Night Little Sister

I need to call it a night. I have a hectic day looming tomorrow.

Good Night, LuvH8. Rest well.

P&L

Good Morning Early Risers!

Good morning and good night, Lonewolf (and everyone else). I’ve napped too much earlier and now I’m paying for that.

Good Evening and Good Night Johanan

Good Night Lonewolf

Sorry for the delay, easily distracted by large numbers of bills and Monkey 2 calling. The great thing about Oregon weather, you don’t have to lick your envelopes to seal them. The sucky thing about Oregon weather, the envelopes are sealed before you put the check in them.

Monkey 2 and I finally figured out what umbrellas are for! It is to keep the sun off of our skin and out of our eyes on those odd days of blue skies.

Oh! They are also good for teaching scoundrels and cads manners.

pop

Don’t mess with uppity enraged moms! concede and move on

GOOD MORNING TRIBEANDALL and GROG!

quick toontour - Monday has dumped on my desk

Pooph

Luv Is Angelic. there used to be a T-shirt (based on a design, one of many, in a book on Oregon) that said, “Last year x number of people fell off their bikes in Oregon… and drowned.” (The line drawing showed a bike rider in the rain, tilting perilously.)

Interestingly, both times I’ve visited Oregon I’ve brought glorious weather with me. I did the same when I visited London. Maybe I have a marketable skill as a weathermaker.

Good Morning Tribesters

In a hurry to get ready. Going to be a busy day today.

Good Morning, Tribeandall

It’s a busy morning here, complicated by the servers being down when I got in this morning.

Have a good day.

Morning All!

Snickerdoodles Luv is Angelic I think Snickerdoodles are wonderful and I may change my name of hopeandjoy to honor the cookie.

In the meantime, Good morning Dig Frog, Grog, Lonewolf who is busy and Johanan, the weathermaker et all Won’t you join me as I drink a quick Berry Smoothie.

Cheerio!

Grog

I clicked on the Argyle Sweater promo on GC site and there is a picture of 2 cavemen, and a dead cow and one man is calling the other “Grog” This may be an old cartoon but have you seen it?

good morning Tribe just time for a quick hello and toon tour before my day gets going in earnest. thanks for breakfast, Little Sister, i’ve helped myself to some belgian waffles with maple syrup and a large mug of DWFNC to get me through the tour. thank goodness virtual food cannot spill on to a real keyboard or i might be in trouble.

for any who care, my avatar is a pic of a Canadian 25 cent piece which was minted to honour the “year of the veteran” a couple of years back. it’s been posted in honour of Remembrance Day (thursday).

hi DocT and goodbye. time to get my chores done before work. a deposit for the karma bank is on the way. (((Tribe)))

Hi Tribe.

Hi and Bye Doc.

Gonna grab a bit of breakfast (One of those warm donuts looks good) and make a quick withdrawl from the Karma bank. So stressed today that I feel I’m going to be sick, and can’t even sit still I’m so ansy. Did I mention that I HATE working with teams…

HopeandJoy. No I have not seen that one before. I’ve only been reading the Argyle Sweater for about a year now. I know that I started when I saw saw tags for Star Trek, and there were a few strips in there with that tag.

Ladyhawk, working in teams is never any fun, especially when you are doing all the work or the team can’t agree on anything resulting in no work getting done.

Grog - our final presentation is due tonight. I’m working today and have to take my daughter to the doctors this afternoon. I still have to do the conclusion on the presentation, and edit the slides for them to be final, but I can’t do either until the other members of the team finish their portions, which they have not yet done…. Arrrggghhhh

sounds all too familiar, Ladyhawks

POP

Did I mention that I hate Mondays?????? Thank goodness it’s over. As always

Play Nice - Stay Safe (((TRIBE))) POOPH!

≡≡ P O P ! ≡≡ ♪ Hello TRIBE! ♪

Hello to all those here!

Well I have next Monday….and Tuesday off. Hello, Sojourner & RwB

Hello Grog - Somthing to look forward to!

Hi Sojo, Grog, Poor Ladyhawk and others who have to work in teams. At the hospital, we had teams too but it was a different concept altogether….although it did have some Arrrrrgggg times especially if you were the charge which I often was.

Certainly the Cowboys are playing like they’ve got their own personal agendas. Certainly no team work there.

Hello HopeandJoy!

Grog - LOL

Hi Sojo, GROG, and HopeandJoy.

Good afternoon Tribe!

Grog, at least the Cowboys have dumped one individual already!

Hello Ladyhawk - Hope everything ends up going well for you!

Hello ♠Lonewolf♠ - Don’t work too late today!

Thanks Sojo, so do I. Just heard from my team member that her internet is being flakey so she will be heading to the school shortly to finish up. Not sure where that leaves me for getting the conclusion done though. Worst part isn’t getting the slides done, but knowing what I have to say as it relates to their portions.

Hi, Sojo. I’ll be going at it until about 6pm. Don’t know if I’ll do the pool league tonight. Will have to see how I feel.

Hi, Ladyhawk, HopeandJoy & Grog!

♠Lonewolf♠, the way things are going, I’d say there are a few more jobs on the line now - not just the coach’s.

How do you put a line in the comment?

TO THE NUIMOBILE!!!

Hello Biokid1!

Hi, tribe!

Hello Rmom!

How’s it going, Sojo? When do you expect you’ll get your new router?

Rmom - I’m doing fine. Might get it this month maybe? (Haven’t ordered it yet.)

Sojo - I thought TD was faster than that, so that explains the delay.

Yikes! I just looked at the time, and I need to leave for town in 30 minutes. I’ve got a few more things to do before I’m ready, so I’ll talk with you later!

Have a good trip Rmom! Later

Good evening, Tribe!

Luv Is Angelic, on burned food: Last year a local fundraiser had a Cajun dinner–only the good things, not the blackened catfish sort. The director of the home that hosts the fundraiser is Norwegian, so he likes to start out by explaining that his first choice–lefse and lutefisk–was vetoed (unanimously) by the board, and the second choice–beer and brats–was soon voted down also.

So, naturally I suggested this year he suggest blackened lutefisk. He looked thoughtful….

By the way, if you dislike burned coffee that much, why not keep it in a thermos? They even have some nowadays that dispense the coffee through a pump. Just run hot water through it first to heat up the inside, and then pour in the fresh coffee–it lasts quite some time, and won’t burn.

Hello bmonk and Doctor Toon!

Hello Everyone

I think most of the pink leeaves have turned colors again. Now people might think I was making up stories. (sigh) Positive Thoughts Please!

Phfft!

Good evening Tribesters!

I knew it was going to be a long day. Geez Louise! I am too tired to go to pool this evening. Oh well.

Biokid1 Welcome!

Do you mean

like this?

Hi, Sojo, Rmom, LuvH8, Doc, Biokid1, Bmonk, Bmonk, Bmonk, Bmonk, (whack!) and everyone!

Sorry, the needle got stuck again!

Hello Luv Is Angelic!

Good to see your work for the day is done ♠Lonewolf♠ LOL.

Swish Good evening one and all

We KNOW Luv would never make up stories….but I will go along with you on the pink leaves bit as it is all in the eye of the beholder.

Swash ♪♫ Swish Swash (I was taking a bath…or something like that)

Hi, HopeandJoy!

Sorry, I didn’t know you were here.

Hello HopeandJoy - As a prior comment I mentioned I sometimes get pink leaves, at least in my eyes! :-)

Hi Biokid1, glad you found us

I’ve got to run but will check back before turnover…A personal “hi” to Rmom, gmonk, Lonewolf, Sojo, and of course Luv is Angelic and we can’t forget Doc Toon

Lonewolf No need to be sorry, I am not always here when I Am here and now I’m gone! *:))

Bye HopeandJoy.

Back briefly…I remember the song now, it was Splish, Splash,I was taking a bath…didn’t it follow somewhere with Get out in that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans?? or maybe that was another song completely…anyway I am gone to rattle a skillet.

              Pink Leaves?

Good Evening Everyone.

I’m a little tuckered too, ♠Lonewolf♠

It could be a very early night for me. (Yawn)

Hi, Grog. I think I might be having a relapse of whatever I had last week.

Not going to pool will help me get some more rest this evening.

♠Lonewolf♠, I just heard that the Cowboys fired Phillips…but he’s not the only one to blame for sure.

I think I may be fighting getting what you got, ♠Lonewolf♠. With my luck I’ll get it full force on my planned days off.

Good Night Doctor Toon - Good luck on any chores you choose.

Good night, Doc

Good Night Doc.

That was what my post was about earlier, Grog. I know that he’s not the only problem on the team, but you’ve got to start somewhere.

DONE!!!

Finished the presentation and I think it went ok. Actually got a compliment on my speaking… wow!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all those who have contributed to the Karma Bank.

(((((((((((TRIBE))))))))))))))

Large contribution back to the Karma bank, and out for the rest of class!

I wonder how long Jason Garrett will last. I’m assuming he’ll be the next coach.

Right back atcha, (((((((LadyHawk)))))))! :^)

I think Jones will go for a big time coach after this miserable season. He doesn’t want to wait to win. He will want it next season and Garrett is no where near proven.

Congrats Ladyhawk!

Glad to hear it, Ladyhawk

Congrats Ladyhawk!

I always hated those group projects too. I never understood why schools liked to assign those.

Congratulations, LadyHawk!

Rmom, in real life, you have to work well with others and in some cases work on projects that bring together various disciplines within an organization. I’ve been on a few of those types of projects in my life. The thing is to me, project work is most successful when you and your team members can devote 100% of the time to the project. When you have a regular day job to go with it, it would be just as frustrating as a school project where not all the members have the same priorities or schedule.

It’s a good lesson in at least trying to work & play well with others.

Grog - I know hardest part of the group projects my son has had to do for his classes, is just getting together outside of class time with his team mate(s).

Agreed, Rmom. I’ve had those problems at school and at work.

I think it is a requirement at that school that each course have at least one group project. In some subjects that isn’t so weird, but in others, it seems a real stretch. Next semester should be interesting for this family. My youngest son will have a family member as a fellow classmate in each of his two classes. I’ll take the computer class with him, and his brother is taking the Psychology class. So, if there are group projects in those classes, it might be easier to get together with another student. ;-)

When it came to school projects, I always tried to work alone if I could. I fould that many of the teams I had people who talked a good game, but when it came down to getting the job done the work was substandard or non-existent. We always seemed to have groups of 3 or 4, rarely just 2.

Fortunately in my Accounting information systems course I was able to work alone. It was a lot of work (especially with a day job in accounting), but I was rewarded with a very good grade. The best grade of my supposed group projects. The professor asked permission to use the model for instruction in future classes.

I always preferred to work solo on projects too. I don’t remember doing any group projects in college, just high school, but then, I don’t have that many college hours. I think most of the projects he has done are 2 person projects, unless there are an odd number of students in the class. At least that makes it easier to get the team together, than if the group was larger. In high school, it wasn’t so bad, because it was such a small school (about 80 in my graduating class) that everyone knew each other well enough, to know if they were likely to be a good team member or not. Not so bad if you could pick your own team. But if the teacher assigned the teams, you knew right off if you were stuck with a deadbeat.

EIDo - Photo programs are also wonderful! LOL

Rmom, I didn’t do group projects until I got to University. Being primarly a part-time night student, I didn’t really know my classmates. They changed from course to course & year to year. The only time I had any consistency was when I took 8 months off work to finish it off. At least there were familiar faces in a few of my courses from semester to semester.

Good evening, EIDo.

I think Concordia (Montreal) had a student base of about 10,000 at the time.

Grog - I’ve only gone to commuter colleges, and my sons are going to a community college, but not the campus with dorms, so most students are part-time, or only around for a couple of years. My oldest son occasionally will have a fellow student he knows from our homeschooling days, but there isn’t a lot of student overlap from one class to the next. He did have one guy as a fellow student in one class, and the next semester ended up taking a class that guy was teaching. I think he was the teacher’s pet in that class, as the guy knew that my son is a quick learner when it comes to computers.

I hate to bow out, but I’ve got that meeting with the lawyer tomorrow, so I’d better get my ducks in a row and get some sleep. Good night!

It’s really hard when you have to do part-time, because there is no consistency, unlike high school. The larger the student body, the less the likelihood of familiar faces from course to course or semester to semester if your part-time. And the full-timers in your class are breezing right by you., which tended to be the majority of the make-up of most of my classes.

I’m glad it’s all over for me.

Good Night Rmom.

Good night, Rmom

Good Night, Rmom.

♠Lonewolf♠, Garrett’s future as Head Coach will appear to depend on how well he does as interim head coach. But Jones has warned the players that more heads will roll if things don’t turn around before the end of the year.

I think the Cowboys need another Johnson or Parcells-like coach. I think the players liked Phillps too much, but did they respect him? I didn’t.

Many places on the internet can be identity thieves if one is not careful. IMHO

EIDo - If you notice that’s the same photo as I posted of the leaves turning red (un-retouched). When talking about pink leaves I deciced to change the color of the leaves to bright pink as a joke and uploaded that to PB to post. Most photo retouch programs can do that. A program similar to Adobe Photoshop is what I am now using - Gimp - free at www.gimp.org - it only took a couple of minutes to change the color.

I have heard Facebook has had some security problems with hackers. You shouldn’t put anything one the web that might cause a problem to you unless you need to, trust the site, etc. There’s always a risk on the web as there is in your life off the web of course.

I wonder if they want to get Singletary from the 9ers.

Grog - - - Singletary hasn’t had a very good year either. I agree with the Parcels/Johnson/Cowher type coach. I think they respected Phillips, but I don’t think he expresses much urgency in his coaching. Some players need that in your face type coach.

They won’t get Cower. I don’t think anyone will. But I’m thinking Singletary might be free by the end of the year. But your right: Somebody needs to get in the face of those over-priced babies. It’s certainly about time Romo grew up.

This is turning into a game and I wanted to turn in already.

What a fluke play.

This game is looking good.

I thought Romo was on the right track early in his career. Then it seemed as if he got a big head and went backwards.

Yeah, right down to the wire.

And the rest of the team appears to be following Romo’s footsteps.

Great finish! And the Bulls won, too.

Game over and time to get some zzzzzzzz’s

Good night, ♠Lonewolf♠, Sojourner ElDo & all

Good Night Grog.

Good Night, Grog. Rest well, sir.

Back in time to wish you Happy Dreams Glad the Bulls won. Hubby (don’t like that designation for him) and I watched Castle and I fell asleep during the news.

Glad Ladyhawk did well. Yes, Sojo the leaves ARE pink thanks to enhancement.

I bet the Cowboyswin next week! Goodnight, Grog, Lonewolf, Sojo, and ElDo et all who are yawning *:o

Good Night HopeandJoy.

Good Night, HopeandJoy. Sleep well.