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Reply to Circus Recap in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

You know just hanging out with Dad is the important part. Thanks, Geez. I think they're getting sick of me now, though.

Amazon Recommends PT 1 in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

Last Letters Home - Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq Category: Documentary "Touching and powerful, Last Letters Home is an emotional documentary that features 10 families reading aloud the last letters they received from loved ones who lost their lives in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Presented in a suitably straightforward,

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The King of Masks Category: Foreign, Foreign Drama Nearing the end of his life, Wang (heh) -- a locally renowned street performer and wizard of the venerable art of mask magic -- yearns to pass on his technique. But custom prescribes that he can only hand down his craft to a male successor. Anxious to preserve his unique art, the heirless Wang

Reply to Circus Recap in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

Thanks very much for the kind words. Yeah, the kids seem to like me pretty well. I took leave this week for their Spring Break. I thought it would be a waste to have them all week but put them in daycare. Besides, even after these 5 days I have Use/Lose for this fiscal year. Calling me at work really won't work; I'm almost always in another building teaching, rarely in the office. I go to the field exercise with my current batch next week, graduate them the week after (the

Circus Recap in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

3 general seating tickets: $33 (with the military discount, I saved $21 by picking them up on Base) box of popcorn and two snowcones in commemorative white tiger cups: $26 two souvenier toys (a spinning light-up elephant that my son is currently flogging himself with and a stuffed white tiger with baby white tiger): $43 There weren't even any white ti

Circus Tonight in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

The "big special" thing I'm doing with the kids this week (besides spending every waking moment with them) is taking them to the circus tonight. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey presents "Upside-Down World." The boys are a bit ambivalent about whether they want to go or not. I know they will enjoy it, but sometimes when I ask them to leave the apar

Reply to I Have Not Dropped Off The Face Of The Earth in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Glad you're having a good time. When I saw the title followed by, "I'm in Korea," I got confused even though I half-remembered that you said you were heading there with students. I think it's interesting that DLI is doing these immersion trips now. I hear they're sending some lucky Arabic linguists to Egypt, too. Are they sending KP linguists who are slated to go to Korea on their first assignment to Korea for language immersion? It almost

Reply to More Surge... Surgier? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Dude, have you ever talked to an officer? This suprises you still? I guess I'm out of practice. We've only got one at the company level here, and the rest are at BN. And you know I don't even get to see BDE and higher... Maybe I hoped that they'd get the [i]really[/i] important shit right?</f

Reply to More Surge... Surgier? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The sheer logistics of dealing with this many prisoners is pretty staggering Sure, but the leadership didn't take that into account when requesting the initial surge? The most recent news suggests that the surge was successful so we're bumping it up even more, but the first articles (about the MPs only

Reply to Obesity - WHY? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

whip - I'm glad you didn't take my observation the wrong way. I was a little nervous that it came off sounding judgemental. I know some of the frustration that you're going through; even if I'm watching what I eat, I really need to push the exercise (especially cardio) to get my weight down. I can only imagine how difficult it is to find those "joint-friendly exercises" that you need. I wouldn't necessarily throw too much fruit into your diet, but more vegetables will help fill you u

Reply to Women and Video Games : Game Devs Hate Chicks in Gaming JoeUser Forums

I know you've tried it (we played it when I was there in September), but the two of you have tired of Lego Star Wars II, then? My sons can't get enough of it, so much so that I rented the first installment for them at one point. Other than that, I've got nuthin'. Sorry.

Reply to Obesity - WHY? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Big Mamma's House, Big Mamma's House 2 In Eddie Murphy's defense, these films belong to Martin Lawrence. Still, that's 470 calories for breakfast, and with the non-dairy creamer I figure it to be about 500. The average woman needs about 1500 calories per day to maintain a normal weight, so that's not too far out of line. And *that's* where the issue is. If you've got 500 calories for breakfast,

Reply to Of Battles and "Battle Captains" in Politics JoeUser Forums

"I am a warrior and a member of a team"....." I stand ready to deploy, engage and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat" I need to memorize this in 2.5 weeks.

More Surge... Surgier? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

From the front page of this week's Army Times : Bigger 'Surge' - 7000 more troops to get rush on (Actually, that last word is obscured by the sticker they attached to the front of my delivery copy.) And there had been evidence of this in the news over the last week as over 2000 military police were mobilized to be sent over to Iraq. On the

Reply to My teenage journal in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I thought it was cute. Thanks for sharing.

Reply to Should I Cut It Or Not? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

The haircut looks fine. The only odd bit is now your beard is longer than your hair, so your jaw looks huge. But I'm partial to short hair. Occupational hazard.

Reply to Negotiating a Salary. When the Job Alone is Not Enough. in Business JoeUser Forums

This is actually a very informative rant. I'd likely be one of those saps that would accept the first offer and perhaps be very open with an H.R. person; it's not necessarily that I want to stay poor, but that I'm naturally trusting and naive (you've seen it). Despite the solidly written and interesting article, my favorite part was still the personal touches: "I dress like an unemployed lumberjack most days." Good to see you writing again.

Reply to You Wouldn't Care What I Have to Say in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Oh, I forgot to add in my article that Adrian is about to go the board for SSG. Hey, good deal. I'm studying for NCO of the Quarter myself... I hope he's better at boards than I am. Good luck, Adrian. And I certainly wouldn't *mind* hearing about a "chore puzzle."

Reply to An analogy even a socialist could understand in Politics JoeUser Forums

What if there is no infinite supply of land and there cannot be another gardener? Then people need to stop breeding so fast?

Reply to No Time To Lose! in Parenting JoeUser Forums

Then my extra-curricular activity is the Mormon Choir of Washington DC. Wish like hell I had something like that now. Is that just contradictory or actu

Reply to A Force For Good? Hizballah? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

You used Superman II as a source. Nicely done.

Has The Surge Worked? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I saw this earlier today on the Early Bird report, and Glen Beck was touting it as Gospel tonight: Link I mean, it's by the Associated Press and it's printed in the NY Post. Positive results with factual numbers, from them? Whodathunk? Of course,

Reply to I don't know what to say. in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Miss you. I'm glad that it is happy things that are keeping you from being here.

Reply to NetFlix Recommends... Pt 2 in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

They're talking about adding a certain amount of livestream movies to their memberships. If I remember, I'll check on this for you. I think it already went live with a dozen or so movies. I haven't looked at it closely because my laptop is such a piece of junk that I'd worry that I wouldn't get the wh

Reply to A woobie is a man's best friend...... in Humor JoeUser Forums

I thought #25 was "Ignorance is bliss. And hood. And drum. And..."