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I cancelled my Wednesday game because my Uncle Mark and Aunt Patty came over this week for business, and this was pretty much the only day we all had free to see each other.

 

We went to an Italian joint and had my sister and her family show up with my brother, his girlfriend and my Mom.

 

It was pretty nice. Mark pointed out that this was the first time he'd been to Vegas since my Dad's funeral, and the first time he'd seen my brother-in-law and his kid.

 

JG

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It's very early in the morning here, and I've been up far too long, spent far too much time on the internet, and I'm experiencing the familiar 'getting a wee bit wacky' syndrome. This is just a polite term for what others would call posting gibberish in a desperate attempt to raise a few cheap laughs. I feel it might have to be time for bed soon. Boing! ;)

 

PS. Heh, finally thought of something to add to this darn thread! :D

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And We Danced...

 

 

Hey Hey!

 

She was a be-bop baby on a hard days night

She was hanging on Johnny he was holding on tight

Oh I could feel her coming from a mile away

There was no use talking There was nothing to say

When the band began to play and play

 

And we danced

Like a wave on the ocean

Romanced

We were liars in love

and we danced

Swept away for a moment by chance

yeah we danced and danced and danced

 

My Be-bop baby at the union hall

she could dance all night and shake the paint off the wall

But when I saw her smile across the crowded room

Well I knew we'd have to leave the party soon

as the band began to play our toon

 

And we danced

Like a wave on the ocean

Romanced

We were liars in love

and we danced

Swept away for a moment by chance

yeah we danced and danced and danced

 

Yeah

And we Danced

 

The endless beat

She's walking my way

Hear the music fade when she says

Are we getting to close do we dare to get closer

The room was spinning she whispers my name

 

And we danced

Like a wave on the ocean

Romanced

We were liars in love

and we danced

Swept away for a moment by chance

yeah we danced and danced

 

And we danced

Like a wave on the ocean

Romanced

We were liars in love

and we danced

Swept away for a moment by chance

yeah we danced and danced and danced and danced and danced and danced and danced and danced and danced WOW!

And we danced

And we danced

Come Baby!

And we danced and danced and danced and danced and danced and danced and danced and danced and danced and danced

Yeah

And we danced.

 

 

The Hooters.

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Somedays, despite my best intentions. I feel a bit out of place.

I love this song too.

 

Misfit - The Kinks

 

You've been sleeping in a field

But you look real rested

You set out to outrage

but you can't get arrested

you say your image is new

but it looks real tested

you're lost without a crowd

yet you go your own way

 

You say your summer is gone

and the winter is crawling in

they say even in your day

somehow you could never quite fit in

Though it's cold outside

I know the summer's going to come again

because you know what they say

every dog has his day...

 

you're a misfit, afriad of youself so you run and hide

you've been a misfit all your life

why don't you join the crowd and come on in

you wander around town, like you've lost your way

had your chance at new days

yet you threw it all away

but you know what they say

every dog has his day

 

look at all the losers and the mad eyed gazers

look at all the loonies and the sad eyed failures

they've given up livin' cause they just don't care

so take a good look around the misfits are everywhere

 

lalalallalalalalalalalalalalalalalal

 

this is your chance

this is your time

so don't throw it away

you can have your day

'cause it's true what they say

every dog has his day

 

your a misfit, afraid of yourself so you run away and hide

you've been a misfit all your life

why don't you join the crowd and come in side

you wander round this town

like you've lost your way

had your chance at new days

yet you threw it all away

now you're lost in the crowd, yet still go your own way

 

 

 

Ray Davies is a friggin poet.

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Okay listening to alot of Kinks. This song kicks Ass

 

 

Sitting alone on my hotel

Looking in the mirror wondering, "well,

After all this time you never thought you'd still be out on the road?"

Like a gypsy I was born to roam

Like a wanderer with no fixed abode

I think about the friends I've left behind on the road

 

Well, the road's been rocky along the way

It's been a long, hard haul on the motorway

But if it gets too smooth it's time to call it a day

 

(On the road)

The bed and breakfasts and the greasy spoons

(The road)

The loser bars and the noisy rooms

(The road)

The casualties who did too many lines

(The road)

Wasted talent on women and wine

 

I think of all the friends I've left behind

Whenever it's time to get back out on the road

 

Started playing blues in a coffee bar

I took a trip down Charing Cross Road

With my imitation Gretsch guitar

And my head full of songs and my eyes full of stars

I saw a band called the Rolling Stones

I thought, "that's it, I'll get a band,

I'm leaving home, I'm out on the road."

 

The motorways all over this land

(The road)

Far away places like Wigan and Birmingham

(The road)

Didn't have no name, didn't have any fans

(The road)

Didn't have no money so we slept in the van

 

All those early gigs we ever played

Sometimes we were lucky if we even got paid

On the road

Pete played on the bass guitar

Liked to get around, mixing with all the stars

But Mrs. Avory's child was all fingers and thumbs

But solid as a rock, setting time on the drums

While Dave the Rave hit the rock 'n' roll riffs

Yours truly strummed away with a slightly limp wrist

On the road

 

Everyday is when I can't get used to it

Everyday is when I can't get away

Another day, another freeway to face

That's the road

 

Well, life is a road, it's a motorway

And the road gets rocky along the way

But if it gets too smooth it's time to call it a day

 

(On the road)

Jimi Hendrix, The Who, the Led Zeppelin and Free

They took the road so it's alright by me

Some are survivors, some are debris

If you play in a band that's the road that you take

Living in it, eating in it, sleeping in it

You wake up in the morning, what do you see?

The road

 

Life is a road, it's a motorway

Lost a lot of good friends along the way

All the families and homes that I've left behind

To the wives and the lovers and friends who had their time

I say, "you take your road and I'll take mine."

(You take your road and I'll take mine)

You take your road and I'll take mine

(You take your road and I'll take mine)

 

Life is a road, it's a motorway

And the road gets rocky along the way

But if it gets too smooth it's time to call it a day

 

(On the road)

Observed all the various phases from

Flower power, heavy metal and acid rock

And still all the critics keep saying

"Are they still around? When they gonna stop?"

It's just the dedicated followers of fashion who like putting down

All the well respected men who came dancing and are still on the road

 

Sometime I get suicidal

Now everyone is a rival

Different cars, different bars and hotels

Corporations, big business and egos

When it all gets too bad I think back

When we were all each other had

When we started out on the road

 

And there's gas in my tank and I've still got a way to go

Another hotel, it's time to check out soon

As I look around the room

I think of all the friends I've left behind

On the road

 

 

I like rock, pomp and the occasional melancholy...

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Re: A Thread for Random Musings

 

You can misread the Isle of Dr Destroyer thread in the Champions forum as I Love Dr Destroyer.

 

So having said that does anyone picture a Champions version of 'I Love Lucy' ? (Target reference)

 

Or wander what the love child of Dr Destroyer, and oh say Mechanon ?, would look like ?

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I wish I knew why I flirt with Mrs. Starlord and owl when I know that their husbands are cool cats and I have a loving girlfriend of my own. :(

 

But they are cuties, aren't they? :love:

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I have 629 reputation points.

 

629.

 

I have a roll of silver duct tape for "stainless steel" toy gun making.

 

I have a toy N-frame tape gun, a model 29 - the .44 Magnum.

 

In stainless, the .44 Magnum is designated the 629.

 

Looks like I know what my next project is. Extending that puppy's barrel and making a S&W 629.

 

(By the way, hunting handguns, with scopes and 6 and a half inch barrels - minimum - are about as easy to conceal as an economy-sized box of Rice Crispies.)

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This has been a totally suck week.

 

Monday, we get to meet the cute little neighbor (across the street) dog. She's out running around, so we play with her, and talk to her owner for a while. Then we drive out to get our Pizza, and when we come back, the dog is dead. Killed by the three Blue Heelers two doors down. They hammered down their gate, jumped the puppy, and slaughtered her. Right after we drove out of the subdivision. If we had stayed a moment longer, we might have been able to round up the puppy, and keep this from happening.

 

Tuesday, I talk to my mom. Find out her very best friend commited Suicide. Well, it might have been an accidental drug overdose, but based on the warning signs/commentary, I really doubt it. He was depressed over his wife's death, and was having some legal issues. He was one of the people always on my side, no matter what happened. A great guy.

 

Wednesday, that's been the best day so far, mainly because that's Gaming Night. I had to pull some punches to avoid the TPK. Apparently, I was being too aggressive. Hmmm.

 

Today, well, work was hell (the last day before the real end of the quarter) and since it's raining here, people are doing totally stupid shit like turning left from the center lane right through my car. I've almost been killed 3 times today by people doing that.

 

And then, I come in here for a spot of light reading, and find various leftover blood baths.

 

Sigh. I just don't have it in me anymore.

 

D

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I'm not at all surprised, but I'm still upset by the news that Apple has finally killed Emagic (via killing the distributors).

 

May Jobs rot in hell...

 

all right, I suppose I shouldn't wish that on him, but certainly a few years of hell would be okay, I know I've earned a lot of time there and I surely expect to see him some of that time.

 

What REALLY pisses me off is how people keep glamorizing Jobs because they're anti-Gates. They're BOTH fairly merciless and sleazy, Gates has simply been better at it. Small consolation.

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Prayers and well wishes for my son would be appreciated.

 

He has Tourette's Syndrome, and so of course gets his share of teasing. He has a great attitude though, and says if they don't understand then they have a problem, not him. But he got new medication teh other day, and today he had a real emotional rollercoaster of a day. Apparently he was crying so hard that his back started to spasm, and now his back is hurting him terribly. I'm sure the other kids will have a field day with this . . . Anyhoo, my wife got him out of school early (at that point he was sleeping in the nurse's office), and I'm staying home with him tomorrow. But tonight my wife showed up at my rehearsal and brought me home 'cause he was having a really hard time.

 

I'm hoping the medicine just needs to run its course. I've done more than my share of chemical experimentation, and I have experienced some real hell in "coming down" - I really feel for the little guy. That kind of thing is hard enough when self-induced and half expected, but must be a nightmare for a child.

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