Keeping with my Pink Floyd theme for thread titles. This is somewhat the way things seem, it's us and them.
Fender,
No smooches from me, but hang in there brother.
Quote:
I am attending St Leo University
See, I told you my school educated a lot of military folks.
You'll do fine on the math class, but I know how you feel going into it. Just takes some of us more work to figure it out. Managerial Accounting was the same for me, but I just ended it with an 'A-'. 7 down and 7 to go.
International Management and Organizational Behavior start Monday, and I fly to CO Tuesday for 3 days of 'meet with the new bosses'. Should be a fun week. Not.
What degree for you? How much longer?
-db
Well I wish I knew how many I have left. I have ordered my transcript twice from the Communtiy College of the Air Force and still one hasn't made it to the school office here. I know I needed roughly 14 classes, so I guess that means 12 now? Or it could mean nothing. I am just plugging along and trying to get ed-jumu-cated, LOL.
Coffee is hot and fresh for ya Pam. Wanna cup?
Good Morning Fender,
I would love a cup.
Here ya go Pam. Nice and hot.
I just got back from the Dr. As I have posted before I have an ongoing issue with my lower back however this time my neck and shoulders feel like I was ran over. Anyway the Dr, God bless her heart, says to me, "you are just stressed out." LOL, I said no sh!t I'm stressed out. She said I needed a good massage. Again, no sh!t. So she prescribes me Flexeril instead of giving me a massage, probably a good thing in hindsight.
Maybe GF will give you the massage.
I had some of that one time for my back. Hmm..imagine that it was when I was going through my divorce!
I'm on my second cup of coffe.
If I only could see GF during the week. She lives about 20 miles away and her and my schedule just don't mess during the week.
I love coffee. Well coffee and beer. I guess you could add women too! Definitely women, coffee and beer.
I love coffee. Well coffee and beer. I guess you could add women too! Definitely women, coffee and beer.
In this order??????
I wish you could see GF during the week too. That would be nice for you both I'm sure.
LOL, the order depends on several factors however women would trump most factors. Coffee and beer, well depends on the time of day. Or my mood. Or whose company I am in.
I like ice coffee in the afternoon. When I drink I usually drink wine but Julie talked me into making rum and coke the other night. So I stopped at the store and splurged. I bought a bottle of Tommy Bahama Golden Sun...wheew..I was asleep by 8:30 and missed the whole baseball game. In retrospect it all worked out for the best!
Good Morning Fender,
Coffee ready yet?
I usually only make it at home on weekends as we have this lovely hugh pot of fresh ground at work when I get there. One of the few perks of working in the home office of a convenience store chain!
Coffee is ready. Good morning.
Good Morning ~ Have a great weekend!
Hope you are having a good Friday.
Lesson for the day kiddo's, don't take Flexeril and go to work.
All I remember is it made me rather drowsy but I only took it one or 2 days.
I guess you are having a rough day?
Actually it has been a normal day. Not to bad really. I just ache all over, well at least I did until I took the flexeril and now I am just sleepy.
Sleepy I understand! If I remember correctly I had to fight to stay awake after I took it but it did help my back!
Hope you have a great weekend planned.
No plans, but I am sure we will have good time doing something.
Good Morning,
Hope you had a great weekend.
Coffee ready???
Weekend was good. Coffee is good too!
Good! I just finished my first cup.
I wish I had this whole week off if it is as nice out as the weekend but all my friends would be working so that wouldn't be as much fun.
morning smooooooooches luvey
3 cup of coffee here....
any more and the vibrations will spill me right off my chair!!!!
I am kinda of hyped up today....drank lots of coffee but it hasn't all had time to register yet.
I just gave 4 9th graders the "mom"look and I actually saw them squirm a little
oh
and
morning smooooooooooooooooooooooches!!!!!
Hit the ground running this morning. Still on my second cup of coffee.
Started the dreaded Finite Math class last night. The professor is a machine and goes really fast. I have till the end of the week to decide to drop or not.
Meanwhile the Intro to the New Testament class appears to be one I may enjoy.
Fig, thanks for the smooches.
I questioned my lawyers secretary yesterday about how much they charged me for postage and copies. I guess she didn't like that too much. She had L call me. I was in class and didn't take the call but she left a voice message. She was pretty b!tchy about it. The way I see it, as the client, I have the right to ask questions about my bill. What say you guys?
she works for you...that's why you pay her
you are her boss
let her know
and your welcome for the smooooooooooooooches....
I have to start my day off right you know
Thanks again Fig.
There just seems to be some much going on lately. School, the kids school, the stbxw riding the MLC train to h&ll, GF is sick, the door handle on my truck broke, I need to plan my retirement ceremony, etc...I know, I am not alone and everyone is busy as h&ll too.
Oh, I forgot to mention my son ran over a golf ball and knocked out one of my living room windows. I don't even play golf.
Woot! Hot coffee here, get your hot coffee free!
I am so busy I can't see straight. Oh well, 29 calendar days to go and I will be hanging up the uniform.
smooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooches Fender
my day felt off without giving you your a.m. smoooches!!!
Hi Fender:
I questioned my lawyers secretary yesterday about how much they charged me for postage and copies. I guess she didn't like that too much. She had L call me. I was in class and didn't take the call but she left a voice message. She was pretty b!tchy about it. The way I see it, as the client, I have the right to ask questions about my bill. What say you guys?
Secretaries do not review bills and do not approve the amounts that clients are billed. In many cases, they do not even have access to the bills. They also do not have the authority to reduce or increase the amount you were billed.
You as the client have the right to ask questions about the bill. However the person to talk to is the attorney. He/she is the person that authorized billing you the amount that you have been billed.
I am an attorney and if a client yells at my assistant - I fire the client - not the secretary. And if a client harasses at my secretary - I am less inclined to accommodate requests to reduce bills.
take care,
AG
Ok AG let's not make assumptions here. You don't assume that I yelled at or harrassed the sect. and I won't assume that all lawyers are blood sucking scum.
Fender, you have me rolling on the floor at that one.
IMHO, and from first-hand experience, the first job a lawyer sees fit to do with a matrimonial case is to squander the entire retainer amount without having done a thing, and then ask for more money.
Sure you have a right to ask - but when you do, THEY LIKE IT BECAUSE THEY GET TO CHARGE YOU MORE MONEY! It's a catch 22.
When my $5,000 deposit was gone before we'd even set foot in court and I asked where the heck it went, my L came up with the most ridiculous statement I have ever seen. She clained she and X's L had a lunch "appt" that I never knew about. I asked what they discussed and she said she'd have to research it. But she'd charge ME for the research.
Lawyers. I'm glad to be done with all of that. It's so frustrating.
Ok so my son is pre law,,,, BUT not to be a D lawyer!!! ( and hes really a great kid, I swear!!)
hes actually just a senior and Political Science major, so ....hes not in the lawyer catagory yet! but i just got him a Halloween card
" Where do vampires learn to suck blood?"
" law school"
LOL he'll love it.
and I really liked my L- he fought hard for me, now ex L was a major scumbag!!!
Fender,
I've had to correct my A's work several times and it pisses me off. He's supposedly the "best" D lawyer in town and I'm correcting his work??? DUH!!! He should've paid me. I felt like I paid him $5k for nada since X and I agreed on the settlement and came up with it ourselves. Basically, he spent an hour in court and charged me 5K for it!!!
Queenie, that is EXCATLY what happened to me.
She never got one thing right. After two tries with the agreement, and none of it right, I learned her software to write the agreement myself, wrote it, and was out about $7,500 when all was said and done. She spent about 30 minutes in court. What a rip off.
But I have to admit, she did do one thing for me. She had a rep for being the best in town and it scared my X into not fighting and settling, so that way, we didn't give everything we'd worked for all our lives to the L's. That's what it end up coming down to.
Karen, my neice is in law school, but she's not going to be an M L either. If you end up being a lawyer, you have to develop a thick skin I guess. There are good and bad ones, just like any other profession. I do think the majority of bad ones are divorce lawyers. Or maybe those are the ones we hear about most with all the divorcing going on.
Hi Fender:
I won't assume that all lawyers are blood sucking scum.
90% of attorneys are blood sucking scum. Most D attorney hear caching when a client walks in the door that wants to go to war against their spouse and is seeking justice over settlement.
I also think billing for postage and copies is beyond stupid when you have a three figure hourly billing rate. Now that I am on my own, I no longer bill for that - I consider those costs to be built into my billing rate.
However secretaries and assistants have very little influence over these policies. And in some cases working for blood sucking scum is stressful enough w/o the added stress of angry clients.
The attorney has returned you call. Ask him/her to cut or reduce the postage and copy costs or to justify the copy and postage costs. Also request that he/she contain them in the future. You can also amend your retainer letter to say something like you will not pay for copy and/or postage that exceeds X dollars unless they receive your approval prior to incurring such costs.
take care,
AG
Happy,
I agree that my X was willing to settle so quickly and generously because he knew I had the best (not sure who's opinion that was, definitely NOT mine)!!!!
Hi Happy:
Sure you have a right to ask - but when you do, THEY LIKE IT BECAUSE THEY GET TO CHARGE YOU MORE MONEY! It's a catch 22.
It is unethical for an attorney to bill you for time spent on reviewing bills or discussing the bill with the client.
If your attorney charged you for time spent on billing questions, you can report him/her to the state disciplinary commission. That is grounds for disbarrment in some states. That usually deters even the slimiest of attorneys from billing that time to clients.
take care,
AG
That's nice to know AG, but now that it's been a few years and I have no idea where those invoices are (I probably burned them!), there's not much I can do about it now. Besides, that's over thank goodness.
She was supposedly the best, but I have serious doubts about that.
She actually had the audacity to ask my opinion about some property she was thinking about buying. I knew that if I gave her any value opinion, even verbally, even a range, that equates to an appraisal and I would have been subject to discipline, so I did not give it to her. I told her I couldn't say without doing some research. But I think she held that against me.
Too bad, she was expecting to make lots more than $7,500 from me. And she did not. So I did win.
Thanks for the info AG. Also thanks to everyone else that posted.
To clairify, I wasn't rude to the secretary, I only asked her a question about the bill. I wasn't aware that she couldn't answer questions about the bill. I wish she would have said that up front instead of running to mommy and crying about it.
Secondly, I didn't care for the tone the L took with me on the voicemail. Her tone was more like a mother scolding a child rather than a professional talking to her client.
I don't take that kind of direction very well.
Coffee is hot and math class went rather well last night. There are only 7 students remaining in the class and when I talked to the head office they pretty much begged me not to drop. So I talked to the professor and he agreed to slow down a bit as long as I ask questions as often as I need to. He also offered to be 30 mins early for classes for one on one tudoring. So I figure it is now or never.
Good Morning,
Having my first cup of coffee now.
Glad to hear about the math class and the professor being willing to work with you on it. That's great!!
I agree HS. I mean with a 7:1 ratio I should get better instruction than with a larger class? Plus with him offering to give me 30 mins tudoring prior to each class, I should be ok.
I don't want you guys to think I'm dumb or lazy, it's more just nervous worry than anything.
Hey, it's rained here yesterday and today. Haven't seen much of that all year. We are like 18 inches short on rain this year.
Hey, it's rained here yesterday and today.
I wish you would take the rain we are supposed to get the rest of the week. The last thing I need is more rain with a leaking roof!!!
I just responded to that. LOL
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING LUVEY!!!!
smooch smooch smooch smooch
that is all
Thanks figgy, I am getting used to your smooches and I like'em.
Where is the hearts in the eyes icon.
(sigh)
smooooches lovey
WooHoo!! Smooches from two different ladies in one morning. I better be careful or I might make Swashy jealous? LOL
he'll just call us all babe or hun
you remember our names!!!!
(eyelashes fluttering)
smoooooooooch
(head patting)
I know baby!!!
I'm so glad you got that!!!! It was deliberate!!!!
and
smoooooooooooooooooooooches for that
Good Morning Fender!
I NEED coffee this morning!!!!!!! Hot, good and black please!
Here's to a wonderful Friday and a great weekend.
Well I don't mean to be difficult but I need some decaf. Cream/no sugar, oh do you have any croissants or scones? How about a danish?
I like those little croissants with the cream cheese filling..........
andI take my coffee with cream...no sugar!!!
gooooooooooooooood morning Fender!!!!
smoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooch
(since it has to last until Monday!!!)
WoooooooHooooooooo!!!!!!!
I just found out we are off on Monday. Coffee all around...and crossiants and doughnuts.
Fender..........
I like my croissants warm.....you don't mind do you?
Bethie, anything for you babe.
Fender,
I bring in an empty cup and throw some glaze around..Have a joyous day You "Rock and Roll Refugee"...peace
WoooooooHooooooooo!!!!!!!
I just found out we are off on Monday.
Soooooo you are off and don't even drop by with coffee for us poor working schmucks!!
Have a great day off!
Happy Monday Strat! I got the coffee covered for ya.
Welllllllllll his coffee as far as I know doesn't require a knife and a fork!!!
who do I smoooooooooooooooooooch now???
great...my week is off to a crummy start
I can't do that accent very well
maybe I can try the Pepe LePew one!!!!
le pant le pant
le huff le puff
I studied fake accents in college
it was a very liberal arts school!!!
Good Morning Fender,
Welcome back to work. Here is a nice hot cup of coffee to get your day off to the right foot.
Did you have a nice 3 days off??
Thanks for the coffee. The weekend was good and bad. By that I mean it started off good and ended on a sour note.
The good part is GF and I had a great Sat together. Sunday she woke not feeling well. We talked on the phone that evening and she was feeling better after sleeping most of the day.
The bad part I don't even want to get into except to say it involves my stbxw and her MLC drama.
School is going ok, however the relegion prof. is making us do a group paper and I really don't like group papers too much.
Hope everyone here had a decent weekend?
SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCHES
jeepers...my week was all kittywanpus without my morning Fender smooches!!!!
Sorry about the crappy part
I am trying to get a grant together to buy an island to ship them all too...like jurassic park
that way they would all be contained!!!
LOL, thanks for the smooches and the laugh, I needed both.
Yay, the coffee is really good today.
I am pondering the sabbatical idea, although I might want to be tenured 1st
maybe
just sayin'
smooooooooooooooooooooooooooooches Fender
siiiiiiigh
Happy Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen (muah ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaa)
HS, you know if I have it you are welcome to it.
Fig, thanks for the smooches, I love'em.
teeeeeeee heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh
(where the crap arethe dreamy eye little emotocon guys??)
Well HS, I am applying for a job at the dept of corrections afterall. However, it is not a security postion. I am applying for a Progam Manager job at a prison farm. They no kidding need someone to manage inmates working the dairy herd. I would rather do that than be in a factory all day. The recruiter asked me if I could tell inmates what to do? I said I have been telling airmen what to do for over 20 years, I think I can handle it.
I actually have a contact that said he could get my name to the right people and then it was up to me. Networking is a beautiful thing. I will let you know how it goes.
Fender....
that deserves extra smooooooooooches
and a butt squeeze
OMG, a butt squeeze. WOOT!!!!
Get your hot coffee here.
OOH,
May I have a cup?
Like lots of cream and sugar.
Got any donuts?
I'm a sucker for donuts.
Good Morning Fender..........
Good luck with the job prospect. Things sometimes do seem to work out in ways that we can't always see. I know that's been the case for me all through this crazy journey. You know that old saying that when 1 door closes another one opens? I so believe that that is always the case.
Coffee pleae. Cream/no sugar
No doughnuts but lots of hot coffee, with cream and sugar to taste.
Thanks Bethie. True, one door is shutting very soon. 28 days and a wake up.
One cup of hot black coffee please.
Good luck with the job!!! That is great news.
two cheeked squeeze and a smoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooch
coming at you
I need a refill as the 3 cups I had already (sigh) are gone
smooooch smoooooch smooooch
The days are going by quickly. I just got out of my lunch time class and now the day is nearly done.
yeah!!! I love when days are done and new ones start!!!
rejuvinating!!!
TGIF. Coffee all around.
I am somewhat worn down this week. To many crisis in a week, plus the kids, school, work, hunting a job, stbxw's craziness, GF, etc..
There is a song I like by Seven Mary Three that has a lyric that kinda fits my mood today.
"There is a balance between two worlds
One with an arrow and a cross
Regardless of the balance, life has become
Cumbersome"
It's the balance that I am looking for but not finding right now. However, there is another song by ARS that I am thinking of right now. It goes like this.
"Lord, Lord, Lord
We got nothing but trouble
I've done all I can do today
So bartender pour me a double, right now
But I'm not gonna let it bother me tonight
I'm not gonna let it bother me tonight
The world is in an uproar and I see no end in sight
But I won't let it bother me tonight"
Well, you having the stuffing knocked out of you and it being Friday what about one of those tequila sunrise's instead of coffee today?
Good morning!
Fender....
SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH
I know it doesn't really help but I sure like doing it!!!
I like a little Ministry in the morning
I listened to SO WHAT today on my way to work!!!
Thanks for the offer but I think a little Makers Mark in my coffee will suffice for now.
Fender....
SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH
I know it doesn't really help but I sure like doing it!!!
I like a little Ministry in the morning
I listened to SO WHAT today on my way to work!!!
Your smooches help more than you know.
HS, thanks buddy. I can alsway count on you to be there and I appreciate that.
I love that my smoooooooooooooooches help and I am more than happy to give them all the time...
I remember when the Hardys were little ladskies and they thought my kisses were magic. I was kissing everything and Dyl told a guy at target who was freakingout about something that he should let his mommy kiss him since her kisses made the sun come up in the morning...
sigh
now they say stuff like
stop kissingme, you're gross, I hate you
I can'twait for them to be teenagers
They are at the in between time. You know that time in between adolesence and adulthood, when parents aren't cool. They will return to the fold.
I know....
and they have big teeth
which is neither here no there but that is the age...when they lose their teeth and new ones comein all big for their still small heads and they are all awkward and arms and legs
it's my least favorite spell
but they are still younf enough that I can throw them downa nd make them kiss me in front of their friends
mhuah ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I know....
and they have big teeth
which is neither here no there but that is the age...when they lose their teeth and new ones comein all big for their still small heads and they are all awkward and arms and legs
it's my least favorite spell
but they are still younf enough that I can throw them downa nd make them kiss me in front of their friends
mhuah ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
LMAO
always
it's my life's work
embarassing my kids
I RULE!!!!!
Home alone tonight. D12 is with the stbxw and GF has her mother staying over. S18 and friend are doing an all night kids lock up at the local skating rink.
I guess it's beer thirty?
Well if you have a glass of wine I'll join ya on a Friday night! I remember when I was on this board constantly all hours and there was almost always someone around.
Hey Fender! Got home and realized I only had one beer in the fridge...ugh.
ONE BEER? Never let that happen again, LOL.
Hot coffee here. Free hot coffee.
I'll take a cup. Just finished my first one.
Good morning Fender did you have a nice weekend?
Fairly decent weekend. Big test tonight though, first one in my math class.
Good Luck!!!!!!!! How do you feel about it? Ready?
Will be thinking of you and sending good thoughts tonight.
Good luck on your test sweetness
just gulped my coffee and burned my tongue
Smoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooches to you!!!
Thanks for the well wishes.
GF and I went to a nice bar Saturday night. After we ate we ordered coffee. I tell you it was some of the best coffee I ever had. The waiter said it was a Kona blend of some kind. Any of you guys have any experience with this kind of coffee?
we used to get his stuff that was liquid and fed into the coffee machine and was amazing
smooth and strong at the same time
I think it was Dewey Egberts or something like that
it was a kona blend too
What's up Fender, long time no post-
My contribution to "coffee talk:"
Kona coffee is from Hawaii, I think it's fantastic also. You can find it in the states, but be careful - a lot of times you'll buy Kona coffee, but if you read the fine print it's a blend, i.e. 10% Kona, 90% something else. 100% Kona is the best (to me). The main difference is that the blend is much less expensive, costs about as much a typical coffee, and 100% Kona costs an arm and a leg, but is worth it if you have the $$ to spare and you're a coffee lover.
Good luck on your test-
Kev
Fender,
Slurping and spilling myself and my coffee through your thread. Kona is a "smooth" brew indeed. Kman is right on all accounts of his description and availability. Another good brew that might be more acessible from where you live is "Kenyan" coffee.. Smooth and a little kick as well.
Good lick on the formulas, and the calculations...i think i will throw a quote of pink floyd each time I enter...been awhile. you "Rock n Roll Refugee"....peace
Fig, the base golf course has a Douwe Egberts coffee machine and I love the stuff. Took S18 there for breakfast this morning.
The stuff from the bar was even better, mmmm'good.
Kev and Whapu, thanks for dropping in gents. Kev I will definitely look for the blend percentage when I go to buy some of the stuff.
Whapu, thanks for the good lick however I am wondering if I should just "run like h&ll?"
Thanks Fig. You are the best!
smooooooooooooches to you sweetness
fENDER,
thanks for the good lick however I am wondering if I should just "run like h&ll?"
YIPES!!! I usually don't lick around here man....I usually give "LUCK"...crimeny...I need to pay more attention to my typing skills
I would run like hell most definately BTW....peace
LMAO, I kinda figured you meant luck but it was to easy to set the hook.
smooooooooooooches to you sweetness
Just checking in :-)
Hope the test went well. I am sure you did great!
G'Morining DB'ers. I am very down this morning but I can't help it. The test went poorly, I don't know my grade yet but I KNOW it is not good.
Good news is I have coffee and I am willing to share.
Fender,
Sorry you don't feel good about the test. Try to shake it off, don't get discouraged.
I'll take some coffee, since your offering, thanks.
take care,
BA
Thanks BA and coffee is always free here.
smooooooooooooooooooches Fender...
the first tests are always the worst because you don't know how the teacher tests or what the tests are like.
Lots of times, we also think we did a lot worse than we did in reality...
either way
you will bounce back...check with the prof if all tests will be like this one, is there a study group or a math lab (God bless them!!) that you can be a part of?
Asking questions will help the prof know you are trying and you take the class seriously...it will also put you on the radar with him/her and beoing on the postive radar is always good.
thanks for the coffee sugarplum
Figgy, thanks for the kind words and info.
You are always welcome to coffee here.
smooooooooooooooooooooooch
thanks
coffee always makes things better!!!
safe ports in storms are always important!!!
Fender sorry about the test. Hope it went better than you feel it did.
Hope your day is going well.
The day went fairly well. It is beer'thirty now and that means the day just got better.
Well good for you!!!!!! I have an hour to go before I get out of here.