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Dec 12, 2010, 8:53:39 AM12/12/10
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On Dec 12, 8:13 am, Shawn Hirn <s...@comcast.net> wrote:
> In article
> <cf5e81fb-eb84-4619-958a-a6e512fe5...@p1g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> The BIG N <ni...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > C'mon Twinky, we miss our favorite punching bag. Maybe we need a
> > "Weekend Upchuck" report from you to lighten up the group. Mincing
> > Babs Broughton has been very bitchie this week. Fat Nits Watson is
> > rambling on again as he wrestles with his early onset of dementia.
> > "NumbNormGee" is his usual dull, drab, and starchy self. "O Stevie" is
> > once again demonstrating his prowess of long-winded rambling as he
> > takes several dozen sentences to say what can be said in about 10
> > words (usually gratuitous irrelevance).
>
> > So you see, endomorphic guy, your own naivete and stupidity is almost
> > a relief if you look at it as a contrast to this past week of
> > sophomoric twaddle from the legion of the disgruntled, angry,
> > frustrated, and dull. So get back here and join your soul-sisters,
> > there's always room for one more idiot. LOL!
>
> > TBN - tellin' it like it is.
>
> How flattering that you were obviously awake until late at night
> concerned about my whereabouts, you lugubrious fool!
>
> I was just busy on other matters. I had a final exam this past Thursday,
> so I was spending a lot of time preparing for it and not so much time on
> Usenet.
>
> Since you are no doubt curious what I have been up to lately, I will
> fill you in.
>
> This past Thursday was when I had my final exam. I ended up taking the
> entire 2.5 hours for the exam, so I did not finish until 8:00pm. I was
> exhausted, but I had a ticket to the Temple Owls vs. Georgetown Hoyas
> basketball game, which started at 9:00pm, so I took the subway back to
> my office after the final exam. It only took me ten minutes because the
> train was there when I got to the City Hall subway station. I had some
> time to kill so I did some work for half an hour before I went to the
> game. The game turned out to be well worth attending. I wanted to leave
> early to go home to sleep, but it was such a fast paced game and very
> competitive so I stayed nearly to the end when it was obvious that
> Temple would win.
>
> On Friday, I promised a friend from work I would pick him up at the
> Nissan dealership where he bought his car because he needed to go to
> have the dealer look at a problem with one of his tires. My buddy
> treated me for breakfast at a South Philly diner near the dealership.
> Then we went to work and I spent almost the entire day working on some
> lame report that I am certain no one will ever look at.
>
> My same friend who I picked up at the dealership and I went to the house
> of a mutual friend after dinner to help decorate his Christmas tree.
> This friend has a very nice wife and two sons whom I have known their
> entire lives. The boys don't seem interested in doing anything with the
> Christmas tree, but the older boy broke with tradition and when I
> arrived, he was there with his girlfriend putting up some decorations on
> the tree, but a lot still needed to be done. So we all spent about an
> hour decorating their tree and eating pizza and drinking wine. Then we
> went out for a walk to let their dog relieve herself. They live about an
> hour from me and I had to stop and pick up some groceries on the way
> home. I didn't get home until midnight and I went straight to bed.
>
> Yesterday, I had to wake up early (for a Saturday) to attend a holiday
> party with a group that I joined at least ten years ago. It is a
> Macintosh Users Group and I was tempted to just stay home, but I wanted
> to see the people there and see what was being sold at the flea market
> that was organized as part of the party. I bought some pasta salad with
> me as my contribution to the food. The party took place in the same
> church where we hold our regular monthly meetings, so I also brought
> along a few cans of vegies, tomato sauce, etc. for the church's charity
> food collection. The flea market was mostly stuff I had no interest in.
> One friend who works at an Apple store was selling his MacBook Pro so he
> could use the proceeds to buy the latest model. Another friend was
> selling an iMac that was very new. He was only asking $900 and I think
> he sold it there and the laptop was also sold. I did not buy either of
> them, but I did buy a camera bag from another friend for $30 that's
> perfect for my Olmpus.
>
> I was there until noon. I hardly ate anything though because most of
> what was there was not appealing to me. By the time I left the party, I
> was pretty hungry. Next, I stopped at a Micro Center store. I told you
> about my offer to buy my 11-year old god daughter an iPod touch if she
> kept her math grade up to a B+. That was the grade she had when I made
> her that deal and I said if she could keep it at a B+ until
> mid-December, I would buy her a new iPod touch. Well, her grade dropped
> 6 points, so no more B+. She was very upset because she knows I keep my
> word. No iPod touch. She was crying that she would beg her mom and dad
> to buy her one. I am not stupid though. I want her to do better in math
> so I extended the offer until the end of the school year. She was upset
> about that too because she knows the only way she will get it is to work
> for it because there is no way her parents will buy her one if they know
> I might do it in the summer. Anyway, I stopped by the Micro Center store
> and I bought her math tutoring software for her to use in hopefully
> strengthening her math skills. That is my consulation gift to her.
>
> After my visit to the computer store, I drove down to Philadelphia's Art
> Museum area where my sister lives. I actually found parking right away,
> right around the corner from my sister's place. I got to her apartment
> at 1:30 for our plans to see some of the holiday sites in Center City.
> We walked over to One Liberty Place where they have an indoor shopping
> mall and my sister and I both got some lunch at the food court. Then we
> walked along Chestnut Street to City Hall to look around the Christmas
> Village there. My sister spent half an hour at one booth looking at
> jewelry and she bought this very nice set of a necklace and earrings
> made out of some kind of colorful silk. I bought this colorful hand made
> trivet made in Turkey as a gift for a friend and a bag of German cookies
> for another friend, but that was it.
>
> We then went to Macy's to see their Christmas light show. The store was
> packed and my sister had already seen the show so she left me and went
> shopping while I watched the show and shot some photos of it. The show
> lasted half an hour at which time my sister returned and we left the
> store. I think she bought a sweater there. I did not buy anything there,
> but mainly because the crowds were so heavy that I didn't want to wait
> in any long lines.
>
> We then walked west to the Barns & Nobel book store on Walnut Street
> with a stop at the Di Bruno Brothers cheese store on Chestnut Street and
> a stroll through the Rittenhouse Park on the way. My sister bought a
> book there for her reading club. I thumbed through a magazine at the
> bookstore while I waited for her.
>
> After we left the book store, my sister and I parted company because she
> promised a friend who lived in that area that she would visit her last
> night. I then started walking back to my car, which was about 1.5 miles
> north of me. On the way, I stopped at the Comcast Building to see their
> annual Christmas display, which runs hourly so I ended up having to wait
> 30 minutes there for the next show to start. While I was waiting, I
> figured I would use my iPhone to research how I can phase out my Comcast
> subscription TV service, which I seldom watch. I figure that it is silly
> for me to spend nearly $100 a month on TV when I only watch it an hour
> or two a week. Anyway, the show was very nice. I then walked back to my
> car and I got there around 7:30pm. I was pretty hungry so I stopped by a
> nearby Whole Foods store that has a cafe in it. I got some salad from
> the salad bar and some sort of chicken meatballs and pasta from the hot
> foods bar and I ate the food there. I then drove home and went right to
> sleep.
>
> Today, I was hoping to take the train to Center City and walk around
> before seeing the Temple vs. Akron game, but it is pouring out. I think
> I will go visit my parents soon instead, then go to the game. I have
> season tickets with a friend and we plan to go out to a small little
> Venezuelan restaurant for dinner after the game, so that ought to be
> nice. Then I will go home and start playing the new Angry Birds holiday
> game I downloaded recently. I finished the original Angry Birds game
> last weekend and it was a lot of fun. Oh, and I am going to go to Best
> Buy soon to buy a high definition rabbit ears TV antenna to see how it
> works with my TV. If that antenna works reasonably well to get the major
> TV networks in HD, then I will buy a Roku box and a Hulu.com
> subscription, and cancel my Comcast television service and just use
> Comcast for Internet and phone service. That ought to save me $80 a
> month.
>
> Anyway, I hope you are all having a nice and smokeless weekend.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
> In article
> <cf5e81fb-eb84-4619-958a-a6e512fe5...@p1g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> The BIG N <ni...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > C'mon Twinky, we miss our favorite punching bag. Maybe we need a
> > "Weekend Upchuck" report from you to lighten up the group. Mincing
> > Babs Broughton has been very bitchie this week. Fat Nits Watson is
> > rambling on again as he wrestles with his early onset of dementia.
> > "NumbNormGee" is his usual dull, drab, and starchy self. "O Stevie" is
> > once again demonstrating his prowess of long-winded rambling as he
> > takes several dozen sentences to say what can be said in about 10
> > words (usually gratuitous irrelevance).
>
> > So you see, endomorphic guy, your own naivete and stupidity is almost
> > a relief if you look at it as a contrast to this past week of
> > sophomoric twaddle from the legion of the disgruntled, angry,
> > frustrated, and dull. So get back here and join your soul-sisters,
> > there's always room for one more idiot. LOL!
>
> > TBN - tellin' it like it is.
>
> How flattering that you were obviously awake until late at night
> concerned about my whereabouts, you lugubrious fool!
>
> I was just busy on other matters. I had a final exam this past Thursday,
> so I was spending a lot of time preparing for it and not so much time on
> Usenet.
>
> Since you are no doubt curious what I have been up to lately, I will
> fill you in.
>
> This past Thursday was when I had my final exam. I ended up taking the
> entire 2.5 hours for the exam, so I did not finish until 8:00pm. I was
> exhausted, but I had a ticket to the Temple Owls vs. Georgetown Hoyas
> basketball game, which started at 9:00pm, so I took the subway back to
> my office after the final exam. It only took me ten minutes because the
> train was there when I got to the City Hall subway station. I had some
> time to kill so I did some work for half an hour before I went to the
> game. The game turned out to be well worth attending. I wanted to leave
> early to go home to sleep, but it was such a fast paced game and very
> competitive so I stayed nearly to the end when it was obvious that
> Temple would win.
>
> On Friday, I promised a friend from work I would pick him up at the
> Nissan dealership where he bought his car because he needed to go to
> have the dealer look at a problem with one of his tires. My buddy
> treated me for breakfast at a South Philly diner near the dealership.
> Then we went to work and I spent almost the entire day working on some
> lame report that I am certain no one will ever look at.
>
> My same friend who I picked up at the dealership and I went to the house
> of a mutual friend after dinner to help decorate his Christmas tree.
> This friend has a very nice wife and two sons whom I have known their
> entire lives. The boys don't seem interested in doing anything with the
> Christmas tree, but the older boy broke with tradition and when I
> arrived, he was there with his girlfriend putting up some decorations on
> the tree, but a lot still needed to be done. So we all spent about an
> hour decorating their tree and eating pizza and drinking wine. Then we
> went out for a walk to let their dog relieve herself. They live about an
> hour from me and I had to stop and pick up some groceries on the way
> home. I didn't get home until midnight and I went straight to bed.
>
> Yesterday, I had to wake up early (for a Saturday) to attend a holiday
> party with a group that I joined at least ten years ago. It is a
> Macintosh Users Group and I was tempted to just stay home, but I wanted
> to see the people there and see what was being sold at the flea market
> that was organized as part of the party. I bought some pasta salad with
> me as my contribution to the food. The party took place in the same
> church where we hold our regular monthly meetings, so I also brought
> along a few cans of vegies, tomato sauce, etc. for the church's charity
> food collection. The flea market was mostly stuff I had no interest in.
> One friend who works at an Apple store was selling his MacBook Pro so he
> could use the proceeds to buy the latest model. Another friend was
> selling an iMac that was very new. He was only asking $900 and I think
> he sold it there and the laptop was also sold. I did not buy either of
> them, but I did buy a camera bag from another friend for $30 that's
> perfect for my Olmpus.
>
> I was there until noon. I hardly ate anything though because most of
> what was there was not appealing to me. By the time I left the party, I
> was pretty hungry. Next, I stopped at a Micro Center store. I told you
> about my offer to buy my 11-year old god daughter an iPod touch if she
> kept her math grade up to a B+. That was the grade she had when I made
> her that deal and I said if she could keep it at a B+ until
> mid-December, I would buy her a new iPod touch. Well, her grade dropped
> 6 points, so no more B+. She was very upset because she knows I keep my
> word. No iPod touch. She was crying that she would beg her mom and dad
> to buy her one. I am not stupid though. I want her to do better in math
> so I extended the offer until the end of the school year. She was upset
> about that too because she knows the only way she will get it is to work
> for it because there is no way her parents will buy her one if they know
> I might do it in the summer. Anyway, I stopped by the Micro Center store
> and I bought her math tutoring software for her to use in hopefully
> strengthening her math skills. That is my consulation gift to her.
>
> After my visit to the computer store, I drove down to Philadelphia's Art
> Museum area where my sister lives. I actually found parking right away,
> right around the corner from my sister's place. I got to her apartment
> at 1:30 for our plans to see some of the holiday sites in Center City.
> We walked over to One Liberty Place where they have an indoor shopping
> mall and my sister and I both got some lunch at the food court. Then we
> walked along Chestnut Street to City Hall to look around the Christmas
> Village there. My sister spent half an hour at one booth looking at
> jewelry and she bought this very nice set of a necklace and earrings
> made out of some kind of colorful silk. I bought this colorful hand made
> trivet made in Turkey as a gift for a friend and a bag of German cookies
> for another friend, but that was it.
>
> We then went to Macy's to see their Christmas light show. The store was
> packed and my sister had already seen the show so she left me and went
> shopping while I watched the show and shot some photos of it. The show
> lasted half an hour at which time my sister returned and we left the
> store. I think she bought a sweater there. I did not buy anything there,
> but mainly because the crowds were so heavy that I didn't want to wait
> in any long lines.
>
> We then walked west to the Barns & Nobel book store on Walnut Street
> with a stop at the Di Bruno Brothers cheese store on Chestnut Street and
> a stroll through the Rittenhouse Park on the way. My sister bought a
> book there for her reading club. I thumbed through a magazine at the
> bookstore while I waited for her.
>
> After we left the book store, my sister and I parted company because she
> promised a friend who lived in that area that she would visit her last
> night. I then started walking back to my car, which was about 1.5 miles
> north of me. On the way, I stopped at the Comcast Building to see their
> annual Christmas display, which runs hourly so I ended up having to wait
> 30 minutes there for the next show to start. While I was waiting, I
> figured I would use my iPhone to research how I can phase out my Comcast
> subscription TV service, which I seldom watch. I figure that it is silly
> for me to spend nearly $100 a month on TV when I only watch it an hour
> or two a week. Anyway, the show was very nice. I then walked back to my
> car and I got there around 7:30pm. I was pretty hungry so I stopped by a
> nearby Whole Foods store that has a cafe in it. I got some salad from
> the salad bar and some sort of chicken meatballs and pasta from the hot
> foods bar and I ate the food there. I then drove home and went right to
> sleep.
>
> Today, I was hoping to take the train to Center City and walk around
> before seeing the Temple vs. Akron game, but it is pouring out. I think
> I will go visit my parents soon instead, then go to the game. I have
> season tickets with a friend and we plan to go out to a small little
> Venezuelan restaurant for dinner after the game, so that ought to be
> nice. Then I will go home and start playing the new Angry Birds holiday
> game I downloaded recently. I finished the original Angry Birds game
> last weekend and it was a lot of fun. Oh, and I am going to go to Best
> Buy soon to buy a high definition rabbit ears TV antenna to see how it
> works with my TV. If that antenna works reasonably well to get the major
> TV networks in HD, then I will buy a Roku box and a Hulu.com
> subscription, and cancel my Comcast television service and just use
> Comcast for Internet and phone service. That ought to save me $80 a
> month.
>
> Anyway, I hope you are all having a nice and smokeless weekend.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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