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plasticeyeball

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  1. I always thought woolite was for wool. ??

     

    are you guys wearing wool undergarments to enhance discomfort for religious reasons or are they just from the 1700's?

     

    ps: you'd have to call me wife at her school. laundry is one of those i "did wrong the first time to prove i can't handle it so i never had to do it again" things.

  2. Article from two years after, about air quality following 9/11

     

    It's amazing to me that more people didn't stop to think about what was/could have been floating around down there at the time. I was at the site twice, for a week each time, in the two months after. Part of my job was distributing respirators to people working on the pile, and then trying to convince them to actually wear them. Not much luck there.

     

    More surprising to me were the people who lived in the neighborhood, who were desparate to get back into their homes. I can understand the emotional need to do that, but people just should not have been living down there in the immediate aftermath. At one point I saw a pregnant woman walking out of her apartment building, apparently just heading out for work, not 10 blocks from the site. I was stunned that anyone would take a chance like that.

     

    gogo, you know where i live. if you look at a map i think it's 12 miles straight north over water to the verrazano bridge.

     

    that's how far the smell carried strongly enough to wake us up thinking something in the house was on fire. instead, it was just the wind changing direction. i couldn't imagine how bad the air was right there.

  3. too early to tell either but this was the longest short week ever and for the first time in weeks, i got nothing to do but some odd jobs around the house this weekend.

     

    so, as an appetizer, i was thinking i'd start with 10 beers and see where that takes me.

  4. I always cry when I hear them read the names. how can you not?

     

     

    jess,

     

    did you live up here at the time and work in the city?

     

    my biggest memory, aside from the melted plastic smell, was thinking about the cars at the ferry lot down the hill from my house that didn't get picked up and that we were happy that our older kids were only 2 at the time so they hadn't started school yet.

     

    I think there were 37 victims from my town so we figured if they had started school, it was inevitable that we would have personnally know many more who died. (rather than only knowing of them or knowing them by which house the family lived in, ect...

     

    edit: sorry, i just saw your post about being in TN at the time

  5. My wife and I are coaching soccer this year for our sons' under age 4 league. I can't wait!

     

     

    us too! (only for the 7 & 8's and there's 2 other dads coaching as well) 1st practice was wednesday and it was great. both my 7 yr olds are playing the same sport on the same team in years. our first year of NOT having to be 2 places at once!

     

     

    last year my 4 year old (then 3) wanted to play and had fun at the practices. after 5 minutes of the 1st game he just walked off the field and said "I'm want to catch butterflies. Can we go home?"

     

    We decided to wait a few years after that. ha

  6. I've been doing this kind of stuff for a long time but I still can't quite understand how people can graduate from college and write this poorly.

     

     

    It was easy. I was only required to take 2 semesters of english and 2 semesters of either religion or philosophy. Other than that, my entire college career was based upon not having to write anything.

  7. we keep 2 gallons of tomato juice in stock for this time of year because our old dog got sprayed many times and actually killed a skunk in the yard one year.

     

    we figure it's inevitable that the new dog will get sprayed but she made it through last year un-stinked.

     

    it always seemed to happen at about midnight on a sunday night, just when your about to go to bed. :realmad

  8. Roads were caused by many people needing to travel between two points. Because hoofing it over rough terrain proved to be difficult, roads were devised to smooth the way (also making it easier to use wheeled conveyances). Eventually, as vehicles got heavier, roads began to be paved so that they remained passable even after heavy use.

     

    Any other questions?

     

     

    you just made my list of 17 :yay

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