I haven't spoken to him yet - he'll be here on 04/09/2004.

He's not a bad guy - I could have done a whole lot worse, as far as in-laws are concerned.  He's from the lower east side of NYC, with the accent to prove it (you sit on the schtoop, not the stoop, "we wuz", not "we were", and "ain't" is an absolutely proper word to use), and he good-naturedly puts up with my incessant teasing about it.

Ace would get a kick out of him (sigh).

I can say that I truly love my mother-in-law. I hit a home run with my wife and her mother, who is widowed. I guess I can say I am blessed as she would do anything for me and visa versa.

Mark H

It goes without saying, I also could have done far worse with a wife.  The road's not always smooth, but it's OUR road, and I wouldn't travel it with anyone else.

Quote from: JimS on April 08, 2004, 20:04 hrs
It goes without saying, I also could have done far worse with a wife.  The road's not always smooth, but it's OUR road, and I wouldn't travel it with anyone else.

Amen to that!

Mark H

Same here. My wife has tolerated me for nearly 30 years.

Why, the other night, I even told her:

"I knew you had good taste. That's why I picked you." :-)

But alas, the new generation is about to take over. Our son-in-law of two years now is a really good kid and we all get along great. Taking the trip this weekend to visit them, they live just outside Seattle.

At the wedding, being the silly kinda guy I am, when I walked my daughter up the aisle, there's a question the preacher asks. Who gives this woman........ ETC.

I said "Her mother and I."

(pause)

With my hand on his shoulder:

"And Jesse, I know there's probably a lot of people here who want to give you away. But that's OK, we'll take you."

There wasn't a person in the church without a laugh or smile on their face.

Something family:

When Little Girls Grow Up

Very nice, Steve, your daughter has grown into a beautiful young woman.  My wife and I will be married for 13 years this May.  We're also < 50 but > 40; okay, we're both 47.  We met  in our mid-30's; wish we'd met earlier, but I was such a goof, she probably would have laughed me off.  My boys are 10 and 7.  Terrific kids.  Far smarter/cuter/more handsome/funnier than any kids of mine have any right to be.

Thanks Jim

She is a jewel, and Jesse is pretty cool too. (calling him a jewel wouldn't be very manly, cool works)

Looking forward to spending the weekend with them. They get to feed us too. Pay backs are so good :-)

Wishing you met your wife earlier, but didn't, should actually be a positive. While the both of you were getting all that growing up stuff out of your system, unknown forces were making sure you found each other later on. I believe a lot of relationships work better when both parties are mature.

Lord knows, there are too many children who look at marriage today as a "test" to decide whether they might be able to live together or not. An even sadder thing is they often go into it with kids of their own.

I call that kids with kids.

If your boys are smart, cute, handsome and funny, it means you've done your job to pass on some of yourself to your kids. Job well done.

We'll reserve the right to judge the 'goof' thing till later on. Doesn't hurt to pass the goof things onto anyone you can. It makes things interesting.

I guess I unintentionally misled you on the years my wife has tolerated me. I should have said it's been almost 30 MARRIED years. We actually started going out in high school in 70.

Gotta give my wife a 1st place trophy for being so tolerant of this jerk :-)

Quick follow-up: saw my father-in-law, and told him about the dimmer question.  No big deal, since he wasn't sure, either.

A kid up the street was working on an electronic science project, and needed to borrow a soldering iron, so I told him to come over.  My father-in-law, Nick, is retired from Sperry, where he used to work as a field service rep fixing computers (the punch-card reader kind), so he's certainly comfortable around circuit boards.  When Nick saw the science project (and the sloppy soldering), he spent over an hour with the kid, going over the schematic, repairing cold solders, and just looked like he was having a good time.

He's a good guy.

I bet I would get a kick out of him.  

Quote from: Ace on April 21, 2004, 17:57 hrs
I bet I would get a kick out of him.  

And anyone else that gets the chance. ;)

Mark H

Yep

Don't yuh hate that. Put that solder on, flux and all, and it turns out to be too cold.

Cold solders suck. They break!

if you do it carefully and prepare the surface... soldering is easy!!


igloo

Wow, this is a loooooooooooong poast! And it stretches as far as the eye can see! Everyone has made an appearance, even just to tip their hat and say howdy.

O' course, mos' ever'one here is 'in a family way' as the folks back east like to put it, and much calmer than your average run of the mill bachelor. No real place for me. Kids and families are important and probably very, very precious to you all. I can't relate to any of that, except that "Kids are cool! Rough and Tumble time!" because of my personal background, but to all those who proudly display pictures of kids and families, I give a thumbs up.

As to the most recent poast: soldering can be difficult, unless you're well prepared. Pay attention to detail.

I'm pretty new to online internet. Dont know a lot on computers but I have an older one I'm using. I'm learning how to search and found this chat with a search and looked at it for a few days to see what people say and figuring out how to do it. I read a lot of the rooms and wanted to finally say something, but I think I did somthing wrong.

I looked at this title and since its so big, and there are jokes, I hoped it would be a good place to start. I don't know if this one will show. I did one last night and thought it was here, but maybe I hit the wrong button. It's not here.

If this shows, what an I doing wrong? Sorry. Thanks.

Welcome aboard. Your poast is here and in tact. You should be able to start a new poast on your own. I did see that you were successful in poasting to the test forum. Any poast in the test forum do not show up in your total poast number, which is why you are still at "1" instead of "3."

I look forward to seeing your poasts!  :)

Welcome Munki from one noobe to another.

Most everyone here is friendly and helpful.  

Hi you too thanks. Please dont laugh they did somtimes in school, I dont always get my words right or understand. I'm older now and better and I had this thing cased from birth.

What I mean was I read the solder stuff in this title and I have my older brother in Iraq. Hes good and always taught me to try joking with new people so I made a joke about my brother is a solder but not cold it's hot there. I pushed the post icon and checked to be sure is was put with the rest and see if it was there and it was so I checked to see if someone has answered in the morning.

It was there but noone had answered. I checked again later again to see it and it was gone and think that I might have not done it right or somthing. OK I'm new but it was there the same as the night before but not in the middle of day. What did I do or was it me? THanks.

This online is pretty neat.

I've been a technician since October, (really new to the technology stuff, until October I was a *shudder* end-user). One thing I've learned in Online things is that sometimes, things get lost. data gets misplaced. I wouldn't worry too much.

Of course, one of the Admins could have deleted your post because you didn't add enough smileys, too... ;D  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

HA I know your joking thatguy1079. I see a lot of messages without smiles so I know they don't have to be there. I did try it before to see how they work which was OK.  ;D

It seems a lot to learn on the internet but fun to do. I saw a site a littlewhile ago that shows how to make animals out of paper which is pretty hard but the ones thay had were really good. I don't know who a end user or noobie is but will maybe try to learn how to if it helps me. I always have to do that but it makes it fun.
This place has so many people and titles to know but I looked at a lot before and its like everyone lives close to each other.  but I know you are all over like many chanels on a tv from everywhere in the same place but all have different things to say and show.

Hi Mark I'm trying to figure what a poast is, I've seen the word here a lot but not familiar with it and this place is called poasters. Is that why? thanks.

*waves ace down* no, no... I'll handle this one.

A poast is a post that's been poasted by a poaster. Smile! You're a poaster who poasts without knowledge that they poast, instead of posting.

A n00b, by any other name, wouldn't smell as fresh as a newborn. ...If a newborn could be said to smell fresh.

An end user is a person who operates the computer without knowing what's really inside, or how it works. They may know about processors, RAM, CMOS, and HDD, but they really don't know how it works. They're typically afraid to do any maintainence work themselves, and invariably have 3 or more 'tech' friends.

yar, and the tech friends have about 100 end user friends, and get called out at all stupid times.... ( stupid flexy time :( )

Ace, your wrong about dead in here. Not all here are dead. Your not dead, but here. Otheres arent dead, but here and everywhere still.

And jim was here a lot too and still there a lot. He should put his jokes here in teh big room, he's not dead.

wow, what  a way to bring back a long dead poast......

So much for letting sleeping dogs die.

First thing, JimS are a secret society dedicated to the promotion of humour and a cure for blondness in this lifetime.  They are multitude.

Secondly, those who have passed from this chatroom live on in our memory.  When you've already got multiple personalities in there, it gets a little crowded.  

Ace: p-o-a-s-t.  Geez Loaise.

Poasts don't die, they just slip into a dormant state, like volcanos, only to be reawakened later by some monkey.

The next thing you know, the "Pizza" poast will be back and someone will be wondering about a strange topping -like peanutbutter.

Well, thank you "Mr. Science."  Now we know why Mt. St. Helens (Mt. St. Hl.) was reawakened... a monkey slipped over the edge and plummeted downward into the smoldering abyss.

Unless they threw him in, as a sacrifice.  

You were prophetic on that pizza thing, though.  I'm still wondering if that means you have peanut butter and cheese and tomato sauce...?  Or "jam" as they call it in England.  Pepperoni and peanut butter?  Bleah.

And, no, Snoopy didn't say that.  I did.  Just now.

Ace; you could look it up.

Its "Mr. Wizard" to you, thanks.  But it was a panda, not a monkey; thrown in as an example of how cultured people deal with stinky things.

I don't have peanut butter and cheese, at all.
But I had a friend with an ulcer who ate cheese and jam(jelly, over here) sandwiches, one of the few things he could easily digest.

Pizza is only really good cold, for breakfast.

To quote someone else "Bleah"?  :P  Actually, I think it was Lucy.

The Great Pumpkin is coming.

Panda's warm theyre cold pizzas in StHelens and feed it to the monkeys thrown in.