bitteroldhag

But I would have to live in India unless I can teach ESL online. Hummmmm.

gadgetlady -- I see you are from Orange County, one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S. So I'm hardly surprised that you are conservative. After all, the point of having money is to keep it. Unfortunately, many of us don't have money and we'd like a chance to get some. I don't think Rush, Anne and the other right wingnuts are willing to give us that chance. After all they are laughing all the way to the bank.

I'm a second amendment person though I don't own a firearm and probably never will. I just don't want the military and the police to have all the guns. I don't trust the military and police because they have to use force to accomplish anything. I remember who had the guns in Hitler's Germany and it wasn't the ordinary people.

I saw today that Dr. Phil is going to solve this problem. So we don't need to worry.

Carlene -- Very funny and you a Christian girl too.....

This is not a useful person. Talk to useful people like us. We've been there and done that and it works. I have lost 37 pounds since May which is amazing because I was just gaining weight before the band. Screw that person.

I have been having a lot of problems with my wireless network on my Dell laptop so tonight, when it was working for a change, I googled Dell wireless troubleshooting. I finally found the answer to the problem which is to press F2 and it will fix the problem. If any of you are having this problem, try pressing F2. I absolutely love that man who knew the "fix." Does anyone know how to do fn?

Suffer West Coast weenies. We just have week long ice storms and then snow and then more ice and snow. What happened to the South?

Holy Cow! Not only am I armed with underwear and a nightgown, but I also wear socks to bed. I often have to remove them when my feet finally get warm. I have the feeling that I may always be single since I'm just not sexy in bed. I even cover up with my nightgown which is fleece and warm. Oh well, the cat likes to sleep with me.

No. The state cannot rule that people get vaccines. God, we're turning into some sort of dictatorship.

I used to love caftans because they hid the fact that I was gaining a lot of weight. Now I love scrubs. They are comfortable and one looks pretty good in them. They come in all sorts of strange designs so they should be pretty artistic. I recommend scrubs. My brother, who really is a medical person, lives in them.

Jack -- How come you are so wise. I will try this, but thing seem to get stuck in my esophagus when I'm stressed and I throw up. They never get to my stomach. So I'll check out this sphincter thing. One good thing is that I've lost 2 pound in the last couple of weeks. But having Mother in and out of the hospital is stressful. Also Ozzie has mange again and the poor little thing suffers so much it's really stressful. By the way, I have been eating potato chips. I know this is not good food, but I'm thrilled that they go through the sphincter. I like potato chips though I never ate them before the lapband.

Green, I have 4 dogs and 3 cats. Mealtime is cooperative. If I'm really hungry, they don't get anything until I finish, but if I'm not too hungry they get most of it. The problem with cats is that they will climb right into one's plate. Dogs at least just hang around looking hungry.

Carlene -- Exactly how tight is a virgin on Prom night. Having attended multiple proms in high school, I have to say that I was never stressed enough to barf.

Carlene -- I agree about Iraq. How stupid can people be? Pretty stupid, I assume.

Ran him over. This should be ran over him. Over is a preposition and him is the object of the preposition. People are just illerate.

This is probably just a rant, but I seem to find that PBs happen when I'm really stressed. Today I made a nice omelet and bacon and had taken one bite when the nursing home called to say that Mother was bleeding and they were taking her to the emergency room. My one bite didn't work. I had to throw that up before I could get to the emergency room where the docs figured out that the nursing home had been giving Mother coumadin which thins her blood so much that she bleeds. They stopped that. I came home 4 hours later and warmed up my omelet in the microwave and ate it and it stayed down. Do you think stress has anything to do with PBs? My whole life is a soap opera and I'm a drama queen to the max. But it was odd that I couldn't eat even one bite during this particular drama. I was hungry since I hadn't eaten all day except for some Unjury this morning. I would appreciate info on this problem. Thanks.

I have noticed this and didn't check this site. I am much colder than I was before the band. I thought I was just old and the weather is cold. I also get hot easily though but that could be menopause. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who is freezing. This is a good sign for weight loss.

I'm a big believer in chocolate Unjury. I drink that for breakfast since my band tightens up in the night. Then I have bacon and eggs about 2 or 3 in the afternoon. I can eat two slices of bacon and two eggs if I go slow. I have to have cooked veggies and I tried to eat and apple and that was a disaster. But cooked fruit and veggies work. We are supposed to get 60 grams of protein a day which I get with Unjury and eggs and bacon. I also eat meat for dinner though not a lot. I just wish I could eat a really good roll.

What do you mean underpants too. Of course, I wear underpants when I sleep as well as my nightgown. If there's ever a fire, I'm prepared. I've already figured out that I'll throw Mother out her window, round up the pet and save my laptop. But I'll be well dressed with undies on.

I am not convinced that puny humans can actually cause climate changes, but I may just be dull. I wouldn't mind living in Canada if it weren't so cold. Apparently climate change will affect coastal communities first. Since I live on the great plains where drought is normal, depending on El Nino, it's possible that we can survive. During the last big ice age, there was no English channel and much of coastal France was above sea level. So they are discovering cave painting underwater now. Maybe we've been warming for a long time and have just reached the apex. Frankly, I'll take global warming over another ice age any day. But I do think people get hysterical about scientific stuff as reported by the media who really don't understand scientific stuff. Still I hope those poor old polar bears, vicious as they are, get a nice cooling trend so they won't be marooned on ice blocks. I hope this is a natural phenomenon, but I don't think it would hurt us to stop polluting so much. We have dirtied our nest, and as someone said, the earth will survive, but we might not. Pollution is endemic in the U.S. I lived about a mile from a superfund site in Baytown, Texas, and our Water was well water. People there died of very strange cancers and stuff like that. One of my students died of cancer of the spleen at about age 45. I moved to Oklahoma to escape that and found that Kerr-McGee, not known for their care of the land, had nuclear site about 30 miles south of Tahlequah. They were closed down, but people around Gore said they just thew radiation soaked stuff in the woods and left. Southern winds blow that stuff up here, and our county and Adair county have the highest cancer rates in Oklahoma. No one has made Kerr-McGee clean that site up, and I am pretty convinced that the high cancer rates may have something to do with that site. Because our governments (state and federal) go easy on these companies, many of us are unwittingly being poisoned and killed. I remember when I was in Baytown there was a big todo about a bunch of kids being born without brains in Brownsville, Texas, which gets its water from the Rio Grande which is heavily polluted by American factories in Mexico. One of my students had a child die of a strange brain cancer and another kid died of it in the same very small town, but the authorities told them it had nothing to do with pollution. These kinds of deaths were very, very rare, and it seems to me that two kids dying of this very rare disease in one small town is more than a coincidence. I may not buy the global warming stuff, but I do buy the pollution stuff. We need to clean this up--now.

I thought a whippet was a dog. I'm really over the hill, but I have to say that even though I have not been married in my nearly 60 years, I didn't miss out. So I think that sex before, within, and after marriage is good. Or I did think that. After heart surgery and menopause, I think sex takes too much energy. I'd rather take a nap.

I don't have much trouble understanding East Indians. In fact, when I was in England I had a serious problem understanding a guy from Devon. I was at the supermarket and had no idea what he was saying. A guy in the line behind me translated. He wanted to know if he should sack my groceries> I said, Yes, and then discovered that customers sack their own groceriesin England. Screw that. Then I went to Boots, a drugstore, because I was seriously nauseated and the clerk couldn't understand me and had to get a higher up to talk to me. I speak Standard English albeit with an Okie accent. If one is speaking to "Joe' from India, one needs to understand the w is pronounced v in India. I find the biggest problem is the lousy phone service offered by satellite. Someone told me that upper class Indians speak English with a British accent, but we are dealing with lower class Indians on the phone. They don't speak English very well. My thinking is that I'd like to deal with lower class Indians who can get a leg up in a very caste ridden society though I have to admit it's better to talk to an American or a Canadian. The Apple Macintosh service center is in Canada so we've outsourced to Canada. But the bottom line is that American companies can save a whole lot of money by outsourcing. This is just the leading edge of the global economy. What I want to know is how to make money in other countries so I can retire.

While I don't doubt that global warming is happening, I doubt that people are causing it. The globe has warmed a number of times before and then cooled off again. I think it's sort of egotistical that people think we are causing this. The earth is big and weather systems are something we don't really understand. While the east is basking in warm weather, the west is buried in snow. I think the easterners are just surprised that they got our weather and we got theirs. I have studied the last big ice age because I study the cave petroglyphs in France and I am aware that there was a little ice age in the middle ages in Europe which lasted a while and they also had a warm period when malaria was endemic in England. Henry VIII's son may have died from malaria though they called it the sweating sickness then, and it may be associated with a disease in China. However, there were palm trees in the southern parts of England in those days and the weather was warm. I think the press tends to get hysterical before they understand the real causes of global warming which may be perfectly natural. It's certainly happened before. I wonder why the world was so warm during the pleistocene when the dinosaurs were running around in Montana and Canada. They were apparently cold blooded though some folks think some were warm blooded. Still it's pretty peculiar that reptiles ruled the world until the big meteor strike and, whammo, they were extinct. While I'm all for reducing pollutants, I also think we should consider the idea the world changes and weather changes periodically. Also, I'd sell my condo on the beach if I had one.

If you've ever taught anything, it counts. I don't know what the Roman numeral for zero was. I don't think there was one which probably an already complicated number system even more complicated. That's probably why we use the Arabic system today. They were pretty advanced in the middle ages in the sciences though most of that stuff is pretty laughable today. I suspect our science will be laughable in 500 years, assuming humanity still exists.