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Jack, how did you end up on this blog anyway? Since you're a bear and all, I mean. (And who was it that said you were an *actual* bear living somewhere or other...that was pretty funny?)

I always wondered what HARM's name meant. Heavily ARM'd--that's clever!

"Jack, how did you end up on this blog anyway? Since you’re a bear and all, I mean."

Oops, a bull, I mean.

Hmm, now that bear joke makes no sense. Hmmm.

"on at the Fairfax Halloween drum circle and equinox bongo ritual."

I'm a little jealous that you get to live around such colorful weirdos. I mean, here in UltraConservativeLand, some people get offended by the celebration of Halloween. Like it's really symbolic or something and not just a reason to have fun--like their kids are going to become pagans just because they dressed up as Winnie the Pooh for a couple hours.

"Netrugu"

Now that screen name really made my eye twitch. What did it mean, I wanted to know? WHAT DID IT MEAN???????? I kept wanting it to be NetGURU, which would have made sense. I liked TWIT much better.

1912... are we approaching WWI?

I am lurking now PeterP, turning the tables on you as you talk sushi with MP!

I changed the subject from sushi to duck already.

I discovered that I was the threadmaster of "Is the Fed trying to prick the bubble?"

(...although I did not write the post)

"I have heard that Austin TX is a cool town. I love Portland Oregon, but might freak from too many dark days."

I discovered from living in Germany that I'm a seasonal affective disorder sufferer. So while the Pacific Northwest sounds really nice, I think I'd walk around in a depressed funk all the time, since it apparently has a very similar climate to the areas of Germany we lived in.

I'm happiest in places that have tons of sunshine (which is why I can live in the armpit of CA and be happy here--lots o' sunshine).

"Just read all your posts on the front thread. Interesting to learn about your choices, research, particular dilemmas, mostly just hope this all works out for you."

Well, I've learned to be happy wherever we live (depression issues not withstanding :-P), since we never have any choice in the matter anyway, so I'm sure all will work out well regardless of where we are. Every place has pluses and minuses, and I'm pretty good at finding the positives.

I'd just prefer it be CA, but it's all just daydreaming anyway, since it depends on where my husband can get a job. I mean after living all sorts of places we didn't choose, I'd like when we settle down to choose one place we really want to be. And since his family is in the BA, it seems like an obvious choice.

"Why dont you just come and live in Fairfax and do drum circles and stuff! "

LOL, we might! I launched a "let's live in Marin Co" campaign on our last visit there this summer, and it kind of worked. We went to the Marin farmer's market, did some tourist stuff we hadn't done before, and looked at some houses, and I think it pretty much convinced the husband of the area's PIBs. :-) He grew up in SF, so that's his ideal locale. I don't know how the weather would affect me though. I mean, I like that there's a lot of outdoor stuff to do, and the ocean right there, but we stay with his family in the Sunset under that constant fog, so it's not like I get much exposure to the sunnier parts of the city.

"I keep running into the tweakers that are fascinated by a blade of beach grass. It would make a good series of photos, “Tweaker viewing grass in the dawn,” Two Tweakers Pondering a Blade of Grass……."

What is a tweaker???? I'm a photography hobbiest...did you flnd my blog?

"The town is in a political battle right now, between the GREENS and the “reasonable development” camps. Both sides are getting unbearable, and people are starting to demonstrate– another thing I love about this town. its the hippies vs the developers!"

LOL, I've got a major green streak.

" We have hippies, rednecks, yuppies, lots of young families (its like THE only “affordable” (heh) place for young families left in Marin outside Novato. But so much more alive than Novato. A real cool small town with freaks, and real nice people, who wear slippers to the coffee shops and stuff… Funky but without much pretense. Except for the FUCKING mime. "

Sounds perfect. What are you the Fairfax tourism commission?

And well, the mime? The fucking mime? Yes, all mimes should be called fucking mimes.

There was a freaky clown at the farmer's market who squeaked instead of talking and made animal balloons. It was actually pretty cute except all clowns freak me out.

"Isn’t Bobby Jon on that tribe?"

Is it me or is there something inherently creepy about Bobby Jon? I mean, if he doesn't talk, he could be like an underwear model or something, but then he opens his mouth and it's like a scene from Deliverance.

But then I figured out what the actual creepiness might be. He sounds exactly like Forrest Gump!

And there's this weird sort of emptiness in his eyes. Like Labrador Retriever eyes. I'm totally rooting for Stefenie (of the stupidly spelled name).

"We speak in strange tongues now."

Do we ever.

"Interesting to learn about your choices, research, particular dilemmas,"

Ha. You were ignoring all my posts before, weren't you? I've told my sad tale more than a few times on this blog. And you were all like, "oh, that Jamie dude, whatever. I'm not reading his posts." Until you discovered my deviant tendancies, that is.

"I trembled in anticipation as I hit the return button on my laptop…"

Doesn't take much to make you tremble, does it? I'll cool with moving on to the prick thread once we've flogged this one to 2000. SPHUH lives.

I was thinking of some other dumb acronyms today (it's what I do), but now I've forgotten them all. See, I really do have a cold. Oh, I think one of them was Society for Preservatoin of Underground Deviancy. SPUD.

It sounded funnier in my head.

" I’ll cool with"

I meant I'M...

"SQT sent me for emoticons,
the new digs are cool Jamie, bring the goat"

I have no idea where that poor goat is. Allah?

"but dont forget to let me tell you how SUNNY Fairfax is compared to most of Marin"

How SUNNY is it JACK?

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzze...only 48 more posts until Huh?-2000 & you give up now???
Jeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzze.

No one clearly answered my tweaker question. Here's one of the many lists of definitions on Urban Dictionary:

Tweaker:
1. Person who constantly stays up cleaning, washing, organizing, powertooling, sorting or otherwise keeping themself busy doing menial tasks.
2. Someone who constantly makes slight alterations on (usually a very specific) object, i.e. computer, software, automobile, etc.
3. A compulsive liar, thief, or both.
4. A methamphetamine ("tweak"), or other form of speed, addict (who displays all of the above in an obsessive-compulsive manner)."Tommy what are you doin' man?"
"I've been real busy sorting bolts!"

So which meaning are you using, newsfreak?

"Society for the Protection of Obnoxious Observations: ( SPOO ) "

Good one!

1970, a good year for hair

Hey, damn it, you screwed up my 1970 post!

"Society for the Promotion of the Unintentionally Sick and Sexually Oriented” (SPUSSO) "

Eeeeewwww. But also LOL.

SPUSSO sounds like some kind of art medium gone wrong.

1974, the year of my birth, yeehaa

"Jeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzze…only 48 more posts until Huh?-2000 & you "

SJ Jim, you can't be a SPHUH member, or a SPUSSO or a SPOO member for that matter, if you only contribute one puny post to the cause! Come on now!

"Carter Reagan Bush Clinton, PLEASE Noooooooooooooooo! No more walks through yesteryear inflicted on us or I am leaving early! "

Jeeez, you're kind of a prima donna today aren't you?

Ok, I think I have most of you beat on having the best year to be born.

1969 Huh? Huh?

It kind of explains a little depravity don't it?

Post 1980.

You can't be a gen-x'er and not have a certain fondness for the eighties. Wall o' bangs anyone?

Let's not forget Duran Duran.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

The site stopped working for a few minutes! I almost had to like, go do some work or something.

Gasp, gasp. Whew.

Yes, very depraved birthdate…Did you get some “rest” last night SactoQT?

O ye of the dirty mind.

My husband is an overgrown kid and likes to skateboard (yes skateboard) and wednesday's are his night to skate. I get time ALONE on wednesday's. Little piece of heaven.

1969 explains everything, SQT.

Everything!

The 80s were kind of miserable for me, honestly. I do have some fond memories of Duran Duran, David Lee Roth, and Prince, among others, but mostly my life didn't start getting fun until the 90s.

Wow, that's really cool that your husband still skateboards! My husband (a bit older than me) still plays basketball but keeps breaking body parts. :-( Will be a sad day if he ever has to give it up.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

Gasp, gasp. Whew.

Don't scare me like that! I am working on my underachiever status.

"got to know you better and appreciate you “as a person”. (Don’t you love the phrase?)"

That *is* a really weird phrase. I mean, I guess it's good that you're not appreciating me as a goat, or an automobile, or a tree, right?

But you know, I smashed my finger in a car trunk--I didn't cut it.

I graduated in 87' so I had a few college years in the 80's. Way more fun than high school.

"Women always seem to go for the “overgrown kids”…"

I dunno.... I think it depends on the woman. I've got plenty of friends who prefer overgrown assholes.

"I guess it beats the alternative…”Fencepost”"

Huh? Er, I mean, Sphuh?