Monthly Archive for July, 2004

cheese knife update

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Val
on 07.31.04
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Ahem. This thing on? Testing, testing… Okay. Here is Exhibit A, the knife in question. And, if you need a review… here and here

Okay, so according to my brother, they weren’t Secret Service, Mom says she was just exaggerating, but they were cops of some sort. I knew that already, of course. Like the Secret Service has time to do that.
Anyway, she says now that they went through her purse and the one pulled it out and looked at it and said, “Whooooaaaa.” And showed it to the other one who said, “wowww, uh, I can’t let you take that in there, Ma’am.”

We were at a family gathering today and out of the blue I suddenly hear from my grandpa’s wife: “What the heck did you have a knife in your purse for!?” My mom wasn’t paying attention, so I explained it to her real quick and before long everyone was talking about it. hehe.

Mom described it to Steve. She’s saying, “Oh, but nothing else cuts cheese like this, it’s really good. And it’s got this little thing where it can make slices, and it’s got a little point, here on the end, where you can spear stuff with it or something.” I’m about rolling on the floor laughing by this time, Steve says, “WOW, sounds dangerous.” And then he starts laughing.
But Steve about had a heart attack when Mom said it was costing her $12 to get another one, he says that he does indeed “have a pocket knife here that works just fine, too.”
I guess they thought she was going to hurl it at the President from the balcony with a “Tawanda” or something and poke out his eye.
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R & M #3

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Val
on 07.31.04
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I am bored, so I figured it was time for another photo log. Here is another of R & M, one of the black and whites, and therefore one of my favorites.
What do you all think? :heart:

[photo removed]

YES!!!

Published
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Val
on 07.29.04
in The Working Stiff
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YES! Finally!!! I finally got PNphpBB2 to work on my PostNuke at the new domain!! Whoohoo, and the villagers rejoice! This issue has been boggling my mind since yesterday, and I couldn’t understand it because I followed all the directions very closely. NOW I have to get Coppermine to work with PN and I think I might be ready to release then. Of course, most of you out there won’t be interested in this site, but I felt the need for celebration anyway. :D

Anyway, also, Mi will be joining as a hostee here at Spoken For. If you don’t notice, I’ve posted some of her poetry in my blog. We had a section going for it, but I decided it was easier just to create her a separate blog cateogory instead of organizing a-whole-nother site for it.
So she’s decided to get her own poetry blog and after I hear from her about some of the settings I’ll be setting it up.

talk about wierd

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Val
on 07.29.04
in Days Go By
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Okay so I had a wierd dream just a bit ago, in between the time Steve went to work and Elijah woke me up. And I only decided to write this down because it seems like I hardly remember my dreams anymore. Not like I used to. I could tell you dreams that I had probably 12 years ago, but not last night. Continue reading ‘talk about wierd’

Ugh, spammers

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Val
on 07.28.04
in How to tick me off
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Ugh, I am so sick of stupid spammers. At least once a week now I get an email saying that a new email address has been added to your PayPal account, this laptopsellers@yahoo.com email address. Anyway, they then tell you that if you didn’t authorize the change to click on the link and notify PayPal. Of course, you aren’t notifying PP because it redirects you to another disguised domain name that is set to steal your username and password and anything else they can grab.
So the first one I got, I reported it to Yahoo Webhosting, where it had been registered the day before, and they took it offline immediately. Same thing with the one last week.
I just reported another one to register.it, so we’ll see how it goes. I’ve also started emailing the person who’s address is listed as being the register of the domain name. Sure they could just use a fake email address, but I tell you what, last week’s one I mailed out - did not return to me.

So anyway, let’s spam these people!! :evil:

And just because they’re jerks trying to steal identities, etc, here’s the whois info, complete with addresses (although I don’t know if they’re valid or not)… Continue reading ‘Ugh, spammers’

rotfl

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Val
on 07.26.04
in Days Go By
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I almost forgot to mention this…
Remember the cheese knife that the Secret Service took away from my mom?

Well get this…

The next day, on the early news, my dad saw them all talking about the stuff they took away from people at the Bush deal. And he said my mom’s cheese knife was right on the top of the box of stuff!! AND THEN they picked it up and said something like, “can you believe someone actually had this in her purse?”

She told me that last night and I almost peed my pants hehe, (well not literally). :D

She said the stuff is available for pick up, but she’s going to go get it - YEAH RIGHT!!!

for once…

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Val
on 07.26.04
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… I’m glad it’s Monday…

To quote my brother-in-law, “What a stupid weekend.”

I’m glad it’s over.

This weekend encompassed: the funeral, the burial, the play, me sick… Continue reading ‘for once…’

Just a messed-up weekend

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Val
on 07.24.04
in Days Go By
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I woke up sick this morning. Nothing serious, but sheesh, what else can go wrong?

Well, I want to thank everyone for your comments concerning my great-grandma - I really appreciate it. Also, I keep forgetting to say the same thing concerning Elijah’s birthday. Thanks much. :-D

The funeral is tomorrow (Sunday), at 3. That is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. But what’s even stupider is how the family is acting about everything. There’s the half that’s setting it on a Sunday without asking the other half, and then the other half is being stupid about it being on Sunday. *sigh* When will people just grow up? For crying out loud.

So there’s a dinner at 12 and the funeral at 3. The plan is for my in-laws to pick up Elijah on their way to church, and we’ll have to leave about 10 (yeah, takes about 2 or more hours to get there, and we are the closest from anyone - anyone - else).
What’s really dumb though is it looks like I’m not going to be able to make the burial. I feel HORRIBLE about this, but I don’t know what else to do. Mom’s got our Muny tickets and she said earlier (when they were saying, oh the funeral will be at 1:30) that we’d have to leave by 3 to make it in good time. So now she’s like we’ll have to leave right after the funeral, before the burial. That means Steve and my brothers and sister go with us.
I just feel so bad about it though. I really don’t know what to do. I mean, it’s my grandmother’s funeral. But mom paid a lot for those tickets and there are no refunds and no transfers (especially as Sunday is the last day of it). But then I think, I knew Grandma, she wouldn’t want us to miss something for her, no matter what it was.

You should have known my great-grandparents. I mean, they were some of the most wonderful people that I have ever known, and probably will ever know. I want SO MUCH to be like them and I only have good memories of them. :heart: I still mourn Grandpa’s death every Christmas for some reason, I don’t know why that is, I have lost other great-grandparents and I don’t do the same for them.

But besides all that… I have relatives, who are mad about the funeral being at that time on a Sunday, and they say they’re not going to the dinner at 12. One of them my mom has known all his life and she says she’s never ever never seen him mad, but now he is. And I guess I understand that. But why do we all have to fight? Why can’t everyone just realize that this is extenuating circumstances and they need to go with the flow? This is not the time to fight, this is the time to stick together. I just don’t get it. I don’t freaking get it.

But anyway, tomorrow is going to be one sucky day. *sigh* :cry: