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Its a slippery slope you depend upon there chanson ... like Sisyphus best of luck ... or is that due to Harry Stoat el another saying for a white weasel ... a ghost of the north woods you don't see in summer as hole ermine with a brow nout ...

Ever wonder why the British Nobility wear this as a fringe benefit? Because they believe the people are weasels ... they believe they should do as everyone else! Egoes of the BiGduffas!

The things you can't say publically to avoid legal action ...

Can you float that diversion as thought?--- Eris Totle, or integral total dissonance! Depends like everything ... how you look at it! A vision of manifestation of thought? Some don't believe ...
 
I am so desiring the transition to sandals. I jump started the season with the trip to Florida and miss them.

Chansen, frustrating. Any way to do a check in that is gentle?
 
Chansen-I hope you get some concrete answers soon about emplyment. Here skiers either bike or paddle in the off season-sometimes both.

Pinga-sandal time will come. It has arrived where I live already.
Had ham yesterday-am really enjoying the 4 days off.
 
Sun shining, snow slowly settling. I think I'll try a short walk. Maybe up to the corner and back. I haven't done much outdoor walking this year. It doesn't seem that long ago when on a day like this I would stick my skis in the car, motion for the dog, and spend two or three hours gliding along the trails in the university woodlot, sometimes going almost to the next village before turning back. Alas, I no longer have the skis or the black lab - or the energy.
 
Tabitha said:
Here skiers either bike or paddle in the off season-sometimes both.
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Here, too. We fixed up my son's bike (I bought it for myself but he kind of took it over) on Saturday. Kind of rainy here for the rest of the week but hopefully it clears by the weekend so he can start using it. Paddling is still a bit off (the local canoe club starts up June 1 or thereabouts) but hopefully he'll be kayaking again this year.
 
Hello Everyone! It's been a while! I saw a pic of Crazyheart on Facebook holding an adorable baby and it made me miss the bunch of you. I am thrilled that this room is still active! Thanks for the great care you are taking of it, and of each other. I've skimmed a few posts (not the 100 plus pages it would take to catch up). Wishing those struggling with challenges brighter days ahead.

Things in my world are, well, BUSY! These days we have been driving around Ontario doing university tours with busy daughter. She has been accepted to four universities but still hasn't decided where she is going. Hard to believe she has grown this fast. The busy brothers are doing well. Busy curling this winter and involved in lots of youth events. They had the privilege of seeing Rev. John's skit at The Swell on Friday night. I wasn't there as I was with youngest son in Gananoque but I heard he did a very good job. Naked Church, Rev. John? Sounds interesting!

I am hoping to pop in a little more often to say hi. Until the next time, be well, be happy and keep this room ticking along. It warms my heart. :love:
 
So nice to see you BusyMom! You are indeed as busy as ever. Thanks for fitting in a little visit with us. :-)
 
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They had the privilege of seeing Rev. John's skit at The Swell on Friday night. I wasn't there as I was with youngest son in Gananoque but I heard he did a very good job. Naked Church, Rev. John? Sounds interesting!
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Naked Church was the theme.

I have no input into that. I also do not write the script for the drama. The Brothers Morrison are responsible for that.

I'm one of the regular thespians (been at it since Christmas 2005) I hear for my tenth anniversary I get to suggest maybe we talk about the possibility of some form of compensation beyond Chili with Cheyenne Peppers.

I am allowed to develop my own character. This time up I was a door to door evangelist for "the Naked Church."

So, to help my character with his sales pitch I developed gestures to function as cues. There was also some inappropriate/uncomfortable touch to up the bizarre factor.

Thomas and Vanessa ran a tribute to Howard Wolowitz and his mother. It was vey well done.

Newcomer Cheryl played my daughter who also attends "the Naked Church." She seemed to warm up to the troop pretty quickly. We are a rowdy bunch. She took some time adjusting to the odd bits of improve, like the five minute exploration of how I should make inappropriate contact with Thomas without actually being inappropriate.

There was no actual nudity though and that was a bone of contention. I thought it was akin to false advertising. Everyone kept insisting naked doesn't neccessarily mean nude and I was being too literal. In the end I failed to be persuasive and it was a clothed "naked Church."

Personal favourite moment was the musical interlude between acts 1 and 2. When Brad Morrison provided piano accompaniment to Monica Morrison (nepotism alert) who played the recorder. The two provided a very painful cover of Nelly's "Hot In Here."

Rev. Steve Greene played Pastor Steve the, uh, Pastor of "the Naked Church." Steve is an Anglican and was most amused by the drama and our rehearsal routines. Proclaiming several times that something was "so wrong" between fits of laughter. At one point he asked if we were typical of the United Church. We assured him we definitely were not. Rev. Steve gave us a sample of some Gospel slam as did Kaela who did some training with Steve and tore the house down with some Gospel slam of her own.

Apart from my headmic creeping off and completetly distracting me early in the third set I delivered all my lines on cue.

We are wanting to do an all Christopher Walken drama. Where all of us impersonate Christopher Walken . . . for no particular . . . reason.



 
revjohn said:

Naked Church was the theme.

I have no input into that. I also do not write the script for the drama. The Brothers Morrison are responsible for that.

I'm one of the regular thespians (been at it since Christmas 2005) I hear for my tenth anniversary I get to suggest maybe we talk about the possibility of some form of compensation beyond Chili with Cheyenne Peppers.

I am allowed to develop my own character. This time up I was a door to door evangelist for "the Naked Church."

So, to help my character with his sales pitch I developed gestures to function as cues. There was also some inappropriate/uncomfortable touch to up the bizarre factor.

Thomas and Vanessa ran a tribute to Howard Wolowitz and his mother. It was vey well done.

Newcomer Cheryl played my daughter who also attends "the Naked Church." She seemed to warm up to the troop pretty quickly. We are a rowdy bunch. She took some time adjusting to the odd bits of improve, like the five minute exploration of how I should make inappropriate contact with Thomas without actually being inappropriate.

There was no actual nudity though and that was a bone of contention. I thought it was akin to false advertising. Everyone kept insisting naked doesn't neccessarily mean nude and I was being too literal. In the end I failed to be persuasive and it was a clothed "naked Church."

Personal favourite moment was the musical interlude between acts 1 and 2. When Brad Morrison provided piano accompaniment to Monica Morrison (nepotism alert) who played the recorder. The two provided a very painful cover of Nelly's "Hot In Here."

Rev. Steve Greene played Pastor Steve the, uh, Pastor of "the Naked Church." Steve is an Anglican and was most amused by the drama and our rehearsal routines. Proclaiming several times that something was "so wrong" between fits of laughter. At one point he asked if we were typical of the United Church. We assured him we definitely were not. Rev. Steve gave us a sample of some Gospel slam as did Kaela who did some training with Steve and tore the house down with some Gospel slam of her own.

Apart from my headmic creeping off and completetly distracting me early in the third set I delivered all my lines on cue.

We are wanting to do an all Christopher Walken drama. Where all of us impersonate Christopher Walken . . . for no particular . . . reason.


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I saw some photos Rev. John and yes, you were fully dressed. Sounds like another successful event. The Morrison brothers do a wonderful job of engaging youth. My kids love going. The Christopher Walken drama sounds perfect. Let me know when/if that happens, I wouldn't miss it!
 
BusyMom said:
I saw some photos Rev. John and yes, you were fully dressed.
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As I said, I failed to be convincing in that argument.

BusyMom said:
Sounds like another successful event. The Morrison brothers do a wonderful job of engaging youth.
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They do have that knack.

BusyMom said:
My kids love going.
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We love having them come. How did the Swell impact upon them this time around.

BusyMom said:
The Christopher Walken drama sounds perfect. Let me know when/if that happens, I wouldn't miss it!
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So many ideas die in the pre-planning phase. I've done so much pre-event work idea wise that has yet to see the light of day. Of course I'm just hired help with no real connection to the youth who will be there so if they read a zig they take the zig while I'm still in the middle of a zag.

I'm agile enough and experienced enough to this type of thing.

I recognize I'm just a tiny part of a much larger whole and I trust Brad and Pat.
 
Good to see you, Busymom. I tend to think of your children as being the same age as they were when I met them at Five Oaks - your daughter decorating sunvisors for all of us, your youngest getting along so well with Seelerman. Then I remembber that Busydaughter is the same age as my granddaughter. Granddaughter has been accepted in the science program at UNB - her first choice.
We have two universities in the city. For various reasons, mainly financial, she decided that she would live at home for the next year or two. I think it is a wise choice. I don't think that she is emotionally ready to leave her mother just yet.
Good luck to Busygirl.
 
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Chansen - ccome down to NB. We still have snow and we're predicted to get more.
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I'm done. Time to get on the bike and do something that gets me in shape.

Pinga said:
Chansen, frustrating. Any way to do a check in that is gentle?
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They're good people. I'm guessing the contracts just aren't getting finalized. The work I do, or will be doing, is structural repairs to large buildings. Building owners and condo boards put this stuff off as long as possible. Problem is, the longer they put it off, the larger the repair. Waterproofing is breaking down in your parking garage? That's tens of thousands they don't want to spend. So, wait ten years. When they finally get another consultant in to re-assess, now they have structural concrete repairs to do. That's hundreds of thousands they don't want to spend. Some wait longer, and eventually a tenant calls the city because the parking garage is leaking and he has stains on his car and the owner won't fix it. City orders the owner to make repairs. Now the repairs can be in excess of $1M. Some fight the city for years. Some even find engineers who will state, for a fee, that everything is fine. Next thing you know, it's on the news because something collapsed. Think about that mall, or other structures that collapse. I've seen stuff in a consulting capacity that I would not walk on, and people were still driving over it. Sorry if that scares anybody. 99% of stuff is perfectly safe. The 1% doesn't fall down right away, and most failures are not spectacular collapses that threaten life.

So, no one wants to sign, because it hasn't fallen down yet. Same old story.

The attitude is, the work will come. Condo boards keep looking for more prices, magically expecting someone to come in 50% cheaper. It doesn't happen. There are bad contractors out there who will mask the problem, not actually fix it properly, but consultants try very hard to hire companies like the one I'm supposed to be going with.

So really, it's more on the owners and condo boards to sign contracts. Once enough of those happen, I'll be working again.
 
@chansen curious if you've heard about the Groat Road bridge here. Different issues than the problems you see, but it's expected that this will be mentioned in engineering classes for years!
 
Just looked it up and saw a pic. Complete lack of lateral support of the top (compression) flange during construction. Easy. Big steel girders are noodles until you support them from lateral movement at the appropriate intervals. Nothing exciting or unexpected here.

One guy said something like, "Good thing the deck wasn't on yet, or it would have been worse."

No, if the deck was on, the girders wouldn't have twisted like that, because the deck would have held the compression flange in place. The problem was the deck wasn't on, and the design required the deck to be installed to work, and no one thought about the period of time between the girders being installed and the deck being dropped on them. Why do reporters always interview stupid people?
 
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