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| Back in 1989 I did a 4-day marathon drive from Alaska through the Yukon Territory and northern BC to get to Washington State and back (2300 miles one-way). I remember some of the gas prices in the more remote stops along the Alcan Highway were approaching highway robbery as they were the only place you could stop for gas for 100 or so miles, if not longer, also remember the confusion of converting liters to gallons and kilometers to miles......I suck at math, even when I'm cold sober. |
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| [Head banger] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:38:22 AM | |
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us gallon is 3.88 L
dunno the exchange rate
funny, we had a different gallon, which was bigger.
if the dollar is close to yours, which I think its within 5% we are getting screwed. damn taxes
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by TIMBONI from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:36:04 AM)| |  | TIMBONI wrote: | | What's the exchange rate and conversion to gallons ? Too many beers for math right now.
| | | Head banger wrote: | | $1.33 here
of course thats canadian dollars and liters, dunno, dont want to do that math. probably more than anywhere in the states, it usualy is.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Its alright!! It does get kind of hard to identify people in cyberspace at times.
Anyway, gas prices in SoCal are in the $4.50s and above. Not a great time to drive. 
| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | | Vail, please forgive me if I have said anything here that could be insensitive, etc. Here in cyber space sometimes it's hard to sort out genders, orientations, etc. So forgive me for any case of mistaken identity. I can relate if your having trouble regarding affairs of the heart. I've had mine kicked in many times. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you you have my sympathies. |
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:36:04 AM | |
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What's the exchange rate and conversion to gallons ? Too many beers for math right now.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Head banger from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:34:17 AM)| | | Head banger wrote: | | $1.33 here
of course thats canadian dollars and liters, dunno, dont want to do that math. probably more than anywhere in the states, it usualy is.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Its alright!! It does get kind of hard to identify people in cyberspace at times.
Anyway, gas prices in SoCal are in the $4.50s and above. Not a great time to drive.
| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | | Vail, please forgive me if I have said anything here that could be insensitive, etc. Here in cyber space sometimes it's hard to sort out genders, orientations, etc. So forgive me for any case of mistaken identity. I can relate if your having trouble regarding affairs of the heart. I've had mine kicked in many times. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you you have my sympathies. |
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| [Head banger] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:34:17 AM | |
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$1.33 here
of course thats canadian dollars and liters, dunno, dont want to do that math. probably more than anywhere in the states, it usualy is.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:27:51 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Its alright!! It does get kind of hard to identify people in cyberspace at times.
Anyway, gas prices in SoCal are in the $4.50s and above. Not a great time to drive.
| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | | Vail, please forgive me if I have said anything here that could be insensitive, etc. Here in cyber space sometimes it's hard to sort out genders, orientations, etc. So forgive me for any case of mistaken identity. I can relate if your having trouble regarding affairs of the heart. I've had mine kicked in many times. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you you have my sympathies. |
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| [Tephra Rising] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:30:49 AM | |
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| I think I saw on the news Southern CA has the highest gas prices in the country right now (with Hawaii the possible exception). Just getting crazy. Can't remember the last time I filled my tank all the way up (thank God I work at home anyway). |
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:28:53 AM | |
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Last tank I filled was $4.59 a gallon.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:24:42 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | Just to change the subject for an equally sensitive issue:
What is a gallon of gas costing everybody out there?
(in Central Oregon I'm paying about $4.30 a gallon which is about 25c above the national average) |
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| [DemonCat] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:28:10 AM | |
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OK...now that I can't hear a word anyone's typing LOL. Yes that's one way to look at it. One life, and you've got to live it up, stand tall cuz you're young, and kinda proud. ect ect ect.
It certainly simplifies things, and gets you through one thing to the next.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:13:14 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | You're right. There's only one life... gotta live it up, right?
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | It's best to let little things like that go Vail. Life's short, and she won't always be there. One day you may find youself looking back, and when you do...be thankful that she even listened, or read something that means so much to you. That's one way to make it a positive instead of a negative for you. Maybe you won't get so mad next time as a result, and may even see the humor, or whatever it is from her point of view. Most important is that you do have moments with her like that, which will build up memories. Some people don't even have that.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Yeah, although I sometimes get too worked up and get mad if she makes fun of something important during a song (lyrically, most of the time). Its a little flaw of mine I still need to work on.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Then it's a special thing between the two of you, and a good thing!
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I do that sometimes too, making fun of little quirks in the music she hears. We do that to each other every once in a while as our strange way of bonding.
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Maybe it's one of those things where she saw the seriousness of it, and threw out some sarcasm. Try to look at it that way, and see if it that's not what it was. Then maybe you can appreciate it better, and share more. I may be stepping out of bounds here, and be dead wrong, but it's better to share what's important to you w/her, than to drift apart, from a misunderstanding.
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She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
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You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
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I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs. 
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
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Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
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I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:27:51 AM | |
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Its alright!! It does get kind of hard to identify people in cyberspace at times.
Anyway, gas prices in SoCal are in the $4.50s and above. Not a great time to drive.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:22:33 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | | Vail, please forgive me if I have said anything here that could be insensitive, etc. Here in cyber space sometimes it's hard to sort out genders, orientations, etc. So forgive me for any case of mistaken identity. I can relate if your having trouble regarding affairs of the heart. I've had mine kicked in many times. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you you have my sympathies. |
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:25:38 AM | |
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Don't sweat it. We've all made the same mistake at one time or another. It's a bitch not being able to see someone's expresssions or hear the intonation of their voice. We all step in the poop sooner or later and as soon as we clean it off we seem to step in it again ! 
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:22:33 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | | Vail, please forgive me if I have said anything here that could be insensitive, etc. Here in cyber space sometimes it's hard to sort out genders, orientations, etc. So forgive me for any case of mistaken identity. I can relate if your having trouble regarding affairs of the heart. I've had mine kicked in many times. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you you have my sympathies. |
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| [Tephra Rising] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:24:42 AM | |
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Just to change the subject for an equally sensitive issue:
What is a gallon of gas costing everybody out there?
(in Central Oregon I'm paying about $4.30 a gallon which is about 25c above the national average) |
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:23:42 AM | |
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Ahhhh. Let it go. If nothing else, you meet a lot of people and learn what you DON'T like. At best . . . . . .
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:20:08 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Nope. I'm a girl with an "uptightness" problem.
| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | I had a nice shoulder-length 'do until about 2000 when my "inferior genetics" (thanks Mom) took over and it was either cut it short or apply to Colonial Williamsburg to play Ben Franklin. I keep it short these days but just can't quite bring myself to go "chrome dome" quite yet. (I really, really miss my hair.)
Is Vaillant suffering from lady trouble? If so, I feel for ya bro, 2 failed marriages under my belt and at 40 it isn't exactly getting easier to find Miss Right. Had a fantastic date with a great gal about 2 weeks ago, one of the best dates I think I've ever had, was really crazy about her but she let me know on no uncertain terms she didn't have those kind of feelings for me. So I can relate. I still search against all odds for Miss Right. Love sucks sometimes......(oh well, we were 200 miles apart anyway. Long-distance never seems to work for me.) |
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| [Tephra Rising] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:22:33 AM | |
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| Vail, please forgive me if I have said anything here that could be insensitive, etc. Here in cyber space sometimes it's hard to sort out genders, orientations, etc. So forgive me for any case of mistaken identity. I can relate if your having trouble regarding affairs of the heart. I've had mine kicked in many times. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you you have my sympathies. |
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| [DemonCat] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:20:11 AM | |
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Keep this up, and I'm going to have to pop Screaming for Vengence in my CD player! Heeeeelllllllllll yeah! brb
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by TIMBONI from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:15:08 AM)| | | TIMBONI wrote: | | Nice ! Bit of schoolin' for us. I guess we've all got another thing comin', heh ? 
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | You're right. There's only one life... gotta live it up, right?
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | It's best to let little things like that go Vail. Life's short, and she won't always be there. One day you may find youself looking back, and when you do...be thankful that she even listened, or read something that means so much to you. That's one way to make it a positive instead of a negative for you. Maybe you won't get so mad next time as a result, and may even see the humor, or whatever it is from her point of view. Most important is that you do have moments with her like that, which will build up memories. Some people don't even have that.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Yeah, although I sometimes get too worked up and get mad if she makes fun of something important during a song (lyrically, most of the time). Its a little flaw of mine I still need to work on.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Then it's a special thing between the two of you, and a good thing!
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I do that sometimes too, making fun of little quirks in the music she hears. We do that to each other every once in a while as our strange way of bonding.
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Maybe it's one of those things where she saw the seriousness of it, and threw out some sarcasm. Try to look at it that way, and see if it that's not what it was. Then maybe you can appreciate it better, and share more. I may be stepping out of bounds here, and be dead wrong, but it's better to share what's important to you w/her, than to drift apart, from a misunderstanding.
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She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
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You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
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I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs.
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
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Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
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I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:20:08 AM | |
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Nope. I'm a girl with an "uptightness" problem.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:14:16 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | I had a nice shoulder-length 'do until about 2000 when my "inferior genetics" (thanks Mom) took over and it was either cut it short or apply to Colonial Williamsburg to play Ben Franklin. I keep it short these days but just can't quite bring myself to go "chrome dome" quite yet. (I really, really miss my hair.)
Is Vaillant suffering from lady trouble? If so, I feel for ya bro, 2 failed marriages under my belt and at 40 it isn't exactly getting easier to find Miss Right. Had a fantastic date with a great gal about 2 weeks ago, one of the best dates I think I've ever had, was really crazy about her but she let me know on no uncertain terms she didn't have those kind of feelings for me. So I can relate. I still search against all odds for Miss Right. Love sucks sometimes......(oh well, we were 200 miles apart anyway. Long-distance never seems to work for me.) |
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| [Tephra Rising] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:19:23 AM | |
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Yes, I am a male (last time I checked anyway).......yup, still there.
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:18:43 AM | |
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Where to start ? As for the hair, I choose to go down with dignity. If some of my personal heroes ( Rob Halford, Mark Martin, etc. ) can handle it so can I.
As for Vail, unless there is something she hasn't mentioned to me ( and that's entirely posible ) I don't think there is lady trouble, but only she can answer that.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:14:16 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | I had a nice shoulder-length 'do until about 2000 when my "inferior genetics" (thanks Mom) took over and it was either cut it short or apply to Colonial Williamsburg to play Ben Franklin. I keep it short these days but just can't quite bring myself to go "chrome dome" quite yet. (I really, really miss my hair.)
Is Vaillant suffering from lady trouble? If so, I feel for ya bro, 2 failed marriages under my belt and at 40 it isn't exactly getting easier to find Miss Right. Had a fantastic date with a great gal about 2 weeks ago, one of the best dates I think I've ever had, was really crazy about her but she let me know on no uncertain terms she didn't have those kind of feelings for me. So I can relate. I still search against all odds for Miss Right. Love sucks sometimes......(oh well, we were 200 miles apart anyway. Long-distance never seems to work for me.) |
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| [DemonCat] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:16:18 AM | |
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Please excuse me a moment Vail for this next comment please.
I'm assuming we're talking about baldness? Also assuming Tephra Rising's a male. Let me tell you what my teacher said to me one day that may make you feel better. He was proud of his baldness, because he blamed it on his wife rubbing his head while he ate her out over all the years!
Yeah he was a cool person, and my favorite teacher. The same teacher who saw Led Zeppelin open for The Who back in the early 70's. |
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:15:08 AM | |
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Nice ! Bit of schoolin' for us. I guess we've all got another thing comin', heh ?
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:13:14 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | You're right. There's only one life... gotta live it up, right?
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | It's best to let little things like that go Vail. Life's short, and she won't always be there. One day you may find youself looking back, and when you do...be thankful that she even listened, or read something that means so much to you. That's one way to make it a positive instead of a negative for you. Maybe you won't get so mad next time as a result, and may even see the humor, or whatever it is from her point of view. Most important is that you do have moments with her like that, which will build up memories. Some people don't even have that.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Yeah, although I sometimes get too worked up and get mad if she makes fun of something important during a song (lyrically, most of the time). Its a little flaw of mine I still need to work on.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Then it's a special thing between the two of you, and a good thing!
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I do that sometimes too, making fun of little quirks in the music she hears. We do that to each other every once in a while as our strange way of bonding.
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Maybe it's one of those things where she saw the seriousness of it, and threw out some sarcasm. Try to look at it that way, and see if it that's not what it was. Then maybe you can appreciate it better, and share more. I may be stepping out of bounds here, and be dead wrong, but it's better to share what's important to you w/her, than to drift apart, from a misunderstanding.
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She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
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You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
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I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs.
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
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Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
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I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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| [Tephra Rising] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:14:16 AM | |
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I had a nice shoulder-length 'do until about 2000 when my "inferior genetics" (thanks Mom) took over and it was either cut it short or apply to Colonial Williamsburg to play Ben Franklin. I keep it short these days but just can't quite bring myself to go "chrome dome" quite yet. (I really, really miss my hair.)
Is Vaillant suffering from lady trouble? If so, I feel for ya bro, 2 failed marriages under my belt and at 40 it isn't exactly getting easier to find Miss Right. Had a fantastic date with a great gal about 2 weeks ago, one of the best dates I think I've ever had, was really crazy about her but she let me know on no uncertain terms she didn't have those kind of feelings for me. So I can relate. I still search against all odds for Miss Right. Love sucks sometimes......(oh well, we were 200 miles apart anyway. Long-distance never seems to work for me.) |
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| [Vaillant 3.0] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:13:14 AM | |
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You're right. There's only one life... gotta live it up, right?
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:07:40 AM)| | | DemonCat wrote: | | It's best to let little things like that go Vail. Life's short, and she won't always be there. One day you may find youself looking back, and when you do...be thankful that she even listened, or read something that means so much to you. That's one way to make it a positive instead of a negative for you. Maybe you won't get so mad next time as a result, and may even see the humor, or whatever it is from her point of view. Most important is that you do have moments with her like that, which will build up memories. Some people don't even have that.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Yeah, although I sometimes get too worked up and get mad if she makes fun of something important during a song (lyrically, most of the time). Its a little flaw of mine I still need to work on.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Then it's a special thing between the two of you, and a good thing!
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I do that sometimes too, making fun of little quirks in the music she hears. We do that to each other every once in a while as our strange way of bonding.
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Maybe it's one of those things where she saw the seriousness of it, and threw out some sarcasm. Try to look at it that way, and see if it that's not what it was. Then maybe you can appreciate it better, and share more. I may be stepping out of bounds here, and be dead wrong, but it's better to share what's important to you w/her, than to drift apart, from a misunderstanding.
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She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
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You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
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I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs.
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
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Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
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I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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| [TIMBONI] Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:10:15 AM | |
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Ha ! Got the same "hair affliction" myself. If nothing else, after having it halfway down my back, it's so much less trouble !
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Tephra Rising from Sunday, June 22, 2008 1:07:21 AM)| | | Tephra Rising wrote: | | No worries, DC. Actually I was only poking mild fun, I thought Rob actually looked really cool with his mullet, although I think I liked him best with the British Steel "Living After Midnight" shoulder-length 'do (a style I emulated myself for a while in high school). I suffer Rob's same affliction these days but haven't broken down and shaved it all off yet.......did I mention I'm not only the Hair Club President I'm also a member!!!???
Don't worry about Dokken. I have found in the metal world you either love 'em or hate 'em. I will say for the record that out of all the "hair bands" (Poison, Warrant, etc.), I found Dokken to be more concerned with the actual music they were playing and not how much lipstick and hairspray you had on. |
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It's best to let little things like that go Vail. Life's short, and she won't always be there. One day you may find youself looking back, and when you do...be thankful that she even listened, or read something that means so much to you. That's one way to make it a positive instead of a negative for you. Maybe you won't get so mad next time as a result, and may even see the humor, or whatever it is from her point of view. Most important is that you do have moments with her like that, which will build up memories. Some people don't even have that.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:58:50 AM)| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Yeah, although I sometimes get too worked up and get mad if she makes fun of something important during a song (lyrically, most of the time). Its a little flaw of mine I still need to work on.
| | | DemonCat wrote: | | Then it's a special thing between the two of you, and a good thing!
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | I do that sometimes too, making fun of little quirks in the music she hears. We do that to each other every once in a while as our strange way of bonding.
(Quoting Message by DemonCat from Sunday, June 22, 2008 12:35:28 AM)
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Maybe it's one of those things where she saw the seriousness of it, and threw out some sarcasm. Try to look at it that way, and see if it that's not what it was. Then maybe you can appreciate it better, and share more. I may be stepping out of bounds here, and be dead wrong, but it's better to share what's important to you w/her, than to drift apart, from a misunderstanding.
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She knows English pretty well despite being from Mexico, so she understood the lyrics. Only problem is she likes to poke fun at anything that's supposed to be serious. Its one reason why I don't share most of my music with her.
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You may do better by showing her the lyrics. At least that's how I connected w/my mom w/Ozzy's Miracle Man. She'd seen the story on the news, and I shared Ozzys funny poke at them. It was certainly "a moment".
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I think my mom is pretty tolerant to it, but she wouldn't hear it on a daily basis. She allows me to listen to what I like, as long as I do well in school. I only showed her Nostradamus CD because she knew about the prophet and thought he was very wise. If anything, she made fun of one of the songs.
As far as having something in common with your son at that level, I think its great!! The more you have in common with your son the more you two can bond, IMO.
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Is your mom usually hip to heavy metal? I mean...I know my son thinks I'm a cool dad, and he also understands that I'm still his parent, and NOT his friend, but we have a blast so far together in life with each others company. That's been very important to me...that I could identify with him in whatever he may be going through. Am I taking that to a more intense level? Is it too much?
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I'll ask her in a little bit. She's in the living room watching a Mission Impossible movie en Español. (Quoting Message by DemonCat from Saturday, June 21, 2008 11:57:48 PM)
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| My mom would have never made it through the first chord. Yer lucky! Gonna have to ask her opinion sometime, and share it w/us.
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