KJames

There's always a plan...today I plan on being impulsive and spontaneous.

I actually liked the commercial with the dad being totally clueless!

I got it...read the story first...

The cause of that estrangement he had with his parents was that when he was 30, his mother petitioned the courts to take over his $6 million estate and manage his money--something that he contended was not only unnecessary, but that she only wanted the money, period.

Happy Birthday, dude! You are allowed ONE shot of (GOOD) Tequila! (Just to make sure you don't go way out into left field. And 'GOOD' means: Not Cuervo, try Patron)

My favorite comeback from when I used to work at Radio Shack Computer Centers (before they closed them) when people would call the store expecting techie support, which we weren't allowed to do at the retail level: Me: Let me go pull out an owner's manual and we'll go through that together. Telephone: <Click!> --- The one time I was having problems with IE, and had to reinstall it, I uninstalled it first, and used Outlook to download the new version's installation routine.

Well...the forum question does inspire personal opinions on the subject, so: With the CAP saga being just that, a saga, albeit one where we get to "become part of the family" so to speak, it also begs the question of "Should it end?" Being the story of the family, I don't think it can end--not with three kids belonging to Brad, Robbie and Janine. The kids have to be able to take it somewhere interesting, and it doesn't have to be released on a 'nearly' weekly basis, either. Once we're up to current times, it'd be easy for Mark to do a chapter each month around current events, sort of a continuing serial.

Alright, we know that you are a senator; but then let us suppose that you are an ass--but I repeat myself! -- Mark Twain.

Attributed to Sir Winston Churchill upon walking into a rather 'stuffy' dinner and being corralled into a series of introductions, "Madam, you are ugly!" To which she indignantly replied, "And you sir are quite drunk!" "And I shall be sober in the morning!" He replied, not missing a beat.

Try reading when your perception is so off that you're legally blind, like my husband, or don't have the hand dexterity to turn pages--he uses audio books for reading for that reason--and his actual recall is excellent!

Although you love it when they discuss what you've done and what you might yet do!

I stand corrected, MikeL, thanks.

Well...at least I found out what happened...I had already read it, so...while it was shocking, I enjoyed the read...it does tend to help people understand where Ryan is going to be 'coming from' in later chapters as his relationship with Luke builds. Go back to it, and continue.

A writer should never have to apologize for fiction they write! That The Barlow Boy dealt with a tough topic is merely indicitave of the situation the world is going through right now; today and every day there are hundreds of kids for whom suicide is but one of the myriad of thoughts running through their heads in an illogical scramble to find some peace, calm and quiet from the madness that their world appears through their eyes. I think James did a wonderful job! I was walking that fence and it's not fun!

Unfortunately these floods do happen, and despite the TVA's flood control (which could be what created part of this mess) Mother Nature cannot be stopped when she's got her mind set to make a flood. These low-lying areas were flooded every few dozen years before the rivers and lakes were dammed or channelled and they'll continue to do so, eventually causing a failure in a man-made flood control system, or an inability to channel the amount of water necessary to prevent flooding (as this shows). I feel for the people that are displaced, though, in fact someone asked if The Grand Ole Opry's being closed was a good thing; The resort is closed, the Grand Ole Opry show has been relocated--they operate under the good, old-fashioned mantra of: The Show Must Go On. One of their members lost her home--everything was gone. They're all worried about the condtion of the stage in the downtown location, when they refurbished it back in the 1990s, they saved a 6' circle from the center of their original stage, and it has more historical significance for them than most of the rest of the stuff in the building because of the performers that have stood on that circle: The stage was under several feet of water.

We actually live in Signal Hill, about 10 minutes from the CSU campus...Rob's last class session was this last Wednesday, and as the blog states, we still have to drop stuff off at the prof's office Thursday afternoon before we can hook/tow and leave. Neither of us really use anything recreationally ...but there are other ways to make one's self mellow......he won't be in a fieldwork course over the summer, it wouldn't allow him to come close to accumulating the req'd number of hours experience, so he's waiting 'til Fall...but if you're in Summer, let me know, maybe we can meet?

Who also happens to be the most blue eyed member!

Your sentence about being 'shut-out' is quite a coincidence, because that was what I was thinking. I think the other Hayes boys had kids, what should happen is that the drunkard is so abusive, or neglecting, that his kids are basically planning to leave home and/or town as soon as they're of age and can find some suitable work to establish funding to leave town--but the tough guy act (they all have the typical Hayes muscular build) they've been putting on through school is only because they're gay and don't want to be hassled, and have been very close and supportive of each other (nothing sexually beyond the usual exploration stuff). Besides, when Matt peeled through town, one of the kids really eyed him up good, especially after he decked Fred Junior, so there's one kid in town already--was he a Hayes kid(?)--as virile and horny as the Hayes men are, why wouldn't there be some Hayes kids around Dar's age by now?

Happy Birthday, gorgeous!

Whatever, but didn't the Hayes family in Claremont, OH, have three brothers? Frank is now in Paly, so that would leave two breeders in Ohio, didn't one have a son who would have HS age kids roughly the same age bracket as Darius, JJ & Will? Those're the ones that should all be gay!

Now that's funny and it sounds like Mark would write it!

Mark, thanks for making the Touche to MW85...somehow I don't think we'll be seeing any resurrections...but I think we'll find out about a generation of Hayes kids that are all gay...

Benji, I did the frogs' legs 6 years ago on my 42nd birthday trip, we were at the Chef's Table that night. We're coming out with the motorhome the evening of the 13th...and coming home Sunday the 16th.

Reading grave stones and markers, I ran across one at Hillside Memorial Park in Los Angeles, a very large cemetery for those of the Jewish faith--where Al Jolson is buried--in one of the mausoleum courtyards. It must've been a 'prepaid' guilt trip, or a last jab at seemingly uncaring children. It read: I told you I was sick!

Tim, that's priceless! But they'll grow them back... Not my fault he chose a frog for his avatar, nor was it my fault that they were skinned, battered and fried. Blame Emeril's New Orleans Fish House at The MGM Grand Casino & Hotel in Las Vegas.