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A might possessive suddenly. I wonder if he even realizes it.

I seldom find continuity issues with Carlos' work any more, but I have a similar file with pertinent facts. I am not quite as proficient with excell spread sheets as he is, but I'm not an accountant in my real life!

Been there, read that, loved em. Hope I can come discuss them, but I don't know what will happen tomorrow, let alone 30 days from now!

Like the lottery commercial says, you gotta be in it to win it! Not everyone is as lucky as you to have Mike come looking for you persistantly.

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Well you and Michael both helped me emensely yesterday and this morning. So when when you start thinking you are not good enough, let me remind you of just how good you really ARE! Here when ever you need me friend.

Lol I pester Carlos about them too!

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The Promise is a well written story that makes something our brains automatically reject as impossible quite plausible. Dealing with everything from environmental conservation to man's intollerance of being different, it has become my favorite short story. I highly recommend reading The Promise!

My, when you tie up a story you do it quick! A lovely story with a great ending. About as close to a HEA as you can get and still live in the real world. Only one question left. Did Sam attend the wedding?

As drp says, distance is relative. If a "quick trip" to the grocery here takes an hour, I ask what went wrong, whereas a similar trip from my aunt's place if it takes less we ask did they break every speed limit in the book?

Breathe Jay! You can do this.

That's one of the good aspects of meeting peeps through social media and becoming friends before meeting. For a good many of my online friends I have no clue of skin color, economic class, or ethnic background. While those things would not stop me from becoming friends with a good person, unfortunately there are people for whom it would be a factor, and could derail what might be a beautiful friendship before it starts.

Oh just get him a cell phone with unlimited data and a mobile hot spot app!

Yup, and we now know that apes are a lot smarter than people gave them credit for. We have seen them using sign language and playing with electronics, but we know who taught them about tech. Since the last caretaker, Finn's father, died a long time back, where did Sam learn? It is obviously not common knowledge, or the little nephew would have had some idea.

Somehow a salamander buying a tablet makes me wonder how he learned enough about technology to get started. The list of questions keeps getting longer. I get the feeling when the answers start they are going to come in a downpour, not a gentle shower!

Which in no way changes my statement of

Many law enforcement agencies used to require members to carry their weapons at all times. My uncle needed special permission to leave his weapon home while attending a family wedding. The right to carry a consealed weapon comes with the responsibility to USE YOUR BRAIN. Drinking and guns do not mix any better than drinking and driving.

And serves to undermine confidence in the agencies they represent.

Why can I SEE Finn wanting to sink under the table in embarrassment? Such a mom thing to do! My list of questions keeps getting longer! Looking forward to when the answers start spilling out.

Want a parent's pov? I don't particularly care gay or straight, any more than I care Italian or Russian. It's the person you love. The bits just determine the mechanics. A friend of my daughters decided to come out to me as a trial run before telling his own mom. He was a little taken aback with my first words, "Tell me something I don't know". The whole convo was sort of a non issue. The next time we spoke, he told me his mom reacted pretty much like I did. Asked him if it had changed him to tell her. Of course it hadn't, so of course it didn't change how she felt. His dad needed a little time to adjust to the idea, the biggest issue was no "natural" grand babies, but the twit got over that. Momma looked him in the eye and asked just what was unnatural about adoption?

Thank you!

One wonders where Finn will find his answers.

Would it be possible to pin things like a link to the recently released anthology list at the top of all pages like was done with the automatic moderation notice was last week? I do most of my reading between students/chores on my phone, and right now I can get to an anthology list from 2010 faster and easier than I can the current one!

You are 100% right in that people treat you differently. I have bad knees, a function of having hyper extended them playing varsity softball when in school and being stupid enough to listen to the school trainer instead of seeing an orthopedic. Fast forward to my mid 30's, post pregnancy, as you said, got caught up in the work eat sleep repeat cycle. Knees REALLY hurting on a daily basis, otc pain meds and supplements no help, go to an orthopedic, who doesn't even look at the x-rays my gp had taken and tells me to go home and lose weight. Late 30's another try with a different orthopedic. Same run around to get referrals, same result - dismissed as fat and go away, apparently there were skinny people who needed his help more than I did. Early 40's, one more try. By then I was walking with a cane. He came in to meet me the first time and I got in his face, told him if he dared tell me to go home and lose weight I would beat him with the cane then report him to the AMA. He was a tad taken aback and sat down to actually talk to me, injected my knee with cortisone first then sent me for a bunch of pictures, xrays, mri etc. Bottom line on the next visit he told me I could get Elle McPhearson thin, it would not have helped one bit, I needed surgery. Losing weight will NOT fix a tear in the cartilage or one in the meniscus. Funny thing - once I could walk again I started losing weight!