Jack Frost

No. I haven't gotten a day off on American Thanksgiving for two years now. Only one day off for the Canadian one, but no one in Quebec really celebrates it. All of my family lives in the USA and they do it on the last Thursday of November. I can't come because it's always exam week in Canada. Family obligations. I don't really like staying at my parents' house for more than a few days... alone a week. I'm always expected to get off the computer at 11pm and it's a bitch on my cigarette habit because I have to refrain a lot more when I'm around them. But yeah, seeing some relatives that you don't see often. Eat a big fat turkey dinner. Open gifts. Pass out after so much wine.

A lot of my story's chapters originally came from handwritten paper because I didn't have access to the PC during work (which means a lot of time doing nothing). Either way works, though there would be a lot of cross-outs on paper.

Graeme is an exceptional case. I remember one time from his story on Awesome Dude stating that only nine in ten such marriages will fail when the wife found out the news. I wrote to him an e-mail then. It was ages ago... He just got lucky. Sexuality is not a black-white thing. It's just happened that Graeme ended up falling for a girl out of the odds. Who knows? It could happen to you, or to one of us. Bless him and his family. Graeme: You know I do not have any experience in this, but you have my best support. Hope that's enough for you to have from me.

I just use Linux because I don't want to pay for Windows updates after Vista. It's lighter and quicker on my PC. Windows just slow down the PC as it gets older for some reason. :s It lets me do whatever I want (except for that annoying issue with flash on my browser and I can't play Sim City or Civilization... but again I can't run those on Vista either. Only at my parents' house... seven hours away. ). I've been using Firefox since 2003 and OpenOffice for over a year, so there isn't much of a change apart from getting used to Linux. I just keep Windows Vista on... Just in case on a blue moon (once or twice per month) I'd need it.

Funny as shit.

Only useful to hide the spams.

"J'ai tu

Ha... Three of them were required for school reading. o,o

I honestly do not know where this should go... I figured humour because it's prolly meant to bring out some giggles. :S Anyway... Enjoy... +++++ Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura penned by a east coast resident, which was posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative: Dear Dr. Laura: Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the other specific laws and how to follow them: 1. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them? 2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her? 3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15:19- 24. The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense. 4. Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians? 5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath.. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself? 6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? 7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here? 8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die? 9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves? 10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? - Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14) I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging. Your devoted fan, Jim.

I am one of the people who cannot do more than basic adding and subtracting in my brain.

You don't have to deal with vast amount of numbers in negative, hence making averaging easier in Fahrenheit. And it's still on topic though... We're talking about weather, no? People doesn't need to convert daily in real life between two units in either system. I don't need to know many inches or feet in 24 miles everyday or how many centimetres or metres in 24 km everyday. Mostly, we just need a number to get it (hence my cooking and wallboard examples). It's simple to remember the magic numbers to convert between two units in imperial because you don't need much units in daily life. Just several units to memorize. The only thing I will pretty much agree that metric is better suited for science. Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages, depending on a country because, imperial may be internally inconsistent, but in some cases here... it makes better sense than metric.

Unfortunely, loving a girl in that way will also have to involve loving the vaginamonster.

What makes you think you will be all alert and ready for it? Just like the moment some years ago when a goalie decided to take a walk around the post during the play and just let a puck in. Bodeur I think. Poor guy... The guys in the locker weren't so happy at him after losing the game 3-2. PS: I'm sorry for being violent, but there is no other way to do it. Good luck avoiding the injuries.

I could read a bit of Latin myself... And I didn't even learn it or study it (to me, it's a dead language). Mainly because French came from Latin. I only need it rarely for school for French linguistic since some questions ask you to use a dictionary to find the word history.

It's 9am in the morning. You've been up all night writing a 3000 word essay due in two hours. And all you have written is the first paragraph.

Do not make me run you over with this during a weekly snow removal machine. I could just make erm... a slip on a wheel and mow you under. *fires a hockey puck to your living room window aiming at your head*

I wear a tuque during winter because your ears freeze so fast (like in couple minutes) if it's -15C outside. And sometimes when I am running late and I don't have time to shower my bed hair. Or just because I couldn't be arsed to (most true when I am too busy and tired).

I'd like to read studies about it and maybe answer why I see gays more often in language classes, on a language forum, and in my translation courses than any of the other courses.

Adieu, my fellow GA.

To be fair, Fahrenheit is better suited for everyday weather temperature because Celsuis is less varied in this situation as the weather forcasters never use decimals to make it more precise and to get the better "feel" of how cold/warm it is. Fahrenheit more easily avoids using decimals (in real life, people tend to round/half/double/triple a lot and avoid fractions and decimals wherever they can... a common human nature). That's at least the pro of using Fahrenheit. But seriously, it's just a different way of measuring temperature. That's all. Even Celsuis is flawed as well because it's only accurate at sea level with pure water (that's how we invented the F and C scale). To me, it's just a set of numbers. I need some numbers for, like cooking, so I can know how to set my oven to make pizza or French fries. I don't care whether it's in Fahrenheit or Celsuis... just gimme the damn figure so I can eat my pizza dinner. Likewise for metric vs. imperial. If I need a new wall, I want to know how much I need... whether it's in metric or imperial so I can get my damn wall replaced. Well, in reality, most ovens in Canada uses Fahrenheit and most construction products are measured in imperial, so I need the cooking instruction in Fahrenheit on the pizza box and imperial to replace my wall. But I'm just making a point.

Even though hummus is extremely popular in Israel. My flow chart thinks I'm atheist. So true.

Steve: A cottage could suit you just fine. I don't think you need a huge deal of thing for your retirement. I'm planning to do that someday in Gasp

Eh, canoeing or kayaking don't bother me over deep waters. It's the swimming part I worry sometimes without someone next to me. It's just, I prefer company when I camp out when I could have someone who hears making sure of everything. Same with swimming. I cannot swim with my hearing aids on, or it will ruin them if I get them wet. I love the country. Period. I grew up with nature around me. Even just mostly wooded... Still. My parents have almost 3 arces of land with an acre of grass and house and the rest, all wooded with a nice creek deep in the woods. I spent a lot of my childhood exploring the wooded part and saw animals and so on. Farms do exist where I am from, but it's difficult to farm the region due to thin topsoil and mountain terrain. For sure corns, apples, beans, wheats... etc... can grow there. Prolly easier to raise cattle, horses, and sheep instead. I just got to have a piece of the countryside once every while. I grew up like that, so being in a city is not enough.

I'm changing my vote to NYC and stick to it. Nephylim... You can change yours if you wish. I do not mind. Thanks for your only support. Count me out of Las Vegas. I cannot do that for a couple reasons... 1) It's expensive. Even to fly out of Montreal Pierre-Elliot-Trudeau Airport. $750 just to fly there! In Canadian money... 2) I very rarely go west. Last time I went beyond the East Coast states/eastern provinces was to Chicago two summers ago (and before I only did that two times going to Midwest). 3) Best to keep me away from those slot machines. I'm going to want booze and ciggies. I do not want to max out my credit card. Sorry mates. Maybe next time if you guys for once pick a Northeastern city selection. I mean... Two locations in the West (California and Nevada), two in the South (Texas and Washington DC)... a location in the Northeast and Midwest would be then overdue! There are plenty of us living in the Northeast/Midwest.

I am deaf... When I camp, I don't wear the aids... so I don't hear a thing. It's too uncomfortable to sleep with them. I think it makes it more scarier than crickets because you'll never know if a raccoon is hanging around causing trouble if you don't hear a thing. God I'm never camping alone again... I actually thought some animal was sitting on my head only to find out after 10 minutes of fear and stillness that it was just the tent wall. When it's so dark, I get paranoid because you'll never know what's lurking 30 feet away from you, even with flashlights. I have the same fear swimming to the deep part of a lake... I just couldn't help wondering what could be under you 20 feet down. Heh.