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Can't believe I haven't been around since school let out - it has been BUSY!! I just turned in my keys this morning - so I am officially out of the school building.
Jeanie and I are leaving today to help some friends move themselves to South Carolina. I will be back in about a week and try to reestablish some sort of regularity.

I am Shiela...zestful people is what I like. Rayray...as long as it doesn't have an narukeradu...

Enjoy your retirement jamie and have good fun x

Thanks, Andre - I certainly intend to - though you should see my "office" right now after I moved stuff home from school. Months worth of boxes to go through.

So he cut the heads off the flowers, and it worked. He no longer has to use the stupid machine. Sounds like my son. He was good at getting out of things. Of course I was forbidden to use the sewing machine after I broke the head off the needle not twice but three times. 50 years later and I still can't use it. I forgot how.

Jamie, so glad to see you and hear your retirement progress. We were itching to throw you a retirement party. Maybe it can still happen in a week. I have fond memories of turning in my keys. There was a real finality to it.

Some advice, jamie ... set those boxes in a back corner of the garage out of the way, wait a few years, and you can just throw all of it away.

from along the Columbia River in Southern Washington State. We are on the road again heading for Couer d'Alene, Idaho. See you down the road.

Jamie, congratulations on your retirement. I know what you mean about the boxes and boxes to sort through. It took me almost a year (I must admit that I was rather sporadic) to get things put in order after I retired. Enjoy this new and wonderful phase of your life!!

I agree with Keith. I don't think I've ever looked at the things I kept!

What the heck is a "Peony"???
Google and Wikipedia are wonderful ... now I know what Kathy's husband whacked off with the "weedwhacker"

Good afternoon to all! It is a long train ride from Ottawa to Brussels!

Jamie, nice to see you posting! Have you learned how to sleep in now that your retired?

Keith and Linda - thanks - much of what came home will be taken back to school with directions to throw it out if nobody wants it (there is some really good math stuff, but the current educational environment doesn't lend itself to anything outside a very regimented, test-oriented curriculum).
Have to go babysit (the 1 1/2 year-old of our friends that are moving) - see all in about a week.

One last answer - YES, CG, I have. Now I am really off, or the house might never recover because it isn't baby-proofed.

André do you sometimes feel people are taking the pith?

(In the background, you should be able to hear the theme song from Mission Impossible.)
Good day Sudoku.com.au players. Your mission today, should you choose to accept it, is to add terms and definitions to the list that you will find posted shortly. Keep it clean, and stay healthy!

Medical terminology:
Artery -- Study of paintings
Bacteria -- Back door of cafeteria
Barium -- What doctors do when treatment fails
Bowel -- Letter like A.E.I.O.U
Caesarean section -- District in Rome
Cat scan -- Searching for kitty
Cauterize -- Made eye contact with More...

yeth Mo...

Jamie:
Congatulations on your retirement.
Force yourself to do nothing so as to adjust to your reborn life. Through your cares irresponsibly to the wind and force youself to do nothing for a while.

*through = throw

Quick post, didn't have time to read further than finding Karen STILL here. Dang girl, that baby's gonna be a toddler by the time you give birth! Just kidding, but doesn't it feel like it?!?

FYI-- Gonna reach 90F here by Tues. Very Very unusual for Northern Wisconsin.

Shiela, that's why I mentioned it... Some years back trainfest was held in Sacramento, CA. I attended. Took AMTRAK from Portland to Sac and returned on a train pulled by "4449". That locomotive is awesome! The main drive wheels are 84" in diameter (7'). This locomotive is the one used to pull the "Freedom Train" around the U.S. in 1976.

Did I mention a Diesel train whistle sounds nothing like that of a steam train!!!

Just a few, Greg...

colic - share an ice cream cone
dilate - have eaten a spice/weed
enema - not liking mom
impotent - fairy in the tee pee
nitrate - speed of knitting
node - no e (no 'd')
rectum - ate too much/stomach ache
rheumatic - accommodation for a bug
seizure - grab her

Ah, Jerry ... you take me back to the good ole days. My husband was a steam NUT and knew every engine ever made, which was where, when they were going to operate, when they were to be scrapped, etc. We spent most of our time chasing them, so he could get pictures and record the sounds. I risked More...

A few more just for the halibut....

heartburn -- flaming love
sprain -- freezing rain in spring
abscess -- upset stomach
headache -- Wasn't that a party!
ingrown nail -- hammered too hard
strained eyes -- what you get after having strained peas

Okay, I have things to do. I'll leave you with this.....

A family of three tomatoes were walking downtown one day when the little baby tomato started lagging behind.
The big father tomato walks back to the baby tomato, stomps on it, squashing it into a red paste, and says, "Ketchup!"

Rheumatic -- the top level in a house

Did you make that one up yourself, CG?

Just the last six Heidi. The first bunch are from an Internet joke site. Cheers!

I'm back for a little R&R. My e-mail seems to have gone nutty. Can't send anything. Both accounts are telling me my name and password are incorrect. I keep re-typing it and it says it's STILL wrong.


I need chocolate.

A book that might be of interest to enthusiasts:


A Guidebook to Amtrak's California Zephyr: Salt Lake City to San Francisco

by Eva J Hoffman

Flashing Yellow Guidebooks, 01/2004, 169 pages

I was asking about the Tomato joke.

A little harder to find is

A Guidebook to Amtrak's Southwest Chief: Albuquerque to Los Angeles
by Eva J. Hoffman

barium - after the funeral
carpal - drive to work with a friend
cardiologist - doc that plays poker

Daplap
When I rode back from Sacramento, there were "chasers" everywhere. Some places they just couldn't keep up though. I was told that we hit the 80mph mark a time or two... Overpasses were packed. Parallel roads were jammed. It was fun. Then there were the "photo ops". More...

ian, thanks for the book tips.

ian = Ian

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