Cup of hot coco (with marshmellows and whipped creme, of course), using up the last of my firewood in the fireplace, relaxing watching TV... yucky cold rainy weather outside. It's the kind of night that really makes me really hate being single, ya know? I'd put "Titanic" on, but it's just not the kind of movie I like to watch alone...
Goodnight!
- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")
Greed makes the world go round... I wonder about the people who put every penny they had into Madoff. Did they ever stop to think, "What if this guy's not on the up and up?" Or were they too busy salivating over those promised returns...
Same for those who invested their money with Stanford... if they'd stopped to look, his earnings reports were showing the exact same percentage return multiple years in a row. That should set off alarm bells in just about anybody I'd think. The writing was right there on the paperwork, all they had to do was read it.
But then again, there is no doubt that Madoff and Stanford were crooks, both preying on people's greed and robbing people blind in the process. This is a trick as old as... well, it's been around awhile at any rate.
Frankly, I'm suprised Madoff didn't commit suicide or wasn't taken-out by one of his former investors... I'm shocked he's made it as far as a jail cell.
- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")
You're in Iraq hun... this makes it very hard to meet and/or catch a movie and have dinner with you.
This isn't just a guy thing, most people are looking for people they can meet if they really click. What's wrong with all the guys you're with over there serving in Iraq? You're a woman in the military, where the gender ratio is extremely tilted to your advantage I'd think... you can't tell me all those guys are married now!
A better clearer photo is a definite must... I can't tell if you're a guy in a business suite on a motorcycle, or a nun on a motorcycle. The pic is too dark and from too far away.
Regards!
- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")
Women think that marriage makes for a perfect relationship or something... of course, ask them to explain the appaulingly high divorce rate!
I think there's a fundamental flaw in marriage... people quit trying to "romance" and "attract" each other once they're married. After all, the vows were for "till death do you part", so why make an effort to keep the other person's interest anymore? When you know that the person you love has the option to walk away, I think it probably keeps you on your toes.
I can't ever see myself being married... I can't even see myself ever having a girlfriend at this point. The singles scene in Texas is just aweful. I ran out of good ideas a long time ago, so now I'm on CS... and it ain't workin out any better than anything else I've tried unfortunately. I have mostly women from other continents checking my profile out... which doesn't do me a bit of good.
- Michael ("American by Birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")
You don't want to live in Texas... well, unless you're a single woman, then you'd probably love it here.
It's my observation and experience that there are FAR more single males in Texas than single females... which really suxs if you're a single guy.
One singles site I used to belong to had a statistics page, broken down by state and then gender... in Texas there were over 110,000 single men seeking women, as opposed to 3,400 single women seeking men on that site (there were almost 6,000 women seeking women incredibly!). It's a mainstream dating site, too! I no longer have a profile on there among other places I've tried.
I'm told Ohio has a better ratio of single men to single women. Sometimes I wish I wasn't a homeowner with exotic pets and stuff... I wish I could move more easily than I can. I love Texas, but it's a single male's nightmare!
- Michael ("American by Birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")
Live each day as if it were your last, and don't worry about doomsday predictions until you can see the astroid or comet in the night sky above.
Besides, technically the world will not end no matter how dire the doomsday predictions... simply put, the world as we know it may change dramatically. Big difference that. This planet has survived truely cataclismic events in the past and it will survive even more in the future... of course, the dinosaur's didn't survive, and we may not survive the next one either. There'in lies a lesson to be learned.
What concerns me more is the probability of a sudden climate shift caused by any increase in volcanic activity... we humans have the planet's food supply stretched so very thin at this point because of our massive numbers. Anything that affects the climate world wide can potentially cause massive starvation... and yet that gal in California felt the need to give birth to Octuplets!
I believe it was 1811 that a volcanic chain erupted at the Atlantic mid-oceanic ridge near Greenland (an unknown geologic formation at that time, the ridge I mean) which caused it to snow in mid-July in the US "Heartland" that next summer... sometimes known as "1812 and Froze to Death". There were massive famine's caused by that volcanic eruption, and the human population was a mere fraction of what it is today. In Britain, the weather that summer was so very cold and wintery that Marry Shelly, cooped up in her summer vacation retreat by the blowing snow outside (in the middle of Summer no less!), wrote her famous "Frankenstein" novel. The French people were starving to death, and the Queen of France spouted off "Well let them eat cake!" and thus began the French Revolution! Crops failed all around the northern hemisphere that summer of 1812. (ps. I hope I have that date right).
Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it.
- Michael ("American by Birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")
2 Words.... "Atomic Clock". And my computer's update their own internal clocks automatically.
Now if I could just get that darned clock on the VCR programmed half as easily... that and the the clock on the microwave oven! Those 2 are perpetually blinking 12:00 at my house. LOL!
- Michael ("American by Birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")
The only "wars" I know of are started by religious groups trying to push their beliefs on others. In this you're no different than the Taliban.
You send kids to public schools to get an education... reading, writing, arithmetic, that sorta thing. You don't send them to school to have "moments of silence". If you want your children to go to a school where they have "moments of silence" then by God send them to a private religious school of your choice, and YOU pay for it!
You really need to describe your tank setup... do you have an air pump and airstone (to diffuse the air from the pump into tiny bubbles)? If you're using tapwater, is it from a fresh water well or city water? If city water it will have chlorine in it and that kills fish... they make an additive that will eliminate the chlorine in the water, ask the salesperson where you buy the fish.
Smaller amounts of food are better, 2 to 3 times a day. Don't feed more food than the fish will eat in 5 to 10 minutes. Don't change the water every day... a 20% water change every other weekend should be fine (remember to use the chlorine eliminator treatment in the new water if you have city water, or else the fish will die!).
Always wash and rinse your hands thoroughly (especially the rinsing!!!) *before* putting your hands in the tank for any reason... perfume, lotions, all sorts of everyday chemicals you might have on your hands are toxic to the fish! If you use a container to pour fresh water into the tank make sure it's very clean and well rinsed and then make it the designated fish tank water container and don't wash it ever again or use it for anything else! Anything that comes into contact with the tank or the tank's water has the potential to contaminate the water, killing the fish.
Never spray hair-spray or any other airborn aeresol in the same room as the fish tank if it doesn't have a lid... the chemicals will settle out of the air slowly, and into the water poisening the fish.
That's everything I can possibly think of. Goldfish are pretty hearty creatures, if you don't contaminate their water and keep it oxygenated there's no reason for them to go belly up.
Waste time and money on Kenya, waste time and money on Israel, waste time and money on The Palestinians...
Not much difference if you ask me, it's a waste of time and money no matter which way you turn. We don't have enough of either to waste.
How about we save time and money and let them figure it out for themselves for a change?
I'm oh so ready to return to the isolationist policys of the past... only with a twist: You or yours attack us, we reduce you to the pre-stone age and leave you thatta way! No rebuilding, no trying to avoid "civilian casualties". Call it tough-love if you want.
IDK, but Ireland is most welcome to go kick some Iranian butt. We'll cheer you on here in America!
The only problem I have is my country giving to the Palestinians... as I recall, after the 9/11 terrorist attack it was Palestinians who were cheering in the streets and holding parades to celebrate the "event".
I tend not to forget these things even if the politicians do.
I'm for the US cutting off all funds to EVERYBODY however, at least until we can fix our economy AND eliminate our national debt we've incurred. We have no business giving financial aid to anybody... in fact, I'd like to request that other nations send *us* some financial aid for a change!
Yes, we know this... and that was my point. We had an isolationist policy/mindset back then and look how well that worked out.
So now we no longer have an isolationist policy, but we're damned if we do and damned if we don't... so now we get criticized for trying to police the world, as if we wanted to police the world.
Frankly, where do you think the world would be today if those "Glamorous G.I.'s" hadn't finally stepped in and saved the world? Surely you don't think Fascisiom (sp?) was a good idea do you? LOL!
It's an imperfect world, and the US has been doing the best it can to keep it from self-destructing... anybody else want the job? You're welcome to it!
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RE: Can you sleep with a girl while dating another one?
Well I did! Takes too much work to lie, trying to keep track of who you told which lie to and why... so much easier to just be honest about stuff.Unfortunately, women don't seem to respect a guy who is honest. This is why I sleep alone at a guess.
- Michael ("American by birth, Texan by the Grace of God!")