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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Nov 26 2007, 1:30am
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{{{hug}}} {{{hug}}}
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We have been forcibly kept off the internet all day. We could only get as far as getting our password verified! We MISSED our TORn fix all day! A day without TORn is like a day without sunshine! We are so glad to "see" everyone again. I just about screamed when I actually got through. Poor OhioHobbit didn't know what had happened, but now he is happily ensconced behind me reading over my shoulder.
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weaver
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Nov 26 2007, 1:36am
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Thanks for all the hugs and glad you got your Internet back!
Weaver
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Gondor
Nov 26 2007, 2:22am
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Cyberspace! love- hate relationship. Glad you finally made it through. //
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Life isn't about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself.
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dernwyn
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Nov 26 2007, 3:28am
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Of all the confounded nuisances!
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Doesn't it drive you  , when that happens! Welcome "home"!
Here, for you, an appropriate parody which Ginger posted in January 2006 (yeah, I do like to copy-and-save a few of these!  )
“Wasting work time again at One Ring dot net” by Ginger
Tune: Jimmy Buffet’s Wasting Away in Margaritaville
Checking out One Ring
Checking a posting
S-F-T-H or T-I-M-E
I should be working
and not just lurking
But TORn is more fun than book inventory.
Wasting work time again at One Ring dot net
Looking for a response to my post
Some people claim that Xoanon's to blame
But I know, it's nobody's fault.
I know what drew me
It was the movie
I had to know more about upcoming T-T.
I do love the books so
There's so much more to know
TORn is more fun than charging a book fee.
Wasting work time again at One Ring dot net
Looking for a response to my post
Some people claim that Xoanon's to blame
Heck, it could be my fault.
Chairman wants the budget
A schedule to be set
Magazines to check in, maybe claim
I don't want to be working
Rather be at One Ring
Discussing heros, Bombadil, and Anor's flame.
Wasting work time again at One Ring dot net
Looking for a response to my post
Some people claim that Xoanon's to blame
But I know, it's my own darn fault.
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Nov 26 2007, 10:14am
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Thanks, Dernwyn, that was funny.
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The technical staff of our local internet provider took 4 days off for Thanksgiving. We figure one of them wanted to get on and saw it was broken!
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Draupne
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Nov 26 2007, 10:27am
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*hides in corner armed with stale bagels* Just in case
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a group-hugs coming up. Nassssssssssty stuff. My internet connection has died at 2 am every now and then, I usually take that as a sign that I should go to bed ;-)
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Nov 26 2007, 7:12pm
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Virtual hugs are all I indulge in. I learned in my Norwegian family that hugging isn't done.
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Nov 26 2007, 7:14pm
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and we have no chance of anything else. Verizon has no interest in upgrading the phone lines here so we could get DSL; the TV cable company isn't interesting in running a cable down our road; and all the trees here means no satellite!
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Draupne
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Nov 26 2007, 9:59pm
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Yes, we Norwegians like to keep our Personal Spaces
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free of clutter and other persons. If grunting "hi" isn't enough, shaking hands is the way to go. Some of my friends from university have moved to Oslo and started hugging, and they seriously freak me out. Scary, scary people ...
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Nov 26 2007, 11:24pm
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just eastern Norwegians hug. My from-Stavanger-area Norwegian family goes in for hand shaking if the emotion of seeing one another gets to be too much.
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Draupne
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Nov 28 2007, 12:32am
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Oslo-people, and they can't be trusted anyway ;-)
They might think that they're being urban, civilized and European. Had they decided, we would have been a part of the EU, they might think hugging's the way of getting there.
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Nov 28 2007, 8:34am
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Europeans did the double cheek-kiss thing. I guess the Oslo-ites can't bring themselves to go that far.
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Draupne
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Nov 28 2007, 9:49pm
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do that. Very confusing which cheek to start with or whether it's 2 or 3 kisses, but it normally involves less body contact than hugging. The trick is to lean forwards without tipping over. Not that easy if you're drunk, which might explain why we here up north have a slight problem.
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Nov 28 2007, 10:23pm
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I know my mother (the Norwegian parent)...
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was freaked out by my father's grandmother (not Scandinavian) who had to kiss everyone (coming or going) on the mouth.
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Draupne
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Nov 28 2007, 11:50pm
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That's scaring! I would probably have jumped out the window. Or bitten ...
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Nov 29 2007, 3:21am
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I guess she would have liked...
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to jump out a window, but she was the daughter of an immigrant farmer from Minnesota meeting her new sophisticated husband's family in Los Angeles, California.
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
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Nov 29 2007, 6:03am
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Oh gosh, I'm having flashbacks!
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My mother says that I would wrinkle my nose and turn my face to *her*, and cry if I wasn't quick enough to foil "the kissing women".
Dad's mother taught me a few tricks when I got too old to get away with that behavior because she hated all that fake affection from those particular people as well. And she was always secretly pleased when my making faces and crying embarrassed them. She didn't approve of passing everyone else's germs to a small child like that (or the message that it's okay to let relative strangers kiss you as a youngster) . I miss her. =)
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(This post was edited by Eowyn of Penns Woods on Nov 29 2007, 6:11am)
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Draupne
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Nov 29 2007, 10:45am
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More hugging than kissing of small children here, but that was too much to. Apparantly I also completly skipped the "I love everyone" face that most small children have at some point. Now I must train my friends not to hand me their small children :-) Some people seem to think that small children should be passed around as vodka bottles.
Your grandmother must have been a sensible woman. Small children also need their Personal Space.
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GaladrielTX
Tol Eressea
Nov 29 2007, 1:41pm
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I remember when a friend of mine and I were in a grocery store and she had brought along her baby who was a few months old. We were at the cash register, and my friend had to get into her purse. She said, "Do you want to hold him?" like it was this big treat for me.
LOL! Not particularly, but okay.
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Formerly known as GaladrielTX
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Nov 29 2007, 6:05pm
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OhioHobbit's nephew's granddaughter was handed to him because "he hadn't held her." She started crying. The poor baby, just handed to a stranger.
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Ciars
Rohan
Nov 29 2007, 7:45pm
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I just got my computer back yesterday and spent yesterday and today up/down? loading all the programs that got wiped when.....the motherboard died!! Yes, the motherboard - honestly I thought I was in a sci fi film when the techs on the phone said Id to leave it in to get fixed because of.... the motherboard!! Luckily Id backed upeverything - even the itunes library, because everything got wiped!! Fingers crossed its working as good as new now -Im speaking nicely to it just in casis basis!!
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Alcarcalime
Tol Eressea
Nov 30 2007, 12:29am
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Congrats on the forward thinking. Hope it will work well for a long time (n/t)
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Eventides
Tol Eressea
Nov 30 2007, 5:31pm
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I'm glad you finally got through!
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Eventides' Website!
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"I stepped out of my body to let God slide in; although I'm still dressed in flesh that I spiritually died in. Alive in Christ a new creation started breathin', Life exists and through this came completion. ... I'm not that person anymore (more!)! That's what blood was shed for! No longer a failure, livin' life more abundantly, therefore you'll never see me livin' less than victory."
John Reuben.
"Desperation, needing You; every last breath I scream for You. Shatter me into a million pieces, make me new. ... Break me, mold me, make me what You want me to be; I am Yours, for You to use, so take and replace me with You."
Family Force 5.
"Under a light in Bethlehem, I was sifting through the sand; the saline burned my eyes, I was looking for Your hand. I gave up on myself, and left my pride disarmed; I cried out 'I'm alone!' and found myself in Your arms. 'Rest in Me, oh, My love; I have loved you before the world began. Rest in Me, oh, My love; you'll never wander too far to reach My hand.'"
Showbread.
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