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(and Om, that's some power you have! Sign me up for a workshop! )

Aww congratulations. I don't know either of you so I won't expect an invite to the wedding, but invite me to the reception and I'll bring you gift vouchers for the store of your choice! (that is what everyone wants for presents these days, right?)

holy congratulations guys.

Cool! Congrats

Thanks for the well wishes. Now, if only my employer would do their legal responsibility and re-employ me, we could begin to plan this thing.

I hope you have the best life together Brad and Inna, and that the job comes through soon.

At my job we are having a Top-the-Tater* benefit Thursday for a co- worker who lost his house to a fire last month while he was on his second tour of duty in Iraq, he is supposed to be back on the job in November. He's some sort of engineer at the plant. I have never heard of anyone having trouble getting their job back after military service at this place, but then we do have quite a bit of turn over and some one who knows anything about the place is usually welcomed.

*For lunch they serve baked potatoes and toppings and we put some money in a jar, when it gets full they put it into an envelope for the recipient of the benefit. Works out good for everyone.

Congratulations Mowlgi and Brad.

Hope your employer remembers how expensive lawsuits can be

I don't know if you can sue in the states... I believe they've adopted the lassaiz fare principle to the labour market there, meaning its "worker beware", individidual temporary contracts and no superannuation are the norm... Australia in its wisdom (bloody stoopid moron butt sucking Bush ass kissing Aus PM) has just instituted a similar system... The employees of lots of companies have just been sacked and hired back on individual contracts at 1/3 less pay, with no entitlements, like sick leave, annual leave or maternity provisions*... I can say no more without going so nuts as to chew my keyboard in rabid anger at the blatant stupidity of it all...


*Health care is still a national system (although eroded) so not included in salary packages. Superannuation is mandatory but dependent on pay packet, so you reduce the pay packet you reduce the companies superannuation expense. Brilliant!

That's sort of foolish by the Aussie government. Higher wages are better for the economy in general, and this type of behavior is just going to encourage the formation of more unions and the use of strikes.

You can sue here for wrongful termination, in fact employers usually form a very solid paper trail before doing so. Even in a contractless, we can fire you at any time, workplace like mine. I'm a special case though. There's a US law that says that activated National Guard and Reservists must be given their jobs back upon discharge. So, I could sue. The caveat to that is, could only sue for my job back. So I'd still lose out on money. Instead, if things turn sour (which I hope that they don't) I'll go to the local papers and tell them about how a major area university doesn't "support the troops", is unpatriotic, and eats babies. (-: I'd still not have a job there, but I'd consider us even.

Congratz.

In other news, never look directly at buring magnesium. I learned this the hard way.

Ow, ow, ow. Hope you get over the arc-eye soon or is the retinal scarring more permanent than that?

Three of my New Friends at University are Discworld Fans.
This pleases me.

I am also pleased because of a group I have joined call the Storytime Society, when the boys from the floor below mine are joined by several other people (including me) to read books and eat snacks and have philosophical discussions.
I am pleased to have taken this opportunity to debut my newest series of short stories, a series entitled:
The Adventures of Reginald The Purple-Spotted Elephant And His Promiscuous Friend Mister Nibbles.
It's quite popular with the group.

So, as I said, I am pleased.
I hope to soon be reading Good Omens to the group. Because the joy that is Terry Pratchett should be shared with the world!

Wow, well done Hex !! A true-blood Pterry Evangelist !!

WHOOOOO-HOOOOOOO! CONGRATULATIONS! *does happy dance, upends baskets of rose petals on Brad and Inna and does a couple of catrwheels just because I can*

That's IT! I'm lobbying for DSL at home NOW! I am now in an internet/game arena in Alexandroupolis and I cannot jump up and down in meatspace just like I would want to! I don't want to scar these kids for life...

...then again, they should be at school...hmmm... :badgrin:

Brad, if you want me to grab your previous employer in a headlock, tell me now, I am moving to Alexandroupolis in a month or so and coming to America needs a lot of planning ahead.

Congratulations, Mowgli and Brad! Though I did comngratulate you over MSN already.

A Pterryvangelist?

Hex, that sounds like an awesome club, and your story's title is one of the more intriguing ones I've ever heard!

Thanks Roman and Avgi ::hug::

Congratulations Mowgli and Brad!! (and to Dave and Wendy, although I know I'm a tad late in that. Miss you guys on msn!) Brad I think you could sue for lost wages as well if you wanted to. I would consult with an attorney just to see what your options are. Most of the time they will do consultations for free and the law is on your side.
Hex, The Adventures of Reginald The Purple-Spotted Elephant And His Promiscuous Friend Mister Nibbles does sound very interesting. Any chance of those stories being shared with this group?

As for me, I apologize for my extended absence. I was told in May that I would be covering for a co-worker who was leaving the company, and it would only be "temporary". Its all very complicated, plus I was responsible for doing my regular full time job, so I have been stressed and not had much time to play on the net. Just recently has the company FINALLY hired someone to take over! So once I get caught up and back to my normal schedule, I can play more! (The boss is on vacation this week, so naturally I'm slacking off right now)

Other than that, the only other news worthy info is the Mr. and I are expecting our first crib lizard around the first part of April next year. Not planned, but happy about it none-the-less. Any advice from parents would be welcomed.

Congrats (-:

Mazel tov!

(I've never heard the term crib lizard but I like it! Kinda follows the evolutionary pattern: crib lizard to rug rat to ... computer console monkey? )

Thanks guys!

I just heard the phrase "crib lizard" the other day and loved it. You are right, Mowgli, it does sort of follow an evolutionary pattern. Computer console monkey is all of our inevitable end! (or middle maybe?) :lol: I wonder what Darwin would say about that.

When it first started I couldn't see why you'd recommended it in reference to the crib lizard... now it all makes sense... tu ra lu ra lu eye lay.

Thank you, Ba. That was very........ um, pleasant. :lol:
I think the hubby will dig it.

Congratulations Brad and Mowgli! i love weddings!

also congratulations anj! i would give you some advice. but the other half doesn't know about my hoarde of kids yet.

I am new to this board and have been reading the forum threads. I would like to add my congratulations to Mowgli and Brad. One question, did you guys meet here in this board>

If so, you would have one thing in common with me. I met my husband at a Discovery Online games message board. Now we're married for over 7 years and still madly inl ove.

Maljonic, are you referring to me and my hubby? LOL WE're already married ... for 7 years now.

I got my STAR test scores back. I was ranked Advanced in English/Language Arts, Life science/Biology, and was 5 points away from andvance in Algebra. I had a perfect score in Social science, which is is really something to be proud of.

Congrats on the test scores Quoth, and on the new gig Rinso. It sounds exciting. Yeah, Mowgli and I didn't meet here. In fact, I brought her to the HP boards... although, to be fair, she was the one who introdouced me to Pratchett.

In other news, I sent an email off to a Senior Associate Vice President of the University, and I now have a new job starting October 2nd with a $7K raise (-:

This is a position? I've been wasting my life in lowly positions when this job description is available... I nnow have something extra special to aim for.

Congrats on sorting out your job mess... with all that extra money Inna can expect a big swanky wedding and turn into a bridezilla and everything ah the fun.

Also congrats to Quoth (although i barely understood half of what you said the bits I got sounded good) and Rinso who missed the opportune chance to have freelove of sheep added to the mtv repertoire of topics...

Sorry for the error on my part, Mal.

Kudos to you Quoth for having superb test scores. I gather you are still in school (college, university, institute etc.)?

Like what the others said, much felicitations to you Brad and your lovely Mowgli. Smart girl for turning you to TP books.

Tomorrow is the Autumn games in my son's elementary school where they get to participate in fun games and field demonstrations. I need to pack a picnic basket for the family lunch.

Later this week is the famous Janghowon Peach Festival (basically a carnival by the riverside). I can't wait to go and have some grilled seafood!

Good going Quoth.
And Rinso, congrats! Am glad things are getting sorted .. for quite a lot of people now. Brad has his job back too

Well done to Quoth and Huzzah for Brad and Rinso's job news ! Glad things are looking up for everyone !

Good Luck with the new jobs Brad and Rinso. Congratulations on the results Quoth - though you may have to expain what STAR is to those of us unfamiliar with it.

I dyed my hair yesterday. I used to be a brunette but now its a wine red color. I like it and on the plus side my grandma likes it too and she's big on being yourself and not changing but she said it brought out my eyes. I have been wearing violet contacts for about 3 or 4 years now though so maybe she's going senile.

Edit: To change violent to violet.

The STAR (standard testing and reporting) program is administersa a test that the state gives to all k-12 (basically from the first year of school till you head of to college) to see if their school is 'proforming' adequetly. It has gone under many different name (SAT9, CAT, CST) but it is esentially the same test.

I had a funny flash of Sam Vimes rigging up something like this to read to young Sam at 6 o'clock I wonder how that could work on the Discworld... Magic, probably... *shudders*

Faerie, violent eye contact sounds painful But hey, yes, that would go with a red hair colour

Quoth, I am all dissapointed now, I thought you were doing a test to see if you could become a star...

Brad, Rinso, I am glad your employers saw sense and snagged you off the market Quoth, here's to many more academic achievents.

Hsing, the webcam story takes me way back. My dad was in Japan for a year for post-graduate studies. Me and my sister recorded cassettes of us singing and playing the piano (badly) and telling stories. Nowadays I treat those tapes as incriminating evidence and try to get them destroyed but for some reason my parents are very attached to them

Congrats Brad and Mowgli!

Also quoth! great results.

Myself. I am having technological grievances. Last week my computer decided it no longer like me and after a couple of power cuts completely fell apart. No worries I had most stuff backed up.....or thought I did until my ipod froze up and started making sad faces at me bob knows how it feels.

aside from that life has mostly been filled with parties, lots of work, frustration and less sleep than I can handle. It's interesting - to say the least.

Oh gods... you got those too?

I just recently found a tape with my sister and I singing on it when we were little and you can here us arguing in the back ground about who is going to sing the next song. My mom used to take a tape recorder to band booster meetings when she was secretary and she found a tape of my sister sing the star spangled banner very badly and played it at the meeting. My sister wasn't there so that was fun.

lol

All the kids have the incriminating evidence of the skits we used to do to entertain the adults at New Years Eve celebrations... I have a big family so there were enough kids in the production and reasonable sized audience to go with it... The one I remember is our send up of New Kids on the Block, which involved 5 of us in a line singing "Wo-oh Oh *high pitched* ah-hah, Hanging Tough" then walking off stage...

In my defence, I was 5 at the time.

cool, congratulations grace.

i get to put 4000 magazines together today. yipee skippy.

Yay Grace! (I had to take TESOL - called EASL here - classes during my first year in America. One of the memorable classes was watching "Grease" on tape, and trying to figure out the story without speaking the language)

Good luck Plaid - hopefully, there'll be something interesting to read in the process!

Avgi, I didn't imply it was your fault . Just that my grandparents claim to have tapes of me, my aunt and my Mom singing - all 3 at the age of 5 or so, - and threaten to break them out every once in a while. While we have company!