The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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HI LEMON!! !! ![i][u]

And so was richie!

Hi, Lemon! And Richie, too!

Hi how are things above the 49th parallel? We had another hot and
icky sticky one here in the Susquehanna Valley.

Killing the Blues

It is definitely Fall here. It's jacket weather in the morning and shorts weather by 1:00. The air is crisp but thankfully the Chinook winds haven't started yet. Those come on October. We have days on end of winds that gust to 60 mph. Makes me want to move to almost anywhere else.

Rhapsody doesn't allow use outside the States.

Sandy Denny
Probably can still get the tape I have, or CD, it was their third. Copied it during my drinking days, it made it through with out getting taped over. Some didn't, shame as they're darn near impossible to find now, if not impossible. Someplace I have a bootleg of a rare Dead concert, I'm not a big Daed fan and I haven't run across it yet, one of those that never got labeled. May have met the same fate as some others, taped over while drunk. I have one by the Hindu Love Gods, which is only partly there, Warren Zevon with most of REM playing together. That was when I was working with a group that loved finding obscure music, just to do the one upmanship thing. They were fussy, it had to be good to pass the game test.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=b6pQrZPwoOU[/youtube]
This is Sandy Denny duet with Robert Plant and the Zep.

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hi blessedmom (sorry i'm not very good at names, i noticed you all started using other names(guess your own) but remembering two names is a bit too difficult for me ),
hi nan, cosmiccat, richie, lau (the dress suits you wonderfully!), and all others (don't know whether you're still there but if i remember well i have seen/read you during the day ... chuck, hartofspace, postpaleo, ... )

(going to sleep now, still haven't got a job and that makes me just as restless as i was for the last week, up to -10 that is, if only i could skip the job-search and go and do the job right away ... )

and sorry for not yet posting the trafalgar-square pictures

it's cold today

good night

HI RICHIE!! !! !

One name is fine, Lemon. There are so many to remember. I wish you luck with looking for a job. It is so stressful especially when you have AS. Hang in there, there is a job out there for someone as talented as you.

Doesn't Postpaleo live in Pennsylvania, too? And he was complaining it's too cold. How big is that state??

He lives in the north part of the state quite a ways inland, I live just 50 miles north
of the Chesapeake Bay.

i just picked the Kid up from her school - she's taken to using her disabled students bus pass again (???) and finished for the day at about the time I arrive in the neighborhood. so i picked her up and was she ever in a foul mood when i got her! wooooo! yoiks!

today is her day to go to "sea world" as she calls it - her adapted PE classes all happened to fall on mondays and wednesdays. so she goes in and there's these old people who keep calling her dearie and fawning over her, and a couple of loud, middle-aged fat women in the class. she calls them "shamu" and "walrus"... who are overmedicated on something. or pickled (aka vodka). she's not sure. who are just sort of all over her at every class, trying to get her to talk and trying to mess with her hair (it's very long). both of those things just drive her up a wall. they're so huge (fat) that they walk with canes and so she has no sympathy for them having to take adapted instead of regular exercise classes. i tell her at least they're trying to lose it, but hey, she's a kid and is short on sympathy sometimes.... especially when they just mess with her hair without even asking if they may or anything.

anyway, today she says she's waiting for the bus to go to school (thankfully there's our stop, and the next one is the school) and not looking forward to going to sea world anyway. so she's down at the bus stop at the end of the drive, in her dad's old army field jacket, carrying her yoga mat, and wearing her yoga pants and doc martens, with her hair piled all up on top of her head instead of in the braids she tends to wear. says like two guys drive by slow (two separate cars) and are hollering out the window at her for her phone number, address, can they give her their numbers, etc., and she was just mortified. she was out there for less than 10 minutes, waiting for the bus to come. at eleven in the morning. wow. (the neighborhood is getting funky again? i asked her what they were yelling and it was just phone stuff - can i call ya, call me, etc., - not the usual code one would hear up on the boulevard.)

told her not to worry, it's a busy street and there's no place for them to stop along there, so she can just stand behind the bench if she feels threatened. and if they start to get out of the car to just run like hell up towards the gas station. as busy as that street is, tho, nobody's going to really bother her. she said no, it's that she was annoyed. insulted. how DARE they! i swear, there was just about steam coming out of her ears. did her red hair proud, she did!

huh. how about that. she was mortally offended by the construction workers up in LA the last time we went there, too. whistling at her off the top of the building they were working on. kid'd have a breakdown in new york, she would. annoyed. huh. wow.

still wish we lived in one of our old neighborhoods. there was this big (and i do mean LARGE big - blot out the sun when he stood in a doorway large, and had to duck to get in the doorway) samoan guy who looked out for the apartment complex's kids. he'd just sort of stomp up to where there might be a hint of trouble happening for one of "our" kids and glare. i swear, the only thing would have been better is if he pulled out a kbar and started like picking his teeth with it, or something. "trouble" used to vanish reeeeeeallly fast on our block. and stay gone.

haven't got one of them now, darn it. just the russian guys who yell at the armenian guys who yell at the somali guys who try to figure out what the iranian guys are saying.... i live in the mini-U.N.

(ps and sorry, but the offense was that the guys were oooollllddd. like THIRTY, mom. like ewww. )

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It takes a while to go north to south and we're both about at the extremes. I'm only 2 miles from the New York State line. Not so much the difference in distance. I live in what is known as the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, we're higher in elevation. The last glacier ended not to far from me. It wasn't my fault, I might be old, but it wasn't me, honest, true story. The temp difference when you get just an hour or so away to the south is something you can actually see. The flowers and leaves are out, while everything is still stark here. Get to Richies area and it's even more pronounced.

i don't use another name. too hard to remember how to spell!