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

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Richie wrote:

Ah, yes. Those older row homes are gorgeous. Aspergistan. Richie, you might want to have that phrase copy writed. That's the best I've heard yet and I don't think it can be said any better.
Lupine wrote:

Well we are in a class of our own and quite gentrified. But we're not the snobs that usually take over the neighborhoods and run up the taxes forcing the poor folks out.
BlessedMom wrote:

Right. We'd get her done.
Chuck wrote:

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Last edited by cosmiccat on 13 Sep 2007, 5:56 pm, edited 2 times in total.

My Dad (apsie) didn't react to the poison plants. We had a very large honey bee hive in the side of this house. While working on something up stairs he got stung on the finger, he got to the hospital just in time. Bee's freak me out, probably not hereditary, but why take the chance The walls in the house have an odd habit of oozing some thick syrup type stuff. We couldn't figure out what it was for a long time, it's honey and comb coming through the wall. They must have used the whole house as a hive, where it oozes is very far away from where they used to enter. I really don't freak out all the badly when around stinging insects, I do know first aide for such a thing, without an epi pen. I just would rather not test it.

I used to be very heavy into a strategy war game, extremely well done, the math involved was remarkable. One of my favorite persons to play against was a lady, she was retired army, explosives type skills. Her history in the army was remarkable, who she met and rubbed shoulders with. Skill at the game? I was known as a terror with my armor and was even asked to do scenarios by the company. That woman would rip me apart and spit me out with little more then a sling shot on her side. She sent me a picture of them doing demolition work, the heavy bomb gear. And there was the person bending down to put the charge on and the person sneaking up behind them with a blown up paper bag just about to put it behind them. Yeah it was her about to pop the bag. Just who she was in contact in Israel made my head swim and she got autographed copies of their books, amazing woman. Ammo Sarge was her nic.

Richie, I am very impressed with your transit system, especially because I depend on public transportation. Rabbit Transit is a dynomite way to go. How far from York to Harrisburg?

I never mastered zoning out the noises. Sure I could tell the differences in the screams, one was blood and pain was involved and the other was just screaming at the moon or sun or whatever their fancey was atm. But I never could just plain not hear them. I swear my first wife was deaf to it or she knew I would take care of it. Andria (SwampBlossom) can still do it around here with the animals, makes me crazy. She had 4 kids and I had 3, well, sort of.

I miss Pennsylvania...

Their area is a lot more expensive then mine. I mean we're talking some real money. They actually need a job there.
At one time the FBI figured there were more fugitives from justice in my county and another next to me then any place else in the country. I like it here.

It's isolated in a way, but not all that far from major cities too. I've certainly been in more wilderness areas. I actually got bewildered in one of them, just a temporary pause in a lack of direction. I didn't want to have to do the long way, which was easy, to get back to where I needed to go. Being lazy will do that.

I'm rather fond of Pennsyltuckie-in-the-mire

Strangely cataclysmic art of sparkler arrangement? Dude, do you cater? I would like to order a lit brithday cake. Do I need a set numer of candles for this to be strangely cataclysmic?

From York to Harrisburg is around 23 miles. I have not taken the I-83 Bus to Harrisburg yet. The only time I ride the
bus is when I am going into an area that is not easy to access by bicycle because of traffic. The Galleria, West Manchester
Mall, and the two neighboring Wal-Marts are close to US highway 30, and Interstate 83 is also nearby.

Actually, I'd looked at Pittsburgh and Albany, in the hopes of finding a double or maybe a row-house to rehab, when I cash out here. Unfortunately, the housing market has imploded and so my windfall has blown away for a while.

If I could go anywhere, tho, that I've been... Golden, Colorado, has a section with lovely turn of the century (1900) homes surrounding a park that's as old as they are, and the wind comes down off the rockies. It's cool there, even in August. And the air is so clean.... Yeah, I'd go buy one of those old Victorians. But they're probably not there anymore.

I was going to maybe open a boarding house for struggling actors and writers, or grad students, if we ended up in NYState when I retire.

Maybe an Aspie boarding house - now THAT would prove interesting, I'm sure!

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Naw, this place has been here since the 1970s. Converted apartment complex. (AKA cheap housing for the masses that can never begin to afford a conventional home, here.)

I like the bus. We need a logo for the bus, similar to the greyhound logo. What, an armadillo or something? Aspergistan Unlimited Bus Line?

Looks like we're developing a consensus here... Northeastern U.S.?!

Actually Nan, I'm in much the same boat you're in with respect to the condo housing market

A logo... hmmm. Yes, a racing armadillo would work. How about a hedgehog? Or cactus?

I like the cactus. I used to live in the Lehigh Valley, on the top floor of an old, Victorian house. My views were of a lovely little park, and a duck pond complete with ducks, geese and swans. I miss the look of the hills in the distance, and the turning seasons. Fall always make me restless, because we had some beautiful foliage to admire this time of the year, and we don't get that here in Florida.

How about a little north of Albany. Easier to slip into Vermont and New Hampshire. Need to stay away from the Adirondacks (which is where I was temporarily bewildered), those black flys and no-see-ems and sqeeters will eat you alive. I saw a couple black flys carry a screaming kicking bear by my tent flap one time...true story, they're mean and big.

I really need to brush up on my US geography!

I just went to work for 3 hours for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I got called at 4:00 pm because the owner said it might be busy and the other girl couldn't teach the beginning knitting class and deal with customers at the same time. I whipped up supper, fed the kids, got ready for work and was there at 6:00! Well, there were no customers! And the reason they called me is because the other girl didn't want to work alone! So I got to sit and listen to her talk about herself for 3 hours!! ! I do a really good smile and nod! I don't think they paid me enough to sit and listen to her talk about herself. What do therapists get paid these days?