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sinsboldly
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02 Oct 2007, 10:22 pm
Nan wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
reika wrote:
Horses and books were all I had. Got my SSN when I was 15 to get a "Real" job (hoeing tabacco since I was 12) to make payments on my first horse. She cost me $500.00 and I paid $100.00 a month for her. That was a lot of money back then, espicially to a 15 year old kid. She got stolen so I went to Latonia racecourse looking for her,(thought she may be being used for a "Pony Horse") ran into to Steve Cauthran (he had been in my 4-H group) and he saw me crying and got me a job as a "Hotwalker" and thats how it started. I never did find my horse and have never owned another one. It broke my heart.
Now I'm going to tell you all something I'v never told ANYONE except my mom (not until 15 years later, and she thought it was funny that I'd pulled it off) and I hope none of those people EVER see this. If any of the people I fooled DO see this, I'm sorry. (sorta, it was fun!)
I pretended to be "Deaf" for the whole time I was at the tracks. (I'd taken sign language classes cause I had a crush on a deaf boy) Told them all I "read lips" and was VERY convincing cause noone ever found out about it. It was really liberating, I did't have to talk to anyone and people would say "any and everything" to you. The best part was that people left you alone and I guess from a physicological level it gave me a reason to justify "Not fitting in" cause I knew by then that I did't fit in anywhere. Did that make any sense? Lots of stories I could tell about the track. I can cuss fluently in spanish cause of it. Panamian jockeys. Theres a good joke about jockeys but this is a family site
Now I'm going to tell you all something I'v never told ANYONE except my mom (not until 15 years later, and she thought it was funny that I'd pulled it off) and I hope none of those people EVER see this. If any of the people I fooled DO see this, I'm sorry. (sorta, it was fun!)
I pretended to be "Deaf" for the whole time I was at the tracks. (I'd taken sign language classes cause I had a crush on a deaf boy) Told them all I "read lips" and was VERY convincing cause noone ever found out about it. It was really liberating, I did't have to talk to anyone and people would say "any and everything" to you. The best part was that people left you alone and I guess from a physicological level it gave me a reason to justify "Not fitting in" cause I knew by then that I did't fit in anywhere. Did that make any sense? Lots of stories I could tell about the track. I can cuss fluently in spanish cause of it. Panamian jockeys. Theres a good joke about jockeys but this is a family site
too kewl! good for you!! (wish i'd have thought of that one!)
isn't that the most clever idea?? That has the best creative thinking ticket! At least people have been sensitized to deafness and don't make demands on them they can't fulfil, unlike autistic or AS that they have NO idea what our needs are. . .
(totally out for me, though. I would blow the cover in the first 30 seconds rattling off the origin of the first braided latigo reins and how the cro-magnon first broke the wild horse in BCE 100,050. . on a Wednesday. . in the morning, and it was raining well, not really pouring down, but just a fine mist, really, not qute a drizzle. . .and then. . .)
I know, she was good, wasn't she? And at such a young age. We should put her in charge of something in here.
why, put her and pheonixiis in charge of the horses!
Merle
Does that mean I can have a pony now?
ponies are small, NaN. . .don't you want a full size horse??
02 Oct 2007, 10:31 pm
sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
reika wrote:
Horses and books were all I had. Got my SSN when I was 15 to get a "Real" job (hoeing tabacco since I was 12) to make payments on my first horse. She cost me $500.00 and I paid $100.00 a month for her. That was a lot of money back then, espicially to a 15 year old kid. She got stolen so I went to Latonia racecourse looking for her,(thought she may be being used for a "Pony Horse") ran into to Steve Cauthran (he had been in my 4-H group) and he saw me crying and got me a job as a "Hotwalker" and thats how it started. I never did find my horse and have never owned another one. It broke my heart.
Now I'm going to tell you all something I'v never told ANYONE except my mom (not until 15 years later, and she thought it was funny that I'd pulled it off) and I hope none of those people EVER see this. If any of the people I fooled DO see this, I'm sorry. (sorta, it was fun!)
I pretended to be "Deaf" for the whole time I was at the tracks. (I'd taken sign language classes cause I had a crush on a deaf boy) Told them all I "read lips" and was VERY convincing cause noone ever found out about it. It was really liberating, I did't have to talk to anyone and people would say "any and everything" to you. The best part was that people left you alone and I guess from a physicological level it gave me a reason to justify "Not fitting in" cause I knew by then that I did't fit in anywhere. Did that make any sense? Lots of stories I could tell about the track. I can cuss fluently in spanish cause of it. Panamian jockeys. Theres a good joke about jockeys but this is a family site
Now I'm going to tell you all something I'v never told ANYONE except my mom (not until 15 years later, and she thought it was funny that I'd pulled it off) and I hope none of those people EVER see this. If any of the people I fooled DO see this, I'm sorry. (sorta, it was fun!)
I pretended to be "Deaf" for the whole time I was at the tracks. (I'd taken sign language classes cause I had a crush on a deaf boy) Told them all I "read lips" and was VERY convincing cause noone ever found out about it. It was really liberating, I did't have to talk to anyone and people would say "any and everything" to you. The best part was that people left you alone and I guess from a physicological level it gave me a reason to justify "Not fitting in" cause I knew by then that I did't fit in anywhere. Did that make any sense? Lots of stories I could tell about the track. I can cuss fluently in spanish cause of it. Panamian jockeys. Theres a good joke about jockeys but this is a family site
too kewl! good for you!! (wish i'd have thought of that one!)
isn't that the most clever idea?? That has the best creative thinking ticket! At least people have been sensitized to deafness and don't make demands on them they can't fulfil, unlike autistic or AS that they have NO idea what our needs are. . .
(totally out for me, though. I would blow the cover in the first 30 seconds rattling off the origin of the first braided latigo reins and how the cro-magnon first broke the wild horse in BCE 100,050. . on a Wednesday. . in the morning, and it was raining well, not really pouring down, but just a fine mist, really, not qute a drizzle. . .and then. . .)
I know, she was good, wasn't she? And at such a young age. We should put her in charge of something in here.
why, put her and pheonixiis in charge of the horses!
Merle
Does that mean I can have a pony now?
ponies are small, NaN. . .don't you want a full size horse??
Can I have a Percheron now, and someone else to clean up after it?
sinsboldly
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02 Oct 2007, 10:39 pm
Nan wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
Nan wrote:
reika wrote:
Horses and books were all I had. Got my SSN when I was 15 to get a "Real" job (hoeing tabacco since I was 12) to make payments on my first horse. She cost me $500.00 and I paid $100.00 a month for her. That was a lot of money back then, espicially to a 15 year old kid. She got stolen so I went to Latonia racecourse looking for her,(thought she may be being used for a "Pony Horse") ran into to Steve Cauthran (he had been in my 4-H group) and he saw me crying and got me a job as a "Hotwalker" and thats how it started. I never did find my horse and have never owned another one. It broke my heart.
Now I'm going to tell you all something I'v never told ANYONE except my mom (not until 15 years later, and she thought it was funny that I'd pulled it off) and I hope none of those people EVER see this. If any of the people I fooled DO see this, I'm sorry. (sorta, it was fun!)
I pretended to be "Deaf" for the whole time I was at the tracks. (I'd taken sign language classes cause I had a crush on a deaf boy) Told them all I "read lips" and was VERY convincing cause noone ever found out about it. It was really liberating, I did't have to talk to anyone and people would say "any and everything" to you. The best part was that people left you alone and I guess from a physicological level it gave me a reason to justify "Not fitting in" cause I knew by then that I did't fit in anywhere. Did that make any sense? Lots of stories I could tell about the track. I can cuss fluently in spanish cause of it. Panamian jockeys. Theres a good joke about jockeys but this is a family site
Now I'm going to tell you all something I'v never told ANYONE except my mom (not until 15 years later, and she thought it was funny that I'd pulled it off) and I hope none of those people EVER see this. If any of the people I fooled DO see this, I'm sorry. (sorta, it was fun!)
I pretended to be "Deaf" for the whole time I was at the tracks. (I'd taken sign language classes cause I had a crush on a deaf boy) Told them all I "read lips" and was VERY convincing cause noone ever found out about it. It was really liberating, I did't have to talk to anyone and people would say "any and everything" to you. The best part was that people left you alone and I guess from a physicological level it gave me a reason to justify "Not fitting in" cause I knew by then that I did't fit in anywhere. Did that make any sense? Lots of stories I could tell about the track. I can cuss fluently in spanish cause of it. Panamian jockeys. Theres a good joke about jockeys but this is a family site
too kewl! good for you!! (wish i'd have thought of that one!)
isn't that the most clever idea?? That has the best creative thinking ticket! At least people have been sensitized to deafness and don't make demands on them they can't fulfil, unlike autistic or AS that they have NO idea what our needs are. . .
(totally out for me, though. I would blow the cover in the first 30 seconds rattling off the origin of the first braided latigo reins and how the cro-magnon first broke the wild horse in BCE 100,050. . on a Wednesday. . in the morning, and it was raining well, not really pouring down, but just a fine mist, really, not qute a drizzle. . .and then. . .)
I know, she was good, wasn't she? And at such a young age. We should put her in charge of something in here.
why, put her and pheonixiis in charge of the horses!
Merle
Does that mean I can have a pony now?
ponies are small, NaN. . .don't you want a full size horse??
Can I have a Percheron now, and someone else to clean up after it?
as a child I loved Clydesdales. . I called them "Marshmellow Feet Horses" and went into raptures when they pulled the beer wagon on the old Budwiser commercials . . . all that sinuey flesh, those feet and all that beer. .
sigh...
sure, we will get Postie to get Ike to hot walk them. . .
sinsboldly
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02 Oct 2007, 10:42 pm
02 Oct 2007, 10:48 pm
sinsboldly wrote:
oooh, you mean 'clean up after them' as in muck out the stables. . .
{shaking head vigorously} uh huh!
02 Oct 2007, 11:38 pm
03 Oct 2007, 12:17 am
Oh, lord! Not the 12 song! I end up with that song stuck in my head at least once a month! THANKYAVERYMUCHLY!! ! 
So, who's who in the choir, Nan? 
03 Oct 2007, 12:36 am
Nan wrote:
i found a video of the cafe choir practicing.
I use to just love it
when people would try and get(teach) the nice quiet girl with CAPD to clap with the music.
"Hey, come on, clap along."
"I can't clap, really."
"Nah, come one, here," he says and grabs my hands and forces me to clap.
After about four beats of carefully watching his hands after he let mine go I would lose the beat.
"You can't clap."
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I told you that." duh!
Or, I would be watching someone's hands and trying again when all of the sudden they would get cute and add to everyones beat by clapping on the offbeat. Sheesh. You don't even want to know the torture my private music teacher had to go through.
Let's just say that it doesn't matter what surface or device you use as a metronome, its not gonna change me from playing the song to the beat I hear in my head.
03 Oct 2007, 12:39 am
I still have
"Jay, Joe, Jeans and his Jelly-beans.... Hey!, let's sing a song about "J"
in my head. I kinda like this one. I'll rewind to hear it again
And if I get to be in charge of horses then I say
"Step right up and pick your favorite! We've got Belgians, Clydsdales, Throughbreds, Arabians, Quarter Horses, Appaloosa's (what mine was. half quarter, half Appy) Pintos, Palaminos, Morgans, and remember...
if you don't see it here, we'll get it for you. Finanicing available for qualified buyers " (Done in my best "Cal Worthington" impersonation.)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZfmPjWPBQE[/youtube]
03 Oct 2007, 12:45 am
03 Oct 2007, 1:00 am
03 Oct 2007, 1:54 am
03 Oct 2007, 2:23 am
03 Oct 2007, 8:53 am
Good morning, Everyone!! 
Here's one for you, Nan!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOFj9yjO7Y&mode=related&search=[/youtube]
03 Oct 2007, 10:20 am
krex wrote:
Lau,thanks for the links...they did find some spyware(some from mocrosoft I kept out of fear of screwing something up.)
Yes indeed. Microsoft installs spyware on your machine. Are you surprised?krex wrote:
It didnt solve the problem,though,which is as follows.
Everytime I click on a link the computer pops up a window saying...microsoft is configureing HPIZ450,
This, it would appear, is Hewlett-Packard's "HP Image Zone 450" stuff. Possibly as "HP Photosmart Essential 2.5 - Free photo editing, organizing, printing and sharing software". I would imagine it came with a scanner? It will be a failed install of some kind, or just naff software. You may be able to uninstall it from the control panel, but the recommendation I've seen suggests using CCleaner, which I gave you the link for.Everytime I click on a link the computer pops up a window saying...microsoft is configureing HPIZ450,
krex wrote:
I usually just push cancel and the computer goes to the link...but it happens everytime I link to anything.If I dont automatically cancel,I get the following messages..
The feature you are trying to use is on CD-Rom or other removable disk.Insert the disk and click OK(I havent loaded any,honest)
Then it says...
Error1706.No valid source could be found for product.The windows installer can not continue.
Yep. Sort of "halfway complete" install, from a CD. If you could find the CD, you could complete the install. In any case, get rid of what's currently there, first, as continuing the install may be screwed anyway.The feature you are trying to use is on CD-Rom or other removable disk.Insert the disk and click OK(I havent loaded any,honest)
Then it says...
Error1706.No valid source could be found for product.The windows installer can not continue.
krex wrote:
I was having a similiar problem before my other log on page stopped connecting,now I use my boyfriends,on the same computer.
The program they were trying to install then was "Plug and Play monitor"....more software I have never loaded on this machine and have no idea where it came from but still shows up whenever I start up the computer.
Ah! But you have loaded this software. It is called "Microsoft Windows".The program they were trying to install then was "Plug and Play monitor"....more software I have never loaded on this machine and have no idea where it came from but still shows up whenever I start up the computer.
Most (all?) monitors, these days are not just output devices. They let the computer read them, too. Monitors have all sorts of capabilities, that vary, one to the next. Via a fairly limited "interface", they tell the computer what they can manage. E.g. This monitor can handle 180x1024 32-bit colour. The one in the next room can only do 1024x768 16bit.
krex wrote:
On his log in I just push cancel,because when I pushed "Install" on my log in page,they said this software is not compatable with mocrosoft and everything went nuts.
That's a bit more bothersome. I went for a year with a worse problem. Every time I rebooted Windows, I had to reinstall the NVidia graphic driver. Eventually I reinstalled Windows. Now I rarely use Windows. It must be at least a couple of months since I had occasion to. This machine hasn't been turned of for over eight days, and that was just an update that I could have put off.krex wrote:
Even weirder,when I go into my computer it says I dont have ANY monitor installed(so what the hell am I using?)It does say there are two unknown monitors(one is the plug and play and they both have something to do with mobile?which I dont think I have...I'm just sitting here,not mobiling anyware???)
If this is a laptop, there's a socket at the back that you can plug an external monitor into. It may still be remembering one that was plugged in there, ages ago. Actually, maybe ditto for a desktop, if you've replaced a monitor. (Mobile = laptop/portable... you are talking about a portable?).krex wrote:
Can you make any sense of this?Should I try and get rid of these mystery monitors is it the only thing keeping me on-line(since the computer claims I have no other monitors?Freaky.
I often delete the monitors. Windows will happily "rediscover" them, usually. If not, it will still give you exactly what you have now. You may have to trawl the internet for the proper info on the monitor. (if that's what you're using... I can't see from here )
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