Ah, Alexander!~ It is so good to see you on the day we all go turkey diving, with the exception of the lady whose name is this topic. She is haveing tofurky. Have no idea - gonna have to asjk her about it.

..also gonna have to stop posting in CRT until I learn unix editing...sorry!

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving (and Alexander and Riette, I hope you two enjoyed Nov. 25 as well!) All my neighbors have their Xmas trees up and houses decorated. It's nauseating. Everyone here knows I bitch about this every year.

I know what you mean. I saw the funniest-saddest thing in Sears two days before Halloween. A little kid had just happened on Sears' Christmas goodies display with her mother - a wail emerged from the little kid: "We missed Halloween!!! Look! It's already Christmas!!!" The poor kid was all ready to go Trick-or-Treating and here she though it was over already. Too sad!

I picked up some Christmas tree lights at Walmart (Riettes family store), but that's about as far as I've made it. Oh, I got a present for my dad. I usually wait till the last second. I'm getting a tiny Christmas tree for the Cedar Creek house from one of my roommates and I bought a $7.99 set of lights that plays 50 Christmas tunes from the drugstore on Airport Blvd. So I won't have to harvest a Cedar or Pine tree out in the woods this year, I suppose. The plastic ones are getting realer looking.

I am such a fan of trees that I cannot bear to have one cut for me to die in my living room. Thus, I have small synthetic ones in just about every room. I think you will learn to hate that one which plays the incessant tunes all computer generated on a tinny-sounding chip and without inflection...I disabled mine about the second time through the "tunes." The plastic ones are indeed getting realer-looking. I just catch the sweepeings from the real-tree sellers and put them around for the scent. Works just fine!

Nov 25th - musta been one of the days lost in production haze...

Happy to see you posting again, Alexander! I was becoming worried about your well-being and about to fire off an email to you...Happy post-production!

Thanks! And hiya, Autumn, too!

Wie gehts, Alexander? Umm...Gut Yul? (or is that Norwegian?) Are you ready for Y2K--I'm assuming there's a similar "panic" associated with New Year's in Europe as well. We're hunkering down in our bunker with our Sterno and a case of canned yams!

We're having our y2k crisis early. digihost told Network solutions to move our nameservers and it's really messing up things. If you're reading this, it's a miracle.

A miracle ideed! It only took 12 hours and plaintive wailing on IM and email to get in...finally! Mahalo!

Happy New Millenium, it started about 5 am this morning out in the Pacific, I guess Hawaii will be the grand finale.

Hauoli Makahiki Hou, Autumn! Yup! We get the next century after it has been crash-tested by the rest of the world. I am watching closely and was hoping to be on Spring in something other than black and white...*sigh*

Happy 2000! Some of the new year footage was just breathtaking--especially the Eiffel Tower and the Wash. monument.

Eiffel Tower was great, but for me London outdid them all. All of that fantastic history and the most spectacular fireworks at the same time! I'm just wondering what kind of haze is circling the earth this morning due to smoke from all of this.

There was a big controversy surrounding the Washington Monument display. It's been undergoing restoration for years (I know I've seen scaffolding around it for at least the past two years), and the restorationists were really angered that now it's nice and clean the fireworks/sparkler displays were going to stain it. Our tax dollars at work!

I thought we had the worst display and that angered the house critic. Until you have cleaned off black powder residue you do not know what a mess it leaves behind. I am sure that scaffolding is not only stained but also not nearly as strong as it was before the flash powder got to it. But our politicians are nothing if not self-applauding, and we have a real "good" one of those in the white house spending our tax dollars...!

My favorite was Sydney Harbor, maybe just because it was the first big display, Paris and London were awesome.

You're right, Autumn, Sydney harbor was great but it happened before we stumbled out of bed at 5am so all we saw was the retrospect. I am really sorry I did not get to see that as it happened!

...and Terry...Shoulda stayed up all night...*sigh* Next year when the actual new Millennium begins.... Gee, graphics in here!!! Yippee!!!

Los Angeles was the most pathetic. Did you see that? They went to Home Depot and bought a dozen folored floodlights and lit up the Hollywood sign.

Tacky and pathetic. I missed it, Terry...but, not much! That was it?!

That was it, they lit up the Hollywood sign with some colored lights. Low budget!

Low budget and even lower class. What's the matter with those supposedly creative folks out there?!

They, uh, don't earn 'coz nobody's buyin' into creativity and originality these days, since as-good-as-mockery of either can be had for free or cheaper, courtesy of some multinational corporation... How'd y'all spend that night? I was with friends, having a small affair, about eight people. Very peaceful and nice evening, made unforgettable by a regional tv station's rerun of appearances from music shows of the 70ies... Complete with Abba, Boney M, DeeDee Jackson, Chic, and the whole Disco scene... Incredible disco and dance/soul stuff... Fancy space-style stage-wear... Right until 4 a.m., when I went home. (Oh, and also a nice buffet, if that's what you call it en ingles.)

Tis indeed called a buffet if you serve yourself and wander around to eat it rather than sitting at the table bearing the food. We consumed lots of hot tea, chicken soup and cough medicine then went to bed early. At least I did. Happy you had a splendid time and did enough celebrating for both of us! Happy New Year, Alexander!

We are supposed to get snow tonight/tomorrow--yeah!

Make snow-angels for me, please! I love snow and it is 30 miles away - straight up most of the way... It is cold here, too. We drove up to Kilauea's summit yesterday and it was 50� at 6pm. Betcha it got a lot colder over night...and water freezes as 55� in Hawaii!!!

How interesting! At what temperature does it boil?

Autumn: "Gut Yul?" That's norwegian, I guess. Ask the resident Norwegian, Terry. We say "Fr�hliche Weihnachten!", which is Joyous Holy-Nights if you'd insist on translating literally. Merry Christmas. To The Moores, too, and I hope your year started as joyful, too. (So I was late. What'l yall do? Fire me?)

Whoa, that's a mouthful! At least I've got a whole year to practice it! Do you celebrate Valentine's Day?

Nope, but it's taking hold here... Another US export, like Mother's Day (which the Nazis supposedly imported, BTW), and Halloween, which is starting to get attention around here.

I'm sure water boiling temp was a rhetorical question, but on top of our mountains it boils without getting very hot. Depends on where you are. Sea level it is the same as everywhere else. It just feels different! Alexander, considering that Halloween is a good old Keltic holiday, and your neck of the woods being fraught with things Keltic, it is only proper that it be celebrated there!

It's been 5 years since Autumn Moore posted here!

really? hey autumn, come look at your topic!!

she was still a little kid when she last posted. Barely made the age limit, wasn't it? Next thing we'll be having is grandchildren of springeurs. How appalling... or not...

If you type "autumn moore" on google you get this hit: Conference Center Topic 7 of 10 [parent]: Parenting Resources on the Web Response 1 of 25: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (21:35) * 1 lines ... spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/parent/7 - 12k - Cached - Similar pages Conference Center Response 1 of 27: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sat, Mar 21, 1998 (21:52) * 1 lines ... Response 4 of 27: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Apr 7, 1998 (21:27) * 1 ... spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/parent/4 - 13k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from spring.net ] Authors M

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Yeah, I know how dangerous that can be.

Put me down as one of those who misses Autumn, too.

ditto.