The Happy Thread V - Page 14

**Mari** · 01-18-2011, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ingwe

Absolutely nothing. I've been sick for weeks now. As far as Amy, she's been busy taking care of the kids, and me. I would imagine that she's still posting around here, but I ain't sure.

Oh, that's not very nice

I hope you'll feel better soon!
I haven't seen Amy around for a very long time though.

***Tessar*** · 01-18-2011, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Midge

That means I get a super cool car from the rental company. Makes me want a fancy Ford Focus with Virginia plates all for my very own.

Haha, lucky.

***Jonathan*** · 01-19-2011, 06:55 AM

I'll be travelling to Vienna today with three good friends, to celebrate my graduation. Cafés and sachertarte, culture and history, leisure and fun - here we come!

See ya'll next week

Gwaimir Windgem · 01-19-2011, 05:43 PM

Baylor has shortlisted me for the PhD program, and they're flying me out next month for an interview! I'm sure it'll be a shock going from Toronto to Texas in mid-February, still . . . ROCK ON!

EllethValatari · 01-19-2011, 06:00 PM

That's awesome GW! Ever been in Texas?

The last sane person · 01-19-2011, 06:50 PM

Well done Gwai! Truly well done!

Gwaimir Windgem · 01-19-2011, 07:11 PM

I have; I spent a few days in the same city, actually (Waco), visiting some friends who had moved there.

***Tessar*** · 01-19-2011, 07:28 PM

Woohoo!!!!!!!

The last sane person · 01-20-2011, 05:09 PM

Oh happy days!

If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems and a b*tch ain’t one

Tip my hat to the sun in the west
Feel the beat right in my chest
At the crossroads a second time
Make the devil change his mind.
Its a pound of flesh but its really a ton
99 problems and a b*tch ain’t one

If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems and a b*tch ain’t one
99 problems
But a b*tch ain’t one.

**Mari** · 01-21-2011, 11:09 AM

*is idly wondering if that means that a b*tch is actually more than just 1 problem or none at all*
Our dog is male. He slipped and fell flat on his mouth on the stairs the other day. He couldn't stop licking his mouth after that for quite a long time, but nothing was hurt it seemed.

***Tessar*** · 01-21-2011, 02:00 PM

Awwwww.

Poor doggy.

**Mari** · 01-21-2011, 06:39 PM

Perhaps. It was really really funny though.

Voronwen · 01-22-2011, 02:52 PM

Just spent some quality time at my Nana's farm today... it's always a good thing to be there among the patriarchs and the general timeless antique aura of a place long-settled in the country... surrounding myself with a bit of living family history...

The last sane person · 01-24-2011, 01:44 PM

Yay! Fixed my old computer and have real internet outside of my phone! Now to rebuild the new one...

***Rían*** · 01-24-2011, 03:17 PM

I'm happy about our awesome next-door neighbors. We've had so many awful family nightmare situations since we moved to Arizona, but our next-door neighbors are just awesomeness!! They are so sweet, and so fun! The dad especially is so funny - he keeps us all laughing. I went with the mom to a charity tea, and then we got home and watched football the rest of the day with them, and made up a dinner between the two of us and had dinner together. And the night before, we were all out, but our middle son got home before the rest of us and he went over there and watched a movie with the dad.

And I'm happy about the cute new shoes I got at Ross!

***Valandil*** · 01-29-2011, 10:42 AM

Yesterday - a long day, but a good day.

My wife and I left the house early (around 6 am) with our 12 year old son, for his Regional Science Fair. The original location was too full, so they put us in one on the far south side. His project looked pretty strong and we felt good about his chances of advancing. We (parents) had to leave for 4 hours though - so he was on his own. We got back and HE even felt good about his chances. So when they get to the awards, they first name off the 'Honorable Mention' group, so I put away the camera. But when they got to the T's - they called his name. We we stunned, but put on a brave face, smiled, gave him thumbs up and a 'good job' - and I got out the camera and got a picture of him holding the 'Honorable Mention' certificate.

They went through the names of the next category - 'Excellent' - and finally started the 'Outstanding' awards (along with a trophy) - for those who would go to City. Of maybe 120 projects, he had heard that 37 would go on. So they read off the names. This whole time, my wife and I were both wondering if we had done something wrong in not meeting requirements, if the judges hadn't understood it, if it had to do with our school (VERY unpopular with Chicago Teachers Union), or what. Then at the end, the lady up front said something like; "We have one more award. Is ___ T___ (our son) still here?" That got my attention, and our son raised his hand. She didn't see it at first, so she asked "Did he leave already?" Then she saw him, acknowledged that they had already given him an Honorable Mention, but asked him to come up. Everything pretty much broke up then and people started to leave. Before I could get up there myself to find out what was going on, here he comes with a different certificate, a trophy and a big smile on his face. There was some mistake, and his project is going on to the City Science Fair (which is held at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry!)!!!

His project was a small wind turbine that generated electricity. He compared the voltage registered on a small volt meter for two different turbine sizes. It was all low budget. The turbines were made from pop bottles, cardboard and scotch tape - turned by a blowdrier. The generator was 2 strong magnets on a nail in a box made by wrapping a piece of cardboard around them - and wrapped a few hundred times with copper wire. He designed and built the frame assembly with his K'nex toys. He saw the turbine and generator designs on U-tube and figured out how to combine them for the project.

So... we got home just after 4 pm, and before 5 pm I was out the door with my 8 & 10 year olds for their Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. Well... it went long. Scheduled to go to about 7:30, but we didn't get back in the car until 9:45. To shorten this one - they didn't have the fastest cars in the Pack, but they both got 3rd place in their Dens (each of their dens has about 10 or 11 boys) - and they each got a trophy as well.

They don't have a lot of trophies around the house. And now - for the first time we can remember - all three of our boys got a trophy on the same day!

***Valandil*** · 01-29-2011, 10:46 AM

PS: At the Science Fair - naturally, I took his picture with the new certificate and the trophy. He said to me, "now we can delete the other picture" and I was like "no way!" I think it's too cool to have both!

***Varnafindë*** · 01-29-2011, 10:56 PM

That's very nice, Valandil!

***Earniel*** · 01-30-2011, 07:48 AM

Yeay for science projects, and yeay for winning science projects!

I'm not sure I could have built something like that at 12.

***Jonathan*** · 01-30-2011, 03:31 PM

Nice Val! But now the other boys are gonna want some trophies too

Many things to be happy about;
Got my own dose of science at the world premiere of a big touring NASA exhibition. Lotsa space history, space suits, tools and replicas of rockets, satellites and spaceships

Recently got home from a great trip to Vienna. Great cafés, art and architecture - all made better by good company

And went ice skating today with friends. Haven't skated in years so I was a bit rusty but it was good to skate on ice again

01-19-2011, 06:55 AM	#263
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	I'll be travelling to Vienna today with three good friends, to celebrate my graduation. Cafés and sachertarte, culture and history, leisure and fun - here we come! See ya'll next week __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

01-19-2011, 05:43 PM	#264
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Baylor has shortlisted me for the PhD program, and they're flying me out next month for an interview! I'm sure it'll be a shock going from Toronto to Texas in mid-February, still . . . ROCK ON! __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

01-19-2011, 06:00 PM	#265
EllethValatari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: United States Posts: 401	That's awesome GW! Ever been in Texas? __________________ Elleth Valatari "We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." — J.R.R. Tolkien

01-19-2011, 06:50 PM	#266
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Well done Gwai! Truly well done! __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

01-19-2011, 07:11 PM	#267
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I have; I spent a few days in the same city, actually (Waco), visiting some friends who had moved there. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

01-19-2011, 07:28 PM	#268
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Woohoo!!!!!!!

01-20-2011, 05:09 PM	#269
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Oh happy days! If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son I got 99 problems and a btch ain’t one Tip my hat to the sun in the west Feel the beat right in my chest At the crossroads a second time Make the devil change his mind. Its a pound of flesh but its really a ton 99 problems and a btch ain’t one If your having girl problems I feel bad for you son I got 99 problems and a btch ain’t one 99 problems But a btch ain’t one. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

01-21-2011, 11:09 AM	#270
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	is idly wondering if that means that a btch is actually more than just 1 problem or none at all* Our dog is male. He slipped and fell flat on his mouth on the stairs the other day. He couldn't stop licking his mouth after that for quite a long time, but nothing was hurt it seemed. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

01-21-2011, 02:00 PM	#271
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Awwwww. Poor doggy.

01-21-2011, 06:39 PM	#272
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Perhaps. It was really really funny though. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

01-22-2011, 02:52 PM	#273
Voronwen Lady of Andúnië Join Date: May 2009 Location: Andúnië Posts: 572	Just spent some quality time at my Nana's farm today... it's always a good thing to be there among the patriarchs and the general timeless antique aura of a place long-settled in the country... surrounding myself with a bit of living family history... __________________ " ...But the Exiles on the shores of the sea, if they turned towards the West in the desire of their hearts, spoke of Mar-nu-Falmar that was whelmed in the waves, Akallabêth the Downfallen, Atalantë in the Eldarin tongue." "Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest ... " ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline

01-24-2011, 01:44 PM	#274
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Yay! Fixed my old computer and have real internet outside of my phone! Now to rebuild the new one... __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

01-24-2011, 03:17 PM	#275
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	I'm happy about our awesome next-door neighbors. We've had so many awful family nightmare situations since we moved to Arizona, but our next-door neighbors are just awesomeness!! They are so sweet, and so fun! The dad especially is so funny - he keeps us all laughing. I went with the mom to a charity tea, and then we got home and watched football the rest of the day with them, and made up a dinner between the two of us and had dinner together. And the night before, we were all out, but our middle son got home before the rest of us and he went over there and watched a movie with the dad. And I'm happy about the cute new shoes I got at Ross! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by Rían : 01-24-2011 at 03:19 PM.

01-29-2011, 10:42 AM	#276
*Valandil* High King at Annuminas Administrator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Wyoming - USA Posts: 10,752	Yesterday - a long day, but a good day. My wife and I left the house early (around 6 am) with our 12 year old son, for his Regional Science Fair. The original location was too full, so they put us in one on the far south side. His project looked pretty strong and we felt good about his chances of advancing. We (parents) had to leave for 4 hours though - so he was on his own. We got back and HE even felt good about his chances. So when they get to the awards, they first name off the 'Honorable Mention' group, so I put away the camera. But when they got to the T's - they called his name. We we stunned, but put on a brave face, smiled, gave him thumbs up and a 'good job' - and I got out the camera and got a picture of him holding the 'Honorable Mention' certificate. They went through the names of the next category - 'Excellent' - and finally started the 'Outstanding' awards (along with a trophy) - for those who would go to City. Of maybe 120 projects, he had heard that 37 would go on. So they read off the names. This whole time, my wife and I were both wondering if we had done something wrong in not meeting requirements, if the judges hadn't understood it, if it had to do with our school (VERY unpopular with Chicago Teachers Union), or what. Then at the end, the lady up front said something like; "We have one more award. Is ___ T___ (our son) still here?" That got my attention, and our son raised his hand. She didn't see it at first, so she asked "Did he leave already?" Then she saw him, acknowledged that they had already given him an Honorable Mention, but asked him to come up. Everything pretty much broke up then and people started to leave. Before I could get up there myself to find out what was going on, here he comes with a different certificate, a trophy and a big smile on his face. There was some mistake, and his project is going on to the City Science Fair (which is held at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry!)!!! His project was a small wind turbine that generated electricity. He compared the voltage registered on a small volt meter for two different turbine sizes. It was all low budget. The turbines were made from pop bottles, cardboard and scotch tape - turned by a blowdrier. The generator was 2 strong magnets on a nail in a box made by wrapping a piece of cardboard around them - and wrapped a few hundred times with copper wire. He designed and built the frame assembly with his K'nex toys. He saw the turbine and generator designs on U-tube and figured out how to combine them for the project. So... we got home just after 4 pm, and before 5 pm I was out the door with my 8 & 10 year olds for their Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. Well... it went long. Scheduled to go to about 7:30, but we didn't get back in the car until 9:45. To shorten this one - they didn't have the fastest cars in the Pack, but they both got 3rd place in their Dens (each of their dens has about 10 or 11 boys) - and they each got a trophy as well. They don't have a lot of trophies around the house. And now - for the first time we can remember - all three of our boys got a trophy on the same day! __________________ My Fanfic: Letters of Firiel Tales of Nolduryon Visitors Come to Court Ñ á ë ?* ó ú é ä ï ö Ö ñ É Þ ð ß ® ™ [Xurl=Xhttp://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=ABCXYZ#postABCXYZ]text[/Xurl] Splitting Threads is SUCH Hard Work!!

01-29-2011, 10:46 AM	#277
*Valandil* High King at Annuminas Administrator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Wyoming - USA Posts: 10,752	PS: At the Science Fair - naturally, I took his picture with the new certificate and the trophy. He said to me, "now we can delete the other picture" and I was like "no way!" I think it's too cool to have both! __________________ My Fanfic: Letters of Firiel Tales of Nolduryon Visitors Come to Court Ñ á ë ?* ó ú é ä ï ö Ö ñ É Þ ð ß ® ™ [Xurl=Xhttp://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=ABCXYZ#postABCXYZ]text[/Xurl] Splitting Threads is SUCH Hard Work!!

01-29-2011, 10:56 PM	#278
*Varnafindë* Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands) Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Imladris (and sometimes Norway) Posts: 3,304	That's very nice, Valandil! __________________ Signature picture art - Bard the Bowman - by vigshane Avatar art - Footsteps of Spring (a young Luthien) - by Henning Janssen

01-30-2011, 07:48 AM	#279
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Yeay for science projects, and yeay for winning science projects! I'm not sure I could have built something like that at 12. __________________ We are not things.

01-30-2011, 03:31 PM	#280
*Jonathan* Entmoot Attorney-General, Equilibrating the Scales of Justice, Administrator ♎ Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3,891	Nice Val! But now the other boys are gonna want some trophies too Many things to be happy about; Got my own dose of science at the world premiere of a big touring NASA exhibition. Lotsa space history, space suits, tools and replicas of rockets, satellites and spaceships Recently got home from a great trip to Vienna. Great cafés, art and architecture - all made better by good company And went ice skating today with friends. Haven't skated in years so I was a bit rusty but it was good to skate on ice again __________________ An unwritten post is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody entry that’s ever been written. ☻

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