Victor Should Write a Book

I'm watching too, Louise!

We (at least the household members over the age of 15), watched the entire Bourne Trilogy. We finished the movies with about 12 minutes to spare before 2008 arrived.

Happy New Year, all!

Then the new year was Bourne

dave47: there used to be a tradition in class that when a professor made a ranchy joke like that, the students would all say:


SSSSSSSS

and stomp their feet under their desks in the lecture hall.

I heard this at UCSB but I think the tradition goes back to Oxford or Cambridge.

I would think UCSB would be a great place to go to college.

If that was the reaction to bad jokes, Dave would have been deaf before long!

Bad jokes or raunchy? You would be deaf just from CZJ related references!

I forgot to say the reason it was so effective was that the lecture halls had hard wood floors. this was also a response to a joke that the prof. read out of his lecture notes with the preface:

"I always tell this joke every year" . . . We all had the joke in our Cliff Notes so that was worth a SSSSS

even before he told the joke . . .

Yes. Santa Barbara was great. You know it is right on the Ocean. Some students came to class in their flippers -- I mean their wet suits from the Oceanography Class.

Who would actually attend class??!

VG Usually it was something you would not want to miss. In my field we had the cutting edge professors in the whole world on that campus.
I didn't realize until later that those people were the ones who shaped the concepts for the whole discipline. Nearly every class was a major experience -- not something you would want to miss.

What was your major again, Gloria. My mind is going. I am 45 now, after all.

Oh VG. You have a ways to go if you are only 45. I hesitate to state my major to an engineer. My classes were at the other end of the campus.
I majored in anthropology and philosophy at UCSB.

Nothing to be hesitant about! I am interested in so many things, those included. Not sure what I would major in if I had a do-over.

those were just my majors at UCSB. I had others: technical Russian at Michigan Tech, Urban Anthropology/Archeology at San Diego State, Cultural Geography at U. of Kentucky, psychology at U. of Alabama, furniture making at Shelton State Jr. College. I moved around a lot and went to school a lot.

the truth is, once you get the hang of it, you can teach yourself just about anything. Most formal education is learning how to learn, whatever the subject matter may be.

SO what do you want to be when you grow up??!!

Well, I finally found a place to stay put. So I thought I would learn how to build some gardens on it. they used to say, "5 acres and independence", well mine is only 2.5 acres but it is still a challenge. Also, there is a lot of reconstructive surgery required on a 100 year old house.

What about you VG, I mean plans for when you grow up?

Still not sure. I'd love some of your acreage though!

Still lots of acres cheap and even cheaper now out in the hinterlands, VG.

I had 20 acres in w.central Tenn. that I sold a few years ago and wish I handn't. It had a braided stream channel, a waterfall and fish (trout) in the stream. Plus, #$%^& beavers building dams everywhere.

Its out there Victor.

Oh - you're killing me with that, Gloria! I would be in heaven with a stream and waterfall.

Well, the waterfall wasn't very high, but there is other land in that area with white water. They don't have Saks Fifth Avenue, though. I should say it was a 3 hour drive into Nashville. Im sure there is a Saks Fifth there.

Now, here we are right back again to Arnold the Pig stories!

Living in the country is really cheap, Victor. And as I remember in the State of Tennessee there is no income tax.

Unfortunately, good schools and good jobs tend to cluster around cities though.

You are right about that. Its a trade off.

What part of west central TN, Gloria? i lived in east central TN - Crossville, bout 1 hour W of Knoxville, and it is my favorite region ever! (i mean the town wasn't great - a suburb minus the city - but the area was beautiful, and there were small towns with character nearby...)

The land is nearest a place call Collinwood, TN. (Not the one of the old daytime tv drama Dark Shawdows). It is way way way out in the sticks in Wayne, Co. But there was a new highway going into Nashville, just 3 hours. There were several 20-25 acre Parcels along Indian Creek. The whole creek bottom is of course an archeological site.

the man I bought it from was picking up arrowheads. He says he leaves them up and down his driveway for his grand kids to find.

I did archeology in that area for several years. Do you remember a place call Sawdust?

Happy Birthday, Victor. I guess you will never have a chance to forget to celebrate your birthday.

Sounds like a Country song!

Oops - we crossed. Thank you Gloria!

Sawdust was like a country song. Supposedly it was named that because there was a sawmill there and that was the reason for the town. The house that our crew stayed in had been built in the 1800s by cousins who married cousins, sisters who married brothers. And when we lived there even more sisters had married brothers and raised their families in the house. The old sisters still lived down near the road in a log cabin.

the old house was built around a central courtyard, and the place still reeked of all the children who had grown up playing there.

Nothin' like family!

Sometimes we sound like the product of intermarriage within the same generations ourselves here!! LOL

I love my sister!

Love how????

We're very close.

time to go back to the water cooler !

This WOULD make quite the book!!

Is anyone else caught in this "revolving door of threads" that Victor has created?
They're all beginning to overlap !

Blame Al - he resurrected the old ones the other night. Seems two was too many, so four was better!

More like a web of threads, I think.

We need a "thread management" feature now !

That would take all the fun out of it!