Happy New Years
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For those who celebrate New Years this evening hope everyone had a fun and safe New Years! (I'm so going to pay for tonight’s festivities it's 07.30 here and I'm just getting home.)
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
Repost ;P
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Repost ;P
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Repost ;P
The two thousandth and sixth repost perhaps? Happy New Year everybody all the same! One month of holidays is crazy. I just got back from a 4x4 holiday in Southern Africa. I haven't used the net or a computer in about 3 weeks. It was a nice break but I am glad to be reliably connected again. 2007 is looking good. Still has the clean sheets, wet paint look and feel to it. Have a good one all.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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The two thousandth and sixth repost perhaps? Happy New Year everybody all the same! One month of holidays is crazy. I just got back from a 4x4 holiday in Southern Africa. I haven't used the net or a computer in about 3 weeks. It was a nice break but I am glad to be reliably connected again. 2007 is looking good. Still has the clean sheets, wet paint look and feel to it. Have a good one all.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
Hi, welcome back Paul. I wondered where you'd got to, but seemed to remember you had some trips planned. Did you make it Borubudur on your Indonesia trip?
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Repost ;P
code-frog wrote:
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Umm I have an excuse; I was having a hard time parsing the previous posts there wasn’t enough blood in my alcohol system last night. Besides the previous post was by the grand idiot which just made me X| :-O
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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The two thousandth and sixth repost perhaps? Happy New Year everybody all the same! One month of holidays is crazy. I just got back from a 4x4 holiday in Southern Africa. I haven't used the net or a computer in about 3 weeks. It was a nice break but I am glad to be reliably connected again. 2007 is looking good. Still has the clean sheets, wet paint look and feel to it. Have a good one all.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
Hope you had a good time. I just got back from Jamaica and I'm a very different person from the experience.
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Hope you had a good time. I just got back from Jamaica and I'm a very different person from the experience.
Yeah, I hear there are some interesting experiences in Jamaica...
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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Yeah, I hear there are some interesting experiences in Jamaica...
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
:-O Nothing quite like that. :-D To give you some perspective... * First time east of Idaho. * First time out of the country. * First time in 3rd world country. * First time in 6 years where I had more than one day of not working. * First vacation in 12 years with my wife. It was a very eye opening experience to leave the country as an American with other Americans and to arrive in another land and then see how arrogant most of the other Americans acted and it just kind of went from there. Americans make me ill and my heart broke for the Jamaican people and their living conditions. Now 8 evenings alone with my wife in Jamaica that was {Hey wait... I'm not even going to write about that in the Soapbox so I just better stop here and uh... go find my wife.}:omg::-O
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:-O Nothing quite like that. :-D To give you some perspective... * First time east of Idaho. * First time out of the country. * First time in 3rd world country. * First time in 6 years where I had more than one day of not working. * First vacation in 12 years with my wife. It was a very eye opening experience to leave the country as an American with other Americans and to arrive in another land and then see how arrogant most of the other Americans acted and it just kind of went from there. Americans make me ill and my heart broke for the Jamaican people and their living conditions. Now 8 evenings alone with my wife in Jamaica that was {Hey wait... I'm not even going to write about that in the Soapbox so I just better stop here and uh... go find my wife.}:omg::-O
Interesting. From your posts I thought of you as a well traveled man, someone who had seen other cultures and conditions and learnt from them. I am quite amazed this is your first time out of the US.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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Interesting. From your posts I thought of you as a well traveled man, someone who had seen other cultures and conditions and learnt from them. I am quite amazed this is your first time out of the US.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
Oh, you have no idea. I've lived a life of wishing I could have gone here or there but never had the chance. Now, I've had the chance and it's been amazing. I'll be going back to Jamaica within the year or perhaps somewhere else but I'll be going with humility in my heart and with respect and gratitude for the lives of the people I'm going to meet along the experience. My previous comments you are referring to are probably just peppered with the fact I've had to fight for every single thing I've ever done that's been worthy of mentioning. My life has not ever been easy and my strength comes from having gone through some very hard times. I think I know some of the posts you might be referring to and those are comments that are from another time and place and it was a short-lived experience (under 2 years) that ended in a lot of pain. Even that experience was a big part of shaping who I now am. I think it's a different thing to have done some of those things in the late teens and early 20's thinking you can take on the world and nothing can stop you. It's very different to have it be 15 years later and it's your first chance to go abroad as a husband and father. Those other things happened so long ago and such a different time of my life that I don't honestly relate very well to them. They are a huge part of my heart and strength and they are why I'll never give up but that's probably the only thing I've carried away from that time in my life (well pain to).
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Interesting. From your posts I thought of you as a well traveled man, someone who had seen other cultures and conditions and learnt from them. I am quite amazed this is your first time out of the US.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
I just did the math and that stuff ended 13 years ago. It was the end of a dream for me (or so I thought). I had to walk away (well walk as I drug a leg behind me) from something larger than life into a life that was larger than I was. I think those times prepared me for what was to come and when it arrived I never looked back. Until I really thought about what you had typed I had forgotten about those times. It's weird. I'm a father of 6 years and a husband of 12 and for me that's when life really began.