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boots</a>ninest123https://www.blogger.com/profile/04608652971148348518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-22115648224074700772007-03-24T19:06:00.000-07:002007-03-24T19:06:00.000-07:00BLUE TSG: You KNOW that I am ticklish and yet you ...BLUE TSG: You KNOW that I am ticklish and yet you go for the underarms and belly every time! Pinchable cheeks forming dimples...<BR/><BR/><BR/>CAMERON: Oh my GOODNESS. James sounds like he had more presence of mind than most. Good for him. And good for you that you have him. I just have to throw this aside in here: YOU GUYS HAVE AN AIRSTREAM!!!! I have always wanted one. Okay, back to the substance...James did the absolute correct thing: bled off as much speed as he possibly could before facing total loss of control. I am sure you both appreciated each other another notch up on the appreciation ladder to total appreciation. That first semi must have produced vortices which, combined with the high crosswinds conspired to rock your world. Crap. That must have sucked. But look what it gave you. Not to mention the fact that it gave the second semi driver an opportunity to shine. Bless his heart. Thanks for the ponder, Cameron.<BR/><BR/><BR/>BWOOKIE: Let's go!!!! When you move back, we will grab Cindra and whoever else, dress to the 10s (because it's so high up, you see) and we'll just go!<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>PAUL: Funny thing is, I happened upon it totally by accident and it inspired the entire post. And I wasn't even on an inspiration hunt. But when I saw that one clip, I was bowled over. Like you. I couldn't tell you what it's from. But I played it over and over and over. I just can't get over that: Wear your pants a little bit higher. Problem solved. And that chaplain part---wow.<BR/><BR/><BR/>JACKIE: Sad and happy, yes. I talked to my mother today and she didn't remember the thing with the deer antler. Funny too what we remember.Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649218320462858549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-45667285770890307082007-03-24T16:11:00.000-07:002007-03-24T16:11:00.000-07:00That's a great 'recounting', Gawpo. A little sad, ...That's a great 'recounting', Gawpo. A little sad, but sweet. Life!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-88621960330354524482007-03-24T14:10:00.000-07:002007-03-24T14:10:00.000-07:00Mr. P, I meant to ask ...The video clip about "you...Mr. P, <BR/><BR/>I meant to ask ...<BR/>The video clip about <I>"you'll just have to wear your pants a little higher / come on the cadets are marching"</I> is priceless. How did you find it? Were you aware of it from s<I>"Remember what the chaplain said ..."</I><BR/><BR/>That clip is one of the best stories of "look at the good side" I think I've ever seen.<BR/><BR/>Isn't it amazing what's out there on YouTube? And to think it didn't exist a few years ago!Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11877772974936424670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-10079987196611963142007-03-24T13:06:00.000-07:002007-03-24T13:06:00.000-07:00What a bittersweet story. A sad event bu what lov...What a bittersweet story. A sad event bu what love and concern for his family your father showed. And by the way, if it makes you feel any better, I lived about a 4 to 6 hour drive from Seattle most of my life and have never eaten at the restaurant at the Space Needle, either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-20541655915328487442007-03-24T10:49:00.000-07:002007-03-24T10:49:00.000-07:00I can really relate to your accident story. On Jul...I can really relate to your accident story. On July 4, 2005, James and I were towing our Airstream trailer with a Chevy Suburban. A semi roared by just as we were cresting a hill. The trailer started fish-tailing and James couldn't pull it out, because precisely at that moment, a severe cross-wind blew by. These three factors converged to create the accident.<BR/><BR/>James managed to slow us down to 35 mph before we rolled, twice. I think this saved our lives. <BR/><BR/>Luckily, another semi driver behind us saw what was happening and kept the traffic from getting close.<BR/><BR/>Like your family, James and I emerged from the accident intact. <BR/><BR/>It wasn't our time to "go", I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-51485446429629510762007-03-24T05:13:00.000-07:002007-03-24T05:13:00.000-07:00I was touched as a parent to read this, knowing al...I was touched as a parent to read this, knowing all too well what that look was Gawpo Sr. gave to you kids. I have stopped to look, many many times. This one stuck with you, it stood out. But I don't doubt there were many times your parents revered their glorious brood.<BR/>I cringed reading that you flagged down a semi, by standing in the road. <BR/>I read that and in my mind put you in a safe place; not wanting anything awful to happen. Although the fact that you lived to write your blog was and is a huge indicator of your surviving.<BR/>LOL<BR/>You would have planted many seeds of goodness that grew and grew, from sitting in the car with your DAD and having a newly formed reverence for the "goodness of cops", to Gawpo the NOW; Blogger EXtrordinaire, and crime fighting deputy. <BR/>The Universe Knighted you, my friend. Sir Po~ you are awesome. I wish I had a tenth of your childhood memories. I remember not too much. xoxoGillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08845512494417503198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-21881670547734789182007-03-23T21:40:00.000-07:002007-03-23T21:40:00.000-07:00CLAIRE: Like I always say, "I wouldn't mind the pa...CLAIRE: Like I always say, "I wouldn't mind the pain if it just didn't hurt so much." Confusion, in Latin, is "confundere," poured together. Learning is all about the blend.Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649218320462858549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-37115820885656738662007-03-23T21:35:00.000-07:002007-03-23T21:35:00.000-07:00Well done. I frequently ponder things like this. I...Well done. I frequently ponder things like this. It took me a long time to figure out how to learn from mishaps and not be bitter about trauma in the past.Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10740049258265150141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-3766626805089652012007-03-23T18:39:00.000-07:002007-03-23T18:39:00.000-07:00CANDACE: You do realize don't you, that if you had...CANDACE: You do realize don't you, that if you had finished that sentence, I would have kept it going. Like a spinning tire after a wreck.Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649218320462858549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-18574485231827021682007-03-23T18:19:00.000-07:002007-03-23T18:19:00.000-07:00I wonder if my wondering about the things happenin...I wonder if my wondering about the things happening for a reason dealh-bopper happened for -- oh never mind. ^_^ <BR/><BR/>Yeah, like Elsewhere Jose, I was captivated by the spinning tire. That was quite an image.Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10869574150060699562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-36561640072579285862007-03-23T16:24:00.000-07:002007-03-23T16:24:00.000-07:00CANDACIA: You pondering the whole things happen fo...CANDACIA: You pondering the whole things happen for a reason dealy-bopper and the posting of my harmonic sine to your wave, well, that musta happened for a reason.<BR/><BR/>Ray Gandolf was kind of like your huggable grandfatherly type news guy. Not unlike Charles Kuralt (On The Road) and Charles Osgood (The Osgood Files)....<BR/><BR/><BR/>"(CBS) Osgood, dubbed CBS News' poet-in-residence, has been anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994.<BR/><BR/>He also anchors and writes The Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on the CBS Radio Network. His commentaries have drawn one of the largest audiences of any network radio feature. Osgood was called 'one of the last great broadcast writers' by his predecessor on Sunday Morning, Charles Kuralt."<BR/><BR/>Ray Gandolf had that same hearty, friendly, Santa Clause-y voice.<BR/><BR/>SOMEWHERE GIUSEPPE: I don't know where you got it, Joe, but you have an incredibly refreshing appreciation of the dual nature; of both flesh and spirit. Your soteriological outlook snaps my head back sometimes. You see the through, and then the through. You see that our best attempts sometimes squander us, but that we are eventually sopped up in the buy-back portion of the plan.<BR/><BR/>"Our bodies and souls, scarred and redeemed, are roadmaps and narratives." Can you even believe that you wrote that? Where does that stuff come from? I have this notion that your writing reflects your you; you are prizing at every turn and I am humbled yet ever gladdened. Thanks for knowing me.Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649218320462858549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-38064415853591606942007-03-23T15:09:00.000-07:002007-03-23T15:09:00.000-07:00What a wonderful and dramatically lighted memory y...What a wonderful and dramatically lighted memory you have, Po. We think of childhood as a place that should be ideally sequestered from life's rude shocks, but the fact is that we start having some pretty harrowing tumbles, and learning tough lessons, from day one. Our bodies and souls, scarred and redeemed, are roadmaps and narratives.<BR/> <BR/>Thanks for sharing this riff, and showing us how their chords can progress and resonate, in a number of keys, "with deepened appreciation that has come with disappointment" all our lives long.<BR/><BR/>"I just wanted to look at you," he said. That got to me too. As did "the end of the anti-rainbow," and "the overturned white vehicle in the field of white snow" and its "single spinning rear tire" and much, much, more.Joe Jubinvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09489419756833657839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-14331800573980149182007-03-23T14:03:00.000-07:002007-03-23T14:03:00.000-07:00Strange, Gawpo. I was just pondering the whole "t...Strange, Gawpo. I was just pondering the whole "things happen for a reason" dealy-bopper last night, and wondering if it applied to my mangled ankle. Perhaps the cosmos is trying to tell me something.<BR/><BR/>Was that guy's name seriously Gandalf?Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10869574150060699562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-76381447029722748482007-03-23T12:12:00.000-07:002007-03-23T12:12:00.000-07:00DIESEL: Thanks for the invite. Hope you enjoy my s...DIESEL: Thanks for the invite. Hope you enjoy my savory submission.<BR/><BR/>I-NinerNiner. Sounds good to me.<BR/><BR/><BR/>VICCI: It goes like this, I think: We bring the meaning to the party. BYOM. I hope you "break a leg" with how dangerous you feel! Go for it, Vic!!!!<BR/><BR/>PAUL: Ha! Doesn't make much sense, does it. I will try to think of some others. Do you too, please.<BR/><BR/><BR/>QUILLY: Believe it or not, I cried when I wrote it.<BR/><BR/>You and Lime. Sheesh. We talk about the near death experiences because they are so obvious. The near life ones escape notice sometimes, I think.Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649218320462858549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-25133597178014441412007-03-23T10:55:00.000-07:002007-03-23T10:55:00.000-07:00Gawpo -- that part where your dad just wanted to l...Gawpo -- that part where your dad just wanted to look at you brought tears to my eyes. <BR/><BR/>And that part where the car was suddenly out of control? That brought back a memory of a mountain logging road, too much snow and a very high cliff -- I am alive only because the boulder that took out the oil pan, stopped the car from crashing into the ravine. Mixed blessings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-91862721358346169892007-03-23T10:42:00.000-07:002007-03-23T10:42:00.000-07:00Mr. G,The other common phrase from the male teache...Mr. G,<BR/><BR/>The other common phrase from the male teachers to the male students in my high school was <B><I>"Keep your peckers in your pants."</B></I> I always thought that one was kinda silly when I was standing at a urinal.<BR/><BR/>- PPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11877772974936424670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-46222742729895443782007-03-23T10:24:00.000-07:002007-03-23T10:24:00.000-07:00Do things happen for a reason????? This is a GOOD ...Do things happen for a reason????? This is a GOOD story Gawpo...Do we ever really know the reasons???? We can always look back and see the events leading up to "an incident"....most times we can see how really lucky we were....<BR/>Loved the story...now...it's got me thinking about all kinds of things...(this could be dangerous). :-)viccihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14526235206599677987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-38525673536468562052007-03-23T10:02:00.000-07:002007-03-23T10:02:00.000-07:00I have no idea if I-5 existed back then. They kee...I have no idea if I-5 existed back then. They keep talking about making 99 an interstate. Maybe in another 10 years.<BR/><BR/>Gawpo - Come play in my <A HREF="http://www.mattresspolice.com/2007/03/diesel-caption-contest.htm" REL="nofollow">caption contest</A>!robkroesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14731849693307953813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-11801915969058279872007-03-23T09:54:00.000-07:002007-03-23T09:54:00.000-07:00LIMERS: What? No deer antler at the end of the fal...LIMERS: What? No deer antler at the end of the fall? You were lucky.<BR/><BR/>What a close call! I can't imagine what that tumble could have felt like. I am so happy you survived as intact as you are. That was some serious mierda! Tax day is a celebration of life for you now.<BR/><BR/>PAULO: You can call me anything, except late for dinner in the Space Needle. I have yet to dine there. <BR/><BR/>"Cosas pasan" would be "things happen." The plural changes the verb form.<BR/><BR/>I'm here to tell ya that when I saw that upside down car in Fargo, it brought it all back. Luckily though, no one tried to shoot us. The only defensive wounds we suffered were artifacts of our unconscious efforts to survive unusual attitudes.<BR/><BR/>Do all high school teachers learn that expression in High School Teaching School? I had a coach who used to say that. He also told me that if I hurt his daughter driving drunk on prom night, he would hunt me down to the four corners of the earth to kill me. After fearing him, I grew to love him. He and his wife even came up to visit me here in Oregon. He is gone now. To this day, though, I have no idea where the earth's four corners are.<BR/><BR/>Control the things you can. Yes. Learn from the ones you can't. Yes.<BR/><BR/>ARM: We fired our guns, but the British kept a comin'; there wasn't not as many as there was a while ago...<BR/><BR/>ARM: As Gold Member would say, "Yah. Iszhint dat veerd?"Jacobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13649218320462858549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-75668358426007058082007-03-23T07:07:00.000-07:002007-03-23T07:07:00.000-07:00Very good story. I agree - the memories of the un...Very good story. I agree - the memories of the unexpected things are learning experiences and shape who we've become and will become.armalicioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15569772344297408167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-4315701430358518242007-03-23T06:54:00.000-07:002007-03-23T06:54:00.000-07:00"we took a little bacon and we took a little beans..."we took a little bacon and we took a little beans and we fought the bloody british in the town of new orleans". <BR/><BR/>Ok, I need to read the rest of your post, now. It's a long'un!armalicioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15569772344297408167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35677372.post-4843682704710483162007-03-23T05:13:00.000-07:002007-03-23T05:13:00.000-07:00Mr. G ... I can call you Mr. G, can't I? ... I kno...Mr. G ... I can call you Mr. G, can't I? ... I know just enough Spanish to know that <I><B>"Mierda Pasa"</I></B> doesn't mean <I><B>"things happen."</I></B> <BR/><BR/>While the aborted dinner in the space needle may now be a fun family memory, I read in horror of the white Valliant rolling unrestrained -- with the nice family helpless in their own fate.<BR/><BR/>I'd rather say, <I><B>"Vaya con Dios."</I></B> Yes, so many things are out of our control.<BR/><BR/>It's tough learning (as one of my high school teachers used to tell the boys): keep your chin, and zipper, up. It was years before I learned that this (roughly) translates into, <I><B>"control the things you can, and enjoy life."</B></I><BR/>.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11877772974936424670noreply@blogger.com