Grateful Dead

is that how you wanted it to look? and dude, if I can blow *my* own horn, I have no doubt you can blow yours.

I tried, and then the editing tools stripped all the linefeeds from your post, and the result wasn't pretty. I am conferring with the tech wizards as to how this problem might be avoided. Meanwhile, we know what you mean, and please say more about your group sometime. Does it have a name?

fuck! another damn typo!! that should be: loVe and peace at the end... can one of the mods edit that, please? then delete this post, please?

izzie said:Posted: August 24, 2007 - 7:29am Who's next? come blow your own horn! ____________________________________________ blow my own what??!!! if that was possible, I'd never leave the house. check this shit out: WorldPerks® Account Summary Name: Mr CC Joe Account Number: Account Status: 01Mar2007-29Feb2008 Gold Elite 2007 Elite Qualifying Miles 15,436 2007 Elite Qualifying Segments 6 Lifetime and Year-to-Date Balances Total Banked Miles 73,460 Current Locked Miles 0 Current Available Miles 73,460 Total Mileage Since Enrollment 773,460 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out that total miles since enrollment! and this is only NorthWorst, I am also frequent with thai Air, United, JAL, etc. etc. but seriously folks, one reason I travel so much is to do fundraising and charity work, trying to balance the books - so to speak, in the world. Taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor. Part of our international Robin Hood project that has about 100 hard core members, and about 200 part time members. All things considered, we probably bring in about 200 - 250,000 USD $ every year into impovrished areas and to poverty stricken people in South East Asia, South America, East Europe, Africa, the cariibean, etc. etc. it is not just giving cash away, but rather trying to help people learn to work for a living, to instill work ethics, providing practical help or tools, essentially helping them out on a grass roots level. Since this is mainly done by individuals directly with individuals, (rather than through a big giant oraganization) we do not have so many administrative costs -- this means MOST of the money we raise goes directly to 'people who really need help' This ain't no welfare shit, you gotta work for the money. but providing people with the opportunity to work that they will actually get paid for - that is the key. Then, the fact that the people who get help HAVE to share it with others in their local villages... so they will not "keep reaching out their hand", but rather they will become the providers for others themselves. this is the grateful philosophy of life, to try to keep everyone's cup "full so that it may be again... " this, for me, is in part to keep that grate karma score in the sky even, since I hustle mooks and suckers at pool... but the only people I hustle can afford to lose the money. ( -: by the by, if you think YOU need money, ask yourself if you have ever gone to bed hungry because you had no food and no money, no way to grow food or earn money? then, ask yourself if you have ever gone to bed hungry because you and no one in your village had no food and no money, no way to grow food or earn money most of your life? that is the level of poverty stricken people I am talking about. love and peace.

...my ugly divorce was finalized...the cubs are #1 in their division ...i bought a house and furniture ...school started again so i get to read beowulf with another 135 fascinated seniors ...i have traveled to see more friends and family than i have in the last 10 years ... i'm healthier, happier, more relaxed than ever! plus, i get to listen to the dead at my leisure! peace love kindness and good health to you all! caroline

wonderful news, fred! congratulations! many more years of health for you! caroline

happy anniversary and many more!

This week will be year three of having hopefully beaten bone cancer. I look at life in a whole new way!!!!!!!!!

Normally, in my line of work, I'm cranking out stuff all the time, whether it's about dog-and-baby classes or energy-efficient windows. Hey, I've got a lot of different clients. (Thank God...)

But this week while all this, uh, merriment was going on in various quarters, I wrote two articles as different as night and day, and I'm insanely proud of them both.

#1, definitely coming from my nicer side, is a piece I did for the Rex Foundation's site about Project Avary, which is one of the groups Rex supports. I've always kinda been a fan so I was tickled to get a chance to work on this one. Check it out because I'm proud of it, or check it out because they're wonderful folks, but check it out! (The Avarys have a topic in the Forums under Dead-Related Charities also.)

#2, coming from my fire-breathing side, is my latest pets column on KGO's web site, which is, in essence, a plea for the judge in the Vick case to stop listening to the idiots who say there's nothing to do with Vick's victims but kill them, and to instead require Vick to fund their lifelong loving care as part of his sentence. I'm very grateful for my radio station boss who a) loves dogs as much as I do and indeed adopted one of my fosters and b)lets me write outspoken columns on stuff where it matters. So, you want fire-breathing, read here.

Yup, the two sides of marye's writing career in this crazy week....

....I'm impressed as well. Keep up the good work, everyone. The Dude Abides!