Boo, go and get your permit. I DO NOT CARE. I promise you that. Anywho , didn't I have a resolution about no longer dealing with boys or something like that? Haha, that worked out well.

Naw Tobin, actually its bad luck to wave guns around unless its time to wave guns around. But I have greeted some of my oldest daughter's boyfriends while sharpening my favorite butcher knife with a big honking honing steel. (I can't decide which is the more formidable weapon, the steel or the butcher knife) You see, cooking is so friendly. Makes everybody feel warm and loved.

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There are times when I'm awful glad my father wasn't around when I started dating.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Heh, the father of one of my ex-girlfriends greeted me like that when we'd first met. Very first thing he did was show me his rifle collection.

I actually impressed him and simultaneously won him over: He'd handed me a 30-06 (IIRC, it was a good while back.) Without a word I immediately opened the action and left it open while in my possession, then removed the magazine. I also had the trigger guard completely enclosed in my hand. He was startled for a moment, then exitedly pointed that out to his (15 yr old) son: "Did you see what he did there? DID YOU SEE THAT!". *snicker*

Hey, I had no idea if anybody might have loaded that sucker when he wasn't looking. Neither did he. If you can't see the clear chamber open in front of you, the gun is loaded. Last thing I needed was an accidental discharge.

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[Dr. Horrible]___________________________[Penny]
Listen close to everybody's heart________And you believe there's good in everybody's heart
And hear that breaking sound_____________Keep it safe and sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you can do your part
And crashing to the ground_______________To turn a life around

Just one more reason to take up cooking. Luckily, I've probably got a good 20 years for that.

Hey, Tobin... love your new avatar.

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Bring back Firefly!

"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

I thought you might.

The Big Don gang is muscling in on BAUT. The mods better watch out.

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At night the stars put on a show for free (Carole King)

Don might finally get an avatar when he puts a picture of one of his knives up.

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I'm not completely heartless, the doctor who removed it told me he'd never be able to get it all.

My new year's resolutions.


I have made many. Not all I've kept, but general self improvement ones.

1. Find better paying, better job. Status: I'm applying for county and government jobs. The corporate jobs here don't care about education. I've never had a manager that ever went to college. There's no future in them. I mean, they want to pay me $12 an hour to be a manager? You've got to be kidding. I can't live off of $12 an hour. This one place I applied to wanted to pay me $7.5 and hour plus 3% commission. They told me I'd be making about $12 an hour. Yeah right! I know the area. I know the customers. I know exactly what I sell and who to. When I did the math, I'd be making about the same as where I am. I've got a year's worth of experience in jewerly sales and years in various other customer service jobs and you want me to work for minimum wage?

2. Get finances in order. Status: This, I'm doing good at. I've moved all my stocks over to WAMU, avoiding Merril's fees, fees and more fees. I'm reinvesting my dividends into other investments. I've closed my 0.25% interest savings account and opened a 4.5% one. I've invested money into a money market in which I will use to buy mutual funds. I'm living within my means and saving as much as I can. I'm using all the money I made during Christmas for investments.

3. Get more exercise. Status: Doing better. My weight bench rusted through and I have to get rid of it. I've looked online, but know one wants to sell a simple waste bench for under $80, even used. That and the weight bar ($50) plus the weights I'd buy would run me a lot of money. Instead, I have gravity and the ground (push-ups). I could use that money for investments...I've been biking a lot more than usual. When not raining, I'll bike to work. I need to get back on doing an hour a day on the trails, however, its been cold and rainly lately and will pick up when spring gets here.

4. Slow down the drinking. Status: Not so well. Since my hours have been reduced, I've needed something to do at nights. Though I'm only paying about 3 to 5 dollars a night. It adds up. I plan to drink every other night. Then only on weekends, etc. etc. I've stopped going out to the local bars.

5. Find a girlfriend. Status: Started, but no success. This is more like a year's task. I've gotten sick of the girls in this city, which are about as deep as half a glass of water and pretty much a waste of space, however, I will at least, try.

New, New Year's resolution.

This might be a new one. ABW. Always be working. Make sure I have little free time and take any and every small, odd job available, even if it's below my educational "Level". The more I make, the more I can invest for my future. One of my friend's is a manager at a local bar. I might check IDs there when he needs me.

That's what I told my son when informing about the "facts of life".

Lock and load.

Don't fire unless you're sure of the target.

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This is a family board. I think that Big Don's proving that.

So, you're expecting a kiss? What have you done for the BAUT lately?

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I'm implying no such thing. I know all I need to about Don's knives right now.

Now Tobin, to be fair, I only mentioned one.

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"The beauty of that discussion of averages is that you don't have to be an expert in Apollo or in photography in order to see where this time study "analysis" breaks down. You just have to be, well...not an idiot." -JayUtah

And since one is enough, he knows all he need to know

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"God bless thee, my son; I will give thee the greatest jewel I have ...
"The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible."Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

That sounds about right.

Oh, but I do have some cool ones.

And nothing that looks like a silly, half-assed, Klingon wanna-be. After that dumbassed Rambo movie every ig'nant redneck wanted a saw blade on the back of his knife. (Gee, a knife you can only use once before its stuck forever in whatever you poked it into.) But I did see a beautiful folding knife of a type I haven't seen before. The blade and handle are made out of some sky blue vari-colored metal (or alloy