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And we can't forget Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, who drove a series of hot cars (well, you can argue that a Karmann Ghia wasn't quite "hot") including one of my personal favorites, the Sunbeam Tiger:
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Ed
Juice: congrats to you, Lana and your new son.
Now back to reading the hundreds of posts since I last checked in!
Steve
..Mike
..Mike
Pat
Sedans Host
I did not, however, quit drinking... so 'clink'!
Cyber hugs to Mom & big sis, too!
Cheers! (Martinelli's if you prefer)
Paul
and Ed, nice tribute! good finds.
-Colin
Ed (uses Martinelli's wide-mouth bottles for change jars)
Serge, Susan, Michael, and Dina Ferrari Superfast American Dog
P.S. Get him a real dog!(j/k)
Don
Thanks for asking!
Don
Bob
Ken
Congratulations on the new arrival. And to Maxwell Charles, welcome to this world!
Steve
Michael
Senna would have been a great name. My dad wanted an "Airton the 3rd", but they keep confusing our credit for one another, so we chose a unique name.
So far I've taken Sandy on every trip to the hospital (raining, so AWD pays off once again). I'm home with Tati at night. We will pick him up with Lucky, though. That's where the infant seat will be.
A virtual cigar to all, and a glass of bubbly too!
You got it, paisan. I can't wait 'til they're old enough to go camping and stuff. We could do a weekend in the Pine Barrens, something like that.
We call him "Charlie", but MC juice, Max, Mini Me, any of those are fine with me. :-)
His diapers smell more or less like used gear oil, LOL.
Lana is still large and in charge, but Charlie is loud and proud!
Don: glad to hear Marianne is back on the horse, if you'll allow.
Steve: glad you feel better. Back at work, already? yuck.
-juice
Bob
Jim
Heartfelt congratulations to all the new and repeat parents here. Parenthood is a great thing, makes it all worthwhile.
Here's hoping all the little ones and their mom's and dad's are doing well.
Sorry, but I really have to stay "heads down" for a few more weeks... sigh... have to prove that this new site actually will work when we turn it loose into the wild...
Best of luck everybody. I'll try to drop in now and again.
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juice, your Road Warrior DOES have a bit of hair! Tati looks so proud. Thanks for taking thet time to post the photo.
..Mike
..Mike
Steve (fibber2), glad to hear you're up and around. Too bad it has to be at work! Take care.
Jim
Mark
She was very helpful in explaining to me why the 5 qts of Redline tranny/rear diff fluid I provided was not fully used up. When they do a replace of the fluids, they just drain what they can and refill. They say to do a complete flush and fill would take too long. (Something about having to take apart the tranny to fully drain and refill.)
She could not say enough about you, and the great job you do for SOA. I in turn told her how you help out the people here at Edmunds who have difficulties with their Subies.
Mark
No need to drive yourself to the edge.
The Bank will be the same, MBNA. The only missing link is what this new program is.
We'll all find out in 4 days.
-Dave
Rick
We also had them exchange gifts to each other, and we let her help get his diaper, pacifier, etc. We do not keep her away, to not provoke any jealous feelings.
Thanks to all for the moral support, I'll need it since I no longer get any sleep! ;-)
Lucky indeed brought her home safely - once again in the pouring rain. The forecast was for a sunny Saturday and Sunday, but juice washed all 3 cars for the home coming, so suddenly there was 100% chance of rain. I should have called the meteorologists to correct them.
-juice
Just call 'em up someday & ask them to shovel the six inches of partly cloudy out of your driveway!
Glad to hear the adjustment is going well, Juice... same thing worked for us... provide the siblings with part "ownership" and they take accountability of the duties & responsibilities - and you can see the glow from here!
Cheers!
Paul
:-)
I do like the OCD explanation though.
Ross
The Juice and Lana strategy of introducing big sister/baby brother was applied in this household six years ago today. Certainly it seems to have worked as Tamsin has always been a very proud big sister and Angus a very impressed baby brother. It's amazing what mutual respect achieves, even when the kids are very small.
Cheers
Graham
Cheers,
..Mike
..Mike
Yeah, happy b-day. What cool Aussie names, too.
On another topic, how's that job search going?
-juice
When my second came along, we did much the same thing to prevent jealousy and resentment. It worked quite well. However, now that they are a teen and a pre-teen, that mutual respect has disappeared. Hopefully they will find it again before one of us moves out. ;-)
The idea was that she'll be too old to be jealous, and that she'll be babysitting her baby brother. The 1st assumption worked, but the 2nd failed miserably. One good thing is that there seems to be a lot in common between teenager's mind and toddler's one... so in a sense we have 2 kids of about the same age :-)
Cheers Pat.
PS. I check this thread for this news specificly.
Actually Juice's suggestion that our kids have Good Aussie Names is a bit wide of the mark, Angus being Scottish and Tamsin the Cornish version of Thomasina. Both were born in England and we cast around for uncommon names which would be acceptable whether they wound up as street sweepers or merchant bankers. Neither are common here but we loved the names and thought they matched the kids although I really wanted to call Angus "Kit" as a contraction of Christopher.
Today has been a "names day" with the kids asking about their ancestors and me pulling out the family tree so Tamsin can do some homework for her Religious Instruction class. Here in Australia, we have fiercely protected freedom of religion with no state codified religion.
However, most schools offer Religious Instruction as a minor subject, focusing on moral behaviour. This is generally Christian although if the school has another slant, it might be Moslem or Buddhist or Jewish. One of the amusements of life here is that frequently the most interested students of R.E. are those from different, or non existent, faiths - I guess it is the contrast!
The necessity to retell the names of the ancestors has been revealing as our family's culture is mixed, predominately from the British Isles. What's really telling is the way that names that are popular change over time. My grandmothers were called Agnes and Estelle, both names which have slipped happily into disuse. My grandfathers were Frank and Lionel, both markedly less popular today.
Of course, names of people are not the only ones that have changed over time. I called on my nephew in his student house (considerably more hygienic than when I was a student - they actually had clean cups) yesterday to find they had been playing the silly names game. You probably did it yourself when you were students, putting together the name of your first pet and the street where you first lived. For me that gives Dusty Hazelwood which is dramatically less silly than many others. My nephew's is Jala Fairview.
Now the extension of this is the names your parents had for their cars when you were kids. My father had a succession of "Willy" 1,2,3 showing a lamentable lack of creativity. The fact that each tended to move onto another family member became confusing. It has probably marked me for life as I have refused to name my cars other than "The Outback" etc.
So, just how silly were the names your folks called the family car and are yours any better?
Cheers
Graham
Ubert Cecil
Not sure of the origin, as he died when I was 12. He became a father late in life, as he was 55 when I was born.
With that in mind I'm sure, since I'm now 57, that my father is/was by far the oldest father of any "Crew" member. He was born in 1889, and fought in WW I in the Canadian Army. I've got pictures of him in uniform, on horseback in France! I doubt many—if any here can top that...
Bob
-Colin
Bob
No job yet, South Florida is dead...I will be taking some web courses at a local vo-tech school...E-commerce, HTML, Frontpage, Java Script, and a friend is going to teach me Dreamweaver.
I think (actually know) the market for people with skills like you mentioned is quite saturated. People with work experience are having trouble getting jobs or at least near the pay they expect, and people with no work experience are really hurt.
Does the vo-tech teach anything about IT security? That might be useful. Work experience would help there too of course...
Bob,
But you seem young enough to me! You should get an ST1300. (people who don't follow the Cafe are really lost now.)
-Colin
Ed