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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2013 16:32:21 GMT -6
Um...yay?
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Jul 8, 2013 20:14:36 GMT -6
Yes yay. I haven't had any for two weeks. Both my computers staged a rebellion against me at the same time and I lost all my smiley faces, my spell checker and I couldn't post any videos. I had to erase everything in them and reboot them from the very beginning and I was up till 2am running scans and putting everything back in but I got everything fixed!! Now I am a happy man. I'm just going to sit over here and rest and be happy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2013 0:08:21 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2013 12:43:01 GMT -6
It's so nice to see someone so satisfied by something so simple Smile and be happy!
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Post by skywalker on Jul 9, 2013 16:33:53 GMT -6
I like when things work the way they are supposed to. It makes life so much more enjoyable.
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Post by skywalker on Jul 11, 2013 15:52:31 GMT -6
Check out this weird looking alien I met. His name is Skeeter. He was watching a baseball game. Whoever would have guessed that aliens like baseball? I guess it is the universe's past time as well as America's.
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Post by lois on Jul 13, 2013 21:00:04 GMT -6
Check out this weird looking alien I met. His name is Skeeter. He was watching a baseball game. Whoever would have guessed that aliens like baseball? I guess it is the universe's past time as well as America's. This is so funny. Was this in a dept. store?? Wonder who made him.
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Post by skywalker on Jul 13, 2013 21:32:06 GMT -6
He's the mascot of a baseball team called the Skeeters. That's Texas slang for mosquitos. While we were posing for the picture Skeeter was making this weird noise that went "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennn" kind of like a mosquito would sound. I thought it was kind of funny.
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Post by skywalker on Jul 25, 2013 19:32:59 GMT -6
I'm going fishing at the gulf. If you don't see me again it means I got chomped by a shark.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2013 21:49:02 GMT -6
Hopefully, it'd spit you back
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Post by lois on Jul 26, 2013 21:17:26 GMT -6
I'm going fishing at the gulf. If you don't see me again it means I got chomped by a shark. You know you could use bait to hook a shark. Then you would have one of these friends of yours with you always. You would have to build you a large pool. Have a nice time.
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Post by skywalker on Jul 26, 2013 21:46:15 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Jul 27, 2013 15:24:18 GMT -6
I normally don't talk about trips that I take unless they have something to do with UFOs or the paranormal but in this case I decided to make an exception. Since I was going fishing in the ocean and since there are sharks swimming around in the ocean and since I am constantly having nightmares about sharks I thought it might be interesting to see what happened. The type of fishing we were doing is what they call "wade fishing" which is where you are actually standing out in the water. That's not a good thing to be doing if there are sharks swimming around. I've been scuba diving in the ocean plenty of times without getting chomped so I was hoping the trend would continue. I have also gone fishing many times in my life and I have a tradition going with that too...they usually turn into disasters. Unfortunately that trend continued as well. The trip started typically enough when our friend who owns the boat overslept. He said he had set his alarm for 5am so we could get an early start...but he had actually set it for 5pm. Like I said...typical. When he was finally ready we got loaded up and headed out. We were fishing just off the coast near Rockport among the little islands and bays that dot the coast line and were planning to be out all morning so we took plenty of bait...which consisted of 120 little bitty fishies called croakers, which is like a big minnow. We put them in the live well on the boat to keep them alive. By the time we got out to the spot we were going fishing (about a thirty minute boat trip) half of them were dead because the aerator in the live well was broke. Typical. We anchored the boat about a quarter mile from shore where the water was about three feet deep and jumped in with our fishing gear. We hadn't been in the water more than a few minutes when one of my friends turned around and noticed the boat was floating away. The anchor had come loose and was just dragging on top of the mud. After a mad dash through waste deep water we were able to retrieve it before it sailed off alone on a Journey to South America. After that minor little fiasco we were finally able to get down to some fishing. I was understandably a little nervous about standing in the middle of the ocean not knowing what type of sharped-toothed horrors were swimming around my legs. After all the dreams I have had about being attacked my sharks I pretty much know what to expect...only in real life you don't wake up to find yourself sleeping in a nice warm bed. Luckily there were plenty of things to keep me occupied...starting when the handle came off of the reel I was using and dropped into the muddy water to never be seen again. I got another pole and on the first cast managed to wrap the line around everything in sight. The resulting knot took 30 minutes to untie. Finally I got everything untangled and cast the bait out again...only to have a seagull come swooping down and fly off with my minnow! Stupid seagull. That was pretty much the way the entire day went. We stood out there and baked in the 100 degree heat until our skin was a nice shade of purple. One by one our bait fish either got stole of the hook by sneaky fish or snatched out of the water by dive-bombing birds. Like I said, it was a typical fishing trip. With all of the distractions I had almost forgotten that I was standing in an ocean full of man-eating sharks. In fact, after the first few hours of not even seeing a fish I was almost convinced there was not a single living thing swimming in that entire ocean...and that was when something bit me on the ankle! "YEEEEAAAaauuuuggggghhhhh!!!!" I screamed thinking I was a dead man. My friends must have thought they were dead too because they suddenly whipped around and started lashing out with their poles like they were samurai swords desperately trying to fend off whatever it was that was attacking them. It wasn't attacking them though...just me. As I splashed wildly about in the water cussing up a storm the whatever it was let go and swam away. I quickly reached down to see if my foot was still there and was so relieved to see that it was that I was able to remember a few more cusswords that I had forgotten in all the excitement...so I used them too. I have no idea what it was that bit me. It must have just been some big dumb retarded fish who flunked out of fish school for not knowing the difference between a man and a minnow. It's teeth didn't leave any marks but it definitely took a few years off of my life. I thought I was a goner. Stupid fish. After the excitement had died down we went back to fishing. I kept glancing nervously over my shoulder expecting to see a fin slicing through the water towards me...and if I had I probably would have died from a heart attack right there. A shark wouldn't even need to attack me cause I would have just keeled right on over. In other words, I was definitely not having much fun. Luckily we were very rapidly running out of bait. Several of my friends headed back to retrieve the boat leaving my best buddy "Birdchuck" and I standing in waste-deep water a quarter of a mile away. Birdchuck is not really a big fan of the ocean either. He hates sharks and alligators just as much as I do and thanks to my recent heart-attack provoking episode I think he was just as nervous as I was. It shouldn't have been a surprise then that he spotted it first. "What the bleep is that?" he yelled. I turned around and saw that in the direction he was pointing there was a small dark triangle-shaped thingy coming towards us. It was a fin...and it was getting closer! "It's a fin!" I shouted. "It must be a shark!" "Holy bleep!" he said. The fin got closer. "It's getting closer!" I yelled, stating the obvious. Suddenly another one popped up even closer than the first. "There's another one! There must be a hundred of them!" "Get rid of the bait! Get rid of the bait!!" Birdchuck shouted. We quickly grabbed all of the remaining minnows that we had and started hurling them in all directions but that only seemed to make the fins speed up. "There coming for us!" I said. "Now we're doomed." Suddenly a huge wave smacked into the back of us splashing us with water. " BLEEP OF A BLEEP!! roared Birdchuck, grabbing me by the arm. "Aauuuuggghhh!! I yelled thinking I was being attacked by Jaws. Luckily it wasn't Jaws and it turned out to not even be a shark. It was just a pod of dolphins that happened to be cruising by. Our friends on the boat pointed that out to us when they finally got closer. "It's just a bunch of dolphins," they said laughing hysterically. "I don't care if it's Pamela Anderson," I replied, "Get me out of this bleeping ocean." Once we were all on board the boat we headed back in and drank a bunch of cold beers and just about died laughing about what had happened. And I admit, it is kind of funny now that I am safely on dry land. It wasn't all that hilarious at the time though. It's amazing how much a dolphin fin looks like a shark fin when you are standing in the water. I even know the difference between the two but at the time I couldn't have told you. My brain just kind of froze up. Anyway, that was our wonderful fishing trip. I didn't catch a single thing but I ended up with another story to tell. And the best news of all is that I managed to somehow live through the whole thing. That means I can go fishing at the ocean again...some time around the year 2099.
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Post by swamprat on Jul 27, 2013 17:43:25 GMT -6
Come on over Sky. I'll show you how to fish and keep your feet dry and catch something!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2013 17:59:09 GMT -6
Awwww sky I'm sorry your trip went so badly... ~hugz~ It was still an entertaining story... at least you got to spend some time with your friends and have a good laugh about it afterwards...
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Post by lois on Jul 27, 2013 20:57:39 GMT -6
Come on over Sky. I'll show you how to fish and keep your feet dry and catch something! All the way through sky's fishing story I thought I bet Paul is laughing his head off at this. I did not see your post. I had this fishing story at the top of my screen. Then I though Paul knows how to fish as I have seen his fish from the ocean in photos. What I cannot understand is why they think they have to go into the ocean. Sorry sky you had such a rough time of it.. I love to fish . Have fished with my Dad til I got married . Then my husband and I fished. We turned all four children into a fishermen. I could tell a lot of funny fishing trip escapades and none sounds as bad as yours. Glad you are back home in one peace. Even if you did not catch anything it was nice to get away I bet.
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Post by auntym on Jul 27, 2013 21:31:37 GMT -6
OMG...LOL... you're lucky you and your friend weren't eaten by bull sharks... they swim close to shore and in shallow water... ... and you out there with bait...
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Post by skywalker on Jul 27, 2013 22:21:00 GMT -6
This trip is typical for one of my fishing trips. This is what we call "fun."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2013 23:58:25 GMT -6
and I almost hate to ask, after such an adventure, but. . . . How did the Gulf look? Smell? Should you have seen more 'wildlife'? I hear rumors occasionally that the Gulf is still having problems after that oil spill. I figure you being a Texan, you would know. . .
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Post by skywalker on Jul 29, 2013 10:51:36 GMT -6
It looked pretty healthy to me, Jc. We saw a lot of birds including seagulls, brown pelicans and a few cranes, plenty of fish jumping all over the place, a pod of dolphins and a turtle. I also saw some weird looking thing that looked like a catfish head with no body. It swam by me and was moving his mouth so it was definitely alive. I have no idea what it was though. There were deer and wild hogs along the shore and plenty of oysters clinging to the rocks. It all looked and smelled pretty much the way it always has.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2013 11:11:19 GMT -6
Yay!! Glad to hear it! (and I'm sorry your fishing trip wasn't a different kind of fun ) Thanks!
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Post by skywalker on Aug 2, 2013 10:06:34 GMT -6
My smiley faces are gone again.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2013 14:24:21 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Aug 2, 2013 18:34:13 GMT -6
Sure, Jo...kick an illiterate computer dude when he's down. (rolly-eyed dude would go here if I had a rolly-eyed dude)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2013 22:05:03 GMT -6
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Aug 10, 2013 21:13:42 GMT -6
My computer is about to install some new Windows updates...which means it will probably quit working again. It always does whenever they give me these stupid updates. We'll see what happens.
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Post by skywalker on Aug 10, 2013 21:41:36 GMT -6
OMG my computer still works. The updates are finished and I can still type stuff. I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2013 11:39:19 GMT -6
Remind me, what brand of computer are you using these days? My parents bought a new laptop for my son for graduation. They didn't listen to my advice, and got him a ___________________. He's already needed someone to work on it .
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2013 19:31:08 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Aug 12, 2013 20:06:22 GMT -6
Remind me, what brand of computer are you using these days? My parents bought a new laptop for my son for graduation. They didn't listen to my advice, and got him a ___________________. He's already needed someone to work on it . I have both a Gateway and a Toshiba. When one breaks I switch to the other so I can keep getting on the internet, otherwise I would be away from the forum so many times you guys would probably forget who I was.
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