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 A lovely juvenile hawk - passed by him/her within walking distance of our home today as the storm front was starting to move in. We only had a cell phone camera but as you see it was a dramatic and wondrous vision - perhaps if I master GIMP I'... more
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 Short episodic stories about Taxis and taxi drivers in the sleepy hours of the very early morning, they are not interconnected in any other way;each takes place in a major modern city. Most of the stories are not worth much. The L.A. and New York... more
WELL, well, well - So, Nostradamus, dear sir, another ' on the money' call! Its happening just as you said all those centuries ago. Exactly right - and the Antichrist alive at this time and who is he?? God help us ALL! How short lived was the... more
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| Start: | Aug 28, '08 2:30p | | Location: | Stacy Kanda's office |
Ouch. go. Walk and don't be scared this time!
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Oh no way, I can totally see you on a farm Kathy. Maybe even on a farm in times past with you at a coal burning fire, sewing a rug for in front of the hearth. Warming up at the fire from being outside checking on the sheep as they lamb. Yes, I can easily see that in you.
Glad you're thumb is going to be OK. Sucks when you have a hurt hand, seems like all you do is bump the sore one no matter what you do.
Went to my aunt's farm yesterday, she has the same kind of dogs (komondor) and what a day we had. I took some pics of her goats, including a 3-legged one she has. She said she was at the livestock auction looking for goats and saw this little fella, merely a small scared baby with 3 legs, poor thing tugged at her heart. No one was bidding on her so she immediately felt her arm go up to bid. You'd never know it was handicapped, makes it around with no trouble. We think it may have gotten frost bitten when it was born.
Anyhow, hope you have a good day. OH weather? Its raining (we need it) but chilly, in the mid 50's right now at about 7am. I like this weather, the cool days of autumn are coming. |
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Sounds like your thumb is under control.
The seeping? Not sure but long as you have someone look at it. No redness or heat and I wouldn't worry too much.
I agree with you about nature. Its not always perfect and not always pretty but thats the beauty of it. Unpredictable and never the same BUT nature always does follow patterns. Its breath taking to see hawks and large animals doing what they do, surviving. My parents have seen a bald eagle in their area, YES OHIO! They have seen is 3 times now, I've gone to the area and haven't seen it but do wish someday to get lucky enough. Mom says the beak and talons are so large you can see them even when they eagle is in flight far away.
Nature is a wonderous thing. When I was a kid, I was in the field with my cows (yes animal lover all my life) and had deer walk right up to me. They didn't let me touch them nor did I try but to be that close and not have them fearful will stay with me forever. They just did their thing, eating and swooshing their tails. 5 feet seperated us, I saw their beautiful liquid eyes, the stick like legs, even the flies on their heads. lol. It was awesome.
Well, I'm off for the day. Going to my new puppy's "moms" house. Gonna try and get some pics of the working dogs she has there in her field. What a site, just as they were bred to do hundreds of years ago in Hungary. Even the Magyars had them (sorta like atilla the hun kinda people).
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Hows the hand doing? Healing well? |
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AHH. but remember, dogs walk with their owners. I have lost more than 10 pounds since I got the puppy. I'll bet its closer to 20 pounds but I haven't weighed myself for 2 weeks. LOL. He is truely a handful but worth every minute.
I think we covered this before, it takes all kinds of people and all kinds of pets. How boring of a world this would be if people only had black labs.
Anyhow, glad to hear your finger will be ok. I am also very proud of you for not using peroxide, not many people know its a "no no" now. TAO (triple antibiotic ointment) is best after a thorough washing. When I had my bone infection, still in nurses school to boot, my home nurse who came and dressed the ports in my neck (for IV antibiotics) swore by cleaning wounds with soap and water. She told me off horror stories, bed sores that were healed with soap and water and TLC. I carried that with me into my nursing career and even today I use that practice when applicable.
OHHHH 2 more days, eh?!?!?!?!? |
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 Girly Comments & GraphicsThere ys go, since you have to endure my dogs on my page, here's some cats for ya :) Wow, I checked out some bike apparel. They really go all out now-a-days. Its not just leather jackets anymore! |
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hahahahahahahahahah ok he caught me. I am smirking as I read. hahhaah.
Hey, one thing. Why wait for the perfect weight for your leathers? Seize the moment, enjoy life and at least go and splurge on yourself. It could be a catalyst for you to even lose more weight as you ride on the back of that bike in your leathers. You could probably even sew the leather yourself as you lose more weight, take it in inch by inch. |
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You may have trouble riding them motorcycles Kathy, but maybe you rode some BIG warhorses back in them previous lives eh? It's ok, i've been reading the comments on Stacie's page. Hell! If she can be a nosy parker, i've got a licence to do so right? Ha, ha, ha. Perhaps she'll be eavesdropping later on eh? Stacie! You reading this???
I always thought them BMW's were technically engineered well? Perhaps i,m wrong. I must say though i'm no fan of BMW, that goes for their cars too.
Yes, i like our little conversations too, little probably being an understatement eh? I find all of what you say so interesting and i feel that the quest for knowledge is made much more solid by keeping an open mind... As you would agree there is much in this world that we do not understand, things we cannot begin to explain.
My dad told me you know " Not to attempt to try to practise out of the body experiences or Astral projection. He said it was dangerous. As far as i know he's never read books or anything on the subject. Because of his experiences, he just knows... Anyway... I have tried it on a few occasions, but with no luck( Is it not the way when someone says dont do something, you do?) I have felt a sort of lightening feeling as i lie in bed, as if i,m drifting towards the ceiling. When i start to feel this i feel a sort of elationthat its beginning to work, and thats when it goes to pot! I remember waking up one night and i did not know where i was. I seemed to be in an underground chamber, a place with lighted torches on the walls, it were really gloomy. I felt a bit panicked, disorientated as well. I knew i should be in my bedroom, yet i was'nt! suddenly the familiar outlines of the room swam into focus.
What you say about these ghosts wanting to experience the joys of the living... Yes, i've heard that too. I've also heard that they can be directly invited too. I've heard some weird stories of how a mans or womans body is experienced by a entity, so they might experience the joys of sex as well. I think these this place/ dimension is all around us, but we can't see them and vice versa, yet sometimes certain circumstances can open a chink up. I think it is to do with our brains, how we perceive. Its like a receiver that gets knocked and darts on to another frequency or something.
Saying that an head injury can bring on these awareness skills. It jogged my memory. My dad DID have a bad head injury as a young teenager. He bashed his head on some scaffolding and to this day, the back of his head has a dent in it. I remember him having a haircut once and it looked very pronounced. We all mentioned it how flattened the head looked there. My dads had a few accidents if i remember right, being knocked over too.
I read a news article this evening on the Daily Mail website. Apparently a man had an head injury... Somehow the brain rewired itself and now he's a successful artist. It seems that there are many talents in us all, undiscovered, just waiting to be bridged and connected up, a bit like putting a fuse in i suppose to bridge a gap.
What you say about courage on the battlefield and in your life. I remember a newspaper article about an old soldier who had fought in WW2. He was railing against the violent youths of today, how youngsters form into gangs and think themselves hard, because they get into fights. This old soldier scoffed. He said " Hard! Who are they kidding? I'll tell you whats hard.... It's living a responsible life, sticking up for whats right, looking after the weak and needy, bringing up your children to have respect for themselves as well as others, keeping yopur family together and not running when the going gets tough. These punks dont have a clue what hard is..." Of course, he was talking about moral courage and his words had an impact on me. Moral courage can give you the kind of courage you need on a battlefield, when you feel that you are fighting for a just cause.
Did you know that out of every hundred soldiers say, only maybe twenty or thirty see actual combat at the front? The world of the rear is the real face of war to most. A german soldier going on a train to the Eastern front in WW2 recalls that when the train pulled in at the front it were nearly empty.
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"Complete and thorough sentences".hahahaha. I try to convey what I want to get across with the least amount of words possible. It started when I became a nurse. Those nurses notes have to be specific, accurate, and so professional.It gets tiring. So, my way of writing outside of work has suffered because of it. I hardly even do CAPS on the beginning of some sentences on here. I'll work on it :) hehehe.
I haven;'t been on a bike much. When I was younger, I had friends with Harley's and we went to Daytona on them. Actually we didn't even make it to Daytona, stopped half way and went to a closer beach. Our butts hurt and we were wore out. Weekend warriers I suppose. It was fun though. Brings back memories. |
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Are you out of breath from that last message Kathy? heheheh. I know you and Dean have so much to talk about. Interesting stuff, I always find myself reading your two messages to each other. Quite a varied conversation happens in your guestbook. Anything from outer space to dinosaurs (my personal favorite, of course) to Harleys, ghosts, weather, and what-nots.
Anyhow, I'm glad you finally are having the summer you were wanting so badly. Its nice to shed those sweaters for some tshirts, eh? I can not complain one bit. We have had mid eighty days with low humidity, even at work it was enjoyable. I got a few of the residents out of the building for long walks (in their wheelchairs) but even though some can't talk, you can tell they enjoyed it. Most days I don't have time for sure activities but it was slow and the day was beautiful.
A new bike possibility? do tell more.
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I'm having the 'not much leisure time' problem, myself, Dean - Leon and I won't have a vacation until '09 -- maybe this time NEXT year - both of our birthdays are coming up and we usually try to take at least a week off during one of them but we don't get one this year. Neither of us are really tired as such but it is impossible to refuel the body when Monday keeps rolling in - 2 days is no time at all and I usually have to do some work both days.
I wish I could get some specifics about that Greek soldier (my curiosity) - memories concerning him were stronger in my teen years - and, something I've never forgotten --- when I was a very little child 5 - 7 (and forgive me if I am repeating myself, here.) I would take all the marbles I owned and I would make them into nice little formations and slowly march my army of marbles around the dining room floor - it was a block formation and there was a captain 'riding' next to each block ! I had dreams back then too, that were very scary for a child. Even as an adult I have a lot of stray images that I can't identify.. dreams, for instance, that might be metaphors or past lives .. or, who knows? maybe both. My family would ask me what I was doing and I told them -- marching my army! Knowing me as I do - I probably was a trouble maker - the first one to attack, even then, but being a troublemaker might be a good thing when you are fighting the Persian army. I am a fool-hearty even as a demure woman. I say things I should not, jump in with both feet when patience is wiser, refuse to compromise my morals & philosophy for any reason, jump to conclusions rather too easily. Drive my friends away with my outspoken intensity, etc, etc. But, you know, at nearly 57 I am beginning to believe accepting my true nature is a kindness to ME !!
I remember reading/hearing that when they were cleaning Alexander's body at the end he had not one scar on his back.. they were all on his front. If that isn't the definition of a brave man I don't know what would be.
Now, though - it's my Christian lives - the last 2000 years that I am coming to terms with, a lot of pain, suffering and grief - time to tie off some threads in my soul's tapestry. I think one of the problems with the Greek life is that there is so much that has pasted since it ... I've been that soldier, a Roman knight (carried a short sword, not sure if I ever actually fought in a military capacity. ) and a knight in the very early decades of what we call the Middle Ages - that is William. What happens is that similar lives seem to overlay each other. Remember those plates in old anatomy books of the various levels of human anatomy ? that is what my lives are like. When exactly did I carry that wonderful short sword, for instance? When did I fight up in the mountains and receive that wound in my thigh? When did I stand on a flight of stairs and refuse the invaders entrance, hence saving "MY people" -- what do I mean by 'blood flowing down the stairs', exactly? When did I sit on a horse and admire the scenery of a lush, green valley on a sunny, warm day?
I feel that my soul is a ball of yarn in the paw of a kitten that is unwinding this lifetime, time to settle accounts (karma) and clear the debris of centuries, come to terms with the past and grow past it all. Odd thing about me... I've been a priest or nun even more often than a knight or soldier, another thing to note (and been a trouble maker in most of them, also.) --- I remember lives when I need to understand why I am the way I am -- it's in the service of growing into a mature soul -- so I don't know consciously all my lives, just the ones that effect this one directly - sometimes just one image, one feeling can be all that I can access for an entire life when the life isn't all that important to my ultimate nature & fate -- I know one thing for sure, though - the last 14-16 lives are rather important to me -- repairing the damage done by some rather unpleasant people.
All the elements in my soul can be a real source of strength, for instance, I can call upon my fine knightly self for courage when I need it. This is the power of what is now called archetypes. When you know where and who you've been you know what you are capable of -- what the circumference of your soul really is -- I am not only Kathy, the housewife and happily married woman - all those past lives are in me as I was in them as a potentiality. Another thought - courage on the battlefield and courage intellectually, spiritually and emotionally is all ONE courage - as Buddha pointed out and as Christ pretty much lived throughout his life.
I can't tell you how often I've read/heard that some head injury brings on psychic/spiritual awareness... or that dying (for a few moments) or nearly dying can change a person in very surprising ways. Your dad's soul flights (the modern term is "out of body experience" or OBE" is very normal among those of us who have spiritual experiences as a normal part of our lives - something we try to develop. I still can't do it willfully (even after a lifetime of trying) but it does happen to me... often accidentally; illness, stress, worry, even new surroundings can cause it. I did it as a newly wed in that trailer we were living in, for instance - and, at least, once to escape pain - and, another time when I was backpacking up in the mountains of Virginia when Leon and I were young. I have (had?) a spiritual guardian who pushed me back into my body that time and told me in no uncertain terms that it was a very bad idea. Leon has soul traveled also from time to time.
Sometimes things become a cliche because that is actually HOW things are... the tunnel and light have been reported throughout history by human beings since - well, a very long time. Things are not as certain and definable in the spiritual realms ... it's sometimes hard to be sure How things work/are ... but when the people keep repeating something over centuries, my guess is that it is how things really are. Perhaps expectation and mind effect soul-perceptions, also - the old joke about there being a Buddhist, Christian, Mormon, Jewish heaven (s)... we go where we think we should go?
A thought about misbehaving in our stupid youths... we all do some, most of us survive to tell the tale, some of us do not - a wise man said that if we were all punished for the things we did in youth as we deserve we would all end up hanging from a rope - not an exact quote but close enough. The most intelligent of us learn from our mistakes and put the really stupid things on the long list of things NOT to do!
The person/entity you saw may have been a ghost or a spirit -- here's something to contemplate if you are ever tempted to over do such things, again... alcohol and drugs (even the legal kind!) can cause such experiences -- they can also attract unpleasant entities to become very interested in you-- think about all the people who have died of overdose of various substances... there are no drugs in what we all the Astral plane (the plane of consciousness immediately beyond this one.. sort of the 'red light' district of eternity) so what do they do??? visit the living who are indulging - they can even inhabit a vacated body for a few minutes and enjoy their bad habits, once again. You had opened yourself to the astral plane -- dangerous if you don't know what is happening - its as easy to be a victim there as it is anywhere in this world -- all those weird sounds and the ankle being pulled - classic ghost visit - ghosts are consciousnesses that are lost - they can't go forward and they can't return (reincarnate) until they do go forward into eternity. Could it have been a guardian? But up but that corner thing makes me think a ghost..
One thing about the spiritual planes... best if you are aligned to either the light or (God forbid!) the darkness. Being unaligned is asking for trouble.
I have a theory about the nature of the universe based in part of what I have read over the years, part of my experiences, part of intuition .. that everything is vibration - vibrating.. and spiritual atoms are just more subtle forms of matter and what we call matter are just heavy/grosser forms of spirit. We are a spiritual energy - a spark - that stays together - coherent whether in or out of a body... and What I call the astral plane is similar to the dimensions that science now speaks of.. and that someday we will really know that what I have spoken of in this letter - or what you spoke of ... isn't "supernatural" - its fully natural - and how the universe/cosmos/multi-verse, really works -- its just that spiritual nature has been separated from physical matter in our world-view at this time in our evolution. Someday it might not be so and we will understand the cosmos a lot more than we do.
As I keep saying "The ALL is ONE and the ONE is ALL" (there is.)
Is there anything supernatural ..? I think even God is natural - he is one with his creation, but also, well, the end of this universe won't be HIS/HER end (He is actually both because he holds in himself attributes of what is identified as masculine or feminine, and, yep, that is the Kabbalah..) I wish English would have a set of pronouns and adjectives just for God, by the way - not sure I am pantheist, though... I think in terms of consciousness.. awareness, coherent existence beyond the flesh... being the underlying truth of the universe. Another word defines me better - panentheist. I think those of us who have the spiritual fully active in our natures.. have just opened other senses that science doesn't acknowledge, yet - I don't know if science can ever experiment and prove my theory but I don't think that matters much in the grand scheme of things .. I can be both spiritual and scientific in my own mind/soul/spirit even the rest of the world isn't.
I'll reply to other aspects of your post later... I have to go to the grocery store while Leon is out on his ride.
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You are right Kathy, tests do prove nothing. All they prove is, is that one has swotted up over a certain time. Seldom is the knowledge retained once the examination is past, save perhaps if you need it for a job, ect.
it strikes me how people from "well to do" backgrounds generally academically achieve better than their less well of counterparts. To my mind being wealthy means you have greater resources to begin with, not because they are any more intelligent, despite what elitists would say. School tutors also favour students from better of backgrounds too, perhaps because they are are more likely to succeed. I myself noticed this at school, how the better of kids received far more attention from the tutors. Society obviously favours the wealthy. Yet this is how civilisation has progressed, pushing on those more likely to succeed, even if it does seem harsh.
Just think how many peoples lives are shaped, just by their background circumstances. Saying this some of the most successful people in life, including immortalised people fropm history come from humble backgrounds. They have to work harder, getter where they are through sheer determination and talent. Charles Darwin's school tutor called him a dunce. Albert Einstien's, told him that he would never amount to anything. Winston Churchill was not noted for his academic achievements, while Napoleon was never top of the class, yet goes down in history as possessing one of the greatest minds ever.
It also strikes me civilisation is getting more elitist. Increasingly women will only date a man if he earns over a certain figure, over the minimum height ect, despite all their claptrap about love and romance. Some couples are even willing to take things further, wanting to choose the sex of their child, and physical characteristics You must have seen the film "Gattaca" 60 years ago we were fighting the Nazis, repulsed by their master race philosophy... Here we are on the cusp of doing the same thing again. Have we learned nothing?
The overall vast majority of the worlds population live in daily stuggle, poverty, struggling to survive. How many geniuses die undetected, unfound.People that could greatly benefit mankind, but pass from the cradle to the grave because they are born in the wrong place and the wrong time. Perhaps a young infant living in Africa possesses the cure for cancer, fusion power. Who knows?
I,m struck by walking past ordinary people in our day to day lives, wandering who we might be in different circumstances, given a chance. Pehaps someone to benefit mankind, maybe a potential Hitler given the conditions.
I must say that i am working class background, indded being working class myself. I left school with little in the way of formal qualifications, yet stupid i am not! School was,nt the right enviroment for nme and i've learnt more since i left, than i could have hoped in a hundred years at school. I love books, libraries, just like you. I'm saddened that they are disappearing from the world as the internet takes hold. a shame really because the printed word is infinitely superior to the digital form, being so much more detailed than the net. No one young wants to read now amongst the young. If they do its a biography of a teen band or some other minor celebrity.Famous now perhaps, but forgotten in their lifetime. They dont want to read about history, heroes such as Churchill, Joan of Arc, Washington, Alexander the Great. It's such a shame with them possessing such trivial imaginations, it's no wonder the space race has declined in interest.
I have heard of Linux, the first time being over a decade ago. It was a magazine article, a interview with it's founder. I heard how it was developed to be much more user friendly than windows, enabling it's users to programme it. I also remember microsoft feeling very threatened by this, that their dominance was being challenged..
Courage, honour, bravery. i might add chivalry too. these are fine ideals. No wonder you were a footsoldier in Alexander army. Alexander possessed these in abundance, winning many of his battles by going straight at the enemys strongest point, throwing his enemies off balance. No wonder Darius fled when Alexander at the head of his companions rode straight towards him! Alexander led from the front exposing himself to danger and being wounded several times. This in sharp contrast to generalship today where the orders are given remotely. No wonder the footsoldier today disrespects his superiors. Alexanders soldiers loved him for sharing the dangers, the hardships of campaign with them. They would die for him because they understood that he was willing to die for the cause too. As well as this he was a organiser and administrator, seeing to his soldiers needs.
You must have been a soldier of some note, being personally known to one of his lieutenants. Alexander too may have witnessed some noble action on the field of battle and had been reflecting on this when he covered you with the red cloak. I feel that the slain were held in great honour in Macedonian society, much like the vikings.
some years ago when i was young and stupid i became intoxicated by drink while staying in a quest house on a lads weekend. Luckily a friend shared the room with me and in the early hours heard me retching violently, yet i was virtually comatose. He managed to bring me round, sticking me under a shower. He told me after that if i'd been alone i might have suffocated by what i was bringing up.... When i got home i lay on my bed exhausted. I had a wierd dream, it felt so vivid and i felt hands pulling me, on my ankle. I woke up panicked with the sensation still with me. I woke again that night, hearing whisperings, wailings and such in my ears. I also was paralysed, not being able to move a muscle. A man, i think it was a man stood in the gloom beside my bed looking down at me. you can understand that my heart was hammering! Eventually the figure seemed to retreat back into the corner of the room. My eyes followed it's retreat and it was long moments before i moved. When i told my friend about this, he joked saying. " perhaps it was the grim reaper or a guardian angel, as you could have died if i had not been in the room with you. It certainly got me thinking!!
I,m one of 3 children, being 2 years older than my sister and 4 years older than my brother and my dad told me that when we were all kids he left his body and pproceeded to visit us all in our rooms, just to check on us. He says he felt a strange panic then, that he had to get back else he would find doing this difficult. He still maintains this happened to this day and i nbelieve him. He's not the lieing type.
He also says that when he was a young lad he was helping someone move house and he lost his footing coming down the stairs with a wardrobe. He was knocked cold. He maintains that he felt himself going down a tunnel ( i know, it's cliched) towards a warm light. He maintains that it was such a beautiful feeling and he wanted to continue. I asked him what happened and he says what saved him was the fact that he lost control of his bladder and the shock of this brought him out of it. Again, i believe him. He's so obstinate in maintaining these things did happen.
I have not visited the IL2 site and seen leons forums, but i will do. I did in fact take a risk and bought FSX. It runs quite smoothly at a respectable rate on my PC. On the microsoft FLX site you can download a service fix pack 1 for the program which has been developed with performance issues in mind. I also went into the graphics card properties and selected the global settings for the program too.
Theres more i want to write but this is a long writeup as it is, so i'll leave you with this and enable you to digest it for now...maybe do another one in the early part of next week.
The weekends here, so much to do that i dont get the chance to in the week. Cut the grass, wash the car, clean all the conservatory windows. theres not much lesuire time thats for sure!
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Hiya Kathy... I have made note of your most excellent response, having found it very informative and i am actually inthe process of writing a counter respose that should reach you in a day or too.
I have not forgotten you.. NO WAY!
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Hello my good friend Kathy. I love writing these messages for you as you seem to be very much into the same things as I, and that is good. You are blessed with your husband as he seems quite intellectual too and i think you both have interesting, stimulating and intellectual conversations. Many relationships fall flat because they do not have this.
over the last few days i took heed of what you said about Microsofts Flight simulator X. I have read similar things on the net too and feel that i'd be treading on safer ground with the 2004 version. Thats the beauty of IL-2 Sturmovik, it runs so smooothly and the graphics are fantastic. I have a dual processor, vista machine and a Nvidia Geforce 7950GT graphics card, and this game runs better than Microsofts CFS3, which is jerky. Another game your husband might like is Silent Hunter 4 which has absolutely beautiful graphics. It is a world war 2 submarine sim and you can attack battleships such as the mighty japanese Yamato. The graphics truly are excellent and the thrill of seeing your torpedoes ram home is priceless. If he has'nt got it, he should.
Like you, its amazing that you think of the very greatest comebacks only when the moment has past and it is too late. It's all about timing. And yes, sometimes i've been known to deliver spontaneous one liners that has won the day. I think it's a matter of somehow relaxing, not trying too hard. Sometinmes you can think too hard and you can not think, yet the idea runs into your brain without thinking. almost like the subconcious inside us, which i believe is the seat of genius, passes it to the concious side. I reckon this subconcious side is an intuitive side of us, the instinct, but also the side of us we dont trust much. Therefore in our day to day lives we find it locked up.
I find that interesting about your reincarnation comments and about being a footsoldier in Alexanders army. If one makes an effort to look there is a ship load of evidence that seems to support reincarnation. It all just seems to be closed down by the sceptics when it hits the news. I'm not sure which way i turn on this but i certainly dont rule it out, believing that an open mind is the way forward. Soldiers do love generals, albiet very successful ones. It does'nt matter so much about their negative qualities, as long as they are winners. All successful generals are masters of charisma too, as well as being adept at the arts of propaganda. They know all the tricks of promoting themselves. Napoleon had a saying. " In order to galvanise a man, you must speak to their soul" He certainly could do this. His soldiers would follow him everywhere. Even on the retreat from Russia the soldiers would say " We're cooked, but Vive l'Empereur the same!" Even after Waterloo the soldiers aclaimed in and on his journey to exile in the South atlantic island of Saint-Helena, he virtually, completly won over the English crew of the ship he sailed on.
Napoleon knew full well the risks he took invading Russia, and he spent months beforehand reading uop accounts of previous expeditions that had failed. He could find nothing that would encorage him that the expedition would succeed. Napoleon's ambition though was to be remembered as history's greatest general and if he succeeded in Russia, he would certainly be that. England in all likelihood would have fell too. Napoleon knew the risks. He weighed up the odds and took a great gamble, with his Empire at stake. By 1812 however Napoleon had been living the soft pampered life on the throne. He seems to have momentarily lost his instinct for war. If he had invaded in his prime, the glory years of 1805- 07, history might have been different. His other mistake was assuming that because Russia was so vast, a vast army was needed to conquer it. He would have done far better with a smaller army. As well as well as being easier to supply, it would have been easier to control. Great general that Napoleon was he could not control such a vast force personally. Even though Napoleon failed, i think that ironically during the retreat he started to come back into his own again. It is said that the Emperor Napoleon was a lesser general than had been General Bonaparte. There is much truth to this, as he also had to tend to affairs of the state too on campaign.
After 1812 he peformed miracles. In 1813 victory was snatched from him because he did not have the cavalry to exploit his victories. It having been ruined in Russia. In 1814 vastly outnumbered, he ran rings around the allies around eastern France, but he was one man.
Succesful war to me is all about speed. Moving quicker than your enemies. No time to procrastinate. The germans did this in the early stage of WW2. They threw their adversaries off guard and won victories. Hitler became obsessed with super heavy panzers, such as the Tiger tanks and the even heavier King tigers. These panzers as well as being slow and cumbersome were fuel drinkers. No wonder the Ardennes offensive in 1944 was such a failiure! Hitler would have done better to have kept to light, speedy panzers. The heavy panzers including the famous tiger were great defensive tanks, but for offensive operations.......He turned his back on the principles of Blitzkrieg that won him much of Europe in the early years.
This is what i will do in Russia. Attempt to move as swiftly as i can with my lighter units, seizing key points. Sure i will consolidate positions, but linger i will not. Once momentum is made it MUST be maintained at all costs. Once momentum is lost, it's over. Sure supply and communications play a part but keep the force smallish and mobile.
Your novel sounds very interesting and i'd love to read it. It's no mean feat writing a novel based on war, having to research things is a must. You should work on this as i feel that you do have the foundations in place to be a successful novel writer in this genre, as you are quite knowledgeable anyhow and i think you'd find a way to explain the mechanics of the strategy of the era within the book, so the reader would feel that they are learning something too. A bonus in a novel these days as so many novels have no depth to them. I really dont know how they get published sometimes. I'm sure that yours would not be like that though.
Take care Kathy. I do love and have great respect for your intellect even though you might be embarrassed. You should'nt be though. It's a fine thing.
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Cheers for the welcome back Kathy. Perhaps we can get some more of these lively debates of ours up and running again?
We were talking about the Roman Empire just before i went offline and you sent a post to me which i did noot have time to answer... So perhaps i can start there..
I do play flight sims and i do own IL-Sturmovik, also the sequels Forgotten Battles and Pacific Fighters. Theres a newish one called IL-sturmovik- 1946 that has all the series plus new missions on it and futuristic prototypes that were on the german drawing boards, but did not make it to combat that you can fly too!
I am waiting for the Battle of Britain game. It's called - Storm of War.
I,m gonna get Microsofts Flight simulator X as that looks good too.
I also like land based wargames and i'm playing Medieval Total War 2 at the moment, having played Rome TW and it,s sequels... looking forward to the next installment- Empire Total War, set from the 1700,s up to the Napoleonic War. To tell the truth i'm really up for taking Napoleon's mantle and seeing if i can do as well... Sadly i think the Napoleonic Wars will form part of an expansion pack, released later.
Oh well i want it now!
Take care Kathy. I love your intellect!
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Hows the hubby and any more vertigo? Make sure he sees an MD if he keeps that up.
Sure hope you get some warmer weather! Its been a good summer here. Usually is dry by this time of July but things seem green still and we've been getting plenty of rain and warm days.
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So how was the weekend? Hubby off? I survived mine, as always. It was actually a nice weekend, beautiful weather and had a great crew to work with. Nothing major happened in my building and all of my patients were OK. Can't ask for much more! |
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No surprise Leon calling you, Kat! Very fitting.
Yup, will be wise with the cash. I would like to move back to the country, this may be my perfect opportunity, even have a friend wanting to buy my house allready! One good thing, its near the highway for Pittsburgh and many people want a small town feel while working in the city. We'll see how it goes. I don't have many bills so even that you can say I'm about even. If I don't buy a house, I'll hand some to my brother who trades in the Chicago mercantile stock exchange, a good investment.
Went fossil hunting today, they're not glamerous or esthetically pleasing but rather quite scientifically outstanding. I went to a carboniferous lake that had a massive die off at some point. It has produced ancestors of sharks, lung fish, ceolecanths, odd ambhibians, plants, and bugs. I managed to find a shark tooth (quite small) and many fish scales. its a spoil pile from an old coal mine. Legend has it, children mined this in the early 1900's. Child labor, yikes! Anyhow, its been reduced to nothing but a big spoil pile of shale/coal and some rotten timbers. Unfortunately, its also been turned into an ATV park. Now don't get me wrong, I do enjoy taking the ATV rides BUT they've used the spoil pile as a mound to climb and crushed many of the larger slate plates. Last year I went with Wright State University where we found lung fish, aquatic plants, shark teeth and other odds and ends. It was a blast, especially with a paleo shark man, a carboniferous expert, a vertebrae specialist, and all the students! it was like we had walking encyclopedias! Not to mention the fact I got right in there and taught them a thing or two. You'll have that though when you study fossils from your area. I had the home field advantage. hehehe.
Have a great weekend!
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Hey,
thanks for the note. You wore see through lace when you were younger? Kathy! hahaha So the truth comes out a little each time. And here I thought you were a goodie goodie. Wait, actually, I never really thought that about you. But the skimpy lace does surprise me. You go girl.
Maybe thats why Dean keep messing up his responses to you, he feels the animal charisma coming through his pc. *makes cattish noise* heheheh.
So I missed some evolution debating and stuff eh? Well, I'm back so beware. PLUS, saved the bestest news for last. I won the lottery last night. 45 grand. Yuuuuuuuuu Hooooooooooo. So, I am on cloud nine and ten and gonna put this to good use. Payin off all my bills and maybe sell my house and buy something a little nicer. Who knows right now. I'm just all excited.
I don't really even play the lottery but this set of numbers kept popping up everywhere I looked at work this weekend so I played them. YEEEE HAW.
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About the video, I agree about having both football and dolls. I think it may have been more of a symbolism type thing with that little girl. regardless, yeah, I thought it was just a kickin video and had a great message.
Whats this Dean wants me in on?
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An odd legend about this sauce. Puttanesca means 'whore' in Italian. The story I have heard is that the Neapolitan whores would come home after a hard night's work and cook this - sound's about right, doesn't it? This is one of my favorite sauces. ... more
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