It went ok, I know I passed at that is good. I could have known more, but we had very little time, even if I knew how to calculate the pipe-sizes on the last question (which I didn't so I hardly looked at it), I wouldn't have had time to finish it!
Oh well that is over, now it's mathmatical metods II next. *Blahhh...*
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Thank you all for your kind words, but it wasn't a good idea posting it here. It seems to have burned even more bridges. So I deleted the postBody. Maybe it will help, but I'm afraid it is already too late.
I just want to add I never had a problem with writing so often. She didn't made me to, it just happened. It's nice to talk about something else for a while when work is boring you. And we just seemed to have a lot to talk about. It's just that I wanted the weekends for my family and my other friends.
I also never meant to blame her, I just didn't understand.
I just want to add I never had a problem with writing so often. She didn't made me to, it just happened. It's nice to talk about something else for a while when work is boring you. And we just seemed to have a lot to talk about. It's just that I wanted the weekends for my family and my other friends.
I also never meant to blame her, I just didn't understand.

That's really sad Gnampie. I really hope you and your friend can overcome this get back what you once had. It seems like you had a wonderful friendship, and were really close. I have friends I consider to be close, who I contact less than half a dozen times a year. Being able to write to someone everyday astounds me. I don't know how the pair of you managed it.
Unfortunately, conversing by mail can have its problems. There is no body language, and it is thus easy to upset someone unintentially without ever meaning to. I really hope that when your friend reads your post, she sees how much she really means to you and that you are able to resume your friendship.
Unfortunately, conversing by mail can have its problems. There is no body language, and it is thus easy to upset someone unintentially without ever meaning to. I really hope that when your friend reads your post, she sees how much she really means to you and that you are able to resume your friendship.
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Val, I think I will follow your advice.
I cannot remember quite what I advised, but I hope it was good, and not something which has made the situation worse. Val, I think I will follow your advice.
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So if you don’t see me around anymore, I wish you all a wonderful Christmas time and the bst of luck in 2004 and all the years to come.
I understand how you feel Gnampie, but PT will be a lesser place for not having you around. I for one, look forward to opening threads when I see you have posted in them. Keep in touch, whatever. So if you don’t see me around anymore, I wish you all a wonderful Christmas time and the bst of luck in 2004 and all the years to come.


gnampie: Don't burn the bridges with your friend. I'm not a physician, but it sounds to me that possibly your friend has not been taking her medication’I don't mean this in a bad way, just that it may explain her mood swing. Send the Christmas present; it may change her mind.
Personally, only close friends should get away with what she has pulled; however, a close friend needs to be given a little slack in case she changes her mind tomorrow. But she shouldn't be so selfish as to require so much of your time and should realize that she is doing so. Yes, you did spend a lot of your time for her when she was ill, but now she has recovered, she shouldn't need so much. She should be able to offer you a little slack too.
I hope things work out for you and your friend, and however things turn out, do not feel guilty, I don't feel that you are at fault.
Personally, only close friends should get away with what she has pulled; however, a close friend needs to be given a little slack in case she changes her mind tomorrow. But she shouldn't be so selfish as to require so much of your time and should realize that she is doing so. Yes, you did spend a lot of your time for her when she was ill, but now she has recovered, she shouldn't need so much. She should be able to offer you a little slack too.
I hope things work out for you and your friend, and however things turn out, do not feel guilty, I don't feel that you are at fault.

Aw Gnampie,just give her some time. One of my friends does this to me too often,calling me up in the middle of the night to yell about how I don't treat her good enough,rude e-mails,and so on but I realize she is just going through a hard stage in her life and for now that is her way of venting some anger and dissapointment.
Don't be scared away from PT, we will all miss you too much.
Don't be scared away from PT, we will all miss you too much.


Yes just give it some time and see what happens. Your friend might be mad at you now, but in time you both might get a different perspective on things.
One letter/e-mail a day is amazing. But love isn't meassured in the amount of e-mails you get.. Well, we don't know what her reasons are and maybe we should just keep our opinions to ourselves so we don't hurt anybody? All we can do is hope things will work out. Bridges are hard to build, but easy to burn. Leave a door open if she wants to come back.
Don't leave! I'll miss you too!
One letter/e-mail a day is amazing. But love isn't meassured in the amount of e-mails you get.. Well, we don't know what her reasons are and maybe we should just keep our opinions to ourselves so we don't hurt anybody? All we can do is hope things will work out. Bridges are hard to build, but easy to burn. Leave a door open if she wants to come back.
Don't leave! I'll miss you too!

No broods today.... Val's got a great big smile on his face
because he's just fixed his logging out problem. Because I spend so much time here, getting logged out every few minutes was really beginning to get me down. As it appears to be a problem with Internet Explorer, however, I downloaded Mozilla a few minutes ago and have accessed the site with it.
Well, so far so good. I don't want to count my chickens, but it appears to be working. Yes....yes....yes. My Precious.... It feels so good to be able to click around at will without having to keep re-entering my password.
Good times are here again.... the sun is shining etc....





Well, so far so good. I don't want to count my chickens, but it appears to be working. Yes....yes....yes. My Precious.... It feels so good to be able to click around at will without having to keep re-entering my password.
Good times are here again.... the sun is shining etc....


I have just downloaded Opera and it is working great too! It feels good to click where I want to and still be logged on. Best of all: It is Norwegian! Yeey!
I also found out that I now wake up the annoying, grumpy neighbours when I start the car in the morning (at about 5.25 am). I don't feel sorry for them at all, they have complained so much over where we park our cars in a very undiplomatic and rude way while we have been as nice as we can, now we have moved them like they want to, and now they have to deal with the result it brings! What is wrong with people in this town?!
I also found out that I now wake up the annoying, grumpy neighbours when I start the car in the morning (at about 5.25 am). I don't feel sorry for them at all, they have complained so much over where we park our cars in a very undiplomatic and rude way while we have been as nice as we can, now we have moved them like they want to, and now they have to deal with the result it brings! What is wrong with people in this town?!

I keep getting signed out,too. Where did you download yours,Valen? 


Opera : http://www.opera.com if anyone wants to know. Available in 20 languages.

I just went to
www.mozilla.org
www.mozilla.org


I downloaded the freebie Mozilla Firebird which is also a link. I didn't let it be my default browser and as I only use it for Planet-Tolkien.com, I made P-T my home page. I'm very happy with it.
Can't download squat. Luckilly, I have internet at all.

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as I only use it for Planet-Tolkien.com, I made P-T my home page. I'm very happy with it.
I think I might do that too, Grondy, as I only use mine for PT. I bet you feel a huge wave of relief now you are not getting logged out every time you do something. I know I did.as I only use it for Planet-Tolkien.com, I made P-T my home page. I'm very happy with it.
i had a rather bad day yesterday i was close to getting raped, i was walking home when a guy pulled up around the corner of my street, near the shops he didn't get out of the car so i thought he might be waiting for someone anyways when i walked past him he called me over and asked directions to anne street i told him i had no idea and stupid me looked down and saw that he was wanking himself, he then offered me a lift i politely said no and walked off, after that he drove off so he had no intention to go to Anne street and I was very lucky that the vet was right behind me as i turned to my street, so it looked like i was heading there and he didn't follow me. It was rather scary for me i thought he might have followed or at least get out of the car to grab me. But i had a lucky escape not like some girls, so please if this happens to you be polite then leave quickly to the nearest building whether its ur street or not, if he follows walk to the someones house and knock on the door if he stays put ask them to ring the cops and stay put in that house. and please if that happens to someone and they come knocking on your door let them in.

How horrible for you Elizabethevenstar. Thank the maker you managed to keep your wits about you, and get out of that situation. I’m so glad to hear that you got away safely, and the one positive thing you should take out of all this is that it should teach you to be even more aware, alert, and observant when you’re out of the house by yourself. No matter what, my advice to you in the future would be to never walk over to a strange persons car/vehicle when you’re by yourself, or even with others under any circumstances. You can never be too careful these days.
It saddens me, and makes me sick that there’s so many low life slime balls out there like that. Hopefully you’ve informed your parents, and filed a report with the police. Please keep your eyes, and ears open at all times, and be safe!
Now under a much more positive note, allow me to properly welcome you to PT Elizabethevenstar! I think it’s safe for me to speak on the behalf of some of the other regular members here, and say that we’re glad to have you.

It saddens me, and makes me sick that there’s so many low life slime balls out there like that. Hopefully you’ve informed your parents, and filed a report with the police. Please keep your eyes, and ears open at all times, and be safe!
Now under a much more positive note, allow me to properly welcome you to PT Elizabethevenstar! I think it’s safe for me to speak on the behalf of some of the other regular members here, and say that we’re glad to have you.


If you can sneak a peak at the car's licence plate without him knowing it, that would help too; however, if he sees you writing down the number, you might cause him to get out of the car with malice in his heart. and a baseball bat in his hand. So maybe it would be better to just run away.

I'd advise any young girl in this situation to just run away. While taking the registration number could assist the police in catching the guy, and thus stop further attacks, you must always think of your own safety first. If a potential rapist/killer knows someone has taken their number, they will be so much more motivated to catch that potential victim.
If while backing away you are able to remember such things as the colour of the vehicle or its make etc, great, but don't put yourself at risk by hanging around. Get out of there and get help.
It really saddens me to think how much things have changed for the worse in this respect since I was young. From about the age of eight my mother would let me walk the mile or so to my grandmother's alone. Her only concern was that I paid attention while crossing the road. Now I have a son of nine, I wouldn't let him do the same. I don't know whether things have got worse, or whether it's just a case that we hear of these things now days because of better news coverage. It does seem to be a sick old world out there though.
If while backing away you are able to remember such things as the colour of the vehicle or its make etc, great, but don't put yourself at risk by hanging around. Get out of there and get help.
It really saddens me to think how much things have changed for the worse in this respect since I was young. From about the age of eight my mother would let me walk the mile or so to my grandmother's alone. Her only concern was that I paid attention while crossing the road. Now I have a son of nine, I wouldn't let him do the same. I don't know whether things have got worse, or whether it's just a case that we hear of these things now days because of better news coverage. It does seem to be a sick old world out there though.

Harumph! I got a letter from Bank of America telling me " for my convenience", they were replacing my B of A Mastercard with their B of A Visa card. That really ticks me off, It is the only card I've had since 1967 and I always pay the balance so I don't have to pay their high usuary interest rates. When they pay me 0.5% per annum on my savings account, I'm certainly not going to pay them 10 or 15% per annum on an unpaid balance. Harumph!
Harumph! If I wanted a Visa Card I could have one years ago, ten or twenty of them in fact. I'm thinking of calling my local branch manager and if I can't get this reversed, I'll pull out my money and go to a still locally owned local bank. Harumph!
Harumph! If I wanted a Visa Card I could have one years ago, ten or twenty of them in fact. I'm thinking of calling my local branch manager and if I can't get this reversed, I'll pull out my money and go to a still locally owned local bank. Harumph!

I am under doctor's orders to spend more time in bed and off my rear-end toward the healing of two pressure sores; therefore, I won't be here long enough to read and moderate the whole message board daily.
I will try to keep the Trivia: Barad-dur thead updated daily as well as the games I've been involved with in the Ivy Bush Tavern.
I will try to keep the Trivia: Barad-dur thead updated daily as well as the games I've been involved with in the Ivy Bush Tavern.

Get well soon, Grondy. We're all going to miss seeing you around here so often.

I'm very sorry to hear that Grondy!
Take good care of yourself and get better soon!
We will be lost here without your wisdom.
Take good care of yourself and get better soon!
We will be lost here without your wisdom.
I've an aching throb at the base of my skull. I guess I shouldn't try to sponge up everything, and move on to selective soaking....

#%$!! Viruses.
Something jumped through my firewall a week last Thursday and convinced my C drive that it was full. It's taken me a while to get things sorted out, hence my absence for a while as I've been without a machine. Lots seem to have changed here in the past week, but unfortunately I don't have time to explore at the moment. There is still something wrong with my e-mail connection that I must fix.
Welcome to all you new members who seem to have joined in my absence too. I look forward to meeting you all once I get everything sorted out again.
Something jumped through my firewall a week last Thursday and convinced my C drive that it was full. It's taken me a while to get things sorted out, hence my absence for a while as I've been without a machine. Lots seem to have changed here in the past week, but unfortunately I don't have time to explore at the moment. There is still something wrong with my e-mail connection that I must fix.
Welcome to all you new members who seem to have joined in my absence too. I look forward to meeting you all once I get everything sorted out again.

Nobody else got anything to brood about? Must just be me having things go wrong, then.
My poor car
There it was sat minding its own business in the car park at work, and then our secretary drives away with my bumper. I was just about to go home too. Two minutes earlier and I would have been safely out of there. Trouble is, it is in really good condition for its age, but that is not how the insurers will see it. If the repairs cost more than ’500 they will write it off, irrespective of the fact I'll never get anything else as good quality at that price.
Oh well, at least nobody was hurt.
My poor car

There it was sat minding its own business in the car park at work, and then our secretary drives away with my bumper. I was just about to go home too. Two minutes earlier and I would have been safely out of there. Trouble is, it is in really good condition for its age, but that is not how the insurers will see it. If the repairs cost more than ’500 they will write it off, irrespective of the fact I'll never get anything else as good quality at that price.
Oh well, at least nobody was hurt.
Boohoo. Waaa! (This is why I'm never getting a car) I have problems. My homework is due Monday and I haven't brought home my stuff needed for it. So I went on the net and got to the site I got t form in the first place, and my computer has problems with going into it! And also my TOnga project research is on Monday as well, and I found the greatest book in the library. It's in REFERENCE!!!!!! (FOr all those who never go the library, you're not allowed to get out REFERENCE BOOKS!!!! You can't even take them off the floor!) And my ENglish WIde Reading REsponses need to be rewritten, and worst of all, I LOST TLOTR!!!!! HOW BAD IS THAT? AND I LOST TOLKIEN:MAN AND MYTH!!!! It was on my floor. I'm so sure it was. It's just so tragic.





Hmmm.... I think there were a few more messages somewhere around here but where?


I think someone has been deleting... and it wasn't even me. Not fair.

Have you looked down the back of the sofa?

It's all in your heads boys.



I keep looking for messages I never posted, usually because at the time I wanted to post them I got logged off instead.
Bit moody today. Can't seem to get started on anything, while I actually really need to, because there are going to be exams in three weeks. Waaaah!



Elanamirkad Posted Tuesday 4th May 2004
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I moved these post here becaus we already have a place for everyone who wants comfort or just who wants to express big or small things that worries them.
I'm really sorry about your step-sister, Elana.
The courts often give custody to the mother, I hope she makes her a good home and that your sister will be happy. At least you get to see her from time to time, I am sure she appreciates knowing you are there for her if and when she needs you. That will be even more important for her as she gets older. These things are never easy. *Hugs Elana*
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took your advice Gnampie and Vee, and I decided to make this forum for anyone who needs some comfort. Right now I thopught I would start it since i now have another problem,my family has been trying to get residence custody of my little 7 year old step-sister Shawna, and they went to court yesterday, but we lost. So now she is going to have to move to Virginia and not see us until holidays. and the problem is, she doesnt want to go with her mother, but the only way we could appeal, is if she would appear in court and say that she wants to live with us. but we dont want to put her through that. im srry if i depressed any one but i was crying alot last night and so was my family.
took your advice Gnampie and Vee, and I decided to make this forum for anyone who needs some comfort. Right now I thopught I would start it since i now have another problem,my family has been trying to get residence custody of my little 7 year old step-sister Shawna, and they went to court yesterday, but we lost. So now she is going to have to move to Virginia and not see us until holidays. and the problem is, she doesnt want to go with her mother, but the only way we could appeal, is if she would appear in court and say that she wants to live with us. but we dont want to put her through that. im srry if i depressed any one but i was crying alot last night and so was my family.

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Sorry to hear this and I wish I had the magic words to make everything right.
Sorry to hear this and I wish I had the magic words to make everything right.
I moved these post here becaus we already have a place for everyone who wants comfort or just who wants to express big or small things that worries them.
I'm really sorry about your step-sister, Elana.


*hugs Amari’ back* thank you Amari’. we just dont knwo what to do. we are justing going to have to try and do the best we can for Shawna while she is still with us. We could appeal, but like i said, it would not be a great experience for her to go through. so we do have to wait until she is older. but we also hope that her mother, will realize she is better off here, not away from all her friends and family.

I missed out on a issue of Thanos and a issue of 1602 plus some other sh*t but too many youngsters around.
Let's see, where to begin...my husband and I are trying to purchase a new home and we keep getting rejected from mortgage companies because of our **** credit scores, but of course we found the perfect house! My daughter, who is six and also a huge Tolkien fan is being told by her classmates and "friends" that she is boring and that they don't want to play with her-she's having a really tough time of it. She thinks she is boring(she has the best imagination of any child I've ever met), and she's kind of going through a sort of complex.I'm so afraid she'll be an "outcast" like I was,
and I hope it's not my influence on her that is doing it to her.I don't teach her to be anything but herself at all times! So not only do I feel for her, it makes me question my parenting.Poor kid!
Another thing is our budget:we're barely staying afloat(now some of you may ask why we're considering buying a house in our economical situation, but we just want our kids to have stability and for us to not be throwing our money away on rent).This **** American Dream stuff is only for those with a high income and/or perfect credit-I guess all the "vermin" get weeded out that way-congratulations, "Upper Class"!
...must...control...bitterness...sorry.I am definitely brooding.And I am sorry to all of you good people that are also upset about something-may we all find terrible wealth and happiness and live in the countryside together someday(but for now, I hope all of our gripes resolve themselves somehow!)
Thank you for letting me vent.
and I hope it's not my influence on her that is doing it to her.I don't teach her to be anything but herself at all times! So not only do I feel for her, it makes me question my parenting.Poor kid!

...must...control...bitterness...sorry.I am definitely brooding.And I am sorry to all of you good people that are also upset about something-may we all find terrible wealth and happiness and live in the countryside together someday(but for now, I hope all of our gripes resolve themselves somehow!)
Thank you for letting me vent.


LadyFeawen Posted Tuesday 4th May 2004
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I just have the usual problems - My mom and dad alienate themselfs from the family. I know their only human, but its gone on for too long. And I miss my dad and our long talks
He is still around. Just not the same, loving person he use to be and I need him to be.
My mom and I dont have a mother/daughter relationship of any kind. She has always been too busy in her own little world. She has said so herself. I guess I'll soon get over the fact that shes never tried to get to know me and later it might be too late for her to.
But, I have a very loving sister and brother (I have 6 actually)
Who mean the world to me, and I am very close with.
I just have the usual problems - My mom and dad alienate themselfs from the family. I know their only human, but its gone on for too long. And I miss my dad and our long talks

My mom and I dont have a mother/daughter relationship of any kind. She has always been too busy in her own little world. She has said so herself. I guess I'll soon get over the fact that shes never tried to get to know me and later it might be too late for her to.
But, I have a very loving sister and brother (I have 6 actually)


Im so sorry for you! My parents are ok,except my dad is working in Nigeria now. Im not a very social guy so i dont have a lot of friends. Plus i dont smoke,drink or the like and that seems to be the only thing all the other people i know do for fun. So i spend my days reading, drawing,coming to PT ...fading out of the real world. And im not doing nothing for school so thats going to hell as well, but i really just dont care...
For CHristians out there or the plain curious, read Matthew 5:4, I Cor. 15:20, Luke 25:5-6.
Hope they help!
Hope they help!
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...i dont smoke,drink or the like and that seems to be the only thing all the other people i know do for fun. So i spend my days reading, drawing,coming to PT ...
...i dont smoke,drink or the like and that seems to be the only thing all the other people i know do for fun. So i spend my days reading, drawing,coming to PT ...
Etharion, I know how you feel...it's miserable to be the only one in your group who can't come up with a better way to pass the time than to get trashed. There are other folks out there who think the way you do, though, and you'll find them. Don't feel like you're missing out on the real world because you spend your time with a book - the real world's what you make it. (Sounds sappy, but I mean it


Hi Chikakat, nice to see you back in town. How you doing, lass? How's the studying going?
Nice to see you again Chika!


I feel really old today, its my little brother's fiftieth birthday. He was born on the day I graduated from the eighth grade; I remember being unhappy with my mother for not attending that graduation.


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Nice to see you again Chika!
Nice to see you again Chika!
Nice to see you, too, Eryan.

Grondy,
do not feel that way! I don't think you will EVER be really old! You are too wise - and wisdom is ever you
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Val,
it's really nice of you to say that! I was simply very very busy. I was invited suddenly to prepare 12 hours of lectures for postgraduate students and I had only a few weeks to prepare all that. As I like to illustrate my lectures in a really perfectionist way, I had to make several hundreds of slides. It was great fun, but VERY time consuming!
do not feel that way! I don't think you will EVER be really old! You are too wise - and wisdom is ever you

Val,
it's really nice of you to say that! I was simply very very busy. I was invited suddenly to prepare 12 hours of lectures for postgraduate students and I had only a few weeks to prepare all that. As I like to illustrate my lectures in a really perfectionist way, I had to make several hundreds of slides. It was great fun, but VERY time consuming!

Grondy as a once great man said "yer only as old as the woman ya feel" now if this is some Cleopatra type lady ye be buggered but ye aint old a wee bit wiser...not much like. And if ya feel yer gettin older funt it like we all do more than others it happens and as a great car bumper sticker said 'sh*t happens'.

Thanks people.
Today I'm back to enjoying my second childhood.
Today I'm back to enjoying my second childhood.


Well said Grondy!
As for feeling odl and young, it has nothing to do with age! I have periods of sleeplessness and tehn during the day I feel good for nothing and very old. But right now since several weeks I am sleeping really well, and during the day I am a volcano of energy - I can work much quicker and during much longer periods than the majority of much younger oeople around me. And I feel so young! (Of course, when I look into the mirror and I see my funny old face, the illusion breaks l

As for feeling odl and young, it has nothing to do with age! I have periods of sleeplessness and tehn during the day I feel good for nothing and very old. But right now since several weeks I am sleeping really well, and during the day I am a volcano of energy - I can work much quicker and during much longer periods than the majority of much younger oeople around me. And I feel so young! (Of course, when I look into the mirror and I see my funny old face, the illusion breaks l



I'm always brooding. Today I was brooding on something inapropriate to mention here, but here's something else.
We JUST moved here last summer. Now, for reasons that would take forever to explain, we have to move again, so our house in up for sale (anyone wanna buy a house?) so mom is making me scrub, clean, etc. Last night we had a dinner party and so this morning, I had to put away 12 sets of dinner ware in this order: dinner plate at the bottom of a box, with salad plate on top, with saucer on top, with bowl on top, with cup in the corner. And my snotty bro is being EVIL today. I SWEAR he's got orc blood in him. The disgusting jerk is always trying to break into the bathroom when I'm showering or bathrooming. It's so wrong. And now I'm done brooding so I wil just shut up.
We JUST moved here last summer. Now, for reasons that would take forever to explain, we have to move again, so our house in up for sale (anyone wanna buy a house?) so mom is making me scrub, clean, etc. Last night we had a dinner party and so this morning, I had to put away 12 sets of dinner ware in this order: dinner plate at the bottom of a box, with salad plate on top, with saucer on top, with bowl on top, with cup in the corner. And my snotty bro is being EVIL today. I SWEAR he's got orc blood in him. The disgusting jerk is always trying to break into the bathroom when I'm showering or bathrooming. It's so wrong. And now I'm done brooding so I wil just shut up.

What a wretch. You need to delete his e-mail account, or change his passwords. Maybe drop that computer game he plays into the Recycle Bin and click empty.