Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011

Subject: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the card
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 02:23 PM

I decided a new thread would be better than adding to the other. Karen just called me. She sounded tired and said she's been better. Pat is back in the ICU unit with a fever of 107 on a cold blanket to try to get it down and on constant temperature monitor. He's back on the vent. His mind is still working....he's aware. She said he is so skinny...something she would never have thought she's say about him.

They are very strict about visiting in the unit, so she is going to go to work, tonight, in order to be able to see him, tomorrow, as they are getting a hug snowstorm.

Please continue to do what you can. Karen said the Sing really helped and I told her we'd do it, again. I'll re-up that thread..maybe we could just do it at noon or midnight, whatever is best for each person, with him in mind, every day if possible.

Thanks and much love to Karen, Pat and the boys as well as Connie, Wayne and family.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Lox
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 02:39 PM

he'll be ok :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: mouldy
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 02:46 PM

Deep breath...concentrate...healing thoughts on their way across the pond.

Andrea xx

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 02:48 PM

Thinking of you Spaw... hang in there...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 03:06 PM

Sending cool thoughts from the northland.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: fat B****rd
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 03:13 PM

Best thoughts from Scotland.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: gnu
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 03:30 PM

Arrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Hang in there Pat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 03:35 PM

CRAP!
OK
Deep breaths and cool breezes.
Music to follow.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Hawker
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 03:39 PM

Healing vibes from Cornwall.
Thinking of you all.
Much Love, Lucy x

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 03:51 PM

Come on, you broke-dick mammalucca. It's your body. Take it in hand, so to speak!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Tinker
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 03:57 PM

Time to prep more music....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 04:15 PM

I had a fever of 107 once, and it made me the man I am today.

Can't hurt Spaw; he's that way to start with.

Now git up and git outa there! It makes you sick!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 04:19 PM

A fever like that feels awful, but it means his body is working really hard to get rid of something. Good luck getting over this and back into the recovery area, Spaw!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Beer
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 04:25 PM

A lot of great folks looking in on you Spaw.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 04:32 PM

Still here and checkin' in a couple times a day...

More healing prayers on the way...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: olddude
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 04:40 PM

So very concerned here also. You got my prayers my buddie, get better please

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 04:51 PM

Pat,

I still owe you $6.23.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: My guru always said
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 05:10 PM

Lots more positive thoughts from Old Keepers across the pond.

Hey Kat, I love the idea of a 'hug snowstorm' *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 05:24 PM

Good idea to start a new thread.

Not the kind of news I like to hear about our old Mudcat friend.

Looks as if I'll have to pour out another full cup of mead to the Old Gods, to help get him out of there and back home where he belongs.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: alanabit
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 05:33 PM

A setback, but he has seen plenty of those off before. Focusing on you being back strong and well with your family.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 05:37 PM

adding my good wishes to the mixture

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 06:42 PM

Deep breathing and healing thoughts activated. I am on the road (on tour in Florida with my dear husband). We will both be singing for Spaw and holding him in our hearts. I can read the Mudcat on my phone but for some reason can't post. So this is my first chance to see this.

Spaw, I've been sorry ever since we drove cross Ohio last year and didn't stop in to say hi. Listen, you have to get better soon so we can meet next time for sure!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 06:46 PM

White light, healing thoughts, prayers, too -- whatever it takes.

Karen, holding you tight in our thoughts, too.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Janie
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 06:50 PM

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The dreadful worry that arises from learning this news does not interfer with all the good thoughts and hope I'm sending with renewed concentration.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Bugsy
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 07:50 PM

Those that have posted before me have said it all.

I'm in there with you mate.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 08:04 PM

All the good thoughts I can muster.....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Wesley S
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 08:07 PM

Jeez 107. Spaw buddy - when you're hot - you're hot.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 08:08 PM

Thinking of you all, and sending warm thoughts.

Hold on.

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Genie
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 08:14 PM

Thanks for the update, Kat.

Spaw and Karen, I am sending love, positive energy and healing images from the left coast.

(((((((((((((((Spaw and Karen )))))))))))))))

Genie

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 09:13 PM

This one is too close, folks. I am taking a break for a day or two, unless I hear from Karen. Please don't fret if I don't answer PMs right away.

Thanks,

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: maire-aine
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 09:40 PM

Still prayin'.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Janie
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 10:07 PM

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C'mon, Spaw!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 10:21 PM

Goodonya, Kat.

Spaw: Be thou CHILLed!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Jan 11 - 11:12 PM

I ran a temperature of over 104 degrees once; it made me delirious. I can't even imagine hitting 107. But I do know that it means that Spaw's system is trying to chase out whatever is wrong.

Go, Spaw's System!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: open mike
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 02:23 AM

did someone say white lightning?

dreams of polar bears, dog sleds and igloos and icebergs...and snowangels..perhaps that snow storm will cool him out i mean down

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: My guru always said
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 02:24 AM

Good Morning from Old Keepers, still thinking of you and hoping for more recovery today!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Lox
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 04:52 AM

Hang on in there blue.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Tinker
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 08:39 AM

Blessings on a cold grey morn

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: MMario
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 08:40 AM

Dammit 'spaw; the ICU plan is NOT the way to lose weight!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: maeve
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 08:48 AM

Sunlight is shining through the morning frost. Watching for you from here, Pat and Karen.

Maeve

(((kat)))

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 09:05 AM

Just stay cool, dude.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 09:26 AM

Oh dear, I had hoped for better news.

Still, I'll add to the storm of hugs for Spaw and Karen and their family.

Also special thanks to kat for her untiring support.

((((((take care))))))

Matthew

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: InOBU
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 09:52 AM

Look here, spaw old boy... I don't care how hard you try, you just can't boil beans on your forehead, and niether should you either.

Now let's get serrious here... Kev McGrath tripped over the grim fellows scyth the other day, but his pals pounded him black and blue and brought him to his feet. Don't make the doctors pound on you, it makes them feel guilty about it latter, pounding a poor fellow on the cheast just because he ... well, don't do it, or we will be vexed as well as sad.

Here is a challenge I placed on Kev... a race between you and Kev to reach your hundredth birthday... lots of crunchy veggies... briskish accompanied walks... etc. I've joined both Team Spaw and Team Kev in this contest... so, drop the fever old boy and start the heavy breathing and low carbs...

Get well old boy, and back to blasphamy on line.
Thy friend and Friend
Lorcan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 10:03 AM

Sending cool thoughts from cold and windy Somerset. Get it out of your system, lad and come back to us soon. We need you!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 10:57 AM

The dramatic weight loss is to be expected. Vancomyacin or othe antibiotic should have things under controll in a couple days.
107 gave me some fantastic upside down flying sensations that I will never forget.
Eat well yourself Somerset and your lad will be on real food within a week.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 11:03 AM

Water weight loss alone will make you look slim and dashing, Spaw. But drink up anyway.
Worried about you, old man.
SINS, even older.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 11:12 AM

I'm going to keep reading from the unexpurgated edition of "Moby-Dick" (note the hyphen!) until he's alllllllllll better.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: gnu
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 01:16 PM

Just in case anyone missed it, the original thread is

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=134378&messages=679&page=1&desc=yes

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: maeve
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 01:51 PM

Good idea, gnu. sometimes it's tricky finding such important threads. here it is in secret code: The earlier thread that lead into this one lives here. Click!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 01:58 PM

Oh my... what I miss from shutting down the puder and going to bed early.

So sorry for this turn of event, Pat. Please try very hard to get well. There are many people all over the globe wishing this for you.

If you don't someone is sure to break out a can of whupass on you. you really don;t want that.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Beer
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 03:51 PM

So yesterday his temp. was at 107 which is very high. Has anyone heard how he is today?
Adrien from the cool north.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: GUEST,Neil and Christina
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 04:08 PM

Ok Spaw, we have enough going on here with a wedding to plan ( 3 wks from set date to ceremony),and yesterday learned that my mother is most likely having mini-strokes. Our fingernails are chewed to the nubs. C'mon and get better! Sending prayers and warm wishes to Pat, Karen and the whole gang:)

                                        Christina

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: polaitaly
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 05:23 PM

Hope you get better very soon, dear Zampa-Di-Gatto. Wishes of a speedy recovery from far away Italy!
ciao
paola

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: KT
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 05:37 PM

Spaw. C'mon back.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 06:06 PM

Sound like Karen is exhausted and we all have to wait for her to call kat rather than risk kat waking her. They also give who only sit and wait.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Fortunato
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 06:45 PM

Get well , 'spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 10:34 PM

Aw man. So sorry. Hopes for better wellness...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: ClaireBear
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 10:47 PM

I too am a hopeful, watchful vigil keeper.

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Dave Swan
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 10:49 PM

Continuing to send all best to Ohio.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Janie
Date: 11 Jan 11 - 11:52 PM

In 9 minutes, I'm headed out for a midnight sing. Anyone up to join in?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: georgeward
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:31 AM

Can't remember whether I've posted to the previous thread. Who cares ? One wish, one prayer, one scurrilous irreverence....or a thousand. Whatever it takes! Still pulling for you both, Pat & Karen. Still here.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: open mike
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 12:51 AM

visualize strength healing and welness...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: BlueJay
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:01 AM

Damn. C'mon, Spaw! Good thoughts and healing energy from the mountains! Thanks again, Kat. Jay

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:23 AM

For my friend Katlaughing...
I know you are still watching this thread. I am glad you have taken a break from the situation, and I know your own health and well being is invested in how this comes out. We all care about you, and wish we had a friend who could try to bring positive energy and focus to us in a struggle like the one Pat is facing. Listen...you rest. You have done what you can. Let the rest of us pray, focus energy, channel light, and do what we can for our old friend. Believe me, if I could take a share of his pain, I would, just as I know you would. But that's not how this works. Ultimately, Pat will win or lose this fight. I feel he will win.
But win or lose, we need you around, Darlin. So please take care of yourself.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Bugsy
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 01:42 AM

Amen to that.

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: mouldy
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:26 AM

I'll second that.
We're all on the case, so you take care of yourself too, Kat.

Spaw, I've never yet had the honour of being cussed by you....I would like to be - I think - so c'mon and try hard to beat this thing!


Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: My guru always said
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:30 AM

Morning, still watching out for you, Pat, Karen & Kat too!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 03:14 AM

Remember how in the old novels someone is lying in bed surrounded by anxious loved ones or even just one lone haggard person at the bedside and then the fever breaks and the breathing quiets and there is a small sheen of sweat on the brow and the doctor turns and says, He has turned the corner. He will be all right.

And everyone falls to weeping tears of relief because they know that against heavy odds he has done it again.

The fever breaks, Spaw, and we are so relieved. Don't forget, Pat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Tinker
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 08:08 AM

Just awoke to sunshine and blue skies after a dark and stormy night... not a bas model to move ahead....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:07 AM

Spaw's Blues

Woke up the mornin', tube in my throat,
Yeah, I work up the mornin', tube in my throat
This really sucks ditch water,
Havin' this tube in my throat.

Well I went to go pee-pee,
Found a catheter there.
Yeah, I went to go pee-pee,
Found a catheter there.
Saves me from funbling 'round,
Searchin' down there.

They took out that throat tube,
Thought it was time for lunch
Yeah, they took out that throat tube
Just in time for lunch
But they went and cut my throat
Didn't git no lunch.

Now I been a hotty
Since the day I was born
Yeah I been a hotty
Since the day I was born
But packed in these ice packs
I could just fret and mourn.

(Continue ad lib)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:10 AM

Snowin' big time here, Spaw. Feel the cool.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:45 AM

I'm holding the insults, but not for long.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:26 PM

I'm getting impatient too. I don't know Mr. Spaw well enough to be sharp with him, but worrying just doesn't sit well with me.

Please get well and stop making us all sick with worry.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:33 PM

Still here and sending energy to Spaw and family and to Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 02:46 PM

Hoping for some good news soon...

Kitty
xx

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 03:48 PM

Cont'd.

I'm layin' here, baby,
Empty bottles all around.
Yeah, I'm just layin' here, baby,
Empties on the ground,
Ain't no whiskey, baby, ain't no wine,
Just Ringer's lactate, dextrose, and saline,
Too many bottles, baby,
Empties layin' all around.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 05:09 PM

Spaw, Karen and Kat,
I'm sending good thoughts and prayers for Pat's recovery and for rest and strength for those closest to him.

   rags

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: gnu
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:04 PM

I know this is gettin old, but, c'mon eh, heal and get back to us. We need you man. You are almost THE Mudcat Café to many of us. Not just in the music but in the fabric of the friendships and in the embodiement of the interaction in the music threads and even moreso in the BS.

Sorry if that sounds convoluted.

Just get better eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: Janie
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 06:26 PM

We love you, Spaw. Now get back here and remind us why we are such idiots to cherish such abuse!

Subject: UPDATE
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:12 PM

Thanks to all of you. I called Karen just now and woke her up. Good grief! She just laughed and said she'd had plenty of sleep and not to worry.

She is "guardedly optimistic." He turned around, today, and they plan to move him to the step down unit, tomorrow. He was the most coherent she's seen since this all started and he just realised, today, that he's been in hospital for 45 days.

I forgot to tell you all that Karen put a new doorknob on all by herself. He is very proud of her for that AND he made her leave early to go get her tire fixed. They are having more snow.

They've been alternating him on the vent and CPAP.

I told her I'd talk to her again in a couple of days.

Thanks, again, y'all.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - hold the cards
From: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:15 PM

YEAH!!!

Blustery winds bringing positive change. Thanks for the update Kat...

tinker

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Amos
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:26 PM

That's promising news, Kat. Thanks so much for fronting for this motley concatenation of meandering maroons!! :D Keep 'em coming, Pat!!



A

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:34 PM

Forgot to say, Karen said "It's working. Ask them to keep it up!":-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Dave Swan
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:50 PM

Thanks again, Kat. Better news, but I won't breathe easily until Pat does.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Beer
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 09:56 PM

Thanks for the up date Kat. Very much appreciated.
Ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 10:00 PM

45 days. Amazing.

Take care, Pat, and I look forward to when they put the laptop in your hands and let you start reading and writing on your own.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 12 Jan 11 - 11:52 PM

Damn. Old bastard's tougher than a two dollar steak, ain't he?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 12:02 AM

Just had a great conversation with Sister Connie. She is a wonderful person...I can see why Karen and Pat love her and Wayne so much. IN the course of our conversation, I was telling her about how much my osteopath's soft tissue manipulation helps my back and we ought to see if there is one there who could work on Pat because it can really help with breathing and back pain. It works on the para-sympathetic something or others, muscles? Anyway, I just know I can always breath more easily after she works on me and my back doesn't hurt as much.

Then, I told Connie my doc also said I should have a hot rock massage, (for real, guys.:-) THAT got Connie and I to laughing at the thought of having a SPA DAY for SPAW. I told her I'd be sharing that vision with you all. She envisioned that one scene in Wizard of Oz when they are at the salon getting all fixed up. I have plenty of other visions, but I think I'll stick with that one!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:13 AM

I bet they'd run out of scented oils....

I know guys do have spa days, but he'd pretty soon have the sweat room to himself, I bet!

Actually, a spa day for Pat and Karen would be a lovely thing for when he's well enough.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Janie
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:26 AM

More thanks, Kat. I'd say something original, only there really isn't a substitute for thank you.

Joining Karen in her cautious optimism.

.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: alanabit
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:53 AM

Thanks for the good news Kat. Onwards and upwards!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: InOBU
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:50 AM

Hey Katlaughing!!! You say Spaw is COHERENT!!! My GOD something is wrong with him!!!! Please inform the doctors this is not his normal state, and that he has a pardoxical relationship with all norms of mental thought. Make sure they bring us back the Spaw we all know and adore... not some cohernt automaton pretending to be our Spaw.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)
Loving all of you
Lorcan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 05:44 AM

45 days...

Glad to hear of the turn for the better. Hang tough.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 06:29 AM

Great news!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 06:41 AM

Hmmm. A spa day (a Spaw Spa Day!) in the Mudcat Tavern Jello Pit when he's out of hospital and after rehab at the NYCFTTS. Room for all. Careful with those hot rocks, whoops!
RtS
Still standin' by with the bedpans, Chief.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: maeve
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 06:47 AM

Thank you, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: My guru always said
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 07:37 AM

Thanks for keeping us uptodate Kat! Is there any point in me asking you to look after yourself instead of the rest of us?

Still sending positive thoughts to Pat & Karen from across the pond!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 09:01 AM

Oh, Kat, thank you so much for keeping us updated- this feels like good news, so I'll just keep the mojo flowing and give thanks for his continuing recovery to full health, and for this wonderful, wonderful Mudcat.

I'm in over-civilized southeast Florida and feeling rather far from home in every sense just at the minute. The Mudcat is a great place to hang out when I'm feeling that way!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 10:03 AM

When I was young and foolish "hot rocks" meant something else -- sort of like a massage...sorta....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 10:10 AM

Sad but true - 100. Plus about 600 on the other thread.
How are we doing, Spaw?
M

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: jacqui.c
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 11:34 AM

Such good news to find today.

I reckon that Spaw's normal mode of speech could heat up the rocks on its own.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 12:14 PM

Just goes to show, you can't keep a good man down. Or an affectionate dog.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Morticia
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 12:57 PM

good news, thanks Kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Amos
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 01:10 PM

Hot Rocks for Spaw!! DOnate now!!   ROFLMAO!



A

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 02:02 PM

whew!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 03:23 PM

"A spa day (a Spaw Spa Day!) in the Mudcat Tavern..."

That's it. Why didn't I think of it before? Give him a pint of Turkey Turd Beer! That'll get him moving!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 04:01 PM

I got this in an email and I immediately thought of Spaw:

> A fart is a pleasant thing,
> It gives the belly ease,
> It warms the bed in winter,
> And suffocates the fleas.
>
> A fart can be quiet,
> A fart can be loud,
> Some leave a powerful,
> Poisonous cloud
>
> A fart can be short,
> Or a fart can be long,
> Some farts have been known
> To sound like a song......
>
> A fart can create
> A most curious medley,
> A fart can be harmless,
> Or silent, and deadly.
>
>
> A fart might not smell,
> While others are vile,
> A fart may pass quickly,
> Or linger a while......
>
> A fart can occur
> In a number of places,
> And leave everyone there,
> With strange looks on their faces .
> From wide-open prairie,
> To small elevators,
> A fart will find all of
> Us sooner or later.
>
> But farts are all bad,
> Is simply not true-
> We must never forget.......
> Sweet old farts like you!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Janie
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 06:55 PM

Some good news for you Pat. The EPA denied the permit for the mountain top Spruce Mountain mine in Logan, Co., WV. Would have been the largest mountain top operation yet.

Our new senator, Mr. Manchin, is not pleased.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 09:03 AM

And???????????
Come on Spaw check in and tell us that you are once again fine.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 10:23 AM

good, good, good news, thanks kat! keep it up, er, Spaw!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 12 JAN 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 11:17 AM

A severe aside here. "Our new senator, Mr. Manchin, is not pleased." Janie

Janie, Manchin impressed me when I saw and heard him on a panel recently so I went looking for his vitals. Alas, I am no longer impressed.

i doubt I will ever understand why it is that bright, decent, well-meaning people can disagree so radically on what needs to be done.

Subject: UPDATE 14 JAN 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 11:29 AM

Good news...no fever and he was moved to a private acute care hospital yesterday at 4p. Karen was there with him until about 8 or 9p when she went home. He is alert and aware enough to know about Ted Williams, the homeless radio voice guy.

He is in ICU in private room, really nice, with sliding glass doors. All docs, etc. came in and talked with them about what the plan is from now on, for getting him better, etc. AND, they listened to Karen and Pat. He will move to a regular private room in a couple of days if all goes as planned. No laptop available, though, much as they'd like.

I told Karen we'd work some Mudcat Mojo on her work as she's having trouble with the leave of absence people at work, but will get it worked out. He is doing well with CPAP and is very alert and anxious to get to work to go home.

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 11:58 AM

He's alert? Ye Gods! I fear what may happen next! ;-) The medical staff should keep a very close eye on this situation.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: maeve
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 12:03 PM

Whoopie! That's another move forward.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 12:19 PM

Well. Bless his little pea-pickin' heart.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Maryrrf
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 12:20 PM

Great news! Thanks for keeping us updated, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 12:29 PM

having trouble with the leave of absence people at work

Aye, and remind her that a professional in a uniform (priest, minister, HER doc, etc.) may have some sway there. A prescription for HER stress/exhaustion/etc. The CPE professional at his facility can assist there.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Tinker
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 12:40 PM

Alleluia!

Thanks be Kat ... lighting a candle to continue forward motion...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 12:41 PM

I knew opening up the Recovery Ward would do it....   that Nurse Ratched will be on his case like stink on curious dog....

Great news, keep more of it coming!

LTS who can't be arsed to log out.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 12:45 PM

Whoo hoo! Excellent news! Thanks Kat for keeping us informed.

Dan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 01:17 PM

Spaw
Here is a page of a book I wrote...solve the fun puzzles!
Its called The Palin Primer
http://usera.imagecave.com/donuel/Palin-Primer.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 01:48 PM

She should discuss this with the folks in Human Resources, who should have a comprehensive understanding of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), most Federal employees are entitled to a total of up to 12 workweeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period for the following purposes:

the birth of a son or daughter of the employee and the care of such son or daughter;

the placement of a son or daughter with the employee for adoption or foster care;

the care of spouse, son, daughter, or parent of the employee who has a serious health condition; or

a serious health condition of the employee that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of his or her positions.

Under certain conditions, an employee may use the 12 weeks of FMLA leave intermittently. An employee may elect to substitute annual leave and/or sick leave, consistent with current laws and OPM's regulations for using annual and sick leave, for any unpaid leave under the FMLA. (The amount of sick leave that may be used to care for a family member is limited. See "Sick Leave to Care for a Family Member with a Serious Health Condition") FMLA leave is in addition to other paid time off available to an employee.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Lox
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 02:31 PM

Strange, someone deleted my post.

I will repost it as it was a cheery humorous one.
_________

He's alert?

Good! We need more lerts!

[Lox-there were no posts deleted. It is always good to check right after a post to be sure it worked]

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 03:41 PM

Funny, Donuel.:-)

SRS, thanks. She's been there several times in the past. It is mostly a deal of papers, tons of them, which have to be filled out every time she wants to request a day off under FMLA because she has asked for it as needed, not in a lump amount. That, and the people in HR, who have to approve it, are really rude/snotty, according to Karen. We had the papers when Rog broke his foot and they tried to make us use it while waiting for Workers Comp. The paper work is unbelievable, but it's still good it's available.

Sorry, I wasn't clear about the laptop. Karen just said she wished she could get him one to use while in there.:-)

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 03:41 PM

FUCKIN A NUMBER ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GIVER SOME GOOD BUDDY!

STAND ON IT!

KNOCK THE MIRRORS OFF!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: maeve
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 03:58 PM

Let's not give any bored paper pushers cause for gripes.

Hey, Spaw. Checking in from snowy Maine.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 04:04 PM

wow, it is good to hear positive news!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: mouldy
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 04:52 PM

Now, Spaw, just behave yourself! There's glass doors on your room because your fame precedes you,and they need to keep a beady eye on your doings.

Doings? Should I have used that word?

Keep up the recovery, my friend!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: jacqui.c
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 05:06 PM

Wonderful news! Mojo coming re time off for Karen.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 07:21 PM

I am out of town but when i get back I will see what I can do about a computer for my brother. Let me make some phone calls

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: gnu
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 07:24 PM

Put er in bull low and take yer foot off the gas. Enjoy the ride back. And remember, yee got some great buddies here at the Café what can't hook the chains on but can cheer from the dry ground eh.

Not that some of us ain't on slick but we'll cheer loudly while we're vertical.

Tight lines and straight shootin atchya. Keep er twixt the ditches eh! Ya mean a lot to a lot.

Sorry for bein so sentimental but I was always mental one way or another.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 07:26 PM

Alert??? Hmmmmmmmm???

Reckon that meanS that Mudville is also now on alert, as well...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 08:15 PM

Great news, Kat- thanks so much for being the bearer of all this news.

As for you, dear ol' Spaw, you just keep heading in this direction (health-wise, I mean). We miss you around here!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEW
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 08:20 PM

Hmmm? I may need another bottle of mead for the Old Gods. I finished what was left of the one I opened the other day. Good thing that Maine wineries make a good mead.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 08:23 PM

Good idea. Chongo has been knocking back a bottle of whiskey a day in order to summon up some good energy for Spaw, and it appears to be working...I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Janie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 08:44 PM

Happyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappy.


HAPPY!!!!!!

Now, Spaw, your job is to keep us happy by keepin' on gettin' better.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 09:03 PM

NYCFTTS is opened and awaiting Spaw's arrival. It appears he will have a private room. No one wants to share one with him. Something to do with Nether Regions.
I will be two rooms over, Spaw. Don't come visiting until I am sure I am not a biohazard. But Mousethief needs some company.
MWAHAHAHAHA
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Bob Landry
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 09:14 PM

It's great to hear good news about Spaw, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 09:35 PM

I was going to mention FMLA but SRS beat me to it. And there's no reason for HR to be snotty and rude about it -- it's FEDERAL LAW, not some benefit given by the employer.

Actually, there's no reason to be snotty and rude to people at work at anytime. Angry and/or murderous, perhaps, but not impolite. Remember, ALWAYS wash your hands well after strangling someone because they might have been carrying germs that could make you sick.

It sounds to me like Karen's employer is just trying to make it hard to use FMLA Leave. And she should find out when it "resets" itself -- on January 1 or one year from the date it is first used. If the employer's policy is based on a calendar year (resets January 1) then she started new and fresh when it became 2011.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Bugsy
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 09:42 PM

Great News Kat,

As they used to say in the RAF, "I'm Chuffed to NAAFI breaks!"

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: ragdall
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 12:22 AM

Yay! Great news!
Keep up the good work, Pat.

rags

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: KT
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 02:11 AM

HOORAY!!! Tears, here. Soon to be replaced by some Spaw induced giggles, I hope!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 09:25 AM

Yay, lets send in the naked ladies and gentlemen, or is that too soon?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 11:00 AM

Spaw: Spurn the monkey!!! Spurn the monkey!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 11:54 PM

G'night, Peachesdarlin'...sleep tight in your new room.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 01:49 AM

good news to get when I get back home after a festival

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: freda underhill
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 02:47 AM

It's great to hear Spaw's turned a corner. No Shakespearean welcome back to Mudcat - just that damn Rapparee with his pungent writing - Good luck, Karen, in dealing with the red tape and all the other stuff - best wishes to you both,

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Janie
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:29 AM

'mornin' Spaw.

Hope the FMLA is getting straightened out, Karen.

Still sending good thoughts to all of you.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:06 AM

..."Come hither to me - hither, hither," said Peeleg, with a significance in his eye that almost startled me. "Look ye, lad; never say that on board the Peapod. Never say it anywhere. Captain Ahab did not name himself. 'Twas a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother, who died when he was only a twelvemonth old. And yet the old squaw Tistig, at Gayhead, said that the name would somehow prove prophetic. And, perhaps, other fools like her may tell thee the same. I wish to warn thee. It's a lie. I know Captain Ahab very, very well; I've sailed with him as mate years ago and as cabin boy before that; I know what he is - a good man - not a pious, good man, like Bildad, but a swearing good man - something like me - only there's a good deal more of him than I have, if thou takest my drift. Aye, aye, I know that he was never very jolly; and I know that on the passage home, he was a little out of his mind for a spell; but it was the sharp shooting pains in the bleeding stump of his manhood that brought that about, as any one might see. I know, too, that ever since he lost his, ah, leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he's been a kind of moody - desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off. And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one. So good-bye to thee - and wrong not Captain Ahab, because he happens to have a wicked name and used to have the wickedest, ah, leg in all of Nantucket. Besides, my boy, he has a wife - not three voyages wedded - a sweet, resigned girl, for what else can she now be? Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man has a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, poxed, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities of a sort!"

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: jacqui.c
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:13 AM

Still watching and sending the good stuff to you all.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: olddude
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:28 AM

well its about time you are starting to get better "Numb Nuts"

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Janie
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 03:22 PM

"Spaw come back to us, Bud, so we can lay this thread to rest before I have to go out to Idaho and throttle somebody;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:30 PM

Timeout



Idaho?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:35 PM

Rhymes with zapadee.

Spaw, HEAL!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: bbc
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:33 PM

Well, it's certainly great to hear this news! Keep up the good progress, Pat!!!

love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: jacqui.c
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:43 PM

Janie - I'll join you! Music Stands should be seen and not heard!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: ClaireBear
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:54 PM

Jacqui, we ARE seeing him. Imagine if we had to hear him reciting that!

Oh please, please get better quick, Spaw, and restrain brother Rapparee!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 08:21 PM

What? You don't like excerpts from the unexpurgated director's cut of Moby-Dick? One of America's greatest novels? For shame!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 09:37 PM

It's a vast improvement on the original, imo...never could stand it, m'self. Your wit gives me great, belly laughs!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 10:30 PM

If Spaw doesn't get better soon I'm going to start on The Vision of Drythelm by the Venerable Bede. If the telling of a pre-1000 visit to Hell doesn't get him up and going, then to hell with it!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 01:37 AM

While a laptop computer can be a fairly involved purchase, I wonder if a netbook, a small wireless device with a monitor and keyboard (that can be hooked to a data port or used wireless, and can be set up in an office with a regular monitor, regular keyboard, and mouse) might be a useful device for Spaw? The smaller device might be easier to use.

Looking at Kat's remarks I get the impression they don't have one now. Laptop or other. Sam's Club has them starting at $300.

Just a thought. I'll chip in a few bucks.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 03:36 AM

Ok Spaw I'm thowin down the gauntlet for a challenge of story tellin

True Story Tellin

I triple dog dare ya




On Niagara Blvd, north of Buffalo in Tonawanda there is a Volkswagen dealership named Schmidt's. Old man Schmidt was an honest guy who looked like a heavy set Bob Newhart. He was a hands off owner and didn't pressure or pry anyone especially the sales manager Lance Parker who impressed Mr. Schmidt because he was an intimidating guy.
Parker came from a military and law enforcement family going back 3 generations. Lance was sales manager since he was over the top assertive and also because he got thrown off the DC police force from one too many kills with his police weapon.

The sales staff was Don the soft spoken rookie who said he had been a hypnotist, soul brother Charlie with an infectious smile and finally Mark Levin who was top dog salesman and should have been a politician and might be one day since his dad was a judge. Mark Levin had come from his own business where he contracted to train and motivate sales staffs. His dynamic personality cut that career short when he jumped on a disagreeable sales manager's desk and pissed all over the desk and manager. The manager had apparently made a few disparaging remarks about Jews in which Mark voiced a fluid resignation speech.
Since Lance was a Viet Nam veteran, a disgraced dismissed policeman and a recent divorce' he relied on his sales staff for his therapy in the form of dishing out vengeance for all the grief that the world had dumped on him. One day he asked the rookie Don about how the Police Chief's son was doing after test driving the Wolfsburg GTI. Don mumbled something about the kid being a snotty show off and nearly wrecked the car. As if on cue Lance stood and shouted "what are you, some kind of hero to zero? He is the Chief's son you son of a bitch and you're not worthy to wipe his ass" Don said he was glad about that and was summarily told to get the F out of the office.
The next day Charlie told Don that he better watch out, Parker has a way of getting even the devil hates.
Charlie and Don were friends only after Don said he would kick Charlie's ass. Although Charlie was twice his size he took it as some kind of macho respect and sort of looked out for Don after that.
The showroom speaker barked "Don to the sales office" Don walked in sheepishly while Mark was writing two sales contracts at once. Don stood there for almost two minutes while Lance went through the motions of paperwork. There was a grilled chicken sandwich from Chick Fillet on the desk that smelled delicious. "Sit down" Lance said in a tone that almost sounded apologetic. "It looks like the Chief's son is buying a Charger, I guess it's a better fit. So anyway you need 3 more sales to beat your draw so show those Golf GTIs, they have the best spread. Don said OK while looking at the sandwich. Lance said "have you had lunch? 'no' "here take this extra sandwich, Debbie brought me lunch but I already ate" "Thanks". Don was not without suspicion but the sandwich said "I taste even better than my delicious aroma"
Despite the subtle warning, Don did not know that Lance had a older brother Randy in the FBI with total access to black ops labs. What you thought were rumors about the FBI carrying our covert operations in Cuba to discredit or even eliminate Castro, were all true. Even the chemical that purportedly caused such intestinal distress that they planned to give it Fidel in a drink to cause him pain or embarrassment while giving a speech. Randy gave some of this elixir as a present to Lance for a ex wife prank that they had only joked about until today.
Don jumped in his VW Golf and was on his way to pick up his girlfriend at University of Buffalo on the bright June evening. In the car his stomach was making a squeaking sound like clean tires on the showroom linoleum floor. Don had followed Cindy from Rochester and they had been together for 3 years. Don and Cindy stopped at the Hertel Ave sub shop and got 2 hot meatball and cheese subs if laid end to end were over 4 feet long.
Back at the apartment the bedroom was hot. The windows had been painted shut decades ago. The living room opened to a porch door but whenever the dog upstairs went to the bathroom the porch would rain dog pee so the door stayed closed except for this first really warm June night. Don had discovered that the TV in the tiny living room would work only if he took a spray bottle of water and squirted the back of the TV but Cindy wanted to get right to bed. While they both felt a bit like beached whales they laid spooning after love making for a bit when the persistent stomach noises all day changed frequencies into a much deeper register. Suddenly Don realized that he was actually swelling before his eyes. There was no pain but he knew time was up. First he had to lift a leg over Cindy to get out of bed. Oh my god that's impossible without unclamping the desperate sphincter of doom. Trapped on the inside of the bed he began to sweat trying to think of some kind of rolling move but the bed was right against the wall. He thought maybe I could just stand and run when Cindy asked "Are you OK?
He was halfway over Cindy when she broke the silence and all hell wanted to break loose. Don's failed choreography turned to plan B which was to just let go under the sheet and blanket and hope for the best. Just then a near perfect B flat tuba blast from Also Sprach Zarathustra began to sound and to both their amazement grew deeper down to the range of the bottom pedal bass note on the grand organ. The sound resonated in Don's chest. Maybe the submarine sandwich saved his life from an intestinal tear but it may have acted like cannon wadding. Ten seconds had passed and so had at least 6 liters of gas as it neared the 15 second mark. Cindy's eyes were as big as saucers, Don was looking for any opportunity to force some kind of emergency cut off valve attempt but the end wasn't even close.
Twenty miles away was Erie Lackawanna renown for the slinkiest steel mills in the country. Tonight Lackawanna was a garden of lilies compared to Don's bedroom. The only place that had more methane was the moon Titan. Just when the staggering duration of window rattling woofer splitting bass notes became truly terrifying as a cannon like retort introduced the finale like fireworks on the 4th of July. Bambambam BAAM Bam bam.
It was dark. There was no breathing. They both staggered out of the bedroom and breathed their first deep breath at the back porch door as though they had emerged from a deep dive while holding their breath. The only other door opened to a stale hallway so the apartment did not exchange a bit of air. There were flies on the floor spinning on their backs. Don and Cindy gasped for Oxygen.
Neither of them had anything to compare it to as they headed for the car at midnight. While they didn't know it yet they were actually drawn closer by this near cosmic event. It had been the fart of a lifetime, the fart of the century. There had been nothing like it for eons since the dinosaurs had died out.
Don returned to work the next day and felt Lance's eyes study every move for any detail, for any clue. He hovered nearby to catch any word or tell tale indication what had happened last night. Don never gave him the satisfaction. Even Mark cracked first and spilled the beans that he was told to find out if anything unusual happened last night.
What Lance didn't know was that he had given Don ten times the recommended dose of "FBI Castro Oil". The next time he tried it he gave his wife's new husband 100 times what he gave Don. It was the first case of spontaneous human combustion that Tonawanda had ever seen.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 09:56 AM

I always wondered why the whale was named Moby Dick. Now I have a clue. Thanks, Rap...I think.
Hi Spaw. How are we doing? Nurse Ratched is readying the bed pans in the freezer. I'd gett better fast if I were you.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:26 AM

And the "freezer" is liquid nitrogen. If you ever thought getting your tongue stuck to a flagpole was bad....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:38 AM

I think that is a great idea, SRS, esp. the size, etc.! Either that, or whatever olddude might be able to work out without burdening himself (do you hear that Dan!?)

I will be back, right now I've got a hot date sitting here waiting for me to paay Battlegons...cover me, I'm going in!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE GOOD NEWS
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:55 AM

Donuel, that story demonstrates that there is often a methane to any madness.

Subject: UPDATE 17 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 03:50 PM

Pat is now in a private room and will be having his first physical therapy session, today. He is at "Select Acute Care Facility" room #336, but Karen didn't have the addy handy and I am not sure I found the right one online, so I'll have to post it later.

Anyway, he is on his way back up, but it could be a long haul. Karen said this is the first time she's seen him seem so overwhelmed, getting over the shock of how long it's been and what it has entailed. He's feeling really anxious to get better but is very, very weak. They've stopped all antibiotics, but one and will wean him off the vent over about a week and a half. They really need the "output" to slow down so that he can take care of himself. He's worried that he won't be able to work up to a strong enough point before the next three weeks are over, plus the pain of it all is very wearing.

Karen is really impressed with this facility. At the hospital he'd been in, she said the docs were never around or available to speak with. At this place, everyone seems available and caring. They are having a meeting on Thursday with his case mgr., docs, Karen & Pat, obviously, plus all other people involved, to map out their strategies for getting him on his way back.

I felt a nice, deep sleep come over me this morning...the kind that comes after deep fatigue...may it bode well for our friend.

Karen asked me to tell you all THANK YOU...it means a great deal to her, esp., to know we are all out here sending them good thoughts and all. She thought maybe she could get some handicapped program to help with a laptop or something, but she hasn't much time for looking into it and was grateful and overwhelmed at even the thought of some help for a notepad(?) or laptop for him.

When I called, just now, I got to talk with Tristan! He told me he and his mom were cleaning house and that he was fine and, yes, he had been cleaning the snow, too. I love the way he says my name, "caught."He is such a sweet young man. Karen said she had to do some deep cleaning, stuff that's been piling up, including the two of them moving the piano out of the middle of the room!*bg* We didn't get around to Michael, but I would guess he was either helping or out with his gf. They've both been great for Karen and good about going to see Pat.

That's it for a few more days, unless something happens. I'm going back to rest some more

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 03:54 PM

Good news. Thanks kat.

Not many words here. Just T&Ps for all.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 04:12 PM

So...I continue with "Moby-Dick."

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 04:15 PM

I told her of your monumental efforts and of my own preference for same...she was going to be sure to tell Pat...most impressive, Rapparee!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 04:28 PM

What about our monumental effort in reading through that nonsense?
SINS

Glad the news keeps getting better.
M

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:03 PM

Kat
within the next week or so Spaw will have a loaded Toshiba notebook with carrying case and two batteries. The retired CEO of a major company is a friend of mine and said he will ship it right out to me. It was his old one (better than the one I have LOL) ... so Spaw and Karen will be all set and we can get the old goat back online

Love Dan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:25 PM

Kat will you please let Karen know so she does not buy anything. normally I would not have posted this but i don't want anyone buying one since it already has been taken care of. ... non issue.

Dan

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:31 PM

Dan, you are incredible. I just sent someone a reply PM that I didn't have the energy to handle fundraising if we all decided to purchase one via you or what SRS had posted, for which they had pledged a very generous donation, and here you are! Thank you, thank you! I am sure that will lift both their spirits.

Much love to you all,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:36 PM

...No man prefers to sleep two in a bed unless it be with a woman. In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother, especially were he younger and prone to dampening the mattress at night. I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping alone. And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply. Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should sleep two in a bed, more than anybody else; for sailors no more sleep two in a bed at sea, than bachelor Kings do ashore, which isn't saying much when you think about it. To be sure they all sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin, unless the cabin boy be comely.

The more I pondered over this harpooneer, the more I abominated the thought of sleeping with him. It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest, wore he any at all. I began to twitch all over. Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards, especially as I would be sharing him. Suppose now, he should tumble in upon me at midnight - how could I tell from what vile hole he had been coming?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:46 PM

If "Morbid Dick" doesn't ruin a new laptop, all will be well....

It is good to have friends....

Take your time, Pat...we'll all be here when you are better. You need to GET better so you can resume a full life with that great wife & kids......and besides, Rita & I want to visit the Columbus zoo with you 'someday'.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Fortunato
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:11 PM

I'm glad to hear you're getting better 'Spaw.

Some of us are about fed up with speaking civilly to/about you.

I'm worried about Kendall, a blivet can only hold so much.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blivet

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Maryrrf
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:21 PM

Great news!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:24 PM

naaawww,,,THIS is a blivet.

"authoritative source"

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:31 PM

Way to go, Olddude!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:50 PM

great! I'm looking forward to spaw's first post

Sending hugs to him & his family (including Kat) & the wonderful folks looking after him

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:54 PM

Dave (my friend) just told me what it has in it .. Holy Cow what a great machine. He also tossed in a leather carrying case a docking station and a wireless mouse if he chooses to use those .. My friend
Dave is always helping others, that is the way he is made. All I had to do was ask and he was right there. I can't thank him enough. It will be good to get some insults again from our brother Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:05 PM

And even the best part, the machine is 2 years old ... way cool , way cool , Now we need to get him an MP3 players so he can listen to some music while he is stuck in that place ...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:13 PM

Ok you folks can help me with the password, what should I put on it when I get this? i was thinking "numbnuts' but I am sure you folks can come up with a better one than that.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: ClaireBear
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:28 PM

How about jadrool49?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Janie
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:51 PM

No words. Just smiles.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 09:15 PM

Why does he need a password?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 09:17 PM

"Peaches?" (It's who he was in an old story thread and I named my dulcimer after his character 'cause he found me a good one and recommended it.)

That sounds fantastic, Dan! Please be sure to let your friend, Dave, know how much we appreciate his and your generosity.

Don't forget, folks, it may be a while before we actually see him posting. I am sure the spirit will be willing and the PT folks will assist, but it's just going to take some time from what Karen said, today. We'll have to keep the home fires burning.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:15 PM

anybody got an extra pair of headphones they can send spaw so he can listen to music and watch youtube on the notebook?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:53 PM

Yeah. PM me the addy.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:56 PM

My goodness! I made that suggestion yesterday, figuring I'd toss it out and see who saluted. And come back today and offer to accumulate cash and make the purchase. But this is even better, and thank you Dan, to the rescue again! Is there anything else this computer needs? A percussion pad for sitting on Spaw's lap, or do you suppose he'd blow his own - er - first - anyway, will he destroy the computer without having a barrier? ;)

mp3 players are all over the place these days. My last two or three phones could act like mp3 players. The last dedicated players I bought were for my son and myself, replacing a couple we'd bought 2 years earlier. He managed to wear his out then kill mine when I gave it to him. He wore out the new one in one semester and I didn't give him mine again, having learned my lesson. I offer this story only as a way to suggest that the SansaFuze 8 gig player sounds good, but it doesn't hold up as well as others might. Any suggestions on other players, or perhaps we can make sure to send mp3 files on something like a flash drive and a good set of earphones to use with the computer? Or a Pandora account for his computer? I have heard good things about those, but have never tried it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 12:06 AM

Pandora is free. He just has to log in on his computer. That Sansa is what we bought the grandkids this year. Have to see how they do.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: KT
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 04:42 AM

Old Dude, you are somethin' else!! And how good it is to hear about Dave and his kindness to a stranger! So glad you could make this happen!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: maeve
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 06:14 AM

Thank you, Dan, Dave, and Rapparee...and those so eager to pitch in.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: mouldy
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 08:01 AM

Ah! Faith in humankind upheld well and truly. What a saint your friend is!

Spaw, your fighting spirit is a true example to us all. You have a phenomenal wife and family, and all I can offer is my love and admiration to you all. Don't beat yourself up if you feel your progress is slow. Better that than none at all. We all want you to mend properly. I think it is going to take you several days to get through reading all the posts, let alone being able to reply, so just take your time. We'll all still be here.

Andrea xx

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 09:06 AM

One of the great NFL linebackers started a charity for spinal chord injury after he broke his neck in a playoff game in the 1990's. His wife asked me if I could help with getting some drink boxes fruit snacks and stuff for the kids during their fundraiser walk. I called Dave, 200 cases of very expensive product was delivered all the way to Seattle. One other time I sold my signed Superbowl football to raise money for an autistic child. I was 500 bucks short of what I wanted to give the family ... bam a personal check shows up at my mailbox .. Dave again. That is the way he is made, always there to help. He was a CEO, worked his way up from nothing .. and never forgot .. he gives back all the time. He bought this for his wife but she really wanted a mac .. and he got her a mac, so it is perfect. When I told him what I needed it for, 2 seconds later, I will ship it right out to ya ... That is Dave. God Bless him

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 10:02 AM

Looks like Spaw had a Secret Santa this year after all!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 12:52 PM

How absolutely lovely it is to be speaking post crisis. Spaw, they say it is the sick child in a family that makes the tightest bonds- well, hey, from time to time you are our child. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 01:33 PM

Yeah, and there ain't no sicker child than you-know-who.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 01:44 PM

Olddude, would you mind letting Dave know that I have recently been experiencing some significant post-holiday depression which could easily be alleviated with a 1968 Malibu convertible with a 396 ci engine in excellent running condition? Preferably metallic royal blue, white top. Rolled and pleated white leather interior and a Hurst shifter would also be very kind, but not necessary, as I am a man of simple tastes. Chrome wheels, white sidewalls nice, but not a deal-breaker.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 02:21 PM

LOL, ok EJ will do ... LOL ...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 02:24 PM

Sounds like the line on Car Talk when they run the Puzzler.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 02:40 PM

That, or maybe LeeJ has changed his TASTES:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 02:45 PM

We have to all chip in and get Spaw a Dachshund as a homecoming gift when he returns from the medical facilities. Better that it should be a purebred miniature Dachshund, because they have really buggy little eyes and sharp noses and they're mostly a bit nuts. Very entertaining. ;-) I can't imagine what could put him in a better mood and hasten his recovery more effectively. Perhaps the dog could even be brought to his bedside now if the nurses are agreeable. Dachshunds do not mind strong odours. In fact, they seek them out. The more I tbink about it, the better this idea sounds.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 03:03 PM

I think we need to give him an incentive to stay out of the hospital. Next time we should tell him ... OK .. you scare us again we are going to take stuff away ... like your car .... your guitar .. LOL some kinda incentive to stop doing the hospital gigs ... maybe that will work huh

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 03:09 PM

We could threaten to send him "a Dachshund a day" until he comes home.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 03:20 PM

That is truly sick, LH! Besides, his dog at home would prefer not, I am sure, as well as the cats who are already planning the demise of any "cutesy intruders."

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 03:34 PM

Or if Dave has an old Oldsmobile Cutlass with knocking rods and a rusted out floor board that has been used to haul hay bails and manure, I know a certain guy who is currently hospitalized but loves a challenge. I guarantee he would have the engine overhauled and spitting blue flame, but he would likely fix the floor board with a piece of cardboard.
Not to mention any names.
Like Greaseball...

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 04:10 PM

Watch it there, Blondie, that's just the kinda thing he'd knock over Lazarus to get his hands on...talk about a challenge! Ya better be ready when he's got it all souped up...he'll call ya out!

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 04:41 PM

Ebbie... "Spaw, they say it is the sick child in a family that makes the tightest bonds- well, hey, from time to time you are our child. :)"

Geeze oh eh?... had to get a tissue.

Dan... block out the porn on the parental controls eh. As for a password, brokedick49?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 06:07 PM

...We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order the more to concentrate the snugness of being in bed, especially with Queequeg. Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant and self-created darkness into the imposed and coarse outer gloom of the unilluminated twelve-o'clock-at-night, I experienced a disagreeable revulsion about myself and what I had just done. Nor did I at all object to the hint from Queequeg that perhaps it were best to strike a light, seeing that we were so wide awake; and besides he felt a strong desire to have a few quiet puffs from his Tomahawk. Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. For now I liked nothing better than to have Queequeg smoking by me, even in bed, because he seemed to be full of such serene household joy then, as if we were a long-married couple. I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord's policy of insurance. I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend. With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp and an odor redulant of smoldering hemp.

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 06:21 PM

Time for that great old song, "I'll Give You a Dachsie a Day, Dear"

A Dachsie a Day

He remembers the first time he met her
He remembers the first thing she said
He remembers the first time he sniffed her behind
And the night they sneaked under Dad's bed

He remembers her sweet way of waggin' her tail
Sayin' "Honey, has somethin' gone wrong?"
He remembers the fun knockin' garbage cans over
And the reason he wrote her this song

I'll give you a Dachsie a day, dear
I'll give you a Dachsie a day
I'll love you until the rivers run still
And the four winds we know blow away

They would trot down the street in the evenin'
And for years I would see them go by
And their love that was more than the dog tags they wore
Could be seen in the gleam of their eyes

As a kid they would take me grave robbin'
And I loved to go taggin' along
We'd find road kill to roll in and shit to disturb
And the old dog would sing her his song

I'll give you a Dachsie a day, dear
I'll give you a Dachsie a day
I'll love you until the rivers run still
And the four winds we know blow away

Now he walks down the street in the evenin'
And he stops by the old butcher store
And I somehow believe he's believin'
That they're sharin' a sausage once more

For he feels like she's walkin' beside him
And he smiles at the things she might say
Then the old dog walks up to the hydrant and pees
And he gives her a Dachsie a day

I'll give you a Dachsie a day, dear
I'll give you a Dachsie a day
I'll love you until the rivers run still
And the four winds we know blow away


Oh, and here's the human version:

A Daisy A Day

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 06:48 PM

Poig-nant, man...way poig-nant

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 06:52 PM

LH your song
sniff sniff Just beautiful , Just beautiful ... makes me hug my wiener dogs ... sniff

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 09:13 PM

I...I just can't express...the emotion...overcome...must...must go to the bathroom....

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 10:32 PM

Yeah that's mine, '57 Corvette, slicks, mags,390 v-8 under the hood with Hooker Headers and a suicide clutch. Real chick magnet,lethal as a loaded pistol. I'm headed to the beach to check the surf out....later...

Hey man, ya know the penalty for two-timing a Duesenberg? Horsing around on your Mustang? Being bad with your Bugatti?

You is cruisin' fer a bruisin', Lonesome. It's not my say-so. It's car-car-car-Karma!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 11:32 PM

Well, hell...at least they're both Chevys ain't they?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:49 AM

You're not suggesting...misbrandanation...are you?

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:13 AM

Forget it man, in the immortal words of Spaw "Hemi Cuda"

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Hawker
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:40 AM

Wonderful news! Bless all those wonderful people out there who chipped in to help.
Just lovely!
Cheers, Lucy x

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:57 AM

Does anyone know if Spaw has or uses skype since this thing has a built in webcam maybe his kids and family would love to see him without running to the hospital every couple of hours. Let me know so I can download the app

Subject: RE: BS: Catspaw - Change of Plan - UPDATE 17 Jan 2010
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 11:18 AM

You may want to supply a piece of black tape to cover that cam for now. An accidental view if he's not expecting it might harm small children or make old ladies faint.

Subject: UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 12:11 PM

Well, well, well....seems he is doing much better! He did four hours on the trach mask, for his first time which met their goal. He got a little anxious and muscos-ey, but the respiratory therapist was so pleased, s/he wants to speed up the weaning. Karen thinks by next week, they should be able to cap the trach. He is still extremely weak, balance is gone, and he's a bit bewildered by just how much, but Karen tells him he will work through it, it's just going to take more time, this time.

He ate REAL food, yesterday...tuna tettrazini. If he keeps that up, they will be able to take out the feeding tube.

Karen is so excited and grateful to everyone. Dan, she says, "Yes please!" to skype, after I explained it to her. I do have a card addy, now:

Please PM me for the address.
As Art Thieme says, "Onward and upward!"

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Nancy King
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 01:03 PM

Better and better!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 01:04 PM

Good news.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:01 PM

"tuna tettrazini"... sounds fishy to me.

Great news. Pitter Patterson, better get at er some! GO SPAW!!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:03 PM

Go Spaw yourself.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - Kat Kewstion
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:27 PM

Hardi's bro and SIL live very near Columbus. Pat and Karen would like them. Can he have visitors yet? Pls advise.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:29 PM

Wasn't "Tuna" Tetrazzini the guy who spilled the beans on John Gotti?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:52 PM

Card all written...post office tomorrow...Spaw sometime next week.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:25 PM

That's super, mouldy, thanks for that. Cards are most welcome.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:37 PM

Do you think he'd like a whole salmon? I could mail him one.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:38 PM

I can't manage a salmon, but I have an almost-fresh trout here that should package up nicely.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:46 PM

You two go sit on your hands and be good!**BG**

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 03:48 PM

How about sending him some of those car calendar's with the hot bikini girls in it ... two things he loves ... cars and hot bikini girls ... LOL Or maybe just a cat calendar ...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:07 PM

Tuna Tetrazzini?
That would make me gag on a good day. What the hell are they thinking? Roast chicken, maybe. Or homemade chicken soup??? But TUNA? Gross!!!!!

Of course, Karen will have to let us know when he can handle Maine lobster.

Meantime, i suspect he needs his family around him, a computer when he is up to it and rest.

I love you, old man. Get well.
Auntie SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:09 PM

I was thinking that myself Sins, the next thing they will add insult to injury and give the guy ... dare I say ... Jell-o

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:15 PM

One other suggestion , I have been a person stuck in the hospital more than a few times. It is awful boring. Anyone want to send him some movies wouldn't be a bad idea. The notebook has a DVD player ...

Miserable laying there watching soap operas

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:17 PM

ooooohhhhhh!
Green Jell-O. Yum


Miss kitty - I am saying three our fathers, three hail marys and three glory bes for you. he heh he heh he heh

Some one wise told me today that I don't have a soul. He said that I am a soul but that I have a body.

Something to think about after I say those prayers for our kat, who has been truthful to the point of very bad. he heh.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:19 PM

How about Songcatcher, Old Dude? That will get him out of bed faster than anything.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:20 PM

Good Grief, I shudder just the mention of it, next you will say put some fruit in it also ... ooop pardon gotta run and vomit ...

if you think about DVD's they guy loves the history channel and discovery. He talked to me many times about ice road truckers and all the history channel specials ... just tossing out ideas

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 06:50 PM

I think some of that was more for Tristan who loves big trucks?

Sins, I am going to GET you!!LOL glory be, woman, you are on a tear! Don't worry, Spaw, I've got the litter all cleaned up!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 07:48 PM

Such unabashed celebratory foolishness! Pat, I'll loan you a tube of Official-Minute-At-A-Time-Patience if you'll squeeze out the last drop of it while your body catches up.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 07:55 PM

Heck, I'll send him a tube of K-Y Jelly. Just the thing to smear on doorknobs.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 08:05 PM

Ow! Glad he can't hear all this talk of tubes and oiling things up and all. Have a heart, ya'll...he's got tubes everywhere, if ya know what I mean!;+>

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 08:58 PM

I've told y'all before: he's the gas supply for both Columbus and Cincinnati.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Amos
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:05 PM

Send him a DVD of "A Mighty Wind". He loves folk music, innit?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:12 PM

Or "Blazing Saddles."

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:30 PM

Or "South Park". Or "Beavis and Butthead Do America."

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:47 PM

Laughter IS the best medicine, but if you've had some surgeries, it can really hurt. Remind me - what originally put Pat in the hospital? Is it something that laughter will hurt or harm?

I came home after cancer surgery in 2000 and thought I'd try that "laughter" therapy and turned on reruns from a couple of television programs I'd always liked. Frasier and The Golden Girls were remarkably funny, and I would have to hold my stomach to laugh. So it doesn't need to be just movies.

But if you're talking funny movies, over the holidays I put the National Lampoon christmas vacation movie in and my ex and my daughter's boyfriend apparently had never seen it. They were like deer in the headlights, with regular bursts of laughter. And the one that really made them squirm was Peter Sellers in Being There.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:52 PM

It can be healing, but you're right about it being painful, too. He had an appendectomy and had a feeding tube down his throat until they sliced open his throat, so I am guessing it needs to be as gentle as possible and, that may be the case for a long while, from Karen has told me. I think he's miserable and, of course, rarin' to go...with no fuel. Who'd ever think of that about Spaw?:-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 09:55 PM

Perhaps I should send him a case or two of bean & cheese burritos.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Janie
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:15 PM

Why am I having these weird visions of Spaw playing a home recorded CD of Kat and Sins doing a rendition of Zappa's Catholic Girls?

'Spawser, as you become more coherent and inhabit this plane more fully, you are probably gonna get lots of wonderful cards and messages. None of them will likely be from me, 'cause I never get around to those good intentions. My good intentions tend to get sent up to the moon on a bright night to be bounced back down to the appropriate coordinates on earth.

Moonbeams comin' at you every night!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:40 PM

All this talk of denizens of the brine made me think of Michael Smith:

You have hundreds of miles to go says I
Take this fish to the land of the Finn
For the Finn woman knows more than I do so fly
To the land the blue fireworks burn in
Schlep this fish child
Across the wild tundra tonight
While a pitiless pale moon above
Shines on me lighting whale oil
And sitting at table
And dreaming of someone to love
For though reams of Lapland laddies urgin' mergin'
Would send me little paper love notes of intent
No one could make me consent to dent my virginhood
Like someone venting sentimental on a sturgeon would
And though I'm just a girl from God knows where
Still I'm a dreamer too
I've got a fantasy I'd love to share
With each and every one of you

For sometime now I've had this secret wish
Someone would send me a love letter on a fish
For a fish and a love letter
Just seem to go together
The sooner I get my fish wish
The better I would say
Someone could start out
To pour his heart out on a trout
I'd read and sigh and then I'd fry it my delish
Even when the weather's sunny
And it makes the mailbox smell real funny
Send me a love letter on a fish

Oh I would love to hear from you on one condish
That when you pitch your woo you pitch it on a fish
It would give me such a thrill
To read I love you on each gill
Or darlin' on a marlin
Things profounder on a flounder
If you'd fain complete your pass
Don't be crass employ a bass
Yeah use that shad for a pad oh I insish
Ten million postcards on a school
Holy mackerel Batman cool
Send me a love letter on a fish

Send me a love letter darlin
Send me a love letter on a fish
Show me that you like me
Tuna melt me smelt me pike me
Send me a love letter on a fish
If you think I'm super
Say it with a grouper
When you're mushy on a sushi I'm in blish
If you want a date
Get out your Papermate and
Decorate a skate
Send me a love letter on a fish

I wonder why do I find it so romantic
That your stationery hails from mid-Atlantic
Why billets-doux upon some shrimp
Can make this lady's knees go limp
Wanna kiss me in the dark
Forty-one cents and a shark
Send me some real postal scales just for the halibut
Don't leave me languishing on ice like Lillian Gish
What I'm sharing here is show your caring
On a herring from the Bering
Send me a love letter on a fish
And though most ladies that you know would go oh ish
Send me a love letter
Don't use an Irish setter
Send me a love letter on a fish
And seal it with a kish

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:52 PM

Love it, Ebbie!

Janie..moonbeams...lovely! But, Zappa - me - Catholic? Really? I can see Sins, but oh boy...my dad made us wear orange, though many of his best friends wore green;>) Love the idea of singing together though!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 11:53 PM

I haven't been here in a long while due to my own serious illness but tell 'Spaw that he's beaten me by 1 degree F for the highest fever I've ever had and not died. I had 106 back in 1994 during a bout with Scarlet Fever. Spaw has to beat me at everything, eh?

Prayers, hopes and love to both 'Spaw and Karen.

I may wind up in hospital myself in a few days if the newer, better, stronger, meaner antibiotic doesn't turn me from Pumpkinhead back to normal. I think it will so I'll try and say high in food threads.

Tell him I have a newish cat whose name is Holly and we named her that because when we found her as a kitten she was surviving but hunting and eating Crickets. He should get the joke whilst those under 40 usually look at me sideways like a puppy who has hear a high pitched noise.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Janie
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 11:58 PM

Moonbeams veering off in your direction, dw, and plenty of them.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 12:24 AM

Welcome to the Mudcat, Woutuarsepaste -

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 02:49 AM

DW, good to see you. Hope the meds do their job and you stay safe and recovered! Please do let us know...it's good for us to pass out {{{{{hugs}}}}} ya know?!

kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 08:53 AM

Come on, kat. It's not my style either but those little plaid skirts and white knee sox will get the old guy's blood flowing.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,Tinker at work
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 09:12 AM

..... My daughter has a couple of Catholic School Girl uniform skirts in the closet.... I could donate them to the cause....

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 09:36 AM

I could wear a kilt, but the last time I did some Scots nearly kilt me.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,999
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 10:19 AM

Any idea yet when the ol`fart will be home?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 10:31 AM

Not for a while, yet, Bruce. He will be at the acute rehab at least three weeks, then rehab where he will learn how to walk again, get his balance back, eat solid food, etc. Long ways to go, yet.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 10:54 AM

This machine belongs to Spaw but what I am going to try and do is see if I can get some other notebooks. I was thinking too many of our friends are crashing lately and doing long hospital or rehab stays. It would be nice to have some backup notebooks that we could lend people while they are recovering. Kinda like a library loan. I am not doing it with this machine as it belongs to Spaw but I will try to do something along those lines in the future. Notebooks are expensive and many of our friends don't have access to one when they end up doing the jail time in the hospital. Plus we are all aging sadly and the health problems that go with it are starting to surface way too often here.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 11:12 AM

My university library has laptops for 24-hour loan and they're out all of the time. Even being able to borrow them occasionally for that long period can make work a lot easier. Good idea, Dan!

We have a software they use to "wipe" data and reset the computers each time they're returned so data doesn't get left behind, etc.

Take care, Pat! Sounds like they're going to make you do some work, but as long as you remember to wear a bathrobe that hospital gown shouldn't be too drafty as you're wandering the halls. I'd think twice about Rapaire's bean and cheese burritos - you don't need to launch yourself on a trajectory following Janie's moonbeams. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 11:26 AM

moonbeams are lovely...but it's also nice to have an entire nebula in your honor

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 11:28 AM

Nice find, Bill!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 11:39 AM

Great photo Bill, but I wanna keep the old guy down here on earth for a while longer :-) I haven't been insulted in a long time ... we need him back soon. The place is not the same without reading "needle dick" at someone

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 02:35 PM

Well, if you only need to be insulted I know lots of insults. Just let me know and I'll notify everyone that you have a very, very small pimple that covers your entire male organ. I also know some good ones in languages other than English, Profane, or Obscene, caca del dolphino.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE 19 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 02:50 PM

LOL, I would rather you go back to reading moby's dick

Subject: He Speaks!
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 03:37 PM

LOL, thanks for the laughs, fellahs!

BillD...beautiful, awesome!

And, now, may I have a drum roll?

Just after lunch, my cell rang and I heard a familiar voice..sounding stronger than I expected. It was Spaw himself!! He sounded strong because he was using a device over the trach hole. He didn't last for very long...got worn out and the docs came in, so we had to say goodbye, but it was so good to just hear him. Definitely on the mend, slow, very slow, but still in the right direction. He thinks he may be out of that place by the end of next week on to the next as this one is geared towards medical rehab and he's now almost ready for mostly physical rehab. Karen will catch me up on that later.

My cell phone quality is not the best, so I missed a lot of what he said, but I know he has been around the room with a walker. Also, he got a little anxious and asked me to let you all know that it may be quite awhile before he gets back on here; he mentioned the amount of energy it takes. I told him he is not to feel ANY pressure from us that we're all here holding the fort, etc. NOT to worry about it. I told him the laptop was for mp3 listening, movie watching, and talking with his family via skype. I think I may have blown it. I thought Karen had already told him about it, but he obviously was "gobsmacked" when he asked me to repeat what I'd said about what you are doing, Dan. And, you, Rapparee. I'll have to tell Karen sorry. She said she'd call me later tonight. Since the docs were there I am guessing I'll have more news about all of that, too.

Phew! My heart is a lot happier, now. Lots of Thanks givings being sent up!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Dave Swan
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 03:49 PM

What great news. Thanks for the update, Kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: olddude
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 04:30 PM

that is the best news ever, thank you thank you ... find out from Karen if they have a wireless router at home ok

Dan

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: My guru always said
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 05:07 PM

What wonderful news, thanks Kat. I'll sleep happier tonight!

Still sending positive thoughts, love & hugs across the pond.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 05:16 PM

"It was Spaw himself!!"

I have tears in my eyes. I wish I was there to kick him in the nuts and share tears with him.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 05:25 PM

I posted immediately before even reading the whole post kat... "around the room with a walker"

A walker? Great news. No problem at all. I am not using a walker yet so I would have no problem catching up to him for a good swift kick in the nuts.

Pat... thanks for hangin in there buddy.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 05:31 PM

I've just retired a router but I need to give it a test - I'll let you know if this one is still working, and if so, it's easy to set up.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: olddude
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 05:33 PM

Thank you SRS you are a good friend

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 05:37 PM

Take it easy, Pat...no hurry.... "we'll leave the light on for ya'"

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: bbc
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 05:52 PM

This is great news, kat; thanks so much for representing us!

love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 06:10 PM

I hope they take that tube out before he posts so I can understand what he's trying to say...

Nevermind, that was retar.... Ah, lame...

Great news, kat...

Been too long since the last Reg Boys story and he's had all winter to get all that stuff backed up so I reckon when he does get back there's gonna be more than one monitor blown the heck up...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 06:24 PM

Which end was he speaking from?

Seriously though...this is wonderful news! Though now the hard part is just staying still enough to get better.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 06:42 PM

"Gobsmacked" is good. This word needs to spend more time in light of day, not only floating around in MOAB-land. :)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: olddude
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 06:45 PM

I gotta light my thank you candle in church this week ... Thank you God and thank you to the docs. WE need the old goat ...so many people love him as this post shows and will do anything for him ... now we have to kick his nads when he heals up

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: maeve
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 06:51 PM

I'm happy to hear the newest improvement!

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 07:17 PM

Good news!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 07:35 PM

Apparently, Spaw's nuts are in need of protection. SO! The Evil Sisterhood is called into action. Who touches a hair on yon grey curly pow, dies like a sow!!!!!
You do not want to mess with us.
SINS, the Protector

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 07:36 PM

But we are not above cornrowing. Get your ass out of bed, Spaw. Those braids are serious.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: maeve
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 07:49 PM

PM sent, kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 08:23 PM

Fabulous news Kat!! Thanks so much for the updates. Spaw you just keep doing whatever it takes to get you better, back home with your family, and back here with your "family".

                            Neil and Christina

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 08:23 PM

Thanks, maeve.

Sins, you are a sight!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 08:36 PM

Am I misbehaving? Or just trying to distract you?
Much love, Karen, Spaw and Miss Kitty.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 08:37 PM

Chongo is very, very happy that his extended whisky binge has helped generate some good healing energy for Spaw. The only problem is that he's completely out of money now. And facing possible charges...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 08:38 PM

Wonderful news indeed.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: olddude
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 08:47 PM

Sorry Sins but as GNU said also, Foot in Nads is indicated in the case of Spaw .. He ain't gettin away scot free from scaring the jelly beans outta lot a good folks he ain't no seeeree he ain't

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 09:02 PM

Foot in NADS???????
HUH?
NADS is a depilatory from Oz. Why did he put his foot in it? Hairy toes?
I am so confused...but I will call the Sisterhood to protect Spaw from those who would do him harm.
heh heh
Old Dude, give me a hug and get on with you.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 09:28 PM

Doctor! Doctor! I think the monster he's alive!

                                 --Igor

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Dharmabum
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 09:30 PM

GOOD NEWS!
DB.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 09:33 PM

I'm posting for Catspaw49: 300!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Amos
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 10:20 PM

Wait--is Mary threatening to put up Spaw's pubes in corn-row braids? Does she have Karen's permission to do this? Evil Sisterhood, indeed!!! ROTFLMAO!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Janie
Date: 20 Jan 11 - 10:48 PM

Miss Kitty is the gentle type. She means what she says. However, I insist you must immediately gain your wit, crassness and wisdom. I am bored with not being dismayed, not to mention appalled, not too mention having my feelings hurt to learn that LEJ's (very) little red GTE is not enough for his rapacious soul, and demand that you heal instantly and fully, and begin your gross and obscene postings forthwith!


(And in the meantime, still sending good vibes via the moon.)

Love you Bro. Heal well and in your own time.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:22 AM

SINS (Mary) we all know that ANYTHING works for a double entendre. Nads is fine. We know what you're talking about. :)

He ain't gettin away scot free from scaring the jelly beans outta lot a good folks he ain't no seeeree he ain't

We also know what "jelly beans" means. Whatever pops into our adult minds. (And isn't that great?)

Spaw should have a lot of catching up to do once he's back online. And we're all enablers (especially Dan!), getting him back into the flow. Setting him up online. As they say in the various Harry Potter novels, "Mischief Accomplished."

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:33 AM

You ain't just disilin whisky. Foot in Nads disease is said to be more painful than shingels. After effects can cause jelly beans to hang beneath ones knees. If they do hang low do what I do, hang a B cup bra from a garter belt to hold them up, or letem hang free and stick on those teflon disks they use to move furniture with ease.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:35 AM

I've always had to do that.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:57 AM

very good news, kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: mouldy
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 01:56 AM

I hope they forward his mail if he gets out of there at the speed he seems to be suddenly progressing at!

Now he's more or less vocal, should we be "heads up" or "duck!"?

Wonderful, wonderful news - there's a chance I may yet live to have the priviledge of being insulted by him.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: C-flat
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:23 AM

Really good news.

Kat, thanks for keeping us all up to date!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 08:34 AM

It's been a long haul but we seem to be getting to the point where someone like Kendall should shout "High enough!"

Thanks, Kat, for your updates.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: dwditty
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 08:52 AM

WTG, Spaw....and Kat....and Olddude...and Sins....and all the rest.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: olddude
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 10:37 AM

I think he needs a scheduled enema every 4 hours, that will get him up and outta there even faster ... yea that is the ticket ... Kat give his nurse a call

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Becca72
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 10:53 AM

"But we are not above cornrowing. Get your ass out of bed, Spaw. Those braids are serious.
SINS"

Um, I'd like to immediately withdraw my application to the Evil Sisterhood please....

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 11:58 AM

I know he brought it on himself, over the years, but knowing he has had to have a tube in every orifice for awhile (I've been trying to be "delicate" about what I say and I think one has been removed) I would sit a lot more comfortably if you all would give it a little bit of a rest. :-) Tks.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: olddude
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:04 PM

People are just happy and relieved he is out of the woods nothing more Kat. Poking fun is the way of relieving the stress from the panic everyone here had for the last month and a half from someone they love dearly.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:19 PM

Becca - we'll leave that job to Nurse Ratched. She's had a LOT of practice!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Morticia
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:43 PM

phew.....that is all.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:44 PM

Bang on Dan.

This may sound silly, but... how about the canine view? I wondered if they smell Spaw's scent (odor?) on Karen when she gets home. (Sorry that I don't remember if there is one or two dogs.)

Is that a dumb question?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: olddude
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:49 PM

When the captain was so ill, I was talking to Spaw on the phone, he was worried sick about him. Spaw's posts to the captain were all about enemas and farts and stuff. Only after he knew the Captain was going to be ok .. I think he will like the teasing better than any of the mush we have been posting. That is the way Spaw is made, his sense of humor and insanity never stops.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 01:55 PM

My wife is having one, and possibly a bilateral, lumpectomy on February 1. This is quite unfair because she's already had thyroid cancer (half a century back, when she was 17). She does NOT want long faces, doleful expressions, and "you're gonna die!" attitudes around her -- not the first time and not now. She wants smiles and laughs and brownies with icing. I suspect Spaw feels the same.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 02:03 PM

Granted on the humour, it is good to let off the built up concern, but I don't find it very funny when I know he's had a bum tube for weeks due to diarrhoea. That's just darn painful and even laughing about it has gotta hurt. I won't say anything more about it. Have you way with him.:-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 02:04 PM

"brownies with icing"... ooooh!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Lox
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 02:06 PM

before people get hurt,

I would point out that the motivation of evry poster in this thread is a desire and hope to see Spaw get better, that means Kat, Olddude, Raparee etc

So if someone gets uncomfoprtable, they are only sqaying so because they want the best for spaw, and if they push the boundaries of humour, again, they are only doing it because they want the best for spaw.

None of us have to change, just be understanding of each other (not the same as understanding each other - I might not understand, but I can still be understanding)

So admire each other for trying to achieve the same positive ends, even if it is in a different way to the way we believe is best.

all the best to you all folks.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Amos
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 04:02 PM

So, do they do the cornrows around the tubes, or over-and-under? Or wait until they're gone? I do want photographs, y'all...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:10 PM

I reckon the cornrows should include the tubes right now - he wouldn't be tempted to pull them out.......

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:40 PM

I'll show you cornrows!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: maeve
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:48 PM

I dunno...None of our rows of corn would work.

Goodnight, Pat and Karen and Michael and Tristan and Connie and John-boy and Mary Ellen and Ben and Elizabeth and...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: olddude
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 12:52 AM

Gnu
email me please if anything changes with Spaw ok bro.
I am outta here for a bit and won't be checking in

thanks Gary

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 06:01 AM

Well... your email box is full Dan. All I have gotten over the last two days are failure notices. But I'll still try.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Janie
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 07:12 AM

Good morning to you, Mr. 'Spaw.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: Hawker
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 07:43 AM

:0)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - He Speaks!
From: open mike
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 12:09 PM

looking forward to hearing DIRECTLY from Spawser...when he is able to get a message to us...

Subject: UPDATE - Looking Good 22 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 12:36 PM

Dan,

My apologies if I hurt your feelings and the rest of you, too. That last remark was with tongue in cheek...I should have included my usual caveat "**BG**, because that's how I meant it. Please don't leave because of me. You are one of the bestest, kindest of us all and I know Pat means a lot to you. He might think I have shit for brains and my Pollyanna front is just that because I am only a runner-up to Father Joe-Bro, and he might be right, but I am not worth losing your darlin' self, so please come back!

On to how the heck is he. In a word: "Grumpy" according to Karen. She was visiting when I called. She said he bitched for over an hour so she knows he is on the mend. I know you'll all be glad to hear the bum plug is gone.:-)

He will most likely move by the end of next week to one of two rehab facilities. They both sound good, but one he will be evaluated for with Ohio State sounds better. He still has the feeding tube as they are still doing one night feeding and restricting his diet. His sodium is low, for some reason. As soon as they get him going better on that and eating more real food, he'll lose that tube, too.

He did 18 hours with the CPAP last night, so he's ready for more weaning from the trach. They will probably do that completely by next week, leaving a small hole with a plug for awhile.

He spoke with me a little bit, but it's really noisy and hard for him to hear on the phone. He asked me to tell you all Thank you and that this one "really took a big chunk" out of him, both literally and otherwise. He's talking about end of February to get home when he's actually wanting to be there, very badly, now. He's missing his pets, being home, etc. I reminded Karen some places allow pet visits. She said one of the rehab places does as she'd asked.

The laptop will help tremendously, Dan. Rapparee, the headphones got there. He and Karen both realise they don't know ho to use them, but they will figure it out. They are both excited about it and very grateful to you both and to the rest of us.

That's it for now, folks.

kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 12:59 PM

AND I hope by tonight to have deciphered another piece of the Genuine, Unexpurgated, Director's Cut of the novel, Moby-Dick. I'm sure he'll like that.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: artbrooks
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 03:07 PM

Kat, like many people here (I'm sure), I'm watching this thread carefully to keep up with how Grumpy is doing and I'm glad to see that he is doing so well. I expect that there are 10 reading for every one commenting. HOWEVER, I still think that it's unfortunate that you started a second thread and closed out the first one - by now he'd have his very own 1000-message "get well soon" thread! I really think you should join the two and send him a print-out when he gets home.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 03:08 PM

So do we braid in some beads as well? Color suggestions?
Dan - get you ass back in here. Don't make me come for you. It won't be pretty - though the corn rowed beard might work for you.
SINS.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 03:29 PM

Dan did not "leave" because of anything anyone said. Dan is off for a couple of days on a junket to a licetious den of iniquity filled with merry making, feasting, imbibing, masses cheering gladiators...

He went to a football game. Geeze oh eh.

(I assume and hope... I know he was not offended nor was anyone else. If anyone was, I'll kick em in the nuts if I can before Big Mick and a number of others do. Hmmmm... he IS heavily armed and DANgerous... hey Mick, you and Rap on point eh? I'll take up the rear.)

PS... yer welcome.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 03:38 PM

OOOPS
Sorry - I misunderstood.
Football game? Football??????
Oh shit. The man has feet of clay after all.
SINS

Thanks gnu.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 03:49 PM

No problem, I am out of town and busy, I will get the machine out to Spaw by Wed when I get back.. that all no issue

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 04:11 PM

SINS... you don't follow the football thread? Odd.

Dan is a big fan. I simply assumed he is in Pittsburgh.

Go Steelers! (Note that was not all in caps even though I have been "a fan" for many years. Yes, I am stilled pissed at The Belly.)

Spaw... I dunno if you follow pro ball or just college ball. If you do, fuck the Steelers. Them Penns is trash eh? (Sorry Max.)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 05:16 PM

Geeze Louise Kat !! My Steelers are in the AFC championship game, one of the coaches gave me free tics and I live 2 hours from Pittsburgh. Afterwords I gotta go on business, be back next week. Sorry I gave you the wrong impression. yea I get heated on religious threads, don't I always but that don't mean nothing. When people talk out their arse sure I will blows but I ain't mad at nobody, Look for me on the 50 yard line, I am the guy with the terrible towel and Steeler Hat... I can get my email but many clients do not allow access to things like the mudcat .. so email me if something changes with Spaw

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 09:08 PM

And I'll be the guy rooting for the Cubs!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 09:36 PM

"Bitched for over an hour"???

My God... Heaven help this joint when he get's out... We're gonna have to pay fir this... I mean, I'm expectin' the Reg Boyz and Spawzer to burn this joint down...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 09:38 PM

"Look for me on the 50 yard line, I am the guy with the terrible towel and Steeler Hat"

Hahahahahahahaaaaa! I'll be sure to pick you out right off the bat. But, I'll be taping the game so I don't miss you amongst the rest of the Terrible Towelheads... heheheheheeeee!

GO IRON CURTAIN!!!!

We now return to our regular programmimg.........

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 09:38 PM

This means I have until the end of February to praise the song "Space Oddity" and extoll the virtues of Winona Ryder without undue interference.... ;-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 09:43 PM

How'd you find out my middle name, Dan?! LOL

KateyLou does not do football. *walks off muttering, shaking head* ...football of all things.

Girl's just no fun, ya know it?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 10:12 PM

...The hatch, removed from the top of the works, now afforded a wide hearth in front of them. Standing on this were the Tartarean shapes of the pagan harpooneers, always the whale-ship's stokers. With huge pronged poles they pitched hissing masses of landlubber into the scalding pots, or stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted, curling, out of the doors to catch them by the feet and other parts, and when they fell, as they must, their comrades would jab them with the pronged poles and toss them into the pots. The smoke rolled away in sullen heaps. To every pitch of the ship there was a pitch of the boiling oil, which seemed all eagerness to leap into their faces. Opposite the mouth of the works, on the further side of the wide wooden hearth, was a winded lass. This young thing served for a sea-sofa. With her lounged the watch, when not otherwise employed, looking into the red heat of the fire, till their eyes felt scorched in their heads. Their tawny features, now all begrimed with smoke and sweat, their matted beards, and the contrasting barbaric brilliancy of their teeth, all these were strangely revealed in the capricious emblazonings of the works. As they narrated to her and to each other their unholy adventures, their tales of terror told in words of mirth; as their uncivilized laughter forked upwards out of them, like the flames from the furnace; as to and fro, in their front, the harpooneers wildly gesticulated with their huge pronged forks and dippers; as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning corpses, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul, while upon the sea sofa the winded lass made much money.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 10:12 PM

LH... there are enough Spaw fans here to p... diss on your parade until the Pat comes back.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 11:22 PM

If he's lucky it'll be end of Feb...sure hope so!

Still liking it better than the original!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 02:15 AM

Fantastic news!
This is when the real grumpy frustration will kick in as he feels better - so near and yet so far! However, he does seem to have his sensible head on at the moment....

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 02:25 AM

350 is an appealing number.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 06:33 AM

very good news, kat

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 11:05 AM

Go Pittsburgh!! ... the city is a buzz. If Spaw was here, he would tame them Jets fans down. Big Ben says hi. I can access my server via smart phone

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 11:13 AM

I fear you may be right, gnu. ;-) Just imagine how grouchy ol' Spaw is going to be by late February. It'll be fearsome. It will be like Cheech Wizard waiting to be released upon an unsuspecting world.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 12:20 PM

I don't know how to tell you all this, but Spaw IS Cheech Wizard. He used to go into phone booths to change into The Hat but now he thinks it's just too much trouble and anyway the cops need a good laugh.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 12:58 PM

Is Joe Nameth still the quarterback for the Jets? I might watch Broadway Joe but otherwise I will join kat in the corner and read the Moby Dick re-write.

Why are they cooking the crew? Did I miss an installment?

Hi Spaw. Still here amid the sillies.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 05:43 PM

No, I have to decipher the unexpurgated version and that happens as my eye lands on a section (glass eye, got it at an auction). So what gets posted is sort of random, depending upon the eye of the beholder.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 05:47 PM

I see




said the blind man to the deaf woman....

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 06:39 PM

SINS... ya GOTTA wacth the game... Dan has seats on the 50 yard line and when the camera focuses in on him he will be waving to YOU! And maybe to Spaw.

The anthem is being sung now so get the TV on and the VCR taping.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 07:56 PM

Why is the band playing "Deutchland Uber Alles"? And why are the players wearing shorts?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 08:54 AM

Wrong game, Rap.

Yo Spaw.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 09:02 AM

That's okay. They were playing the Cubs.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 09:09 AM

What exactly is Dan waving???? Did he not learn anything from the janet Jackson fiasco????

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 10:15 AM

I am back, my work meetings all canceled since we are now twenty below zero. That is a good thing, my head still hurts ... wow wicked fun. you guys probably would have only seen my nose as it was 10 degrees game time. I looked like the stay puff marsh mellow man.. wicked fun
"bless me father for I have sinned" LOL ... Life is a game, football is serious business ... LOL Must have coffee, black black coffee .. must have coffee

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 11:02 AM

Get better Spaw, gotta take you to see your Browns ok

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 05:40 PM

Spaw's in the bottom end of Ohio -- he's a Bengals fan.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 05:49 PM

The Bungals? Dan... thet might not be the best idea... hehehehehee.

You goin the The Show Dan?

Yo Spaw.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 05:50 PM

well... more toward the middle. We met just outside Columbus several years ago.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 07:13 PM

Yeah, but the NFL and the other major leagues have divided Ohio in half. The line goes right through Columbus -- through some dorms at Ohio State, in fact, and has even divided homes. North of the line you back the Cleveland teams, south of the line you back Cincinnati (there are some outcasts on both sides who back the Cubs, but they are considered unclean). Spaw LIVES south of the line.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 07:23 PM

Hi there, Pat and Karen. The stars are bright tonight here in chilly Maine.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 07:50 PM

Ok Spaw Bengals it is, you get outta there I get you a signed football or Jersey, how about those apples now ain't that incentive for ya

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 09:03 PM

Fuck it's cold here. Beyond nipply.

gnightgnu Spaw. I shall drift off to Oggieland shivering and thinking of you all warm and toasty and healing. HEAL fer fuck sake!

There, I feel calm now. Sweet dreams lad.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Bobert
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 09:11 PM

Go Pittsburg...

There, I know that Spawzer has to be all over this one...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 10:11 PM

...You may have seen many a quaint craft in your day, for aught I know; - squared-toed luggers; mountainous Japanese junks; butter-box galliots; nuclear submarines; log rafts; and what not; but take my word for it, you never saw such a rare old craft as this same rare old Pequod. She was a ship of the old school, rather small if anything; with an old fashioned claw-footed bathtub look about her and hatch-covers stained with the blood shed in ancient floggings. Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms of all four oceans, her old hull's complexion was darkened like a French grenadier's camp-follower, who has alike fought in both peignoir and boudoir. Her venerable bows looked bearded, like a goat or a tree bedecked with Spanish moss, but it was but a fungus. Her masts - cut somewhere on the coast of Japan and made of bamboo, where her original ones were clumsily lost overboard in a gale or sold as lumber by the mate - her masts stood stiffly up like the spines of the three old kings of Cologne. Her ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, rotted through here and there, like the pilgrim-worshipped flag-stone in Canterbury Cathedral where Beckett bled. But to all these her old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining to the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed. Old Captain Peeleg, many years her chief-mate, before he commanded another vessel of his own, and now a retired semen, and one of the principal owners of the Pequod, - this old Peeleg, during the term of his chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it, all over, with a quaintness both of material and device, unmatched by anything except it be Thorkill-Hake's carved buckler or bedstead or the figurehead of a garbage scow. She was apparelled like any barbaric Ethiopian emperor, his neck heavy with pendants of polished ivory. She was a thing of trophies and odors of old, foul and unspeakable evils. A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies. All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, old and missing many teeth, with the long sharp teeth of the Sperm Whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to. Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory and dried whale pizzle. Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe. The helmsman who steered by that tiller in a tempest, felt like the Tartar, when he holds back his fiery steed by clutching its jaw, his hand bitten and bleeding. A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that, save of course my own self and my dear friend Queequeg.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Janie
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 10:48 PM

'night Spaw. 'night Karen. 'night Tristan. 'night Michael. Go away, Rap.

How many innings are there in football?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 20
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 06:48 AM

Janie, Janie, Janie.

There are no 'innings' in FOOTball! There are QUARTERS, and they FLIP them to see who gets to get stompled first, and then there's HALFtime, when Justin TImberlake takes off Janet Jackson's clothes, and they wear really tight pants and almost NEVER talk about 'outings'.

Dani (who is still looking for a man who can teach her to understand football, among other mysteries of life)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 07:25 AM

It's a bunch of guys who like to see other guys in tight pants, give each other hugs, huddle up together, and play with their oddly shaped balls. What else is there to know about football?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 09:10 AM

As for the "action" you can get the same thing in any rough trade leather bar.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 09:38 AM

Shouldn't that be "retired SEAMAN"?

SINS, who really is following the tale (or tail)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 09:44 AM

Rap
casting slander on my beloved football. I am gonna sick spaw on ya when he is feeling better ... you communist !!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 10:33 AM

ALso often seen rolling around on the grass and comparing hats...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 10:34 AM

Just to drop my two-pennorth in - I prefer rugby: blood, busted limbs... and big men in tight shorts!

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 10:45 AM

LOL Amos,
In college my NFL cheerleader daughter once signed up for the Women's Rugby team. All 101 lbs of her ... thankfully that was a passing fancy and she was in it for about 5 minutes LOL ... Now it is Ironman ... it is really difficult for a dad to have girl jocks in the family ... ya never stop beating your head against the wall wondering when the next injury will occur.

Now if we can get some Rugby guys to haul Spaw outta that place, life will be good again. Here that Spaw, the Rugby guys are going to come a knocking

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 11:35 AM

Greetings to Karen and Pat. I hope you continue to see encouraging progress.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 01:43 PM

They'd just drop him, huddle around him, and kick the shit outa him....

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 02:49 PM

What maeve said.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 02:59 PM

I quite agree, kat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 07:00 PM

Hello, Spaw and Karen. Hello, everybody. Traveling as I am it's hard to check in and my tiny phone doesn't do well on line. But I'm here in a Motel 6 in Harrisonburg, VA, happy to see that the progress is good and crossing my fingers that you will continue to improve in every way.
Sleep well, dear ones.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 07:37 PM

I just spoke with Karen - Spaw has been texting her - something she's very happy about as he hasn't been doing that for a while. She is very excited about the laptop - while Spaw doesn't show any signs of wanting to use one right now she thinks that, when it's there, he'll not be able to resist coming on line. Watch out world!

It's likely that his trach will be coming out before too long - they've turned it down some already. He has the catheter out and is walking down the hall. She says that he is doing much better although he is still very weak, but is getting stronger every day. They are hoping that he will go for rehab at Ohio State - a very aggressive rehab centre.

He wants to go home - he says that he is worried that his cat will forget him. Karen says no chance, she wants him home to get the cat off her - she can't give it enough attention.

Both boys are doing very well and have said that they will be there whenever needed when Spaw is finally allowed home.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 07:55 PM

as soon as I receive it, clean off all of Dave's personal stuff and buy some real anti virus for him (I hate the freebee anti-virus stuff)I will get it straight off. Dave shipped it ground since he included a crap load of stuff that Spaw really doesn't need or will use. One very big box including an external monitor, external keyboard, docking station, external mouse etc... I just needed the notebook ... I may need to reformat and load windows 7 for him. Will overnight it to him once i am done. I saw the specs on the machine, it is a beauty

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 08:00 PM

He also threw in some external speakers, It is a whole professional setup.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 08:04 PM

"walking down the hall"

Thank goodness! Great news! Thanks.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 08:15 PM

Thank you for the updates, Jacqui and Dan!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Janie
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 08:29 PM

Sins, I knew you were a remarkable woman, but your ability to concentrate is truly astounding!

Acutally Mike, 'Spaw is going to love it, and it is an amazing rendition you are providing. (I didn't really say that

Pat, may each day bring a bit more strength and a little less discomfort and pain, until the day comes, sooner rather than later, that you wake up, pack up your things, and head for home and further healing.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 09:10 PM

first steps towards the outside world

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 10:24 PM

Just got a text message from him, he is grumpy and the text is typical Spaw. i am thrilled

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 11:51 PM

Does he enjoy receiving text messages?

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 02:51 AM

Good news indeed! Grump away, my friend!

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: My guru always said
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 07:49 AM

Such good news, thanks for the update Jacqui!

Dan, you're an Angel!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 09:21 AM

Great news, Dan. Thanks for sharing. You too, Jacqui.

Thinking of you Spaw...and Peeleg.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 09:24 AM

And on a similar note: one of the geniuses here at work is talking about Final Jeopardy and Colonel Custard and the Seventh Calvary. He said Mustard first but someone corrected him.

SIGH...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 09:30 AM

Sins- Tell him Custard was Belinda's dragon. Poem with sound link

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 09:39 AM

Texting... just imagine what a rush it's gonna be when he posts!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 10:17 AM

Will he need the bedpan?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 11:54 AM

"Tell him Custard was Belinda's dragon."

Wait. Wasn't Custard the foolhardy guy who took on the Indians?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 12:25 PM

That's the one, Ebbie. Colonel Custard in the Library with a bow and arrow. Ditsy blonde tried to stand at Little Big Horn and got shot in the head, I think.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 01:38 PM

Yes indeed... he overcharged the Indians for the frozen dessert, and paid dearly.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 02:55 PM

That last stand of Custard's appears a smidgen obscene to me. Is it just me?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 04:04 PM

Tell us about it Ebbie.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 04:21 PM

no, no...obscene is with a LEFT-hand thread...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 04:27 PM

It'd be the cone, I'm guessing. The girl must really get distracted driving through highway construction.:>)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: DougR
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 05:20 PM

The cat won't forget him. He's unforgettable. Glad he continues to improve.

DougR

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Janie
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 06:42 PM

This collection of 'Cats sure won't!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 08:45 PM

Is his phone on all of the time? I sent a text, but unless his phone is on, it won't get there. (This was a test, sent in the early evening).

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 10:45 PM

Lonesome E, as one enters Portland, Oregon, there is a nightclub with a logo that is not to be believed. :)

gnu, I must not. :)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 10:56 AM

" a simple appendectomy my ass, what the hell was that all about"
LOL ... he is getting better thank God

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 01:51 PM

I don't think I want a simple appendectomy. Make is as complex as possible. Then I can skip all the stuff Spaw's been going through.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 04:03 PM

Oh dear... there's a nasty joke in that, Dan, but I shall follow Ebbie's restraint. After all, I do strive to be demure, as you know.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 04:58 PM

I thought it was some nut called Kernel Custard at Little Cream Horn.... glad to hear that Spaw has joined the walking wounded, and hope he will be able to exit the hospital soonish.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 05:03 PM

Spaw just called me, they capped the trach tube and he could talk normal. He is coming along very well. Walking around, got a ways to go but is hoping they spring him next week. He is hoping anyway. It was just so good to hear him and know he is getting stronger and moving around again. He is feeling much better, he was doing some coughing and it scared me a moment then said they want him to do that. All in all sounding very good indeed.

Thank God

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 06:33 PM

by the way his voice was very strong, not weak ... He is sick of being sick and antsy to get out of there. The old goat has some fortitude. I am so thrilled.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Janie
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 09:38 PM

**BIG GRIN**

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 09:53 PM

nawww.. this is a big grin

☺

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 10:03 PM

I forgot to say that he told me to tell everyone how much he "loves them" He is someone very special to all of us, this thing scared him also.   I am glad it is almost over with ... I lost a lot of sleep over it and so did everyone here. Just so nice to hear his voice and hear him talk normal again. Good grief what an ordeal it was

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 10:19 PM

Remember, it ain't over until the...something...oh, yeah...Spaw posts from his computer at home.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 10:34 PM

Ol' hillbilly still here, Spawzer...

Get yer ass, ahhhhhh, posterior up and runnin'... Well, not exactly runnin'... Butt, ahhhhh... No, not butt but but.... When you read this you will understand.... I mean, the Reg Boyz ain't waiting fir yer sorry ass to get back in the game... Word on the street is that they just might have a little surprise fir ya when ya' get home....

So me n' the Wes Ginny Slide Rule been workin' on this one an' we figurated that seein' as the Regz Boz got mean ol' trick waitin' fir you that maybe you should play a trick on them... Know what I mean???

So we tell 'um that yer gonna be out on the 7th... You know what that means??? Yup, on the 6th they gonna break into yer garage and set up the tables and the bigass 50 gallon drum to cook the beans in and get that party goin' so that when you opened the garage door you'd feel like home but.... 'er butt... No matter...

You knewed you was gonna get out on the 4th and so you turned the tables on 'um so on the way from the hospital you stopped off at the Benny's Bean Shack and ordered up a couple three quarts and you set up yer TV and all where yer buddies (heh heh) were gonna outfox you and you sat down on yer Lazi-Liner (patent pending) and you preceded to watch "I Love Lucy" reruns all the while pilin' them Benny's Bean Shack beans into you like there was no tomorrow when all yer friend showed up thinkin' they was gonna pull one over on you and...

...well, they made the mistake of opening the garage door just as you fired off the shot from Hell... Hell???.... Geeze, that seems purdy weak fir Benny's Bean Shack... Hell just comes up lame...

No matter... Lame 'er not...

At that very moment, Billy Siler -- remember him -- lite a cigarette and, well, I think his explains the thread about a foot found floatin' ashore out their 'round Oregon 'er Kansas??? Heck of a shot I'd say seein' as that foot left from Ohio....

Know what I mean, Spawzer???

B~

P.s. Get yer ass and anything attached to it outta that hosiptal... Thems places got germs, gol danged it...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 06:27 AM

Excellent! I am really looking forward to the first post... and many more.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 06:40 AM

Wonderful!

Thank you to all who have kept us updated & Spaw and his family amused, comforted, and sustained.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: bbc
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 06:51 AM

Very good news, olddude! Thanks! Hugs & kisses to Pat from Beebs!

Barbara

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 08:17 AM

excellent news

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 09:39 AM

And confused. Don't forget confused.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 09:43 AM

A correction, courtesy of Rapparee:

Thank you to all who have kept us updated & Spaw and his family amused, comforted, and sustained....and confused.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 01:12 PM

Am I confused?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 01:13 PM

No more than usual, gnu.

Maeve :)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 02:08 PM

Dave sent all this shit out last Thursday, UPS is looking to see where it is ... now I am getting pissed, Spaw will have one next week if I have to go out and buy a new one ... UPS .. I have had nothing but problems with them over the last year. One of my pocket watches sent out for repair .. gone ... anyway I am on it, just giving you and update, this will happen next week one way or the other. For heaven sakes ...

Dan

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 02:12 PM

Hmmm...Dan are you sure UPS is looking for what Dave actually sent? I mean, Spaw is expecting a computer, not barnyard refuse. I can't be sure, but I think the shipping routes are different for that. Maybe we'd all better check the compost piles out yonders way.

Just saying...   Oh! You meant the computer stuff???


:)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 02:16 PM

LOL, you could be right .. great tracking also .. reads left Boston .. wow .. I could have walked it down from Boston in 8 days ... better yet drove up the 8 hours and picked it up ...

He did economy ground because of all the stuff like the monitor and docking station and the weight but come on UPS .. expected delivery date Monday ... ahh but the catch is what month or year right... geeze

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 02:18 PM

There's a song in there somewhere.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 02:24 PM

Look for a UPS truck stuck in a snowbank.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 02:24 PM

Heck, I snail-mailed a revolver to my brother last Thursday and it got there on Tuesday.

Well, actually a gun store mailed it to another gun store with all the proper paperwork and shipping and stuff. He's a nice enough guy, but I'm not willing to go to jail for him. I'm too pretty for that.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 02:55 PM

Dave just called the UPS store, they said Monday ... at least they found it ..geeeze

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 03:28 PM

old dude,
The weather along the east coast has been horrendous. Even if UPS wanted to ship your package, half their employees never made it to work and most of the planes never made it into to Boston to load.
I am not a big UPS fan but my company is having the same delays and our customers are less than thrilled.
Mary

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 03:29 PM

They are only a week off on their estimate. UPS ...@#@*&^ Spaw needs his computer ... Hey Rap, I hope it was a fully auto uzi that you sent LOL

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 03:40 PM

Mary
thank you honey, I never thought about that ... yes you are right. Western NY has been pretty good weather wise this winter. Forgot the east coast has been pounded .. that has to be the reason

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 03:51 PM

Normally I am pretty patient, but Spaw is going stir crazy, he needs to get online and start talking with folks and his family .. I forgot about the weather issues ... Next week it will happen like I said one way or the other.   Hopefully now they found it in route the monday date will hold up ..

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 03:57 PM

One more thing, I am thinking of hiding a bean burrito in the case. i am gonna for sure put a pocket watch with a note that says "its about time you get outta there" but maybe we should hide a bean burrito to help the docs along with their decision to "spring him" LOL

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 04:06 PM

U Pissoff Spaw and yer gonna get an earful. Now what's gonna be in yer ear, well...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 04:07 PM

Things shipped in boxes that reflect the contents can be more vulnerable to the "five finger discount" in areas where security isn't so good. I have had things go missing from warehouses when they were in boxes labeled "NewEgg," etc.

Fingers crossed it gets there soon, or it's back to plan A.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 04:11 PM

SRS
it is heavily insured, Like I said, if it is not there, I will buy one for him ... either way he is covered. He needs to get online or he will go nuts in that place. UPS did find it and knows exactly where it is so I think there is no worries on arrival now

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 05:00 PM

Lord, no! It was a Model P, much like the stainless but in a nickel finish. Holster included.

This laptop does wireless, yes?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 05:31 PM

So Spaw can watch this?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 05:57 PM

Rap yes it does built in wireless on that model

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 05:58 PM

Rap
was it the .44 mag or .357 cal?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 08:30 PM

.357. Everybody needs a .357.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: jacqui.c
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 08:40 PM

.357. Everybody needs a .357.

Don't tell my grandson that........


Or Kendall, for that matter.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 08:49 PM

had a .357 mag Ruger Blackhawk single action when I was in HS .. I did
a lot of target shooting .. great gun ... If Spaw had one now i bet they would let him out of the hospital faster :-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 09:42 PM

I have friends in Ohio. It could be arranged....

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 10:02 PM

Naw Rap, I'll just call a couple of Delta guys and some seals, they will spring him outta there

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 11:58 PM

Hey, Vinnie brings him a Sterling M34A1 with a coupla full magazines and a pair of pants. Spaw shoots his way out, and since it's suppressed he doesn't even disturb the other patients. Outside a snatch harness pulls him into a helicopter or a C-130 and he's outa there. Hell, Vinnie would do it just for fun, but his Uncle Carlo might want a "tip" for making the arrangements with the Ohio Air National Guard so the rescuing aircraft ain't shot down.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: My guru always said
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 04:48 AM

Just checking in, still sending positive thoughts for recovery!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 09:59 AM

Spaw just called me, he is breathing great,feeling much better ... wants home ... wow he sounds good ... wow

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 10:20 AM

Did you mention the plan with Vinnie?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 10:36 AM

Send Vinnie over Rap, he wants outta there, I know he is going stir crazy and why we need to get this machine to him ASAP. UPS really got me Pissed ... I am going to hold them to the Monday date they gave us. If not you may need to send cousin Vinnie over to that UPS store (tee hee)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 12:21 PM

THAT'S more Vinnie's style! He really like to blow things up. Watches "Mythbusters" all the time, making notes like it was an educational film and for Vinnie it probably is. Actually more like a finishing school, since he was literally brought up in the profession.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 12:33 PM

Hope it eventually gets to him. I'm SO glad he is improving so much!

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 11:17 PM

when a patient has enough energy to complain, things are getting better!

keep up the good work spaw!

& several gold stars to olddude (& friends)

sandra

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 11:33 PM

Dear 'Spaw... iffn you have read this far in these weird threads, you must be well.... no one who is still bad off could survive without bustin' a gut laffin' or sinking into despair at the strange turns. If have NOT read this far, but have skipped about, Pay no attention to that erzatz tale in italics...it will distort your mind!

Too late? awwwwwww...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Janie
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 11:38 PM

Keep up the good work, Spaw.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 12:25 AM

...During all this blackness of the elements, Ahab, though assuming for the time the almost continual command of the drenched and dangerous deck, manifested the gloomiest reserve; and more seldom than ever addressed his mates, not even warning them when waves tore them from their stations and carried them away to be lost forever in the Southern ocean. In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale with the insecurity of those below. Then Captain and crew become practical fatalists. So, with his ivory peg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping his shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together, his meditations only occasionally broken by inserting his ivory peg into the cabin-boy. Meantime, the crew driven from the forward part of the ship by the perilous seas that burstingly broke over its bows, stood in a line along the bulwarks in the waist; and the better to guard against the leaping waves, each man had slipped himself into a sort of bowline secured to the rail, in which he swung as in a loosened belt, each awaiting the cabin-boy. Few or no words were spoken; and the silent ship, manned by painted sailors in drag, day after day tore on through all the swift madness and gladness of the demoniac waves. By night the same muteness of humanity before the shrieks of the ocean prevailed; still in silence the men swung in the bowlines; still wordless Ahab stood up to the blast, still silent the cabin-boy was passed from each to each. Even when wearied nature seemed demanding repose he would not seek that repose in his hammock, but heaving upon the heaving deck. Never could Starbuck forget the old man's aspect, when one night going down into the cabin to mark how the barometer stood, he saw him with closed eyes laying flat on his floor, his screwed chair tossed aside; the moisture of the emotional storm from which he had some time before emerged, still slowly dripping from the unremoved hat and coat. On the table beside him lay unrolled one of those charts of tides and currents and drawings of naughty mermaids which have previously been spoken of. His ivory peg swung from his tightly clenched hand. Though the body was erect, the head was thrown back so that the closed eyes were pointed towards the needle of the tell-tale that swung, along with the cabin-boy, from a beam in the ceiling.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 08:42 AM

Dan, please remember I have people in that area, of several sorts in fact. If he needs anything carried in pls let me know via PM. Also if he needs to sneak out amid a pack of Jesus freaks that can be arranged. :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 09:53 AM

Sorry folks, lost my train of thought, I got caught up in Raps version of Moby's Dick ... can't wait for the ending ... More please

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 10:58 AM

Burstingly broke over its bows?????
Pure poetry.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 01:25 PM

...Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab hovered like a mute, maniac sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his wart-like but still deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served. They were as little children before Ahab; and yet, in Ahab, there seemed not to lurk the smallest social grace. With one mind, their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man's knife, as he carved the chief dish before him, the cabin-boy, roasted to a turn and with an apple in his mouth. I do not suppose that for the world they would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even upon so neutral a topic as the weather. No! And when reaching out his knife and fork, between which the slice of sea-beef was locked, Ahab thereby motioned Starbuck's plate towards him, the mate received his meat as though receiving alms; and cut it as tenderly as once he had held it to his bosom; and a little started if, perchance, the knife grazed against the plate; and chewed it noiselessly; and swallowed it, not without circumspection and without sauce. For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in awful silence; and yet at table old Ahab forbade not conversation; because only he himself was dumber than the heads in the bows of the Pequod. What a relief it was to choking Stubb, when a rat made a sudden racket in the hold below, giving promise of different food at a different time. And poor little Flask, he was the youngest son, and little boy of this weary family party. His were the shinbones of the saline beef; his would have been the drumsticks. For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree. Had he helped himself up onto that table, doubtless, never more would he have been able to hold his head up in this honest world; nevertheless, strange to say, Ahab never forbade him. And had Flask helped himself, the chances were Ahab had never so much as noticed it. Least of all, did flask presume to help himself to butter. Whether he thought the owners of the ship denied it to him, on account of its clotting his clear, sunny complexion; or whether he deemed that, on so long a voyage in such marketless waters, butter was at a premium, and therefore was not for him, a subaltern; however it was, Flask, alas! was a butterless man, never to indulge in the delights of even one hot ruttered bum!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 01:33 PM

LOL, and the story continues ... roasted cabin boy ...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 03:50 PM

The Reverend Spooner just turned over in his grave.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 04:03 PM

bill
according to the new rules Reverend Spooner would be allowed to post on mudcat :-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 04:04 PM

So, where is he?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 04:11 PM

GNU
he is waiting for Rap's next installment of Moby's Dick

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 06:28 PM

Did you hear about the guy named Gillis who had an Irish girl friend? Yep, she was Doby's Mick.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 07:23 PM

I talked to Karen just now. Spaw will be going HOME, most likely by the end of the week. Rather than going to a residential rehab they are looking to getting him to a daily unit for the work he needs.

He has said that he would prefer to spend a couple of extra days in the hospital right now - I would think to make sure that he doesn't have to turn round and go right back in.

Karen and Tris have been making sure that home is set up for him, moving furniture to make it easier to move around etc. Karen will take a few days off once he's home - she's already warned work that this will be happening. Tris said that he would also take a few days off, Karen put paid to that idea and confirmed that he would be going to school! Nice try anyway Tris.

Spaw is coughing quite a lot at the moment, which is disturbing his sleep, but Karen has asked me to tell you all that the old Spaw is back! Now that is REALLY good news.

He hasn't had a chance to read any of the thread yet so will probably be kept occupied, if not quiet, while he reads it all.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 08:02 PM

Considering the weather that's in store for the Midwest he'd be better off staying put.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 10:36 PM

Well, it has been a narrow escape, but that's the kind most relished in retrospect. Welcome home, Spawser, when you get there, and when you feel up to it drop us all a "Fuck you" for old times'
sake...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 12:15 AM

great news, especially his idea of staying a few extra days in the hospital

keep getting well, spaw

sandra

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: bbc
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 06:55 AM

Thanks, Jacqui!

love,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: maeve
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 07:14 AM

I'm delighted to hear the new news. Thanks, Jacqui.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 09:10 AM

When he called me he said he was ansy to get home but was concerned on relapse. I am glad he will stay a few more days as they just removed the tube and they need to be sure. No more relapse and back in stuff. Enough already Spaw, just heal up and go home.

Machine wise he will be all set this week, like I said if it is not here today, I found a Dell that is a beauty that I am going to buy him. Either way he will have it. It will be nice to see him post

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 09:37 AM

..."Ka-loo! Ka-lay!" chortled Queequeg, as if smacking his lips over a mouthful of tube steak. And thus with oars and yells the keels cut the sea. Meanwhile, Stubb retaining his place in the van back in the parking lot, still encouraged his men to the onset, all the while puffing the smoke from his mouth. Like desperadoes they tugged and they strained, till the welcome cry was heard - "Stand up, Tashtego! - give it to him!" The harpoon was hurled. "Stern all!" The oarsmen made water; the same moment something went hot and hissing along every one of their wrists and down their pants-legs. It was the magical line: Do you come here often? An instant before, Stubb had swiftly caught two additional turns with it round the loggerhead, whence, by reason of its increased rapid circlings, a hempen blue smoke now jetted up and mingled with the steady hempen fumes from his pipe. As the line passed round and round the loggerhead; so also, just before reaching that point, it blisteringly passed through and through both of Stubb's hands, from which the hand-cloths, or squares of quilted canvas sometimes worn at these times, had accidentally dropped, leaving Stubb with a stigmata difficult to explain to OSHA. It was like holding an enemy's sharp two- edged sword by the blade, and that enemy all the time striving to wrest it out of your clutch so that this enemy could become the True Transmission King Of England.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: olddude
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 09:45 AM

LOL that is so sick Rap, Spaw is going to pee his pants ... OMG ...

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 20
From: GUEST,Walther von der Vogelweide
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 10:13 AM

Sie haben mein Buch gestohlen! Da den Toten jetzt erlaubt werden, hier zu schreiben, verlange ich restituion!

Sehen sie!

" Ka-Klo! Ka-legen Sie! " chortled Queequeg, als ob, seine Lippen über einem Bissen Schlauchsteak klatschend. Und folglich mit Rudern und Yells schnitten die Kiele das Meer. Unterdessen Stubb, das zurück seinen Platz im Packwagen im Parkplatz, noch angeregt seinen Männern zum Anfang, währenddessen luftstoßend der Rauch von seinem Mund behält. Wie Desperados zerrten sie und sie belasteten, bis der willkommene Schrei gehört wurde - " Fastfood-, Tashtego! - geben Sie es ihm! " Die Harpune wurde geschleudert. " Heck alles! " Die Oarsmen bildeten Wasser; der gleiche Moment ging etwas heiß zischend und entlang jedem ihrer Handgelenke und wirft ihre Hosebeine nieder. Es war die magische Linie: Kommen Sie häufig her? Ein Augenblick vor, hatte Stubb schnell sich zwei zusätzliche Umdrehungen mit ihm ringsum den Dummkopf verfangen, woher, aufgrund seiner erhöhten schnellen circlings, ein hempen blauer Rauch jetzt oben spritzte und mit den unveränderlichen hempen Dämpfen von seinem Rohr sich vermischte. Wie die Linie rundes und rundes der Dummkopf führte; so auch, kurz vor dem Erreichen dieses Punktes, überschritt sie blisteringly durch und durch beide von Stubb' von denen s-Hände, die Handtücher oder von den Quadraten des gesteppten Segeltuches, das manchmal zu diesen Zeiten getragen wurde, versehentlich gefallen waren, Stubb mit die Schanden lassend schwierig, OSHA zu erklären. Er war wie das Halten eines enemy' s-scharfe zweischneidige Klinge durch das Blatt und dieser Feind ständig, der sich bemüht, es aus Ihrer Kupplung heraus zu entreißen, damit dieser Feind der zutreffende Getriebe-König von England werden konnte.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 10:24 AM

They roasted the cabin boy with an apple in his mouth??? I think I am going to be sick.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Working the Plan - UPDATE - 22 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 10:35 AM

Great news about Spaw. Too bad about the cabin boy.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Zen
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 11:03 AM

Glad to see you're on the mend Pat! All the best!

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 01:09 PM

Having a bit of a glitch of my own, I've not been here for ten days or so.

What a marvellous note to return to.

Way to go Pat. I knew it wouldn't be able to hold you down for long.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 01:47 PM

and it seems he's got his sensible head on, as he's opting to be safe rather than rushing home too soon and being sorry.

Can't wait for when he's up to posting.

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 02:48 PM

What? You want him roasted with a prune or something?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 02:56 PM

Zurückerstattung? Geehrter Herr, haben Sie sie. Mensur? Oder Säbel?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 03:10 PM

Mein Herr von der Vogelweide:

Ich bein ein "von und zu," ein Freiherr, ein Elektor, und ein Freikorpsritter aufgrund meines Geschlechtes. Mensur? Oder Säbel?

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 03:40 PM

Rapparee. You don't say.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 03:56 PM

We had one 'o them once Rap, but the wheels fell off.

Don T.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:20 PM

Ain't nobody sayin' I stole their book. Nobody. Especially they ain't gonna say it in German.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:27 PM

500

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:28 PM

Yeah, I know. Congratulations. If spaw don't git home soon this is gonna rival MOAB.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:35 PM

He'd have to be REALLY sick to rival MOAB. I don't think he's up to the freds or gluon or the legion other visitors. But think about it - if he's looking for something to do, he could imitate Eiseley and READ the thing front to back. I've heard it is rather therapeutic. Or catatonic, can't remember which. . .

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: GUEST,Walther von der Vogelweide
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 05:21 PM

Säbel -- bei vierzig Schritten.

Weil ich für 600 Jahre tot gewesen bin, würden Sie mich nicht näher wünschen.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 08:19 PM

Dass Rapparee ein Gott ist, verdammten Wortdieb, ist was er ist.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 10:23 PM

Wie anderwohin geschrieben worden ist,

Das meiste weiß man über Walther aus seinen Werken. Fragen zu seiner Biographie sind vor allem dann wichtig, wenn sie die Dichtungen verstehen helfen. Dazu gehören nicht die Diskussionen, wo Walther geboren wurde oder wo er begraben liegt. Lokalpatrioten interessieren sich dennoch dafür, um Walther vielleicht in ihrer Heimat ansiedeln zu können.

Das „Ich" einer Dichtung ist sehr oft nicht mit dem Dichter identisch. In Liebeslyrik wird dieses „Ich" meist als „lyrisches Ich" bezeichnet, wenn es sich um Stimmungslyrik handelt. Es berichtet dem Publikum von einem Liebeserlebnis. Wenn eine erzählende (kurzepische) Haltung vorwiegt, spricht man vom Sänger. Jedenfalls ist es eine fiktive literarische Figur, keine autobiographische Äußerung des Dichters.

In politischer Dichtung und Auseinandersetzungen mit literarischen und sonstigen Feinden des Autors hat das ‚Ich' große autobiographische Anteile, ist aber trotzdem literarisch stilisiert. Für heutige Leser ist noch schwerer erkennbar als für die Zeitgenossen, wo die Grenzen zwischen autobiographischen Anteilen und Fiktion liegen. Da es außer den oben genannten und seinen eigenen Gedichten keine Quellen über Walther gibt, hat das Walther-Bild notgedrungen unhistorische Anteile.

Insbesondere die Chronologie der Werke steht nur dort auf sicherem Boden, wo politische Ereignisse eindeutig angesprochen werden (zum Beispiel die Krönung oder der Tod eines bestimmten Fürsten; identifizierbare Reichstage). Lieder, die die Stimmung eines alten Mannes wiedergeben, reiht man üblicherweise unter Walthers Altersdichtung ein, obwohl auch ein jüngerer Dichter in die „Maske" eines alten Mannes schlüpfen könnte, usw. Eine derartige Aussage ist als – wertvolle – Aussage über die Stimmung, die das Lied im Publikum erweckt, zu verstehen; kaum ist sie Hilfsmittel zu absoluter Datierung. Allerdings zeigt die datierbare politische Altersdichtung Walthers einige Stilzüge, die auch in anderen Liedern auftreten, die man gerne seiner Altersdichtung zuordnen würde, so dass vieles der unten gewählten zeitlichen Strukturierung auch der Minnelyrik zwar unbeweisbar und im Detail umstritten, aber nicht unsinnig ist.

Verbessern Sie meinen eigenen Vorfahr, Ludwig Windthorst, wer Otto von Bismarck erklärte, zur Hölle zu gehen.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 10:52 PM

Enough German for a while. But here's an example of Walt's poetry:

...Daz ist beir mir læger,
wezeheizen,
(nu enwelle got!), so schamte ich Michigan.
Wes er mit mir pfeiffer,
niemer niemen
bevinde daz, wan er und ich,
und ein kleinez vogellinden:
tandaradei,
daz Big Mac wol getriuwe sîn.

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 01:49 PM

SIN?
Did someone call?
I am here for you Captain Peeleg.
Have you seen the white whale??????

Subject: RE: Catspaw -Almost Home?! - UPDATE - 30 Jan 2011
From: gnu
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 02:34 PM

Enough German... nay, nay sir... toooo much.

Spaw... ve have vays to make you heal.

Subject: UPDATE - Maybe Home by Week's End-1 Feb 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 02:39 PM

As I think Jacqui, or Dan?, said, Sins, he will probably be home by the end of this week. We spoke for a few minutes yesterday. He sounds: clear, strong, his own voice, not the trach, better than I do! (The crud is still stick in my head...big surprise, not.:-)

Anyway, he sounded really good, very motivated and accepting (dare I feed anyone this straight line?) of having lost a few inches...not able to get back to where he was, but a whole lot better than the past couple of months!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 02:58 PM

"...accepting (dare I feed anyone this straight line?) of having lost a few inches"

It was Dr. Oz who said that for every 30 pounds lost a man gains one inch. (Don't blame me- I didn't say it.)

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Amos
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 03:12 PM

The day Spaw admits having lost a few inches is the day he checks into the NYCFTTS!


A

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 03:20 PM

Screw UPS and everyone that works for them, I just bought Spaw a PC
the one my friend Dave sent, now they say the tracking is invalid yet it was valid on friday ... screwed up @#@! company ... keep it. I bought one for him and I don't want anyone to contribute. I promised the guy a notebook now he has one

good grief !!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 03:31 PM

Yer a fine lad, Dan. Now, don't get mad, get even.

Re that one inch to thirty pound rule, Dr. Oz lies. I have lost nearly ninety pounds and the wee fellah is still the same size as before I gained weight. Oh, unless yer talkin height insteada width.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 03:42 PM

Well Gary here is how I get even, Dave insured all of that equipment for 1500 bucks, now they gotta pay him. I just feel bad Spaw had to wait so long and that I troubled both him and my friend Dave.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 04:15 PM

...Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called crow's-nests, in which the lookouts of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas, most especially when the call of nature sounds. The fire-side narrative of Captain Sleet, entitled "A Voyage among the Icebergs, in quest of the Greenland Whale, and incidentally for the re-discovery of the Lost Icelandic Colonies of Old Greenland;" in this admirable volume, this tome of perspicacity, this penned gift, this folio of divine guidance, he tell how all standers of mast-heads are furnished with a charmingly circumstantial account of the then recently invented crow's-nest of the Glacier, which was the name of Captain Sleet's good craft, his ship, his home upon the waves. He called it the Sleet's crow's-nest, in honor of himself; he being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all ridiculous false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own children after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves any other apparatus we may beget upon any person, thing, or place whatsoever. In shape, the Sleet's crow's-nest is something like a large tierce or pipe; it is open above, however, where it is furnished with a movable side-screen to keep to windward of your head in a hard gale. Being fixed on the summit of the mast, you ascend into it through a little trap-hatch in the bottom, always calling first, as this is also the channel by which the aforesaid calls of nature are completed. On the after side, or side next the stern of the ship, is a comfortable seat, with a locker underneath for umbrellas, parasols, comforters, shawls, knitting, and coats. In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical and musical conveniences. When Captain Sleet in person stood his mast-head in this crow's nest of his, he tells us that he always had a rifle with him (also fixed in the rack), together with a powder flask and shot, for the purpose of popping off the stray Narwhales, or vagrant sea unicorns infesting those waters; assorted loafing crew members, and rats for dinner; for you cannot successfully shoot at them from the deck owing to the resistance of the water, but to shoot down upon them is a very different thing. Now, it was plainly a labor of love for Captain Sleet to describe, as he does, all the little detailed conveniences of his crow's-nest; but though he so enlarges upon many of these, and though he treats us to a very scientific account of his experiments in this crow's-nest, with a small compass he kept there for the purpose of counteracting the errors resulting from what is called the "local attraction" of all binnacle magnets; an error ascribable to the horizontal vicinity of the iron in the ship's planks, and in the Glacier's case, perhaps, to there having been so many broken-down blacksmiths among her crew; I say, that though the Captain is very discreet and scientific here, yet, for all his learned "binnacle deviations," "azimuth compass observations," and "approximate errors," he knows very well, Captain Sleet, that he was not so much immersed in those profound magnetic meditations, as to fail being attracted occasionally towards that well replenished little case-bottle, so nicely tucked in on one side of his crow's nest, within easy reach of his hand. Though, upon the whole, I greatly admire and even love the brave, the honest, and learned Captain; yet I take it very ill of him that he should so utterly ignore that case-bottle, seeing what a faithful friend and comforter it must have been, while with mittened fingers and hooded head he was studying the mathematics aloft there in that bird's nest within three or four perches of the pole and indeed finding that upon at least six occasions his magnetic deviations were perpendicular to the keel of his ship.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 04:28 PM

Pops off a few rounds at the crew and norwales ... does he ... are ya sure he knows the difference, they all smoked pipes back then ... LOL

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 07:40 PM

Spaw just called, they are going to spring him on Friday. Today he actually walked some stairs and sat up for 6 hours before laying down. He sounds very good indeed.

Awesome

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: kendall
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 07:45 PM

He called Jacqui and me also. Sounds really up and well. He will be back on the forum before you know it.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 07:59 PM

He didn't call ME! *grin*....

Hey, Pat... vacation's over! There's snow to shovel!

(and you got a few hundred folks breathing freely again...you have been missed)

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 08:28 PM

Hey, Dan, be sure you kick them UPSide the head to get the insurance for the parcel they lost, to cover that purchase! Otherwise we'll have to start sending you gift cards or something useful that helps defray the cost.

SRS

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 08:50 PM

No SRS, Dave offered, it was his equipment, I told him just to please keep it. I am just glad that I could help. I was going to do that anyway but it is a shame that I had to wait 2 full weeks for something that never came nor will... who knows maybe someday the dang thing will show up. if it does then I will set it aside for autism or the next catter who crashes for that length of time-

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:12 PM

I said it a long while back... just imagine how we will all feel when he posts again... and now many are all in anticipation as it may come in a week or so. What will his first post be? I have a prediction, and I don't think it contains any "nasty shit".

In case it does, fuck you too for scaring us all silly you broke dick prick.

Sorry... didn't mean too get so sentimental.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: maire-aine
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:41 PM

What a great way to start the new month!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Janie
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:58 PM

Good on ya', Pat! (and Karen, Tristan and Michael.)

Keep getting well.

In the meantime, and beyond....

Be Well.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 02:42 AM

more good news!

keep posting that good news.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: My guru always said
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 03:56 AM

So very glad to see this news. Looking forward to Spaw posting here again!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Fortunato
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 08:58 AM

Hey Catspaw, when you get home and read this thread, do me a favor and go to your bathroom mirror, and holding your right hand upright, place your right thumb on your nose and wiggle your fingers while sticking out your tongue and occasionally making a loud raspberry sound.

Welcome home, pal.

Chance

PS Don't ever f@#$%ing do this again.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:20 AM

Wonderful news! You get home and get cozy and get well, ok?

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:56 AM

Scholars have determined that Ahab's last words were "Ah, f-URK!" followed by a splash.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 10:37 AM

Yep... that seems about right

(but, I don't think they let Gregory Peck shout that)

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 10:52 AM

One thing that Pat said when he phoned - he has had some pretty scary procedures in the past, stuff that could have caused horrendous complications and yet it was something as 'simple' as an appendectomy that brought him so close to the brink.

I was just so glad to hear his voice last evening.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 12:57 PM

It was really good to hear how strong his voice sounds, they were going to take the trach tube out permanently and let the wound heal ... Just wonderful to hear him laugh and sound like himself. His notebook is on its way to him ... absolutely wonderful

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 01:27 PM

Welcome back to the lan dof the living, Spaw. Check your PMs. You probably have one from a fake Mr. Gall. You will be amused.
SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 03:16 PM

I can't wait for his response to that PM Sins, it will be classic Spaw I think

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 04:23 PM

It's going to feel a long time till Friday!

Andrea

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 04:40 PM

If ever I get to the USA, I hope to say hello to Spaw somewhere he can say hello back (or whatever alternative message Pat thinks appropriate for the circumstances...).

Kitty

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 05:17 PM

Well Rap we need another installment of Moby's Dick since Spaw will be coming home ... You left us hanging on the last one, gotta know what happens. The excitement is building ... tee hee

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Hawker
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 07:36 PM

Great news, Glad the recovery is going so well.......Now stay well and take it easy for a little while!
Lucy x

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bobert
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:54 PM

Sheet fire, son...

No, I mean exactly that... Sheet fire...

Welcome back from the brink...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Crowhugger
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 10:59 PM

This is wonderful news, makes my day. Until I saw the latest thread titles I kind of dreaded to look in on the Spaw threads. This is just the best turn of events! About bloody time, too, after keeping us on pins and needles all this time...

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 11:23 PM

I don't even know Spaw, but I've seen comments on a lot of threads I look at so I hope, I hope, I hope! Go home and finish healing,

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 12:01 AM

...During my researches in the leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers or whales or perhaps about dachshunds or a whaler's crew after a long voyage. The title was, "Dan Coopman", wherefore I concluded that this must be the invaluable memoirs of some Amsterdam cooper in the fishery, as every whale ship must carry its cooper, many of whom have long since flown the coop. I was reinforced in this opinion by seeing that it was the production of one "Fitz Swackhammer". But my friend Dr. Snothead, a very learned man, professor of Low Dutch and High German, or perhaps High Dutch and Low German, in the college of Santa Claus and St. Pott's, to whom I handed the work for translation, giving him a box of sperm for his trouble - this same Dr. Snothead, so soon as he spied the book, assured me that "Dan Coopman" did not mean "The Cooper", but "The Merchant". In short, this ancient and learned Low Dutch book treated of the commerce of Holland and other low subjects of the Low Lands; and, among other subjects, contained a very interesting account of its whale fishery. And in this chapter it was, headed "Smeer", or "Fat", that I found a long detailed list of the outfits for the larders and cellars and basements and butlers' pantries of 180 sail of Dutch whalemen; from which list, as translated by Dr. Snothead. I transcribe the following: 400,000 lbs. of beef. 60,000 lbs. Friesland pork. 150,000 lbs. of stock fish. 550,000 lbs. of biscuit. 72,000 lbs. of soft bread. 2,800 firkins of firkin butter. 20,000 lbs. of Texel and Leyden cheese, put up in Leyden jars. 144,000 lbs. cheese (probably an inferior article, perhaps the cheese of Limburg). 550 ankers of Geneva. 10,800 barrels of beer. 174,000 lbs. of wood shavings, to provide fiber for the diet. 8,000 hogshead of claret. 2,900 barrels of fine brandy or cognac. 18,000 kilts, of the best Scottish plaid. 250,000 gross of gutta-percha coats for the members of the members of the crew. 7,200 firkin knives for the firkin firkins of firkin butter.   

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 12:11 PM

which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers or whales or perhaps about dachshunds or a whaler's crew after a long voyage

I could just be the first mate Rap after he ate pickled herrings or that lye / fish cod disk so favorited by the Scandinavians

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 02:41 PM

Sorry I've been remiss in the good wishes on this thread, been sort of distracted with some one else's health issues.

All I go to say now is


YAY! Hope to read ya Friday!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 02:56 PM

Dan... or rotten shark... them thar Vikings is ravenous.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 03:37 PM

So Rap. Where did they put the whales?


By the way, Spaw, I need your help in the hairy arm thread. Gnu is threatening to send me pictures of his butt to confirm the presence or lack of hair. Please don't make me do that.

SINS

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 05:24 PM

SINS!!! Don't tell him that! He'll want me to send the pics to him too. And, I just don't feel comfortable with that. I TRUST you.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 07:06 PM

I don't think they had room for whales. I think it was kinda like when my brothers and I go deer hunting: we have a good time, but the hunting part just means hauling them out of the woods, cleaning them, having the butchered and all that. Far easier to tell stories than to actually hunt the things.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 07:15 PM

"Where you been, Jake?"

"Fishin'"

"You don't have yer bait bucket."

"I said fishin'... not catchin'."

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 09:31 PM

...The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting velocity the line ran through the groove; - ran foul even as it set upon the very boat, being as it was near the petrol tanks. Ahab stooped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turd caught him round the neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone. Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope's final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths.

For an instant, the tranced boat's crew stood cheering and applauding and voicing their approval; then turned. "The ship? Great God, where is the ship?" Soon they through dim, bewildering mediums saw her sidelong fading phantom, as in the gaseous Fata Morgana or something similar, I know not what; only the uppermost masts out of water; while fixed by infatuation, or fidelity, or fate, to their once lofty perches, the pagan harpooneers still maintained their sinking lookouts on the sea. And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lance-pole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight and down the drain from which Ahab had so recently removed the plug.

But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the shrunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical coincidings, over the destroying billions of billows they almost touched; - at that instant, a red arm and a sickle and hammer hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in the act of nailing the flag flag of rebellion faster and yet faster to the subsiding spar. A sky-hawk that tauntingly had followed the main-truck downwards from its natural home among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there; this bird now chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wing between the hammer and the wood; and simultaneously feeling that etherial thrill, the submerged savage beneath, in his death-gasp, kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks and curses and obscenities too awful to repeat, and his imperial middle feather thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it, even though I have no idea of what that means.

Now small fowls that maken melody flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago, but in truth longer, for as I said earlier, there is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath, or perhaps God's own spatula; like those fabled undulations of the Ephesian sod over the buried Evangelist St. John. And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness and the discharges from the head of Pequod. To any meditative Magian rover, this serene Pacific, once beheld, must ever after be the sea of his adoption, his home, his very soul. It rolls the midmost waters of the world, the Indian ocean and Atlantic being but its arms. The same waves wash the malignant moles of the new-built Californian towns, but yesterday planted by the recentest race of men, and lave the faded but still gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands, older than Abraham; while all between float milky-ways of coral isles, and low-lying, endless, unknown Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans, and watching this water roll and roll again makes one wish to make water with it, and so one does, especially Peeleg. Thus this mysterious, divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one bay to it; seems the tide-beating heart of earth. Lifted by those eternal swells, you needs must own the seductive god, bowing your head to Peter Pan and his mistress Tinkerbell. As I said before. In the meantime, everyone, including me, was dead.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:06 PM

Thus endeth. And so it was. Naught, dead, for evermore. Still, a saga. Sniff.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:37 PM

Yeah. Too bad in the original no one was left to tell the tale. Makes you wonder how Melville heard of it.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:38 PM

When I awoke, for a ;pmg moment I could not be sure what had happened. The last imageI remembered was the roiling ocean and something about Peter Pan and - was it Tinnkerbell? My mind was fuzzy and it seemed the thread was beyond my grasp..

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 10:53 PM

I know PhD's for whom their reach for the expurgated, censored, and edited Moby-Dick exceeds their grasp. In fact, there is quite convincing proof that Hermy Melville was smokin' hemp and drinking laudanum when he wrote it. H also made up words as he went along.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:43 AM

Malawi moves to ban farting Malawi's government has confirmed reports that it intends to outlaw breaking wind in public.

The African nation's justice ministry says the proposed legislation is part of a wider campaign to "mould responsible and disciplined citizens".

Local media is questioning how the proposed law will be enforced when it is so easy to blame the offence on others.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:05 AM

How are they gonna fine Spaw... by mail?

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 09:27 AM

Imagine living in a country where the worst offence committed was a fart.

Shed a tear for Peeleg.

Poor Peeleg's dead and gone
Let me hear you sing his song.
Poor Peeleg's dead and gone
Let me hear you sing his song.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 09:47 AM

Rap, brings tears to my eyes .. sniff sniff, what a heartwarming story of the sea and one man ... alone amongst the waves

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 10:31 AM

Yeah. Too bad everybody died at the end.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 10:54 AM

But come to think of it, at least Moby-Dick (not the hypens!) got something to eat.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Amos
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 11:10 AM

Quequog alone was escaped to tell thee, good Rapparree. Floating on his own coffin, and paddling with a banjo of arcane design, he made his way, gaunt and shriveled but alive, to the wide sandy shores of Argentina, where he took up filling bobbins as a trade and lived to a ripe age. Not old, but exceeding ripe.


A

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:15 PM

Quequog was the cabin boy, Amos, and was roasted for dinner in the original unexpurgated director's cut. Queequeeg, on the other hand, was a "harpooneer" who went down with the ship.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:16 PM

Oh, don't confuse either with quahog clams.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:25 PM

If you got them confused, you'd never pass the bar.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:39 PM

A quaint quilter wanted to qualify to add quantities of quahogs to a quilt for the queen in memory of Queequeeg, but the committee was in a quasi-queasy quandry and querulously queried Quequog regarding required qualities of quarks needed for proposed quadruple quadrangles in each quilt quadrant, causing him to quietly quake at the question. A quack doctor prescribed quinine, and nothing more was decided.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:39 PM

Queequeeg, on the other hand, was a "harpooneer" who went down with the ship."

Ah. That's what they thought.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 03:04 PM

Right... about time for an update innit?

Better yet, time for a new thread started by the old fart himself!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 03:30 PM

Daves equipment just showed up at my door, go figure at the exact time the one I bought him showed up at his door ... Oh well so it goes LOL

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:21 PM

ENOUGH ALREADY DAMMIT!!!

I am tired of of being sick and tired and also tired of being the Mudcat Poster Boy for wacky, near death, experiences! I'm sure you are all tired of it as well.....LOL.

Home is great and I'm learning how to navigate with the walker but getting stronger every day.   But I ask you, when did you ever hear of anyone who had to learn to speak, walk, write, etc., after they had an appendectomy?

I will read this thread this evening and start posting more as I get stronger over the week but once again, I thank all you for everything. You're all the best......this remains the best site on the net because it is and has has long been a real community of real friends...........I love you all.

And if you disagree I suggest you fuckoff because you're obviously some kind of broke-dick jadrool and a shit for brains of the first order (just to assure you this is a real Spaw message.)


Spaw

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:24 PM

Awww.... it's hisself! welcome back...and don't strain yer eyes.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: maire-aine
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:31 PM

Welcome home! Take it easy as you read the threads-- some of it ain't pretty! Hope you're back 100% real soon.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: maeve
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:34 PM

Welcome home, Pat.
Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:38 PM

"...when did you ever hear of anyone who had to learn to speak, walk, write, etc., after they had an appendectomy?"

Just imagine if, instead of the appendix, they had to remove the index and table of contents! ☺

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:51 PM

sniff... that was beautiful.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Dave Swan
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:54 PM

Damn boy, it's good to see you. Glad you feel better. Now get back to fighting weight so we can get on with the abuse. Welcome back. E.S.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: mouldy
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 05:18 PM

And it may not have been directly aimed at me, but there was just a wee smidgeon of cussin' in there....I feel blessed!

Welcome home, my friend.

Andrea xxx

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 05:26 PM

Good one, Bill D!

After all that recuperation, it's good to see that his pages aren't sticking together.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: KT
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 05:42 PM

RE: post at    04 Feb 11 - 04:21 PM ~

Now there is a sight for sore eyes!! Welcome back, Spaw! That was some kind of appendectomy! To say you were missed is an understatement.   It's so good to have you back!

KT

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 06:16 PM

Oh, deary me. Our shy little flower from the prairies of Ohio has returned home! How nice! I hope the dear lad makes quick improvement!

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: chazkratz
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 06:20 PM

Pat, hot damn it's good to see you back. After my golden shower post I felt it just as well that I no longer submit stupid get well wishes, knowing that even my half-watt half-assed psychic powers were pure dreck and unable to think of a damned thing funny to say I came back from time to time hoping for good news...and now at last there is some, for the hospital, at least--they finally got your stinky ass out and away and probably the cure rate there has shot up exponentially, not to mention the economic relief for the place, not having to supply the docs and nurses and orderlies with boxes of matches for self defense.

Anyway, seriously, you scared the shit out of me and I am ecstatic to see you alive and well and posting.

Charles

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 06:20 PM

Spaw, Priceless it is Priceless

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: bbc
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:06 PM

Well, Pat, I am *thrilled* to see you back; welcome home!!! Relax, take it slow, & heal, my friend. While you're resting, read all the messages from those you've loved you through your various catastrophies. Then, try to stop doing this to yourself, your family, & us!

love & hugs,

Beebs

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: bobad
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:12 PM

Well Spaw, guess you'll have to scratch Malawi off of your potential vacation destination spots:


Malawi row over whether new law bans farting

Two of Malawi's most senior judicial officials are arguing over whether a new bill includes a provision that outlaws breaking wind in public.

Justice Minister George Chaponda says the new bill would criminalise flatulence to promote "public decency".

"Just go to the toilet when you feel like farting," he told local radio.

However, he was directly contradicted by Solicitor General Anthony Kamanga, who says the reference to "fouling the air" means pollution.

"How any reasonable or sensible person can construe the provision to criminalising farting in public is beyond me," he said, adding that the prohibition contained in the new law has been in place since 1929.

The Local Courts Bill, to be introduced next week reads: "Any person who vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the public to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighbourhood or passing along a public way shall be guilty of a misdemeanour."

Mr Chaponda, a trained lawyer, insists that this includes farting.

"Would you be happy to see people farting anyhow?" he asked on the popular "Straight Talk" programme on Malawi's Capital Radio.

He said that local chiefs would deal with any offenders.

When asked whether it could be enforced, he said it would be similar to laws banning urinating in public.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Neil D
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:25 PM

Spaw!! So excellent to see you back home and back here on Mudcat. You have been missed by everyone. Just take your time and regain your strength. Relax and let those that want to take care of you do so. Karen and the boys must be thrilled! We are very happy for all of you, and very relieved :)

                              Neil and Christina

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: kendall
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:46 PM

Welcome back. Insults to follow.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: jacqui.c
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:47 PM

Hi Spaw - glad to see you are home and it is So good to see that your posting abilities have not diminished.

Now, take it easy or we'll get Karen to superglue your walker to the floor.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:56 PM

Great Timing,Peaches!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 08:09 PM

I was gonna send you a PM Pat, but, then, I thought, why not express my feelings and thoughts of my fondness for you in public? After all, we have been friends for years and both of us have many friends here at The Café who share my feelings and thoughts regarding your unfortunate health complications.

You scared me shitless you lame dick mofo. Don't ever do that again. What were you thinking? How could anyone with bowels like yours expect that your appendix wasn't gonna explode at some point? You shoulda had it removed years ago before it became the toxic dump that it did. I just hope they buried it deep in a mine and encased it in lead first so that it doesn't affect future generations.

Again, sorry for being so sentimental. It's just because I care.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Dharmabum
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 08:15 PM

Welcome home Pat.

    DB.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Tinker
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 10:39 PM

Hadn't made it to the 'cat today ... what a joyful way to end the night.
Sleep tight.

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Bugsy
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 01:10 AM

Good to see you back mate

CHeers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 02:40 AM

hooray!

our very own spaw is back - not a pale impersonation

sandra

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: My guru always said
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 04:29 AM

Wonderful! Welcome home, both here and there!
Hil

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 08:18 AM

Aw, you just made my day! Just by breathing, being living-warm among your family, and then by causing Bill D to write what he wrote that made me spit my coffee all over my expensive cordless keyboard.

Shithead.

SO glad you're on the mend.

Dani

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 12:32 PM

Now for my last mushy post
Dearest Spaw
you needle dick numbnuts. Scaring all these good folks so you can slack off and enjoy some quiet time in that resort. Why we should kick you in the balls over and over again.

Now cut that shit out

Love always

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 12:47 PM

Well, I guess it's time to post this:

Space Oddity (by David Bowie)

Ground control to Major Tom
Ground control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
(Ten) Ground control (Nine) to major Tom (Eight)
(Seven, six) Commencing countdown (Five), engines on (Four)
(Three, two) Check ignition (One) and may God's (Blastoff) love be with you

This is ground control to Major Tom, you've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is Major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
Here am I floating 'round my tin can far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows
Ground control to Major Tom, your circuits dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you...
Here am I sitting in my tin can far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do....

Subject: RE: Catspaw - Maybe Home by Week's End 1 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 02:31 PM

I hear you, Space Cadet, but I don't understand you. ???

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: GUEST,999
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 02:50 PM

YAHOO ya lazy sob. Welcome back, Spaw.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 03:44 PM

Sure is a good thing I finished posting the unexpurgated, unedited manuscript of "Moby-Dick" before the mopey dick showed up again.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Bert
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 04:06 PM

Glad you're home mate.
(I didn't know you could write)

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 04:20 PM

didn't forget how to do the HTML shouting in green even!


Good to know you are home and will soon be abusing us indiscriminately.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Noreen
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 04:36 PM

Awwww.... welcome home old chap!!

Now, you just be nice to the lovely people who've been worried sick about you (well, it's worth a try...)

Great to have you back with us. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 04:40 PM

"the mopey dick" Hahahahahaa... good one Rap!

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: jeffp
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 05:34 PM

Welcome home! It's a pleasure to see you post.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 05:37 PM

Spaw!!!!!!!!!!

'Scuse me, cause something seems to have gotten into me eye.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Bobert
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 05:41 PM

Hmmmmmm??? Am I the only one but is there a sniff of a Reg Boyz story in the air???

Glad yer home, Spawzer...

B~

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 05:45 PM

'Scuse me, cause something seems to have gotten into me eye.

Ahhh, hope that was tears.

I had em too and I am sure there were a few other tears here and there. Except for that heartless bastard... nevermind.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Amos
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 06:26 PM

Stop getting all het up. Spaw does this every few year swhen he feels he isn't getting enough attention, the broke-dick mammalucca. He just drums himself up a near-death emergency and then he comes back and gathers in all the adulation and weepy sentiment and rolls in it like a dachshund in a new cow-pie. It's just his way of saying "Hey, muvvafuggah, wheah's da Luhuuuve????"

Glad you made it back though. Just in time to stay out of Malawi.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 06:50 PM

Spaw, I'm glad you're on the snowy side of the lawn, and home. Serious cyberhugs. I guess it'll be work to get back to what passes for 'normal' for you, but it should just get better from here.

You've had your tonsils out already, I hope...

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: DougR
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 06:52 PM

Super!

DougR

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 07:17 PM

Here is a lovely Dachshund singing in honor of Spaw's return.

A heartfelt rendition!

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Beer
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 07:30 PM

Welcome home and now to get some strength back.
ad.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 08:15 PM

Spaw-

Welcome back.

It's obvious that the near-death experience has mellowed you, as reflected in your post. I was expecting red instead of green and a larger font.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: freda underhill
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 09:01 PM

Glad to hear you're back! - welcome home, 'Spaw..


x freda

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Janie
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 10:00 PM

Well, I swan!


That post of your's, Mr. Patterson, is surely a sight for sore eyes.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 11:34 PM

OMG....the shallow running crankbait is back in town! Shriveled buckeyes and all....Love ya, harpy

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: GUEST,hg
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 11:37 PM

shallow running crankbait

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 12:16 AM

"But I ask you, when did you ever hear of anyone who had to learn to speak, walk, write, etc., after they had an appendectomy?"

After an appendectomy, never. After my botched colonoscopy, me. it's not easy, but keep at it. And remember, tapping on a keyboard is exercise. and should count as occupational therapy.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: BlueJay
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 01:00 AM

Glad you're improving, Spaw. Maybe you can get some rest, now that you are home! Thanks, BlueJay

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 05:45 PM

Best wishes for a continued recovery. I'll be driving thru in mid-March if I can do anything for ya's.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 06:32 PM

Hey, Spaw. Will it help you recover faster if you know that I don't plan to be anywhere around your place anytime soon?

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: GUEST,Lilyfestre
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 07:28 PM

Hey Spaw...

   Welcome home buddy! *Big smile*
There's no place like your own bed....rest up and keep on getting better!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Crowhugger
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 10:48 PM

It's very good to know you're home, 'Spaw. Rest up, that's a lot of reading awaits you!

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 11:00 PM

"There's no place like your own bed"

Flippin' right! You should see my bed, eh? There is definately no flippin' place on Eathr like my bed. No word of a lie. It is gettin' BAD, man. BAD! I think I might hafta, like, get a new old mattris from the Goodwill place or the dump or somethin', cos it is gettin' so bad that even I can't flippin' stand it no more.

No girls will even considder goin' naer this bed. Not even the worst flippin' skanks from Blind River or Wawa or Serpent River! When that happens, you know it is, like, time, eh?

- Shane

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 12:13 AM

Well, Shame, I suggest you get rid of your mattress and get a new one. Or just lay down on the one you have and light a cigarette -- the fumes should ignite and solve two problems at the same time.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 01:03 AM

Good to hear you are home. Stay there.

D

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 01:41 AM

Damn. He's back.
Is it true? I heard you tried to go into the light and the light said "you've got to be fucking kidding me!" and then bounced your near-death ass back down the tunnel?

Welcome back, Greaseball.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: open mike
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 01:44 PM

i first saw SPAW-POSTS on the cock-a-tiel thread....
then realized the cock-a-mamie messages were beginning to fly again!!

hurray!! tweet tweet!

welcome back to the cat and to your home!!

keep in touch...

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 09:18 PM

Well, screw him if he ain't gonna post. Screw him, I say!

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 09:44 PM

Hmmmmmm???

Ya'll smell somethin'???

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 09:46 PM

Yeah, Bobert, I do. And it ain't roses.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 11:07 PM

We SAID get rest...so he rests, and no one is happy....besides, Karen may have something to say about it.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 01:20 AM

What I fear is that the cloud of odors emanating from Blind River (in North Ontario) may one day collide with the cloud of odors emanating from Ohio and moving northward. This could result in a catastrophe of unforeseen and apocalyptic dimensions.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 10:58 AM

As long as they continue north and east I really don't care....

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 08:21 PM

Is Spaw REALLY home?

Phone calls SAY he is, but that only means that someone who claims to be Spaw has talked to someone on the phone. Could he actually be a prisoner of some group who wants to use his Extraordinary Power to rule the Earth and use us all as a source of protein to feed their armies, which are bent on conquering the Universe?

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 08:30 PM

yup...I expect that's it. They make TV shows based on thinner hypotheticals than that.

"Could Bigfoot actually be a lost descendant of the Pyramid builders who sailed from Africa in papyrus rafts and built the Cahokia mounds?"

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 08:35 PM

Hey, I saw that episode of the Twilight Zone... Scared the crap outta me... Did I say crap on Spawz thread??? I am so sorry... It was an innocent slip of the fingers... You know, a Freudian Slip...

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 09:42 PM

Pat,
How grand. What a tough old bird you are. I know how good it feels getting home from any hospital sojourn. And my Carol just got home from the hospital two days ago. I can't believe she is really here; we can't stop looking at and holding onto each other.

So take your Viagra and go at it. Welcome back.
Love to you both,
Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Janie
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 11:08 PM

Just peeking in to say hello, Spaw.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 12:10 AM

I have asked the Idaho Legion to saddle up and ride to Spaw's rescue. They agreed that this is a matter of the greatest urgency and will be heading out as soon as they find their saddles...and horses...and tack...and pants...and sober up some...and decide whether or not it's wise to issue live ammo...and get everyone together...and....

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 01:00 AM

Meaning...in 10 years maybe?

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 08:34 AM

So where is the old bugger? I am more worried that he is at home and not posting than I was when he was in hospital. Maybe he needs a dancing singing flammable chicken to brighten his day.

Worried about you, old man.
Mary

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Hollowfox
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 08:35 AM

Ahhhh! That's a big sigh of relief, not a cry of pain, folks. The $#@!-reduction candle series isn't finishing up just yet, though. Take care, and stay warm, the whole clan of you (especially you, Karen. At least you don't have to commute to the hospital as well.)

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 09:47 AM

I no longer think he exists, if he ever did exist. I think he's one of Little Hawk's creations.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 10:24 AM

Aspawist? Is that what those who no longer believe is spaw are called?

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: maeve
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 10:35 AM

Good morning, Karen and Pat.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 12:04 PM

He called me a couple of days ago, he is recouping. It is still pretty exhausting for him so hang in there, he will be back on ...

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: C-flat
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 12:30 PM

And if you disagree I suggest you fuckoff because you're obviously some kind of broke-dick jadrool and a shit for brains of the first order (just to assure you this is a real Spaw message.)



Yeah, I think it really was Catspaw.

Welcome back!!!!

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 01:49 PM

I actually thought once of creating a character just like Spaw. But I came to the conclusion that it wouldn't be in good taste to do so, might offend people, and I discarded the notion. ;-)

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 01:57 PM

Well, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flatulence.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 02:21 PM

...and of course Shane is in the best possible taste and doesn't offend anyone, eh LH :)

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 04:04 PM

Right.... ;-D

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: MMario
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 06:55 PM

How did I miss this!

YEAH!

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 07:32 PM

Hope he's back posting soon but I guess healing time is most important!

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: artbrooks
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 07:59 PM

Glad you're back...the place hasn't been the same without you (...courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent...)

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 04:54 PM

Got a phone call from Spaw today. He's getting about better now and he and Karen really do feel that he is in the homeward stretch right now.

He is still feeling that this last one was too close a call and the effects of such a long hospital stay and, as a result, is having trouble concentrating for a more than a few minutes so hasn't been on the 'Cat for long. He has said that he will be back when he is feeling up to it.

It was good to hear him sounding so much better.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Hawker
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 05:34 PM

Pah! I go away to visit my Mum and look what happens! The Spaw escapes from Nurse Rachetts clutches! So Glad to see you are home and making a good recovery. Now rest up and get proper well.
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Lox
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 07:37 PM

Good news young man!

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 12:30 PM

"Massive gas explosion rocks Ohio countryside"


Only the headline is funny.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: olddude
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 06:12 PM

Talked with Spaw today, doing much much better, he will be posting soon

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 06:45 AM

I hope so.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 10:15 AM

Hey Pat, did you see Kytrad's also posting now:

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=135612

~Susan

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 09:50 AM

Welcome home catspaw!
.......................

...from a 1929 law in Malawi which they are currently thinking of updating:

"any person who voluntarily vitiates the atmosphere in any place so as to make it noxious to the health of persons in general dwelling or carrying on business in the neighborhood or passing along a public way, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."

Malawi debates public farting ban

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 11:59 AM

*I* think a bunch of people should gather on the upwind border of Malawi and.......

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 12:21 PM

I wouldn't want to be on that bus, Bill.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 02:24 PM

Come on Spaw... if you cork up..... ahem and force really big.... ahem the backfire might clear the residual brain fog out through your ears.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 03:37 PM

It might also propel him into the next state or worse.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: jacqui.c
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 04:03 PM

If he was heading the right way he could reach Maine and we could feed him lobster.

Subject: RE: Catspaw Home!!!!4 Feb 2011
From: gnu
Date: 15 Feb 11 - 04:38 PM

Lobster farts? Surely you know lobster farts are the absolute worst farts. Putrid beyond description. They are bottom feeders and what they feed to the bottom is... but that doesn't matter... Spaw is back.