Thinking about leaving Guam. Nah, bought a house!

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 08:50 AM

Micca's thread is catching you up Brett. Post more!

RtS

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 05:32 AM

OK, I will write about a weird cat. Our "kitten", Neko-chan, has decided she likes to play fetch. She will jump up on the bed with one of her toys, put it down and cry loudly until one of us throws it for her to chase. She leaps off the bed in a mad dash for the things, fights madly with it and then proudly carries it back to be thrown again.

For a while her favorite activity was to jump into the bathtub immediately after one of us finished a shower. She liked to watch the last of the water sluice down the floor of the tub. Now she has given up on that. Instead she has discovered the toilet bowl. She sits on the seat and dips her paw in the water. When she's done the seat is wet and muddy from the dirt on her paws (At least I HOPE it's dirt.) It's worse than living with a teenage boy.

God help us if she decides she's alone. She sits in the empty room and cries loudly until we either go in to her or call her from the other room.

Then there are the gekkoes. The two cats, Neko and Mama, are death for any gekko foolish enough to move down the walls within reach of the claws and teeth. What really frustrates the cats is the gekkoes on the outside of the windows. The lizards are only trying to catch moths attracted to the house lights. The cats watch and leap and scratch and race back and forth in their attempt to catch the little buggers. This is amusing when we are watching TV and the cats are across the room. It is somewhat less amusing when we are asleep and the cats use our heads to launch their attacks. And when they don't use our heads then they sit on the windowsill watching and lashing their tails back and forth smacking us with something that feels like an angry furry snake.

These cats have very long tails. Their tails are very active, much more so than any other cat I have known. Neko is a very strange cat. I've never known one like her before.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Jan 08 - 06:30 AM

cats are funny people, aren't they.

I was hearing about a friend's pair today. One has fallen in love with the bloke next door & cos the bloke is also greeting the other one is now very jealous!

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 17 Jan 08 - 03:43 AM

I have survived... so far.

On Monday I went to see Dr. Bollinger about the pain in my left knee. He gave me a shot of steroids in the joint. Yes, it WAS painful. And the knee hurt all evening.

On Tuesday morning I woke to a painless knee. I felt pretty chipper! I went off to work happy as a lark. Then, as the morning progressed, I felt worse and worse. By lunch time I had no interest in food and could barely keep my focus. Luckily the classes on Tuesday were finishing up watching the movies we'd started. I went straight home after work, even ignoring the fact that it was payday and I needed to pick up my check.

When Wakana came home she took me to the urgent care center and they decided that I had a prostrate infection. They gave me drugs and sent me home. I've been home ever since. I still feel crumby but I sure feel a lot better than Tuesday!

The knee still feels pretty good too.

Three day weekend coming up. We are looking forward to it. With the knee "fixed" I hope to get some good stuff done.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 07:41 PM

Feeling better but still low energy. Went to work yesterday. Funny thing. When I am between classes I feel crummy and have problems focusing. When I am in front of the students I forget everything else and just work with them. Occasionally I have realized that I need to pee just before a class starts. It's usually when it's too late to go. Then the kids arrive in the room and I forget about it until they leave and the feeling comes back! I've never done that before. Amazing!

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 07:59 PM

Be careful doing that, Brett. We can push things to the back of our minds, but the old body will make us pay attention, eventually, and then we have to take care of it."-)

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 20 Jan 08 - 07:55 AM

I haven't mentioned the iPod lately. I've been downloading podcasts like mad. According to the program I have about 2,563 podcasts downloaded by now with more coming in whenever I am not using the Internet connection for other things. I have a number of audio books, grammar and vocabulary programs, science programs, history programs, etc.

Today I bought a gadget that will let me listen to the podcasts over the stereo in my car as I drive. That solves a problem I've had since the radio began working again. There are no radio programs I want to listen to on the island.

As an example of some of the things I have been listening to here is a short list:

The Amazing Randi Show - James Randi is a professional magician who is also a founding member of the skeptic's society. In his podcast Randi talks about his association with such illustrious members of the skeptical society as Isaac Asimov and Richard Feynman. Randi was instrumental in getting Penn and Teller together. He has made an offer of $1,000,000 to any psychic who can demonstrate their ability under laboratory conditions. He loves to show the world how psychics really do their thing.

GLT's Uncommon Knowledge - A two minute program about various stories and subjects in science. For example, peeing on a jellyfish sting does NOT help it. In fact it may even make it worse.

Agatha Christie's Radio Mysteries – Old time radio mysteries by the grand dame. So far I've only been listening to Poirot.

Speaking of Sex – A podcast by the Washington Planned Parenthood discussing the ins and outs (not sorry about the pun) of sex in the modern age.

The Biography Podcast – Thumbnail depictions of the lives of famous people.

CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks – New and reviews of science.

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History – History themes as covered by a very good storyteller. I still haven't decided whether this guy is worth listening to or not but he tells a good story and seems to have a bit of a reputation with historians. He is up front in stating he is not a trained historian.

Classic Books Alive – They just finished up Tom Sawyer. I don't know what will be next.

Classic Poetry Aloud – Poetry by Keats, Shelley, Byron, Shakespeare, Browning, etc., all read aloud in a pretentious English upper class accent.

Dictionary.com Word Exploration, Podictionary, Goodword from Alphadictionary, Just Vocabulary, Hot for Words, and Wordsmart Wordcast – All are podcasts giving the definitions, usage, and etymology of words. Hot for Words is a video podcast featuring the sexiest philologist you'll ever see.

A Way With Words and Word Nerds – Two programs that discuss the origins and use of various words and phrases. A Way With Words is a call in radio program.

This is just a taste of some of the things I have been listening to lately. There is a huge world out there.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 02:22 AM

when you run out of podcasts, why not try some Australian programs

As you say, there is a huge world out there.

sandra

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 06:15 AM

I'd love to! Clicky is loading as I type.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jan 08 - 07:37 AM

sounds like you are addicted to collecting podcasts.

now all you have to do is LISTEN to them all.

sandra

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 06:48 AM

And now, as the old Monte Python characters used to say, here's something completely different.

Long, long term readers may remember the burglary and fire and identity theft we went through back in the fall and winter of 2004. I'm not going to reiterate what happened. Let's just say it was a VERY bad time.

Today I went to a meeting with a postal investigator, a Secret Service Special Agent, and a U.S. Attorney. They have identified the criminal and are building their case. Mine is only the first episode of a dozen that they have evidence for. They got him... and it is who I thought it was way back in 2004.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 08:48 AM

wheels of justice grind slowly & surely, especially if a series of events keep piling on evidence.

or something like that.

I look forward to what comes into the public domain (without prejudicing legal procedures)

do you ever feel you are living in Interesting Times? Cats & kids settled down?

sandra

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Jan 08 - 03:20 PM

Brett-

I wonder what the proper justice might entail. Do they still do drawing and quartering on the island?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 05:45 AM

Wakana has revealed a very interesting side of her personality. Once the trial is over we COULD sue him for monetary damages as well and pain and suffering. However, he has nothing and once he is in jail he will continue to own nothing for a long, long time. Such a law suit would be pointless. However, Wakana wants blood and she wants to sue him ASAP.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Jan 08 - 05:52 PM

only winners will be lawyers.

But revenge thoughts are fun - when I was working on the Telephone Enquiry Service it was a wonderful sense of power to put my finger over the hang-up button if the caller was a pain in the bum. I'd move my finger up & down over the button thinking 'I can hang up on you!!' I can only remember hanging up on 2 people in all those years, and they were nasty, but I had the power, little me, ohh what fun.

sandra

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 12:37 AM

On Friday morning Gordon stopped by. He told me that he needs to have his house back by May 1st. We have to move.

Today, Sunday, Wakana and I took a drive. We were looking for houses for sale. You cannot trust the newspaper or the Internet listings here in Guam. the only way to be sure is to hit the road. We found two good ones and one great one. I'm sure the great one is way too expensive for us. As I told Wakana house hunting is fun and exciting until you find the perfect house and it turns out to be too expensive.

But one of the good ones has a large yard and a second building with a covered patio that would make a perfect workshop. Sigh, I'm in love...

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 01:10 AM

Good luck with that, Brett!

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Jan 08 - 11:14 AM

Brett and Wakana-

Beware the long winding driveway. They're a real challenge to keep plowed in the winter.

An be sure that the roof is steeply pitched so you don't have to climb up there to shovel the snow off.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, thinking of you while wintering in Maine

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 29 Jan 08 - 01:55 AM

Actually there are not too many pitched roofs here. But sometimes, as my car is climbing a very steep slope the thought crosses my mind that the road would be a bear in winter... completely forgetting that it is January.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 03:35 AM

Today Wakana and I found the house we hope to buy. It lies near the end of a narrow lane with two other houses. Beyond it is a farmer's field full of eggplant. The other two houses belong to a member of the current government and a fire fighter. Other people in the area include the principal of one of the local high schools and a cop. The wives of two of the men we spoke to there are also teachers.

It's a very quiet area. In the distance I could hear roosters crowing. I think the farmer has fighting cocks. The owner's brother was there mowing the lawn. He let us into the house. It is wonderful. It's been recently renovated. There are three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a nice large living room/kitchen/dining area. It has a carport. There is a large lawn in the back with a stand of betelnut trees and an old shed. They want $158,000 for it.

This is one of the lowest prices we've seen so far. The market is definitely a seller's market because everyone is getting ready for the military to expand when they send the Marines here from Japan in 2012.

After we looked at that we ran down to Jeff's Pirates Cove for lunch. We sat in the open restaurant/bar looking out at the Pacific. The surf is pretty rough today which made for a spectacular view. there were two kite skiers racing back and forth across the lagoon. We talked about the house and the fact that we were sitting in shorts and t-shirts on a warm February morning while our families in Maine and Tochigi were freezing their butts off and stumbling through the snow. I kept thinking that it would take quite a strenuous argument to get me to move off this tropical island.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 03:50 AM

Sounds lovely!!

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 12:50 PM

It does sound like a good deal, and the mortgage interest rates should be quite good now for a fixed-term mortgage. Go for it!

Maybe it's time that you retired this thread and started a new one "Re-Thinking about Staying in Guam."

Hey, Maine ain't so bad. Next week the temperature is expected to rise to 50 F. and it's just the beginning of February. T-shirt weather!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 05:33 PM

Yes, Charley, but that is just the regular thaw for this time of year. It is Old Man Winter's trick. He gets you thinking about spring and then hits you with another two and a half months of cold and snow and ice. Yesterday we sat in a warm breeze sipping iced tea and watch the Pacific swells break on the reef. There was a slatting sound from the coconut palms. We were warm and comfortable and happy. The sun was bright and hot but we were in the shade. Not too shabby.

Once we get settled you and Judy should come for a visit. We can sit under the carport and share music and enjoy swatting what these people call mosquitoes. The local mosquitoes are no real threat. A near miss makes them faint.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Feb 08 - 11:58 PM

my post disappeared! I also suggested a new thread, but I also asked what prices were before the seller's market.

I think the only folks in Oz who would pay under $200,000 for a home would not live in any large city!

sandra

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 04:20 AM

We got real lucky on this house. It is about as far from the Navy and Air Force bases as you can get. Access to the area is tricky and not contemplated by anyone who will not make a life on the island. Not only do you have to find the village of Talofofo but then you have to drive down a narrow lane through the bush to find the house.

This house is one of the cheapest on the list of houses our realtor gave us. However it is very good condition. It was recently renovated, has tile floors throughout, nice kitchen cabinets, Ceiling fans in every room (including the bathrooms), lots of closets, and a lovely large back yard full of betelnut trees.

There are down sides to it, however. The bedrooms tend to be small, there are trees in the way if I want to get a vehicle into the back yard, and there is limited parking. These are not great difficulties.

Sandra From Sydney suggested I send pictures of my new grandchild to Joe to have them put up on the site. How do I do that?

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 08:09 AM

Brett-

Send me a sketch of the current floor plan via e-mail. I've never seen a wall that couldn't be removed. Of course, some of them are load-bearing but what the heck, you'll get a great view of the sky.

Charley Noble, the mad renovator

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Feb 08 - 03:09 PM

Send it to joe (at) mudcat (dot) org, Brett and he can put it up on the Mudcat pages at myopera.com.

Can't wait to see her!!

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 01:52 AM

Trouble in Paradise!

We got home today to find the Mama Kitty missing. Wakana is in tears and I'm damn close to tears. The kitten, Neko, wanders around the house calling and calling. Each poignant cry is like an arrow in the heart. I hope she comes home again.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 04:16 AM

Oh, no! Come home, Mama Kitty, come home! (Was she pregnant? Maybe wandered off to have a litter?)

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Feb 08 - 09:03 AM

Here's some more hope!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 07:05 AM

She came home. Poor Wakana was up and down several times thinking she heard a cry at the door. Finally her luck came through and Mama was there. Wakana's tears of relief were much more intense than her anxiety over the lost cat.

The reason she was so concerned was that she had noticed that Mama Kitty was not feeling well and had decided to take her to the vet when she came home from work. She has some kind of wound on her side. So when the cat did not show up it was the next logical step to think she had crawled off to die somewhere.

All is well at the Burnham home tonight except that I have a sore throat. I'm off to take some Nyquil and try to get some sleep.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: maeve
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 07:19 AM

Home again; Huzzah!

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 07:20 AM

good to know Mama Kitty's back safe & relatively sound

sandra

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 10:11 PM

We got one of THOSE early morning phone calls today. Apparently my uncle killed himself. His adult children found him in his home. He'd been dead about four days.

I was never close to him, not many in the family were, but it still comes as a shock. He was a great story teller but quite a misanthrope. We don't know what drove him to it.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 10:44 PM

OH, I was just reading about Mama Kitty coming home, then on to your other news. Sorry to hear that about your uncle, Brett. I had an uncle who did the same...we think it was the physical and mental pain from WWII which drove him to it. He was a very talented man well-loved. Hard to understand any of that.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 10 Feb 08 - 08:59 AM

Our relationship with Uncle Gary was complicated. He was one of those relatives you hoped would not show up for a family function but then you missed him if he didn't. He told great stories and was a towering intellect but had very few social skills. He was just as likely to lash out at you verbally as treat you with tolerance. He had little tolerance for me and I had little for him. Still, it seems to be the end of an era.

Gary is the first of Mom and Dad's generation to go (in our family). I'm sure this has to put a greater sense of mortality into my mother and my other uncle. I need to call Mom tomorrow before I go to work to see how she's doing.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 05:49 AM

Today we officially made an offer on the house. The owner wants $158,000 and we offered $150,000. We also asked for a number of stipulations such as cleaning out the bottles, packages, and cans with unknown fluids and materials in them, pumping the septic tank, replacing the front door that is delaminating, and getting the electrical system up to code. We have to wait until the 25th to hear about their response. They are off-island and our realtor is headed off-island for a vacation.

Wakana and I went to Hoa Mai for dinner. It is a little place we enjoy down in Agat. They know us very well. When we walked in the waitress walked out with menus and then guessed, "Fresh lumpia, chicken penang, and honey walnut shrimp." It was a good guess. The only thing she left out was the iced tea. Wakana loves the penang but only if the waitress' mother makes it. (It's a family run business with the mother and her three daughters working there all the time. They also have two guys doing the cooking and cleaning.) We always check to make sure she is there before she orders it. Tonight they brought her a little bowl of eggplant penang to try. She liked that too.

We are worried that we will not have a good little restaurant to go to once we move to Talofofo. While this island is not very big it is still a ten mile run (one way) to get back to Hoa Mai. Sigh.

Last Tuesday I had to endure an observation by the principal at work. During my sixth block the principal came in quietly and seated herself in the back row near the door. The classroom had been a little noisy before she arrived but suddenly you could have heard a pin drop.

We were just starting the unit on poetry. I had asked the kids to bring in poems to share with the class. All went well until one of the students in the corner read a poem about a poor abused girl who killed herself by the end of the poem. A little while later her neighbor recited a poem about a girl who defied her parents and went out to a party. She winds up in a car accident and dies in the emergency room. The other two people in that corner also read poems that were dark though not that bad. It was like there was a cloud over those students.

And, of course, the boss was sitting there observing my reactions and comments. I hope I did OK. I asked the first girl if she knew anyone who was being abused. She acknowledged that she did. Then I suggested she see the school counselor to get information to give to the abused person.

On Friday I introduced the kids to the idea of setting old poems to music. I played Loreena Mckinnett's 'Stolen Child' (Yeats) and John Roberts and Tony Barrand doing 'Danny Deever' (Kipling). These two songs are in the text book so I could have them turn to the pages and follow along. I also had them Listen to Loreena Mckinnett singing 'The Highwayman' (Noyes) and our own Charley Noble doing 'Shanghai Brown' (Smith). They liked 'The Highwayman' but didn't get the other one.

I could see some of the kids singing along when they had the words in front of them. That was a cool sight.

It's funny but sophomores are all emotion. The poems they write (almost the only writing they are willing to do) are all raw emotion. I had forgotten what it is like to be that young. And they are so easily bored. So far the assignments have included Emily Dickinson's 'Success is Counted Sweetest' and 'I Dwell in Possibility', and Robert Frost's 'Mowing' and 'Apple-Picking'. None of these are long poems but they claim to hate the assignments. Still, they are doing the homework which is unusual.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Feb 08 - 10:15 AM

Brett-

Please to hear the offer has been made with practical stipulations.

"Shanghai Brown" is not an easy song to figure out for the current younger generation. Maybe you need to serve up a very special batch of grog to the students before singing it, and then ship them out on some three-skys'l yarder bound for the Horn. Of course, your principal would probably choose that moment to drop in as well. She could be shipped out as well!

Oh, and check out the latest C. Fox Smith ballad I've worked up, the "News in Daly's Bar;" it's on my website: Click here and search for MP3 Sample!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 19 Feb 08 - 08:26 PM

Shipping out some of these students would be a great idea. I don't want to lose this principal though. She's too good a boss, the best I've ever worked for.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 05:35 AM

Wear a hard hat when you go out, Brett & Wakana: it's raining stealth bombers!

RtS

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: GUEST,Kelli
Date: 23 Feb 08 - 06:19 PM

Luke wants to know if you can get him a piece of the wreckage.

;)

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:20 AM

Sorry Luke, but the crash happened in an area I cannot get to. Not that it matters. I suppose I could bring you any piece of twisted burned metal and you'd have to believe me that it came from the plane. In the Houlton Museum they have a piece of the Hindenburg that some town citizen picked up in New Jersey. Who knows if it is or not?

The owners of the house made a counter offer which was very acceptable to us and we accepted. We're buying a house! If you can use Google Earth you will see it at the coordinates below.

13°21'55.68"N
144°45'25.70"E

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 09:23 AM

Brett-

Great news!

I was able to dive in on your new neighborhood but I'm not sure which house is to be yours. You may need to send me a sketch map via regular e-mail.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Amos
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 10:15 AM

Does it have a road address? If so, Google Maps might be abkle to give yout he sketch.

One tenth of a second in latitude resolves to about 2.6 meters, I believe. So if you went there and yelled, Charley, Brett should be able to pop out and steer you in by hand.


A

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 11:24 AM

Congratulations!!

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 05:10 AM

There are three roofs in the area. Ours is the gray one which means it needed water blasting when the picture was taken. Probably still does. We'll water blast it and paint it with a good sealant. I think the address is 63 Bejamin Taimanglo street. I'll bet it doesn't show up on any on-line map!

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Barry Finn
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 08:05 AM

Congrats Brett
Now for a title change to this thread.
"I think I'm staying in Guam".

Barry

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Naemanson
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 06:19 AM

Yeah, this weekend I'll start another continuation thread.

Today we (the teachers and staff) had to take a test. None of us had a clue what the test was all about. We assembled in the cafeteria after classes and they passed out pencils and a bubble answer sheet. Next came a very professional test booklet. The test was an effort to evaluate our knowledge of the Catholic Church and religious teachings. Not being Catholic, or even religious, I spent a lot of time guessing at the answers. Naturally I was finished quite quickly.

Before we started the principal and the assistant principal had a message. They said all we had to do was stomp our foot and they would give us the answers. If we stamped five times they would answer number 5 with a gesture that would tell us which letter was the correct answer. They had it all worked out like a skit and were very funny. Of course, I couldn't help myself. About fifteen minutes into the test I stomped my foot five times. That got everyone to laugh including the Principal who nearly rolled off her chair.

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: Barry Finn
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 02:36 PM

Ever see the horse at the circus that could count up to 10. The horse wasn't christan either.

Barry

Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam.
From: skarpi
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 02:38 PM

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