OT- weekend warrior update

filly wrote:

I think that would really be fun. And you'd get to wear all sorts of tawdry
bits and pieces. Or not.
Karla
I got to slide down a fireman's pole once, I was around 10 or so. My uncle
was a fireman and he took us kids for a tour of the firehouse. Huge brass
pole, very shiny.


We didn't get to slide down poles, but we used to be able to climb all
over a fire truck. The neighborhood polling station was at the fire
station. A truck was pulled out of the garage and into the driveway to
make room for the voting machines. The firemen seemed to enjoy the
chance to play with the kids while the parents voted. You could sit in
the driver's seat, and I think I remember ringing a bell, but now that I
think of it, there probably wasn't one. I'm only 50, and there would
have been modern day sirens. You could also climb a high ladder and be
carried down by a guy in a uniform. Very cool.


Off topic the off topic-- I'm reading Louisa May Alcott's _Moods_. It
came out before _Little Women_ and was considered immoral in its day.
What an eye opener and with such insight into character! I'm amazed on
every page. She asks if it isn't more moral to leave the marriage if
one is going through the motions of being devoted when one's devotion
and passion lie elsewhere.


--Lia

"Julia Altshuler" wrote in message
. ..


Only recently she revealed to me that she wasn't waiting tables before she
moved here. She was stripping. Pole dancing. Making good money doing it
and did it for years. She's not sorry she did it or anything but has been
put off by people's reactions when she tells them so she's become more
cautious about whom she tells.


From the people I've met that have worked as strippers it was one way to
keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Over the years I've met
various women that took up stripping to pay the bills after hubby left them
with debt and the kids.

I can understand people not wanting to share that little factoid either. I
know I was a bit shocked back in my 20s when someone told me about it.

Beth

Julia Altshuler wrote:
Off topic the off topic-- I'm reading Louisa May Alcott's _Moods_. It
came out before _Little Women_ and was considered immoral in its day.
What an eye opener and with such insight into character! I'm amazed on
every page. She asks if it isn't more moral to leave the marriage if
one is going through the motions of being devoted when one's devotion
and passion lie elsewhere.

Lia, I heard an interview with Susan Cheever on XMPR a few days
ago, and I think you might like her book _American Bloomsbury_.
She and Bob Edwards talked a great deal about Alcott, Thoreau,
and (I most especially remember) Margaret Fuller, whom I'd never
heard of before - but I was really taken with the depth of
Cheever's obvious passion for the lady and her tragic life and
death, and - well, I'm babbling. But you might take a look;
these folks and several more are the topic of the book.

http://www.susancheever.com/

ObDogs: Baron FINALLY got to go to agility class last Tuesday -
we've been rained out since before New Year's. And despite
getting jumped by a hormonal Golden bitch right at the beginning,
he did beautifully. Once he (and I) gain some confidence, focus,
and control, I think he may turn out to be a great agility dog.

--
Mark Shaw (And Baron) moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
================================================== =======================
"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members
of a weird religious cult." -Rita Rudner

Mark Shaw wrote:

Lia, I heard an interview with Susan Cheever on XMPR a few days
ago, and I think you might like her book _American Bloomsbury_.
She and Bob Edwards talked a great deal about Alcott, Thoreau,
and (I most especially remember) Margaret Fuller, whom I'd never
heard of before - but I was really taken with the depth of
Cheever's obvious passion for the lady and her tragic life and
death, and - well, I'm babbling. But you might take a look;
these folks and several more are the topic of the book.

http://www.susancheever.com/


_American Bloomsbury_ has been on my list for a while. I got started on
this from _Eden's Outcasts_ and _The Peabody Sisters_. I never used to
be interested in biographies. Now I'm finding that there are some great
ones out there. (And some truly awful.)


ObDogs: Baron FINALLY got to go to agility class last Tuesday -
we've been rained out since before New Year's. And despite
getting jumped by a hormonal Golden bitch right at the beginning,
he did beautifully. Once he (and I) gain some confidence, focus,
and control, I think he may turn out to be a great agility dog.


I forget how old Baron is. (And am surprised that activities are
canceled on account of rain.)


--Lia

Julia Altshuler wrote:
Mark Shaw wrote:

ObDogs: Baron FINALLY got to go to agility class last Tuesday -
we've been rained out since before New Year's. And despite
getting jumped by a hormonal Golden bitch right at the beginning,
he did beautifully. Once he (and I) gain some confidence, focus,
and control, I think he may turn out to be a great agility dog.

I forget how old Baron is.

He'll be three in June.

(And am surprised that activities are
canceled on account of rain.)

The problem is that the property where we train doesn't have
very good drainage, so it gets - and stays - very muddy.

The other problem is that it's winter, so rain is usually
accompanied by temperatures in the 40s - or, as the locals
like to put it, "bitter cold."

--
Mark Shaw (And Baron) moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
================================================== =======================
"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you
would stay out and your dog would go in." -Mark Twain

Mark Shaw said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

Once he (and I) gain some confidence, focus,
and control, I think he may turn out to be a great agility
dog.

Can you squeal like a little girl? The biggest problem I have
teaching agility to grown-up men is most's inability to display
to their dog what a good time both are having.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

Rocky wrote:
Mark Shaw said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

Once he (and I) gain some confidence, focus,
and control, I think he may turn out to be a great agility
dog.

Can you squeal like a little girl?

Given the right conditions and stimulus, sure. This isn't the
group for that kind of discussion, though.

The biggest problem I have
teaching agility to grown-up men is most's inability to display
to their dog what a good time both are having.

Despite my flippant answer above, I do know what you're talking
about here, and am working on it. The more I do this, the more
I've come to start understanding that quite a lot of this is the
ability to connect with and communicate with the dog....

--
Mark Shaw (And Baron) moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm
================================================== =======================
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." -Robert A. Heinlein