I'm sorry, I can't resist.

Hey Randi! Aren't you glad you went shooting with Robert this weekend and not Dick Cheney?

(Sorry, I couldn't stop myself)

Jake:

I still don't understand how that accident happened. It seems like the man was behind Cheney! How did he get shot?

Yep Jake,

I think ol' Dick hit more than quayle.

In all seriousness, this is why you need to keep in reasonable shape to go hunting and shooting. If you can't handle the kick or your eyesight is starting to go, or your heart medication makes you dizzy... lay off the firearms for awhile. No responsible gun owner would say any different. As for Randi... make sure you have the cake AFTER the shooting next time.

Robert, you proved one thing.

Inside every liberal...there is a conservative waiting to break free.

Jake:

Cheney showed poor judgement handling a firearm with his medical history. I agree completely.

Hi Jake, well actually, if you read my side of the story...you will see that I give Dick Cheney an honorable mention.

Robert, perhaps now you'll let my parrot be the mascot? (be afraid, be very afraid)

This sounds absolutely AWESOME! That's it, now I have to find a firing range around here. And as soon as I get a job, I'll be joing the NRA myself. So there! : )

Randi:

I am afraid. Very.

I used to love going shooting with my dad. When he passed away, I inherited a very nice .22 -long rifle with a telescopic site.

My wife made me sell it.

Even though she's a registered Republican, she didn't want any kind of firearm in the house. I persuaded her to make an exception for the black powder rifle I also inherited, but only because it's hard to use, ammunition is a little harder to come by, and it's practically useless for home defense. Go figure.

Yeah, I'm a wimp. But I don't like sleeping on the couch.

I'm sorry my boys will miss out.

Sounds like a good time!

Robert, I have my Glock 9mm all ready. Can I come next time?

Robert, it was bad enough when I got the life insurance policy. I have had to sleep with one eye open as I am infinately more valuable dead than alive according to the face page of said policy. As for getting up to shave this morning only to find a perforated paper silouette taped to my mirror, well, I am sure you get the picture if not the implied threat. The parrot is also nervous, something about clay pidgeons might be interesting to shoot at......

Mr. Randi

Kent:

There is a notion in Jewish thought called "Shalom Bayit." Which translates as "household peace." Basically the Rabbinic Sages tell us that harmony between husband and wife trumps most everything else. If Karen hated my guns, I'd get rid of them in a NY minute. I wouldn't be happy, but I want Shalom Bayit.

You are not a wimp. You are a wise man with his priorties straight. Thanks so much for writing.

Stacey:

Come along, you and your Glock, please. It'll be fun.

Mr. Randi:

Here at Casa Avrech, we have a guest house in back. You are welcome to stay here for as long as you want if life gets too weird with Cruisin' Mom. I knew that things had gone too far when she started singing: "Happiness is a warm gun" at the top of her lungs. We got deeply strange looks from guys with "Semper Fi" ink on their biceps.

My deepest apologies.

Irina:

And next time you're in our neck of the woods, give us a shout and we'll take you you shooting. It's all part of the education we offer at Seraphic University.

Ode to Randi, that Gunnin' Gal:

She's the queen
she's the queen
she's the queen
of the gunning scene.

Hand her a Glock
along with a clock
she's immediately gone
and not easily found.

With gun in hand,
her positioning correct,
she's busy shooting
another round.

She aims too high,
and then too low
sometimes too fast,
but never too slow...

She's the queen
she's the queen
she's the queen
of the L.A. Gun Club scene!

Pearl:

Is the Bard of Seraphic University, and of our vast Armory.

hmmmmmmm...I was only gone one day. How'd she get loose from that evil parrot so quickly. And if she had such firepower how'd he/she take control? Inquiring minds want to know.

PS Have we decided on a mascot yet?

well now there's an intelligent remark from a brave soul....no wait...the name is j? silly silly surfers

Robert, Thank you for you generous offer on the guest house, but I have been sleep deprived for so long, I am not sure I remember what a full night's sleep is like. You know, like Buddy Hackett's famous line, "I didn't know what heartburn was until I left home and the fire went out". As for the Semper Fi, that explains it. Someone was googling "Semper Fi Temporary Tatoos" today (Crusin Mom is a good Jew and would never get the permanent type, but she seems to be re-inventing herself on the hour). Stay tuned, more to come no doubt......NRA literature in my future.

Mr. Randi

Suz:

I think we're all moving towards a winged creature,as in a, surprise, Seraph. G-d's first order of Angels. What could be more appropriate?

Mr. Randi:

Much NRA literature. But buck up. it's very well written.

Please invite me and ball-and-chain next time. We try to go every 3 months. There is a certain calm joy in putting little round holes in pieces of paper.

Sounds like great fun and given Crusin-Mom's competitive approach to the picture contest I'm not surprised they were all throat shots!

How about the recipe for the babka for those of us on the East Coast?

Lisa, store bought babka. No time for baking now...gotta keep my trigger finger in shape.

Robert, don't let Mr. Randi fool you. He's got me plowing the back 40 now that he knows how powerful I am.

Pearl, once again you amaze with your poetic skills.

To all commentors, since I have never been shy about shamelessly plugging my blog, I would like to know why Robert received 26 comments to this post and I have only received 5.

In all honesty, mine is funnier. If you read it and comment, I will send you a chocolate chip babka.

what's a babka? how about a stawberry babka? I've read your blog a few times, Randi. But you have a marauding parrot and now you pack so I was afraid to comment. I liked you better when we were pom-pom girls.

Just keep Cheney far away from Randi's parrot.

Suz...a babka is a coffee cake...yummy.

Here's a link to explain:
http://www.ebabka.com/babkatrivia.html

Don't let the parrot worry you any longer...she's singing Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better (from the musical "Annie Get Your Gun") along with me now.
In fact, since yesterday, she seems to do anything I ask.

I have to tell you there is much more satisfaction in using your hands to provide an attitude adjustment than a gun.

At least here in the Shack we find that to be the case, some people are a little bit more sensitive about that.

Randi, there's a lot to be said for a practical parrot.

Dr. Bean:

You and Ball & Chain are officially invited to the next Seraphic University Shooting Course at the LA Gun Club. Randi is already agitating for more and more. What can I say, we aim to please our rather eccentric student body.

Randi:

I believe that people are gravitating here rather than to your blog is because, well, those throat shots have kind of, well, scared people off. They read betwen the lines.

Here at Seraphic Secret no throat shots. People say what they want (well, most people) without fear of lead to the gullet.

But maybe if you deliver this delicious babka to all our commenters...

Don't forget to bring some coffee to go with the babka.

To heck with the babka.....

Let's have some good ol drink....
Jack Daniels...and ...
some ice cold brew.

Of course....
after shooting....
It's kinda hard to hit targets when you are woozy.

Babka and Jack Daniels anyone?

I want to take shooting lessons from Randi. Maybe she can be our mascot - in a picture dressed in western style holding a rifle - kind of like Annie Oakley.
Our motto can be - at Seraphic U, we aim for the throat.

I can easily picture Randi as an old time Western small-town sheriff, standing feet askance, gun in hand and saying to a would-be stagecoach robber: "Gimme your gun...or I go for the gullet!"

now, now...how can anyone fear a gal who's willing to personally deliver coffee and babkas for all?

Mata Hari, Pearl...I'd be honored to be the Seraphic U mascot...But only if the parrot can sit on my shoulder.

Randi, parrot on your shoulder? It's not a pirate theme we've got going here! We don't need a parrot -- we need a seraph...and for you to join the Seraphic U. sharpshooters team.

Me? I'll just supply the names for the targets. Hmmm...what name should we start with? I'm thinking of one...can you read my mind?

Not only is the Winchester the gun that won the west, it is also the rifle given to Ariel by Jeremiah in the award winning "The Hebrew Kid And The Apache Maiden"

Doc:

What can I say, I live what I write.

Why I am against frum people belonging to the NRA, to gun clubs, to own guns.

Mainly the cost. You could be sending a child or 2 to Yeshiva w/ the money spent on this unnecessary hobby.

Secondly, the time involved would be better spent doing real exercise. More healthy.

Third, the fumes you inhale from the gunpowder, not the greatest thing for you.

Why should this matter to an Orthodox person?

Because a religious Jew such as Robert, goes to Synagogue daily, and is supposed to make an accounting, is supposed to grow in Torah and mitzvahs, both mitzvahs knows as between man & G-d, + man & man. So we try to do as much Chessed as we can. Chessed is a kind of charitable activity, that one spends time on freely, for the sake of other individuals, or for organizations that promote chessed or Torah study, or general welfare help to those in need. Chessed implies an acceptance of people who are not as fortunate financially, rather than castigating them as being at fault. One is to raise them up if they can, either directly financially, or to life their spirits, to instill a positive attitude, indeed, to foster a positive attitude to the world.

I do not see any of this in Robert.

Does this mean he is not really a religious Jew? Not sure, I cannot say that being mean, spiteful, and hurtful of others, means that nothing, none of your praying matters. But it is so highly hypocritical, that it makes me sad to see this. I am ashamed that we have such people in our camp, people who have allowed them to be brainwashed by the political nonsense, rather than to hold onto our sacred traditions.

jobber - i'm not sure how you're making the assumptions you are. my impression of robert is a kind man who is shomer torah and mitzvohs and trying to do his best. he's certainly not knocking people down as you are. not a very spiritual or holy trait.

Hey Seraphic friends! Check this article out; it proves that Vice President Cheney needs to go out with Randi and Robert the next time they hit the range: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0602140167feb14,1,7561864.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Jobber:
Self-defense is a very Jewish thing to do. G-d wants us to protect ourselves. I take kickboxing with a bunch of Orthodox women. I don't think you would want to argue with us.

Rachel

Rachel, self defense I have no problem w/. I stated earlier that I discern that the neighborhood where Robert lives is not crime ridden, Beverly Hills. I myself walk through a dangerous neighborhood to get to work ( there is a need, for a police small station to be located at the train station for example). I wouldn't walk around the work area after midnight for example, kick boxing or no, gun or no. But it is OK during the daytime/eve. If I felt in great threat, I would probably get a gun as well, I have used machine guns in the IDF.

I myself train in Tai chi, on a daily basis I practice. I reccommend Tai chi, over your kick boxing, as more healthy and effective, but that is a separate discussion.

I am glad that you are doing this exercise! Our community needs 100 % exercise and self defense training.

Chazak Ve'ematz Rachel,

Jobber

Jake,
Regarding Cheney: It seems to me that ARROGANCE has no place on the hunting field.

Mata hari, he removes each and every one of my posts, for no justifiable reason other than I dare to dissent from the right wing mantra party line. What have I said that is so irritating, so abrasive, to cause this? On all the major Jewish blogs you will find me. No one removes my posts, not www.myurbankvetch,not wwww. Jewlicious, not Joe Schick, not Hirhurim, not Jewschool

I must ask you, Jobber. Why don't you use your own linking address? Why do you have to use others'? What do you fear?

Opinions count for something in blogland; it's how you express them that makes the world of difference to the readers and to the blog moderator...at least as I've learned over my tenure in blogland.

Robert,
We still aren't done with the kishke. Pearl might have a better recipe than mine. The gauntlet has been thrown down.
Next Seraphic Contest: Best Kishke recipe?
Those of us who can't cook, could think of other uses kishke has in the Seraphic Scheme of things. I'm imagining Jake could find at least ten.

Pearl, I had blogs, but I was unable to attract anyone so I dropped it. I am in the process of starting again w/ fresh material. Thank you for your idea! I use other URL's bec. I love what they are doing. Jewlicious is promoting Israel, and Birthright. They started w/ one bus, now they filled 2 busses for the summer. THe second bus filled up in under 24 hours!!!
jOBBER

IF CHENEY & HIS HUNTING PALS WERE JEWISH

CHENEY: Oy! I'm sorry I didn't see you there!

WHITTINGTON: So now he's sorry? For 20 years I'm trying to get a private meeting with this big shot and he only notices me after I get sprayed with birdshot? Listen, don't do me any favors. Just make sure your secret service golems don't try to finish me off before the ambulance gets here to take me to the goyishe hospital without the Jewish doctors.

I find it interesting that no one is really bothered by this. I mean was Cheney drunk, did they check him out? Should they revoke his license. He doesn't appear to be all there.

It's not enough that he forced us into this horrific quagmire of a war, that there is no plan to implement what we promised the Iraqis, that Americans are dying every week, for nothing. So Sadam is gone, is it any safer for Israel, for anyone, for Iraqis?

Jobber,

Blogs don't become successful overnight. You have to work at them.

But the bigger question in mind is something you said earlier.

Why I am against frum people belonging to the NRA, to gun clubs, to own guns.

Mainly the cost. You could be sending a child or 2 to Yeshiva w/ the money spent on this unnecessary hobby.

First, you don't use specifics. How much does it cost to participate. Are you in a position to know whether the cost of such a venture truly impacts the ability to send a child to yeshiva.

I suspect that there is no relationship and even if there were it would also depend upon the financial status of various people. And since you don't know what people earn you cannot comment as to the impact.

But even more important is the overstepping of boundaries. You are not in a position to determine what hobbies are important to anyone besides yourself and maybe your family..

IF CHENEY & HIS HUNTING PALS WERE JEWISH (Continued)

EXT. The woods. Ambulance workers are fitting Whittington onto a stretcher

CHENEY: Are you comfortable?

WHITTINGTON: Who me? I've got bird pellets over half my face and this guy wants to know if I'm comfortable. If I wanted this kind of a question, I would have voted for that idiot Quayle. At least he has decent eyesight.

CHENEY: That's not what I meant.

WHITTINGTON: You're right. When you said: "are you comfortable?" I should have said "Nu, I make a living." Listen, Mister... I just donated $200 thousand to the Republican Party. For that kind of money I expect a little better treatment. I'm thinking maybe Kerry's not so bad. At least he would have given me one of his purple hearts for this. Thrown them at me is more like it, but you get the idea. Listen, do me a favor and take Scalia with you next time.

Jobber:
It takes a sharp mind to use a gun correctly. It's a discipline, just like tai chi, tae kwondo, or even playing the piano. Just because you aren't doing leg lifts doesn't mean you aren't feeling the burn.

I don't like it when you criticize Robert, especially when you bring in all sorts of tangential issues that you presume to relate to him. Please, if you believe in this Chesed that you speak of so highly, please show it by using restraint. Thank you.

Rachel

Jobber,
My hobby is building model tanks and airplanes and little woodworking. If I thought about the money spent on my hobby as compared to sending a child to school, I say there's always public school. Public schools not good enough or religious enough?. Move to NY, you will soon have a tax credit of $3500/child sent to private school.
By the way, I do give charity. The recommended 10%, but not to yeshivas. I dont believe they do a good job of raising the young.

Personally I suspect he is into guns for the political agenda part. As a fellow Orthodox card carrying member, I do think many of us become overly political into the dogma, when we are facing such important problems in our own community.

I do know that belonging to a gun club and owning guns, insurance, bullets, this is expensive. But that is not really the point.

I just point out better ways to be. That is how it should be take, I am not attacking Robert. I am just the messenger.

Jake, hysterical as always!

Simon, I think for the most part they raise good kids. As much as I suffer paying the tuitions, I have to admit, I am happy as to how they have turned out, being yeshiva kids.

Robert is into guns for whatever reasons he wants. It's none of our business, it is certainly not our place to judge him based on that.
Do you know him aside from what you read on his blog? Can you truly be making such judgement calls?
Jobber, it really is not nice to point fingers and be so accusatory, messenger or not. Having derech eretz is the key...and keeping shalom bayit is another. Visiting a blog is like visiting someone's home -- one should treat their hosts and other guests with respect, thus making for shalom bayit.
Sometimes we learn that the difficult way, but we should learn and apply that lesson.

IF CHENEY & HIS HUNTING PALS WERE JEWISH (Continued)

INT. a hospital room.

CHENEY: The President sends his best wishes.

WHITTINGTON: That's nice. Listen, I hope I didn't bother him. G-d forbid. Kayin hara I'm not from New Orleans.

CHENEY: Here come the police to ask you a few questions. You know what to say, right?

WHITTINGTON: He asks me, "do I know what to say?" He shoots me in the head and now HE'S the expert on what to do?

A large Texas county sheriff wearing a 10-gallon hat enters the room... turns out he is Jewish too

SHERIFF: Nu! Yiddin! Who's niftir?

CHENEY: Ay! Don't say that! What you want me to be the next Spiro Agnew? I got three more years in office, pu pu pu.

WHITTINGTON: Excuse me, can I say something?

SHERIFF: You want to make a statement sir?

WHITTINGTON: Yeah. Halevay this should happen to bin Laden. Yimach schmoe.

SHERIFF: There are some members of the press outside. Should I let them in?

WHITTINGTON: Sure, sure. Who's ashamed? I look like a six-day old tzimmes, but what's the problem? But whatever you do, don't let the New York Times reporter in. Cartoons of Muhammad they won't print, but me looking like a piece of raw flanked will be on the front page!

FINAL CHAPTER of "IF Cheney and his hunting buddies were Jewish"

Int. Hospital room. The next morning. A nice looking blonde doctor with a thick Texas accent is examining Whittington.

DOCTOR: It looks like y'all gonna be fine. You took a tarring from that Winchester, but I reckon you got a few good years left.

WHITTINGTON: I get shot and suddenly I get good years? Listen, I was happy when I was miserable.

The Doctor leaves the room.

CHENEY: He seems like a nice fellow.

WHITTINGTON: If it's all the same to you, I'd like a second opinion from another doctor.

CHENEY: You mean one who has more experience?

WHITTINGTON: I mean one who has a bris. Mamish, I couldn't understand a word that shaygitz said.

CHENEY: To tell you truth, me either. It's like this every time I try to talk to the President. Nebuch, you'd think the Commander-in-Chief could get a decent speech coach. It's a shanda.

WHITTINGTON: Speaking of shanda. What's with that daughter of yours. She's still not dating a nice bocher?

CHENEY: Actually, she just went out on a date with your daughter.

Whittington's monitor starts flat-lining, alarms ring out

NURSE: Code blue, code blue!!!

FADE OUT

Jake, your humor is a balm for the soul.

Thanks (again!!!) for the laugh.

Jake, now that's what I call a happy ending

Thanks!

When they launch a Yiddish comedy channel, I'll be set!

Jake:

This is genius! I wish you'd do a hostile takeover of Saturday Night Live. I love this!!

all the best,

Rachel :)

Rachel:

Thanks. Can you believe those dopes have been taking my material for a year and a half now. I had to jump through a lot of legal hoops just to get cleared to submit to SNL. Guess how many of my jokes/bits they've done? ZERO.

Jake:
They are fools. I never watch that show anymore because I have lost faith in them with their dumbing-down humor. It's just not good. Why o why don't they use your jokes?
B'Hatzlacha :)

Rachel

The show is now really for 17-year-old girls only. Thus the regime of Tina Fey. She is cute, and somewhat funny, but not funny enough. When I was a kid, SNL was for college kids and young couples with kids who were stuck at home Saturday nights. The commercials, (the real ones), used to be for kids' toys and other things parents wanted to buy. My humor has a pretty wide appeal, but I haven't been able to crack the 11th grade clique-y girl yet.

Robert: I grew up in a house with firearms (my maternal grandfather was an excellent marksman and a firearms instructor, my maternal uncle an sharpshooter in the U.S. armed forces, and my father a good competitive shooter as well) but often felt palpable scorn as a child from the more heimish elements of our community (imagine with a thick yiddish accent: but it just isn't jeeewishhhhh!). Both yours and Randi's posts brought broad smiles to my face!

On a side note, more closely related to your series of "How You Married Karen," when my dearest asked my father for my hand in marriage my father said he had a few "things" he wanted to share with my beloved and that he should come downstairs to the basement....

Can you imagine Treppenwitz's sheer amazement (to put it politely) when he 1) realized on the way downstairs that it was an UNFINISHED basement, 2) saw the reloader and the kegs of gun powder, 3) watched my father unlock a series of cabinets against the rear wall to reveal a dozen very shiny, very well maintained rifles, shotguns and handguns?! ;-)

Zahava:

Thanks so much for your lovely and informative comment. I actually get quite a bit of mail from Jews who want to tell me, almost secretly, that they too come from family's that have a tradition of shooting, and loading and firearm safety.

Treppinwitz is a lucky man. Well, we knew that already just from reading his fine blog and looking at pictures of your lovely family. Shalom U'vracha.

Randi, your blog is now up to 20 folks. See, that's the secret. You just have to keep writing about guns and Republicans. : )

Zahava, thanks for your wonderful comments on my blog as well!

Sweettooth, thanks for helping to kick those comments up! I'm personally delivering you a chocolate chip babka.

Zahava, thanks for your wonderful comments on my blog as well!

Sweettooth, thanks for helping to kick those comments up! I'm personally delivering you a chocolate chip babka.

Ahh...reminds me of my days (actually nights) on the Yeshiva University Riflery Team.

Good times, good times.

What?

Psychotoddler:

Oh yes, I remember those times too. We used to make direct hits -- at our foots.

Good times, indeed.

Oh, were you on the team too? Sorry it was so dark out there in the Jamaica Armory. I couldn't tell who or what I was shooting at/with.

You just couldn't see through the darkness? I was the one on the floor bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. No problem, I made it to early minyan (prayer quorom) and then to gemara (talmud) shiur (class) the very next morning.

Wish I could say the same ;-)

Pearl, anytime someone is in the public spotlight, and has that Yarmulka on, he is open to comment by other members of the community. That comes w/ the territory, and I believe you know that. Whether this is right or not, is a separate discussion. Whether it should be an issue or even mentioned that Abramoff is Ortho. for example.

Jobber, I don't see it as you do, unless that person who wears the kippah or black hat is your rebbe! You're supposed to look to him for guidance and if he's done an awful deed, what kind of example is he setting for you?

No doubt you are a kippah- or black-hat-wearing Jew, too. For that reason alone, I think you ought to know how to properly show respect when "visiting" Robert's blog or any others.

I learned from a young age that it's how you say things and the tone you use that speak VOLUMES. Sometimes that tone says more than it should or that you thought it would. That's when you get into murky waters with the people around you.

As we used to say to our children (as taught by Barney the purple dinosaur): "Use your indoor voice when indoors, not your outdoor voice!"

Jobber: Are you a real jobber (aka Yerushalmi) or just a garden-variety Israeli?

I have Israeli citizenship, what are you referring to Jobnik/Yoram type? I am away from the land for many years unfortunately so I am not up on current slang, altho I do visit once a year in the winter time, and am trying to go for a very brief July 4 weekend soon, keep your fingers crossed on that one!

Jobber:
Who do you think you are?
First of all your facts are all wrong. Last time I went shooting I spent less than $50. I go once or twice a month. last I checked yeshiva education cost far more than $1,000 a year. I dont know how my hobby of shooting guns can send 2 kids to yeshiva. Maybe for a week but not a year.
Secondly who says Robert uses the money that he has put aside for tzedaka to shoot? Who is to say he does not do both?
Do you have a car Jobber? Did you buy the cheapest mode of transportation possible? You could have used the money you spent on your car to send kids to yeshivah.
Who are you to tell people how to spend their money?
Who are you to say that some one who shoots is not a true ben Torah?

Shame on you, you who judges others and tells them what to do, you are the one whose actions come into question. You are the one we should be telling what to do. We should be telling you to work on your bein adam lechavero, we should be telling you to work on your midos. You should think long and hard about your position in the Jewish community.

I find it hard to believe that any one on those blogs that you mentioned takes you seriously. Just because they ignore you and don't REMOVE your post does not mean that they agree with you. They probably leave your post up just so people can see what an ^%&%* you are.

Jobber:

"Jobber" is the mildly pejorative slang among charedim for a "Yerushalaimer" of the old yishuv; e.g. the Reb Arele chassidim. I thought perhaps you are a lapsed yishuv ha'yashnik who took that name as a kind of joke.

AZM, actually we are a one car family, I choose to take public transportation and walk alot.

I am commenting on Roberts posts, mostly I am concerned w/ the extremists political mindset and that goes for both sides, right and left. Robert happens to be on the Right wing.

I have the right to an opinion, azm. I think that we in the Orthodox comm. should be more concerned w/ the major problems, many of the people in YOUR shule are dealing w/.

I only say this, bec. I suffered through more than one year of unemployment, and then another 18 months of severe UNDER employment. Only recently, have things gotten normal for me.

In that time period, I met many Jews, frum and non, who are suffering greatly in this new economic climate. I am more concerned about them and their problems, than the media induced political mantras, that is my point.

Well, in my area, I was offered to go to some gun club for $150 that incl. dinner. Maybe it's more exp. over here.

I apologize if you feel I am judging Robert. It is not judgement, I am making a point about what I consider MORE important stuff for people to deal w/ that is all. I consider it more important bec. I have been to these people's houses and apartments, some as they were being evicted for not paying rent and I had to help them move.

I never said things like, R you suck etc... So you have no need to start using that language on me azm, as in "They probably leave your post up just so people can see what an ^%&%* you are."

Every person has a style of communicating. Are they an introvert, extrovert, judgmental, thinker, perceiver, intuitive? If you know what another person is, you'll know how to communicate with them.

You learn a little bit about yourself, you learn a bit about the other person, which helps you communicate with each other, which is only a good thing.

This was a hilarious story. :) I don't come here often enough... everytime I do I love it.

Ezzie:

Glad you enjoyed your visit. Come back more often, or we're gonna send the posse for you:)

Heh. I liked your pieces on Sharon's military strategy... I think you're heading where I did a couple weeks ago. But we'll see.

And I'll start coming - though beware of sending posses: Jack (of the Shack) is already on the run from the Snowball Crew - wouldn't want to add another couple Californians to our whitewash list. :)