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Hummmmm, I don't get it either. And yes, I read the rules. Can't figure out why Opaque would suddenly make an appearance after all this time over a news articule about Osama Bin Laden getting what he had coming to him. But I sure am glad you pulled him out of his hibernation! Way to go Anwiiii! Good boy.

Chocolate icecream or vanilla icecream?This one is no contest. Chocolate. Plain and simple. Nothing is better than chocolate. Unless it would be more chocolate.Blue or red?For this one, my vote gets mix the 2 together and come up with purple, which is my favorite.Coke or pepsi?Coke without a doubt here too. Pepsi is way too sweet, and who ever heard of drinking burbon and pepsi?Milk chocolate or white chocolate or dark chocolate?I already explained about chocolate. I do draw the line on the white stuff though. It just doesn't taste quite right, but if I am desperate, I will eat it too. Chocolate has to be brown. Not white. Milk or dark, don't care. Just so long as I have plenty of it. Miranda Cosgrove or Selena Gomez?Haven't got a clue as to who either one of these folks are, so no opinion there. Please answer!

Sorry you fell for the Pay Pal scam, that really hurts loosing that much money, not to mention haveing your account tied up for all that time. It just boggles my mind to think that some people actually make their living by stealing from other people. Seriously, what kind of mentality does that take? How can they live with themselves when that is what they do for a living? And I know there are a lot of them out there that do it too. It's just unbelievable to me. Why on earth can't they get an honest job and work for a living just like everybody else? Can't you just imagine a converstaion at a party or some gathering when you ask a person what they do for a living and they say they rip people off? Geeze. What low lifes!

I am now 8 days into kidding season. They sure are dragging this out. Only one more kidding since the first 2 on April 2nd and 3rd. This time I got a single doe kid. That brings the count to one buck and 3 does. I am surprised that they are dragging this out. Last fall I borrowed a "fresh" buck, he was not running with any other does, just another buck goat, so he wasn't all used up, and I really thought I would get a mass of kids all at once since he was so well rested and ready to go to work. I normally just buy a buck at the sale barn, and you expect them to be well used and half wore out when you get them in the fall. We did have a couple cold nasty days in this past week, and I swear I saw a few of the goats crossing their legs and trying to hold kids in till better weather, but it's been pretty now for the past few days and still no new kids. Otherwise, things are going pretty well. Did finally get my income taxes done, so that project is complete. Hubby almost has the tiller fixed and working properly, and if we can get a few more days without rain, he will get my flower bed tilled up for me. I'll post a picture of the twin girls and their mom.

Welcome Heisylypedier! Always good to see a new face here at Xisto. Tell us a little more about yourself. How is everyone?Thanks for asking. Today I am wonderful. Finally finished my income taxes. That is a major load off my to do list. Now if I can just get threw the rest of my spring projects.

YIPPEE!!! I'm done!!!!Thank goodness that is over for another year! I'd had about all the paperwork I could stand for awhile. I finished up last night about 11 pm, did my filing with that taxactonline thing, it's cheap enough, only $18. Of course, if I screwed up, I have no one to blame it on except myself, and I doubt the IRS has much sympathy for dumb people.

I'm sorry, I had no idea I was coming across as sarcastic. It was not my intention. I was just carrying on a discussion. Was not in any way intened to be sarcasm.

Good grief, $53 in the hole!? I'm not sure I could ever get caught up from that far behind! I wanted to get at least $30 ahead before kidding season started and I feel like I typed my fingers to the bone and never even got close to that! Actually, I didn't know you could even get in the hole here. I thought if you ran out of mycents your site would be removed.

Well, kidding season is off! First kid, a single buck was born yesterday. So we hurried up and moved the herd back to the house where I can keep a closer watch on them. The place next door is too rough and brushy to ever hope to find newborn kids, there are just way too many places for them to hide. This morning early I was presented with a pair of twin doe kids. The mom has been hanging with them all day, so hopefully they will be ok. The 2 of them seemed so small after seeing the big single buck kid. I?ve really been trying to get my hosting credits run up as I am just not going to have much time to mess around online this next month. I tried to submit a tutorial in hopes of getting a little ahead, but it was never approved, so I guess it wasn't the proper subject matter for this forum (it wasn't about computers, lol) The goats will keep me busy enough, but I still have dogs to shear, my flower bed and garden to plant, quite a few more fruit trees to put out and I still don?t even have my taxes figured out yet! Then there is keeping up with the house and the laundry. One thing you will never see on a television commercial for any of those so called stain removers and laundry detergents is one that will claim to get out birth fluids from delivering baby goats. Oh sure, they get out blood and grass stains, maybe even chocolate and wine, but I can assure you, baby goat juice is a forever stain. So I?m afraid I won?t be in here much for awhile. Maybe I can squeeze in a few minutes late at night, if I can keep my eyes open. One good thing about goats and their kidding habits is they never have kids in the middle of the night, unlike dogs who usually do have their pups after dark While goats may kid at the very first crack of dawn, if you can make it till about an hour before sunset, you can probably call it a day.

Ah yes, the old keep 'em on the computer trick! That one has gotten me into a ton of trouble this year. I was keeping my sales list on the computer, and when mine crashed, I lost it all! What a disaster that has become. It's going to take forever to recreate all the sales I made this year. I have to compare my list of pups on hand to my breeding records, and the breeding records are the lifetime record for the dog, not just 2010! Day before yesterday, I drug my old computer back to the house and hooked it up in hopes I could fire it up one more time, and I got lucky and was able to make a print out of my sales list, for half of the year. Better than none of the year like I was facing. It's still going to be a royal pain. Lab pups! Big litters, and big eaters! (not to mention lots of puppy poo to clean up too) Mom isn't going to feed them for long, and even while she is feeding them, she's going to eat twice as much as normal to make milk to feed them. But ahhh, they are puppies! And so cute and so much fun!

I suppose there are some out there in which greed is not a major factor in their lives. Those would be the ones you mentioned that take the government loans and grants, or otherwise wellfare, those who have no ambitions whatsoever and will take whatever is handed to them just so long as they don't have to work or take any responsibility for their own maintenence. Personally, I think this group is worse than the greedy ones that strive to make a living or better themselves by their own doings. We see greed in all forms. Even in young children, who each want the biggest piece of cake, or the most or best toys. In some cases, greed isn't really even just greed, it's more of our basic survival instinct. Those who get the most food have the best chance for survival. So in that way, yes, I do think that the basic forms of greed are hardwired right into our dna, or personalities. Wether we like it or not it is a part of human nature. We can try to deny it or say we can overcome it, but I don't think we can. And I'm not sure we even should. If nobody has any ambition and drive, who will be the movers and shakers that get things done and keep things rolling along?

Granted, spam has really been horrible this week, but I would truely hate to see new registrations stopped, the boards have been way too slow as it is and I would hate to see anyone who could actually be a good prospective member get turned away because of these dumb spammers. Has to be a better way than that.

Wow, you sure shot my theory out of the water if the third girl is a lesbian! Well, it was just a thought. So I've come up with another idea for you. Had to make a long drive today, so I actually had lots of time to think about everything you said. It seems to me that nearly all of your time together is with groups of friends. Why don't you just ask her out on a date? Yes, a real date, just the 2 of you, and let her know right off the bat that you mean it is supposed to be just the 2 of you. Make it real obvious, even say something to the effect of, "hey, there's that new restuarant in town that just opened up, would you have dinner with me friday night, just the 2 of us?" Doesn't have to be a restuarant, it can be a new movie coming out, a concert, or be creative and do something different, a picnic in the park,(if your weather is better than ours is right now of course) Only thing I would advise against in your choise of places to go would be to avoid any place that serves booze. I think you should spend some straight time together. You aren't in a position to get to know a person better if they are drunk. Drunks are seldom the same person they are when they are sober. Another thing you want to maybe check out is why and how she got hurt in her previous relationships, and try your best to avoid doing anything that would cause her to think you might be simular to her past boyfriend. Even an idea of what the former boyfriend was like could help. You don't have to ask her directly, it seems that you both have friends in common so maybe they would have some ideas, but do remember to take anything they say with that old grain of salt. It might even just work to talk to her about it. Anwiii's heart to heart talk sugestions might be a good place to work in why her last relationship didn't work out. Main thing is to be honest and be yourself. If you like her, let her know it. Good luck!

I am really starting to feel sorry for the moderators of these forums. I have been here for nearly 2 years and and I have never seen such a mass of spam hitting the forums like what we have had in the past week! What on earth is going on? Where are all these idiots coming from? You poor moderators have really had your work cut out for you. I hope for your sake that they see it isn't working and will soon go away. Until then, hang in there guys!

I think in this case quality is more important than quanity. When you have quanity you get more junk mail in your inbox than you can keep up with. And while it is great to be friendly with everyone and have people like and respect you and or at least tolerate your presence, a true friend, someone you can count on when the going gets tough, is a lot better than just the casual fair weather type friend you will have when you are going for quanity.

Nope, that's not going to help. The root of the problem is human nature, and it is so ingrained into our physical make up it's not likely that it will ever be rooted out. The poor starving man will be greedy over the biggest piece of meat. The rich powerful man will be greedy for more wealth and power. It isn't an America verses the world sort of thing either. ALL humans are greedy just by their very nature. Not much you can do about that. Eventually, the down trodden will get their greedy nature working and reclaim what the upper crust has taken away from them, be it money or even their freedom. It truly is a dog eat dog world.

Hi Tom and welcome to Xisto. This can be a pretty fun and interesting place at times. As to this girl, well, I think it sounds like she likes you, but not sure how much or as what. Maybe just as a friend? Since you spend time together when she is drinking, it's hard to say, since that sort of activities really screws up a persons judgement and actions under such circumstances cannot be considered very realiable. Nor would I put too much stock into what "friends" tell you. I'd take any comments from them with a grain of salt, depending on how good the friend was too of course. You mention the time you spend doing workouts and a third person is always present at this time, another girl. Did you ever consider she(the one you like) isn't sure of your relationship with this other girl and is hesitant to take the next step in your relationship? I don't feel you are being "played" obviously you spend a lot of time together and enjoy each others company. Even if it isn't a romantic relationship, everybody needs friends, so at least you can enjoy that part of your realationship.Just go with the flow, try to talk to her, without being pushy, and see where it leads.

First off, I think cars will no longer run on gas. Not really sure what it will be, there are lots of theories on that one, from hydrogen to sunshine. There is always the possibliity that another substance will be discovered in the future that we haven't even heard of yet that could fuel our transportation needs.I also think in the future you will be able to get in your car, punch in or even just speak the address you want to go to and the car will just take you there with no further input from you. Hopefully, that will be after my time, since I actually do enjoy driving, right down to shifting gears and hook sliding around corners. I would not be happy at all having a machine take that pleasure from me. Flying cars would actually be a big help to congested city traffic. Having layers upon layers of transportation lanes would make commuting in town much more effecient and faster. We just have to figure out a way to defy gravity, how hard can that be? Now if you want to talk WAY distant future, there is the possiblity that we won't have cars, that transporters will no longer be a science fiction Star Trek thing, but we really will have the technoligy to do something even that far fetched. Sure, I know it sounds crazy, but did we think 20 years ago we would have powerful computers that would fit in our pockets? I am amazed every time I even think about the advances that have been made in just the past 20 years or so. It almost seems unbelievable when you look back just a few years. Makes me really wonder what will happen in the next 20 or 50, or even 100! Do you think we will even be able to recognise our world?

The words idea or opinion can also often be substituted for theory. At one time, someone had an idea that the green moldy crud growing on a loaf of bread may have some benifits, as opposed to having ruined the loaf of bread for consumption. That theory or idea lead to the discovery of pennicillian, one of the most important break threws in medicine. Theories are wonderful things. Without them we would not have the answers to many of life's most difficult questions. Where did we come from, the world really isn't flat, why does it get dark at night? We didn't know any of those things many years ago. But scientist and others got together and each gave their theory, or opinion, and as the years went by new inventions allowed us to learn more and more. Theorys are fun to play with. They exercise our minds and work our creative genius side. I suspect every great invention ever invented started out as a theory.

Welcome tracycakesthirty! Glad you came out of lurk mode and started posting. This is a good group of folks here for sure. Even if the forum is a little slow right now. I share your feelings about the tragedy in Japan. I am surprised there is not more discussion about it. I can't even begin to imagine what those poor people are going threw right now.

I will tell you just how hard it is! It's virtually impossible! One of the biggest problems in modern history, since man invented the automatic washer and clothes dryer. I do believe both of those infernal machines eat socks! I also think socks have their own magical powers, or possibly Klingon cloaking devices. I had this wonderful warm woolie pair that I really liked for wearing around the house, one of them was laying in the hallway for weeks and I never could find the other one, which really annoyed me as I could of certainly used them on a few cold nights, but then the other day when the weather warmed up, I finally found the other one laying just around the corner, not 2 feet away from the other. I swear it wasn't there before! Who knows, maybe socks can even teleport themselves away to another universe to hide from us for awhile, just to drive us crazy.

You know, I tell myself that every year, that I should sort them out as I go along, and sometimes, after a particularly bad time of figuring them out I actually do it for a month, or maybe 2, but before long I'm right back to the old toss it in the drawer and go on routine. I have a tough time remembering to write down my milage when I take a trip, or the old man goes after feed. I got spoiled for a few years, had a wonderful lady do my taxes for me, she raised a few dogs too, so some years I got them done for a puppy. I could just take her a big brown paper bag full of reciepts and she could just rip right threw it. It amazed me one time, she came out to the house to do them, her fingers would just fly over the calculator as she flew threw stacks and stacks of reciepts, she did more in 2 hours than I could do in 2 weeks. I decided right then I wasn't going to stress myself out doing them anymore after that. But sadly she passed away. So until I find somebody else that will tolerate my brown paper bag filing system, I'm stuck with doing them myself. And don't worry about my cheating, I don't have to. Have you priced dog food lately?

It's that time of year again. I have been fighting a loosing battle with getting the kitchen table cleared off long enough to get started on my anual torture fest, what most people commonly call doing their taxes. After many threats of doing great bodily harm if he put anything on my kitchen table during this stressful period, I finally got it cleared away and proceded to dump the contents of the filing cabinette that I carelessly toss my reciepts in during the rest of the year. The result is a mountainous pile of tiny scraps of paper, hundreds, no, THOUSANDS of them. The painful procedure then begins of sorting them out into their prospective catagories. What was this for? Which pile do I put this Walmart ticket in, it has a bag of dog food on it and heat lamps, so does it go into dog food or supplies? Was this tire for the tractor or the car? (I take milage instead of car maintence, so can't take off any car stuff) Is having dog clipper blades sharpened maintence, or hired help? And that ever pressing question, is rat poison considered feed?Ad then come my rather dubious skills (or lack thereof) in the mathmatical department. Even with a calculator, I can add a stack of reciepts 5 times and come up with 5 different totals. It is frustration beyound anything any human should have to endure!But you know the worst part? What really annoys me more than anything? It's the dissapearing ink these dang companies use to print out their cash register reciepts! As I sort threw the mountain of scrap paper, I find dozens of just nearly blank scraps. Just a hint of ink left, you can't even tell what is was for, let alone the ammount you spent. Seriously, what is the point in handing out reciepts if they are unreadable in a few months? I mean good grief, is the cost of a good quality ink that bad that they have to use the cheap stuff? How expensive can good ink possibly be?

Very good question!Considering the divorce rate, I suspect finding, and keeping true love doesn't have real good odds. But there are those couples that do seem to make it work. Those old timers that have been married for 40 or even 50 years and seem to still be so happy together. It can and should be a beautiful thing. It's a shame more people can't reach that point.

Hummm, that's a bit confusing. How can he be your boyfriend if he doesn't know it?I wouldn't be all that concerned about the age difference. Woman mature faster than men anyway so in that respect, you will probably get along better with an older guy. Of course, on the other hand, woman live longer, so you can expect to be a widow much sooner. This is providing of course that you do end up getting together.What would concern me is the cousin thing. Line breeding in humans is generally not considered a good idea. Undesirable traits that may otherwise be recessive can become dominent when both sides carry a recessive trait. Birth defects and many dangerous diseases and defects can crop up in the resulting offspring.