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Thanks so much for sharing! I now feel 100% better about my own rather pathetic house keeping skills!

That is just wonderful, I bet you are just so excited! It must be awful not to be there with your wife at such a time, I hope you get to see them both very soon. Congradulations!

My all time favorite has got to be Dennis Leary. A friend of mine video taped a comedy routine of his, "No cure for Cancer" and it had me rolling in the floor. I love how he jabs the animal rights freaks with his with his tale of eating meat, drive the cow past him, he will carve off what he wants and ride the rest home, and his Cadillac with the all leather cow interior and whale skin hub caps and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights, it's just hysterical.

My sister in law does Tarot readings, she would do one for me whenever we got together, usually once a year on our vacations. Honeslty, it seemed pretty accurate. She actually has a web site and does them profesionally. She has a good number of repeat customers, so she must be pretty good.

Oh, there are just SO many things wroung with this post!First off, at your age you should understand a bit more about biolody, sex, the breeding cycles, etc. And unless you are trying to get pregnaunt, why on earth would you not be using birth control, AND having unprotected sex?????But at any rate, to the biologic part, the menstral cycle is the end of the 28 day human female cycle. You don't get pregnaunt at that time. It is aproximatly the middle time between periods when you are fertile.

Oh Boy, I want an Excaliber! A white one will all that chrome! But here in the real world, we did just get a new car. (Ok, not new, just new to us) We ended up getting another car just like the one we had, only a year newer, and with a whole lot less miles on it. On the day we came home from picking out the new car and getting the paperwork started on it, our old car turned over 290,000 miles! They new one only has 85,000 on it. We had been doing a lot of looking and comparing different cars. Most of the new cars we looked at did not have the fuel economy nor the space we needed, and the later model stuff was also pretty pricy, in my opinion. There was just nothing out there that came close to our little Ford Aspire. The 40 mpg is the big thing, but the fact that when the back seat is removed, you really have a LOT of actual usable cargo space for such a tiny car. My better half has back problems, and the seats in the Aspire have always been very comfortable for him. So we just figured out we were better off with something we knew we liked and hunted until we found a lower milage one.And I like the fact we were able to stick with Ford, since they are the only one's that didn't take the governments bail out money.

Ok, I'm really curious about something I've been hearing about on the news. Since I know virtually nothing about sports, I can't understand what all the fuss is about, hopefully somebody can enlighten me.There has been quite an uproar recently in that Rush Limbaugh was going to buy a sports team. (as I mentioned, I'm not a sports fan, I don't even know what kind of a team, football, baseball, whatever) Anyway, because he is a talk show host, everyone is saying he can't buy the team. What on Gods green earth does that have to do with him buying the team? I thought this was America, land of the brave and the free, and if you have the money and something is for sale, you could buy it? What's all the fussing about?

Recently I've seen a lot of ads about different high stakes poker games, tournaments, etc, and it appears the media is pushing these as a "sporting" event. I think thats just stupid. Nothing at all like what I would consider any type of sports. Sports should be some sort of physical contest. Even flipping flap jacks is more physical than shuffling cards. What will be the next big sensation to hit the sporting world, finger twiddling contests???

How can a severe rain storm be illegal?????Who you going to prosecute, God? Honestly, I wish I knew what you guys are talking about half the time. A torent is big downpouring of rain as far as I know about.

Now that's hitting the nail with a hammer! Have you any idea how much more the average person would have to "cough up" (pun intended) if there was no more tobacco tax coming in? And what about the farmers that raise tobacco? Going to put them on welfare? Don't even suggest they raise some other crop, most (small) farmers aren't making a big enough profit from their corn/soybeans/cattle to keep their taxes paid, let alone pay for the future forced health insurance our president is going to shove down our throats. Oh yes, and what about medicinal purposes for tobacco? Did you know it's a wonderful cure for toothache? And, besides, with all the illegal drugs that literally destroy the lives of people in a matter of a very sort span of time, why concern yourself with smokers who smoke for years and years and don't have any side effects? There are a lot of things out there that are one hell of a lot worse than tobacco.

Oh no, not again. Always a big dissapointment, for me anyway, since I don't even remotley fit into any of the catagories. I don't know squat about computers, I don't play computer games, no Doctor Phill here, my advice is always to quit whinning and get over it, anyway, you get the picture, it's a hopeless dream for me.

I don't see why they could not of possibly existed. Just because we have not found fossal remains, doesn't really matter, perhaps they were rare, and we just haven't run onto a preserved fossal yet. Or maybe the wing structure was made not of bone, but of sinue that did not preserve like the bones did, and some of the dinosaur skeletons we have found actually are dragons.We have great gaps in the fossal remains of the various types of mankind, and I am sure that there were plenty of those around, so finding dragons may be virtually impossible. Maybe those early cave men considered and called the teradactile a dragon and the myth carried down threw the centuries that way.

Ahhh.....the A team, without a doubt the most predictable show on television! I don't think even once they varied the story line, find somebody that was in trouble and needed their help, try to help, get caught, find some miraculous manner in which to escape and/or fight the bad guys, (I remember a particular episode where they built a machine that fired cabbages like cannon balls, kind of like a McGiver thing) and always beat the bad guys. One thing in common it had with other good shows was the strong cast of charectors, and their interaction with each other, like the so well remembered bantering between Spock and Dr. McCoy on Star Trek, Mr T and the gang were excellent actors and complimented each other quite well. Hey, just one question though, do they still have dwarf tossing contests? I would think in this world of politically correct insanity, it probably is a thing of the past.

Does any body feel just a little bit sorry for Microsoft????Seriously, what other manufactorer has to worry about thousands of people just lining up to see if they can destroy/screw up their new products every time they are released? Personally, I have never understood the mentality of people who send viruses and other malodies to the computers of total strangers. The greif and aggrivation of having your computer infected can be extremely annoying, even heart breaking if you have important pictures of friends and family on it that cannot be replaced and you loose them. Why would anybody want to harm a complete stranger? People are weird.

I really suck at naming things, so I doubt I can help much there, but one hint, if you use a first word that starts with the letter A, you will be listed first in the phone book, and since so many people are too imatient to go threw all the listings, so they will just call the first one listed, that would help your business a lot. A name like "Abcrombie's Eats" might get you that top spot! Or Aarons Alfredo.

Oh No, I sure hope they equip that TV with an over ride, or all I will be able to watch is Happy Days reruns, or Bob Rosse's painting shows! But now if the TV could sense that I hated certain stupid commercials, and would edit those out, that might be cool.

I would really like to thank everyone for taking the time and giving my web site a good going over. I do appreciate all your input. I am really grateful you gave it such a thorough look over too. This past week or so I have been doing some searching for a particular dog to add to my breeding program, and while I was at that, I made it a point to take a good look at other dog breeder web sites. Have to say, after looking at a lot of others, mine isn?t so bad really. So many I looked at had virtually no information, or if they did it was hard to find just what I was looking for. Some were down right confusing. Even so, I do see that I have a lot of fine tuning to do on my site, and all your comments will certainly help me do that. I just need more clarification on some points. And maybe more discussion on my attempt to achieve that just right balance. It?s difficult to find the line between professional and ?cute? enough to be appealing to prospective customers. Truefusion, thanks so much, you really delved deeply into my site. I am not really sure how to make it look more like a puppy sale site and not a dog fan club, it does have pups for sale right at the top, so I?m not sure what to do about that. And also by ?hand coding? I assume you mean html coding? Quite right, I used Front Page to make the site. I know only the faintest bit about html coding. I could never do the page completely that way. I have enough trouble with FP. I still have a lot of trouble getting things placed on the site where I want them to go. And I also noticed when I look at my site from my sister in laws wide screen computer, it was all funky looking, the pages had lots of blank space on the right side of the screen (just the background was there) but all the text was aligned to the left, and I haven?t a clue as to how to deal with making the site look right for the variety of different monitors the site is viewed from. That?s all way over my head. I can however, play around with my navigation buttons to see if I can come up with some where the dog picture doesn?t conflict so much with the lettering. That might be a good project for the upcoming cold winter days that I find myself spending more time doing things like working on my site. I think you may be right, I have a bit too much on the main page. My limited experience in this department made me think I needed more info on the first page, due to getting the key words on the main page to help in the search engines finding and ranking my page. Will I get as good search engine results from text on subsequent pages as I would if they were on the main page? Also, I figured the more places I had an email link, the easier it would be to contact me. If they can contact me from any page, they don?t have to go back looking for a contact us type page, or at least that was my thinking on that subject. I also broke up the pages more since I did have a lot of content, and I didn?t want the pages to load too slowly. I am not at all sure of what a content management system is, or what it means to be more standards compliant. You are over my head there. As is pretty easy to do in my case. Nameless I think, especially after seeing Rob86?s remake of my top banner graphic, you are absolutely right, it looked flat as a pancake. I have already replace it with a new banner I recently worked up to put on another site for a link back to my site. It may not be perfect, but at least is some improvement. The consensus seemed to be to loose the marquee, so it?s history now too.Rob86 Wow, I had no idea how bad my main graphic looked until I saw what you did with it, Thanks so much for taking the time to make the illustration to demonstrate your point. It certainly made it easier to understand and got the point across loud and clear. Now, if I was a really brilliant graphics designer, I?d make this cute little puppy that jumps and chases a ball, or maybe does some tricks, down the right side of my main page, jumping down as a visitor scrolled down on the page. (you know, sort of like those text things some sites have that make strings of text when you move your mouse pointer, and yes, those can be annoying) since I have all that space over there I can?t get balanced out, lol. I?m just not that good. I also worry about graphics overload, especially on the main page, making it load too slowly, which is another good way to get people to leave your site without looking it over. Right now I am using an old obsolete program, Microsoft Photo Draw to make my graphics. It took me a long time to figure out how to use it, and it is a good program for simply dressing up my puppy pictures, but it doesn?t make the fancy graphics so many web sites are now using. I?m not sure I have the talents to get into much more complicated graphics, for me, new programs are extremely difficult to figure out how to use. And I have a limited amount of time to spend studying, the dogs take up most of my time, not leaving a lot of time for other things. I have been around and around the font type to use. I originally had a different one, as you say, cuter, (I forget now which one) but did have some complaints about it being too hard to read, so I went back to a more basic font. I still use some different ones for the titles on the individual puppy pages, Algerian I think, but since in some cases, like for my health guarantee and information on what to do for you pup, it needs to be easy on the eyes to encourage visitors to actually read it. Now, I had to think long and hard about adding the political stuff. And you are probably right, I do understand how some could be offended, but after giving it much consideration, I decide that it might actually be a good way to ?cull? troublesome people. The type of people that would be offended by the stuff on my Just My Humble Opinion page are the same type of people who would not buy a dog anyway, they would be the ones that would be the type to ?adopt? a mangy rescue mutt for that touchy feely (aka, Whinny *bottom* Liberal) good socially correct status. In all honesty, I have had to slap my hands away from making it a lot worse than it already is. I don?t have a politically correct bone in my body. Thanks for understanding about how difficult to achieve that just right balance between professional and a site that instills confidence in the buyer without looking cold and sterile. It sure isn?t easy to do. Kleong, ancient, LOL, I didn?t think the internet had been around long enough for anything to be ancient yet! But your right, it rather is a mess. A lot of that is that I simply have a really hard time getting Front Page to do what I want it to do. I?ve had this problem from the first moment I sat down in front of a computer. While most things computer oriented are simple once you know the routine, if there isn?t anyone there to tell you to click here, do this and then do that, it?s pretty hard to figure out how to do it when you have to just guess at what you are doing. Thanks again to all that offered tips and ideas.

I don't think I have any particular pose. It mostly depends on who called me and when they called. If I'm eating dinner, as is usually the case when the phone rings, I have been known to talk and eat at the same time, rude, I know, but especially if I'm eating something that would taste awful when it got cold, like fried eggs or something I'm going to eat it anyway. If I'm not eating, and just busy around the house, I always seem to have to multi task, so I often hold the phone between ear and left shoulder, and continue talking while I cook dinner, clean house, read email, or whatever else I need to get done because I don't have time to yak on the phone for no reason. I do have several friends who call just to visit occasionally, and I usually don't mind that, but I'm really busy sometimes so I don't waste the time just sitting and talking. Once in awhile, if I'm really tired and feel like visiting I'll even stretch out on the bed and yak away. I have an elderly friend I like to visit with, I know she gets lonely and needs to have someone to talk to, so I try to relax and enjoy the converstation when she calls. As a matter of fact, I usually call her when I have a few minutes to spare, as she knows how busy I stay and is too considerate to call me most of the time.

It seems the ACLU is at it again. First it was trying to protect men who molest little boys, now they are attacking war veterans who have fought and died for the freedoms we try to enjoy in this country. A 7 foot tall cross out in the desert, in the middle of nowhere that has stood for 75 years has been covered up until the case can be heard in court. All because some jackass who lives hundreds of mile away MIGHT drive past it, out here in the middle of the freaking desert and be offended by it. Seriously, are non Christian people that intolerant? Just what is so objectionable about a simple cross? What makes it worthy of the effort of the ACLU? Yes, it is on public land, but there are many thousands of crosses on cemeteries all across the country that are public, are we going to start to see the removal of the cross everywhere? Why is it that lately more and more attacks are aimed directly at Christians? This great country was founded so our forefathers could enjoy freedom of religion. Not freedom FROM religion. And where is it in our constitutional bill of rights that we have the rights to never be offended? And what's next? All the crosses in Arlington cemetary??? Here is the link to the video about this story. Veterans Fight to Keep 75-yr. old Mojave Desert Memorial cross (6 min.) http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I just heard on the news that this case is now made it to the Supreme Court, it's being debated today, no actual for sure outcome, but they talk like they are going to take the cross down, then deed one acre of ground out of that park to the local vetrans adnimistration then let them put it back up.

You are touching on a subject that has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. While the great American dream may be to work hard and prosper, if you come up with an idea that really works and you make it to the top of the ladder in whatever your endevor was, it seems the government steps right up to screw you over big time. Many years ago the government forced the breakup of Standard Oil company as it was getting too big. AT &T also fell under government scrutiny in more recent years. And we all followed the various lawsuits the government attacked Microsoft with, which I'm sure cost the company more in Lawyer fees's than most of us will make in the next 20 years. So...it seems you can live and dream big, but watch out, because if you get too big, forget it, they are going to ruin you.

I am so sorry to hear your having problems. From reading your posts here at Trap 17, you seem like a really nice, inteligent person. I don't suppose it helps at the time when you are in a fit of depression to know that it will eventually pass and things will get back on track and you will feel better. I have my own rounds of depression, so I know it will pass, but you just have to figure out a way to get over the rough spots. To quite from one of my favorite commedians, Red Green, "Hang in there, we're all pulling for you."

If you just had your period 9 days ago, you aren't pregnaunt, as once you become pregnaunt, your periods stop. Spotting between perionds and irregular periods are not all that uncommon.However, in this day and age with easy access to birth control, why on earth would you take chances that could ruin your life forever with having unprotected sex??????

Hate to tell you this, but the number one cause of cancer is being alive and breathing. Seriously, EVERYTHING causes cancer. The air we breath, the water we drink and the food we eat. Not to mention the products we use on our skin and cleaning products we use to clean our homes with. Even the things we build our homes with. and the tools we use around the house No doubt you've all heard about asbestos, lead in paint, formaldyhide in carpets. I'm sure you've all heard how plastic wrap used in the microwave now causes cancer. That scare email has probably been around the world a few hundred times by now. (and then too, there is that microwave, no matter what you cook in it with!) Lets not forget Teflon, our favorite non stick surface we cook all that cancer causing food in. A few years ago I heard hamburgers cooked on an iron grill also caused cancer, so even that is not safe! God forbid you live near a radio or telephone tower, power lines, or use a cell phone. No, you can't watch tv either, those picture tubes give off radiation that will kill you in nothing flat. The list never ends. Even childhood vaccinations are suspect, and many of the prescription drugs perscribed by doctors for various ailments are all cancer causing. Even your genes can get you, many cancers are programed into our dna, making you genetically prone to various cancers even if it was possible to avoid outside contamination, which of couse, is not possible. So, unless you are going to get run over by a truck, shot, stabbed, drowned, fall off a building, or drop dead of a heart attack, you are probably going to die of cancer. In the meantime, I highly recomend enjoying every single day you have available to you on this planet. Eat what you like, live your life to the fullest, love and be happy!

There is no doubt as to what we did this summer. We mowed the yard and then we mowed the yard and then we mowed the yard. It kept raining and making the grass grow, and we kept mowing the stuff. I think we made it to the creek one time to go swimming and once for a weiner roast. That was it. Very depressing. Of course, it was great for cattle producers, and those making hay had pleny of hay this year, (if they could get it cut, raked and baled between showers) For all the mowing, we didn't even get much of any garden planted, so we could of taken advantage of the good growing year. And I didn't have to water my flower bed not even once all year. The soaker hose is still haning on the fence, too busy mowing grass to get it layed down. We did take off this past saterday for a little while and went to a pioneer days here locally. It's always fun to see the old time crafts in operation. Our son was demonstrating making split rail fenceing, there were lots of others there too, making shingles, soap, roap, wagon wheels, quilts, iron work, and all that kind of stuff. They even had a team of mules pulling an old cycle bar mower cutting grass. They had lots of mules and horses and wagons driving around giving people rides. The area they had it on is a beautiful spot, along a creek. It's on private property, so is not overly developed and comercialized. The property owners live there in a beautiful log cabin that overlooks the big field where the events were held. Supposedly a cave near by, but we weren't that ambitious to walk far enough to see it. All and all it was a really pleasant event.

What has happened to the "Freedom Of Speech"? What, didn't you hear? You only have freedom of speech if you are non white. All white people can no longer express their views or make public comments about anyone who is non white. No matter what the comments are. Funny, we could bash Busch to the ends of the earth, and say all sorts of terrible things about him, wether they were true or not, but boy you better not say a single bad word about Obama.