The opposite of the Bad News thread, obviously.

Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to mee-eee
Happy birthday to me.

Happy Birthday bro.

I got a Eee computer for my birthday!

Box or PC?

PC. 8.9 inch, 4GB SSD, 512MG RAM

(posting from it now)

Dont know where to put this-I wanted to look at the chinese notebook but of course the salesman chased me
out of the store and he deosnt even know me.I barely touched it.Or I'm gonna break it.An Acer.

sigh.My wife reminded me i cant recharge it in the usa anyways.

seriously,

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I'm headed back to the good old slums of Carmel Ca Nov9...
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I had one ex-girlfriend who said you can buy me dinner (Bennie Anna, the resturant where you see yr food cooked )but dont touch me.And then she complains I stopped calling her in the 1980s.My wife had to tell her brother's duaghter who she is......

lol.Now my wife knows that sentance by heart.

And this falls into the category of "Good News"........how?

Seriously, why does every other post by you have to be one in which you complain of some bad experience, without any hint of context to the ongoing discussion?

every other post? I think EVERY post is about something bad. He'll probably say he went to vote and was arrested by the police for approaching the booth....

And then he'll complain to the moderator about having your posts deleted for not believing him.

He's Dead Jim, you can sign up for Live Journal for free. Please do your complaining over there.

Or having you banned, as he once suggested to me be done with ScottN for expressing such skepticism.

Hey, leave me out of this! I've given up.

My mum just got the all-clear from cancer. I haven't stopped crying (happy tears!) since I got the news, which is kind of tricky seeing as I'm at work.

I really need a hug - but the people who might give me one are all off today, typically!

Anyone any good at giving virtual hugs?

****HUGS****

Congratulations to you and your family.

CONGRATS, Callie!!!!!!!!! (Hugs her tight.)

YAY!!!! **** HUG ****

Hooray! (*) (That's a cyberhug)

Thank you, guys! I feel well and truly snuggled, and Mum just came round for a real hug, so all is right with my world.

Congrats to you from me as well.

Bennie Anna, the restaurant where you see yr food cooked
Actually, the restaurant is called Benihana. And, there are other restaurants where they cook your food in front of you. I went to Shogun 27 in central New Jersey a few years ago, where they do the same thing; that was a fun experience.

In the San Fernando Valley, Musashi is good Teppan Yaki.

That's what that style of cooking is called -- Teppan Yaki.

Oh, I missed this! I'm so glad to hear that!

*hugs Callie*

Geepers, it took 7 years but the hospital bill
from my brain tumor (abssess)came thru, we paid
$7 out of the $350 g's. I am out 7 grand and they raised my dead cross XX dollars (again.)

We talked to the Plan adminstrator why it took this long and he looked up my records and said Patient
Died.
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The right hand does not know the left hand is doing what.

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Keep this till every1 reads it thanks.

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They still dont know why I fainted ,$220 grand.

ps, Callie Hugs too.

Hey y'all, i got great news, i'm off my blood pressure pills, i am 95/66/66 this am.


woweeeeeeeeeeeee.

Good for you!!!

Congrats, 74.

and Rodney (Dangerfield,) I am not making this up.!

thx to care.

Tellin' ya- I gets no respect!

You know your life is bad when your mother-in-law $ucks and your wife doesn't....

Hey Happy easter, especially to ScottN and Rodney!

And a happy passover to you, 74s

Thanks Sherman- to you too.

No idea where to put this but the pirate/hostage situation off the coast of Somalia has been resolved.

For those of you who don't know the background. A US flagged cargo ship was attacked and taken over by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The crew managed to retake the ship but not before a few of the pirates had boarded a lifeboat with the captain as a hostage. Their boat had been drifting without fuel for a few days and the Navy SEALS came in and snipers killed the pirates ad rescued the hostage.

One pirate had abandoned the life boat and surrendered to the Navy earlier. He made the right choice, what did they expect to happen when they were drifting and surrounded by navel vessels?

Actually, Brian, my understanding was that the pirate on the Navy ship was "negotiating". The SEALS went in when they saw guns pointed at Capt. Phillips' head, and assumed imminent danger to him.

Well either way he's alive and they aren't. I think if I was in his situation I'd have taken the first chance I had to get off that drifting lifeboat and into US Navy custody if the other choice was to be on a vehicle without fuel surrounded by the best military people in the world.

We are going back to China, May 10th-

so have a early mother's day.back june 10,
hopefully.

I got a new job offer at S---,but i'm in china this minute
so I guess I lost it until june 11..

Hey coming to you from Peking China, its stormy and thundering here
at 99 degrees

also i celebrated my 50th b-day one month early my wife's family is a lot nicer than the ones i grew up with

they sang happy - b-day in chinese...so i invited them all to the states if and when they can come

the laforge the Useless Man

I'm back!! You may not even have noticed my absence, but I've been mostly trying not to be dead for the last month, after a long-term umbilical hernia strangulated and killed off a large portion of my bowel. By the time I was admitted to hospital after a week of not eating, barely sleeping, and vomiting every hour, I was told that surgery was essential or I'd be dead within hours!

So I survived the surgery and ended up with a side-to-side cut across my lower stomach, held together with 90 (90!!!!) clips. Also they took away my belly button and so I am now officially a FREEEEEAK!

Last Thursday, after being out of hospital for a couple of weeks, I was rushed back in again with breathing problems and a scan revealed that a whole gang of blood clots had gathered in the base of my lungs, some were threatening my heart and unless I consented to an injection which might bring on a stroke, I could be dead within hours. Personally, the "you could be dead within hours" line gets boring quite quickly. So I had this one-off clot-buster injection and an hour and a half later was practically turning cartwheels down the hospital ward, I felt so much better. Nice injection. They kept me in for several days to keep an eye on me, and I'm now on Warfarin for the next six months but I can breathe properly and if only the infection in my stomach wound would dry up and go away, I'd be a very happy bunny indeed.

But right now, I'm just glad to be alive.

Love to all

Callie

Welcome back, Callie! Hope you get well soon!

Glad you're better Callie! We did miss you!

Hope it wasn't a long-term side effect of the nishta

Can you get a prosthetic belly button?

Seriously, glad to have you back.

No, let's give her a symbiont pouch instead.

She could be a Jaffa!!! KREE!

Welcome back, Callie! Get well soon!

welcome back girl! sorry you went through such hard times but glad you came out on the other end doing cartwheels.

good to have you back

Welcome home!

Glad you're all right. May God bless.

Thanks, everyone. And Scott - the thought that they might have slipped something in the cut while it was open might just give me nightmares tonight!!

Well, Callie, do you have an unexplained urge to obey when someone tells you "Kree!"?

Anyone want a free portrait, caricature, or any other type of cartoon or illustration made for them?

If so, and you're in the Union City, New Jersey area, I'll be doing my usual portraiture/caricature/cartooning workshop at the annual Union City Multi-Arts Festival at Union City High School tomorrow and Thursday, June 1 and 2. I'll be in the first floor library (which they call the Media Center), from morning (maybe 9am or 10am) until afternoon, when school breaks (say, 2:30 or 3:00pm). It's pretty much the only time I do such drawings, en masse, for people outside of my own family for free.

I know most of you are not in my area, or have work or other obligations, but I figured I'd put it out there, just in case anyone was interested.

Mrs. ScottN got into a clinical trial at UC Irvine.

This is great news, as the drug being tested for ALS had very VERY positive results in earlier phases of the trial.

Brilliant! Good luck to her.

Good Luck! Hope it works!

Ditto, Scott. Seeing my father experience a couple of stays in the hospital recently (first a five-day stay for a pneumonia a few weeks ago, followed by a current bout of follow-up tests right now), I can sympathize.

God, I'm tired. I was on my feet all day today from about 9am to 7pm, helping pack up and delivery free Thanksgiving turkeys for needy people with volunteers, and it felt GREAT! My legs are sore, my feet were on fire, and my hands were all rough (I should've worn gloves, and I'm definitely wearing them tomorrow), but I still love the hard day's work I did today. I hit a few buildings on one street, and then some residences on another street with some partners, but the big enchilada was working with 7 or 8 other volunteers delivering a TRUCKLOAD of birds to all five buildings of the 39th Street Projects. I also bumped into a bunch of old friends from my high school and movie theater days.

If anyone who lives near the Union City, New Jersey area wants to volunteer tomorrow, be at the Dept of Public Works on New York Ave at 29th Street at 9am tomorrow. See ya there!

Happy Thanksgiving!

my brother in law and his wife from China came to see us for a month(saved them $3 grand for motels), and we took them to Dizzyland

The upcoming weekend editions of The Union City Reporter and The West New York Reporter will carry the one of my Saturday photos, this one in particular.

It'll be the seventh time that The Reporter will carry one of my photos, and I'm guessing it'll accompany the "Briefs" section as my pic did last year. What's great is that instead of just showing people standing around Union City First headquarters, as the pick they chose last year, this one actually shows all the volunteers hard at work (which is one of the reasons I didn't even go to UCF headquarters, and just went straight to the Dept of Public Works, where I knew the actual work would begin). It's also the first time I know ahead of time which photo from an entire batch I took will run, and the first time that I'll know that it's running in more than one of the Hudson Reporter group's papers.

(The Hudson Reporter publishes nine different newspapers in Hudson County; you can Wikipedia them for more info, since I can't put more than one link in this post.)

I went out again this evening delivering free turkeys, and one of the places on my list was this apartment building with a rather peculiar numbering system for its apartments.

I assume 21 was door 1 on the second floor or something....

for what's it worth to my 3 pals, Happy Thanksgiving....

Managed to give a redone version of my 4-page Hulk sequence sample art to Axel Alonso, the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, just as he was leaving the Avengers vs. X-Men launch party tonight at Midtown Comics Times Square. The signing was supposed to be over at midnight, but they finished early, so the door was locked when I got there at 11:20pm (I was racing to finish my changes to the art), but I got in when as Adam Kubert was coming out the door, and managed to go upstairs just as Alonso was leaving. So I didn't get a one-on-one critique or feedback, but at least I gave it to him, which is the primary reason I wanted to go there. I think I'm going to make some additional tweaks to the art here and there, and then email out to other editors and contacts. (Crossing my fingers.)

Hey y'all Happy Easter, (Sunday).

Hey to all Vets, Have a good Memorial Day (monday).

This is guaranteed to make you all feel old.

TrekGrrl graduated from college last Sunday.

Dammit, Scott, how is this good news?!

Oh, of course - she's the youngest person ever to graduate from college, being only 11 years old.

She must be, otherwise I am ancient, and I refuse to admit it!

Congrats to TrekGrrl.

Congrats! Where did she graduate from, and what was her major?

UC San Diego/Human Development

No, I have no idea what that is.

I am 95/60, no blood pressure pills...

wowwwwwwwwwwwww

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my 1st bro-in law from China is staying with us, we save them 200 bucks x 31 days =....

Hey Happy Thanksgiving(from my brother in law's room in CHina,Beijing to be exact.)

LMU Loyola Law School had confirmed that I completed my degree back in December, but my diploma came today!!!

Woo-Hoo!!

Note: that is a Masters of Science in Legal Studies, not a Juris Doctor. I am not becoming a lawyer.

Congratulation, Scott.

Very well done!

So Matt Murdock's job is safe?

Yeah, I don't think I'm going to go around Hell's Kitchen at night, cleaning up crime.

Yay! Congratulations, Scott.

Well done, Scott!

I officially graduated on May 15.

Other cool stuff, I will be going to Space Camp for my birthday this October!!!

Have fun.

Just don't accidentally launch a Space Shuttle with you in it!

Since ScottN was a rocket scientist, if the space shuttle gets launched, I doubt it will be an accident. ;-)

Congratulations. :-)

Yay! Well done.

Yup.

I would like to announce to one and all that TrekGrrl is engaged to be married!

Congratulations! :-)

Congratulations

Who's she marrying? TrekBoyyy?

LOL.

But ... but ... she's only about six years old! She can't possibly be old enough to get married, otherwise I'm getting really old.

*stomps off, grumbling*

*Then comes back to say Whoo-hoo! Congratulations!*

Exactly how I felt, Callie.

To everyone who wants to feel old...

My daughter, NitCentral's very own TrekGrrl, got married on Sunday.

Well, congratulations to the happy couple.

Congratulations, Scott.

Aww, bless. Congratulations to them both, and to you, Scott.

From TrekGrrl to TrekWife. ;-)

Congratulations!

Yay! And oh, I feel so old now.

@Butch, how do you think *I* feel?

Proud?

Well, besides that!

What else is there?

@Tim, old.

Speaking of which,

Happy birthday to me!

Happy Birthday, Scott.

Belated happy birthday, Scott x

Better late tan never

Thanks, Callie! Looks like I need to drag out the nishta again to keep Callie in line

A what!?

From Stargate SG-1, Tim. Nishta was a drug that made people susceptible to suggestion and was used by the Goa'uld to make humans worship them. Scott has been threatening me with it for years!

(I'm immune to it, but don't tell him. It keeps him happy believing that I adore him.)

Thanks, Callie.

Love you too, Callie!