Comments on: Pull Up A Chair… http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:44:11 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: bobschacht http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574632 bobschacht Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:48:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574632 <p>Drat! I must remember that preview is my friend. Change “my dreams” in the first line to the dreams of my fiancee and I.”</p> <p>Bob in HI</p> Drat! I must remember that preview is my friend. Change “my dreams” in the first line to the dreams of my fiancee and I.”

Bob in HI

]]> By: bobschacht http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574628 bobschacht Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:46:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574628 <p>Christy,<br /> As usual here in Hawaii, I’m late for your party. But here are my dreams, at the age of 64:</p> <p>1. Our wedding on September 27 will be enjoyable and will happen without a hitch (we’re planning an outdoor wedding on or near a beach);<br /> 2. Find a place to live together that we can afford– like a refurbished 2-bedroom apartment in the Kahala Towers here in Honolulu on an upper level floor;<br /> 3. Retire within the next year or so;<br /> 4. Figure out where to live– here, or on the mainland near family;<br /> 5. Sort out my stuff and throw half of it away.</p> <p>The most improbable and difficult may be the last one! *g*</p> <p>Happy days to you, Peanut, and Mr. Redd!</p> <p>Bob in HI</p> Christy,
As usual here in Hawaii, I’m late for your party. But here are my dreams, at the age of 64:

1. Our wedding on September 27 will be enjoyable and will happen without a hitch (we’re planning an outdoor wedding on or near a beach);
2. Find a place to live together that we can afford– like a refurbished 2-bedroom apartment in the Kahala Towers here in Honolulu on an upper level floor;
3. Retire within the next year or so;
4. Figure out where to live– here, or on the mainland near family;
5. Sort out my stuff and throw half of it away.

The most improbable and difficult may be the last one! *g*

Happy days to you, Peanut, and Mr. Redd!

Bob in HI

]]> By: egregious http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574343 egregious Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:55:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574343 <p>Thanks RevBev, much appreciated. It’s a struggle for me too.</p> Thanks RevBev, much appreciated. It’s a struggle for me too.

]]> By: RevBev http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574336 RevBev Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:50:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574336 <p>If you get back….thank you for that gentle thought. I am learning to move at a slower pace. Many thanks.</p> If you get back….thank you for that gentle thought. I am learning to move at a slower pace. Many thanks.

]]> By: goldstandard http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574279 goldstandard Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:44:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574279 <p>Someone far brighter than me once said, in order to know where your going, you have to know where you’ve been. Back in 1940, I think the movie that Charlie Chaplin stared in was called the Great Dictator. After watching this segment, you might come away from it thinking that way back then he was warning us of things to come.<br /> Check it out. It’s an eye opener and his dialog is just a precient today as it was back then.</p> <p><a href="http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ith6WydfipE&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=.....re=related</a></p> Someone far brighter than me once said, in order to know where your going, you have to know where you’ve been. Back in 1940, I think the movie that Charlie Chaplin stared in was called the Great Dictator. After watching this segment, you might come away from it thinking that way back then he was warning us of things to come.
Check it out. It’s an eye opener and his dialog is just a precient today as it was back then.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=…..re=related

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574220 SouthernDragon Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:18:57 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574220 <p>Well, damn, now I gotta put a shirt on.</p> Well, damn, now I gotta put a shirt on.

]]> By: wmd1961 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574216 wmd1961 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:13:59 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574216 <p>It really is inspiring to run for office, experience that sticks with you for years afterwards. I haven’t done it for a decade, probably will again in about 8 years. In the meantime it is good to talk with people, hear a lot of different policy ideas (I’ve really been enjoying some of Kevin Carson’s posts over at <a href="http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/08/03/recuperated-enterprises-theirs-and-ours/" rel="nofollow">The Art of the Possible</a> - link is not his best work, but thought provoking none the less).</p> <p>I’ve got another 6 to 8 years of doing technical work gigs before retiring to doing political work full time. I’m hoping that at age 55 I’ll be able to apply what wisdom I’ve developed to fixing policy problems that are affronts to basic human dignity. It seems likely that there will still be lots of problems still at that time.</p> It really is inspiring to run for office, experience that sticks with you for years afterwards. I haven’t done it for a decade, probably will again in about 8 years. In the meantime it is good to talk with people, hear a lot of different policy ideas (I’ve really been enjoying some of Kevin Carson’s posts over at The Art of the Possible – link is not his best work, but thought provoking none the less).

I’ve got another 6 to 8 years of doing technical work gigs before retiring to doing political work full time. I’m hoping that at age 55 I’ll be able to apply what wisdom I’ve developed to fixing policy problems that are affronts to basic human dignity. It seems likely that there will still be lots of problems still at that time.

]]> By: Margot http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574215 Margot Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:13:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574215 <blockquote><p>Or maybe we’re just a bunch of rabble-rousing, cantankerous assholes.</p> <p>Present.</p></blockquote> <p> (jayt’s post above)</p> <p>That meeting.;)</p>

Or maybe we’re just a bunch of rabble-rousing, cantankerous assholes.

Present.

(jayt’s post above)

That meeting.;)

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574150 SouthernDragon Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:51:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574150 <p>We’re having a meeting?</p> We’re having a meeting?

]]> By: Margot http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574145 Margot Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:47:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/09/pull-up-a-chair-110/#comment-1574145 <p>Present!<br /> (Damn it jayt, why didn’t you tell me we were having a meeting? Grumble grrr…)</p> Present!
(Damn it jayt, why didn’t you tell me we were having a meeting? Grumble grrr…)

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