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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Almost got into a pretty big fight with the wife last week. Usually on Thursdays the kid has Writing Club after school and I'm the one that usually goes and picks her up. So I go and pick her up as usual and she seems kinda mopey and quiet. I ask her if she's okay and she says she's fine but I don't believe her. I tell the wife to ask thinking maybe the kid will open up to her instead of me (maybe it's some teenage girl issue or something she would feel more comfortable talking to her mom with instead) and the wife tells me it started that morning. She (the wife) had already left for work and the kid texted her asking if she could stay home from school that day. Why? Because she was 'sad'. No other explanation, just that she was sad. Well, I guess I wasn't taking it seriously enough for the wife suggested the kid could be depressed and I told the wife WTF does she have to be depressed about? The wife started going on about maybe she'll need counseling for whatever the issue is and blah blah blah. I started to say more but I was only digging a bigger hole, so I just said fine and dropped it. And of course the next day (Friday) after I got home from work and the kid got home from school, she was fine.

    I don't know why everything in today's world needs to be so fucking dramatic anymore.
    Quote Originally Posted by Noilly Pratt View Post
    Yep - I'm well in this as my daughter is 15. They're trying to figure out who they are and it's a daunting task. Sometimes as dad all you can do is create opportunities to have them open up and be elated if they actually do.

    I try to, as my wife works Saturdays, hang out with her especially then. There's a fave fish & chip place we go to. She orders Poutine and we figure out life. We don't do this regularly but infrequently - if it was scheduled I know she'd clam up.

    ...and she's a fairly in-touch-with-herself person thankfully. One trick I do is get her to talk about her friends, and then she'll usually then talk about herself. I think the important thing is to remain approachable, and hopefully they come to you...
    I have 3 running around my house.. All I can say is that there are ups and downs. And sometimes it doesn't all make sense. My advice is to let your wife voice her concerns because sometimes they can have some merit. Just make sure you guys have a united front when dealing with the child. Without like having the child hate you in the process.. Good luck.. lol

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    Wind from yesterday

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    Over here we'd call that a small breeze
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pony View Post
    What a weekend. On the island, a noreaster came through with 40+mph winds sistained for 36 hours. Water was up 73" flooding everything. No boats ,no planes, everyone stranded.

    I had planned on hitching a ride home with a friend to bring my other car up for the summer but that fell through when they cancelled boat service. This morning I had to island hop to get my car off of the other island and am now waiting in line for the boat. Once I get home I have about 18 hours before I have to head back for work. Island Life.....
    Still recovering from this here. A development is still under water, I didn't try to get in there because of the foot of muddy water covering the road. Lots of property damage. I did make it out to the Northeast end of the island, they got the road cleared (mostly). llarge amounts of debris, rocks, boulders. The breakwall failed in a couple places and there's an 8 foot section of road that's missing. Still a lot of standing water around. My family friends cottage seems to have made it through mostly unscathed. Locals are saying it's the worst they have seen since the 70's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    Nice weather day yesterday, not too long after lunch, the wind went nuts here. Sustained winds between 25 and 35 mph with gusts anywhere between 70 and 100 mph all through the city. Blew semi trucks over, ripped the roof of a building downtown, closed DIA to all flights for several hours, trees and power lines down everywhere.

    And it wiped out an entire section of my fence in my back yard. Ordered all the supplies to fix it last night because I'm sure there will be a run on fencing supplies the nxt few days, there were fences down all over my neighborhood that I saw on the way home yesterday. But there's another $700 I didn't really have to spend. Plus it will be a whole day (at least) fixing that section of fence.
    That's tough! Good that you know how to fix the fence yourself

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    Quote Originally Posted by lost in melb. View Post
    That's tough! Good that you know how to fix the fence yourself


    We've known for awhile that we were going to have to replace the fence around the entire house eventually. It's original when the house was built (1997) and wasn't taken care of by previous owners. It's in very rough shape. All we've done basically is use band-aids to keep it up (mostly just replacing old pickets). But the wind storm the other day snapped at least two of the posts on the back section of fence (maybe more) and that 50-60 foot stretch of fence is also the only section that is 5 feet tall instead of 6 feet, like the entire rest of the fence, which is very odd as to why it would have been built that way.

    Luckily, this type of fence isn't hard to build/rebuild, it's just labor intensive. I have to replace a total of 8 fence posts on that section, so that's 8 stupid fence post holes to dig, which will be the worst part After that, it's basically just screwing 2x4's to the posts and then screwing the pickets to the 2x4's. The bigger problem is it's supposed to rain, and a lot, both Friday and Saturday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post


    We've known for awhile that we were going to have to replace the fence around the entire house eventually. It's original when the house was built (1997) and wasn't taken care of by previous owners. It's in very rough shape. All we've done basically is use band-aids to keep it up (mostly just replacing old pickets). But the wind storm the other day snapped at least two of the posts on the back section of fence (maybe more) and that 50-60 foot stretch of fence is also the only section that is 5 feet tall instead of 6 feet, like the entire rest of the fence, which is very odd as to why it would have been built that way.

    Luckily, this type of fence isn't hard to build/rebuild, it's just labor intensive. I have to replace a total of 8 fence posts on that section, so that's 8 stupid fence post holes to dig, which will be the worst part After that, it's basically just screwing 2x4's to the posts and then screwing the pickets to the 2x4's. The bigger problem is it's supposed to rain, and a lot, both Friday and Saturday.
    The rain will soften the ground though Hire some mexicans to do it

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    So, tomorrow is the service at the Houston VA for my Dad. Going to be strange. Haven't wrapped my head around the fact he's gone yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KevinD View Post
    So, tomorrow is the service at the Houston VA for my Dad. Going to be strange. Haven't wrapped my head around the fact he's gone yet.
    It will be 2 years this June my dad passed and there are still times I can't believe he's gone.

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    I still miss my grandad........ he died 25 years ago

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    It will be 2 years this June my dad passed and there are still times I can't believe he's gone.
    It was 10 years in February for me. I still think of him often.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    It will be 2 years this June my dad passed and there are still times I can't believe he's gone.
    It will be 30 years next January for me. Very very strange to know that I've lived more of my life without my dad than with him considering the impact he's had on my life. I still at Christmas will see something that my dad would have liked and then have to mentally check myself.

    Sometimes it feels a lifetime ago when he passed away, sometimes it feels like yesterday.

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    It was a nice simple ceremony. Chaplain did get dad's rank wrong though, lol ( I've a copy of his dd-214 right beside mine). Sad thing about funerals is seeing folks you haven't in years, missing them, but knowing damned well you'll likely never see them again.

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