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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 5/28/2007 11:41:32 PM
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emjayzee
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I think they have a wonders of the natural world too but I can't tell you what they are.
I'm pretty sure Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon are in there. That's all I can think of. Maybe Mt. Everest?
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 5/29/2007 2:30:23 PM
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miasma
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I can't take Stonehenge seriously, thanks to Spinal Tap. Nothing really awe-inspiring or magical about it.
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 5/29/2007 4:07:19 PM
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stellaluna
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I'm late to the conversation, but don't they have little coffee pots or some sort of heater-uper that you can plug into your cigarette lighter?
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 5/29/2007 5:45:59 PM
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miasma
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All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now,
and after this one just a dozen
to launch a little ship on love's storm-tossed seas,
then only ten more left like rows of beans.
How easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan
and insist the iambic bongos must be played
and rhymes positioned at the ends of lines,
one for every station of the cross.
But hang on here wile we make the turn
into the final six where all will be resolved,
where longing and heartache will find an end,
where Laura will tell Petrarch to put down his pen,
take off those crazy medieval tights,
blow out the lights, and come at last to bed.
-- Billy Collins
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~ Thoreau
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 5/31/2007 6:05:51 PM
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miasma
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I was just talking about yeah, that is so true, so it's the little things, everyday, let people out into traffic, say thank you and please, give compliments to strangers, buy old ladies donuts, pick up trash on your way to the door at work, etc.
I tried to be "real" humanitarian, pass out blankets at Bosnian refugee camps, etc. - I'd love to go to Iraq, but they all want degrees. Or people with loads of money to pay their way. Which is fine, but I have a willing pair of arms! That's not worth some airfare?
I should have been a doctor for the Peace Corps. I should have majored in Psych, and specialized in adolescent females. I should have been an attorney, for child services, or a social worker. I should have been the youth minister I wanted to be so badly.
But I'm not.
And getting my new Adbusters today doesn't help. 
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 6/1/2007 12:20:21 AM
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geez woman, you ain't dead yet.
I sympathize though. I'm shocked that there aren't more (any?) organizations that provide airfare/food/shelter to people who are willing to work as volunteers indefinitely. If anyone knows of an organization that does provide that, hook me up. as long as it doesn't involve proselytizing or sponsorship. heh
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 6/1/2007 8:53:28 AM
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miasma
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I've gotten a more recent list, of South American volunteer organizations, via a group I'm in on couchsurfing.com.
I want to go to Romania and raise my legion of riot grrls, though...
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~ Thoreau
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 6/1/2007 10:00:02 AM
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Auben
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I don't know about you guys, but I often feel desperate to "make a difference" or change something--anything--for the better. But there are so many bad things, I just get overwhelmed and go back to my life. Then I feel like a loser.
I really understand this statement. I wish there was an online directory of volunteer services or a number you could call or something...and that some of them let you bring children.
Mostly I just assume that if my son's school won't let me bring a 2 and 4 year old along then they wouldn't let me do that at a volunteer organization. Yep, I hide behind my kids because I know how well (not) dh would take me volunteering during time he has to be home.
Mi, I know you would rather leave town but have you looked for stuff where you live? I've known people who built reputations volunteering and used that to get a job with a relief organization.
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 6/1/2007 10:16:16 AM
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miasma
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I'm sure there's stuff you could do at home. Knit bonnets for crack babies, assemble care packages for soldiers, etc.
I have, for literally years, now, been wanting to get involved with the rape crisis center. I managed to talk to the woman, but they weren't training again until several months from when I talked to her.
Otherwise, there's not much going on around here, I check the volunteer section of the free alternative weekly.
So, like my post that got lost, it's the little things. Pay for the next three coffees. Give a sammich to the homeless guy. Conserve water, ride my bike to work. Be kind to old ladies.
Except the cranky ones who call wanting to know why their grandchild's name was spelled wrong, oh, yes, it IS because I am an incompetant moron who doesn't know how to do my job. Yes, yes, it is because I am stupid, certainly not because we published exactly what the funeral home sent us...
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~ Thoreau
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 6/1/2007 11:06:05 AM
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Auben
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I am so angry right now.
Some fascist in town has turned us in AGAIN for our vw bus. Some kind of abadoned and never used junk complaint. Its a camper people. It has no heat. We do not use it in the winter. It will sit in the driveway 99% of the time JUST LIKE YOUR CAMPER/BOATS.
Ugh. Thought I had this dealt with but now the village engineer is saying I said I would move it to prove it would work (which I actually offered to do but he said, "No, let's take care of it Monday" and then he didn't follow through so I figured he checked the plates and moved on) So now its our fault and he's sent the citation to the police.
Dh is talking to the police and we're going to have to jump through several hoops just to clear this mess up. I am not paying for a ticket or violation because that jerk doesn't keep notes of what he says on Friday and then believes on Monday.
I don't usually get this mad. He better not call me back anytime soon or I am going to take his head clear off. This is not the first time he has crossed me and I am done being polite and complascent.
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 6/1/2007 11:13:18 AM
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Auben
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The cozy chaise.
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RE: Mia's Tavern & Karaoke Lounge - 6/1/2007 11:16:28 AM
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miasma
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It's in your driveway? So how the heck can somebody complain??
Keep a paper trail, when you talked to the guy who sat wait until Monday, get his name, number, time of conversation, etc.
Wow, that does look cozy! I'd fall asleep if I sat in it.
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