Haven't tried it but it sounds like such fun it might be on the top of my Christmas list. Hopeing the price comes down on the gear. Only thing I wonder about is what happens when you get lost looking for something? lol

Well it seems like it is different with every woman. Be interesting to see the answers. I can give generalities but there is always that undefinable part that you know when it happens but be hanged if you can put it isn words. LOL I guess I would say show up and plead your case. That seems to be what I see in the greatest shortage now days. People having feelings and not voiceing them for one fear or another.

Time Zones? No it is parable of sorts. If I need to be clear I guess I could say you learn as much from the cra- in your life as you do from the happy times if you pay attention to the details of what happens to you. That even in a miserable experience you can learn something.

I have come to the conclusion they have thrown the worst they can at me so whatever drama comes along now is just "same old stuff different day" and let it go as much as I can. Seems to kind of take the power out of it. Planning and avoidance does tend to reduce the drama in life in general is about the only cure I can tell you.

Have you all on my prayer list. (((HUG)))

Living near construction sucks. Been through it. The sleep depravation about killed me. Be sure and change your air filters more often on your heat and air unit in the house and on your cars. If they get too dirty they will foul the sensors and cut off the system. Would be a major drag with sweltering heat. Hopefully when it is done it will save you money on car expenses and maybe more jobs.

LOL if it was in Harmony I would probably think I was dead and in heaven so nope but hey it is not so bad. As you get older you realize that life is very rarely harmonious but sometimes you learn a lot from the wracket. And that crying over the noise just distracts you from the rythem that it is trying to teach you.

I didn't look up the sites but if a guy is saying women waste money on clothes I will plead guilty to that one. If the women I know fess up so do they. Hey we like pretty things.

Do some women spend money on or have clothes that they don't wear. That isn't always there fault. You get rushed into a purchase, a gift you can't stand, or especially order something you are usually stuck with it and can't return it. Having to have clothes for a special function often means buying something you don't like or don't have a need to wear often or again for years.

Do some women spend and obscene amount of money on clothes? Yes. What stuns me are the men who frequently pay for them. Palin is a good example. Somewhere a political handler authorized those purchases and I seriously doubt that was only women that funded that.

Since "fashion" is a huge competative industry it is likely that they are going to have their economy models and luxery versions. I don't see anybody whineing about a sucessful man haveing a Harley or a Corvette.

I do believe that men tend to not care as much about clothes because it doesn't have the same social thing that women do but there clothes especially specialty clothes are very expensive. And younger men are growing in their taste for "labels" and spend money they do not have while other's foot the bill.

Geez Lex you had me fooled. I just thught you were one of a kind.

Honey I learned a long time ago not to volunteer until I know what I am volunteering for. I am feeling mischeivious tempt me.

Your theroy has holes in it. Just because women do not explain their choices to you does not mean thay are liars.

While I like the outdoors, camping, fishing and hunting in very remote areas it does not mean I do it often. Or in the peak seasons where I have to deal with every amature out there.

Or that I want to tell a new acquaintence where I get "lost" on my personal time.

It might be that it is an expensive hobby and if I have to divide up my belongings because of a divorce or sell them off to pay a bill doesn't mean I have never used or actually owned the "gear". If you are out of any hobby or move to a new area you are not going to be up on all equipment. Or where to buy it. Or for that matter where to go.

Or that I do something that could compromise my saftey with someone I have just begun to date. I value my saftey and unfortuneately I have met a lot of folks who profess to be responsible outdoors men and I wouldn't go with them to the park. Dope smoking drunks would definitely head that list but wouldn't be on my date list either.

Or that I will necessarily tell someone where my favorite camping/ hunting/fishing locations are; fishing ettiquette kind of makes that something you share with close friends and points out a selfish "sportsman", just to prove that I have done such things in the past; and might do them in the future.

Or that I want to name drop some of the exclusive places I have been with another gentleman. Maybe a place you can not go. Or maybe with someone you know.

OR I join a mate on EVERY outing he goes out on with his peers or perhaps "younger" friends I might find obnoxious. I doesn't mean I might not join him at basecamp for a campfire banquet and a shared sleeping bag or support his having a great time but I won't accept every invitation you might offer as a social courtesy. Maybe the women you date are trying to be equally considerate.

If a guy starts grilling me; especially in a sexist manner, that makes it obvious that he neither believes what I have told him or that a woman might actually be adept at doing such activities; especially at a younger age, I would probably have blow him off. I can't say if that is what happen to you or not.

Hey Birthday Boy if I had a hot stud like you I would be naked as the day I was born everynight but alas no such luck. Sometimes we just have to resort to feminine night clothes and imagine you are here. lol

Hey a birthday party for Krup I would drive to Texas for that one. I just imagine that would be a crowd. You all have fun. Krup I will give you your spanking when I see you. lol

Think of something you always like to do but he didn't and enjoy doing it.

LOL I go out in my garden at night in my night clothes. Of course most of my neighbors go to bed at sundown.

I just use a gel ice or bag of frozen peas.

Think RICE; Rest, Ice, Check with your doctor if swelling with your Doctor if weight bearing is too painful and Elevation. My sympathy. booboo' are no fun.

P.S. C can also mean small bit of antioxifents in CHOCOLATE lol

California has so many area codes it feels more like a country than a state. I am in Sacramento.

So many people have to go through this that I sometimes feel are any families normal. I can not understand with all the money this country wastes that we can not make safe homes for children. The sad part about it is the reason most children remain in unfit homes is because there are no places to move them to. And sadly some of the places are just as bad if not worse than what they came from. You would not believe the regulations related to adoption and foster parenting in this country. Sad footnote the other end of life is no better. What goes on in the name of care for seniors is criminal too.

I can't lead my life worrying about what other people think of me. Or that they always understand what I am trying to say. But I have found if I use what I have two of; ears, eyes, and hands, porportionaly with what I have one of (my mouth and heart) I find myself being better understood and life going along easier.