thanks, Iam4u...I really appreciate that.

The fact is, I don't have the best looking body in the world, but what
I'm really proud of is the fact that I quit drinking and smoking, cold
turkey, after a 30-year habit of very serious binge drinking. I hadn't
even really taken note of the fact that I had gained a fairly
significant amount of weight.

Though not obese by any means, I was far past my normal weight.

From the time I quit drinking on Sept. 30, 2003, until the present time,
I have lost nearly 25 pounds.

I am in very good health for the first time in many years, and, if you
discount the hellacious perimenopausal anxiety I'm having, I feel better
than I have in many years.

I have damn near a "flawless" complexion, which is amazing considering
what abuse I put myself through all those years, and people STILL tell
me I look 10 years younger than I am.

So, yes, I'm more than satisfied with the way I look now, "beer" gut and
all. I could be doing a hell of a lot worse, that's for sure.

LOL...sure thing, hon.

no, i said, only a moron would buy your playing innocent game.

good lord, lisa..only a moron would by that b.s.

Make sure you don't take anything out of context, either, when you do.
Thanks.

show me ONE post where I said ANYTHING singling you or anyone else out
for ridicule.

Does it make you guys feel better about yourselves to insult and
ridicule people? I sure hope so.

Bless you. Yes, the "old school" definition of customer service is a
thing of the past nowadays, it seems.

These days, they expect you to thank them for waiting on YOU, and give
them extra compensation, to boot!

Most people bust their ass for a hell of a lot less than 18 bucks an
hour.

Well, still not my responsibility to make up for lack of a decent wage
in the industry, IMO.

A tip is EXTRA compensation for 'proper' or 'prompt' service, for going
the "exra mile," so to speak, for the customer.

It is not (or should not) be part of the "salary package."

Like I said, there's something very wrong with making $3,000 a week to
set a drink down in front of someone and wipe their ashtray, versus
litigating a major case in a courtroom, etc.

JMO.

And she's equally blessed to have you! I've been doing pretty well,
thanks!

"I have never met a more loving, caring, person with such a positive
disposition."

I have. You.

If anyone deserves a "Suzy" in his life, it's you, Ken.

Well, I do, but begrudgingly. I think it's absurd that the public has to
be responsible for making up for the employer's lack in paying a decent
wage, for one thing.

For another, I think it's absurd that someone who is a
waitress/bartender, whatever, can potentially make more money in a year
than, say, a physician or a lawyer does, in many cases.

When I was very young I worked as a waitress, and it's a hard, thankless
job. But, then, so are a lot of other jobs for which there are NO tips.

I knew bartenders who made $1,500 in tips in ONE night. Friday and
Saturday, $1,500 each night. Even if they only worked two nights a week,
that's a weekly take home of $3,000, and that was AFTER they split tips
and took out for taxes.

Now, on the other hand, here you have professions that people have to
study their asses off for, or even ones that don't, yet work every bit
as hard, if not harder, and make nowhere NEAR that kind of dough.

I dunno...hardly seems fair, to me, and especially nowadays when
"customer service" seems to be a thing of the past.

Girl, I was gonna say, if your boobs look anything like your legs...but
that doesn't sound quite right either, does it?

I mean, ...well, you know what I mean! One reason I put up -- and kept
up -- a bikini pic...feels DAMN good to be one year away from 50 and
still get compliments like that!

Well, give them BACK! You want the poor thing running into walls?

Open the pod bay door, HAL.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, sir."

Daisyyyy..Daiiiiisyyyyy...

lol..

if THAT wasn't about the weirdest movie I've ever seen...

Well, that and Pulp Fiction. LOL.

"Oh dear it'll be like my satellite package. I'll have to know what is
going on in 20 heads that I don't want to know about just to get to know
what is going on in the one that I do."

Yeah, see, it's just like dating, only less complicated!

Yes. In fact, it'll be kinda like cable. You can order different
"packages."

No it didn't. LOL.

I don't have a clue, really.