Wow. You are getting really good. I can't decide if my favorite is the leafy one on the bottom, or the steampunky one next to it, but I like all of it. Thanks! I'm not sure I like the colorizing of the metal. I mean you spend all this money for silver or bronze then you cover it up. Maybe I just ha...

Just got back from Snowfarm. We worked on coloring metals. Bronze and silver. Lots of fun. Definitely inspired by the fall colors around me.

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Well, I got some good news yesterday...as a result of a change in company policy, I'm now entitled to an additional 6 days paid leave a year.

--A

So that makes it 7 total?

Ok, so I did the disappearing act. Don't blame it on FB since, unless I am checking out art projects I have it closed. It was me. I have been overwhelmed recently with my new role in this world. Feeling a bit useless and guilty over not working. That and a bunch of medical bullshit kept me away. Mya...

Backing up a little, these pics are from Uss, not me. We (he went to Naples and toured Pompeii. I will let him describe Pompeii. I wish I had gone but needed a day off. Apparently he climbed Mt. Vesuvius and these are pics of the caldera and Naples below. i1164.photobucket.com/albums/q566/lorin1955...

Looks like quite an adventure. I like all the ruins and history and such. This is a BOAT That is quite fabulous. And if it had a longer name, they might need a bigger boat. We are just starting........it was quite an adventure. And that we got along for almost 5 weeks speaks loads for Irish Mike's ...

Yep, Rome first: the Forum, the Colloseum (no pics for some reason) and a place called Terme de Caracalla (which I'd never heard of, old baths seemingly). too busy dodging cars. And maybe if you helped taking some of the pics............ :P You have pics of Naples. I stayed close to the boat. I had...

So the trip continues. I think this is Rome. An interesting city. Really spread out. The drivers are rougher than New York and I got a little overwhelmed. The ruins were really interesting. We did not go to the Vatican because the tourist swarm was huge. There was plenty to see without the Vatican....

I am sorry for the delay but life (reality) gets in the way. Anyway here are some pics, there are hundreds but I wouldn't do that to you. I am not sure of all the places. After a while one cathedral looks like every cathedral but I will do my best. But some things I will never forget. So here we go....

it's already getting better. Mike (Uss) just met up with me in Barcelona. Tomorrow we are seeing Gaudi stuff, apparently a must while here. I also would like to see the ancient roman tunnels they uncovered in the old city. Will tell you more after I see them, if I see them. Meeting some friends on T...

So two days ago some of my old staff called me to tell me my former co-worker and friend Maggie had passed away suddenly. She had retired at the same time I had to leave the job. Maggie was a very simple woman, uncomplicated and easy. She ran recreation for the clients. Her rec room was filled with ...

I am so sorry for you Sarge. I have been thinking about you recently during the Houston floods. I am sorry to hear about your brother. I understand the void with a sibling as the chasm widens every year between my brothers and me (or is it my brothers and I). Deer......you sound like you have had a ...

Sorus wrote:I've always wanted to go to Europe. What's your itinerary?

5 days in Barcelona where I am meeting up with a friend, then a cruise from Barcelona to Venice for 12 days then a couple of weeks road trip where we hope to go to....................who knows .

Linna Heartlistener wrote: How long till you take off, lorin?

I am leaving on the 7th of June and retuning on July 10th. Long trip which is the reason for my concern about my stamina.

Sorus wrote:Have a good trip, Lorin.

Thanks! Wanna come along? There's room in my suitcase.

Saying hi to everyone and apologizing for my absence. Good wishes to all that need or want them. Been a stressful time for me getting my health back but I'm getting there. Thank God for health insurance. I can't imagine people in this country that don't have it, never mind countries in this world th...

grief comes in waves, in between the anger and guilt, and for me.......relief. I keep thinking of when I was a kid and in the ocean. And you saw the wave coming, growing bigger and bigger as it got closer. Then you had to make a decision, ride the oncoming wave, let it crash into you or go under and...

Deer, I hope you and yours are doing ok. It is a subject I have to avoid so I hope you will forgive me and not interpret it as not caring. I feel good today. Got to sit in the sun for a few. Did some writing. Did some glass. Feel like I might actually make it to my 60th birthday. I get Mya aka Helld...

I'm with you Deer. Everybody dies. Most of what we mourn is for ourselves. --A I feel like when I (and if )die I am missing the end of a story. I will never learn how it all ends for earth. Its like shutting the book in the middle. On other subjects I had to send helldog away for a while. She is to...

Cail wrote: only with recordings.

Why?

Still...China Beach has Dana Delaney and I could watch her all day long. China Beach was one of the most under rated shows of the 80's. I own Northern Exposure but they fuck with the music on the dvd's you buy. Some legal issue, and if anyone knows N.E. its 50% about the music. Murphy Brown was als...