goodbye

“good bye for now, i hope everyone has a great week. ill talk to you all next week. im off to kayak for a few days then do the aids ride. so i will come back with my a$$ sore as he!!. enjoy and please be good to each other. or at least try not to kill eachother.

bye bye bye”

“Have a good time, Wild Flower! Remember, your a$$ may hurt, but that's not nearly the same kind of suffering others go through with AIDS. I'm sure you'll do great!”

“Sounds like a week well spent!”

“Have fun and be careful out there.”

“I thought this was going to be another one of those "you all suck; I'm leaving Trail Talk!" threads For Sure.

Drat.”

“I hope you have a good time and be safe!

8)”

“Never mention a sore a$$ and Aids in the same post. It makes people wonder.”

“...aids ride...
...a$$ sore as he!!...

Hope you have a...er...good time.”

“perhap an aids ride..... :P”

“Have a great trip wild flower!”

“Enjoy Wildflower!”

“well im off for a five day training class for work. have a great week and no killing each other while im gone. I will miss my family but not TT (j/k I think)

later!”

“LOL! Kinda like a bad car wreck isn't it? You just can't help but look. ;-)”

“Can't we reserve these for the "I'm leaving TT/you all suck" rants?”

“goodbye my fellow tters

im off to Ohio in a few days. so I will talk to you all soon.

Later”

“Be safe”

“Watch out for that Nigal fellow.
He might be pantless! ;-)”

“one can only hope :P”

“Ohio? What did you do wrong?”

“LOL thats what i said. send me to Tenn next time!”

“Please don't let Spirit Coyote keep you in a hole in her basement. She and CMB aren't too far from Ohio. ;-)”

“hey I travel with my own lotion ya know :)”

“when are you going to be there? what are you going there for?”

“Is work sending you for some training or is this a pleasure trip?”

“Watch out for that C!B! fellow too. ;-)”

“traing

NACA
national animal control assocation”

“traing???
Sounds kinky! It's a pleasure trip then, LOL.
last edited: 10/12/06 10:25:18 AM”

“Hey Ohio ... run for your livers!”

“Dayton has some rgeat stuff to do. I'd never come here on vacation but if you're stuck here there's stuff to do. There's shooting rats down at the dump. There's barn dances every friday night. There's cruising the back roads throwing beer bottles at road signs. There's brother/sister speed dating.

LOL!”

““Dayton has some rgeat stuff to do. I'd never come here on vacation but if you're stuck here there's stuff to do. There's shooting rats down at the dump. There's barn dances every friday night. There's cruising the back roads throwing beer bottles at road signs. There's brother/sister speed dating.

LOL!”
Nigal
12:37:05 PM
10/12/06

If you had changed that to throwing beer bottles at rats at the dump, and cruising the back roads shooting up road signs, I would have thought you were talking about my town.”

“There is a road sign in the state forest by me that is so full of holes I thing it’s about to disintegrate. Hunting season is almost here. That sign should be a pile of dust soon.”

“In other words, Nigal, Mapes is going to have a grand time on her visit.”

“No, seriousely, Dayton has a lot to offer. It'll seem like small town usa to her because she lives in NYC but Dayton's a pretty big city.

”

“LOL I got a visitor thingy in the mail on Dayton. LMAO it was all of 5 pages long

:)

ps, I have not left yet LOL”

“Received from our Landlord on May 16th:

dear Dani and Phil

I feel bad and have been postponing this email for a while but I guess there is no good way to say this: we don't intend to renew the lease in October. Peter's business is growing and it is becoming difficult for him to work with two noisy girls running up and down the stairs all day. Also, we need storage space for all his supplies that are now increasingly crowding our living and dining room. It is the obvious solution for us to take over the basement to make it into an office, we just very much regret putting your life upside down because of it and hope that out of bad news, good developments will emerge. We thought it'd be better to let you know already now, in case you want to buy a house and need some time to do that. We are flexible and so can accommodate an earlier departure date if you find something that you like earlier than October. It's been so easy and lovely to have you as tenants, we'll be sorry to see you go.
Warmly,
Carole



I love packing on Holiday weekends.

We really didn’t need this right now. Of the One Million things we need, this isn’t one of them.

We found this place through a mutual friend of the parties involved. They understood we don’t like to move, we understood they don’t like to look for tenants. We thought this was gonna be for the long haul. They treated us like good friends from the beginning when we moved in “way back” in October. So this felt like a kick in the teeth from a good friend followed by a few kidney punches. Dani felt particularly betrayed. It was, in her opinion, worst than our last battle with eviction notices, attempts to change locks, verbal battles, police, lawyers, etc. This was done by people who wanted to be friends but somehow didn’t see they would need the space in the immediate future. She’s probably right but all I could muster was “****ing *******s” and “Time to go”. I can re-categorize and write off people in a blink off an eye. Dani, not so much.

There was no way we could stay. They did us a favor by offering an early out but it is not altruistic. It’s obvious they need space now and wouldn’t be sorry if we left ASAP. So we sent out word and hit Craigs List. It becomes 2 full time jobs, of course. What a difference 8mos makes. The condo glut/gentrification has pushed rentals to the insane price range. Frikken 1300/mo for crappy 1br basements. We check out everything between 1000-1400 with no luck. Finally, one place looks promising. They want us to stop by Saturday, May 26.

Crap.

If you ask me for my top One Million places I would want to be on Memorial day weekend…..I would ask you to expand it so I could list DC. So we cancel the appointment, cash in two United Airline vouchers and head out for a backpacking trip to Glacier National Park!






No. Wait. That was a dream. Sigh.

So we check it out. It’s no where near as nice as our current basement apt. But its second floor with Bay Windows. It’s not a nice area of town. But it’s not a basement. So we slap down a check for first month and deposit. And then we have to wait for “approval”.



In the meantime, we pack. And sweat, for some reason. Today we get final approval. We are moving into Truxton Circle. A little South and East of us now. Deeper into the Cities mean streets. We are ahead of the curve. We are pioneers again. Not so much as a single Rainbow Flag on any building/apt anywhere in our new ‘hood. We are part of 4% of the ethnic makeup but I think maybe that was a typo and we are more like .4%.

But it’s not a basement.

This all goes in with my difficulties in getting my life back. I’ve never sent out so many resumes. The only responses I get aren’t so nice. Not sure if it’s the 1.5yr “medical leave” or, after 6 years, my willful inability to work in Big Pharma/Animal Research anymore. Probably a combo. Just a little while ago I was in no condition to take on a server type position but that may have changed. Hence, my semi s-elf-imposed exile from the forums.


For now, I work on our friends Organic Farm. Yes, I kid you not, Metrobearmagnet is Farming. I work at my pace. Maybe I found a new Life?


Anyone know why basil & tomato are planted together? Bonus points for knowing what the straw is for

My tools

Future vineyard


Now meet the newest member to our family:



Iggy. A 2yr old we rescued from the Humane Society. He’s friendly, playful as hell, never uses his claws on us. He’s ugly, spastic, smart and not so smart.


I’ve got some packing and job hunting to do. I will soon be without Internet. Abuse me while you can…….


Peace”

“Good luck, BM and Dani. I hope your move works out, and I hope you get a good paying job soon. The farm looks wonderful though. Iggy reminds me of my cat Pinky.”

“Watch out for that Haney guy ----

He'll clip you if he can.”

“Good luck with it all, Bearmagnet! And that bumpersticker philosophy: the only constant is change.”

“Life can be a strange and wonderful adventure. I hope things work out for you guys. I was wondering where you had been.”

“I wish you and Dani the best in all things.

But especially, I hope that all of your struggles result in a deep, strong and satisfying relationship with one another.”

“Life does kick you in the a$$ sometimes.
Goor luck Bear. I will miss you.”

“Bummer. I hope something works out for you.

I can't be too hard on your landlords. You got lots of notice and they were as pleasant as they could be about it. Telling someone they have to leave their home is like breaking up with someone when they don't want to - its almost impossible to come off as a good guy when you do it, no matter how hard you try.”

“Hey Bear, Hope your move results in a better than you imagined home and many new opportunities. Enjoy the farm while you can and good luck finding work that pays well.

That cat kinda looks like my Sparky. He was something else when no one was looking.”

“That Dole banana box is out of place in that photo above. Please don't tell me you ate the contents of that box.

Chin up, you guys are troopers. I can smell better days coming for the two of you.”

“BM is having a movement?

I should have gotten you overalls for your birthday.

Good luck and let's get together with those other newlyweds sometime soon.”

“Sorry to hear you've had more landlord grief. Some lovely buildings around there, I nearly bought one on Rhode Island a few years back.

You've signed up on this place? My old apt might be available, and that was a great place and a bargain -though you'll prolly prefer where you are than living with the yuppies on the hill, especially now Eastern Market burned down.

Anyway, good luck with the job hunt, what sort of work you looking for?”

“Thanks y'all.

And No, we didn't eat no nasty bananas. I think prices jumped in your neighborhood also, y2. As for work. Right now anything remotely connected to biology.

;)”

“Check out Richmond BM. Much lower cost of living, good job opportunites, not far from DC and a slower pace of life.”

“Never forget, just when you think life's a bltch, it has puppies. Just think back to when you were fighting for your very life Bear. You beat the odds and every single day you continue to beat them. While an apartment seems like a big thing it's but a pimple on a flea's ass in the larger scheme of things.

Life is good. Hard? Yes. Scary? Yes. But good.”

“Thats the kicker about life. Each day can be a problem to surmount or a welcomed learning experience....I am going through something similar Bear, good luck you know where we are.”