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gstein42 (#585)
Location: 127.0.0.1 Quote: "That's not change! That's more of the same!" Posted: 5206 days ago
geez max, Many of us have been reading your books and following your blog for longer than Fin has been alive!
Kevin Collette (#3503)
Location: Somewhere in Missouri Posted: 5206 days ago
NationStates is a few years older than her... has it been that long?
Nora Jean Stone (#1170)
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Quote: "Do Wa Ditty, Life in the CITY, where the Women are Strong and the Men are Pretty... anon" Posted: 5206 days ago
I was stunned with this picture. Has it been 5 years already? As a grandmother of 5 young humans I should be prepared for this sort of thing. I never am. Bless her heart - she looks so intent.
David (#1456)
Location: Sydney, Australia Quote: "Why are the pretty ones always insane?" Posted: 5206 days ago
So it begins. From now on your lives will be ruled by school holidays, homework, sports carnivals, sleep overs, birthday parties, Parent Teacher nights and report cards. You are now, and for years to come will be, an unpaid cab driver for your kids.
Then they become teenagers and you wonder why your passengers have suddenly become so surly.
Karen (#2180)
Location: wishing I was at home Quote: "Question authority, not your mother!" Posted: 5206 days ago
Gosh, I guess time flies even if you're not having fun (although Fin is only fun, right?)
Jeffrey (#2286)
Location: Right here Quote: "Mathematics is a powerful language. Just look at how mathematicians destroyed the housing market." Posted: 5206 days ago
She's getting so big!
Todd (#3429)
Location: New York Quote: "It's fun to have fun but you have to know how." Posted: 5205 days ago
Sheesh, Max, we're old.
Randy (#2374)
Location: Ravena, NY Quote: "I could write a book about being lazy. I just don't feel like it." Posted: 5205 days ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Quote: "I'm my number one fan!" Posted: 5205 days ago
Heh, I think I passed Level 15 a while ago. Those schools have really long waiting lists.
Hans Miniar (#2600)
Location: Iceland Quote: "~your love is made of happy, and sometimes exhasperation~" Posted: 5204 days ago
Don't ask me, I'm still wondering how the hell mine can be turning ten this summer!
Picto (#64)
Location: United Kingdom Quote: "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill" Posted: 5202 days ago
Goodness, I remember posting on your post from August 2005 and it's hard to believe that time has flown by so fast already.
As pointed out, NationStates is a few years older and I still remember playing that on a regular basis back in the day.
Crazy, and congratulations :-)
Tanya (#5309)
Location: Brisbane, Australia Posted: 5161 days ago
I know how you feel Max. We are 8 weeks in to our first school term and every morning my little human stands at his classroom door calling out "see you in a bit Mum" over and over again until I have disappeared behind the bushy screen of wattle trees. I wonder how I will cope when my "big boy" realises it's just not "cool" anymore. Ouch, I can already feel my heart breaking :(
Alex (#4996)
Location: Chicago Quote: "I am not a number! I am a free man! *is handed a printout* ...Oh, I guess I'm actually #4996. " Posted: 5133 days ago
Since you said "we" and "do," I thought by "this" you meant... yeah...
Simon (#3192)
Location: Melbourne Quote: "I'd rather be arrogant than wrong" Posted: 5126 days ago
Watch out, Preps are being "accessed" by Access Ministries during classes in Victorian schools. Sure you can opt out...if you know it's going on. My 5 year old came home saying a new teacher came to school and told them god made everything. No warning from the school that this was going to happen. Make your you know what your kids are being taught.
Alex (#4996)
Location: Chicago Quote: "I am not a number! I am a free man! *is handed a printout* ...Oh, I guess I'm actually #4996. " Posted: 5116 days ago
Yep, fine teachers some schools have. I remember my eighth grade teacher insisting that an apostrophe s after an inanimate object is bad grammar because an inanimate object can't own anything. She literally said, "A rock can't go to a store and buy anything, so it can't own anything." I said what about things that inalienably belong to the rock? Such as its weight, color, things like that? What about other things? Microsoft's stock prices? Can I give my inanimate object something? A baseball's holder? Yeah, from that point on she took off points on my writing papers whenever I wrote inanimate object + 's.
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This is where site members post comments. If you're not a member, you can join here. There are all kinds of benefits, including moral superiority!
Location: 127.0.0.1
Quote: "That's not change! That's more of the same!"
Posted: 5206 days ago
Location: Somewhere in Missouri
Posted: 5206 days ago
Nora Jean Stone (#1170)
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Quote: "Do Wa Ditty, Life in the CITY, where the Women are Strong and the Men are Pretty... anon"
Posted: 5206 days ago
Location: Sydney, Australia
Quote: "Why are the pretty ones always insane?"
Posted: 5206 days ago
Then they become teenagers and you wonder why your passengers have suddenly become so surly.
Location: wishing I was at home
Quote: "Question authority, not your mother!"
Posted: 5206 days ago
Jeffrey (#2286)
Location: Right here
Quote: "Mathematics is a powerful language. Just look at how mathematicians destroyed the housing market."
Posted: 5206 days ago
Location: New York
Quote: "It's fun to have fun but you have to know how."
Posted: 5205 days ago
Location: Ravena, NY
Quote: "I could write a book about being lazy. I just don't feel like it."
Posted: 5205 days ago
www.maxbarry.com/2007/02/22/news.html
Has it gone as you expected it would?
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "I'm my number one fan!"
Posted: 5205 days ago
Hans Miniar (#2600)
Location: Iceland
Quote: "~your love is made of happy, and sometimes exhasperation~"
Posted: 5204 days ago
Picto (#64)
Location: United Kingdom
Quote: "Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? - Maurice Freehill"
Posted: 5202 days ago
As pointed out, NationStates is a few years older and I still remember playing that on a regular basis back in the day.
Crazy, and congratulations :-)
Tanya (#5309)
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posted: 5161 days ago
Alex (#4996)
Location: Chicago
Quote: "I am not a number! I am a free man! *is handed a printout* ...Oh, I guess I'm actually #4996. "
Posted: 5133 days ago
Simon (#3192)
Location: Melbourne
Quote: "I'd rather be arrogant than wrong"
Posted: 5126 days ago
Alex (#4996)
Location: Chicago
Quote: "I am not a number! I am a free man! *is handed a printout* ...Oh, I guess I'm actually #4996. "
Posted: 5116 days ago
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