Henry Blackmoore wrote in message
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Why work either when you can just go on the dole?


I recommend you at least try work and carry your own weight Henry. If it
doesn't work out..there's always Employment Insurrance.

In article , "Don White" wrote:

Henry Blackmoore wrote in message
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Why work either when you can just go on the dole?


I recommend you at least try work and carry your own weight Henry. If it
doesn't work out..there's always Employment Insurrance.

You are too funny Don! A socialist womb to the tomber from Canada giving
advice about carrying one's "own weight"? Yowser!

In Texas you usually cannot collect unemployment insurance if things
don't "work out". If you quit or get fired from a job you are not eligible.
You also have to work at a job a certain length of time in order to qualify.
You also do not qualify when you own your own business and work for
yourself. The piddling 'maximum' amount one can get from the TEC
wouldn't even pay for my utility bills anyways Don.

I am almost through working. I just finished my last big project and
you can consider me to be retired now.

Think I will go out and walk the dogs here in a bit. Maybe watch a Netflix
movie (Master & Commander). Yawn!

Henry Blackmoore wrote in message
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I am almost through working. I just finished my last big project and
you can consider me to be retired now.

Think I will go out and walk the dogs here in a bit. Maybe watch a Netflix
movie (Master & Commander). Yawn!



Congratulations.
I retired on December 31 but put in a long hard winter...a bit of cabin
fever set in.
My wife was called back to her former employer for a 14 week stint and
needed our vehicle for transportation.
Between the severe cold and snow this winter..my Lazy-Boy got quite a
workout.
Things are looking up now.

Don White wrote in message
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Wow...my original title of this thread was spot on!
This means you won't be disappearing for a few months at a time.....and will
be a thorn in the side on a regular basis???
Lord help us!

In article , "Don White" wrote:

Don White wrote in message
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Wow...my original title of this thread was spot on!
This means you won't be disappearing for a few months at a time.....and will
be a thorn in the side on a regular basis???
Lord help us!

No more oil rigs for me! I might miss traveling so much though.

I will probably disappear though, for awhile anyhow. I am
already getting tired arguing with some of the more sick elements
around here.

I mean really. Rubbing a dog's nose in it's poop = training?

Watching somebody sink and drown is a form of "what goes around
comes around" that the person (the one drowning) deserves?

Aggh. You I can handle. Even Harry Numbnuttz but I don't need
the aggravation on a regular basis. I am too busy having fun in
the offline real world.

The weather here is often in the eighties (even nineties) in the middle
of winter and the rest of the year suits me too and I have so many vices and
things that I want to do. Like paint the house (never have painted one). And
plant MORE stuff in my garden and go fishing and maybe see old friends around
the country and did I mention fishing? And oh yeah there is fishing and
boating and.

Hey! I got this really neat $400.00 RCA Scenium A/V receiver on Ebay for
$59.00 recently. It has Digital Coax inputs, Fiber-Optic cables and all the
other goodies like SACD, DTS, Dolby this and Dolby that. Totally amazing
thingie. I hooked it up to a new 16:9 ratio DLP bigscreen TV and ordered
High-Definition from the cable company. That combined with some kick-ass
surround sound (6.1) speakers and some good Netflix DVD's really rocks
the house. The dadgum cables cost more than the receiver and the speakers.

I went out and bought all the Band of Brothers DVD's and the Sopranos
from season one to season four. Wow!

You really ought to treat yourself if you are going to have lonely winters
like that!

:^)

LOL


Cheers Don!

Henry Blackmoore wrote in message
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The weather here is often in the eighties (even nineties) in the middle
of winter and the rest of the year suits me too and I have so many vices
and
things that I want to do. Like paint the house (never have painted one).
snip

**Painting a house isn't all it's cracked up to be. I have a two story with
a 9 in 12 roof pitch. At the gable ends it's almost equivalent to a 3 story.
I had to buy an expensive 36 foot extension ladder just so I could get up
there, and I didn't like it much. If you want to paint a house, I'll be due
next year. ***

snip
You really ought to treat yourself if you are going to have lonely winters
like that!

*** this will be my treat. http://sailquest.com/market/models/spipe.htm
***

In article , "Don White" wrote:

Don White wrote in message
news:dlWhc.26103$Np3.956295@ursa-

Wow...my original title of this thread was spot on!
This means you won't be disappearing for a few months at a time.....and will
be a thorn in the side on a regular basis???
Lord help us!



Btw that RCA receiver that I bought was meant for the Canadian market. LOL

Any harm in using it to watch lots of war movies with GUNS in it
down here in Texas?

;^)

Henry Blackmoore wrote in message
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Btw that RCA receiver that I bought was meant for the Canadian market.
LOL

Any harm in using it to watch lots of war movies with GUNS in it
down here in Texas?

*** Try to pick up 'Trailer Park Boys' filmed in Halifax by former
co-worker Mike Clattenburg.
That should absolve you of any sins! ***

In article , "Don White" wrote:

Henry Blackmoore wrote in message
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I am almost through working. I just finished my last big project and
you can consider me to be retired now.

Think I will go out and walk the dogs here in a bit. Maybe watch a Netflix
movie (Master & Commander). Yawn!



Congratulations.

Well thank-you.

I retired on December 31 but put in a long hard winter...a bit of cabin
fever set in.

You got to stay busy, . Sell stuff on Ebay or something. Take up reading
all those good novels that you have been meaning to read all of your life.

My wife was called back to her former employer for a 14 week stint and
needed our vehicle for transportation.

Bummer. TV dinners?

Between the severe cold and snow this winter..my Lazy-Boy got quite a
workout.
Things are looking up now.

Can you get Netflix up there? Give it a try. Great for those winter
doldrums.