Big Top by Rob Harrell for January 12, 2010

WHOA! Doc made breakfast! Wait a minute, he doesn’t know how to use that big white box with the knobs that sits in his kitchen! It must all be frozen stuff! Oh well, I’m hungry! I’ll give his cooking a whirl! I’ll have the hash browns, sausage links, scrambled eggs, and of COURSE the NUCLEAR COFFEE! I’ll need it for tmr. morning since I should have been in bed and asleep two hours ago! THANKS DOC!

DOC!!! Good morning!

Poor Carl!

I’ll have French toast with sausage and scrambled eggs, and Irish breakfast tea, thank you.

Wow Doc! I’ll have some scrambled eggs, hash browns and some cocoamocha, Thank you!!

thanks for breakfast DocT i don’t have a lot of time so i’ll just have a small helping of scrambled eggs with a couple of sausage links and some nuclear coffee. it was a long meeting tonight, and i need to recover! Hi marg & Dry!

You would think that a volcano head would be an asset to the Big Top, no?

hi Carmy, we cross typed, so i missed you before.

lol tabby is so slow sometimes… been posting on last nights.

Dry go see what i left you

doc who are you and what did you do with our doc? its been about 9 months since i saw you get 1st. thanks for breakfast ill have. pancakes, french toast, and hashbrows. thank you both

i don’t know, do we want someone who is likely to blow their top (or, at least, have their top blow)?

Good Morning Doc, Dry, Marg, yyyguy, JFri and Tabby!

and hi Tabby as well!

Morning yguy, carmy, dry, doc, MARG, JOY, and the rest to come

goodnight Dry love you

i missed JFri? just came on and didn’t see a post from him.

oh goodness Goodmorning jfri now get down here and join the party

Doc there are children in the house, do NOT finishe that song. lol

but you know you love every min of it doc

its cool talking to you, we are hardly on at the same time.

its good to have you around reminds me of the old days.

hello Wildcheetah hope you are doing well. thanks for the breakfast. im glad to you it was you who cooked, you know we all love doc but his cooking worries us.

Hi wildcheetah! Thanks for breaky.

i hate this time of day(?) its when im hungry. i can eat supper late and be stuffed then about this time im starving… i wake up in the morning with hunger pains then i get up and im no longer hungry stupid body of mine

wildcheetah is smart. :D :0p

Doc yep! lol its hard to do is it not. :0)

well seeing as im supposed to get uo in the morning and go to my school to buy some books yuck i need to be getting to sleep. but hey i get some BK tomorrow for lunch. he he. bad tabby i know.

i shall say good night now, go fin looking over last page on something then come back and say goodnight again.

hi to wildcheetah, and thanks for making breakfast for DocT to feed to us. time for yyyguys and other children to go to bed, so “Goodnight” to all who are still here.

okay night all im out. see you all in the daylight

peace and love tribe.

I’m finishing up my toon run and then I’m off to bed. Goodnight Yappy Nuts!

Morning, DocT, Carmy, Tabby, Dry, yyyguy, and a special hello to Wildcheetah!!

Good morning and Happy Tuesday. wildcheetah thanks for breakfast. JFri good to almost see you this morning.

Good Morning Tribe

Hello Akenta, Doc, Wildcheetah, Carmy, Yguy, Tabby Jfri & Dry.

Doc & Wildcheetah, thank you for the breakfast today! Awesome!

Good morning all! Man! Morning seems to actually come in the morning these day. What is up with that?

Once all the holiday festivities are gone it’s definitely back to the regular grind of being up in the morning.

Good Morning Johnny

DOC I’d love a cup of you brew but I had chilli for dinner.

Good morning Lewreader

I’m running late for my VA Hospital appointment so I’ll see y’all when I return. BBL

grumble grumble grumble…good morning all. If I weren’t going to New Orleans tomorrow I might be in a bad mood today. Thanks for breakkies, Doc n Wild.

Ya gotta love a four hour lab that ends three and a half hours early. Today is looking good!

Good Morning JFri, Akenta, Terry, Johnny, Lewreader and MisngNOLA! MisngNOLA, I hope you have a safe trip and a great time in NOLA!

Good morning Carmy

Hi Johnny, glad you got that lab break :)

Hi Doc, I hope your kitties behaved while you were away.

Good morning all! We actually hit 50F yesterday - all the white stuff is becoming brown stuff…

Hey Doc, at least if they are doing that, they won’t be causing too much trouble.

Reminds me of my brothers and myself growing up. My dad always used to say, “Not everything is a toy, ya know!”

Lucky you Dfrog!

Good Morning All. I tried shaving my head.

Oh no! Poor Cleo! Is it bad?

Biscuits and sausage gravy sounds good, but I am only having it because Doc said (we). If he had made it on his own, I shudder at the thought. LOL

Hi Joy, stay warm!

Carmy, I tried shaving a few years ago when I thought heck, I am going bald why not just embrace the idea and shave it all off. I looked like the back end of a plucked chicken. I finally had it grown back and decided that my wife should cut my hair. She did a really good job. I was inspecting the results and noticed a hair that needed trimming on the top of my head and told her about it so she grabbed the electric trimmer and made a pass over the top of my head, having forgotten to put the guard back onto the razor. The guard allowed her to cut my hair to a uniform height. Suddenly, she has this look of alarm on her face and I realize that she has shaved a patch right down the center of my head. Then she has the nerve to say “You know, it doesn’t look bad.” Picture a reverse mohawk. LOL

A bright spot of sunshine this morning! (meaning you!)

stopped by to say Hi! All!

Good Morning Joy, Dry & Doc. Thanks for staying out of the way as Wildcheetah made breakfast buddy.

A reverse mohawk? Oh my! My husband shaves his own head and he does a good job. Several years ago, he was really trying to hang on to the little hair he still had. I told him to just give it up, embrace the badness, and he did.

Cleo ROFLMAO!!! That’s a funny story!

Hi Carmy! I’m really glad it was wildcheetah who made breakfast, aren’t you? SNERK!

Good morning, DocT, dFrog, jdoc, cleoK, CarmY, JoY–oh, and wildCheetah too! All this, and breakfast too!

Some people look good bald. Others have odd bumps–or look like volcanoes. But what can you do?

Edit: at least you don’t have to look at your own head very often. Except in mirrors. And not much then, if you are bald…

Just don’t turn your back to those kitties Doc.

bmonk how are you this fine morning.

It isn’t raining at the moment so it is off I am for a bike ride.

good morning all

I’m pretty good, but it could be like the old prayer:

“O God, I’ve been pretty good so far today. I haven’t been angry at anyone, or cheated on my diet. I haven’t been tempted to cut people off or insult them…. [and so on]

“But I’m getting up in a few moments, and I might need more help after that, God.”

Great prayer bmonk! Worth reading twice too. :)

I was trying to remember the whole thing, but couldn’t find it online…

I just returned from body shop at VA. lol Some things just remain the same, darnit. Oh well, what’s happening here? Need to check emails & such………………..

Hello Bmonk, Cleo, Carmy, MisngNOLA, Tab & Dry

Hello to Doc too!!!

sorry im talking to a friend.

Doc, or he’s wondering how he can get back at you for abandoning him.

ROFLMBO

i just got a phone call from my cousmer care at the bank i use. the man says… “we relized you have not been using yoru debit/credit card is there a problem, do you need a new one, is it not meeting you needs” i laughed and told him i was in college and on break it will pick up today trust me. he said “well that makes since thanks.”

DocT, my husky DocH gets back at me by pulling mail and papers off of the tables on to the floor. He doesn’t chew them or anything, just pulls them down to get my attention. He has quite a personality. He’s a stinker!

Doc my cat meanie meanie does the same he fights with a huge monkey thing. he likes cars, wraping paper and boxes. his toys, not so much. lol

Doc, that sounds cool. DocH is fine with his own toys, he just likes getting my attention at times. And of course I give it to him most of the time. lol He is my buddy!

is quiet today.

RL is calling right now. BBS

got to go by books wish me luck im gonna be broke

I’m back and going through my toon merry-go-round since I did not get to do it this morning. It was waaaaay too early of a day for me today. Even though I have been falling asleep earlier in the evenings lately. Still feels weird to me.

I actually caught a quick nap today, which was nice considering how little sleep I got last night. Doc good luck with your sleep, I don’t know how people manage on a shift as screwy as that!

Who is teaching whom–Boots or the kid?

Doc I have all of my old matchbox toys too. To show you how anal I was as a kid, they all are in the original boxes and the boxes for the most part, look brand new. And … I played with them lots. I just never liked my stuff to get scratched. LOL

hi Tribe. just a quick flyby to say hi, but i have to comment. DocT your description of Boots is a frightening image. a toddler that can reach the top of the fridge, wow!

Well then, I guess you’ll have to hide stuff *in* the fridge.

Hello Yguy & Cleo

Hello Tribe. I’m on my break so I’m just checking in to see how you are all doing today.

Well I have a small collection of porcelain dolls. and quite a few stuffed animals that are in good condition.

Doc what is sellp? Have fun, whatever it is, LOL!

I think he was trying to tell us how much he needed sellp, or selp, or sllep…

Schlep? Oh who know, sometimes that man speaks gibberish! ;-)

He’s the one getting delirious now–maybe we need to call 911 and send a medical team for both DocT and the wildCheetah…

back. spent over $300 on books, but i did pick up a book for a friend so ill get $90 back thats good. :D

bbl need to get things done.

That was one bad thing about school–the books are so turrible durn expensive, and many of them books you’d never want to buy on your own.

And when you go to sell them even in EXCELLENT condition, you get less than half of what you paid for them.

bmonk I think Doc is so smitten that he IS getting delirious!

Hello everybody!

My daughter just spent quite a bit on her books too. She did pretty good selling her books last year though.

Did she sell them to people or back to the bookstore?

But do we have 911 in cyberspace, or how do we tell them where to send the ambulance to find DocT???

Maybe we need to wake him up–who’s got the horn today?

I have it but I left it at home! I don’t know if he wants up this early! Maybe it would be better to let him sleep if off! :-0

dry good afternnon.

**i sould my books back the day of my finals that way i got as much as i could out of it. i think the most i made was $70 on about a $100 book, so i didnt do bad, but you have to go the first day and have perfect books.

what cost me the most was my calculator it was $104. 67 thats crazy!!

Dry, she sold most of them to people and 1 or 2 to the bookstore.

That’s what my daughter did was to sell them on the last days of the semester. She too said that was the best way.

get more money the sooner you sell them. if you do it the first day they have very little of that book and want it/need it. so its smart sales. :D

need to restart my computer its being slow.

Good evening all! Books is it? I try to buy as many as I can online. I spent $635 on books the first semester I was here, I have never paid remotely close to that much since. One semester, I only spent $27, that was nice.

johnny $27> Did you buy them from a student “getting out of dodge” having a yard sale? Man you were lucky!

Borrowed one from a friend, bought one online, one and a store, and didn’t buy one. It all worked out though.

My kid bought one he already had, and didn’t know it! Luckily the bookstore took it back at full credit.

jdoc buy mine for me?

Do it online. That’s how I did it, but from the sounds of it, you didn’t do too bad.

i didnt do so bad if the math teacher would post what we need i would be happy. i have no math book and i have math every day. ugh

I HATE MATH MORE THEN DRY HATES WINTER

Hi everyone, I’m just now getting ready to go home, and thought I’d check in first before going out the door.

The smartest class decision I ever made was in high school when I dropped Geometry and took typing instead. It has been more useful than Geometry ever would have been. Especially now with computers.

Tabby WANNA BET?

Dry oh i promise you i hate math i hate it i hate it i hate it.

Cleo can i do that?

*Cleo, got a great story about my Geometry class, but it’s too long to post here! Well, I think it’s great anyway. Makes me laugh now when I think about it, but myself and 3 of my friends got a couple of days of detention after school for it! Our parents WERE NOT happy! *

Hello Mr Cleo

I enjoyed geometry, but it is kinda useless.

so i am so fed up with my school its terribe. i was told last sem. i could not get a parking permit bc i had a class after 3 to go back next sem and get one then if i did not have classe after 3. so i go in today and they tell me, oh you dont live on campus so you cant get a permit. HOW STUPID!!!?

this is a load of bull dodo!!!!! so i email them and its not pretty or ugly its just telling them what i want. im fed up with it, tired of being pushed around. grrr.

i could use some help if you have time.

Sorry I posted and then disappeared, but I had to run to the bookmobile and take back that book I have been reading. So hello everyone.

Dry I used to get in trouble for things that nowadays would not bat an eye. I have been expelled for wearing bangs like the Beatles first hairstyle on Ed Sullivan and I was expelled for wearing a long sleeve paisley shirt and expelled for wearing jeans.

See what trouble clothes get you into.

Cleo so thats why you dont like clothes. it all makes since. lol

wow turns out i like a group i didnt know i liked… well a song by them. like to come soon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZVxjH04aIY

I was a good student, I never got expelled, and didn’t break the dress code. Now I am in college and look however I want. And boy does it change.

hey i have to go to bed early tonight so would you people come out and play already

i never got expelled either, but i gues you already knew that.

Off to make dinner. BBL

Tabby the Black Eyed Peas are pretty awesome! You need to listen to more of their tunes! I like all kinds of music, except the twangy country which you already know!

Hey Johnny, I was a good student too, except in trig! We won’t discuss that, LOL! And I NEVER got expelled, JUST DETENTION a couple times! And the only bad things I did was skip school a few times in my Senior year! :-D

Dry i didnt know i liked them. :D

Now you know! :0

Dry thank you.

i am freezing here.,

DOC hello… sleep good/

okay so i love cabagge, but i soooo can NOT cook the stuff. i did bad!

Good Evening Doc

Good evening, all. You know you’re busy when you read your morning comics at 9 pm. SIgh.

Celecca, I’ve been having that problem lately too, if I get to read all my comics at all!

Doc

Saw your breakfast and the morning posts. Nice for everyone to have such faith in Wildcheetah!

johnnydoc5 - I usually get to read them, but not to comment like I’d like. So, at least I can see what my favorite people are posting!

internet died, then computer fliped out. whats next?

you know what i dont miss about school? i dont miss the strugling to get up in the morning. the stress of trying to carry everything. the rushing around from class to class. or the lack of orgnization skills that i have. one booksack, two binders, on laptop, one book (as of now) pens pencials, personal things such as walet and stuff in it. mirrow and floss and tooth brush. mp3 and scantrons. how is that to go in my bag on my back and me beable to ride the bike to make it to class on time?

Tabby - are you talking about now or high school?

now

When I went back to university, I had all that - well, not the MP3 player - plus a 4’x5’ art potfolio and art supplies. Also all carried very precariously on my bike. I feel for you!

Doc - You said: Boots is like a toddler that can reach the top of the refrigerator. When my oldest son was a toddler, he could climb to the top of the refrigerator. There was no such place out of his reach, unless it was under lock & key! Thank goodness his younger brother was/is easier to handle.

Hello all. Dinner is done, dishes are washed. I am boiling some eggs to have on hand and will watch a movie soon. So, tomorrow is day one of school for Tabby. Hang in there girl.

cleo thanks. ill be fine if i can get this stuff packed. lol and get some sleep. thinking about taking something for this headace that will make me sleepy

You and all your worries. You probably have a stress headache. You worry even more than I do, and that is not a good thing Tabby.

grr i just remembered the other 2 books i have to have in my bag… this is not going to work.

Cleo thats what i do best…. i worry about everything.

Worrying is something I try to avoid. Life can be unpleasant enough, I don’t need more stress. At any rate, it is time to do some homework, so I am going to sign off for the night. Peace and love all!

this might just work. :D got all the books in the bag and a way to put laptop. now for personal junk. and to beable to carry it all on the bike. which i need to hook up in the morning. bc i forgot to put on the car tonight Grr

Good Night johnnyd.

I have worried all my life too Tabby and it has never done me one lick of good. It is hard to get out of the cycle of worry, but it is always best if you try. Worry isn’t good for your health.

im working on it… just not to good so far.

Cleo I agree, and yet we still do it. Wonder why we’re wired lke that. Of course, i wouldn’t want to be Alfred E, Neumann) either!

All of my emotions are intense and immediate and that is both good and bad. If I am angry I can explode and get back to normal quickly. If I am having an argument that causes the anger, I am done and over it while the other person still has issues simmering and erupting. Stress is something that hits me fast, but I am not always as adept at getting over it as fast as I would like. Stress isn’t really an emotion though it is more a state of mind.

Hello celecca. I don’t know “What me worry?” can be a pretty comfortable place to be, but you are right, sometimes it is best to face reality.

Yeah, for a long time, I had a quick temper. I do get stressed, though, and hold it in. I fooled myslef into thinking cigs were the answer for over 30 years. For the past year, i’ve been trying to learn a new coping mechanism. Not doing too well on that, but keep trying. Ain’t maturity grand.

It’s 11 pm, I need to hit the hay. Thanks for talking with me.

Yes maturity makes you realize how stupid you are for feeling the way you are but doesn’t give you the means to stop the stupid thing that you are feeling. I can now rationalize my feelings. So what. For crying out loud, if I am going to be immature allow me to be so without knowing that I am. LOL

Amen. :}

Where is everybody tonight anyways?

I am off to watch a movie.

cleo sorry i got destracted packing and ice cream called my name. :0)

cleo I am still giggling about your “haircut” What a picture you painted!

Have a great day tomorrow!

hi Shika bye shika

okay going get my charger out the kitchen and come back watch a movie and go night night. see you all in the morning. maybe. peace and love. night night

Wow, what a quiet night.

hi again, Tribe. my ‘puter’s been a bit balky so i don’t know if i’m going to be here very long, despite having just arrived. on worrying,my Dad was in hospital for a bleeding ulcer and the best way it could be explained to my 6 year-old mind was that it was because he was worrying too much. i made up my mind at that point that i would never worry about anything, and i have pretty much managed to keep that vow my whole life. i do pay attention to things, and handle what needs to be handled, but i don’t stew about them too much.