Picture Time Again! Post a picture of yourself, then tell a story...

[RetroLounge]

This was taken about 11 years ago, hanging off a streetcar in San Francisco. I like it because I look much happier than I actually was at the time. I was visiting my girlfriend's family in Marin County, and had the opportunity to start my life over and move to San Francisco from Milwaukee and move in with her at her mom's huge house in San Raphael. I had been doing a lot of soul searching, and after a year together, I was doubtful about the relationship. She was fantastic, beautiful, smart, talented and funny, and although I had a great time in SF, I realized shortly after that the main problem was not her but that I was not in love with her. We said goodbye a few months later and I have never seen her again...



Now it's your turn, post a pic of yourself, then tell a story about it.

RL

[KT2000]

1. Wow! Gorgeous hair!

I'm jealous.
sorry - don't have any pictures and to techically challenged to ever be able to post pictures.

[RetroLounge]

2. Thanks.

It's shorter and more gray these days...

RL

[noshenanigans]

3. Me looking scruffy but happy.

This was taken a month ago a day after the birth of my nephew. I'm so lucky I got to be here for that because I was living in Los Angeles for the past few years but had to come back when I was in a wheelchair after a really horrible head-on collision.

I'm moving back to Los Angeles, though, in a month. I'm very excited but I am kind of sad that I'll see my nephew grow up mostly through pictures.

[RetroLounge]

4. Very nice smile..

RL

[blueblitzkrieg]

42. Cute

the babys not bad either

LOL

[MarianJack]

45. I Wish You a Quick and Complete Recovery!

At least you got to see a new baby! Much happiness to you and your family! BTW, Aunts and Uncles can spoil with impunity from a distance! Trust me, my wife and I know! :thumbsup:

[Dogmudgeon]

140. I really have to turn the graphics off

These, ahem, "distractions" are putting a rather severe strain on my heart. I don't want to end up like Dick Cheney. Not from the Internet, anyway.

Now, where's that spare tank of O₂?

--p!

[BikeWriter]

180. Dayum, you're a knock out! :-)

[Floogeldy]

5. I don't remember much

[RetroLounge]

7. Nice Flat Top

Hard to find a barber that can do a good flat top these days...

RL

[Longgrain]

6. Me, taken at the request of another DUer

Who wanted a more playful picture of me...

[RetroLounge]

8. Your shoulder is calling out for a tatoo

just saying...

:hi:

RL

[Longgrain]

10. Last time I posted it

everyone said I looked like Axl Rose.

So maybe a tattoo is in order...LOL

[OldLeftieLawyer]

35. Axl Rose doesn't look like Axl Rose any more

He's apparently had a face lift and other plastic surgery, and now he looks sort of like Cher.

[WindRavenX]

13. hubba hubba

:loveya:

[Longgrain]

24. Thanks Windy

Since you know I think you're a cutie too!

Even if you are a Yankees fan...:P

[Zuni]

15. Dude, you look just like Axl Rose

seriously. You should start a Guns N' Roses tribute band

[Longgrain]

28. Seriously...not my type of music

More of a Dylanphile myself!

[Skittles]

70. aw MAN

would I have LOVED to have taken you home to meet my dad! :D

[Longgrain]

84. And I would have loved to have met you Skittles

But I guess that's just another... "Another Time: Another Place" thing... :hi:

[Skittles]

87. lol

my dad used to threaten to kill my dates......they were always wailing about it, despite my pitiful assurances that HE WAS ONLY KIDDING!

[guitar man]

9. Much happier time

This was taken in a North Tulsa dive in '99. Much happier time, just making music and not preoccpied with all of *'s bullshit.

[RetroLounge]

12. Nice pic. I like guitar player pictures myself

here's me rocking out...



RL

[guitar man]

19. cool axe!

[RetroLounge]

27. Thanks.

I sold it years ago, but it was a nice guitar.

My main Axe is a Les Paul Custom (see pic below). You can see it in the picture right below my Beaver...



RL

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

144. Nice beaver. Sorry, dude. Couldn't resist.

[Bonhomme Richard]

21. Like the Rick

I have a 330-12

[Skittles]

71. OMG! I just had an ALVIN LEE FLASHBACK!

when I was a very young girl in England I used to take double-deckers to go see "that bloody Alvin" as my grandma put it! :D

[RetroLounge]

115. Reminding you of Alvin Lee is an honor

"I'd love to change the world" is still an amazing song...

RL

[WindRavenX]

11. Taken at the Boston Commons on December 5th, 2004

This was taken by my now boyfriend on our very first date (he's a professional photographer). It was truly one of the best days of my life, and he has said the same. We've been inseperatable ever since! :7

[RetroLounge]

16. Nice picture, and a nice story too!

:hi:

RL

[Longgrain]

17. You know I've seen this one before!

Cutie...:hi:

[WindRavenX]

20. It's the only one I have...

...I don't have one of those fancy pants photobucket accounts :P

[Longgrain]

30. Get one...They are nice.

(seriously if you need some image hosting help, see me!)

[MarianJack]

52. Great Story,...

...and I'm very happy for you!

Isn't it neat when you meet the right one and the feeling is MUTUAL??? :bounce:

My wife (my Wonder Woman with knitting needles instead of a lasso) Met in July 1997, got engaged in Sept. 1997, married in Aug. 1998 and she's STUCK WITH ME! :loveya:

[WindRavenX]

54. it is very rewarding

Because we both met each other when we needed to meet each other, if that makes sense.
BOTH of us were hurting terribly after the election; both of us needed one another to get back on our feet and fight the Bush Machine. We now draw strength and can vent about politics whenever we feel down.
It's great finding someone who "gets" my outrage...past partners have never understood how I can get so emotional about politics. But he does.

[Skittles]

74. LOOK AT THOSE BEDROOM EYES!!!!!!!!!

:o

[WindRavenX]

82. bedroom eyes?

WTF are those???

[Skittles]

86. oh come on WRX

YOU KNOW. They're kind of.........DREAMY........INVITING, so to speak. :D

[WindRavenX]

88. LOL

I have NEVER heard of that expression. It's cool though- thanks for introducing it:hi:
(heh heh, the SO does enjoy my eyes- they're hazel with flecks of green)

[mark414]

14. dude you're from milwaukee???

how long were you here for??

it's been snowing all day!

[RetroLounge]

18. I've been here in Milwaukee since 1986

Still here, still snowing...

RL

[mark414]

22. ohh you're still here

well hey there neighbor

[RetroLounge]

23. Hey back at you...

How's the meat department treating you?

RL

[mark414]

25. ha

i forgot i posted about that

it goes well, i've been off all week but get to work every night this weekend!

[MrScorpio]

26. My pic and story

Okay I'm in Antibes, France, walking down the street with my wife and some friends. We're looking for the beach. We notice two French ladies coming towards us and my friends decide to ask them for directions to said beach. The problem is that they asked them in English. Obviously, the ladies didn't understand. I decided to jump in and ask them in my broken French, "Excusez-moi. Nous sommes des Américains. Où est la mer?"

Well, they light up and go, "Qui, qui, la mer. Allez gauche, puis droit et il y a la mer." Basically, go left and right and there's the sea.

So I go, "Merci beau coup, au revoir."

As the ladies walk away, I look at my companions and they look back at me like I just stepped off some spaceship or something. I say, "Hey! We're in France... you gotta speak FRENCH!"

This is one reason why I rarely had problems in France. Live and learn, people.

[RetroLounge]

40. Hey there Mr. S good to see ya!

:hi:

Je Parle Francais, mais seulement un petite peu...

or something like that.

RL

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

145. I speak French, but only a little bit. Those French classes in high school

and college at least didn't go to waste, eh?

A bientot ("see you soon" if I recall that correctly).

[Longgrain]

41. Of course we've seen you MrScorpio

about 100 times...:thumbsup:

[Bouncy Ball]

72. That explains a lot about you, you French lover.

Why do you hate America so?

;-)

[MrScorpio]

90. I bet you wish I was a French Lover

Ma petite fleur de bounciness

[Bouncy Ball]

96. Oui, oui!!!!!

[Skittles]

77. we already knew you were a CUTIE PIE

:D

[eyepaddle]

29. Me, on McMurdo Sound,

I just love the camera in hand self-portrait--don't you? At any rate, I had for the first time in my life gotten a job I had dreamed about. This is me in Antarctica in November 2000. Myself and about fifteen other people were on a recreational trip to see a historic hut. (R.F. Scott's Cape Evans Hut--the one they used as a base on the ill-fated trip to the South Pole.) I was trying to get Mount Erebus in the background, as you can see I failed completely in that attempt--but I like the way my neck gaiter is sticking straight up from my hat. I should also say I don't always look that grim--it was just really bright there!

Oh yeah, this is the same trip as the the one where I took the Penguin pic seen earlier today here in the lounge.

[RetroLounge]

44. That just looks COLD!

Brrrr.

Very cool, too.

RL

[Hans Delbrook]

153. That is really cool!

No pun intended :D

[eyepaddle]

158. Thanks,

I don't wanna sound like a blowhard, but I've aways thought that pic looks kinda cool--completely accidental of course! Like I say, I'm trying to get this 12,000 foot mountain; with me in the foreground--and then manage to get my big melon and block out the whole damn mountain. I'm sure there are some DU photo-folks who could offer some informed critique, but I like the sparse composition and the way my face is off to one side.

But that is what I like about the "one handed self-portrait" you're always so surprised by what you actually get.

And damn, I love the blue and white tones of the Icy continent. Man that was a wonderful trip. After I finish my grad degree I'm gonna see about going back. :hi:

[outraged2]

31. me and my roommate

This was taken a long time ago... c.1991. We were at the Sig Ep house annual "Caveman" party at Washington and Lee. I went as a variation on Pebbles Flintstone (the one on the left)... Not much of a story I guess.... we went and we got really really drunk.

[eyepaddle]

32. as long as you had fun.....

I wish I would've kept some photos from college. There's like five years of my life that just....vanished.

[outraged2]

33. Always fun...

I spent a LOT more time at parties than I ever did in class :) but I almost always had a camera so I have tons of photos.

[eyepaddle]

37. Hey that's pretty much my story....

except for the camera part! ;)

[Longgrain]

34. Wow! Which one's you?

Left...right?

Just curious..:hi:

On edit saw "You were the one on the left!" :thumbsup:

[outraged2]

36. left... in orange

[Longgrain]

38. Got it! see above post

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

43. Sounds like a pretty okay story...

RL

[OldLeftieLawyer]

39. You're all so pretty - but I'm not surprised

Would you believe I talked my publisher at HarperCollins into using this as the author photo for the dust jacket on my first book?

And then they started getting creepy mail from guys who wanted to know if they could get copies of that picture.

Ah, life..................

[Longgrain]

47. Shit you have a book!

I'm insanely jealous!

But seriously congrats...

Here's the closest I can come up with...my Confirmation Photo...

[Skittles]

79. you are TERMINALLY CUTE

like CHILDREN and DOMESTIC ANIMALS!

[SarahB]

46. The red dress, my 8000th post, and whatever.

So, where do I start with the infamous red dress? This picture was taken just before accompanying my now (almost) ex-husband several months ago. However, it all starts back in September of 2003 and me dipping my toes into proverbial waters of flirtation by the simple mention of me in a red dress. One in which I would have dared never enter prior, not knowing what would ensue or where my mind and heart would take me (or him allegedly). Not knowing it could be a catalyst for both my own empowerment, yet the very unraveling of everything I once knew to be.

Now, a year and half later, a year and a half of soul-searching, a yo-yo of emotions, at least a couple hundred long drawn out letters about everything back and forth, on the literal eve of when it could actually have been, I sit here with a rather puzzled look upon my face wondering what could the possible motivations a man to mess with someone's emotions at a time in which she is most vulnerable? I question many things, yet am faced with another brick wall yet again, though it is I who will likely be perceived to be in the wrong for even mentioning this. Though, it is I who has been respectful of his privacy. It is I who has been understanding one too many times. It is I who is alluded to in those cryptic words and messages only known by me. It is I who has had just about enough. One can only give so much before one realizes there are some people in this world that for whatever reason, have so many fears within themselves, they lose all motivation to be in any way proactive even with someone who they think (they know!) embodies everything they want and that very person truly sees their soul (nothing shallow, nothing superficial) and embraces and loves that- just as they are and just because.

So yes, this is a lovely picture, but I am far more than my picture. I am far more than my face. I am far more than my body. I am far more than my sexuality. I am a mind. I am a spirit. I am a human being on my own journey to somehow make the world a better place, yet be true to myself at the same time even if it means facing my fears. Perhaps that's the toughest balance of all.

So for my 8000th post, that's what I have to say. Perhaps one day I'll have some closure here one way or another. There are many factors I understand. Many I do not. Anyway, I haven't felt much like being around here lately and likely I won't be feeling like being around here much for awhile, so for now, I'll take a few toasts - to the 8000 reasons I have found reason to share with you all of bit of my heart, mind, and voice. :toast:

And to you, S, one with chocolate milk. :toast:

[RetroLounge]

48. Thank you for the pic and the story...

"but I am far more than my picture..."

Damn right!

and happy 8000...

RL

[MarianJack]

60. If Men Realized That Women...

...were minds and hearts as well as bodies, we'd be a lot better off.

There are always 2 sides to the story, but since you're a DUer, you are automatically my friend, so I'm on your side and support you.

Better days are coming. :hi:

[Skittles]

49. "How I Made Money When I Was a Teenager"

[barackmyworld]

53. hah, you could drink on the job?

[Skittles]

56. apparently so

:7

[Floogeldy]

55. Get outta here!

You are the goods, Skittle. Solid gold.

:loveya:

[Skittles]

LOL, that pic is almost 30 years old

but my hair is still blonde and I can still fit in that uniform. :D

[Floogeldy]

85. Skittles

Is that a photographic anomaly in the pic, or is there something about your right eye?

You are too cute.

[Skittles]

91. pic anomaly, just a fading picture

:)

[Floogeldy]

93. Groovy

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

104. And you can still bounce a dime off her ass!

[MrScorpio]

92. A fellow airman assigned at my own first base

Skittles, you're always cool in my book

[GOPisEvil]

117. Is that before or after you shot the ROCKET on base?

:7

[RetroLounge]

121. I still say it's your Gremlin in the background

and you are just in AMC Denial...

:hi:

RL

p.s. If I say "Damn, You are Cute!" will you kick my ass?

[leftofthedial]

128. you made money drinking beer!!

I'm in love.

[TyeDye75]

130. I never get bored of that picture

[Telly Savalas]

146. You did quality control work for Michelob? Rock on!!!

[Bok_Tukalo]

169. How I made money as a teenager

I'm the one on the left trying desperately to look tough.

[Bok_Tukalo]

170. And the hair picture.

I still have hair but this is my example of that one picture everyone has when they had an embarrassing amount of HAIR.

[barackmyworld]

50. BRING IT ON, Longgrain

Here I am with a mural I painted in my dorm's basement. It's Britney Spears :) I am now working on a similar style portrait of Audrey Hepburn on the opposite wall, to make kind of a wacky fun house mirror effect (if fun house mirrors could change you into white trash...):

[pres2032]

57. that's an awsome mural

and you're very pretty yourself

[barackmyworld]

75. why thank you..oooh I have another pic in this theme

I will post the completed Audrey mural when I am done! I love her!

I just remembered, here is a pic of me dressed up as her in Breakfast at Tiffany's:



It was for a black tie theater opening.

[pres2032]

81. yowza!

i take it you are a film major?

[barackmyworld]

98. heh, far from it

actually a gov major (used to be engineering) ...I actually have never seen an Audrey Hepburn movie, I just like her as a person.

[pres2032]

101. ah ok, that's cool

i'm a government major too, though gettysburg calls it political science. I love it, especially when classes consist of nothing but really intelligent political discussion.

Isn't Audrey Hepburn portrayed in the Aviator?

[barackmyworld]

102. I haven't seen it

Movies require too much time and money for me now. I think I only have seen 1 or 2 in the theaters the whole year and summer!

[pres2032]

103. i know!

I've noticed a significant decline in the number of movies i've been seeing each year in the theaters. which sucks 'cause there are so many good ones coming out now too. heh, damn those movie theaters charging us 8.75 a ticket!

[jeanarrett]

137. I don't know where you got that dog . . . but I just wallpapered him!

Too funny!

[RetroLounge]

122. "I actually have never seen an Audrey Hepburn movie"

Oh, you HAVE to rent some.

Breakfast at Tiffanies
Sabrina

Really, you'll like them..

RL

[MarianJack]

63. Audrey Hepburn and Britney Spears!

It's Kind of like The Hope Diamond (Audrey) and the doggie diamonds!
Would you be so kind as to post Audrey when she's done? I've had a lifelong crush on her since I saw "Breakfast at Tiffany's" when I was 6 or 7.

As an EXTREMELY happily married old fart, let me say that you're a very intelligent and lovely young woman.

There were all too few like you when I was in college in the 70's, Which is good, because I wound up with the best!

[Longgrain]

150. OMG Missed this!

Gasp!

:hi: barackmyworld if you're around...

[MissMillie]

51. This was me

This picture was taken of me on 9/3/04, at about 8:30 in the morning. After the picture was taken, my sister took me to the hospital for gastric bypass surgery. After years and years of yo-yo dieting, and never being able to keep the weight off, I spent a year preparing for this surgery. I took the time to learn about my emotional/compulsive eating, and I had to learn about what eating would be like post-surgery. I had to lose a few pounds before the surgeon would even consider seeing me as a patient.

Since this day, I've lost 73 lbs. I still have at least 50 more lbs. to lose, but I've never been more confident that I will do it, and that I'll be able to keep it off.

[blueblitzkrieg]

59. Congrats on your weight loss!

Losing 73 lbs. is a big accomplishment.

[MarianJack]

64. Bravo, MissMillie!!!!!

I know the battle of the bulge! I'm very proud of you!

[Skittles]

66. you ROCK MissMillie

:thumbsup:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

105. Great story...congrats

[auntAgonist]

111. WTG Miss Millie!...which surgery did you have?

I'm scheduled for march 15/05 BPD/DS

[sniffa]

124. wow! good for you!

i'm puLLing for you to make your goaL. :D :D :D

[Bethany Rockafella]

131. Keep up the good work. I should tell my niece about your story.

She has emotional/compulsive eating problems.

[jeanarrett]

138. Congrats!

Let us see an "after" pic too. Sounds like you went about everything right before the surgery -- and after -- good luck!

[Reverend_Smitty]

58. Here is a picture of me...

It was taken not this past Christmas, but the Christmas before. As you can see I got a Homer Simpson Chia pet (a bit of a gag gift from my dad)

[MarianJack]

67. A Chia Pet of a Bald Guy!

How's it work? :shrug: :7

[Reverend_Smitty]

76. lol never realized that...

I guess you give Homer an afro!

[name not needed]

154. My mom gave me that as a gag gift too.

Wierd.

[pres2032]

61. here's mine:

this was taken four years ago so i could send it to a girl i met online.

[RevolutionaryActs]

62. Hey.....

You're cute. :7

[pres2032]

68. aw, shucks, thanks!

*blushes*

i've seen you're pictures, you're quite the cute one too. :D

[RevolutionaryActs]

69. aw, shucks, thanks!

*blushes*

hehe :P

[pres2032]

80. you copying me now?

;-)

[RevolutionaryActs]

89. Who, me?

:P

[pres2032]

97. hehe, i'm on to you...

i know what you're up too

[MarianJack]

94. SO,...

...how'd it work out? Don't keep us in suspense!!! :headbang:

[pres2032]

100. haha, it didn't

we fell out when the summer arrived and we didn't talk to each other until just this past september. no fights or anything, but we were never online at the same time anymore and each developed seperate lives. We are still friends though.

[Fenris]

65. Here's me in flamingyouth's TV room

I'm playing a Strat knockoff that I helped her pick out (she wants to learn how to play). My time with her in her crazy house in Seattle was the best time of my life. I want nothing more than to get out of this awful place and move up there with her. Life here is cold and lonely.

[RetroLounge]

123. Another Guitar Player!

:hi:

RL

[MarianJack]

73. I Love Your Pictures and Stories!

My wife has forbidden me to post our pictures, but she is a classic Spanish Rose beauty, my Wonder Woman with knitting needles, our son is an almost 5 year old African American, handsome as all get out, smart as a whip and fun little boy and I'm a gray haired chubby old fart who likes to make bad jokes and puns.

We're Philly natives who have lived in Maine for almost 3 years and will NEVER leave.

Thanks to all who share your lives and please accept that I trust my wife's reasons for not wanting to post our pictures here, but we're not outlaws or anything.

Peace to all!

[short bus president]

78. OK, this was taken about 9 months ago,

when I borrowed my pal Freddy's van for a long-weekend getaway up in Virginia. Virginia is for lovers, you know? Anyway, there I am, cruising up I-85, just south of Petersburg, all stoned and listening to Sgt. Pepper and shit, when this damn tanker truck wreck closes the highway and forces me into this weird back-ass nowhere detour. Ooh! And did I mention it was a dark and stormy night? It was. And the bridge was out. And Daphne needed tampons. Anyway, Long story short, I got lost, and I had to stop at this creepy cabin in the woods to ask for directions back to the highway...

[Amaya]

83. Me... taken a couple months ago

No story... just me

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

106. Awww come on..make up a story about it

something about pretty eyes and pouty ips...you know the drill :D

[RetroLounge]

120. Nice eyes...

RL

[PittPoliSci]

95. right after i chopped off my hair...

about 2 months ago.



i took the photo with my phone, i didn't even notice the brand new stove behind me till about a week after we got it. I felt that I was going bald, so in desperation, i rid myself of my flowing curly locks.

a wise choice, i felt, cause now i'm feeling the baldness creeping in even more. i'm probably going to end up looking like comedian David Wain

http://www.davidwain.com

you be the judge

[Floogeldy]

99. Damn, I hope that Weedeater didn't cut your scalp!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

107. You'd be fun to take to an Elvis Costello concert :)

[PittPoliSci]

108. thanks

:-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

109. Glad you took it as the compliment it was intended to be

a minute after I posted it...I worried :-)

[PittPoliSci]

110. i like elvis costello

i actually don't know anyone who doesn't. he's just all around enjoyable.

[thecai]

112. What A Beautiful Bunch of People!

I'm camera-shy and computer-illiterate. But this looks like me-->:bounce:

[Mojambo]

113. My nephew Deven and I

We took this picture while in the process of creating his very own blog! At 3 years old the kid is already a computer whiz! He surfs the web all by himself, which really hasn't been a problem up until recently, when he learned to type words into search engine boxes. The only words he can type are train, car, truck and duck so we don't really need netnanny software just yet.

Anyway, here's his webspace (still quite vacant, as we just set it up)

http://devensweb.blogspot.com/

[Richard Steele]

114. July 4th, 2003...

Dressed to party!

I can't tell the story because of that notice at the top of the 'Lounge' page.

Kinda bummed....it was a really good story, too.

[ScreamingMeemie]

116. One Day at the Carnival....Aug, 2004

Baby G: "Mom, stop making it move..." Grips hands even more firmly around the bar..."You're making it move..."

MrsG: "I'm hardly even breathing...." Takes small breath out of corner of mouth so BabyG cannot see...

"MOM! Stop it!" "I don't like this....I don't like this...I don't like this...."

"Look James! See Uncle Brian and Kevin in front of us? This is fun!!!! Hi Kevin!!"


****horrendous holler*****"Mommy STOP IT!!!! Please Oh Please....Make it stop moving!!! I want Off OFF OFF!!!!!


Ride stops at top of wheel to let more passengers on...

***whimpering sobs**** ***Little human clawing at MrsG***

God, It was hysterical in hindsight. Another phobia is born....

[jeanarrett]

139. LOL!

I've had that same experience with "little clawing humans" on a ferris wheel! Thanks for the laugh. . .

[yellowdogintexas]

165. I WAS the little clawing human on the ferris wheel.

I hate them

[johnnie]

118. Graceland 1999

Here I am sitting at the wall outside of Graceland (That was Elvis' home for all you kiddies that may not know :) )
My friend was trying to get my muse back because I ran dry of writing tunes so he decided it might be a good idea to take a long weekend road trip to Memphis. Although I had a great time hanging down on Beale St. and all, it didn't really get the creative juices flowing. I am just starting to do a bit of writing. It has been about 5 years... Yikes.
I know, I know..nice hair..LOL.. That's just the way it grows out of my gourd, I can't help it.

[RetroLounge]

119. I've never been to Graceland

Someday I hope....

RL

[XNASA]

125. We used to peek over that wall.....

I went to Navy 'A' school in Millington and we would get drunk or stoned and drive down to Graceland and peek over the north wall. Never saw E, but once we counted 6 pink cars out back.

I've been back since and even took the tour. Graceland is a really weird place, ain't it?

[johnnie]

126. Yeah..it's a bit bizarre

I have been there a few times. I really like Memphis. Graceland cracks me up, but it's a pretty interesting place to go considering a lot of it is what it looked like when E lived there. The Jungle room is a must see.
I might get back there again soon. I have been running out of money these days so I don't know when I'll get a chance. I was thinking of driving to your neck of the woods for the meet-up, but I have no idea about Chicago.

[XNASA]

127. I'll PM ya.

[MrModerate]

129. Me, standing foolishly close to unexploded mortar shells

In Kuwait, 1992. I was working in the compound where the oil-well firefighters lived, next door to which was a walled experimental date farm. One day we went over to check the date farm out, only to discover that it had been used as a mortar position by the Iraqi army. The troops had pulled out in a hurry when they became convinced that the entire US Marine Corps was going to land on their right flank.

Leaving behind THOUSANDS of mortar rounds.

Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) work in post-war Kuwait (very profitable) had been divvied up on the basis of participation in the coalition that ousted the Iraqis, and our area was assigned to the Bengalis.

So along comes this 7-fingered Bengali Major (not filling me with confidence -- I want my EOD guys to have ALL their fingers) and his team, who promptly announced that it was too dangerous to remove the mortar rounds and they'd have to be detonated in place.

We screamed bloody murder and tried to convince him that we had several hundred firefighters living in a nearby apartment block, and they would NOT be happy to have shards of glass in their evening pudding. But he happily started directing his troops to slap wads of plastique on each pile of rounds, prior to laying out the primacord and detonating the lot of it.

Luckily, one of the people present was able to get ahold of somebody who got ahold of somebody who got ahold of somebody who got ahold of Prince Al-Sabah Something-or-the-other, and the Bengalis were packed off to a less mission-critical disposal task.

Shortly thereafter, along came a Brit EOD team who said "righty-oh, no problem" (that's a quote), and quickly began loading the boxes and loose rounds in a medium sized truck with nary a care in the world (I guess these rounds really are pretty stable). After filling the truck, they directed it to drive off into the desert nearby, and once the driver had gotten clear went up to a passing tank and asked the driver if he could put a spare round into the truck over there, and KABLOOIE! problem solved.

It was a very interesting job.

[bearfan454]

132. Me last Sunday

[Lavender Brown]

133. In the kitchen, naturally!

:)

[GOPisEvil]

135. That's MY kitchen!

:7

[catmandu57]

134. This is us on vacation

At the Grand Canyon last September. We made a circuit Mo, ks,co,ut,az,nm,ok,and back home to mo.

[ronnykmarshall]

136. Me and my underware

Gay Pride L.A. 2004. My friend Cindy came over to my house in a fashion panic.



She was worried her skirt was going to lift up on stage and had to borrow a pair of underware from me.

As always she has her onstage banter and told the story. The MC of the event had her auction them off for charity. $50 to AMFAR for a pair of underware of gay man worn and auto graphed by a future rock diva!

[achtung_circus]

141. Sure, why not,

<>

This was taken about 5 years ago of me at a fundraiser event for the Humane Society I worked for at that time. On my left is Lucy AKA Lucille AKA Loosewheel. She was a boingy dog until you put a leash on her. It was like a switch had been thrown, she would act like she was welded to the heel position.

Out front is Squeegie. A sweet Maltese, I used to tell people we called her that because we would put her on a stick and wash windows with her.

Digitally excised from the photo is my ex-wife. Thanks to Harry for the Photoshop expertise.

[RetroLounge]

142. "Digitally excised from the photo is my ex-wife"

Dogs seem to last longer, for some reason...

RL

[Hans Delbrook]

152. We have a Lucy too!

See post below. They're so cute.

[arismomkoofie]

143. FINALLY found one of me...

This is my daughter Ari and I just over a year ago at her first birthday party. Needless to say, she has changed a lot more then I have.

:)

[RetroLounge]

147. Nice picture.

She's a cutie. and yes, they change fast, don't they?

RL

[arismomkoofie]

172. she is twice as cute today!

[JimmyJazz]

155. Okay - that pic is totally off the sweetness scale! How loverly!

[arismomkoofie]

171. Just saw your reply - Thanks!!!

:)

Batting my eyelashes too (ari would, but she is asleep)!

[Hans Delbrook]

148. I figured out Photobucket!

My favorite night of the year is Christmas Eve. We go to Church ( beautiful service) then come home, get in comfy clothes, have champagne and cookies and spend a quiet night ALONE w/ the dogs before the madness (i.e. the relatives) descend on us.

[johnnie]

149. You all look so happy

Doggy's names?

[Hans Delbrook]

151. Thanks!

The beagle is Lucy and the dachshund is Dante. They're real sweeties but a little spoiled (well, I have to admit by me not my husband!)

[Ediacara]

156. Me

This is me outside the Royal Tyreel Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller Alberta. It was taken last April. There is a trail in the badlands outside of the museum where you can wander around and pretend to find fossils. The area is pretty much picked clean and completely devoid of any fossils whatsoever. I was ahead of the group slightly, and decided to relax, and I'm not actually sleeping in this photo. Despite the sunny skies, it's still April in Alberta and pretty dang cold.

[JimmyJazz]

157. Dayum - you are Fine!

:9

[New Earth]

159. ok

it was about December 2000 - during the Pres. election recounts and all that - this pic is from a commentary i had published in the South Jersey newspaper The Courier Post. My daughter was only a few months old at the time - and i had spent every day at home with her while i watched MSNBC 24/7 religiously to keep up with the lawsuits, etc.......it was literally the first time i became interested in politics and KNEW Bush was stealing it, even back then. I also knew at this time that if he won, we would be at war.

[mzmolly]

163. Glad you took in interest in politics Faye.

:hi:

Your an asset to the "cause."

[Maestro]

160. Here I am building a snowman with my kids

It was one of those freak snows we get occasionally in the Dallas area. The snow was almost completely gone in 24 hours.



A few days later this pic was taken right before surgery. The pic doesn't indicate it but I was very sick at this time last year with cancer.


However, it was a rather benign form of cancer. After surgery and radiation I am cancer free but extremely tired most of the time. My metabolism was screwed up by the cancer. I've put on 20 pounds since the surgery. Here is what I look like after work.



I'm still trying to get back my natural smile. It seems to have lost me lately. I am back to running again. Yeah!!!

[mzmolly]

162. So glad your doing well!

Wishes for continued healing and the building many snowmen with your beautiful children in the future!

:hug:

[Maestro]

166. Thank you very much

I'm really doing very well and about 90% back to where I was. I never thought it would take so much out of me.

[Hans Delbrook]

164. Congratulations on your recovery

That doesn't seem like the best way to put it but I'm glad you're doing so well and part of our little community.:hug:

[Maestro]

167. Oh I am just fine

and many others have much harder fights with cancer than I had. I feel very fortunate. Thanks for the kind words.

[Name removed]

161. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[JimmyJazz]

168. let me kill your thread.

I don't have a story other than this was my first day with my digital camera.

[RetroLounge]

174. No Way is this a thread killer!

Great smile!

The kind that makes me wonder "what is she up to" and how can I join in the devious fun!

:hi:

RL

[Cadence]

177. I love that picture. You're darling!

:hug:

[Longgrain]

178. You know I love that pic

Just saying...

:loveya:

[Dastard Stepchild]

173. Me doing something I said I'd NEVER do...

Get hitched. I loooooooooved my singleton life. Funny how you change your mind on these things when you meet the right person. :)

[RetroLounge]

175. Did you have a band at the reception?

and did they play Cowbell?

:hi:

RL

[Dastard Stepchild]

182. We did have a band...

Sadly, no cowbell. But lots and lots of cajun and zydeco, which is ALMOST as satisfying as the cowbell. :)

[RetroLounge]

183. "cajun and zydeco"

I agree!

RL

[JohnnyCougar]

176. Here's me on Haloween in Madison, WI. I am Raoul Duke on the right

[Mr. McD]

179. 1970 Republic of Viet Nam

[BikeWriter]

181. Thank you for your service and welcome home, Brother!

[LynzM]

184. Me, in Prague

This was the second time I went to Prague, this time with my mom and my brother. My bro took my camera and was playing around, taking random pics of the place we were staying, and me, and my mom. One of them was this pic... Briarius says it just looks like a 'me' picture, and I agree.

[Briarius]

185. Venice

This is LynzM and me after our obligatory gondola ride. Man I love that hat!