h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

my husband was the opposite, he insisted I quit drinking but finally accepted the smoking as something he couldn't change about me. He was pretty smart in doing that really, cause I would never give it up for anybody but myself, guess I'm just selfish.

Well there's not perfect man, for sure, but I guess they are all potentially good. They just need the right motivation. I have to tell you though I have never met a man who could list a long attention span among their qualities. I can't really complain about not being able to follow directions, as I've never been good at that myself. I really am a firm believer in treating people the way I want to be treated. It's a foreign concept for my husband who has always had very distinct and seperate ideas about how men and women want to be treated. It took him a while to figure out all he had to do was follow my lead. He's a pretty smart guy though, just hyper. Even that is a good thing though, as I tend to be the opposite and he keeps me from sitting around stagnating

I know we are quite close to the Blue Ridge Mountain Parkway, so probably also to the mountains themselves. I believe it covers a lot of territory though. I live very close to Nashville TN, a couple hours drive from just about everything in TN there is to see. where are you from Ssubnel?

Hello again paulie! I hope you're feeling a whole lot better now.

It is a rather well written book; the subject material is too sad. My instinct, relative to your allowing Jamie to read it, is to say yes. But, thinking about it a bit more, let her read it only if you believe she's reached a certain level of maturity and age.

I've encouraged my own youngster to read difficult books such as: "Brave New World," "1984," "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," "Approaching the Quran," "The Giver," "A Separate Peace," "A Raisin in the Sun," "Solaris," "Les Miserables," "Oliver Twist," "Bhagvad Gita." Sorry, I'm getting carried away; I love books.

For myself, I have a weakness for books on folklore and ancient myth -from the world over; I enjoy the hidden gems of commonality in the human experience and the explanation of phenomena. It vastly enhances the pleasure of spending time in those places when I have the privilege of going there and spending any length of time.

You are right to be aware of the need to not develop a nicotine dependency. I am certain you'll succeed if you want to, just like you did in getting yourself published.

An older relative of mine always insisted she had not quit but was taking a break. She stopped cold when, the winter she turned 70, she got a terrible attack of pneumonia. She never did throw those noxious little sticks out but they were never touched again and in fact lay where she had left them for long years after ... no one removed them, not until she left her home, but that's another story.

Children need to know about the bad things as well as the good or they grow up with a distorted view of life that ironically can make them agents of the bad.

Ana is correct.

I currently live near Ventura, Ca. But I grew up an army brat, so I lived at Fort Bragg over in Fayetteville, N.C. off the 95 at the Cape Fear River. I've been all over though at various points in the last decade and change due to a couple of odd career choices.
Ana is always correct.

I think I begin to understand the 'sub' in Ssubnel. But, I'm probably wrong in the same way as the protagonist in "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino.

Forgive me, for I have no teflon coat, and as you have twigged, my faculties are rather limited.

Thanks, Nelson, but I'm not always correct, just like everybody else I'm afraid. I do have the benefit of older heads to consult, most of who actually care about me so I don't think they'd deliberately try to misguide me.

Don't try to figure it out. The Ssub part of Ssubnel is actually a cheap inside joke that would make less sense if I tried to explain it. And explaining it would ruin the mystique.

Don't let him fool you, Kyaa. Nelson is actually an action figure who talk without a little boy putting words in his mouth while banging him on the floor.

Super Sexy Unbelievable Body, nuff said. I blush at the memory of those days, and I'm tough to embarass, so I figure what the hell. I use it to hold on to the memory. In a former life I was an action figure.

And I thought it was BUSS spelled backwards.

What would give you that idea?

Not sure. I think it's sort of an intuitive thing.

Women are good at that I hear.