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

We are 21 mins into the New Year in Britain ...

Best Wishes to All

lil xx

Traveller in Time well, online, but lighting fires
"Just together with kids and visiting grandfather.

They bought a fresh water shrimp today, for in the aquarium. ''

One cake makes you larger:

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And the mushroom made you small

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(Do not use any other links, the are a divertion?

Though the T## did work better.

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I didn't log in for New Years... I was at a party...

That made my eyes go funny

I didn't log on either...

I was downtown, watching fireworks!

Traveller in Time with bags of burned leftovers
"I was igniting rockets from the erm well call it a balcony I refurbished it to mimic a launch site

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Perseverance and Resolution

The following concerns the December 26th tsunami that hit the shores of South Asia.

These two stories are uplifting (the word that comes to my mind).

I have nothing else to say but my appreciation for the perseverance and the resolution of these two stories that have come out of this new
tragedy.

***I believe that there are more***



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The Australian Woman and her Two Sons:

There was the terrible "Sophie's Choice" dilemma that confronted Jillian Searle of Australia as she struggled to stay alive in the raging maelstrom with both her young sons in her arms. Ms. Searle concluded that she had to let one go for her to live. "I just thought I'd better let go of the one that's the oldest," she said. That is 5-year-old Lachie, who was handed to another woman. Ms. Searle kept Blake, aged 2.

But this harrowing story - which includes the caretaker also letting go of Lachie - ended happily. He was found alive two hours later, clinging to a door.

Resolution in Sri Lanka:

The aftermath of the tsunamis that destroyed vast swaths of Sri Lanka's coastline raised hopes on December 30th for a new era of peace between the Tamil Tiger rebels and the Government. Just weeks after the Tigers threatened to resume a two-decade war for self-rule, rebel political-wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan accepted a government offer of aid and vowed to work with officials to get supplies to survivors.
"This new tragic situation has laid the foundation for both parties to come together and work towards closing the division between the two parties," Thamilselvan said after meeting with aid workers and Norwegian peace envoys in the northern rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi.
"The LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is very happy and encouraged by the government's offer, and this would help bridge the rift between the two parties," he further said.
This conciliatory note followed an unprecedented statement by LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. On Wednesday, he sent condolences to the southern Sinhalese, whom he was fought with for 20 years at the cost of more than 64,000 lives.
The tsunami that flooded Sri Lanka's famed, palm-fringed shores on Sunday December 26th have killed more than 27,000 people and that figure is still likely to rise. The Tamil Tigers say almost half of the dead came from their northern and eastern strongholds and thousands have been buried in mass graves. President Chandrika Kumaratunga has promised relief to all, regardless of their religion and politics. She said the disaster has helped reconcile long-time foes. "The threat of going back to war is far more remote that it was before December 26th," Ms. Kumaratunga told a news conference.
Mr. Thamilselvan, the rebel's political-wing leader, said he received a message from the government that aid would not be just for the short term, but for rebuilding the country's northeast. Mediators who met the Tamil Tigers were also optimistic that the political divide would be bridged in the aftermath of the tsunami.
"I believe that if this joint effort and this spirit of harmony prevails at this stage, then a lasting peace in Sri Lanka would be achieved," said United Nations Sri Lanka representative Miguel Bermeo.

Traveller in Time
"Was just reading < F79219?thread=554975&show=1&skip=39 >"

You have great timing! Impeccable. LOL!



I hope that you appreciate those two stories.

That felt like a loop!

Dizzy? Where did you come from? Were you just reading the same thread as Traveller in Time, and then you came here? If you did, , then I am sorry for your dizzy situation. I posted the two stories twice in what I thought were two separate threads that aren't connected. But people are responding to the two threads in which I placed the stories, and it seems that the two threads are now connected because of the interest in them.

AAhh!! It is because of our Friends Listing.. You enter a Journal and others read it... and we are on multiple Friends Listings, so round and round we go!

No apology needed ViveAnn

Thanks!

Traveller in Time not making horrible decisions
"For what we have experienced both would be able to cling on to whoever holding them. Besides, both of my children can swim, for what that is worth in such flood flow.

As for the local 'revolutionaries' I only hope they will not abuse this event. "

You are welcome!

Thanks for those stories, though!

Scandrea,

Not a problem!

I posted those two stories because I wanted to show people that out of disaster can there be Perseverance and Resolution.

I am an Optimist. If I wasn't, then I would be a Realist who only subscribes to other people's Pessimistic opinions.

>>>I hope that I can dig up other stories (find good in the tragedy) for you to appreciate as uplifting and endearing<<<

bye for now!

Scandrea,

Ooops! I meant:

"I posted those two stories because I wanted to show people that out of disaster *there can* be Perseverance and Resolution."

Before, I had "there" and "can" AS "can there".

Well, I like to get my point across as best as I can.
...Sometimes, as I type, my fingers fail me.