Goodbye Alternate Poet
Alternate Poet....I like to refer to him as AP....tells me he won't be posting in the forums anymore.......
Just want to say I'll miss him!.....
AP is definitely someone whose posts I enjoyed reading. Hope he stays as china man though.
Amazing how good old Will managed to sum up these forums before even useful electricity was invented, never mind computers and the internet
So was I - when the Globe stumps were found, I was working on surveying and repairing the major bridges nearby at the time.
So - about AP, you didn't like him much then ? I thought he had a nice line in irony and originality going myself
...i figure he likes art.....
here's a send off present for you AP....hope you get to see it up close....
Just chillin' really. We have had a hectic week and poor old Sukie is working all day so I am on my own. I seem to have gained some more work so my 5 year holiday feels like it is over and I have to get on and do some stuff soon.
You enjoy that wine and dinner and I am there in spirit
I have been wound into the travel industry - so if you or anyone wants to come visit good ole China I can arrange that as well now
Nice warm day here, so sitting at this glass fronted box half naked - don't look !Promotion for the best Company operating in China at the moment. If your local travel agent mentions me then you are in the right place for the best China experience, second to directly visiting me of course
My main work here is teaching and that is a 16 hour week, hardly enough to register on the work-ometer after a lifetime of 14 hour days and seven day weeks in busienss.The teaching is pretty easy if you catch oral English, no stretch unless you make it hard. The pay is in the middle class range here - so it is much more than enough to live on and travel in the 3 month holidays.
I am getting more serious about things because we plan to get married soon! a kind of kick start back to reality
What is the charity about that you 'head up' ?
Just get married, and have a lovely little china man, or woman..... why wait??????? so Alternate Poet is gone for good, but you are staying around? Does that mean China Man will write poetry, or Alternate Poet is just staying out of forums
Just get married in China is a complex business! Here the family is strong and I get all of them along with the girl. This is both good and bad from my perspective, good because they are lovely and take you in big style. Bad because they operate as a unit and I am only one of a group, good for my soul maybe - but hard when I have been boss all my life
AP is only gone from the forums - and don't worry, china man loves you just the sameNo - I have quit running - I have totally submitted to my new lot in life, being dominated half way around the world by a girl half my age, half my size (exactly) and a heart bigger than I could ever imagine.
Added to that she is prettier than any centrefold ever was and I am definately hooked for lifeThe family is part of the package - and to be honest I welcome the idea of having a 'family' here in China, balances nicely withthe 'family' in the UK.
At an Interpretation school - out of all the fantastic English speakers she was the only one who also understood what the words really mean. For second language speakers irony, wit and inference are really difficult; she attracted my attention with her looks and attracted my mind when she was the only one there who fell about laughing at my jokes
I am relly lucky that she has such an advanced sense of humour as you would realise if you saw me She says that she loves me because I am a bargain - so big and so cheap !
...bribery might work!....and guess it's good for Sukie to get a look at things from another angle.....
...the dysfunction is generational many times....kids that were placed in foster homes...now adults/teens raising children...not all of them have risen above what life dealt them as kids...it's tough for some...they just never were given a break or never found the courage to rise above their environment...and became a product of it...that's just one example btw.....it's amazing what some people have experienced and how they struggle and some rise above and fly......
...some would consider my take on things as 'leant leaning' - remember him
....but...there are some people that just need a hand up....we're not all strong, or smart or whatever....I remember him !
It is amazing how some people rise above the worst things and others go under. Complex critters aint we?
I have found 'giving a hand up' to turn into 'bites the hand' more times than not Take care of yourself - but don't stop doing it ! It is just the hard part of the deal.
You must be near the bottom of that bottle I guess?
...nite AP!...gonna hit the sack...up really, really early tomorrow...going hunting!...i'll post some pics from a mountain top tomorrow nite.
...now put some clothes on wuldya....Sukie's comin' home!...she'll wonder what you've been up to....dishes need to be done...laundry is piling up...let the cat in....and where's lunch/dinner?Oh AP.... It's just like camping! Or perhaps consider it like darning
Don't let it rip the sole out of ya!
You have friends here... so you're a lucky sock!
Hell no one wanted to talk to my shoes.. even though I put them in the middle of the dinner table- A christian of course But the lovely moderators were very kind about it all and offered me the choice of keeping one or the other. I think that they love me secretly
good...i was hunting today......
....it was a great day...i'll post some pics....didn't get a deer...only ones in sight were on the roads....next weekend....i'm going out again!
but....i see this thread went into a direction that was really too bad.....poor you.....
a couple of bears...not a good pic...but...
part way up the mountain...clear cut...going up forest logging road...
logging road we were driving on...
...water rushing off the mountain....lots of heavy rain today
came across a herd of Elk at about 7:30 a.m. ....on our way to the mountain we were going to drive up...
Nice - slightly blurred pics work fine, they sharpen up with a bit of imagination and a working memory
Nice place to be, lucky you !...it was a great day....yea...some of the pics are through the windshield
...sometimes there is just no time to get it set up right.......it's gone in a flash.....and lots of rain, fog and a bit of hail doesn't help either......
I posted some others on the good morning thread last Sun/Mon....I was up in the same area.
Next weekend, I'll post one of me 'locked and loaded'....just for fun....I'm usually just taking pictures..........I pretty much gave up trying to get 'wild' shots, apart from the very occasional lucky break it can take so long waiting for the right moment it spoils the walk
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