Ahira's Hangar

Welcome our two newest moderators!!! Avatar now runs Planetfall: Arrakis where we're really trying to revamp interest in the Dune group read (and Current Affairs, sorry, you'll find I'm sneaky that way ) and Lucimay who, just now, agreed to take the reins at Bardo's Collections.

If any one else is interested in becoming a mod, please let us know we really need one for Cthulhu's Corner and a few others, thanks all! *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i>Edited by: danlo60 at: 8/11/06 9:26 am
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YAY!!!! Welcome to them both!!! ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Hey I just realized that all the moderators here all also members or mods at Kevin's Watch!!! *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i></i>

There sure does seem to be some here pulling double duty. <i></i>

My older son will be going off to the university next week, so we are pretty busy this weekend getting ready for that (packing and what have you). And then I will be gone for about 3-4 days next week while we move him down there. So I do not know how much I will be around for the next few days (though I will try to make a point of reading the chapter of Dune that Avatar will be dissecting so I can post in that subject.)

Oh, and if anyone is wondering where Fisty has been hiding the last couple of weeks, he and I have been playing voice mail tag with our cells phones. He is very very very busy right now in the real world, but hopes to get back online soon.

It looks as though we will be home schooling the younger son after all, for this year. He will take one or two elective classes (music and/or art) at the middle school so he can participate in sports, and he will get the reading, math, writing, history, and science here at home. I just hope we're up to it, it is a huge responsibility. I am in charge of the literature and the writing (everything else will be shared) - we shall finish up The Iliad and The Odyssey and then we will move on to the three Shakespeare plays we have tickets to go see this fall (Julius Caesar, Anthony & Cleopatra, and The Tempest). And then I think we will go on to Beowulf, followed by the L'Morte de Arthur. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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You need to talk with Lord Foul, re: Beowulf--I think he said that a guest Prof. in one of his classes specialized in Beowulf and gave quite an insightful lecture. *****
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i>Edited by: danlo60 at: 8/12/06 4:27 pm
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I probably will do just that, Danlo.

We talk about The Iliad in depth as he reads it chapter by chapter. We'll probably do the same with the other classics. I think I will also have him read books on his own (probably sf&f) and do book reports as he finishes them. I will probably start him out with either Nix's Sabriel or Pullman's The Golden Compass ~ he has already read the earlier Earthsea books and lots of Tolkien.

Wow, did we ever do a lot of cleaning and sorting and packing today. It's remarkably exhausting getting everything ready for Bigred to go off to school. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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You sneaky bastard danlo.

OK, ya got me.

And congrats LuciMay...I think...

Sounds like busy times indeed Duchess. I really should go back and reread those Greek classics properly.

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A sense of the sardonic preserves a man from believing in his own pretensions. -The Sayings Of Maud'Dib<i></i>

I will be packing the Iliad and some of the other stuff with me to Muncie so if I find a few spare minutes I can read through the next few chapters and make up some questions on them.

My son is pretty much packed, other than a few odds and ends (like finding his windbreaker). So in two days (Wednesday in the States, probably Thursday African time) we will be heading down there. The first day is to move him into his dorm room (including building a loft so he can have more room). The second day is to buy all of his odd supplies for his architecture labs and various odds and ends we will have inevitably forgotten (for some reason I keep thinking we will forget soap and shampoo! ) and pick up his textbooks. Sometime on Friday we will get home and collect the dog from the kennel and our younger son from his friend's house.

I just hope Calibaby calms down. He is in a frenzy of overprotectiveness and is driving all of us batty!!!! All of my friends (male and female) have been telling me that dads are much more strongly affected when kids move away from home; no one seems to know why, but they all tell me that is very normal. They've all been telling me that depression is more frequent than this extreme hyperness, though. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Tell him to calm down repeatedly. It may get through eventually.

And wish your son the best of luck. I'm sure he'll have a great time. At least you can take comfort in the fact that he's well raised.

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A sense of the sardonic preserves a man from believing in his own pretensions. -The Sayings Of Maud'Dib<i></i>

Good grief, Lucimay and Avatar more or less just show up at the Hangar and they become Mods! I didn't know you were that easily bribed, danlo.

Good luck with the home schooling, Duchess. And good luck to your other kids. I'm not too surprised about the fathers being more emotionally affected by their children leaving. Men often keep so much pent up inside that when they release it, all those emotions can make them act giddy or goofy as a side effect. That's my completely unscientific hunch.



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Hey, you've got it the wrong way round...danlo seduced us into accepting. (And then did a double whammy, asking me to mod one forum, and then just making me the mod of another as well without so much as a by your leave. )

Anyway, I've been a member of the Hangar for 2 years!

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A sense of the sardonic preserves a man from believing in his own pretensions. -The Sayings Of Maud'Dib<i></i>

2 years, eh? I joined last year, but I'm still stumbling around the furniture. With all the wild colours, I can't tell if I'm walking into the kitchen or the bathroom... <i></i>

In the interests of fairness though, I will admit that until a week or so ago, I only had like one post. (Not counting the 2 or so more that got lost in the Hack. )

And we're discussing the colour schemes. I must admit to struggling sometimes too.

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A sense of the sardonic preserves a man from believing in his own pretensions. -The Sayings Of Maud'Dib<i></i>

Hey, guess what? I usually have my monitor set to 1024x768, but I switched to 800x600 resolution and the text here is so much clearer now! Either my monitor is a piece of crap, or the Hangar isn't optimized to display text at 1024x768. <i></i>