What are you doing today?

[jaylach]

Anywhere I go, I try to to consider how I would live if for some reason I were transferred there. Since the whole exercise is a mind game, how this could happen and how I could afford to live in these places is immaterial. In my game, I assume I have good health and no need to work. Possibly, I'd still be young and good looking. That's another great mental exercise.
Let's say I could win a lottery where I had to spend living in any country but my own.
I could find my way in most of northern Europe. Southern Europe is too hot. I haven't been to Asia, so I can't fantasize about there. A lot of it looks interesting, but how I would like it is a question.
Nowhere else in North America appeals, except for Newfoundland, and the summer's too short for me.
What I've seen of Africa was beautiful, but watching the corruption and lack of opportunity for people would get to me. The same would be true of Central America, with the added feature of a lot of violence.
Australia and new Zealand are movie settings so far. I'd like to travel there. Indonesia as well.
I would really like to live in the EU, with the ease of movement between great places. There's so much to be explored. I might even have the time to do it. Money's the issue. I can't find that who wants to be an exiled millionaire lottery, and I'd probably lose. anyway...

No question of destinations for me if I could. I'd be in Australia in a heartbeat. Not saying that I would stay and live but Australia has always been one of those bucket list items I figure will never happen.

 

[anewbie]

What topic was your paper on?

Nothing interesting; a very early conceptual conferencing software - this was 30 years ago. It had to do with implementation detail around multi-plexiing X to multiple computers so you could share screens. By today standards vastly outdated.

 

[Alice B]

I would want to dig for opals in Australia. Guess I will have to settle for digging for quartz crystals in Arkansas again.

 

[anewbie]

No question of destinations for me if I could. I'd be in Australia in a heartbeat. Not saying that I would stay and live but Australia has always been one of those bucket list items I figure will never happen.

I've been to sydney - i got punched by a kangaroo and saw a shark bite someone who was surfboarding. Ok only part of this is true i'll let you figure out the truth of the matter. To be honest i prefer compenhagen and amsterdam to sydney - it had to do with enjoying the history of the older places - prague was also pretty nice - all of these places i walked gazillion of miles. In Sydney case i was staying with a friend who was therefore a work and his company gave him a 4 bedroom house - he would go to work and i'be on my own so i would walk 15 or 20 miles a day from the cliffs over the harbor to the bridge that crossed into the that opera area and the park and an aquatiance too me out to some national forest one day. Anyway after living in vienna for almost a year it is hard to adapt to a foreign culture though i have to admit the 3 cities named would be a lot easier than vienna.
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[jaylach]

I've been to sydney - i got punched by a kangaroo and saw a shark bite someone who was surfboarding. Ok only part of this is true i'll let you figure out the truth of the matter. To be honest i prefer compenhagen and amsterdam to sydney - it had to do with enjoying the history of the older places - prague was also pretty nice - all of these places i walked gazillion of miles. In Sydney case i was staying with a friend who was therefore a work and his company gave him a 4 bedroom house - he would go to work and i'be on my own so i would walk 15 or 20 miles a day from the cliffs over the harbor to the bridge that crossed into the that opera area and the park and an aquatiance too me out to some national forest one day. Anyway after living in vienna for almost a year it is hard to adapt to a foreign culture though i have to admit the 3 cities named would be a lot easier than vienna.
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LOL! I have to admit that a lot of my desire to visit Australia is that back in the 1970's, when I was in the U.S. Navy, it was the most popular port for sailors to jump ship. Of course this could not have anything to do with the fact that Australia's female population dramatically outnumbered the male population.

 

[Rocky998]

LOL! I have to admit that a lot of my desire to visit Australia is that back in the 1970's, when I was in the U.S. Navy, it was the most popular port for sailors to jump ship. Of course this could not have anything to do with the fact that Australia's female population dramatically outnumbered the male population.

I believe my dad went to Tasmania during his time in the navy... I forget if the navy took him or if he took himself lol.
He still talks about it and he loved visiting

 

[jaylach]

Right now I'm sort of deciding whether to be ticked or sad. A guy in my apartments moved out today to go back to Colorado. That is all fine but we were supposed to be friends and he left without even visiting to have a drink and say goodbye. Saw him a few times while he was loading up to move and he assured that we would get together for a goodbye drink and such things that go when friends move apart. He never showed, just left.

Just sort of bothers me a bit. I mean early on both his parents died over a few months and I fronted him the bus fair to go the the funerals which he DID pay back. We would 'fight' over our football teams and party a bit now and then...

I don't know... I probably should not even give it a thought but it still bothers me that he didn't even say goodbye. Does that make any sense?

 

[Alice B]

I'd imagine he had other things on his mind. Probably wouldn't take it personal

 

[gwand]

We visited the Bass Pro shop aquarium in Springfield, Missouri today. It is a magnificent aquarium rivaling the National Aquarium in Baltimore. We head back east tomorrow. We had a great time. I have a new found appreciation of the mid west.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Really off topic but if anyone has experience in family law and would be willing to reach out I need some advice/personal experiences and I can’t afford another lawyer

 

[Oldspartan]

Really off topic but if anyone has experience in family law and would be willing to reach out I need some advice/personal experiences and I can’t afford another lawyer

Just some unsolicited and perhaps unappreciated advice .... NEVER depend on the advice of a person untrained in the field for legal advice. Most locations have pro bono or low-cost legal eagles available for those who cannot afford an attorney such as legal aid. Most locations also have Bar Associations with offices that can direct one to such help.

I have too often seen street advice turn into nightmares.

 

[Oldspartan]

Today is clean the garage day, or at least put it into some semblance of order. It has become a catchall for the past two years since one of our storage sheds was crushed by snow. Went in there Saturday to retrieve a seldom used tool from a rollaway and found said toolbox had become an incubator for field mice. I think Linda's snake eradication program has led to some rodent problems around the yard. Stern measures will be taken.

 

[Rocky998]

Really off topic but if anyone has experience in family law and would be willing to reach out I need some advice/personal experiences and I can’t afford another lawyer

I agree with what @Oldspartan said. You could get yourself down into a further rabbit hole by getting "help", even from a well-meaning person when it comes to law and other issues. Stick to reliable resources. This is something you do not want to mess up.
Anyone on here could say they have experience. Not to say they don't, but you just never really know with people anymore.
I'm just being blunt, a fish forum isn't the best place to go for serious legal advice.

 

[anewbie]

We had snow once; isn't it that white stuff that falls from your hair ?

 

[Alice B]

Never trust an actual lawyer who gives you free advice. if you pay him a dollar he is more reliable. My ex worked on a lawyer's corvairs years ago and the guy neglected to mention that before I told someone to sue me (so they would pursue the other party on the loan) I should get a new bank account. When they had held my account for a month and all my checks came back and i told the lawyer he just shrugged his shoulders. Free advice is rarely free