Wild Card/Monday — 12.14.09

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  Cindy_H on December 14 at 10:02 a.m.

  I got an email from SR staffer Joe Butler on Thursday saying his wife had seen me at NIC. Says Joe, “I told her next time to say hello.”
  Only problem? It wasn’t me. I was chained to my desk all day Thursday.
  Then on Friday I ran into an aquaintance at the Montvale Hotel in dowtown Spokane. She said, “I saw you this morning at Christian Supply, but you didn’t say “hi,” you just looked right through me.”
  I was out an about all day Friday, but nowhere near Christian Supply in North Spokane.
  So, I’ve been wondering about my double. Is she having more fun than I am?
  If you see her, please ask.

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  moscow_minidoka on December 14 at 10:05 a.m.

  CindyH, you only need to worry if your double is revealed as one of Tiger’s girlfriends. If someone throws coffee on you when you’re at the mall, that’d be why.

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  Sisyphus on December 14 at 10:06 a.m.

  Linky no worky.

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  nic on December 14 at 10:18 a.m.

  Cindy - you’re double is busy. She just got back from a business trip in Miami. She had to deliver a care package to her daughter at NIC, and pick up some new Christmas music from Christian Supply before her and her fireman husband take a road trip to ski Whistler. (I heard the snow is great up there)

  And according to Larry logic - I’m not lying.

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  hmoffsuite on December 14 at 11:50 a.m.

  I have a problem with these mountain climbers that go out this time of the year, in this type of weather. Like these climbers that are lost on Mt. Hood. If they want to do so, I sure would like to see them post about a million dollar bond to cover the costs of search and rescue, before they are allowed to attempt their stunts. It is foolish, selfish and expensive to climb mountains in the dead of winter. Extreme sports or not.

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  hhuseland on December 14 at 1:00 p.m.

  The University of Washington today, announced that quarterback and touted high draft choice, Locker, will return for his senior year the the school.

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  Cindy_H on December 14 at 1:07 p.m.

  @nic: Gosh, it’s worse than I thought. My double has a daughter AND a fireman.
  Not. Fair.

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  Pounder on December 14 at 1:56 p.m.

  Just heard about a big multi-car accident on Highway 95 just south of Prairie in the area of Best-Buy. My wife was coming southbound and said a tan SUV was headed north on the wrong side going top speed and cause a big pileup accident just after passing her. No sign of police chasing him or anything.

  #

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  DFO on December 14 at 2:26 p.m.

  @ Pounder; that wreck you mentioned is noted in Scanner Traffic — 3-vehicle and head-on. I was trying to figure out how you can have a head-on in that section of highway. You’ve cleared up the mystery. At this point, there are no significant injuries from the crash that blocked the roadway in front of Kohl’s. However, there must have been some anti-freeze leakage because that was a concerned mentioned on the scanner.

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  hhuseland on December 14 at 3:10 p.m.

  It has just started to now again here in Bayview. Currently, I’m watching three Bald Eagles fighting over the same floating carcass. The Scenic Bay is gray today but always interesting. Now I’ve got three or four gulls zeroing in an another dead Kokanee. Cirlcing above them is a large Eagle. I think He/she is using the gulls to locate food, then takes it away from them. Heck, we don’t need
  Wolf Lodge Bay when we have this.

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  Kendramama on December 14 at 4:06 p.m.

  Okay, this is the Wild Card, after all, so I don’t feel too bad about broadcasting my appeal for assistance here. What may come of it, I’m not sure, but I would be happy for ANY ol’ advice from someone who’s done this before, as I am flummoxed fer’ sure.

  Some of you may know that after a grand total of 12 years since my last college attempt, I’m going for it again this Spring Semester, which begins in just a few short weeks (yikes!). Full time, perhaps a bit more than, even, as I’m set for 13 credits this semester, with a couple more late-starts waiting after I test out of some of the single credit online “CAOT” computer classes.

  Now, the good news mixed with bad. Most of the way I’m financing said semester is thanks to a nice fat Pell Grant via FAFSA, but another several thousand will be thru a Stafford loan (most of it subsidized, the last five hundred of it unsubidized). And although I’ve received my award letter from NIC informing me of my approval, it’s still up to me to complete the last vestiges of paperwork by visiting a couple of websites- simpletuition.com and mappingyourfuture.org. The first to sign a Master Promissory Note, the second to complete something called “entrance counseling” for the Stafford Loan.

  Now, Hucksters, I gotta admit- I’m in a whirl of emotion and confusion right now, scared to death that I’m going to pick the wrong lender, put down the wrong date or amount (like, for instance, when they say, “search for available loans, do it put the exact amount listed on my award letter? both sub and unsub, or both combined?) Arggh! And I have the feeling, once I quote unquote, sign on the dotted line, there’s no turning back and what’s done is done. Plus, there’s greed poking its ugly little green head up too, especially once I saw during my first look-see at the website that I was entitled to up to nine grand per school year. Wow, you know? Of course I don’t need that much, even as a full-time student, our living expenses and other misc. crap will never call for that much… but just knowing I’m ELIGIBLE is enough to make the red dude on my left shoulder whisper in my ear how nice those extra bucks would be. But thankfully so far the white guy on the other side has been tellin’ him to shush his mout’.

  Anyhow, in my standard long-winded way, this is my call for help from any current students, teachers, or recent alumni who’ve gone through this process. Not even necessarily at NIC- I’m sure the rules aren’t much different anywhere else. Could anyone out there (Digger, among a few others, you come to mind!) shoot me an email w/your phone number on it so I could call and inundate ya with a dozen or so questions? I would SO appreciate it. In case it’s not under my info here, or @ SoulDoubt, it’s kendramama@gmail.com.

  Thanks, all… and hope everyone’s having the happiest of holidays.

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  hmoffsuite on December 14 at 5:58 p.m.

  For those of you keeping score, here are today’s lastest approval rating polls for Obama. (ouch)

  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

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  Arpie on December 14 at 8:32 p.m.

  Count me as one that is still excited about our pres and the job he is doing. I am impressed by the way he takes on challenges head-on. An example is his speech in Norway talking about war while receiving the Peace Prize. Another example is inviting the gays to the White House to explain why he has not delivered on his pledge to end don’t ask don’t tell. He seems to have down the proper amount of pressure to give congress to keep things moving foreword.

  While many are bellyaching about all the different things that are wrong with the health care bill. I am one who believes any bill is better than no bill. We’ve waited too long to pass something. We can clean it up as years go on and we find the real snafus. Many may disagree with some of his decisions, but it is a great feeling to see him step up and make them, instead of putting them off for who knows how long. The truth is we will never know how bad things would have been without the stimulus bill that was passed at the beginning of the year. I am proud of our president.

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  Bent on December 14 at 10:53 p.m.

  I actually read a piece on my hand-held today where Gore made this very certain prediction. (See the outragous claim in the link below) I thought FINALLY a Climategate showdown just a mere 5-7 years away, but alas it appears it was just Al Gore inventing something or another again…

  You better give it a read before Spoke declares it never happened:

  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece

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  Bent on December 15 at 12:08 a.m.

  Man, this is a good read (except for the unecessary 9-year-old personalized stuff)…

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121402719.html

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  Bent on December 15 at 12:24 a.m.

  Another great read on the big picture…

  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cc90fb80-e817-11de-8a02-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1

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