Nighthawks and Day Crew, please welcome new DUer,

[Heidi]

zone. He and I used to work together, and he's one of my best friends. (He has already registered, and will be here Saturday afternoon, Eastern time.)

Welcome, zone! :hug: :loveya: :*SMOOCH:*

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Welcome zone.

:popcorn:

[Heidi]

3. Zone can learn from the master

(you) the appropriate use of the popcorn smilie. :thumbsup:

:popcorn:

[SeattleGirl]

2. Hey zone!!!!

Welcome to DU! Any friend of Heidi's....... :hi: :loveya:

[zone]

81. Seattle, two

I grew up in Seattle. I was just out there for an uncle's funeral.

[billyskank]

4. Hi zone

:hi:

[texanwitch]

5. Howdy Zone

Welcome to DU:toast: :hi:

[jobycom]

6. Any friend of Heidi's

scares me... :scared: But in a good way! Welcome!

[Heidi]

7. Smarty-pants.

I sentence you to pie.

[jobycom]

9. Phfffwwww. Wimp.

***PIE****

[Heidi]

13. Oh, my.

You've out-pied me, Joby. :blush:

[jobycom]

17. It's a Texas thing. We go straight for bombast.

:shrug:

[Heidi]

18. I have been out-pied by

_a guy_. A _Texas_ guy. :cry: :yoiks:

[jobycom]

19. Oh no, the tears method

Sigh. Gets me every time. :hug:

And I'm about the least guy guy I know, if it makes you feel better. And I'm from Mississippi originally. Anything, I'll say anything! Just stop crying! (Wait, that sounded rather guy, didn't it? Maybe there's hope...)

[Heidi]

21. Does that mean you concede?

Huh? Does it? :cry: :cry: :cry:

(At least I didn't use "little girl voice," the female tactic that most grosses me out. :puke: )

[jobycom]

22. LOL!

There's a Heidi voice I hear when I read your posts, and it is not a little girl voice, even through the :cry: . :rofl:

I never really thought of that, but I think I hear a distinctive voice for most DUers, or the ones I read the most. I wonder if anyone sounds like I imagine them... I wonder if I should drink fewer caffeinated drinks, and if I would be closer to sane if I did. I wonder why my cat Amber is at this moment staring over the top of my laptop screen at my typing fingers as though they were small rodents she wanted to consume. I'm afraid to type any more. I concede, while I still can!

[Heidi]

23. .

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. 'lo, zone

I want 18 inches on DUers' reactions to the SOTU.

Just as you finish, I'll change it to 12 inches.

:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Welcome, my dear zone!

You will love it here.....in the Lounge, the heart of DU!

Come, laugh, love, talk, play, question, and have a ball with us!

[BikeWriter]

11. Hey, way cool! Welcome, zone!

[NMMNG]

12. Welcome zone!

[Swamp Rat]

14. Willkumm zone!

:hi:

[LSK]

15. Welcome to DU!!!

Glad to have another here, zone!

[In_The_Wind]

16. Hey ~ zone!

to DU

[MrScorpio]

20. Welcome, Zone!

Stick around!

[hfojvt]

24. "Eeyore walked all round Tigger one way, and then turned

and walked all round him the other way.
'What did you say it was?' he asked.
'Tigger'
'Ah!' said Eeyore.
'He's just come,' explained Piglet.
'Ah!' said Eeyore again.
He thought for a long time and then said:
'When is he going?'

Pooh explained to Eeyore that Tigger was a great friend of Christopher Robin's, who had come to stay in the Forest, and Piglet explained to Tigger that he mustn't mind what Eeyore said because he was ALWAYS gloomy; and Eeyore explaied to Piglet that, on the contrary, he was feeling particularly cheerful this morning; and Tigger explained to anybody who was listening that he hadn't had any breakfast yet."

I can just tell I am going to get bounced :bounce: or bumped or something. Also, why the heck did I not think of Eeyore for a user-name? Or something clever like anemicEOR?

Oh, and some breakfast for zone :donut:

[RevCheesehead]

26. LOL!

Eeyore would be a great screen name! Maybe during the next amnesty period, you can change your ID. :hug:

[zone]

83. That was Zen...

...this is "Tao of Pooh?"

[Heidi]

25. Kick for _zone_!

:kick:

[zone]

84. Nice...

...ass

[RevCheesehead]

27. Hi, Zone!

If you're a friend of Heidi's, then you probably know what to expect around here.

Thanks for not letting that stop you! :D

[Robeson]

28. Welcome Zone!...

...:hi: I hope you don't have too high of expectations with these clowns...

[bridgit]

29. zone, sup...

[Heidi]

30. Ooops, I forgot to tell zone

that he'll be required to show his MultiPass. :rofl:

[bridgit]

31. ^_^

just sent to a pm, girl :hi: :hug: :loveya:

[zone]

87. If I get one...

...do I get to meet the girl with the orange hair and matching suspenders?

[bridgit]

94. maybe only IF you say, "hi" to her...

:shrug: please...no more elitists x(

[zone]

101. I'm sorry, Bridget

Hello. You have beautiful eyes.

I am still getting the hang of navigating this chat.

[bridgit]

117. no worries, you seem to be doing just fine...

:D

[zone]

119. I do think I know what you mean, though

Some folks no matter what the circle seem to be preoccupied with outsmarting and outdoing each other rather than approaching some sort of common understanding. Not that being a smartass doesn't have its place (I for one cannot control myself); it's the pretention and smugness that get in the way.

[bridgit]

130. that sounds right to me, we seem at times a nation of smart asses...

with an abundantly high per capita concentration of them right here on du :rofl:

welcome all the same, zone, and i do agree = if dems shared half the common ground republicans shared, as a mere for instance, neoconz would not be having it so damn easy today imo :hi:

:kick: :patriot:

[MissHoneychurch]

32. Welcome zone

:hi:

you gonna have a lot of fun here, promised

[wildhorses]

33. welcome zone

nice to cyber-meet you...:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

34. Welcome, zone!

And book 'em . . .

[zone]

35. Wow, what a welcome.

Gee, I don't know what to say (but that won't last long). Thanks Heidi, Wesley and everybody. Coincidentally, Wes, one of my alter egos is "Dan-o" and I may have gone with that user name had I thought of it ("zone" harkens back to my Colorado days when Heidi and I were ink-stained wretches there).

This all reminds me that my buddy Dave recently told me about a guy who fixes guitars named Dan-o Dave and I was like "thanks for telling me about "Dan-o Dave, Dave. Peace, Dan-o." And Heid probably remembers that reporeter in Colorado we used to know named "Dave-o...

Another one of my nicknames is "Tangent Dan." Eventually it all runs together anyway, you know?

Sorry I am late, Heidi. Took me awhile to sign in, and Demon Baby beat me out of bed.

By the way, Dan-O Dave made my guitar sing.

[Heidi]

37. You are _ truly_ in the house, darlin'!

Thanks for the great story!!! :rofl: So glad you're here, my friend. :hug:

[zone]

38. glad to be here

Yes, I just have to get use to the mechanics of this thing. I stepped out for a moment to download chords to David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" for my daughter Sage. She promises to sing if we learn it together.

[JVS]

85. LOW POST COUNT!!! FREEPER TROLL ALERT!!!

;-)

[Heidi]

99. Hey, JVS!

:spank:

[JVS]

100. I'm just getting him ready for when he first ventures into GD

[AussieDave]

36. G'day zone, and welcome to DU

hope you have fun and enjoy yourself !!! :hi:


Also, please don't be offended by the fact that none of the mods (moderators) has welcomed you yet - they're probably still soaking in the hot tub or romping around the nude volleyball court. They'll drop by soon, I'm sure. :evilgrin:


Cheers !!!! :toast:

[RetroLounge]

39. Hello Zone!

and welcome to DU!

:hi:

RL

[zone]

41. homework help

Thanks, RL! What state is that silloutted, Georgia? Or is that a country?

I seem to have this down except the only way I can figure out how to refresh posts is to go back the DU Lounge and click this thread.

Okay, my 15-year-old daughter has a homework assignment to write a haiku and a limerick and has asked for my help. Anyone want to take a crack at either? I thought it would be fun to incorporate current events or pop culture in a way that the average American teen would recognize, learn from, relate to. And of course, they should have a PG rating...okay, PG-13.

[RetroLounge]

42. That would be Wisconsin

Home of Cheese!

RL

p.s. I think she should write limericks about bush*

[zone]

44. limericks

Madison, no doubt. I assume you mean the president (lol)?

Actually, I downloaded the guitar chords to David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World" for my daughter this morning and the title made me think of the Naked Emporer in the White House.

[Heidi]

48. I'm working on a limerick

about the pretzel-dent. This'll be good. :evilgrin:

[zone]

53. Redneck haiku

I know we're not supposed to generalize here (and this is hardly for a high school audience...at least in class...but here goes...)

REDNECK HAIKU (anonymous)

Damn, in that tube top

You almost make me forget

Than you're my cousin

[Heidi]

59. You're makin' fun of my southern heritage again,

aintcha, Bubba?

I demand a correction, clarifying that you and I are _not_ related. :evilgrin:

[zone]

60. it's all relative

Heidi is my aunt (and my sister).

[Heidi]

61. *insert theme song

from 'deliverance' here,* courtesy of all pink-eyed, blonde-haired, first-cousin marryin' aunts everywhere. :eyes:

[zone]

66. Hai-who?

Here's what "little dude" and I came up with for her homework assigment:

THE TORNADO

Ripping up the earth

Nature scatters life and limb

Only to renew

[Heidi]

72. Ya ditched the limerick thing, huh?

The haiku is lovely. :thumbsup:

Love to you, Mrs. Zone, Sage, DemonBaby, et al., and have fun skiing. So glad you're here, my friend. :hug: :pals:

[zone]

74. No limerick

Yeah, I didn't wanna get Sage expelled. Thanks for the invite, babes (smooch).

[ncrainbowgrrl]

118. Hi zone!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[kedrys]

40. Hello and welcome, zone!

It's a privilege to meet a friend of Heidi's. Make yourself at home! :hi:

[RandomKoolzip]

43. Hello zone...welcome to DU.

Doors are locked from the outside! Ha ha ha.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

46. My dear RandomKoolzip........

Don't go scaring the poor guy just yet....let him get used to us......

And THEN.......scare him!


:evilgrin:

[RandomKoolzip]

47. Sorry!

Oh, and by the way...the toilet seats are electric. Good night! :evilgrin: Haha hahahaha!

[Heidi]

49. He's used to it.

That's just like workin' in a newsroom. :evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

50. My dear Heidi!

Here we are, at the opposite end of the day......great to see you!

I'm just getting up, and getting ready to have some breakfast, so I can go work off all those Moonpies at the gym!

:loveya: :hug: :loveya: my dear gf!

[ghostsofgiants]

45. Hey zone!

If you're cool with Heidi, you're cool with me. :hi:

[matcom]

51. a gift for you zone from Matcom

welcome aboard :hi:

hope you like sparkles :D

[zone]

64. For me?

Tinkerbell, you're all grown up!

[EstimatedProphet]

52. Greetings Zone

[zone]

54. Another deadhead?

>spins and smiles<

[EstimatedProphet]

58. You betcha!

You know my love will not fade away!

[miss_american_pie]

55. Welcome zone

:hi:

[Wapsie B]

56. Welcome zone!!!

Howdy!

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

57. Hey! Zone! Welcome!

If you're a friend of Heidi, then you'll fit right in here!

:hi::hi:

:toast:

WIMR

[khashka]

62. Hey zone!

Any friend of Heidi's is a friend of mine!

Nice to meet you :)


Khash.

[Heidi]

63. Not to be indiscreet,

but zone looks like Kiefer Sutherland. Just sayin'. :evilgrin:

[zone]

65. chip off the ol' blcock

Now I have been told I SOUND like Donald Southerland (but the most apt and oft comment in character and appearance has to be "The Dude" as in The Big Lebowski). In fact, THAT should have been my handle, m-a-a-a-n.

[Shine]

68. Cyberspace greetings, zone dude, from California!

:hi:

I like that you named your daughter Sage. Cool name. :thumbsup:

Have fun with that haiku!

[zone]

70. Tornado

Here's what we came up with (also posted above):

THE TORNADO

Ripping up the earth

Nature scatters life and limb

Only to renew


I better stay away from the limericks; I'll get her expelled. I gotta sign off in a few minutes and take my kids skiing.

[khashka]

67. You're just trying

to get me to stop messin' around with your husband. And zone is the bait in the trap.

He really does? Oh my! :evilgrin:


Khash.

[zone]

69. bait?

say it ain't so, sis (auntie, mommy).

[khashka]

71. You call her Mommy?

Oh boy........

:)
Khash.

[zone]

73. Only when I am very bad...

Okay, that was a tasteless out-of-context reference to an earlier thread about Heidi's Southern roots. I am taking my girls up skiing and will be back in a few hours. Thanks for the entree Mel; seems like a fun bunch of folks.

[khashka]

75. We are fun

(Well, you get my jokes! So you're OK by me.)

So go do the good Dad thang, have fun and we'll see you when you get back :)

Khash.

[zone]

78. doin' the dad thang

I survived...barely. I've got a sulking 15-year-old, a fearless and immodest 7 year old and a terrible soon-to-be 2 year old. I was actually paged off the mountain twice. First, the ski instructor for my 7-year-old's group lesson lost her, then the 19-month-old went totally apeshit in daycare because every time someone came in to drop off a kid, she thought it was mommy (should have nursed her before weh hit the slopes, I guess). I heard the second page while I was trying to rouse the 15-year-old, who despite having given it a successful go two times before, had decided all of a sudden that she was terrified of falling on her snowboard and had been warming the same spot at the top of the bunny hill for an hour and a half (she finally got over it and is up there on the mountain now, sulking because I'm making her come home 45 minutes before the ski hill closes). Ah, the joys of fatherhood! No wonder beer tastes so good...

[khashka]

93. Ah the joys of Fatherhood! LOL

My daughter woke me up - jumping up and down on the bed and screaming "Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!" It might have been workable but then her mother joined her and the bed collapsed.

These are the memories that will keep you warm in your old age. Enjoy.


Khash.

[Heidi]

95. Please, khash, don't get him started telling ski stories.

:blush:

[zone]

102. No stories

I suck, considering how long I have been doing it, but I enjoy it immensely. Same with the guitar, actually.

[Heidi]

105. Oh???????

You don't remember a fun afternoon at my apartment above the ---- Daily, with my best-girlfriend-Bob and his odd friend Jeff, with "refreshments" all around to prepare me for my first try at the black runs (_massive_ mistake!!!!) with ski-guys more expert than myself??????????? :blush: :evilgrin:

[zone]

106. I said I suck

I never said you weren't worse

[Metta]

76. Any friend of Heidi's is a friend of mine.

Welcome, zone. Bless your comings and goings. :hi: :donut:

[auntAgonist]

77. zone , welcome to DU!

I look forward to 'meeting' you.

:hi:

aA

[Left Is Write]

79. Welcome to DU, zone!

:hi:

[zone]

80. thanks

It's been a sporadic entry...and a long time since I have participated in a chat room. First I stumbled upon the Head Case forum, then there was The Park (I posted as "zone" in both places). That was all back in Colorado, and I left there in 1999.

Nice smile!

[Left Is Write]

82. Thank you!

:)

[weeble_wobble]

86. Welcome, zone!

--weeble

:applause:

[zone]

88. Thanks

The house if finally settling down and I have time for a proper response the welcome wagon that Heidi drew out.

[Heidi]

97. Welcome to DU, weeble_wobble!

Do you wobble, but you don't fall down? :hi:

[bigwillq]

89. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Hope to chat with you soon! :)

[sakabatou]

90. Hey, zone

And welcome ot DU

[Floogeldy]

91. Glad to meet ya, zone.

Welcome to the party! ;)

[zone]

92. Girl's night out

Just got invited to "girls night out" and have a built-in babysitter, so I am gonna go fer it. I'll settle down and really chat real soon. Peace & TTFN.

[Fox Mulder]

96. Welcome to the DU, zone!

:hi:

[zone]

98. Thanks

I keep coming and going. Yesterday was a busy day. Heard some good blues last night. Morning has broken a little to fast and the kids are all up. They seem to be entertaining each other this morning, though.

[merh]

103. Welcome zone!

:hi:

Just kick back and have fun. As you are a friend of Heidi's, I am sure you know all about laughter & good friends.

[zone]

104. Thanks

...and if you "see" Heidi, tell her I just posted a pic in the "post a picture of yourself" Lounge thread.

[Heidi]

107. I saw that photo and replied, sailor.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4661258&mesg_id=4665217

[zone]

108. I sawr it...

...and I gotta git off afore I git yelled at. Gotta put up a shelf and take Sage home. Then we are having dinner with my old editor (the guy who wrote the dog book) and his family. He sold the movie rights last week for a reported high six or low seven figures...I shit you not. I will be back early since it's a school night.

[zone]

109. Oh, and...

It is taking me freakin' FOREVER to refresh the page when I post, etc. Didn't start out that way. I have a fairly new Dell and DSL service. Any advice. (I hope this commie website didn't give me a virus.)

[zone]

110. morning over Pennsyltucky

Hi all. Here's a cool shot of a faerie making her way through the woods behind my house this morning. That's my greenhouse in the foregound.

http://photobucket.com/albums/e186/bedandy/?action=view¤t=morninghasbroken.jpg

[SeattleGirl]

111. Very nice, zone!

:hi:

[zone]

112. Hey, thanks Seattle Girl

I saw that some Left Coast DUers had a get-together is your neck of the woods recently. I grew up in Bellevue before it was yuppie town and returned to the Northwest after my stint at a Colorado paper (where I met Heidi) to be editor of a little weekly on the Oregon coast.

[SeattleGirl]

113. The meet-up was great!

So what town on the Oregon coast? I lived in Oregon (Eugene/Springfield) for many, many years, and my family still lives there. The Oregon coast is one of my favorite places to go!

[zone]

114. Seaside

The town stuck in the '50s just up the coast from bohemian Cannon Beach. It reminded me of Pleasantville.

[SeattleGirl]

115. I've only driven through Seaside

Pleasantville, huh? OMG! Good thing I didn't stop there for a bathroom break! :rofl:

[zone]

116. driving through Seaside

Before I worked there I had only bicycled through 15 years earlier en route from Seattle to San Fran with a hop around the Olympic Penninsula.

[Clintmax]

120. Welcome to DU, Zone!

:hi:
Captain Clintmax of the Early Morning Crew here! Miss Heidi is one of my favorite DU friends and certainly one of the best artists! Glad to have you here, Dude...and if you're up in the early morning, stop by and join the crew! :bounce: Later!

[zone]

121. Early and late

I love to tell Heidi's story. She was a miserable ink-stained wretch like me and up and moved to Europe a few years back and discovered her talent for painting. I don't think she had held a brush before that since she was a little kid.

[Clintmax]

122. Well she sure has come a LONG Way!

She posts her paintings here sometimes and I've loved every one of them! So do you still live here in the states or are you in Europe also?

[zone]

123. Pennsyltucky

You got Pittsburgh and Philly and everything in between is pure Oklahoma.

[Clintmax]

124. LOL! Tallahassee, Florida here.

I'm not usually on this late at night. I start the Morning Crew usually around 5:30 am or so, so keep an eye out. LOTS of great people in my crew, Dude.

[zone]

125. University of Florida

1993 (journalism degree @ 30)

[Clintmax]

126. Florida State Univeristy...

I don't go there (I just work), but my S.O. is working on his doctorate.

[zone]

127. I should be a doctor, too

For as many years as I hung out in Gainesville.

Architecture
Pre-vet
English
Photojournalism

WTF am I doing? Six-year break.

Magazine journalism.

There's my UF transcript in a nutshell.

[Skittles]

128. Heidi, you want I should offer to kick zone's ass?

I would for you my friend. :hi:

[zone]

129. If I have offended Heidi

I guess there is a first time for everything (lol).

[zone]

131. Has anyone seen Heidi today?

[zone]

132. QUESTION ABOUT DU

I got back on DU last night about 10 minutes into Shrub's speech and was on until at least midnight. I am pretty sure I even used the "my posts" feature to keep track of various conversations. Now when I click on "my posts" I see nothing archived between 9:07 last night and my first post tonight. Any ideas?