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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, you know the meaning of August, and now it is time for you to post until the august August cows come home.

[bk]

And the word of the day is: ZHUZH!

[bk]

I use that word all the time, but I had no idea it was an actual word or that it was spelled like that.

[George]

I use that word all the time, but I had no idea it was an actual word or that it was spelled like that.

I'd never seen it spelled, either!  Who knew?

[singdaw]

Good morning, friends.

[singdaw]

Can "zhuzhy" be an adjective? Or "zhuzhily"?

[singdaw]

Or can "zhuzh" be a used as a verb?

[bk]

Glad I woke up early. The site was down - some Firewall issue - have no idea what that means, but all is well now.

[ChasSmith]

Good morning, all.

[ChasSmith]

It was down for at least three hours, approximately 6:30 to 9:30 am, here on the right coast.

[Rodzinski]

Notes juvenated. Rejuvenated.

[Rodzinski]

After I couldn’t get to the site for love or money.

[ChasSmith]

After I couldn’t get to the site for love or money.

You tried BOTH??

[Rodzinski]

After I couldn’t get to the site for love or money.

You tried BOTH??

Simultaneously!

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[John G.]

Glad the site is running.

[John G.]

Yes, I was bullied. I don’t think back on the past too much. Just glad it’s over.

[singdaw]

I was bullied in middle school. I choose not dwell on it.

Not so much in high school; I found my music people and my theater people and it abated.

[Jrand73]

Glad the site is back.

[Jrand73]

TOD:

I guess I was, but really wasn't important enough for the bullies to waste their time on.....so I just stuck close to my friends and we always had a good time.

One time I did hide a pair of shoes belonging to a bully when we were in gym class and he had to wear his sneakers the rest of the day......the next day I put his shoes in the shower......

[Ron Pulliam]

I have a dilemma:

I was friends with a guy when I was in the Navy at NAS Jacksonville FL some 50 years ago.  We were very good friends, and I was godfather (in name only) to his first-born.

But...he was transferred, and so was I later, and we lost touch before either of us knew how to contact the other.

During a tour in Washington DC at the Navy Annex, I had access to records of all active duty sailors and tried locating him, but he wasn't in the system.  I puzzled over that for many years.  Often, I wondered if he was still alive.

Late last year, he found me on Facebook, and we have been communicating since.   He has invited himself to visit me during one of his annual trips to the east coast (from Arizona). 

I am not looking forward to hosting him as I am certain we are very different people now.  I suggested we meet up somewhere, have a meal and visit for a few hours.  That wasn't what he wants.

I have been going along with this for many months, but he is visiting family over the next week, part of which will be a few hundred miles from here.  He has said he will drop by for a day or two before he needs to go back.

My dilemma is that I do not want to host anyone, especially someone I truly do not know.  We are different people now, and I think it would be better to visit for only a few hours.

What would you do?

[Ron Pulliam]

I was bullied in middle school. I choose not dwell on it.

Not so much in high school; I found my music people and my theater people and it abated.

Plus, you "grew"...and were likely taller than many of them.

[Ron Pulliam]

TOD:

Not really bullied.  More just ignored or passed over.  I didn't really begin asserting myself/blossoming (as it were) until college, by which time bullies were figuring out that their futures were limited.

[Matthew]

Good Morning.  It is cold and windy here in the Bay Area on the first day of August.  I guess summer will start right when school begins!!!

TOD - I was bullied all through middle school and high school - at school and at home by a jerk of a step-father.  I'd like to think I came out on top of all this.

[Matthew]

DR Ron - send your friend a list of hotels in your area just so he has them if he decides to stay overnight in your area.  Be firm if he asks/tells you that he was planning on staying with you with a simple "I am not set-up to host anyone at my place".  If he gives your grief or suddenly decides to skip your town, then it was probably not meant to happen. 

[singdaw]

I whole-heartedly concur with DR Matthew above.

Does this "friend" have your address? If not, you are in control. Unless they can find it on the Internet.

[Jrand73]

That's a nice solution DR MATTHEW.

I'm not sure I would be so nice.

[Jrand73]

Thanks to DR IRIS for the videos from the Sondheim Tribute last night!

[George]

Glad I woke up early. The site was down - some Firewall issue - have no idea what that means, but all is well now.

Whew!  I couldn't get in before I went to sleep.

[George]

So now I can post my post for the Topic of the Day:  fortunately, I was never bullied in school.  Even though I was always overweight and probably most people knew that I was gay (totally in the closet...I only remember two classmates who were "out"), but I was in the choir and so I was with friends throughout my entire middle and high school years.