the BREAKFAST CLUB

[royster]

Jon Tore has two of my videos...he might post some of my stuff on YouTube, because I can't figure out HOW to do that. It's possible that we collaborate on some music/video projects, which is enormously cool. The problem is it takes a week to get a DVD from here to Norway.

I guess if I was more of a computer geek I wouldn't have these problems.

[Mynder]

Being a geek doesn't give you faster uploads, sorry. I wish....

But it might be worthwhile figuring out the best encoding/compression for the video and audio data.

[royster]

Thanks, Mynder. You'd think I would know that stuff, but I don't. I have all kinds of Nero stuff in the computer, but haven't had the time to really learn it....at all. I'm pretty sure I have driver problems, too, but I simply don't understand computers. So I do what comes natural to me: I mail the DVD.

But the time rapidly approaches when I'll want to use the Nero system for cleaning up rough edges, so I'll have to learn.

Meanwhile, that gives me something to think of while mowing 6 acres every three days. That's what the month of May means to me: mowing.

[royster]

Wow...was 1983 that long ago?

[royster]

The RAT HOLE during production of a recent video


And reconfigured.
Lower row, left to right:
digital DVD - VHS - and (yes...) BETA



Working with 8MM, I bridge four generations of recording.

the RAT HOLE

Blue Ray is next.

[royster]

Originally Posted by royster

THERE AUGHTA BE A THREAD JUST FOR COFFEE DRINKING IN THE MORNING.
Someone should start just such a thread. Maybe they will.
Good morning Shasah. We have a virtual heat wave here in Virginia; 43 degrees F expected as the high. Some good melt-down, though the last mile to my house is ice, and will be for the rest of winter. YUCK.

There really aughta be.

[royster]

June 1 did not pass without my remembering my father's death in 1994.

I was away from home, working, and it took a day for the news to catch up to me. When it did, I had less than 24 hours to get to Los Angeles for the funeral. It required a lot of fancy footwork to put me on a plane.

On the flight, I noticed the attendants kept putting their arms around a female passenger and shuffling her to the rear of the plane. After about the 5th time they did this, I asked if the woman was blind.

"She's blind AND deaf!" the attendant told me, bewildered. "We have no idea what she wants!"

I offered that I knew sign language and could try to communicate "Hellen Keller" style, which I had been taught to do. She practically begged me to, so I sat next to the woman, took her hand, and spelled/signed "Hi. My name is Roy".

Her eyes closed, her hand lifted up and finger-spelled her name.

Hands-on-hands, we exchanged "talk". It was amusing when the flight attendant returned and asked what the woman wanted.

The sign for "cream" I often confuse with "computer", but the woman wanted "tea with cream".


I stayed on the plane until all the other passengers were off, to assist the woman. The attendants insisted I was a hero: I insisted I was not -

I was somebody's son, forgetting his own pain, long enough to help someone else.


My father's death provided this remarkable life experience. 17 years ago

[royster]

One thing I knew I'd miss this birthday, was a card from my Mother. Although she could not use her right hand, she began signing them with her left hand, after her stroke.

Of course, she died 3 months before my birthday.

But I went to my post office box this morning, and found a card, addressed to me, from my mother's address.

My mother had bought the card well in advance. My thoughtful sister made sure it got to me.

This isn't a communication from "beyond the grave":
my mother had an expression she loved to use ~

it was Love "Across The Miles".

Roy



Tonight's e-mail from my sister:

Roy,

I am so glad you were surprised with mom's birthday card! She had also purchased one for Larry [my oldest brother, b-day June 3]. It's a shame she never got the chance to sign it, but since I was with her when she bought them, I had known about them.

[Mynder]

Validation, validation, validation...so much proof that you're walking your path.

[royster]

Thanks, Mynder. Indeed it is. I have also had a lifetime-first with this experience.

We choose our parents before we're born. We choose them, and they agree to have us, for specific reasons.

I have realised why I chose this spirit, and (s)he has now passed over. In my remembering why I chose her, and realizing we accomplished this, she is energized, too. This completes a human/spiritual cycle that very few accomplish, and it's been stunning to experience.

[Mynder]

This sounds interesting. Would you like to share more about it?

[royster]

Oh yes; I intend to go into good detail about it, but probably in the Ascension thread or Spiritual board. And right now, my hands are pretty full, so it will have to wait for a bit.

[royster]

Originally Posted by Mynder

This sounds interesting. Would you like to share more about it?

(From 'Ascesnion First Aid, The Next Session'...thanks, Yunique, for posting it).

After my mother's recent death, her sentience finally made contact with me. I had come to remember choosing her for my mother before I was born, and she agreed to this: I had properties she wanted to learn, as well. Such is the amiable agreement we make before coming to earth.

I now realize that I chose my mother for specific traits and lessons to learn. I have learned most of them, and in her passing, told her so. This is a rare event in human existence, but I assure you this happened for me. In this acknowledging her success in being my mother, she is therefore elevated beyond the negative energies from her lifetime, and is free to move on to other things: she is not bound by any ill-will.

It will come as no surprise that in the days ahead, mother/child acknowledgements start occurring while both are alive.


Won't THAT be amazing!?

[royster]

THINGS I LEARNED FROM LIVING IN THE CAROLINA'S (or Virginia)


A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.

There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one's seen before.

If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.

Onced and Twiced are words.


It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!

Jawl-P? Means Did y'all go to the bathroom?

People actually grow and eat okra.

Fixinto is one word. It means I'm fixing to do that.

There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is supper.

Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is referred to as the Wine of the South.

Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.

The word jeet is actually a phrase meaning Did you eat?

You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is, you work until you're done or it's too dark to see.

You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH em.

Ya'll is singular, all ya'll is plural.

You measure distance in minutes.

You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.

You know what a DAWG is.

You carry jumper cables in your car - for your OWN car.

You only own five spices: salt, pepper, mustard, Tabasco and ketchup.

The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports and motor sports, and gossip.

You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit a bit warm.

You know what a hissy fit is.

Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite pastime known as goin Wal-Martin' or off to Wally World.

You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good beef or chicken stew weather.

Fried catfish is the other white meat.

We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!!

[varose]

Royster's latest adventure. My Casino Experience

[royster]

Yeah. Here I am.


Meh~~

[Mynder]

Originally Posted by royster

Yeah. Here I am.


Meh~~

Welcome back. What's new?

[royster]

A bunch of stuff, Mynder...and thanks for the nod.

Having quite an adventure with life now. Enjoying my inheritence. Preparing for winter.

Here's a picture of my new wood stove. It's manufactured by Englander. The "crown"-looking thing is a connection for heat ducts: this stove has a blower motor, and heats the whole house. No more being koopt up in the Rat Hole huddling around a kerosene heater! (Kerosene is really expensive this year, I'm glad I can resume natural heating).

[royster]

Janice and I enjoyed a wonderful supper at her sister's house.

It's hard to think that it's been four years since the legendary "purse off".

This started out by Janice bragging about what she had in her purse. Her sister, Linda, upped the ante, and challenged her to a "purse off"...item-for-item, seeing what was in their purses.

Janice is wearing the purple blouse, and I am seated next to her.

I hope you enjoy this 5 minutes of a ridiculously amusing YouTube Moment.

~royster
PurseOff - YouTube

[royster]

Originally Posted by Mynder

Welcome back. What's new?

My Home Improvements

[royster]

For Shasah, Mynder and anyone else interested in my present, on-going adventure:

UNoccupy The House~ Lee's Big Adventure

Tomorrow we'll be in North Carolina.

[royster]

Since everyone's saying their good-byes, and choosing their places for last stands, it's only appropriate I close here.

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - 05 - Will You Walk With Me - YouTube

[nothuman]

...hope you don't mind I need the company...

Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) [Official Music Video] - YouTube