Iceback wrote:My parents immigrated from Scotland in '52 as did most of the people they knew.
It was Canada, New Zealand, Australia or Rhodesia. My dad had a job offer in Rhodesia if he wanted it but it was unpaid for the first year so chose the cold place. My mom's family all moved from Scotland to Australia in the early 70's.

Why was everyone leaving England at the time?

Iceback wrote:Not much employment opportunity after the war, things weren't very good there for many years.The war almost bankrupted them they had been fighting it since '39.

End of the British Empire.

Iceback wrote:Certainly the begining of the end.

You must be traveling all over the place for a family reunion!

FenStar wrote:Anyone else get a sack of crap?

I sware I read the writeup. Somehow I didn't see the HIGHLIGHTED word bag.

//sigh

so.....no

Then I sent a mod message to the woot gods telling them the site was down. Yeah, that was a surprise to them. //doh nothing like looking like I understand how woot works//

Mavyn wrote:Afternoon!

I'll see about taking pics. Really, we only have 3 show tanks--and the reef has only been up a little while so it's not fully established.

I always had 2 tanks in the house growing up. Never bigger than 50 gals.

Never set up more than a 10 gal tank myself and somehow I just can't get it to stay clean. I have a stand for a 30 gal tank, because I realized that they old metal frames were hard to get. No tank. Just a frame in a box.

Fishy!

Love it! Always loved fish tanks!

Very nice.

My grandparents lived next door. Grandpa would feed the fish when we went away. Dad would leave each days worth of food wraped into a piece of paper (this was pre ziplock bad days)

Grandpa was amazed that the fish would all swim to the top of the tank when they saw him!

Fast, strong rain storm. Here and now gone.
Got to put the garbage out!

50mph winds for a short time.

AZGman wrote:Okay, g'night.

Told you...No Poof = No Woot.

ThunderThighs wrote:Evening folks. Virtual son is here. Took the boys to Red Robin for dinner. They're in the other room putting together the K'nex Mario Kart sets I bought them for Christmas. Still fun for 20 yr olds.

yum


We haven't tried it yet. Was too crowed for months.

Went to the art museum today
They had Tiffany's art and a few windows and lamps.
Then they had 5 pieces of lego art from this guy http://www.brickartist.com/

He left a job as a successful nyc lawyer to become a master builder of legos!

ThunderThighs wrote:Virtual son works at the local Legoland and is an apprentice builder. He gets to work with their master builder on the huge stuff they build.

There is more than one person making a good living making lego art.
This guy entered a lego contest. Won. Left his law practice to work at the lego store.

You make a fortune as the type of lawyer he was, but they own you, body and soul. Endless hours.
I wonder how he had the time to make whatever he entered?

Son saw some pieces from a different artist in a mall near him. Some ladies were talking about seeing stuff in the mall of america, when they were looking at this guys stuff.

I just checked the website and realized I saw him on the Cobert Report a few years ago.

So Virtual son might be rich someday!

Ask him if he'll make me a lego Rusty at a reduced price when he is famous.