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July 7, 2014
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I wrote a story once where John Lodge was kidnapped by a lady Yeti. I should dust that off and post it on line somewhere.

July 8, 2014
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Your talents and proficiencies know no end. Rather than dusting it off, why don't you give us something we can use - like info on where we can get good tickets on the cheap, and when and where Justin will be touring next? Or how we can play like Mike Dawes?

July 8, 2014
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July 8, 2014
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I know. I felt I had reached infinity at the Talking Stick, and here I am again at work.

July 10, 2014
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eh you were just jet lagged. But I agree, it does feel the same sometimes.

July 10, 2014
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No. Jet lag feels icky, dizzy in the head and a little pukey, struggling to stay awake.

Justin in Arizona is exultant glory, resplendent grandeur, the opening of the heavens with concourses of angels in powerful majesty, the universe making sense from end to beginning, in magnificent perfection and perfect love - and that's just a start.

March 27, 2017
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Notice how they aren't doing Arizona this year. Maybe they got kicked out of the state LaughLaugh

Joking of course. I do find it interesting the Justin tour came up to the Southwest, then turned around on itself. Now the Moody tour will start in Los Angeles and yo yo up and down the coast.

Am I now seeing cosmic patterns in their tour maps? Or was it all those mushrooms I ate last night??? Confused

March 28, 2017
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It's just as well. I'd like to earn a lot of money and be able to drive all over Arizona. I love that state so much, but such a thing would not be in the offing, so it is just as well.

March 30, 2017
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Shucks move there someday. I like it too, not downtown Phoenix mind you, but some of the country side is really lovely. I haven't been up to Flagstaff for years, and my brother and his family keep inviting me. They have like a ranch or something up there. Cabins... they all pull RVs in during June and party.

April 2, 2017
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Compare the number of daytrips one can make from my current location to Moodies/Justin shows to the number I could make from Phoenix. Then again, if I got a great-paying job, I could afford to fly.

April 4, 2017
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Agua Caliente is only three hours from PHX or so. How far is Vegas I wonder?

April 5, 2017
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I find it ironic the fastest speed limit I ever saw was on the highway between SLC & LV.

April 5, 2017
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Besides, the day I move to Phoenix will be the day a giant meteor forces a polar shift, turning PHX into "New Arctica."

April 6, 2017
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"fastest speed limit".... you haven't been to some places in Texas

Oklahoma is the best. No one cares how fast you drive there except between Bartlesville and Tulsa. Every cop in OK lurks on the road between those two cities. Okies and Texans figure, if you can stay on the road, drive as fast as you want. And they do. Downright Darwinian.

Was that a subtle jab at the good residents of SLC? LaughLaugh There's a pretty hot highway between LA and LV too. Laugh

I'm waiting for the next Ice Age myself. The Sahara and the Sonora will become paradises in bloom.

April 10, 2017
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I stand corrected. I-15 is only 80 mph. BTW, one of the most beautiful things in the world, in my mind, are those 80 mph signs. I don't believe I could stand to drive across TX at 55 mph - remember the second to last time I got two speeding tickets within about an hour of each other.

April 11, 2017
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KANSAS is where you get the tickets. They love to nail Californians with Okie and Texan relatives who are just passing through.

I'm glad this thread wandered off topic. I dislike analyzing things I enjoy. Over on my Heinlein group, this really offensive woman was trying to say Heinlein's perfectly human characters were "sociopaths" and I asked her where she got her psychology license... .and further what difference it made.

Psych wannabees really annoy me... especially when someone takes them seriously.

April 11, 2017
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I only took four undergraduate psychology classes and was pleased as punch to have four intelligent, rational, adorable teachers. Until then, anything I'd heard about psychology profs was kind of scary.

April 11, 2017
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Let's talk about them. The social psych prof was a little guy who was hyper. We had both graduated from MSU, so we had that much in common as we were now at the arch enemy, U of M. Folks from MSU, as a general statement, had great senses of humor. This guy used to cross his eyes when he made funny statements. He used to give multiple choice tests and grade them with a key that had a hole punched for the right answer. I never tried to see if he would catch me for filling in all blanks, but I did draw simple pictures - sun, moon, star, sailboat, etc. instead of just filling in the blanks.

The abnormal psych prof had been a victim of rape after getting her degree. She told what it was like to have all these fears in her mind afterward. Intellectually, she knew better, but emotionally, she had to go through the same healing process as everybody else.

My physiology of thought prof, some said looked like a dude on Ghostbusters, but I never saw the movie, so I couldn't relate. I was very intrigued by the subject. I did my term paper on Penfield Wilder, and he asked if he could keep a copy. I was very flattered.

Lastly, for developmental psychology, the prof was collaborating with David Hartman for a TV series entitled 'Seasons of LIfe.' The kids in the class would preview the programs and then take a test. The teacher then used the data to see if he was getting his messages across. The class was already full so I needed special permission to get in. After procuring it from the prof, I was walking down the hall and heard him say to himself, "What am I doing?" I was very grateful for the inconvenience.

Then, I had behavioral psychology, but that was in the education department. The teacher just read us overheads. I didn't like how in the education classes some of the teachers would give you the answers to the tests. It made no sense. I had two teachers I absolutely loved for math/science education. They were sort of like me or Robin Williams. Then, I had a teacher who liked to penalize me and another guy because we were math majors transferring over and we had "too much" math. We never knew exactly how dumb we had to be. We were partners for our term paper - on platonic solids and tessellations. We got together the night before and pulled together about 60 pages worth. At daybreak we went to class while his wife went off to Kinko's to make the requisite copy.

Ah, yes. Those were the days. Back when I had a life. What was the topic here?

April 11, 2017
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And to all you younguns - 60 pages typed on onion skin paper with pen and ink illustrations ain't that easy.

April 11, 2017
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Yike. I didn't get good at typing until word processors were born. UGH>..... yeah I don't do onionskin. You'd have liked my mom, she took shorthand and did all that executive secretary hoo doo.

Social psych.... OOOO that's right I had a crush on him (the proff).... long story. He did head games and I can't deal with that. Doctorate from UCLA. One of the "wrong guys" I get attracted to. Last I saw of him he was hauling a baby around and a pretty wife who had been a student. He looked very happy.

Poor lady... working through a rape in a classroom. shudder. That's all post traumatic stress stuff, I worked a rape crisis hotline for my field experience. I had Abnormal for the summer with a guy who was on sabbatical from Menninger's in Topeka KS. I'm not sure I ever told him one of my great aunts was like one of the first patients there (she had threatened to jump off a building.... lovely woman, real estate viper, and could charm the socks off a snake... if the Lord has a right hand, she is up there at it) Anyway this guy was GREAT talked about LSD and catatonic patients and stuff. I learned a lot from him. He talked "double time" and I actually kept up with him. I smoked that class.

Developmental we had to keep some sort of journal (the usual gabbling out of me, internal work) then he did some guided imagery which is always fun and Jungian. Some group identity stuff. The usual Piaget and Eriksson stuff. I was so intense into the work and the subject matter that I was hallucinating by this point in the program so my journal was pretty weird. When I find it I probably should burn it. I was just getting heavily into Moodies then too, which accounts for much.

Behavioral. My prof had brain damage (very light apparently because he taught the material quite well) but occasionally he would finish class by singing. We all knew he'd had brain trauma so we didn't mind, and we all studied hard, he gave good fair tests. I still love to babble "anticipatory goal response" say it five times fast... and it actually wasn't until years later that I figured out what it was. We drew little diagrams with it.

I've had the material in physiology of thought somewhere along the line. Brain structure is something you can go happily off babbling about, especially if you're into electro-chemical stuff. 12 cranial nerves come off the brain stem, and whatever you do, don't pinch one. Got to dissect a sheep brain, that must have been the class. Just recently I was reading an article about how the strep bacteria can break down the barriers between the blood and brain, and antibodies can get into your brain and make you do weird stuff, like OCD. That stuff gives you the willies if you dig too deeply into it.

I gotta hit the hay. Good talk reviewing all that stuff. Psych is FUN but it's so much more than just course work. That's only the beginning.

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