The quiet thread...no, not that one

[SBG]

LOL!!

That is awesome! I totally agree with you about living a simple and humble life. We are now working to get my wife to stop working so she can stay home with our baby that is coming soon. I have been doing freelance web design, but benefits (medical, etc) are uhm none. So, I just accepted a position with a web firm in their sales department. This will allow my wife to be home permantly with our baby.

IT is really an exciting time right now for us. A lot of changes are happening.

 

[chaoschristian]

LOL!!

That is awesome! I totally agree with you about living a simple and humble life. We are now working to get my wife to stop working so she can stay home with our baby that is coming soon. I have been doing freelance web design, but benefits (medical, etc) are uhm none. So, I just accepted a position with a web firm in their sales department. This will allow my wife to be home permantly with our baby.

IT is really an exciting time right now for us. A lot of changes are happening.

New baby, eh?

Both of you gets LOTS of sleep now and be prepared to be tired in a whole new way that you have never felt before.

Benes are so important. I'm no socialist, but we've got to do something about healthcare and healthcare costs in the US. From what I hear directly from web friends in Canada their system is better than what some would have us believe.

 

[SBG]

hahaha!!

I agree, our healthcare system is sorely lacking and behind. In the '50s, taxes for families used to be 2% of earnings. Today, it is an average of 27% and the population is greater. We have a serious spending problem as well as a debt problem here in the U.S. that has caused the high inflation of taxes.

Then we have Alan Greenspan who just crushed the average Americans with the short term rate drop that caused homes to sky rocket into prices that we can now not afford. I am betting this is going to be year of forclosures and rental price inflation. It will be a great year for real estate investors though.

 

[mark kennedy]

LOL!!

That is awesome! I totally agree with you about living a simple and humble life.

I hope you will forgive the off topic comment but I have a quote I thought you might find interesting.

"Humility, the sweetest loveliest flower to grow in Eden. It was the first to die and has seldom been seen since. It is so delicate that it perishes if it but looks upon itself and he who esteems it his proves by that very thought he has it not." (C. Dickens, Oliver)

Now, back to the regularly scheduled discussion.

Grace and peace,
Mark

 

[shernren]

Wow chaoschristian, you mean you are a "house-husband"? Haha that's pretty cool. How long have you been doing this? I'm sure you've gotten used to the "weird looks" by now ... over here that sort of thing would be quite unimaginable - most single-salary situations would involve a husband working and a wife at home, never the other way around!

Did you find that you had to cut back on expenses to make it work? And was it hard for you to do so?

(Hehe - am really interested ... )

 

[chaoschristian]

Wow chaoschristian, you mean you are a "house-husband"? Haha that's pretty cool. How long have you been doing this? I'm sure you've gotten used to the "weird looks" by now ... over here that sort of thing would be quite unimaginable - most single-salary situations would involve a husband working and a wife at home, never the other way around!

Did you find that you had to cut back on expenses to make it work? And was it hard for you to do so?

(Hehe - am really interested ... )

Well, I'm not the only one, but to find other 'house-husbands' is rare, online and especially in real life.

Most people are very supportive. In fact, I've gotten more support who are strangers than we d0 from some of our own family members (hoho the stories I could tell). If my son and I have errands to run during the day we can expect to get at least some double takes and at least one "oh, no school today?" Most people just expect kids to be in school and men to be at work.

We've been doing the single-income (or nearly single-income) life style for about seven years. I'll have my first aniversary as a 'house-husband' this March. We've learned to reduce expenses over that time. Shop and buy smart, discern between wants and needs, try and stay on a budget.

We made a strategic move about five months ago when we decided to sell our house in a hyper-escelated real estate market and settle in my old home state in a town with a really low cost of living. Our profit was so large from the sell of our first house we were able to pay off all of our debt and buy a new house outright so that we wouldn't have a mortgage to deal with. That move was hard, but it has made a huge difference in our peace of mind.

And like I said earlier, the reason that it is my wife who works and not me is primarily related to her excellent job benefits. But it was also related to the fact that she has a job she can leave at the office, while I was involved in work that had a habit of following me home.

An interesting sociological observation that I've made during this time is just how strongly the identity of men is tied to their work or careers. When a person encounters a man who doesn't work and who also isn't an obvious bum they don't quite know what to make of it.

 

[SBG]

I hope you will forgive the off topic comment but I have a quote I thought you might find interesting.

"Humility, the sweetest loveliest flower to grow in Eden. It was the first to die and has seldom been seen since. It is so delicate that it perishes if it but looks upon itself and he who esteems it his proves by that very thought he has it not." (C. Dickens, Oliver)

Now, back to the regularly scheduled discussion.

Grace and peace,
Mark

This topic is all about being off topic of the forum.

I like that quote!

 

[jamesMarion]

My handle is part of my name. I also wanted one that said "raised by a Catholic".
I helped a lady at my church piece together a computer and she told me about this place.
I run a small machine shop.
Great idea for a thread.

 

[chaoschristian]

We just finished watching the History Channel's History's Mysteries show on Japan's Mysterious Sunken Pyramids. It's a very good show for those who are interested in exploring possible evidence of civilizations more ancient than those currently recognized and accepted.

 

[SBG]

Interesting, could you sum up what it talked about?

 

[chaoschristian]

Interesting, could you sum up what it talked about?

Discovery of a rock formation off the coast of one of the southern most islands of Japan. The formation looks like its man-made. If it was, then considering its depth, then it would have to have been built pre-ice age. This was then linked to the world wide flood mythologies, Atlantis, etc.

Further investigation revealed that the rock cleaved naturally, much like the Bihimi Road in the Atlantic thought to be part of Atlantis. However, there were anamolous formations that could have been carvings (a giant head, a plumed serpent, a turtle.) Speculation about an early civilization using the natural formation as a logical place to have some sort fo activity.

So, if you are into flood mythologies, pre-ice age civilization speculation and really cooled historical anamolies, then you would enjoy this show. I for one am undecided on this one and would love to see more research devoted to the site.

Interesting part though - you could tell that some of the people involved just WANTED this to be "the proof" that they were looking for to prove some point they hold near and dear. I ran into a guy like that once in the Yucatan, Mexico. Some German fellow who took Danikan far too seriously and was convinced the Mayans had space-flight. He wanted the carvings at Chichen Itza to be 'the proof' he needed, regardless of the fact that the carvings could be interpretted a number of different other ways that all made more sense.

 

[SBG]

That is fascinating. I will have to go look this up. Thanks!!

 

[chaoschristian]

Hey all. Just wanted to see how the folks who frequented this part of CF are taking in the recent changes.

I still experiencing significant lag on loading pages, and I don't like the intermediate screen that occurs between posts.

I'm not doing this to start a gripe, just to get a little non-ToE discussion going.

Overall I do like the new look and I hope that overall things will function more smoothly once Erwin has a chance to excise the bugs.

Oh, and neoBSG is on Sci-Fi right now if anyone is interested.

 

[shernren]

To be honest I felt that it was already cluttered before, and now the clutterfeeling is worse. No offense to the admin people - I know that you've put in a lot of work and I appreciate it. But in terms of graphics there really is too much useless eye candy. Is the header graphic a graphic, or a menu bar? And why is it so tall? - if we took the "members - help/FAQ" bar (never mind that all those sections are duplicated in the proper menu bar below) and fit it in the unused space under the CF logo we could potentially cut the screen space of the header by one third at least.

The worst of it is that often, cosmetic changes are the least labour-intensive of changes - it just requires changing graphics and css-files. The easiest things to do right aren't. Bling hurts usability.