Comments for One Cobble at a Time http://www.onecobble.com Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:37:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Thoughts on being older and managing my own thoughts by Chris Hansen http://www.onecobble.com/2010/08/17/thoughts-on-being-older-and-managing-my-own-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-10849 Chris Hansen Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:37:44 +0000 http://www.onecobble.com/?p=2927#comment-10849 Well, I wish I could say there was much choice in the matter. When the opportunity presented itself we jumped in but there were a couple of very rough false starts. I'm enjoying comparing what I remember about my interactions with my dad, thirty years my senior, with my interactions with my boys, 33 and 41 years my junior. Well, I wish I could say there was much choice in the matter. When the opportunity presented itself we jumped in but there were a couple of very rough false starts.

I’m enjoying comparing what I remember about my interactions with my dad, thirty years my senior, with my interactions with my boys, 33 and 41 years my junior.

]]> Comment on Thoughts on being older and managing my own thoughts by Sandra Tayler http://www.onecobble.com/2010/08/17/thoughts-on-being-older-and-managing-my-own-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-10846 Sandra Tayler Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:23:34 +0000 http://www.onecobble.com/?p=2927#comment-10846 Eric: You are quite correct about my after the after the fact realizations. Measuring age as adults becomes harder and less important than when school classes made clear delineations. These days I consider anyone born within a decade of when I was born to be my age. That is unless the negative voices in my brain are feeling like prodding me with the getting-old stick. Chris: The increased range in when people choose to begin families does make for some interesting experiential gaps to explore. Eric: You are quite correct about my after the after the fact realizations. Measuring age as adults becomes harder and less important than when school classes made clear delineations. These days I consider anyone born within a decade of when I was born to be my age. That is unless the negative voices in my brain are feeling like prodding me with the getting-old stick.

Chris: The increased range in when people choose to begin families does make for some interesting experiential gaps to explore.

]]> Comment on Thoughts on being older and managing my own thoughts by Chris Hansen http://www.onecobble.com/2010/08/17/thoughts-on-being-older-and-managing-my-own-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-10845 Chris Hansen Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:41:00 +0000 http://www.onecobble.com/?p=2927#comment-10845 Well, I'm slightly older than Eric (44 in a few days) and my kids fall in at the younger end of your family structure (3 and 10). I think you'll find there are all sorts of mixes around. I think you are right though in that sharing experiences helps to round us all out and experience the world from another view point. Either that or I've had too much popcorn and Diet Dr Pepper this evening. Well, I’m slightly older than Eric (44 in a few days) and my kids fall in at the younger end of your family structure (3 and 10). I think you’ll find there are all sorts of mixes around.

I think you are right though in that sharing experiences helps to round us all out and experience the world from another view point.

Either that or I’ve had too much popcorn and Diet Dr Pepper this evening.

]]> Comment on Thoughts on being older and managing my own thoughts by Eric James Stone http://www.onecobble.com/2010/08/17/thoughts-on-being-older-and-managing-my-own-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-10844 Eric James Stone Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:53:29 +0000 http://www.onecobble.com/?p=2927#comment-10844 > It was only after the fact that I realized that I was the oldest person at the event. And now, after the after the fact, you will realize that you were not the oldest person at the event. :-) You and Howard were not only at <a href="http://www.ericjamesstone.com/blog/2007/03/18/i-smell-like-a-monkey-and-i-look-like-one-too/" rel="nofollow">my 40th birthday celebration</a>, it finished up at your house. And that was over three years ago. But I guess in terms of life stages, I'm "younger" than you, because I still haven't entered the marry-and-have-children stage, so your present is (I hope) in my future. > It was only after the fact that I realized that I was the oldest person at the event.

And now, after the after the fact, you will realize that you were not the oldest person at the event. :-)

You and Howard were not only at my 40th birthday celebration, it finished up at your house. And that was over three years ago.

But I guess in terms of life stages, I’m “younger” than you, because I still haven’t entered the marry-and-have-children stage, so your present is (I hope) in my future.

]]> Comment on The Crises of Others by susan brown http://www.onecobble.com/2009/10/24/the-crises-of-others/comment-page-1/#comment-10843 susan brown Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:39:36 +0000 http://www.onecobble.com/?p=2133#comment-10843 Fear not, for I am with thee. Gen 26:24 Fear not, for I am with thee.
Gen 26:24

]]> Comment on Thoughts on ambition in the absense thereof by Sandra Tayler http://www.onecobble.com/2010/07/30/thoughts-on-ambition-in-the-absense-thereof/comment-page-1/#comment-10767 Sandra Tayler Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:24:36 +0000 http://www.onecobble.com/?p=2890#comment-10767 After I posted this, a further thought occurred to me. One of the reasons I am so reluctant to pick up my writing ambitions is that I know that at some time in the future I will again be called upon to lay them down. Letting them go is hard, even when I know I'll get back to them. Just now it seems easier to leave them be. What that says about me and my fears, I'm not entirely sure. I just found it interesting that the thought was in my head. After I posted this, a further thought occurred to me. One of the reasons I am so reluctant to pick up my writing ambitions is that I know that at some time in the future I will again be called upon to lay them down. Letting them go is hard, even when I know I’ll get back to them. Just now it seems easier to leave them be. What that says about me and my fears, I’m not entirely sure. I just found it interesting that the thought was in my head.

]]> Comment on Cleaning a closet by Sandra Tayler http://www.onecobble.com/2010/07/20/cleaning-a-closet/comment-page-1/#comment-10726 Sandra Tayler Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:07:08 +0000 http://www.onecobble.com/?p=2865#comment-10726 I love organizing spaces and getting rid of stuff. It makes me happy. Glad you're making your place into a happier one. I love organizing spaces and getting rid of stuff. It makes me happy. Glad you’re making your place into a happier one.

]]> Comment on Cleaning a closet by Chris Hansen http://www.onecobble.com/2010/07/20/cleaning-a-closet/comment-page-1/#comment-10721 Chris Hansen Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:52:59 +0000 http://www.onecobble.com/?p=2865#comment-10721 I've been emptying a room every three or four days and only putting back what goes there since the first of the month. Driving the missus crazy but I've got the time and energy, apparently. I've found I actually enjoy a couple more rooms in the house! I’ve been emptying a room every three or four days and only putting back what goes there since the first of the month. Driving the missus crazy but I’ve got the time and energy, apparently. I’ve found I actually enjoy a couple more rooms in the house!

]]> Comment on Memories on the walls by Brad R. Torgersen http://www.onecobble.com/2010/06/14/memories-on-the-walls/comment-page-1/#comment-10620 Brad R. Torgersen Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:09:09 +0000 http://www.onecobble.com/?p=2794#comment-10620 When my wife and I bought our house in Sunset, up by Hill Air Force Base, everything in it was old. The entire place looked like it hadn't seen any 'fixing up' since the construction date in 1962. We concluded we'd be ripping almost everything down/out at some point, so we let our daughter go crazy on the walls of her bedroom. There is now a lively menagerie-like picture saga sprawling across every wall, the door, parts of the ceiling, and even the walls of the closet. At first I cringed, then after awhile I realized that when we finally do come to the point of remodeling her room -- we're knocking out the wall between it and the next bedroom, and making her one, large room that ought to do her until she moves out and/or goes to college -- I will not want to do it. Those 'messy' walls are her story, as it were. Fantastical and nonsensical creatures, people, things... almost like pictograms. I wish I had a 'Rosetta Stone' to go with them. One thing is for sure, I am going to photographically capture ALL off it before the sledgehammer begins to swing. Those drawings are priceless. When my wife and I bought our house in Sunset, up by Hill Air Force Base, everything in it was old. The entire place looked like it hadn’t seen any ‘fixing up’ since the construction date in 1962. We concluded we’d be ripping almost everything down/out at some point, so we let our daughter go crazy on the walls of her bedroom. There is now a lively menagerie-like picture saga sprawling across every wall, the door, parts of the ceiling, and even the walls of the closet. At first I cringed, then after awhile I realized that when we finally do come to the point of remodeling her room — we’re knocking out the wall between it and the next bedroom, and making her one, large room that ought to do her until she moves out and/or goes to college — I will not want to do it. Those ‘messy’ walls are her story, as it were. Fantastical and nonsensical creatures, people, things… almost like pictograms. I wish I had a ‘Rosetta Stone’ to go with them. One thing is for sure, I am going to photographically capture ALL off it before the sledgehammer begins to swing. Those drawings are priceless.

]]> Comment on The Schlock Mercenary Anniversary Party by Free-range Oyster http://www.onecobble.com/2010/06/12/the-schlock-mercenary-anniversary-party/comment-page-1/#comment-10598 Free-range Oyster Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:23:29 +0000 http://www.onecobble.com/?p=2782#comment-10598 Wish I could have been there! Congrats to you both. You all are truly amazing. Here's to the next ten years of hilarity and hard work. Wish I could have been there! Congrats to you both. You all are truly amazing. Here’s to the next ten years of hilarity and hard work.

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