Jwmblade:

Just because I thought you should know.

Today's Birthdays: Kingh Henry VII would be 516, Comedian-movie director Mel Brooks is 81. Pat Morita is 75, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., is 73. Former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta is 69. Rock musician Dave Knights (Procul Harum) is 62. Actor Bruce Davison is 61. Actress Kathy Bates is 59. Actress Alice Krige is 53. Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 47. Record company chief executive Tony Mercedes is 45. Actress Jessica Hecht is 42. Rock musician Saul Davies (James) is 42. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is 41. Actor John Cusack is 41. Actor Gil Bellows is 40. Actress-singer Danielle Brisebois is 38. Jazz musician Jimmy Sommers is 38. Actress Tichina Arnold is 36. The Mighty Jwmblade is 36, Actor Alessandro Nivola is 35.

Well then happy birthday King Henry VII! Shame he can't be here to celebrate it with us.

Hope you have a good birthday, Jwm!

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Scratchit: But he's a cripple!
Blackadder: He's not a cripple, Mrs Scratchit. Occasionally saying "Phew! My leg hurts!" when he remembers to wouldn't fool Baldrick!

Picked a good day to return to the forum. Happy Birthday, Jwm! (and also to Henry VII - the toughest of the Tudors)

Really? Because I think either of his Granddaughters would have given him a run for his money in the toughness stakes.

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Scratchit: But he's a cripple!
Blackadder: He's not a cripple, Mrs Scratchit. Occasionally saying "Phew! My leg hurts!" when he remembers to wouldn't fool Baldrick!

They were all a pretty hard bunch (young Ed can be excused because he didn't have much of a chance to show his skills), and I agree that there's not much between them in the toughness stakes. Henry VII first had to win the job and then ensure that the dynasty survived through a series of carefully arranged marriages between the Yorks and the Lancasters, thus allowing his descendants to walk into the job and set the heads a'rolling.

Yeah I guess, he literally had to fight for his crown. Did Jwm have to fight his one?

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Scratchit: But he's a cripple!
Blackadder: He's not a cripple, Mrs Scratchit. Occasionally saying "Phew! My leg hurts!" when he remembers to wouldn't fool Baldrick!

Happy Birthday Jwm! Yeesh, 13 hours? I once rode all the way from Florida to California but I was really young so barely remember it... then there was the bus ride from California to Texas... Three days and three nights... OKay maybe 13 hours isn't so bad after all.

How is California by the way? I kinda miss it... :(

3 days and 3 nights on a bus sounds like torture to me. So yeah 13 hours is not very bad.

 

Well California is doing fine the weather is well as it always is. Not as hot as Texas I would imagine, well at least not here in Northern California. You know it has been a bit quieter here since you left. I guess all those emergency rescue squad people found other work.

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H-here, b-bunny, bunny, bunny...

They might have followed Twitch, after all they are very experienced in dealing with Gnomish invention related injuries.

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Scratchit: But he's a cripple!
Blackadder: He's not a cripple, Mrs Scratchit. Occasionally saying "Phew! My leg hurts!" when he remembers to wouldn't fool Baldrick!

Just wanted to let everyone know. I got the letter from the California State Board of Professional Engineers yestrerday, notifying me that I have passed the exam for my Professional Liscense. I am now a Professional Electrical Engineer.

Wahooooooooo!

Last April I sat for the 8 hour exam. After the test I thought I might have a very small chance of passing. I guess it was enough. 

No more endless week ends of studying for the exam or worring about finding another liscenced engineer at work to stamp and sign the plans I produce. I am very happy.

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H-here, b-bunny, bunny, bunny...

Congrats, jwm!

An 8 hour exam?? Must have been hell (particularly if no toilet breaks were permitted).

You could get up and go to the toilet any time you wanted, but they did not stop the clock for you.

 

The actual test time was 8 hours. I was at the building for 12 hours. You had to factor in waiting in line to get in the building, checking in, waiting for the other 1000 people to check in, listening to the test proctor read the instructions (very slowly), lunch time, waiting to get back into the building after lunch, checking in again, waiting for everyone else to check in, listening to the test proctor read the instructions again (very slowly). The freaking thing took forever. But I don't have to do that again.

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H-here, b-bunny, bunny, bunny...

I think that proctors the world over either have to be:

(a) unable to read faster than a dozy sloth

or

(b) be naturally sadistic and have a psychopathic hatred of exam-sitters.

Congratulations, Jwm!I'm sure you'll be a credit to electrical engineers everywhere!

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Scratchit: But he's a cripple!
Blackadder: He's not a cripple, Mrs Scratchit. Occasionally saying "Phew! My leg hurts!" when he remembers to wouldn't fool Baldrick!

A belated congratulations, Jwm! 

You work hard and do what you got to do and you move up in life when you take the right paths.  Im happy youre continuing to live the dream.  Keep at it man

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If at first you dont succeed, dont try skydiving
Both diapers and politicians need to be changed--and usually for the same reasons

Welcome back, Tybaltus. How goes your career?