Hiya, Grunt! Wow, that's heady news about Atticus. Coolest of cool! Law school, eh? Geez, I hope the WBTS boys don't scoop him back up once he's passed the bar! :)
About arguing, actually, I don't argue with Shelby. Now and then I just have to do a little dance for her, to get a reaction check.
It's like when you've parked and are walking in to the store, and as you pass a car you see somebody's little chihuahua at the window, barking furiously at you. Now, you know, and the dog knows, that it is not a big hulking guard dog protecting the car from your potential vandalism. But there it is, acting the fool all the same.
Well, when I see this I usually figure the poor doggie must be bored to tears sitting out there in the still car, waiting for Mum to come back. So, I give it a little excitement. I stand still looking at it until it stops barking and just stands there looking at me out of the corner of its eye. Then, I flop my arms and shuffle my feet a little bit. This sets off another bout of furious barking and snarling, spitting on the window and such. The Great Pretender in action! Look out now, son, gonna gitcha! So I stand still again, waiting until he calms down to nothing but a stare again. Then I make a face, wiggle my eyebrows, do fish lips... you'd think they wouldn't notice, but, no, even this miniscule movement is enough to set them off again!
And so it is with Shelby. Every now and then I wiggle my eyebrows at her, just to see the hilarious reaction.
Have you noticed that, here lately, God has spoken through her so often that she's found it necessary to post a notice to us, to let us know when it isn't him? See, for just one example, her notification at the end of this one: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=9462&site=3
I guess we should assume any time that notice isn't there, that it's really God speaking.
Am I dating the teacher? Well, actually, she's the Director of Grants and Federal Funds for the school district here, now. And, we see each other now and then, as friends, but nothing more. She is a fine woman and a good friend, but we had some serious compatibility problems, so we're holding it to just friendship.
"A waste of bandwidth,", eh? LOL I do believe that must have been Linda, the Christian who'd had the baptism of fire. She got kind of hot at me, there at the end. :) Ah, me...
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