Yes, keep him busy & AWAY from people who use. That's vital.

Does your daughter-in-law have her own family?

That's why I thought a job at the dump might be good.
She does have a large family. Unfortunately most of them are in gangs.

Depends on the year, I guess. We got a couple of inches last night and an inch here and there but we normally don't get anything major. We usually get hit with the freezing rain and ice. I live in Illinois. That is definitely a lot of snow though.

I have the same TV Woes with LOCI. Except I have cable. Why has USA cut back?

I have no idea but it seems they are showing more SVU instead of CI and SVU is fine but I have seen those episodes so many times I know them forwards, backwards, sideways and upside down and personally I am getting off the SVU wagon train and I want on the CI train. I only watch the new SVU episodes and that's it. The CI, I am addicted to, maybe because I have so many I haven't seen yet.

Ciaddict - my thoughts and prayers are with your family and son. I hope it goes well for all of you. We're here if you need to talk.

Tell me about it. I'm still waiting for them to air Senseless. Luckily, Access here in Alberta has weekday showings of seasons 1-5. That's why I was able to watch them all during the summer. Oh, and cifan70, here in Calgary we don't have nearly as much snow as rural Ontario. Chinooks are so great. When I was in Edmonton this Christmas, a friend of mine was complaining at the 4" of snow, calling it a snowdrift. IMO, a snowdrift is taller then you are, and something you can climb.

So sorry to hear about the drug deaths. HL was just four years older then me, which is very sad. Ciaddict, I think you are doing the right thing by giving your son a chance at a job. I hope and pray that things work out for him and his wife.

Hey, I was watching "Watch" tonight and I noticed that the actor that played the dad is the current Chief of D's!

Yeah 4" isn't much for us either. We start worrying when it hits 6" or more. The roads really get bad to drive on. And you're right IMO also a snowdrift is taller than you or I and we would have to be able to climb it, definitely.

Ciaddict, my thoughts and prayers are with you. Hope everything works out ok.

Oh my goodness! I'm at my mother's and she was watching SVU. It ended and LOCI came on and she picked up the remote to change the channel if it turned out to be a Goren episode (he gives her the creeps--go figure!). As soon as it showed the guy in the car and the prostitute coming on to him, I knew it was Watch and told Mom, "Oh this is a Logan episode". She put down the remote and laughed that I knew the episode from that brief look. Yes, my life is sad!

I noticed that, too.

Hey all! That's so awful about Heath Ledger. I loved him in the Patriot with Mel Gibson. It seems these young stars get into some kind of turmoil. Look at Britney Spears, I'm afraid she's might be next, God forbid. One more thing, Mr. Phil needs to leave these people alone! IMO!

CI. I'm praying for you and your family! K-Rod

They seem to show the SAME SVU eps OVER & OVER. The other night they actually showed a season one epi. I know this, because I had just watched it on Friday since I'm getting the SVU DVDs from Netflix.


Dr Phil is a quack. One completely tasteless, politically incorrect, yet hilarious podcast I listen to has a running thing of saying "Britney is still alive today," every couple of days. When the host remembers... She's really headed towards the end of the line fast. I hope she's able to find some REAL help sometime very soon.

Where and how do you guys get your ci pics on your postings? CIFan, I love the Goren dance, where did you find it, if you don’t mind me asking? If this is covered in an existing thread, just let me know which one.

Same way you got your image in your sig. Pop your desired picture into Photobucket and use the [IMG] tagged one to Post Your Picture! Whatever that may be.

I don't know if the far left Goren dance came from here, but I know the one on the right did.
CI Graphics Livejournal Community

My advice is to take JanxAngel's word for it! She helped me tremendously!

Now that I've got Photoshop at work again, I'll be able to do more stuff for people too. TennCI, you'll have a sig soon! Heh heh... If you pronounce that it sounds like Ten-see. Now I'll hear it like that in my head forever... LOL.

I have to report something very disturbing to you all... today when I was eating my cashew nuts at work I started lining them up in a row before eating them!!!!!!.... I know.... I quickly scrambled the whole lot and ate them so I think I am okay.... What to you think.... Do I need help????


Cloggs

I don't know, Cloggs, maybe we should have Bobby Goren come and profile you!

I think you just did that subconsciously because you want Bobby to come visit you.


Thanks Janxangel for the suggestion. I made my Carolina signature a couple years ago I think, so I really don’t know what I did!

Ooh, yes please!! I think I am in serious need of help.

maybe you are, maybe you're not. Either way you get to spend time with Bobby. I think that would help if you do in fact need help.

I know I need help so can you send him my way when you're done?

ciaddict, prayers are going up for you and your son and family right now.

Hey guys, i didnt know where to put this, so Off Topic seemed right.

A friend of mine from highschool died last night, so i might not be online for a few days. He was only 18 years old.


Take care everyone.

I'm so sorry Valley. Take care of yourself. Our best wishes are with you.

So sorry to hear that, Valley. We'll still be here whenever you feel like coming back. Prayers going up for Valley and her friend's family.

My condolences Valley

Take care of yourself, Valley. Thoughts and prayers are with you.

I'm very sorry to hear that Valley.

CIAddict: I'm trusting God to turn this around for you. I can imagine that it is a very difficult time for you and your family.

Look in my sig then. Links are there to help you.


Very sorry to hear that Valley. Take care of yourself, we're here if you need us.

So sorry to hear that, Valley. I'm sending prayers and hugs your way, and for his family as well.

Dear KR,

My prayers to this young men and their families. Very tragic to see young people go like that. I just realized that Brad Renfro was on the episode Watch from Season 5. I just watched that episode the other night.


to CIAddict,
Best wishes for your son's health

to Jryan,
Best wished for your kittie's health



to Valley of the Shadow,

I am sorry about your loss. Prayers to you and your friend's family

I'm so sorry Valley! You're in my thoughts!

Valley - I'm here for you my friend. If you need to talk I'm here for you. (hugs and prayers).

So sorry Valley. Thoughts and prayers go out to you. Take care of yourself and best wishes.

So sorry Valley, my thoughts and prayers to the family.

Valley, My heartfelt condolences on your loss. No one should die that young. You and your friend's family are in my prayers.

CIAddict - I hope and pray that your son has the strength to keep himself well. I know it can be done, I have a sibling who had a similar problem and has been clean for over 15 years now.

JRyan - I'm holding good thoughts about your cat. I can just imagine your dog defending Tiger, just like a brother. Maybe he can pick on tiger, but heaven help the outsider who tries it.

KR - sympathies on your friend's son's passing. Again, he was way too young.

Prayers up for you, your son and your family, ciaddict.

Sorry this is so late! I missed your initial post.


spook

How tragic. I'm so sorry, valley.

Be strong, sweetheart. The next few days are going to be very tough. God, His poor family.....

I am so sorry to hear about this. My thoughts and prayers are with you and the family at this difficult time.

*hugs*

I too am so sorry! I lost my best friend at 16. I named my daughter after her. May God Bless you and yours. K-Rod

Everyone in my office is in a lather today. I had a Fair Hearing scheduled yesterday afternoon--I decreased a client's hours when I did his yearly review. Its a pretty simple procedure--and Administrative Law Judge hears from the client why he/she thinks we were wrong, we tell why we did what we did, then in about 30 days we get a decision. Sometimes we win, sometimes we don't. But I got there yesterday with the social worker who is our Fair Hearings Officer. We got there 5 minutes before the hearing was scheduled (actually, I looked and by the clock in the room where the hearing was being held, we were 10 minutes early)--and the judge was ushering the client out. He told us they had finished the hearing! The Fair Hearings Officer pointed out that he didn't even have our position statement and he said that was noted in the record. He said he had 3 hearings scheduled for that time and the client had been there for an hour. I've been working in this program for 7 years and have had a few Fair Hearings, but I've never heard of anything like this! And neither has our Fair Hearings Officer. If the decision is in the client's favor (and I assume it will be, since the judge never even heard the reasons for the decrease in hours), she can file an appeal. But this is just too wierd. As word gets around the office, the other workers are flabbergasted! This is one decision I can't wait to read! He has 30 days to make his decision--it will be hard to wait.

That's so sad... thinking of you!!!

Cloggs

Does sound fishy! It also sounds like a plot for an SVU epi -- guess those story lines really are "ripped from the headlines"!

Maybe Elliot could "go Stabler" on the judge! But as much as I would enjoy that, I think I would prefer to be interviewed by one of those hunky detectives over at the Major Case Squad.

*thinks and prays for each person who is ggoing through difficulty right now*

OK - I have a question and wasn't sure where to post it. So here goes - when you folks do your photoshop artwork and it's posted here, does it automatically become 'public domain'? My reason for asking is - I was over at msn.com looking for pictures of guess who - and Lozzie's pirate pic of Goren and Eames is on msn for the world to see, along with a couple other pics I've seen but they could have already been there and just got photobucketed to here.

Just wondering how that works since I don't want my JanxAngel collage to wind up in the wrong hands!

Technically, we're all horrible lawbreakers... We should be getting permission for each and every image we use. No one is ever really going to enforce that as long as we're not using it for profit or commiting libel/slander. So, as the lawless free for all of image posting goes: If you post it, it's fair game. Now in the way of the Great Internet Social Contract, the unofficial, unwritten rules that try to keep this a sane and mostly civil place, it's considered quite in bad form for people to take credit for other people's work. They can post it where ever they'd like, and as long as they're at the very least not claiming it's their own work, but not giving credit, no one will give them much in the way of frowny faces.

If you DO find someone claiming yours or someone else's work as their own, heads up the creator (if it's not you) and the poster, telling them you suspect it belongs to someone else and asking for any kind of proof of creation. That kind of thing WILL get around to people. Especially if they can't prove it's their work and you and your friends tell the world. State facts and not personal attacks to maintain your own credibility.

If it's a totally original work, then that's a whole nother hill of beans. I've seen a couple pieces on DeviantArt that have been ripped off by unscrupulous companies looking for ad illustrations, but not wanting to pay. That kind of thing there's actually at least a little bit of legal recourse for.