Hey Sharon!   
      
   Sep 08 13:54 05, Sharon Coyne wrote to Maurice Kinal:   
      
    SC>>> Oh I forgot. I'd get less money if you sent Canadian. Oh well.   
    SC>>> :-( hehehe   
      
    MK>> Errrrr ... sort of ... from your perspective it would be less, but   
    MK>> from my perspective it would be more ... too much really.  ;-)   
      
    SC> I guess that idea just went out of the window then, huh? :-)   
      
   I'd say that was a good idea gone bad.  If I had any extra I probably wouldn't   
   mind but don't hold your breath on it.   
      
    SC> My oldest daughter has a digital camera and doesn't have a computer.    
    SC> She takes   
    SC> her pics to one of those machines where you put the disk in and can    
    SC> print out   
    SC> the pics. The ones I've seen turned out pretty good and didn't cost    
    SC> too much   
    SC> either. I know that one way you would really lose if you had a lot of    
    SC> pics to   
    SC> print is the ink. I don't even have ink here most of the time.   
      
   That is the big thing with those kind of things.  You end up spending more on   
   special ink cartridges and paper then the thing is worth.  I don't take that   
   many pictures these days to bother with that.  Besides there are places that   
   already can do it for me and also make different sizes.  For what it is worth   
   I think that is the way to go.   
      
    MK>>   System, society, pot-eh-toe, pot-ah-toe.  No?   
      
    SC> Not really, I was talking about people's attitudes about the divorced    
    SC> person,   
    SC> not how the "system" handles things.   
      
   Ah!  Yeah all my married friends no longer are 'allowed' to hang out with me.    
   I think their wives think it might be contagious.  :-)   
      
   Yeah things definetly change, some of them definetly not for the better, once   
   seperated/divorced.  Although it is tempting to blame someone else for what   
   happens after it really isn't fair.  Over time I got used to all the bad stuff   
   that goes along with not being paired off.  I guess neither of us will make it   
   to the Ark eh?   
      
    SC> This is funny because most people I know, even getting half, doesn't    
    SC> get much   
    SC> because I don't know any rich people.   
      
   I used to but I am not really sure they were really that much better off given   
   the higher maintenance it took to keep up with appearances and also the   
   divorces there were REALLY messy in comparison to those who never really had   
   anything to speak of.   
      
    SC> My ex and I didn't even have    
    SC> anything to   
    SC> split in half.   
      
   We did but handled it differently then most.  Possessions were sort of obvious   
   whose were whose due to differing interests and as far as property went I   
   signed it over to her and the kids since it was considered a family thing.  I   
   would have never bought into real estate, or at least not in suburbia, had it   
   not been for a family.  Later when she moved she sold it and after all the   
   legal mumbo-jumbo and real estate agent fees etc. there wasn't much left   
   anyhow but it helped out with the move so it all worked out in the end ...   
   sort of.  Best it could anyhow.   
      
    SV> In fact, *I* was the one who got the debt because of    
    SC> my own   
    SC> stupidity. We separated for a couple years at which time I put all    
    SC> the   
    SC> utilities in my name. We got back together and I didn't see the point    
    SC> of   
    SC> changing the bills back to his name. My dumb ass lawyer didn't tell    
    SC> me that I   
    SC> could give him half of those bills to pay, and that could be done    
    SC> legally per   
    SC> the gas and electric companies. It was too late though by the time I    
    SC> talked to   
    SC> them.   
      
   I hear you.  That really sucks.  I feel for you.   
      
    SC> My situation is the same as yours. Well, I wouldn't go back because    
    SC> of the   
    SC> drinking, which although it drove me crazy living with him, doesn't    
    SC> bother me   
    SC> now. He has a heart of gold and is a great father and grandfather.   
      
   Me too except I don't drink that much.  Not enough that it is a problem,   
   especially to anyone else.  It certainly wasn't a reason for either of us   
   splitting up.   
      
    SC> I've always had more male friends than female ones, even as a kid.    
      
   Depends what age, but as I got older female friends became fewer.  Not sure   
   why.  The ones I did have were excellent though, minus a few girlfriends which   
   is different.   
      
    SC> Females have   
    SC> a tendency to want "girl talk" about husbands, kids, how to decorate    
    SC> the house,   
    SC> etc.   
      
   Same with guys except the 'how' part tends to be a bit more technical then the   
   women's 'how'.   
      
    SC> and although I love talking about the kids and grandkids, I'm    
    SC> just not   
    SC> really into the other "girl talk".   
      
   Same with guys.  :-)   
      
    SC> With all the friendships I've had    
    SC> over the   
    SC> years with men, I don't understand why you think it is difficult.   
      
   Perhaps you and I would make great friends but you sound very much different   
   then most women I meet.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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