From: carol bea
Sent: Thu 11/25/10 11:33 AM
Happy Birthday Brother
You are now an "Elder"
I need to touch the hem of one of your garments.
Hope you don't mind sharing the day with a turkey.
love
Greg and Carol
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
NY Tourists
Posted on FB:
11/24/2010 1:04PM
Off topic but had to ans your post about new york tourists, we lived in Sedona Arizona for years and tourists were the bane of the town, but we were constantly reminded that their money was important to our ecomony. we visited New york a few years ago, used the subways to get a true New York experience. we learned not to ask white people for directions as most of them didn't speak english, if they did they were in a hurry and not helpfull. The black people all spoke english and were friendly and helpfull.In my experience, it's smart to be friendly to the person that feeds you. Thankyou to all the African Americans who helped make our vacation an enjoyable one.
(Carol)
11/24/2010 1:04PM
Off topic but had to ans your post about new york tourists, we lived in Sedona Arizona for years and tourists were the bane of the town, but we were constantly reminded that their money was important to our ecomony. we visited New york a few years ago, used the subways to get a true New York experience. we learned not to ask white people for directions as most of them didn't speak english, if they did they were in a hurry and not helpfull. The black people all spoke english and were friendly and helpfull.In my experience, it's smart to be friendly to the person that feeds you. Thankyou to all the African Americans who helped make our vacation an enjoyable one.
(Carol)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Snow in the Night
Note to reader:
This isn't a very funny email in itself, like the previous ones, but I thought it worth showing. This is the snowy view from my parents' front porch in Seattle. It has snowed in Seattle. It has snowed in Missoula, where my sister is. Both places have several inches, if not feet of snow. I don't remember the last time we had snow in Seattle in November. It would always rain on my birthday, never snow. Missoula I've never been to, snow might be typical there, whatever.
All I have to really say about this is, New York City is 60 degrees and sunny today. I'm wearing flip flops and a light sweatshirt.
Ha. Ha.
Monday, November 22, 2010
another one!
From: STEVEN BEA
Sent: Mon 11/22/10 1:38 AM
To: Bethany Bea; Marissa Bea
Dear Beth, and Marissa,
I'm letting Marissa in on our informal tracking of those coincidences where you hear or see something for the first time, and then again almost immediately in an unrelated context. (What's a good word for those?) Here's another: today at work I was reading some magazine article and it referred to seagulls "laughing" at some people. Think about the seagull sound - it is like a laugh. But I don't think I've ever heard that expression before. Just now on the 10:00 news there was a story about a man proposing at the waterfront and the ring fell and bounced in to the Sound. You guessed it - the man felt the seagulls were laughing at him.
Spooky
Love and chills,
Dad
Sent: Mon 11/22/10 1:38 AM
To: Bethany Bea; Marissa Bea
Dear Beth, and Marissa,
I'm letting Marissa in on our informal tracking of those coincidences where you hear or see something for the first time, and then again almost immediately in an unrelated context. (What's a good word for those?) Here's another: today at work I was reading some magazine article and it referred to seagulls "laughing" at some people. Think about the seagull sound - it is like a laugh. But I don't think I've ever heard that expression before. Just now on the 10:00 news there was a story about a man proposing at the waterfront and the ring fell and bounced in to the Sound. You guessed it - the man felt the seagulls were laughing at him.
Spooky
Love and chills,
Dad
Saturday, November 20, 2010
RE: rocket man
Well thank God it was only road cinders or we would not be having this
entertaining thread going on!!! I can hardly wait to see what kind of
free-association threads we get when you guys are retired!!!!
Carolyn
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From: carol bea
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 1:59 PM
Steve
I believe you owed me for shooting you, in the neck, with a shotgun air-rifle filled with road cinders, when you were about five years old.
I believe I told you to "MOVE"............and you didn't.
g
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Laura Capellaro wrote:
and men wonder what we're thinking.... your right carolyn he's a nut! Oh yep it's me ...apparently I fell off the earth agaain and 277 e-mails later (have to figure out a quicker way to delete junk) I missed killer goats (what rabbit ?) ,a fire, old farts, greg in HAWAII, and a tick warning! I'll try to start fresh with Thanksgiving... Happy Thanksgivng! L :)
entertaining thread going on!!! I can hardly wait to see what kind of
free-association threads we get when you guys are retired!!!!
Carolyn
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From: carol bea
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 1:59 PM
Steve
I believe you owed me for shooting you, in the neck, with a shotgun air-rifle filled with road cinders, when you were about five years old.
I believe I told you to "MOVE"............and you didn't.
g
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Laura Capellaro wrote:
and men wonder what we're thinking.... your right carolyn he's a nut! Oh yep it's me ...apparently I fell off the earth agaain and 277 e-mails later (have to figure out a quicker way to delete junk) I missed killer goats (what rabbit ?) ,a fire, old farts, greg in HAWAII, and a tick warning! I'll try to start fresh with Thanksgiving... Happy Thanksgivng! L :)
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
RE: Tough times ahead
From: Marissa Bea
Sent: Mon 11/15/10 5:30 PM
To: Bethany Bea; Home); Carolyn Bea
BUT, you don't actually know if this is the mother looking for work you know. This could be the father looking for extra money to help out. In which case, despite the obvious lack of a proper grasp on grammar, this could be a hard working citizen just looking to make a better life for his new baby.
Geez, why are you SO judgmental?
:)
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From: Bethany Bea
Sent: Wed 11/17/10 4:50 PM
To: mommy; Marissa Bea; STEVEN BEA
I admit, I figured it was the mom. I still do. Can't say why, it just feels like a girl behind those words. But, whether it's a single mom or a father with good intentions, I meant to press the point that times will be tough because they are obviously so, so stupid.
Love,
Bethany
Sent: Mon 11/15/10 5:30 PM
To: Bethany Bea; Home); Carolyn Bea
BUT, you don't actually know if this is the mother looking for work you know. This could be the father looking for extra money to help out. In which case, despite the obvious lack of a proper grasp on grammar, this could be a hard working citizen just looking to make a better life for his new baby.
Geez, why are you SO judgmental?
:)
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From: Bethany Bea
Sent: Wed 11/17/10 4:50 PM
To: mommy; Marissa Bea; STEVEN BEA
I admit, I figured it was the mom. I still do. Can't say why, it just feels like a girl behind those words. But, whether it's a single mom or a father with good intentions, I meant to press the point that times will be tough because they are obviously so, so stupid.
Love,
Bethany
$
From: STEVEN BEA
Sent: Tue 11/16/10 7:49 PM
To: Marissa Bea
Hi Sweetheart,
But first, on the msn home page today they had a link to "most popular jobs in America" (really, the ones with the most people; I don't think "food service worker" is really popular), and there I learned that there are 131.5 million people in the labor force in America, out of about 310 million people, and of them 1170 are "geographers". I tell you this because you are so sharp at geography. It was not one of the most "popular" jobs, being 0.0000088 percent of the labor force. I clicked on "geographers" to see what they do, and found an ad to hire a "highly innovative" geographer for a "natural resources intelligence " company. Don't know what that job would involve, but probably not reciting African capitals.
I put $250 in your account today for your health care premium.
Love,
your Daddy
P.S. I shifted things from my old fallen-apart wallet today to a new one. I had 3 pictures of you; 2 of them, I couldn't tell which was more recent. I have dates on your sister's pics. Maybe you can help me in December.
Sent: Tue 11/16/10 7:49 PM
To: Marissa Bea
Hi Sweetheart,
But first, on the msn home page today they had a link to "most popular jobs in America" (really, the ones with the most people; I don't think "food service worker" is really popular), and there I learned that there are 131.5 million people in the labor force in America, out of about 310 million people, and of them 1170 are "geographers". I tell you this because you are so sharp at geography. It was not one of the most "popular" jobs, being 0.0000088 percent of the labor force. I clicked on "geographers" to see what they do, and found an ad to hire a "highly innovative" geographer for a "natural resources intelligence " company. Don't know what that job would involve, but probably not reciting African capitals.
I put $250 in your account today for your health care premium.
Love,
your Daddy
P.S. I shifted things from my old fallen-apart wallet today to a new one. I had 3 pictures of you; 2 of them, I couldn't tell which was more recent. I have dates on your sister's pics. Maybe you can help me in December.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
RE: Babel
From: Marissa Bea
Sent: Fri 11/12/10 11:19 AM
To: Home; Bethany Bea
Every day when I ride the subway, the majority of people are not speaking English. It's usually Spanish, but I hear a lot of Greek, German, Hebrew, Chinese and Korean. Yeah, I know what each of those sounds like now. I can pick out Russian, Japanese (well, duh), Arabic, Hindi, Italian and French too. Not that I can understand anything. But I can read Subway Spanish (all the signs in the subway cars written in Spanish).
Did you know that Queens is the most ethnically diverse county in the entire United States? It's also one of the most ethnically diverse place in the whole world, for its size. I have more friends in Queens that were not born in this country than who were, and probably a good half of everyone I know is bilingual, some of which came as a shock to me.
You know what's funny, everyone is all pissy about immigration policy and lots of people think that there are too many immigrants taking jobs away from citizens, but on a day to day basis, it's the freaking tourists who aren't even here to stay that make everyone really angry. Unfortunately they practically hold this city on its feet with all their spending, but I'll be damned if they aren't more useless than any immigrant I've met. They slow down your day, and most of them act like they've never seen a street sign before. Granted they can't read English, but really? If I know I'm going to another country, I'd make an effort to learn enough about where I'm going so I don't get lost every five seconds. That seems to make logical sense.
Can you tell I hate tourists? New York tourists are the worst. You know everyone jokes about the Japanese tourists on the west coast? Oh man, here it's the Europeans. Dear god.
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From: Bethany Bea
Sent: Mon 11/15/10 4:45 PM
To: Marissa Bea; STEVEN BEA; mommy
Oh my god. You're a REAL New Yorker now! I'm pretty sure loathing tourists is the last step in the transformation. You've already played chess with the geezers in the park and you're never home. AND you're part of an art movement. Hurry up and come back to the west coast where the stimuli are gentler. You know. Forests and sunshine. By the by, Santa Barbara tourists were no joke, either. There, I was confronted with the sight of thousands in ridiculous sandals and Hawaiian shirts, even though California is patently not Hawaii (though it is jealous of Hawaii and plans to move there someday). The tourists who come to Montana, however, fancy themselves adventurous and shop the shit out of REI then go like a mile into the woods and get eaten. Justice? Were it legal, I'm sure New Yorkers would eat their own tourists.
Love,
Bethany
Sent: Fri 11/12/10 11:19 AM
To: Home; Bethany Bea
Every day when I ride the subway, the majority of people are not speaking English. It's usually Spanish, but I hear a lot of Greek, German, Hebrew, Chinese and Korean. Yeah, I know what each of those sounds like now. I can pick out Russian, Japanese (well, duh), Arabic, Hindi, Italian and French too. Not that I can understand anything. But I can read Subway Spanish (all the signs in the subway cars written in Spanish).
Did you know that Queens is the most ethnically diverse county in the entire United States? It's also one of the most ethnically diverse place in the whole world, for its size. I have more friends in Queens that were not born in this country than who were, and probably a good half of everyone I know is bilingual, some of which came as a shock to me.
You know what's funny, everyone is all pissy about immigration policy and lots of people think that there are too many immigrants taking jobs away from citizens, but on a day to day basis, it's the freaking tourists who aren't even here to stay that make everyone really angry. Unfortunately they practically hold this city on its feet with all their spending, but I'll be damned if they aren't more useless than any immigrant I've met. They slow down your day, and most of them act like they've never seen a street sign before. Granted they can't read English, but really? If I know I'm going to another country, I'd make an effort to learn enough about where I'm going so I don't get lost every five seconds. That seems to make logical sense.
Can you tell I hate tourists? New York tourists are the worst. You know everyone jokes about the Japanese tourists on the west coast? Oh man, here it's the Europeans. Dear god.
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From: Bethany Bea
Sent: Mon 11/15/10 4:45 PM
To: Marissa Bea; STEVEN BEA; mommy
Oh my god. You're a REAL New Yorker now! I'm pretty sure loathing tourists is the last step in the transformation. You've already played chess with the geezers in the park and you're never home. AND you're part of an art movement. Hurry up and come back to the west coast where the stimuli are gentler. You know. Forests and sunshine. By the by, Santa Barbara tourists were no joke, either. There, I was confronted with the sight of thousands in ridiculous sandals and Hawaiian shirts, even though California is patently not Hawaii (though it is jealous of Hawaii and plans to move there someday). The tourists who come to Montana, however, fancy themselves adventurous and shop the shit out of REI then go like a mile into the woods and get eaten. Justice? Were it legal, I'm sure New Yorkers would eat their own tourists.
Love,
Bethany
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