How was your life in 2014?

KAGE-008 · Post by **KAGE-008** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 12:16 am

Since 2014 is going to an end in two days. How was your life in 2014?

Explain your answer here too.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 12:56 am

One of the worst. 2014 was the year I was told to empty all of pockets, remove my wrist-watch and my wedding ring and got tossed into a cell. I was kept there for about 2 hours but without a watch I had no idea how long it was. I suffer from claustrophobia and pnigerophobia and I didn't know if I could survive the experience. Although the police were efficient and professional, the jailer was most certainly not. He treated me like a hardened criminal, shouted at me threatened me and had no sympathy for my condition. I asked for a glass of water and he insulted me up one end and down the other for not thinking about it before he locked me up. How should I know? Later, I asked to go pee and that's when he really got nasty,. He shouted, “..................... ! and refused to let me out. I pissed on the floor between my feet and tried to mop it up with my socks. I am 67 and I have never been inside any police station in my life. It was a traumatic experience for me. The crime I was charged with? A very minor offence on the strength of someone else's testimony. Innocent. The verdict - mid January.

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 3:08 am

KAGE-008;1470381 wrote: Since 2014 is going to an end in two days.
That'll be the Mayan Calendar thing again. It never happens, you know.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 4:12 am

KAGE-008;1470381 wrote: Since 2014 is going to an end in two days. How was your life in 2014?

Explain your answer here too.

Life was good and bad in 2014. The good part is that I finally managed to retire and I now get to do the things I want to, the bad part I'd rather not go into.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 8:04 am

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. The first 8 months was preparing for my son's wedding--scary yet incredibly exciting & happy. I was steady for about 2 months after that (one very fun thing, I met Bruv!); then, in November, fell into one of the worst depressions of my life.

I guess I have to say it was an extraordinary year, so despite how I presently feel I will vote Good; which barely explains it.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 8:17 am

Preparing for your son's wedding? I thought you said you're only 32.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 8:19 am

HT, what a ghastly experience! So very sorry you had to suffer that way.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 8:20 am

High Threshold;1470393 wrote: Preparing for your son's wedding? I thought you said you're only 32.

You may double that (+1) IF YOU DARE! Actually though I have a friend in New Hampshire who became a grandma at that age, 32.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 9:59 am

I won't dare. I want to live as long as possible.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 1:10 pm

It started with the same old same old. Then on my birthday Da Beasty got pinched. Then I kept getting hounded by the pratts at A4E until eventually, despite their advice, I got the job that I'm in now as from the end of September (ironically working for A4E's biggest rival).

Also this year I've earned about $38 in Royalties of music I've written. Not much in numbers, I grant you, but a massive amount to my self esteem just to know that some people have thought enough of it to dip in their pockets & pay for it.

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 8:20 pm

I have had a lot worse years. This one was, all in all, pretty darned good. Nobody died. It's been a while.

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 9:33 pm

Sold my home, got a divorce, relocated, all in all a stressful year that I don't wish to duplicate.

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:30 am

LarsMac;1470423 wrote: I have had a lot worse years. This one was, all in all, pretty darned good. Nobody died. It's been a while.

My wife pointedly reminded me that two of my uncles passed this year. But they were fairly old, and is final stages of dementia, and their passing was a relief, both to themselves and their caregivers. So, I didn't count them.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:36 am

LarsMac;1470447 wrote: My wife pointedly reminded me that two of my uncles passed this year. But they were fairly old, and is final stages of dementia, and their passing was a relief, both to themselves and their caregivers. So, I didn't count them.

Hmmm. Didn't count them. That's probably why they got dementia in the first place. Just kidding.

Post by **LarsMac** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:58 am

AnneBoleyn;1470448 wrote: Hmmm. Didn't count them. That's probably why they got dementia in the first place. Just kidding.

They were both really great people, and I miss them a lot. But I have missed them for several years, so their physical passing was more of a footnote, it seems.

Truly, a sad perspective. I hope that when I go, it is all at once.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 10:07 am

Adding together the pluses and minuses I suppose this was an above average year, my still being alive being at the top of the list.......and that can never be bad.

The other highlights being a trip to the USA, lunch with Anne Boleyn beside Central Park, onward to meet my American grandson for the first time and see my daughter after ten years, lunch in an American diner with LarsMac, and a pastrami on rye from Katz Deli NY City, what more could a person want ?

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 6:23 pm

I can't say yet, there's still one day to go.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 6:47 pm

Start from here:

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/forum ... ost1443671

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 10:04 pm

Fuzzy;1470488 wrote: I can't say yet, there's still one day to go.

On the Eve you will meet a tall, dark stranger .....

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Thu Jan 01, 2015 3:36 pm

KAGE-008;1470381 wrote: Explain your answer here too. :)I'd quite like to but there are certain key moments which I feel, sadly, incapable of discussing given the current membership here. That wouldn't have happened in the site's earlier years but it's undoubtedly the case now.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:10 am

KAGE-008;1470381 wrote: Explain your answer here too.

FG;1470578 wrote: I'd quite like to but there are certain key moments which I feel, sadly, incapable of discussing given the current membership here. That wouldn't have happened in the site's earlier years but it's undoubtedly the case now.

I don't know whether to be offended or not.

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:12 am

Bruv;1470600 wrote: I don't know whether to be offended or not.

It's only a website. I discuss my personal life elsewhere these days.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:38 am

FG;1470578 wrote: I'd quite like to but there are certain key moments which I feel, sadly, incapable of discussing given the current membership here. That wouldn't have happened in the site's earlier years but it's undoubtedly the case now.

Now even I am curious to know!

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 9:18 am

FG;1470578 wrote: I'd quite like to but there are certain key moments which I feel, sadly, incapable of discussing given the current membership here. That wouldn't have happened in the site's earlier years but it's undoubtedly the case now.

Cryptic.

Post by **LarsMac** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 9:32 am

Well the year closed with a trip to The South to visit family.

Except for one day, driving through Atlanta during a huge storm system, the trip was great fun and lots of family time, a 50th wedding anniversary, three birthdays, Christmas with family, and the birth of a new grand nephew on Christmas Day.

We were delayed on the return a couple of days, due to weather and celebrated the New Year sleeping the sleep of the exhausted, at a hotel in central Kansas.

Not an entirely bad way to ring in the new year, I think.

Began the new year driving across Kansas, on a chilly, but otherwise unremarkable day. The last hour of our trip, however, was met with blizzard conditions, which broke just north of the Denver airport, and we were greeted with a beautiful view of the Colorado Rockies, gleaming in the sun.

We will remember 2014 as a good year.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 10:00 am

AnneBoleyn;1470605 wrote: Cryptic.

Yes. I'm getting a sense of "sour grapes".

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 11:12 am

High Threshold;1470612 wrote: Yes. I'm getting a sense of "sour grapes".

Not at all. Just a total mistrust of a small segment of FG's current membership.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 11:47 am

FG;1470615 wrote: Not at all. Just a total mistrust of a small segment of FG's current membership.

Perhaps your senses are stretched. You don't think you are taking it too personally? Anyway, there doesn't appear to be much of a membership to begin with, in numbers I mean. Taking that into consideration and just wild-guessing, "a small segment" couldn't be more than 6 or 7 tops.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:24 pm

Bruv;1470455 wrote: Adding together the pluses and minuses I suppose this was an above average year, my still being alive being at the top of the list.......and that can never be bad.

The other highlights being a trip to the USA, lunch with Anne Boleyn beside Central Park, onward to meet my American grandson for the first time and see my daughter after ten years, lunch in an American diner with LarsMac, and a pastrami on rye from Katz Deli NY City, what more could a person want ?

A battered sausage ?

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:24 pm

High Threshold;1470618 wrote: You don't think you are taking it too personally?I only take personally what is intended personally, I assure you.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 2:41 pm

High Threshold;1470618 wrote: Perhaps your senses are stretched. You don't think you are taking it too personally? Anyway, there doesn't appear to be much of a membership to begin with, in numbers I mean. Taking that into consideration and just wild-guessing, "a small segment" couldn't be more than 6 or 7 tops.
You realise that something like that makes any one of us pretty good odds that we're the one (or one of the ones) in question.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 3:05 pm

FG;1470615 wrote: Not at all. Just a total mistrust of a small segment of FG's current membership.

The whole of the contributing membership is a small segment. You are being disruptive, and..........are you still spot?

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 3:13 pm

AnneBoleyn;1470644 wrote: The whole of the contributing membership is a small segment. You are being disruptive, and..........are you still spot?

My comments relate only to two members who have often enough stated their deliberate bullying intention to make ForumGarden an impossible place for me to post. Those who have been here long enough know perfectly well who I'm talking about. There is no active account on this site which has spot as its username.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 3:29 pm

FG;1470649 wrote: My comments relate only to two members who have often enough stated their deliberate bullying intention to make ForumGarden an impossible place for me to post. Those who have been here long enough know perfectly well who I'm talking about. There is no active account on this site which has spot as its username.

So.............it's impossible for spot but not for you? I'd scratch my head if I had one.

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 3:48 pm

AnneBoleyn;1470651 wrote: So.............it's impossible for spot but not for you? I'd scratch my head if I had one.

The site needs an Admin. The spot account was barred from admin rights on the site and subsequently suspended.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 4:13 pm

Why should it worry anybody here, if Mr. FG doesn't feel like baring his soul to the world and his wife, then that is surely, his prerogative is it not ? I wouldn't take it personally !

So come on Tyr, you're teasing all the others, tell 'em all you 'ad quite a moving experience - it must 'ave changed your life somewhat ! Now that'll probably make them itch a bit more !

Joking apart, I hope all is OK, FG.

Oh and by the way, my year was ............................... well it was ! :wah:

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 4:34 pm

G#Gill;1470653 wrote: Joking apart, I hope all is OK, FG.No, frankly. I have had a problem all year that I don't know how to deal with.

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:26 pm

Hmmmmmm......A well tuned crystal ball would come in handy.

:-3:-2

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 12:27 am

FG;1470625 wrote: I only take personally what is intended personally, I assure you.

I am fully aware that this is not the proper place to wash this bit of cloth, but I do not see it that way. Sorry.

DISCLAIMER: The above message contains no anger, animosity, or singling out of anyone or anything with malicious intent.

FourPart;1470638 wrote: You realise that something like that makes any one of us pretty good odds that we're the one (or one of the ones) in question.

Yes, I do realize that. Perhaps I am running frantically just now, doing my best to plug all of the holes in the event that I am one of them?

FG-administator · Post by **FG-administator** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:53 am

High Threshold;1470677 wrote: Yes, I do realize that. Perhaps I am running frantically just now, doing my best to plug all of the holes in the event that I am one of them?The events date back to the previous decade, you're far too recent. Those who have been here long enough know perfectly well who I'm talking about, I'm certainly not going to rehash it for the amusement of more recent registrants.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 7:52 am

FG;1470682 wrote: The events date back to the previous decade, you're far too recent. Those who have been here long enough know perfectly well who I'm talking about, I'm certainly not going to rehash it for the amusement of more recent registrants.

Disclaimer: This is a SARCASM ALERT

Oh, come along! I am soon going into my 3rd. year of retirement. Do you have any idea how boring that is?

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 8:09 am

It really isn't worth pushing for a story, HT. You don't think FG would divulge the identities of the two people do you ? Actually I believe there were more than two if I remember rightly !

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 9:16 am

G#Gill;1470694 wrote: It really isn't worth pushing for a story, HT. You don't think FG would divulge the identities of the two people do you ? Actually I believe there were more than two if I remember rightly !

See the edited version.

DISCLAIMER: The above message contains no anger, animosity, or singling out of anyone or anything with malicious intent.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 10:48 am

OK. So now I have to ask. A member (or members) is making life difficult for the admin. And the other members too? Right, if a member doesn't follow the rules you toss them out. If they return (and continue to misbehave) you toss them out again ¦.. or in the IT world I suppose you know who it is even before they have a chance to make trouble and you toss them out immediately? So far I can't see what the problem is even if they get slanderous. I deal with slander every day on YouTube. I'm not bothered by it. Should I then assume that these members are infecting the Forum with nasty viruses? THAT I can understand is a big problem. Is that what it's all about? I just can't see simple misbehaving being such a headache that it can ruin your year or cause sleepless nights. Weak character might be the problem in that case.

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Post by **LarsMac** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:01 am

Give it a rest.

High Threshold · Post by **High Threshold** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 11:04 am

LarsMac;1470704 wrote: Give it a rest.

That's not up to me - or you. FG opened the door. It is up to him to close it .... if that's what he really wants. I don't think he does.

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:41 pm

No problems, life is going along well, except for my garden.

I am new to this gardening thing. Not rocket science but in the past three years done well.

Last year had killer frost, more than once. In June took an OTR job. Couldn't resist. Two weeks or so driving in western states.

Who knew in two weeks the yard would go all to hell. My garden swelled with weeds.

Though it took a toll on the garden, it was just a lot of work for the rest of the yard.

Thinking about it, if that is the worse that happened, been a pretty good year.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:43 pm

Weeds are only plants that most people don't want.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:44 pm

tude dog;1470728 wrote: No problems, life is going along well, except for my garden.

I am new to this gardening thing. Not rocket science but in the past three years done well.

Last year had killer frost, more than once. In June took an OTR job. Couldn't resist. Two weeks or so driving in western states.

Who knew in two weeks the yard would go all to hell. My garden swelled with weeds.

Though it took a toll on the garden, it was just a lot of work for the rest of the yard.

Thinking about it, if that is the worse that happened, been a pretty good year. I know the feeling. Turn my back on the garden for a week and a wilderness Is out there. Happy New Year Tude.

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 4:01 pm

FourPart;1470729 wrote: Weeds are only plants that most people don't want.

Good point.

In this case they are unsightly and harmful to my garden.

I mean, these weeds grow tall and don't stop.