Popular Post Zealot Posted January 24, 2022 Popular Post Share #1 Posted January 24, 2022 Observation: Cheese apparently touched the hearts of a lot of folks here. Personally, I didn’t understand him. But that’s not all that surprising. I don’t ‘get’ lots of things that the majority of folks do. I am however saddened whenever we lose one of our own. And because he touched so many, it’s even more heartbreaking. 😢 I’ll say my Happy Birthday to your memory here, Cheese. And as I mentioned elsewhere, I’ll lift a glass to your memory tonight as well. I pray your spirit is at Peace. Confession: I’m a little hurt. I am alive and still here. Today is my birthday as well. But not one well wish. I could say that no one knows my birthday because I don’t advertise it. But I did mention it yesterday and several ‘liked’ my post. I know I am a difficult person. I know I don’t endear myself to people the way so many others do. And I know I am not easy to get to know. But this has been the story of my life. People who should know, actually forget my birthday. And most of the time, I have to mention it. Mostly, I just don’t. I do however get birthday greetings/ cards from my insurance company, orgs that I donate to, my dentist. That’s kind of a sad testament, really. I guess I really am crappy with making friends. Oh well. I’m 57 today. Happy Birthday, Zealot. I hope you enjoy your day. 2 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted January 24, 2022 Share #2 Posted January 24, 2022 Happy Birthday! Hope you have a Great Day. I try to check the birthday bot, but sometimes miss. Sorry we have been busy with lambs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 24, 2022 Share #3 Posted January 24, 2022 I caught you a delicious bass 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted January 24, 2022 Share #4 Posted January 24, 2022 Happy Birthday, Zealot! 57 is the new 27, just so you know. I'm awful at remembering birthdays, so this isn't an excuse, but I wasn't here yesterday, and I didn't even know there was a birthday bot because I'm rather clueless. like that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted January 24, 2022 Share #5 Posted January 24, 2022 Sorry to hear that your birthday was not acknowledged @Zealot. I don’t think I saw your post on it and I’m not a birthday bot follower. I hope your day is special. I think it is because your wife caught you a nice snake. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 24, 2022 Share #6 Posted January 24, 2022 14 minutes ago, Zealot said: Observation: Cheese apparently touched the hearts of a lot of folks here. Personally, I didn’t understand him. But that’s not all that surprising. I don’t ‘get’ lots of things that the majority of folks do. I am however saddened whenever we lose one of our own. And because he touched so many, it’s even more heartbreaking. 😢 I’ll say my Happy Birthday to your memory here, Cheese. And as I mentioned elsewhere, I’ll lift a glass to your memory tonight as well. I pray your spirit is at Peace. Confession: I’m a little hurt. I am alive and still here. Today is my birthday as well. But not one well wish. I could say that no one knows my birthday because I don’t advertise it. But I did mention it yesterday and several ‘liked’ my post. I know I am a difficult person. I know I don’t endear myself to people the way so many others do. And I know I am not easy to get to know. But this has been the story of my life. People who should know, actually forget my birthday. And most of the time, I have to mention it. Mostly, I just don’t. I do however get birthday greetings/ cards from my insurance company, orgs that I donate to, my dentist. That’s kind of a sad testament, really. I guess I really am crappy with making friends. Oh well. I’m 57 today. Happy Birthday, Zealot. I hope you enjoy your day. Happy Birthday. List your birthday in you profile and Birthday Bot will remember. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 24, 2022 Share #7 Posted January 24, 2022 2 minutes ago, Old No. 7 said: Sorry to hear that your birthday was not acknowledged @Zealot. I don’t think I saw your post on it and I’m not a birthday bot follower. I hope your day is special. I think it is because your wife caught you a nice snake. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted January 24, 2022 Share #8 Posted January 24, 2022 13 minutes ago, Zealot said: Observation: Cheese apparently touched the hearts of a lot of folks here. Personally, I didn’t understand him. But that’s not all that surprising. I don’t ‘get’ lots of things that the majority of folks do. I am however saddened whenever we lose one of our own. And because he touched so many, it’s even more heartbreaking. 😢 I’ll say my Happy Birthday to your memory here, Cheese. And as I mentioned elsewhere, I’ll lift a glass to your memory tonight as well. I pray your spirit is at Peace. Confession: I’m a little hurt. I am alive and still here. Today is my birthday as well. But not one well wish. I could say that no one knows my birthday because I don’t advertise it. But I did mention it yesterday and several ‘liked’ my post. I know I am a difficult person. I know I don’t endear myself to people the way so many others do. And I know I am not easy to get to know. But this has been the story of my life. People who should know, actually forget my birthday. And most of the time, I have to mention it. Mostly, I just don’t. I do however get birthday greetings/ cards from my insurance company, orgs that I donate to, my dentist. That’s kind of a sad testament, really. I guess I really am crappy with making friends. Oh well. I’m 57 today. Happy Birthday, Zealot. I hope you enjoy your day. I'll admit, I did not always know how to take Cheese, but I think that's because he was purposely enigmatic. I think I know a lot more about him now that he is gone, As for you young fella, I do wish you a happy birthday and many more to come. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 24, 2022 Share #9 Posted January 24, 2022 No one should have a shit birthday. Happy birthday, go and have a good one. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted January 24, 2022 Share #10 Posted January 24, 2022 I'm sorry, I did read that yesterday, but I've been scattered because of work and forgot to mention it today. I've gotten to the point where I have to write down anything to remember it. The loss of Cheese is still very raw for a lot of us, but this is a good reminder to celebrate the people we care about while they are still with us. Happy Birthday! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted January 24, 2022 Share #11 Posted January 24, 2022 Happy Birthday @Zealot. Please try to find peace on your day. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtyhip Posted January 24, 2022 Share #12 Posted January 24, 2022 I didn't see it or spaced it. Happy Birthday. Lots of us have pretty big things on the mind lately. Please don't take it personally. Not sure if you remember, I started doing birthday greetings many eons ago. I had a list a long while back.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12string Posted January 24, 2022 Share #13 Posted January 24, 2022 27 minutes ago, Randomguy said: No one should have a shit birthday. Happy birthday, go and have a good one. I believe that was permission to dig into the loose change jar and spend it all on hookers and blow. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted January 24, 2022 Share #14 Posted January 24, 2022 52 minutes ago, Zealot said: I’m 57 today. Well, that's part of the problem, nearly everyone here is older than that & has the CRS syndrome. Happy, BD!. Do you have a spirit of choice to tip tonight? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted January 24, 2022 Share #15 Posted January 24, 2022 Happy Birthday Z. I read that yesterday but my excuse is that i slept since then. Hope your day is special. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 24, 2022 Share #16 Posted January 24, 2022 Dear Zealot, My apologies for forgetting your birthday. I consider you a friend here and I would never intentionally do such a thing. I remember the drumming thingie for what that is worth--- not much. I will also confess that I suck at birthdays and anniversaries. We eloped on 02/02 because Einstein through it would help me remember the date. It doesn't. Sadly, I also forgot his birthday in a big way once--- and maybe a few saves on other years. We were sitting at ringside at the Montgomery All Terrier Specialty Dog Trial. Lots of people there. Our Airedale friend came up and gave Einstein a kiss and a hug-- not so weird, she likes us. Then she handed him a card and a gift. And then it dawned on me...... it was his birthday. Nothing I could do. We were in the motor home. In a field. At an event. I did not even have a card. He was really hurt and i felt terrible. I imagine, you feel a bit like this too. I am sorry. Love, Airehead 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 24, 2022 Share #17 Posted January 24, 2022 58 minutes ago, Zealot said: Today is my birthday as well. Happy birthday! Neither you nor Cheese seemed to like giving us a chance to have the Birthday Bot do the reminding for us We love to have a thread we can all join in and spread birthday cheer to all recipients! Have a nice and relaxing day with friends and family! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted January 24, 2022 Share #18 Posted January 24, 2022 13 minutes ago, Airehead said: We eloped on 02/02 My brothers birthday and the day I met WoKzoo (2/2/1980). Theres is something else about that day? Can't remember. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted January 24, 2022 Share #19 Posted January 24, 2022 Tim, I also did not see your earlier note, but I wish you a very happy birthday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 24, 2022 Share #20 Posted January 24, 2022 Just now, Kzoo said: My brothers birthday and the day I met WoKzoo (2/2/1980). Theres is something else about that day? Can't remember. But ask me the birthdate of a standard poodle or Pointer that I had as a youngster--- I can rattle them off. 3/1/72- Lou E. Louie English Pointer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted January 24, 2022 Share #21 Posted January 24, 2022 I can remember mine, our daughter's and my wife's birthdays, and that is all. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted January 24, 2022 Share #22 Posted January 24, 2022 Happy Birthday ...I wished you one on facebook..haven't been here much since morning...I should have started the day with it..cos I did see the post and remembered it this AM... Hugs you young punk 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted January 24, 2022 Share #23 Posted January 24, 2022 Happy birthday, may I edit your profile so @Birthday Bot can remind us? 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted January 24, 2022 Share #24 Posted January 24, 2022 9 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: Happy birthday, may I edit your profile so @Birthday Bot can remind us? Could you also put Einstein in there even though he is not a member? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted January 24, 2022 Share #25 Posted January 24, 2022 Just now, Airehead said: Could you also put Einstein in there even though he is not a member? Nope, sorry. He can be added to the calendar as a repeating event and it will show up on the home page, but it won't trigger a post. @SamWithCheese didn't get a birthday announcement today because the fallen members group was excluded. He'll get the @Birthday Bot announcement next year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted January 24, 2022 Share #26 Posted January 24, 2022 I won't be surprised to see a new member with the name "Einstein's birthday" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 25, 2022 Share #27 Posted January 25, 2022 Happy 57 Zealot! No I didn't see your hint message earlier. Are you an Aquarius too? (Mine is coming up soon..) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted January 25, 2022 Share #28 Posted January 25, 2022 Happy Birthday, @Zealot. I’ve been working so much recently I have struggled to know the day of the week, but I’m sorry I missed it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 25, 2022 Share #29 Posted January 25, 2022 happy birthday 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MoseySusan Posted January 25, 2022 Popular Post Share #30 Posted January 25, 2022 Zealot, friend, I have been thinking about you all day. You beat me to the topic start, but that’s how we do. I’ve often felt you are a step ahead. First, I offered praise (again) for your health and for Mrs. Z. I blessed (again) that you are most fully known by and share your life with a truly beautiful person. I also thought about your connection to ancestry, which is a sign of the Spirit at work, and of your artistic ability, and how you translate observations into poetry, illustrations, movement. As I was watching birds at the feeder and bath, I thought about your care for animals and your depth of understanding about Nature, about creation, and about The Garden we lost, but intuitively know. And I thought about having fun exchanging songs and exchanging meaning. How you know there’s more on my mind that I’m not saying. And we’ve had good conversations. Then I thought about the place you occupy in your children and grandchildren’s lives. You have quite a quiver! I’m sure it’s a new mercy each morning, growing into each others’ lives, watching the kids becoming. There was a little CT scan memory in there. I see the shoulder surgeon tomorrow, and was contrasting my recent experience with the one you described once. I could have also found panic inside that machine, but I used your lived experience to remind myself that it would be over soon. And I imagined myself in a scene from 2001: Space Odyssey… Wouldn’t want Kubrick to think I couldn’t act. And here we are…it’s your birthday! And I’m catching up. But I’d draft you any day. Peace be the next year, Susan 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted January 25, 2022 Share #31 Posted January 25, 2022 Happy Birthday! Sorry it wasn't acknowledged. I enjoy your posting here. I really do. There are not many forumites that I do this with, but when I see a post or response by you those are some of the ones I check out first. I like your take on things and your outlook in general. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zealot Posted January 25, 2022 Author Popular Post Share #32 Posted January 25, 2022 My apologies. Please forgive me. That post was completely self indulgent and self pitying. I am ashamed. I do not advertise my birthday, here, FB, anywhere really. So it is absolutely no one’s fault but my own if that day gets overlooked. By way of explanation, please accept that by the time I wrote that post, I’d not had enough sleep, my sugar crashed and that all culminated in my mood sinking. I think I crashed about 7:00 last night. You’re good people here. Peace, this day. 3 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted January 25, 2022 Share #33 Posted January 25, 2022 19 minutes ago, Zealot said: My apologies. Please forgive me. That post was completely self indulgent and self pitying. I am ashamed. I do not advertise my birthday, here, FB, anywhere really. So it is absolutely no one’s fault but my own if that day gets overlooked. By way of explanation, please accept that by the time I wrote that post, I’d not had enough sleep, my sugar crashed and that all culminated in my mood sinking. I think I crashed about 7:00 last night. You’re good people here. Peace, this day. Happy Birthday, nonetheless! I am training 08:00 to 22:30 all week so, I am not really reading much here. Sorry I missed your day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share #34 Posted January 25, 2022 16 hours ago, Airehead said: Dear Zealot, My apologies for forgetting your birthday. I consider you a friend here and I would never intentionally do such a thing. I remember the drumming thingie for what that is worth--- not much. I will also confess that I suck at birthdays and anniversaries. We eloped on 02/02 because Einstein through it would help me remember the date. It doesn't. Sadly, I also forgot his birthday in a big way once--- and maybe a few saves on other years. We were sitting at ringside at the Montgomery All Terrier Specialty Dog Trial. Lots of people there. Our Airedale friend came up and gave Einstein a kiss and a hug-- not so weird, she likes us. Then she handed him a card and a gift. And then it dawned on me...... it was his birthday. Nothing I could do. We were in the motor home. In a field. At an event. I did not even have a card. He was really hurt and i felt terrible. I imagine, you feel a bit like this too. I am sorry. Love, Airehead I am sure Einstein, even though hurt, instantly understood and forgave you. This is the beauty and power of relationship. He knows you - all your attributes, all your idiosyncrasies, all that makes you ‘you’. And that is the person he chooses to love. 😊 Mans thank you for your kind words to me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share #35 Posted January 25, 2022 16 hours ago, 2Far said: Do you have a spirit of choice to tip tonight? I had a couple Negra Modelos. I hope Cheese would have approved. 😊 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
az_cyclist Posted January 25, 2022 Share #36 Posted January 25, 2022 Happy birthday Zealot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share #37 Posted January 25, 2022 15 hours ago, petitepedal said: Happy Birthday ...I wished you one on facebook..haven't been here much since morning...I should have started the day with it..cos I did see the post and remembered it this AM... Hugs you young punk I did see you post on FB. Thank you. 🌹 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share #38 Posted January 25, 2022 16 hours ago, Kirby said: The loss of Cheese is still very raw for a lot of us, I know this. And I feel all the worse for it. 😞I did not mean to add any negative feelings to an already sad remembrance. I have no excuse. But I do deeply apologize. Please forgive me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted January 25, 2022 Share #39 Posted January 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, Zealot said: I know this. And I feel all the worse for it. 😞I did not mean to add any negative feelings to an already sad remembrance. I have no excuse. But I do deeply apologize. Please forgive me. No need to apologize or beg forgiveness from me. You expressed how you felt. That feeling was real and it took courage to express it. You’re good man, happy birthday. Today is Robert Burns day. Have a wee dram of Uisge Beath tonight and toast the poet of Scotland. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share #40 Posted January 25, 2022 2 minutes ago, Old No. 7 said: Today is Robert Burns day. Have a wee dram of Uisge Beath tonight and toast the poet of Scotland. Aye, tha i ‘tis!! 😊 Is that something you follow?? I’ve a little 18 year Lagavulin left. I’ll salute, with Auld Lang Syne and the Selkirk Grace. Maybe e’en don a kilt. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsnip Totin Jack ★ Posted January 25, 2022 Share #41 Posted January 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, Zealot said: Aye, tha i ‘tis!! 😊 Is that something you follow?? I’ve a little 18 year Lagavulin left. I’ll salute, with Auld Lang Syne and the Selkirk Grace. Maybe e’en don a kilt. Och gud fer you laddie! I have no kilt but I’ve a few family tartans (MacKenzie and MacDougall) to dress the table up a bit. I’ve got some Laphroag; not as fancy as yer Lagavulin but it’s a good dram all the same. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share #42 Posted January 25, 2022 13 hours ago, MoseySusan said: Zealot, friend, I have been thinking about you all day. You beat me to the topic start, but that’s how we do. I’ve often felt you are a step ahead. First, I offered praise (again) for your health and for Mrs. Z. I blessed (again) that you are most fully known by and share your life with a truly beautiful person. I also thought about your connection to ancestry, which is a sign of the Spirit at work, and of your artistic ability, and how you translate observations into poetry, illustrations, movement. As I was watching birds at the feeder and bath, I thought about your care for animals and your depth of understanding about Nature, about creation, and about The Garden we lost, but intuitively know. And I thought about having fun exchanging songs and exchanging meaning. How you know there’s more on my mind that I’m not saying. And we’ve had good conversations. Then I thought about the place you occupy in your children and grandchildren’s lives. You have quite a quiver! I’m sure it’s a new mercy each morning, growing into each others’ lives, watching the kids becoming. There was a little CT scan memory in there. I see the shoulder surgeon tomorrow, and was contrasting my recent experience with the one you described once. I could have also found panic inside that machine, but I used your lived experience to remind myself that it would be over soon. And I imagined myself in a scene from 2001: Space Odyssey… Wouldn’t want Kubrick to think I couldn’t act. And here we are…it’s your birthday! And I’m catching up. But I’d draft you any day. Peace be the next year, Susan Your grace ever surrounds your presence, Susan. ❤️ Thank you for your beautiful, moving composition regarding your observations of my life and those in it. And for your mindfulness of us in prayer and thankfulness. I too have often felt that we each understand what is often not said. It is a wonderful connection. As mentioned another time, I keep our friendship close in my heart. And I pray the true beauty of life and creation ever envelopes and infills you. The Breath. Love the 2001 reference! 😊 Peace, always. BTW, good luck at the surgeon’s today. Let us know how it goes. I start my PT for my right shoulder today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share #43 Posted January 25, 2022 14 hours ago, shootingstar said: Are you an Aquarius too? (Mine is coming up soon..) Yes, I am a fellow water bearer. 😊 What day is your Birthday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 25, 2022 Share #44 Posted January 25, 2022 15 hours ago, Square Wheels said: Nope, sorry. He can be added to the calendar as a repeating event and it will show up on the home page, but it won't trigger a post. @SamWithCheese didn't get a birthday announcement today because the fallen members group was excluded. He'll get the @Birthday Bot announcement next year. Can we edit his name? Sam with Cheese doesn't sing like Airwick with Cheese or AWWC like his is in my phone, or just Cheese. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted January 25, 2022 Share #45 Posted January 25, 2022 2 minutes ago, Randomguy said: Can we edit his name? Sam with Cheese doesn't sing like Airwick with Cheese or AWWC like his is in my phone, or just Cheese. What do you think? I can edit is, but I'd like others to weigh in first. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 25, 2022 Share #46 Posted January 25, 2022 Just now, Square Wheels said: I can edit is, but I'd like others to weigh in first. Ha, I used the 'thank you' fuzzy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 25, 2022 Share #47 Posted January 25, 2022 8 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: I can edit is, but I'd like others to weigh in first. I agree with RG, but I also was not in Cheese's inner circle. Seems like Cheese is his "name", so makes sense rather than just the one he happened to be using most recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest T. Bass Posted January 25, 2022 Share #48 Posted January 25, 2022 Happy Belated Birthday. I hope the upcoming year will be the best you've ever had. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted January 25, 2022 Share #49 Posted January 25, 2022 Belated Happy birthday, Zealot! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtyhip Posted January 25, 2022 Share #50 Posted January 25, 2022 13 minutes ago, Square Wheels said: I can edit is, but I'd like others to weigh in first. I always think of him as Cheese. I know he has done many variations. Sadly, we are not able to ask him what he preferred. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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