<p>Setting limits for sure. My life is SO much easier once they ALL went to college. Can anyone tell how relaxed I am? I was so uptight that last year. All I kept thinking through one travail after another was, “I’m too old for this.” There is stuff that happened, and everything worked out fine in the end, that I have not shared here.Everything is fine now.</p>
<p>^BHG, Actually, I did notice that you are more relaxed. I did think that there was a long period of time when you were not posting much. Do you have 4 or 5 children, and a grandchild? I would imagine that life does not get boring!</p>
<p>Hiya. Yeah well I do but I don’t come to this site often.You know how it goes , too busy all the time. Soon I will go aweay again. </p>
<p>How are you ?</p>
<p>Actually, I meant to say that I did not notice that you were more relaxed. Anyway, we are fine, thanks for asking.</p>
<p>“i got sent to the office twice in 5th grade, because, after playing a bit rough during basketball with one of my friends, a few girls told the P.E. teacher my friend and I were “fighting”.”</p>
<p>:) In all kindness, I don’t know if that personal experience warrants a condemnation of the education process. 
Now if you argued that the educational system is set up more in line with the average female learning styles than average males. Ya might be on to something. We could then debate audio vs visual vs hands on learning styles. How do most girls learn compared to how most boys learn? Getting in trouble is not a reflection of learning, it’s a reflection of disipline issues. No?</p>
<p>Now it’s getting dangerous to wait in those overnight lines…you can get robbed and shot!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=32850[/url]”>http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=32850</a></p>
<p>BHG, have you talked to your son lately? We had quite a storm roll through here yesterday. The HS was under lock down for about an hour because of a tornado warning.</p>
<p>Thank you. Son who waited in line for 3 days in the rain is only one in the family who is not sick. Okay, it’s online, will expire Monday @11.00am. ANYONE INTERESTED handle is 12backhandgrip3. THANK YOU for your support.</p>
<p>Is this on ebay? I would hold off and list closer to xmas.</p>
<p>I have noting to do with it. I do hope he sells it.</p>
<p>I made him change the starving college student bit. But he does look like he’s starving, he had a broken jaw in the summer and lost weight while his jaw was wired shut for 6 weeks.Gosh, to be so thin!</p>
<p>Ha! My boyfriend is camping out in front of Target right now. We’re in Omaha where it’s currently 25 degrees. I just don’t get it.</p>
<p>My 12-year old sat near as I was reading online reports of the mad rush and violence regarding these game consoles. He’s asolutely enthralled by video games but was quick to say how silly he thought the idea of camping out for hours was. To get him think critically, I opined to him that the lucky few might be able to parlay their long wait and mad crush into a 200%+ profit. He was unswayed. Thank goodness.</p>
<p>LakwWashington: I just checked ebay out of curiosity. There are pages & pages of ps3 consoles listed, yet very few bids. Maye a few that will earn the seller about $100. I wonder if the hype was overblown & the demand has crashed? Or did everyone who wanted it desperately (like John Edwards) & was willing to shell out thousands already buy one from these early sellers in the last day or two?</p>
<p>After my son caught some of the news about the PS3 craziness he called (because he had asked for one for xmas) and questioned whether I’d done anything crazy in order to try and get one because it really didn’t matter to him that much. I told him “no”, that I loved him dearly, but wasn’t standing in line for anything!</p>
<p>Oh, they are still going in the last minutes.You can now nab one for under $1000. You know ebay, hit or miss.</p>
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Good to know those interested don’t have to risk being shot. My brother suggested that it might be Nintendo plants doing the shooting so as to taint the ps3 image.</p>
<p>Just thought I’d add my story to the thread…though my son was not camped out in front of Best Buy to get the new playstation he is a Ninetendo fan(he loves the Zelda games)…I got up at 5 this morning and was on my way to Best Buy by 5:45. In line by 6, only 79 people ahead of me. Lots of rumors and different stories circulating…68 Wii available or 110 Wii available. 7:30 a.m. I got a “ticket” for a Wii. it was number 80 out of 87 available. Standing in line with the ticket in hand I took a photo of it with my cell phone and sent the photo off to my son who’s at Caltech. and I’m sure he was sleeping then and is probably still sleeping now as its “only” 1:24 pm here on the west coast.(and last night was a big party at his hovse). By 10 I had his Wii in the car and was headed home. Ah the things a mother does for her only child! (And this way I’m guaranteed he’ll spend at least a little bit of time at our house over the thanksgiving weekend…and yes, this is an early holiday gift.). I’m exhausted. But I’ve got work to do - its National Novel Writing Month and I’m not quite to 30,000 words. so inspite of how tired I am, I’d better get writing.</p>
<p>I love working in a video game store. I’ll get my Wii and Zelda at 9.30am on release day (December 8 here, which is Ireland’s version of Black Friday) without having to queue, plus on 16 January I’ll have my World of Warcraft expansion at store opening time.</p>
<p>And in response to the poster who said it was a boy thing, I’m a girl.</p>
<p>oaklandmom congrats. DS wants the ninetendo but I went to our big box store Sat. and the line was already longer than the number they were expecting to get in. Now to decide whether to cough up the bucks for ebay. Right now they are $400. on ebay.</p>