Comments on: Happy holiday/nearly 2008! http://gettingby.net/blog/nfblog/2007/12/happy-holidaynearly-2008/ The (temporarily roughly bimonthly) show is all about childfree news and social issues, as well as defending Adult Spaces from improperly socialized kids, parents, and Disneyfication. Also a glimpse into Chris\'s childfree life, currently somewhat curtailed by chronic fatigue syndrome. Fri, 18 May 2012 02:19:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: The Fixed Kitty http://gettingby.net/blog/nfblog/2007/12/happy-holidaynearly-2008/#comment-21748 The Fixed Kitty Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:02:45 +0000 687381916#comment-21748 I am busily getting better, which happily involves lots of chicken soup, tea, and laying in bed beading and watching movies during the day and laying in bed beading and watching a Dr. Who marathon in the evening with Henry. We're up to 1978. I'm starting to see things I remember, only this time I can talk in full sentences. I still want Romana's amazing white fluffy. ;) Yeesh on the kid at the McDonald's. Were you there at 2 am when security swept all the party rooms at Dragon*Con trying to find a 13-year-old girl last seen at 6pm? NOT an everyone space.... very scary. This is why the illusion of childproofing the world is dangerous to kids. Doomed childproofing attempts are also dangerous to my freedom of speech and ability to attend adult-oriented gatherings. And Who-da-funk thought Dragon*con at 6pm was safe for a 13-year-old to wander solo? Just asking... And yes, I wish to hear Dirk Moonfire assembled. After all, I have waited most of my life to be Queen of the Nefarious Space Women. Umm, I blush at the things I have said to you/Dirk. Nothing personal. ;) I am busily getting better, which happily involves lots of chicken soup, tea, and laying in bed beading and watching movies during the day and laying in bed beading and watching a Dr. Who marathon in the evening with Henry. We’re up to 1978. I’m starting to see things I remember, only this time I can talk in full sentences. I still want Romana’s amazing white fluffy. ;)

Yeesh on the kid at the McDonald’s. Were you there at 2 am when security swept all the party rooms at Dragon*Con trying to find a 13-year-old girl last seen at 6pm? NOT an everyone space…. very scary. This is why the illusion of childproofing the world is dangerous to kids. Doomed childproofing attempts are also dangerous to my freedom of speech and ability to attend adult-oriented gatherings. And Who-da-funk thought Dragon*con at 6pm was safe for a 13-year-old to wander solo? Just asking…

And yes, I wish to hear Dirk Moonfire assembled. After all, I have waited most of my life to be Queen of the Nefarious Space Women. Umm, I blush at the things I have said to you/Dirk. Nothing personal. ;)

]]> By: JRMurdock http://gettingby.net/blog/nfblog/2007/12/happy-holidaynearly-2008/#comment-21708 JRMurdock Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:27:42 +0000 687381916#comment-21708 Glad to know you're doing better after all that's happened. I've gone through my own tech hell (finally found the golden path back out.) Even though I'm not childless, I still find people who choose to remain childless an interesting lot. Some days I wish I was. :) but 99% of the time I don't. I fully get the over-Disneyfication of the world and find it depressing that 13 year old girls (and their parents) are deciding the media for a majority of the world. Too many people who do have kids end up thinking that it's someone else's responsibility to raise THEIR kid. I never understand those people. Sorry, didn't mean to rant. :) I had to suffer one of these parents who chose NOT to watch their kid at McDonald's and all of us there got annoyed with the little kid. That was until the kid disappeared and the parent (about 15 minutes later) freaked out that the kid was missing. To make a pathetic story short, the kid had left McD's and wandered to the store next door. One of the employees next door came back with the kid and the distraught parent. I kept think that they need to issue parenting licenses, but that's my opinion. Okay, I'm done ranting. :) Get better soon! Oh, and let's start to beat up on Jack about Dirk Moonfire. I'm dying to hear him finally get that one out. I'll let you guess who did the voice of Dirk. heh heh J.R. Glad to know you’re doing better after all that’s happened. I’ve gone through my own tech hell (finally found the golden path back out.) Even though I’m not childless, I still find people who choose to remain childless an interesting lot. Some days I wish I was. :) but 99% of the time I don’t.

I fully get the over-Disneyfication of the world and find it depressing that 13 year old girls (and their parents) are deciding the media for a majority of the world. Too many people who do have kids end up thinking that it’s someone else’s responsibility to raise THEIR kid. I never understand those people.

Sorry, didn’t mean to rant. :) I had to suffer one of these parents who chose NOT to watch their kid at McDonald’s and all of us there got annoyed with the little kid. That was until the kid disappeared and the parent (about 15 minutes later) freaked out that the kid was missing. To make a pathetic story short, the kid had left McD’s and wandered to the store next door. One of the employees next door came back with the kid and the distraught parent. I kept think that they need to issue parenting licenses, but that’s my opinion.

Okay, I’m done ranting. :) Get better soon! Oh, and let’s start to beat up on Jack about Dirk Moonfire. I’m dying to hear him finally get that one out. I’ll let you guess who did the voice of Dirk. heh heh

J.R.

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