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Post by bookperson39 on Apr 6, 2012 8:19:03 GMT -6
Your horses are lovely as are you! (Each in your own way) Tell me more about them. I'm a former horse owner and I miss the fun that went with that (mine were boarded, so all I remember is the fun LOL).
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Post by bookperson39 on Apr 6, 2012 8:20:55 GMT -6
Forgot to mention, I'm from Michigan and I'm a librarian. My hubby and I are retired and have been travelling, reading and watching Justified for a while now.
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Post by alphamare on Apr 6, 2012 10:58:03 GMT -6
Bookperson,
What a lovely compliment. Thank you!
The chestnut mare is Shalom. She's 14.3hh, 18 years old and an Arabian QH cross. I've had her for 15 years! She goes English and Western and is a bit of a nutcase if you leave her alone for too long. She's super smart and is always testing her people.
The grey gelding is Quincy. He's an American Quarter horse. He went lame around age 11 and stayed that way. I've had three vets, two farriers and an acupuncturist/ massage therapist try to fix him and they all came up empty handed. He's 18 years old now and makes an expensive but pretty lawn mower. His color is rose grey, and he changes with the seasons from a reddish brown to this grey color in this picture.
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Post by katcoblue on Apr 6, 2012 12:57:24 GMT -6
Hi Vicky, Thanks for sharing. Alphamare. Now I know how you got your handle. I love horses. Used to ride when I was a kid but haven't for too many years. My uncle always had horses and a friend of mine owned a chestnut gelding when I was a kid and I loved him. He was always happy to get out but, on the way back, he got into gallop mode because he was so anxious to get back to the barn. I rode bareback or with a padded cloth saddle (don't remember the real name of the thing) on the chestnut. When I went to the stables, it was western. Yours are lovely. So sorry about the "painful" part of being recently single. I know it's a cliche but, take if from someone who knows, it does get better with time. So glad you found us. There's a great bunch of people here and it's a wonderful place for Justified fans and all things TO. Welcome!
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Post by bookperson39 on Apr 6, 2012 14:21:27 GMT -6
I'm scrambling to find a pic of my horse. When I find one, I'll scan and post it. It was YEARS ago. She was a 16.2 bay mare named Witchcraft. She was a middleweight hunter and was "half Thoroughbred and half milk horse". We used to joke that she looked like a milk horse and acted like a Thoroughbred. She had very nice gaits and you could ride her on roads full of school buses and farm equipment but she would go nuts if a dragonfly buzzed her nose. An interesting ride to say the least. I rode her occasionally in small shows around the Detroit area and a high school girl whose mum was a friend of mine rode her in junior classes and in stuff at the Bloomfield Hunt Club. Those were the years.
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Post by exdusm on Apr 9, 2012 22:27:44 GMT -6
Hello I would love to join you all to share the love for the best show on TV, Justified, and for the supremely gifted, beautiful and funny Timothy Olyphant. I lovelovelove this show and almost everthing about it. I have/had been searching for a forum for some time, and I am happy I found this one. I am totally smitten with The O. Love him and his alter ego, Raylan. I am a former Deputy USM, years and years ago. I left the service to return to do postbaccalaureate premedical studies and went to medical school. I'm not practicing (completed medicine internship, got a masters in public health, completed pathology residency), but studying to do biomed research in neuroscience. I'm in New York, which is where I was a DUSM way back when. Lately, I have been waxing nostalgic about my time in FLETC down in Glynco and assignments I have had all over the country and outside the continental US. Art Mullen is so real to me. I was hooked in less that 15 minutes into the Pilot. I kept reading so many extraordinary things about Olyphant prior to the Pilot that, on that basis alone, knowng very little about the premise of the show, I bought Season 1 last year. We don't have cable to the upper floors of my building, so I have to wait until a series comes to DVD. Just a few weeks ago I finished a marathon watch of Season 2. I have gone through S1 a few times already. I am SO dying that I cannot see the Season 3 finale in real time tomorrow I am not spoiled at all for S3, but I will pony up the money on Amazon, now at an exhorbitant >$40, unless I can get cheaper at Target as quickly. I love to discuss and analyze character and episodes as well as speculate about the story arc. I don't read much fanfic, but I am working on one, and I am working on a Justified music vid. I have experience with ~8 music vids from a few fandoms, including X-Files. I hope I can get the fic and vid done soon. Back soon! Thank you for this Board!
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Post by mondayschild on Apr 9, 2012 23:15:19 GMT -6
Welcome alphamare and exdusm. You are in the right place with us. Post away! The horses are beautiful, alphamare. I know next to nothing about horses--never rode, never owned one--but I am a great lover of all animals. I have had some contact with horses and find them gentle, loveable animals. It goes without saying that I would love to meet yours.
exdusm, it's great to have you aboard. You will be able to fill us in on a lot of things related to being a marshal. We often talk about how much of what we see is accurate and true to life. Obviously, there is some poetic license taken, but how much? Looking forward to your input.
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Post by katcoblue on Apr 10, 2012 14:18:28 GMT -6
Welcome EXDUSM! Great to have you with us and you are definitely in the right place. It's going to be a long, hard 2012 without new episodes of our favorite TV show and TO on every week so I'm looking forward to your music vids and fanfic.
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Post by bookperson39 on Apr 11, 2012 15:20:04 GMT -6
Good to have you here exdusm! Where do you live in NY?
I agree! Thank goodness for this board!
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Post by exdusm on Apr 13, 2012 20:55:52 GMT -6
Thank you for the gracious welcome, everyone. I am so happy it is the weekend. I get home so tired, I turn on the computer all set to write/post and I end up with my face on the keyboard. Also, the wi-fi connection got so poor (low or no connectivity it ususally says) it takes so long for pages to open, I get tired and fall asleep. I called the company that manages the devices in the hallways, and ran through a reboot/signal test with them and it seems to be up and running again. Streaming has been and remains slow. Bookperson39, I currently live in Brooklyn. I just bought Catch & Release at Target for $5.99. I could not find Crazies anywhere, but the NY Public Library just notified me that my reserve copy is available. which I'll pick-up on Sunday. I saw the movie back when and thought it was pretty good, and I liked 'that lead guy' very much . I have some ideas to post, when I figure out where. I have almost 20 pages of fanfic written, and I have ~3 songs to consider for my 1st first music vid. It takes time to collect clips though. I am so bummed that Season 3 Justified DVD is not announced yet. Yes, I'm impatient (I want it now!), but really, a date can be set. I may have to resort to Amazon this weekend. Does anyone know if it is on Netflix? I donlt have it but I will get it if I have to. I am just worried about streaming. Hulu works at time, but they took it off sometime during season 2. It makes no sense, because the audience for the show will grow by leaps and bounds if the eps are available. They lose nothing by airing online because my guess is that the DVD sales will be relatively unaffected by parcing the eps on Hulu.
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Post by mondayschild on Apr 13, 2012 22:05:48 GMT -6
exdusm, I'm sure we all share your frustrations. Season 3 will be offered for pre-order on Amazon eventually. But we won't get it until about a week before season 4 starts. That's just the f.ing way that they do it.
Amazon has" The Crazies" on instant video for 9.99 (outrageous,) and for sale at 12.99 (not too bad.)
Personally, I adore "Catch and Release." I also love "A Perfect Getaway." Timothy's characters in both movies are really wonderful. And I thought he was marvelous in the remake of "The Crazies." I just can't re-watch it too often because it is so unsettling.
He is also wonderful in "Coastlines," and in seasons 2 and 3 of "Damages." If you haven't seen these, you might like them. These are just my favorites. Some like his "Hitman" and "Diehard" roles, but they are not my faves. To each his own!
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Post by exdusm on Apr 13, 2012 22:28:25 GMT -6
Hi, mondayschild
I recall having to wait til early this year to get season2. I was afraid that it would be nearly time for season 4 before season 3 hits the stores. No fair, fx, no fair, no fair. It burns my b*** that fans have to wait that long. It makes no sense. I'll just have to take my chance with streaming individual eps from Amazon. I guess it'll work out for the best. I want to get a blue-ray player or blue-ray equipped computer by the end of the year, and wait to buy S3 on blue ray. Maybe we'll have cable in my building before S4, too..
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Post by motorcitymade on Apr 15, 2012 16:14:07 GMT -6
Hi new members and welcome. You fit the trend that most Olyphant/Justified fans tend to be very intelligent and very well educated.
We'll have to pick your brain, exdusm for accuracy. Was your BS in biology then, to be able to switch to medicine??
I think that would make 3 of us. That was my first BS, headed toward biomedical engineering. After a BS in engineering I took a few more classed in biomed but there was no masters program withing driving distance. Landed a job as an electrical engineer and the money won me over. Got my masters in Engineering and was working on a PhD before I was stricken with Olyphantitus and gave it up to write Justified fan fiction instead of my thesis. LOL. It was stupid anyway. there is nothing left to discover about engineering. It turns out the laws of physics are constant.
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Post by exdusm on Apr 16, 2012 17:47:10 GMT -6
Hi motorcitymade and others Thanks, and it's a pleasure to be here. Feel free to ask anything. I have been away from the USMS so long that I don't think I can be much help with operations/technical questions. Watching Justified, I shake my head in amazement seeing real computers and terminals on each desk. Training at the interagency FLETC academy and then at the Marshals academy was EXTREMELY challenging, but in the end, I had a blast at Glynco, some of my best memories were there. I think I also cried every day, always asking myself what are you doing here? I graduated FLETC, but had to leave the Marshal's academy 1 week into training because of injury. I returned to light duty in my district until the next Marshal's class ~4 months later. Injuries and all, I completed training and, other than graduating from med school, that was a highlight of my life. Graduation day: the physical battery of qualifying tests, ending with the running track (4-something minute mile, I recall), to the showers, 'class-A dress', lunch, graduation ceremony, boxes to the campus post office to mail home, academy bus to the airport. Bye-bye snakes, sand flies, paper mills stench, well-water that smelled/tasted like the papermills smelled, sweet-tea to cover that taste, giant bugs, 100+ degree heat, butt-crack of dawn PT! Loved it. I returned to Glynco for advanced training several years later. That also very, very challenging, but SOOOOOO much fun, I hated for it to end. You are treated collegially, like a REAL professional and not like the recruit you were at the academy. In my mind, I can imagine the character Raylan there, part of a class and/or teaching advanced firearms. I can imagine him in 'attitude adjustment class' (rec room/beer hall) in the evening. It is understandable that Raylan wants to go back to teach. I have so much nostalgia. Engineering degrees, motorcitymade- WOW, I'm VERY impressed. Electrical engineering, no less. I cannot imagine. I never got that part of physics. Do you plan to continue the PhD track sometine in the future? How far into it were you? (You don't have to respond to either question if too personal). My undergrad degree was BA in Criminal Justice, but I did intro science classes. I did the more advanced science requirements in a post-bac pre-med certificate program at Columbia after I resigned from USMS (they did not believe I would do it ) I want to spend all my time doing Justified fanfic and videos , but I can't . I am pretty disciplined at self-study and delaying my gratification. I use it as motivation to get to the stuff that is really important ;D
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Post by motorcitymade on Apr 16, 2012 18:31:32 GMT -6
IDK about the PhD. It's the research. I still have to be the breadwinner and crank out a new product every 18-24 months. There is nothing left to "research". It's the same old shit, just rehashed. electromagnetic theory/compatibility in high speed circuits is my specialty, but like I said, the laws of physics are pretty constant. It would truly serve me no purpose as I am already a P.E, which means that I'm the one that gets sued if my instrument cluster delivers you you an warning and you're too stupid to know what the icon means and you drive off the road and die; which could be about 78% of the population since telltale messages are getting really confusing. LOL.
Maybe you can give us a tutorial on doing the videos. I keep telling myself I'm going to learn to do it but I never seem to have the time. What do you use for the native format and do you rip it off a DVD? Do you know how to merge dialog with music and control the level? I've got a lot of personal stuff of my spousal unit's musical career and I would love to do something creative with it.
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Post by Lerayna on Jun 10, 2012 10:46:30 GMT -6
hey i just had to join because obviously i love timothy olyphant....my name is rayna but skit has been my nickname since i was a kid. the 22 is because thats my age ill be 23 in Aug. but ive been married 4 years my husband is 7 years older than me and i live in south carolina. lol i think that is about it for me
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Post by motorcitymade on Jun 10, 2012 12:01:41 GMT -6
Welcome Skit! Enjoy and participate. Hope we don't shock you with our TO fantasies.
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Post by Lerayna on Jun 10, 2012 12:33:25 GMT -6
lol.. i believe i can handle it.... me and my friends major when it comes to that
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Post by bookperson39 on Jun 10, 2012 12:37:27 GMT -6
Hi Skit! Welcome to the Madhouse! Thanks for the great pictures.
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Post by Lerayna on Jun 10, 2012 12:45:51 GMT -6
your welcome.. i love these pictures
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Post by katcoblue on Jun 10, 2012 15:30:42 GMT -6
Welcome Skit!!! Good to have you with us. As you can tell, we love The TO here and I love the pictures you sport. The one of him walking in his board shorts down to "there" on the beach gets me every time.
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Post by Dolphin on Jun 10, 2012 16:49:06 GMT -6
Hi Skit! Your pics sure started my day off right.
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Post by Lerayna on Jun 10, 2012 19:51:48 GMT -6
wow thanks for the welcome yall
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Post by motorcitymade on Jun 10, 2012 19:53:10 GMT -6
Katco, If it wasn't for that damned fishing hat (in APGA)! Oh well, he needed it to tie his skull back together in the next scene.
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Post by mondayschild on Jun 10, 2012 21:23:38 GMT -6
Welcome, skit22! We are a diverse group here, except when it comes to TO worship. But I have kids older than you, for the love of Pete.
Love your pictures. APGA is one of my favorites.
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