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To: Gauguin who wrote (40088)	10/20/1999 4:09:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

OK. Chris makes the kids laugh more often than that. He's frequently pretty grouchy, and cranky, but sometimes he gets funny, frequently as a result of being grouchy and cranky, he starts saying funny things about Clinton, or the traffic, but I think you'd have to be there to laugh. He's got his room all fixed up, now, he bought himself a couple of Tiffany-style lamps from the hardware store that's going out of business, a dragonfly table lamp, and a peacock feather floor lamp. And he's got the medieval painting of St. Jerome he inherited, and the German woodcuts of medieval German towns, and his reproduction stone castings of green men, and a Celtic cross. With his Mission-style bed, and desk, and chair, it looks quite Gothic in there, especially when he lights the black candles on the iron candlesticks. The only thing I've got like that is a stone casting of a small 14th century Scottish gravestone, very weathered looking, on the left is an hourglass, and on the right is a skull and crossbones. I have it on the wall by my computer. It reminds me not to waste time, not that I pay attention. Anyway, Chris keeps trying to convince me that it would look much, much better in his room. And over the years we've developed a way of telling the other to get out of our face, a hand gesture over the head that looks like a reptile raising its crest, holding the hand straight up close to the top of the head and spreading the fingers and thumb, accompanied by the sound, "pfffft!", meant to suggest pre-fight posturing. So when he tries to talk me out of my wall hanging, or my pegged cherry Windsor chair, I just make hand gestures and go "pffft!" at him. The kids get a kick out of this.