I was also a 'wonder.'

Current wife and I married after she had lived with me for 3 and half years in USA.

We had 're-introduced' 4 years earlier after having briefly first met a few times 10 years earlier at business meetings.

In early May, it will have been 20 years since our brief first meetings.

Since I am so old . . . I can't wait around to celebrate X years of marriage, so we are going to celebrate our 20th in May 2024.

We still 'wonder' how it all came about.

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One tid-bit:

When she was waiting in line for first visa (student type) to USA she said:

"God,  if I should NOT go to USA, then just don't allow my visa to be approved."

the thing about playing 'games of chance'
is once in awhile ya hear about someone hitting 'a big jackpot' which gets attention
but you almost never hear about the 'schmucks' (am I allowed yiddish on this site?) who lose their shirt...
so noobs consider it realistic to play because of the lack of perceived negatives
they don't do any sort of analysis. to determine their chances of success
if they did, most of 'em would't gamble with their lives this way

even if yur a card counter, in the world' dumbest casino (don't reshuffle)
when you place yur bet on the table
it's a sphicter tightening moment

Is it smart to be a "One week wonder"?

p.s. (I also think that the more experienced posters here do the newbies a great disservice by just congratulating the "one week wonders" and not warning them of the potential harm their actions may cause)

I made 4 trips to meet and be with Angel Eyes, she made 2 trips to be with me.
During her second trip I decided that I was not going to send her back, so I
drove her to Las Vegas and married her.

comedy, warfare....
success depends on timing

Israel scrubbed the first two missions, which WERE much more extensive
with a smaller one focused on an Iranian air base
I will hear the details later today...
but I already heard a weird story I can't confirm, that the Israeli attack was launched from WITHIN Iran
sounds like they flew F-35s into Iran, and from within Iran, they launched stealth glide bombs
Iran had no clue, until the explosions

Israel attacked the Isfahan Air Base, this facility is not far from several of Iran's el-cheapo Chinese nuclear reactors that are SOLELY used for physics research and not plutonium production
makes for a good warning, should Iran decide to escalate

Israel knows the thickness of the reactor containment sphere and whether or not a 'bunker buster" can penetrate the containment sphere before detonating on the reactor
remember when Israel took out Iraq's plutonium breeder reactor back in the day

Israel being a "good boy" will get the money from Biden...and in return they will delay actions that WILL effect oil prices until after November
it's a "quid pro quo" world, though inflation means it's 4.3 quids now

hostage smiles on Presidents, freedom scribbled on the subway wall
it's like night and day

Covid was just the first warnin to ya'll
that one day, Babylon gonna fall

by the end of the next decade, there will be a "new economic order" after the old one collapses
we will all dwell in it's 'heart of darkness'


I am a Catastrophe Theorist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_theory

and have created my own excel model of the "debt bomb"
tryin to predict when it all goes nonlinear, i.e. "The Collapse"

you haz yur hobbies, and I haz mine

I would say around 90% of the FSU gals I spent time with were quite a bit above average IQ.  No, this doesn't mean that FSU folks are smarter on average than USA folks.  In fact they are less smart on average.

Current wife has quite a bit more brain power than I do, but she doesn't know it.  However, she is lacking in logic in many instances.

She gave me the Einstein Puzzle and was pleased how quickly I solved it.
Had I floundered . . . she probably would not have come to USA to live with me.

Supposedly Einstein said only 2% of people in the world could solve the puzzle.

I think around 20% of the people can solve it.
A better measure might be the time it takes a person to solve it.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/logicpuzzle.html