User talk:SuzanneOlsson/Archive 1

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Jesus bloodline
I have improved the Jesus bloodline article as much as I can in light of the fact that there are some books I haven't read and probably won't read anytime soon. I would appreciate your comments on the Talk:Jesus bloodline page. --Loremaster (talk) 16:59, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

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Hey Suzanne, I've answered here. Cheers, Gwen Gale (talk) 15:51, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:SuzanneOlsson/sandbox
User:SuzanneOlsson/sandbox, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:SuzanneOlsson/sandbox and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of User:SuzanneOlsson/sandbox during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Gwen Gale (talk) 23:43, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Your article is now at User:SuzanneOlsson/Sandbox
The MfD (Miscellany for Deletion) is still open for your article, but I expect that it will determnine that the article can be kept, at least for a time, in your Sandbox. I had moved it to my user space to protect it more effectively, but another user moved it back, actually, it got moved twice and eventually ended up back in your Sandbox where it had been when nominated. The other user argued that you had a perfect right to have it in your user space, which I agree with, though sometimes if there is no hope that a page can be improved to become an article, user pages will get deleted. (User pages are supposed to have a purpose that at least potentially helps the project. Some editors have argued that there is totally no hope, but .... let me just say that there are some editors who argue this way almost no matter what. If they don't like an article, must mean it doesn't belong. I actually have no idea how they could possibly know that there are no reliable sources, as they claim. You might take a look at the MfD if you want to see what we are up against. But if you can find those sources, it might be doable.

In any case, happy belated birthday. --Abd (talk) 02:53, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Adb and thank you for getting the page set up for me..I know nil about HTML. Never had a necessity to learn it. I am completely self-taught on use of computers and programming. The years I lived abroad under some less than Hilton standards I never had a computer (after theft of first two laptops I gave up). So I had a lot of technical catching up to do and I still struggle and lag far behind you, who had access to real rolls of TP paper all these years.  Thanks for birthday wishes. I learned everything I know about telling my age from Mae West. I AM 39. I am 39. I am 39. Got it? Actually that seems old now. There's a 19 year old still alive and kicking in this old heart, She's always trying to sneak out again and get me into trouble. Do I have a dual personality? Naw.  Just a great sense of humor and fun.  OK...Now to tackle that troublesome page ,,,Thanks and Kindest best wishesSuzanneOlsson (talk) 20:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * 39? That's so young. I'm that age made famous by the Beatles. 64. But, besides my grown children and grandchildren (5 and 5 respectively) I've got kids 5 and 6, from Ethiopia and China. We are a real multicultural family, I'm straight, the mother of the kids -- we are still married but that's ending and this is why: -- is gay. I'm Muslim and she's thought of converting to Judaism. If we can get along, maybe there is hope for the world. Easy? Not. But we must for the kids, and, indeed, they make it all worthwhile. God bless her and them.


 * By the way, Wikipedia language isn't HTML. It's a special wiki language supposedly easy to learn. You can actually just type stuff in the edit window, but, gradually, you learn to do things like create links, add in-line references, etc., etc. I only started editing heavily about nine months ago, even though I registered as an editor in 2005. Took me the better part of a year or more to figure out how to sign a post. --Abd (talk) 04:27, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

--Abd (talk) 04:27, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Took me the better part of a year or more to figure out how to sign a post. I'll loan you my new scarf once in a while when you feel necessity to hide behind a few good excuses now and then. For me it's down to either 'blond' or senior as an excuse, and you KNOW I aint going there! There's so much going on right now. I know it appears I am trying to self-promote my book but it's more than that for me and for others who hope to gain merit through association with me. The better I look, the better they will succeed in their endeavors by using my name as a reference (if that makes any sense to you). During this interim I have to be a very VERY dumb blond, and a quiet one too. I will gradually add to the page as you suggested. Oh! BtW I just read your user page. Dunno how I missed that one before now. Interesting biography. You are a convert. I have been to Ethiopia, I lived there for about six months. I temporarily 'adopted' an entire family in need! I loved it in the Great Rift Valley and parts north, in Axum where I lived. I had an awesome experience there with the priests, who even exceeded the Buddhists I knew in Thailand when it came to performing feats of the mind. The Ethiopians I've known have been deeply spiritual people.....in fact they leave Buddhists trailing far behind.  :-)  You seem like a very interesting fellow, a few cuts above the average editors here.  It is a pleasure working with you. Kindest best wishes,  SuzanneOlsson (talk) 19:02, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, I'm a guy, which may make a difference, and I notice -- and must accept -- that I'm ... inattentive or distracted or whatever, in ways that I wasn't, probably, when younger. (Or maybe I was, actually, but I had more parallel processing power behind it, I used to be able to carry on a phone conversation and read a book at the same time. I lost that one about fifteen years ago.) If I can admit it promptly, then I don't need to defend myself against my children -- or their mother, who is 17 years younger than I -- when they say I'm not paying enough attention to them, or losing it, or whatever. I am. So? Get over it! I'm bloody 64! (Actually, I regret it when this causes them pain, but there are limits to what I can change.) Likewise, it was actually a huge relief when I finally realized that my life story was largely written by my Attention deficit disorder, only a bit over a year ago. I should have known. Once I knew what to ask about, I found that my brother, who is eleven years older than me, was treated for hyperactivity before 1950, at a clinic where the use of stimulants was probably taking place on an experimental basis, some of the earliest work, it would have been. It's a family thing. And he led, and continues to lead, quite an amazing life, absolutely not normal. And that's actually a good thing.


 * For years, my wife would say, "Any normal person would understand what I'm trying to say." Right. I'm not a normal person. I'm a very, very unusual person, highly skilled and proficient in certain ways, and developmentally delayed in others. I can understand things that are way beyond what most people can manage (Including certain kinds of "people things," because of my ability to, under the right conditions, hyperfocus. And certain things -- social understandings, the unwritten rules of relationships, perhaps -- I can be clueless about, or it takes a lot of rationalization, repetition, and special learning, for what comes naturally to most. Yes. Ethiopia. Fantastic place, I visited the nearest town to where Birtukan was born, and met with her grandparents. (Unfortunately, I did not have the preparation or time to visit their village, which was four hours by donkey trail from the nearest mud road). Beautiful country, lush and green (the south, Kambata Tribal Region, that's her tribe, she has characteristic eye scars). Beautiful people, who have something that is rare here. While they are, by our standards, in some ways, very poor, they smiled more, and more deeply and beautifully, and more routinely, than anything I've seen anywhere. And Birtukan has that smile, it's a total killer.


 * As to blond, sorry, I don't believe it for a minute. You don't do what you have done as a "dumb blond." --Abd (talk) 20:27, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * My daughter had ADD and an IQ of over 150. Only kid I know who had to repeat kindergarten..I used to dance like this (see YouTube video) with friends in Ethiopia: Burtukan is a lovely woman but not much experience in politics: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DXvoI2n8TYA


 * You mean Birtukan Mideksa? I'd only known her name as Birtukan, and I hadn't followed the news, she was released from jail a year after we joined with our daughter in Addis Ababa, I will be glad to tell our Birtukan that the brave woman we had told her about was released. As to the dancing, Birtukan, when she first came here, at three, could do the shoulder shimmy that is characteristically Ethiopian. We've gone to see Ethiopian dancers on occasion, and Birtukan went to Ethiopian Culture Camp a few weeks ago, got her hair beautifully braided. (She has very kinky, nappy hair.) --Abd (talk) 03:29, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Dam; where did I put that scarf? I need to hide my head in shame. I didn't realize you were speaking about your daughter! :-(   Yes, I know a little about the intricate hair weaves and facial tatoos...that each village has its own distinct style.  I took the four-day bus trip from Addis Adabba to Axum because I thought I would enjoy seeing more of rural Ethiopia that way...I was terrified and actually paid one very delighted couple to swap seats with me so I sat on the inside, away from the edge of the cliffs as we climbed up from the Great Rift Valley basin. Most terrifying part of any journey I ever made anywhere! It seems there was barely an inch of washed out dirt road in places, one slip and the bus would go from here to eternity, where we would arrive looking like we went through a meat grinder. I'd still rather take my chances with kalashnikovs, thank you.  Tell Birtukan I said hello. :-) Sue  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.122.23.179 (talk) 03:33, 23 July 2008 (UTC)