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ABOUT THIS RESEARCHER

Created: 22nd September 1999 
Strange and Mundane
Are you the sort to whom lovely weather isn't a sunny day? Do you love the rain? Would you prefer it cooler rather than hotter? Or do you perhaps just get annoyed with the assumptions weathercasters make about what a 'good' day is? If so, why not pop along to Society Against Weather Discrimination ? It's in it's infancy (heck it's not even crawling yet), but maybe it can become more....

Welcome to the den of the lupine one. Come in, sit yourself around the fire. Oh and mind the recliner, I think my claws have done a little too much to it and the stuffing and springs aren't as secure as they should be. Now, would you like some refreshment? I'm afraid I'm not one for alcohol much these days, restricting myself to a beer on social occasions and a scotch or port on special occasions. However I can do you a coffee or a herbal tea? Or perhaps normal tea if you prefer. Let's see, somewhere around here I have the sugar and moo-juice. Ah, here we are, I'll let you add those as you like since I always overdo it. It's a weakness of mine.

Who am I? Well as you can tell from the 'Researcher tag', I'm known in this time and place as doreiwolf. I'm known in many other places, and miscellaneous times, as doreiwolf too, or in some cases just Wolf. My wife has even received snail-mail addressed to 'Mrs Wolf'.

"The sooner I start, the sooner I can fall behind"
- doreiwolf

Now why on earth would a wolf, like myself, whose age is open to debate, have to say that's useful, or interesting, to you? That's a good question, and one I'll let you answer. You may in fact, find yourself incredibly bored with all I have to say. Or you may regard me as the highest of the high when it comes to dispensing knowledge. If the former is the case, then you're still welcome to sit and enjoy the fire and refreshments. If the latter is the case then I recommend you drink something soothing, like chamomile tea, and lie down for a bit until reality reasserts itself.

"You really are at 90o to the rest of the world"
- Workmate

I suppose I've not really told you much about myself, have I? Perhaps I'm the mysterious sort who disappears from view in the blink of an eye? Hardly. More usually you'll find me engaged in my favourite occupation: talking. Sometimes I talk about myself, mostly about things which interest me; which can be anything from a paperclip to stealth technology. If you're not careful I'm likely to talk your ear off. The only time I don't talk as much is when I'm asleep and even then I've apparently had some strange conversations.

"The way you think of things is just frightening"
- Mrs Wolf

Where was I? Oh yes. Now as you'd probably guess from my pseudonym I'm interested in both wolves and David Eddings, in that order.

What else? Hmm, well I'm one of a number of Australians in H2G2. Yes, yes, I know an Australian wolf is unlikely. Well too bad, I'm here to stay. I'm also a Wiccan and have been for some time. If you're interested, perhaps you'd like to drop by A Wiccan Forum, hosted by the ever interesting bluDragon for a cup of herbal tea and a chat? Or perhaps visit the page of my anam cara munky.

"The way my dog urinates is known as 'fire and forget'"
- doreiwolf

I'm now also part of an exhibit called h2g2 Natural History Museum run by Amy the Ant, though why anyone would want to put me in a museum, let alone come to see me there is a curiosity.

What more can I say?

"You think of wierd things."
- Mrs Wolf

While I'm waffling on in my usual manner I'll mention the SETI@Home project, which I'm part of. From the famous Arecibo Observatory, which houses the world's largest single dish radio telescope, scientists are listening out for transmissions from space. Participate in this project for the search for extraterristrial life with other h2g2 Researchers on The SETI@home Project. If you do take part, there is a small but captivating possibility that your computer will be the one to first detect a message transmitted from an alien civilisation.

Misc

Pages I want to wander back to:
Image uploading, Freedom from Faith Foundation, Writing Workshop, What's Coming Up, Peer Review




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RESEARCHER DATA
Name:

doreiwolf (why not try A682652?) (Alpha Low Thingite Patron, Defender of Wibble, Pagan Younger and Official Pooper Scooper)
Last posted: Oct 27, 2002
Researcher Number:

83693

Referenced Entries:

Wolves
The SETI@home project
Australian Researchers
A Wiccan Forum
"Post your Gif" image hosting.
The Freedom From Faith Foundation
h2g2 Natural History Museum
David and Leigh Eddings
Society Against Weather Discrimination

Referenced Researchers:

bludragon, aka the Dragon Queen of Damogran
Mrs Wolf
Amy the Ant - High Manzanilla of the Church of the Stuffed Olive
munky

Related BBC Pages:

Writing Workshop
What's Coming Up
Peer Review

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Moderation...whatever happened to a friendly warning?
Jan 9, 2002

I get back to do some major revision work on my 'wibble' page (I have to store stuff online as I'm rarely on the same computer twice lately) only to find a whole bunch of 'copyrighted material removed by moderator' essentially leaving my article a series of placeholders.

Now, while I can see thier point (though I can't see including a dictionary definition as being a problem), it meant I had to go find everything again and all the work I'd put in in the first place was wasted.

Perhaps hiding the article and a short note to me would have been better?

Sheesh.

Discuss this entry - 1 reply - Latest reply: Jan 17, 2002

Why am I not surprised?
Jan 7, 2002

Well, it finally happened. I got proof.

Leading up to his death my Father had always promised that I was getting everything. When I say 'everything' there really wasn't a lot. His assets may have added up to $2000 in total if I was lucky.

During his last years he was living with his girlfriend (having left Mum about 17 years ago), who I quite liked.

One day I heard he was dying and dropped eveything to do the 6 hour drive to be at his side. I wished I could stay, but unfortunately life doesn''t stop. I stayed a few hours, then had the long drive home.

While I was there, talking to a nurse, he kept telling my wife that I was 'getting everything', as if it was important.

Three weeks later he died. I immediately set about organising the funeral. That is until a sneaking suspicion made me ask a crucial question: who were his posessions going to. The answer was : his girlfriend.

Now, I don't bear her any ill-will. She put up with him in the last years and damn well deserved whatever was left. I don't have a problem with that.

I also found it suspicious that the executor of his will was this girlfriend's daughter. I often wondered what happened in those three weeks. Did my Father have one of his famous tantrums and write me out of his will, or was he, in his weakened state, co-erced by said daughter?

I now have the answer.

A letter arrived along with a money order, and a copy of the will. I'll quote a single portion of it:

3.3 To my son, [doreiwolf], to be held in trust the sum of $1.00 so he can buy two postage stamps, or make one phone call to enquire about me after I'm dead.

That gave me all I needed to know. The phrasing, the words used all ring of my Father. He wasn't coerced. Instead he took his last opportunity ever to do something he'd been doing to me for most of my life: breaking promises.

The joke, however, is on him.

You see, if I'd got that even two months after he died I'd have been crushed, heartbroken and torn apart.

Now, however, I'm over him. My wife was worried about how I'd take the letter. She needn't have bothered. I laughed. In fact I found that, plus the 'guilt trip' letter written by the daughter to be incredbly funny. She's an amateur in the guilt stakes. I learned at the knee of my Grandmother who was a master at it.

My wife added to the humour. Instead of dumping the letter, will and money order for $1.00 into the paper recycling, she tore it up and put it straight in the bin, with all the other garbage.

Damn life is good! smiley

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Another Death
Apr 29, 2001

Dad's dead. 20010429

Discuss this entry - 10 replies - Latest reply: Jun 3, 2001

A Death in the Family
Apr 25, 2001

Bo, Mrs Wolf's dog, died yesterday. 20010424.

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The road to the Dentists
Apr 20, 2001

Here I sit feeling sorry for myself, but damn glad that's over.

I have this *wonderful* phobia about dentists. I hate them. Really, really hate them. I truly would prefer to have something broken than have to see one.

I rather suspect this is due to too many of my early dentists who I'm sure were confirmed sadists. This type of dentist can be detected by their cry of "this won't hurt". Won't hurt *them*. Me, yes.

Anyway.

I'd had a wisdom tooth taken out a few years back. My mouth was shaped such that I couldn't get the brush to reach my right upper wisdom (the left was fine, for some reason), and it had decayed badly. So, in with the local anasthetic (about 4 times as much as normal, due to my curious physiology), and one person holds my head, while the dentist uses the pliers. Isn't modern technology wonderful?

A few months ago I had a *very* bad cavity needed filling. While there they took a pretty x-ray and discovered my lower wisdoms were impacted, and my lower left was in fact little more than a shell. There was no way to clean down into the slight gap left betwen my molar and my wisdom. The right was also in serious danger.

So out they had to come. And to stop possible future problems my upper left wisdom also had to come out. Three teeth. I chose to be sedated.

Today I had them out. I slept soundly during the op, though I had some bizzarre (but not scary, thank goodness) dreams about having teeth removed.

Now I'm sitting here sore and almost scared to eat. It's very, very hard to stop my tongue from 'exploring' the new spaces.

Oh well. At least they're out and I can just heal and get on with life again.

Discuss this entry - 2 replies - Latest reply: May 31, 2001

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A735644The Australian Art of Yarn Spinningh2g2 -Apr 23, 2002
A683651David and Leigh Eddings - Authorsh2g2 EditedApr 22, 2002
A697188Billy Connollyh2g2 -Feb 17, 2002
A683318Graeme Base - Artist and Authorh2g2 -Jan 20, 2002
A682652Society Against Weather Discriminationh2g2 -Jan 18, 2002
A678305Wibbleh2g2 -Jan 7, 2002
A586613Hysterectomyh2g2 EditedJul 13, 2001
A583490Dominance and submission - a Power Exchange Relationshiph2g2 EditedJul 4, 2001
A583337How to Hypnotise a Chickenh2g2 EditedJul 2, 2001
A538706David and Leigh Eddingsh2g2 -Apr 22, 2001
A535240Millenium Falconh2g2 -Apr 13, 2001
A378731Handy Tips on Planning a Weddingh2g2 EditedJun 26, 2000
A287813Canberra, Australiah2g2 EditedApr 27, 2000
A273179Waterh2g2 EditedMar 10, 2000
A256754Comb-oversh2g2 EditedFeb 7, 2000
A248726Dunniesh2g2 EditedJan 26, 2000
A236495Dominance and submissionh2g2 -Dec 24, 1999
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