Text 37, 69 rader
Skriven 2004-12-13 19:41:12 av Carol Shenkenberger (1:261/1466.0)
     Kommentar till text 33 av Nancy Backus (2:252/171)
Ärende: Re: Linked
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NB> CS> Well, not suprizing!  I've only been in port 9 weeks so far this year.
NB> CS> Kicker eh?

NB>That's about what I noticed.

It would have been less than 9 weeks except I took leave before
reporting in to the Essex (current ship).

NB>And while I've not been off at sea, I've had the equivalent in details
NB>of responsibilities that keep me from having the time at home... not
NB>QUITE as bad as yours, but, it did* seem as though whenever I got back
NB>from one of those stints, it was to read your "off at sea" message about
NB>a week away from the catch-up point... <G>

Hehehe Now you know that even at sea, I'm still around.  Just a bit
slower to reply.

NB> CS> Thanks!  Yes, I keep up on this echo and a few others.  I drop out of
NB> CS> Memories when at sea (cant keep up).  I keep up on COOKING and a few
NB> CS> admin echos too.

NB>I can understand dropping out of MEMORIES, especially when it gets busy.
NB>:)  Dan talked me into checking out DADS, and I see you in there now and
NB>then...  but I'm not in COOKING, and any admin-type echos I might read I

You might like COOKING, if you are into kitchen things and general chat
among friends.  Tell'em 'hi' in memories too for me!

NB>wouldn't post in... plus it being off-topic... <G>  Having been totally
NB>ignored the couple of times I posted in FIDONEWS, I wouldn't post in
NB>there for anything now... even if I wasn't* being totally turned off by
NB>some of the shenanagins in there.  I still read it, and sometimes I
NB>wonder why I do that as well... ;/

OHH!  The new 'cess-pit echo'!  Yeah, it's a small set of sysops that
predominate those admin echos and they talk alot about the same things
over and over.  I do it too sometimes, but less often as time goes by.

NB>It's been a hectic year... :)  And, having just finished a year of
NB>separation pay after a layoff from Kodak (after 29 and 1/2 years), hubby
NB>is having an additional urgency to looking for a replacement job.  He's
NB>been looking, and applying, all year, and has yet to even have a nibble
NB>of interest.  He's a software engineer, with skills and training in
NB>electrical and hardware, and particularly has been working in embedded
NB>firmware (for example, the software that runs photofinishing equipment).
NB>Should be marketable, but apparently experience (and implied age) works
NB>against him?  We aren't desperate yet... we've got savings to work from
NB>for the time being, have been here before in worse straits (admittedly,
NB>many years ago, at the beginning of our marriage), and have always
NB>tended to be fairly frugal.  And, we DO believe that God will continue
NB>to provide for us, in one way or another, as He has done in the past,
NB>and as He has done for others through us over the years....  :)

Ouch, well hopefully all works out.  I'll be finishing my military
service in a few years and looking about as well.  I'll take something
simple to keep the money rolling while looking about for better, if I
dont catch a good one right off.

NB>Is your family surviving your increased absence ok?

So far all is well.  It's too long though.  I've been gone way too much
this last 2 years.
              xxcarol


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