Text 34747, 160 rader
Skriven 2006-07-27 17:48:39 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
  Kommentar till text 34691 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
Ärende: Re: Canadian "Skills"
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*** Quoting Roy Witt from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 RW>> Hmmm, as I recall, Marge passed away some years ago...maybe not.

 CS> Could be you know more than i there.

RW> Looking at an old nodelist, Marge is actually spelled Marj...probably
RW> Marjory instead of Margerate. Yes, I remember when that episode
RW> happened...he announced that she had died. Maybe he didn't want anyone
RW> know that they had split up, if that was the case.

Thats right.  Marj was the spelling.  Marj Mills I think?  In this case, I
*think* they split and she died sometime after.  She moved up North
(Riverside? name seems to come to mind at least) to live with her kids I think
it was.

 CS> another lady.

 CS> Forgive a slight digression but from a lady, accept that Joe is a
 CS> truely delightful 'ladies man'.  Ah!  Had I been but 20 years older!
 CS> A scamp of the first order that can make a ladies nipples wrinkle
 CS> just when he walks in the door.  It's all attitude, none visual other
 CS> than the twinkle of the eye...

RW> I fail to feel the enthusiasim as I'm not attracted to men, especially
RW> Joe. I know what you mean though, having the same reaction to plenty o
RW> women, although lower in my body. Last I saw Joe, he was a little pudg
RW> legs seemed to be a little shakey, wore a patch over one eye and was d
RW> or going deaf.

Smle, other than the patch over the eye, thats Joe!  Ladies-man for sure but
not in description in a way that others who havent met him would understand.
You left out that he's a bit bandy-legged (not bad, just a bit).  You'll note
Joe's never lacked for a playmate at any time.  They kinda line up...

RW> I reviewed what I found in the archived nodelists. Ena Phoenix was lis
RW> as 202/902, which was under the same hub as when I was listed as 909.

RW> Brian Roberts became the 900 hub by the last nodestub in 1995. Dunno w
RW> happened to Gordon Brandt, the previous 900 hub.

RW> In the January, 96 nodelist, Ena was still listed and Joe had taken ov
RW> the 911 BBS from the previous sysop.

Joe was always that BBS name but the number, you are right, may have changed at
some point.  My number changed there too at least once if not twice.  Brenda
was realigning things.  I asked to be attached to Alpine (local dial for me)
but was not able to ever get there.  Had a really horrible hub for a bit but
he finally shifted to just filebone so I was able to get a better one.

RW> I met Bob Kohl and was recruited for more clandestine operations.

By then, I was in Net275 and bringing in new points to nodelisting status just
like I had done in 202.  I was on a ship though so I didnt do any *C stuff at
all except feed points and get them ready.

 CS> listed as CM and leading to a bad end.  He didnt use what I sent him
 CS> and even back then, i knew enough to send him my makenl line (PVT,
 CS> -Unpublished-).  He ws replaced not long after in N275 by a more
 CS> capable person.

RW> I often wondered how one would gain the experience to do a job if they
RW> were never given the opportunity. I've talked my way into jobs that we
RW> 'reportedly' over my head, but only once did I fail at getting it righ
RW> the first time. Of course, raiding the boss' mainframe to make my job
RW> easier didn't help much.

Well, he was a very very nice person and we all liked him, but he wasnt good at
nodelisting things.  I took his segment and cleaned it up and sent it back to
him.  I'd learned nodelisting things as the Assistant IC for ADAnet by then,
as well as other 'othernets' I was involved in.

 CS> The most painful part is it looks to all outside like I'm making this
 CS> up. Hell no.  But I'm 'old style'.  I wont pass email addresses out
 CS> without permission nor netmail even if it's sent to me.  I just cant
 CS> wrap my mind to do that.

RW> You're a good gal...

Thanks <wink>.  I have my moments.  The funny times are when folks try to
impute an ulterior motive to me.  I would know an ulterior motive it it
crawled up my dress, and then if I did notice it, I'd squash it!  I am an
uncomplex as a tube sock, which doesnt mean I'm 'dumb' but rather I'm the
plain spoken sort.

Then again, you all know that.

 CS> If I cant get a Z6C replacement going by Xmas roughly, I see no way
 CS> to maintain other thsan shifting the rest to Z3 because i cant just
 CS> delete them when they keep telling me not to at the 11th hour.

RW> That deadline I mentioned above will either start some action or finis
RW> off Z6 like it should be.

True.  I thought we'd be ready now but got asked to wait.  Xmas is the latest I
can really wait though there may be another long inport before i go, that one
is the last reasonably 'sure' one.  Ships schedules change too much to have
other windows stay for sure.  To clarify, forward deployed ships schedules
change too much.  Stateside homeported ones can change, but not even remotely
like we do.  For example, we had 3 days notice to deploy for the gulf and came
back 8.5 months later for 2 weeks then back out 2 months 'elsewhere'.

Still, there's time to let them settle things out still, so will wait on them
in Z6 for that second timeframe.  I'll be here another few weeks but it's more
sensible to make sure i have 2 weeks left *after* the transition when still in
port, if possible.  Dates the will be hardline as i wont have quite as much
time to work with.

 CS>> I hope I'm not misremembering where Patrick Long used to be!  Pretty
 CS>> sure he used to be Net202!  It would be back along time ago. Could
 CS>> have been elsewhere though?  Gosh I feel like a flake...

 RW>> Hang on a minute. Checking my archives, I don't seem to find them on
 RW>> t HDs. Perhaps I've already put them on CDs...I'll check again and
 RW>> get b to you on that.

 CS> Ok thanks!  I guess I could just tell him I'm an idiot and ask (heck,
 CS> he might be reading here!).

RW> See above...I didn't find a Patrick Long though.

Humm, He's either a friend from 275 then or predates your set.  I suspect you'd
have to look to 1990-1994 or so for him.


 RW>> Oh well, something to look forward to when you return to VA..

 CS> Yeah, and lots of other stuff! 4,000 some odd books (YeahHoo!) and
 CS> some cookery stuff.

RW> Most of my library is of a technical nature, maybe 200 books. Nancy ha
RW> few cookbooks, which I use too. I left a bunch of old tech books with
RW> goodwill when we moved. I did keep a few that were interesting, like t
RW> 1906 high school science book that is completely out of line with toda
RW> thinking...in fact some of it is wrong.

Ohh I luv my books!  I have thousands.  Literally.  There's a few genres
missing from the sets as i'm not a major fan of those types, but have a
smattering of most types.

Charlottes favorites include (but arent limited to):  Little Women, Wizard of
Oz, Harry Potter series, Artemis Fowl series, Lucky Starr (early Asimov wrote
under that), Pokemon books, A Wrinkle In Time, Jack London (I have most of his
works), Laura Ingalls Wilder series.  Most of them are 'age appropriate' stuff
a 12YO would like to read.   Like me, she's always got a book 'in progress'
and this message would be way too long to list more than a scratch at the
surface of what she likes.

I've only gotten rid of one series because I didnt want it in my home.  Tarzan,
because it upset me a bit too much as i read along.  Although the man was
simply a product of his times, the unabridged version was what i had and it
was so disgustingly racial, I dumped them back on the used book store.  If it
could be cleaned up of all that mess, it's a decent read.

I dont have many text books, but I have some history ones.  Tacitus for example
is what I've been poking at lately again.
                                       xxcarol

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