Text 35019, 150 rader
Skriven 2006-07-28 15:56:57 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 34906 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: Canadian "Skills"
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28 Jul 06 16:12, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Roy Witt:

 CS> *** Quoting Roy Witt from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

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

 RW>> Could be. It was been a long time ago now.

 CS> True.  I could ask Joe in other echos when I see him next, but I'm
 CS> not sure if it would cause him pain so perhaps, best to let that be.

Yeup...

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

 RW>> Yeah, the patch I think was because of an infection, if I recall
 RW>> correctly. He did wear a fairly thick set of glasses too. I did
 RW>> mentio shakey legs, maybe that's what you mean by bandy-legged. I
 RW>> note that i didn't take very much time for him to come up with a new
 RW>> partner after Marj.

 CS> True.  Having been 'elsewhere' by then, it seemed quite fast to me,
 CS> but may not have been all that fast.  He's had an operation to fix
 CS> his neck so now can drive again (severe arthritis stuff).

Like carpal tunnel? I'm working on a cure for that.

 RW>> Dunno if I mentioned it here or elsewhere, but Brian Roberts was my
 RW>> fi hub...he was very good at it too. His replacement, John Himes,
 RW>> wasn't nearly as good. John and I went round and round about the way
 RW>> his syst

 CS> I had the misfortune to be under this OZ guy who would be down for
 CS> days at a time then blame me for not connecting.

Sounds like John Himes. The blame game, I mean. I even asked Brenda if I
could take his place as I knew I could do a better job than John. That's
when she assigned me to Andy.

 CS> Fact is by then, I probably made him uncomfortable as i was a better
 CS> hub than he was and was feeding more systems (points with full BBSes
 CS> under them, yes, they paid CRP).  Due to 'conflict of interest' as
 CS> the treasurer though, I didnt want to be a hub.

I wouldn't have minded at the time, as I had a few extra PCs setup then.

 RW>> was always breaking down. I finally asked Brenda for a different hub
 RW>> a she assigned me to Andy Brown, who new as much if not more than
 RW>> Brenda about hubbing. When the computer that hosted the nets mail
 RW>> went down a

 CS> Andy was great.  At some point, he was my hub as well.  Funny thing
 CS> is we entered at about the same time and had helped one another get
 CS> setup.

Don't know about when the two of you started, but Andy had more links to
other FTNs than anybody I know of. It could be that he was a little bit
more experienced by the time he met you.

 CS>   He shifted to hub while I was the Net202 Treasurer.  (I gather the
 CS> fellow who took that over from me at last wasnt nearly as
 CS> careful and there was an interim fellow for a bit who was fired and i
 CS> had to come back in sometime around 1994).

And there were some just like those after you left. I was sick of their
CRP by 97.

 CS> The fellow who took over from me didnt swap the accounts right for
 CS> one thing so a year later, i still couldnt close my accounts at that
 CS> bank until I complained to Brenda.  I tried to close them and they
 CS> wanted to forward to me the entire Net202 treasurer funds (at that
 CS> time, close to 1,000$ in a combined phone and mailer machine repair
 CS> money).

If I recall right, there was one person in the net who hosted some of the
net computers and they were always going down for some reason or another.
Brenda finally went to the guys house and picked all of them up and got
them back online, asap.

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

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

 RW>> I remember hearing about you from members of 202 about then. I
 RW>> remembe when you became NC there.

 CS> Yup.  Got voted in 6 months before I finished my stint on the STENNIS
 CS> but told'em we'd need to wait so another fellow took it til i could
 CS> transfer. He did a good job.  6 months or so after that, I was
 CS> appointed as temp RC13 pending election (the old one became Z1C).
 CS> See, I'd made the mistake of saying i wanted to learn more and asked
 CS> some good questions in the regional echo <g>.

LOL! See what you get yourself into...

 CS> No one else was showing the same desire and potential so I got listed
 CS> which suprized the hell out of me, a wet behind the ears NC.  Came
 CS> election time, I had done so much, no one had much of a chance really
 CS> and I ran pretty much the show til I left with help from others who
 CS> got me up to speed on technical things I didnt know at the start.

 CS> *chuckle* I'm as complex as a tube sock as said so believe me when I
 CS> say that by now, I know alot about*C things at all levels of the
 CS> game.  I'm not particularily good with filebone, but I can meet any
 CS> need in any other area and can manage that one 'well enough'.

Sounds like it.

 RW>>> You're a good gal...

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

 CS>> Then again, you all know that.

 RW>> Yeup...

 CS> Hehe Kinda nice to be 'known'.  It's wierd but do you realize we've
 CS> never had a fight?

Yes, but we've had our differences too.

 CS>   Oh, some small tribulations over FN_SYSOP long ago when we were
 CS> opposite ends of a situation but even then we were overall decent to
 CS> one another.

I endeavor to be decent to those who reciprocate the same. Those people
usually have my respect, whether they're right or wrong.

When I'm attacked or accused of something out of the blue, I retaliate in
kind until they're either buried up to their necks in it or call a truce.
Some people don't know when to give it up, so they stay on the 'shit'
list.


Roy
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