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- From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
- Subject: Re: harpy gnu ears
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.223842.1474@eskimo.com>
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:38:42 GMT
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- Barbara Trumpinski (trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- : kitten, who has taken a break from delivering pizza and drinks of
- : choice to the crowd at callahans, is ready to toast the new year
- here...
- :
- : "despite the subject line (thanks bloomy) this is a serious
- : toast...1992 -- 'what a long strange trip it's been'...last new year's
- : day i spent watching "wings" on the discovery channel...10 hours of
- : it in fact...because my house guest enjoys that sort of thing...my
- : house guest was a dear friend who flunked out of school and went away
- : for the semester and summer...and when he came back this fall he found
- : a new dear friend...so we are still friends, but he doesn't need me
- : any more...
- :
- : the reason i spent one of the most important days of the year with
- : somebody else than my beloved t.c.....he was in texas for awhile...but
- : he didn't particularly like the supercollider folx and unfortunately
- : the feeling was mutual...so he came home ... and i am glad, because
- : this is home.
- :
- : we had an unexpected addition to our family unit...a bouncy baby 15
- : year old... my youngest stepson, lee. he got into trouble and for the
- : second time in 6 years his mother said that we either had to take him
- : or she was going to have him put away...since we should never have let
- : him go back the first time, we said okay...but this time it is
- : legal...the lawyer said he is ours...we paid the fee and she can't
- : have him back...no matter what she does! and it's good....
- :
- : i was diagnosed as clinically depressed after being sick (literally)
- : for a year...and we are working on getting that fixed. it put lots of
- : things at risk (including my job) but things are more secure now...
- :
- : i had a spiritual awakening when i went back to "the land" and spent a
- : week in the wilderness with women and music and myself...
- :
- : i heard spider robinson sing...in person
- :
- : here in the Place...people have come and people have gone...and i have
- : found some friends who are forever...we did some major
- : partying...didi's surprise party comes to mind...we all did that and
- : it inspired her to do nick chopper's birthday in oz.....she organized
- : it... from her bed in geneva where she nearly died...and i helped her
- : post it.
- :
- : there has been lots of joy here....and some sadness...and lots and
- : lots of fun...and love.
- :
- : and that brings me to my toast...'to US....to the spirit...to shared
- : pain and shared joy...to 1993!'"
- :
- :
- :
- : <CRASH!!!!!!>
- :
- : --
- :
- ************************************************************************
- ***
- : conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten /\ /\ barbara ann
- : "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?" {=.=}
- : ~
- trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
- : "love is the wild card of existance"
- : rita mae brown
- :
- Warrior lifts his head, and stares at Jammer.
- Jammer listens for a moment, and then says
- "Yup. I agree."
- He lays another dollar on the bar, collects a mocha,
- and says "To Us."
-
- Another mug downrange, and 1993 begins.
-