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slynne
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response 175 of 411:
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Apr 15 13:01 UTC 2002 |
FWIW, I find the whining about drifting more annoying than the actual
drift which I admittedly sometimes find annoying although other times I
participate. I think that once a request has been made and ignored, it
is best to let the drift fade away on its own (which it will). At any
rate, lest this item turn into a drift of if it is rude to drift
excessively, I wont even mention it again in this item.
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slynne
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response 176 of 411:
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Apr 15 13:05 UTC 2002 |
And thankyou remmers for trying to get this item back on track. I think
I will follow your example:
Hi. I am Lynne. I have been on grex on and off for several years. I
live in Ypsilanti, Michigan which is pretty close to grex's home in Ann
Arbor. I work for Borders Group Inc doing tech support for their
Waldenbooks stores. I mostly conference via the web from work since I
seem to end up on hold a lot and when I am not on hold, I tend to be
waiting for the phone to ring. This is my big excuse for being grumpy
online but the truth is, I am kind of grumpy a lot of the time. ;)
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brighn
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response 177 of 411:
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Apr 15 13:29 UTC 2002 |
I think John's approach was the best way to handle it. Then, he's also both
a seasoned vet of this system and a mature individual (no offense intended
to anyone else here).
I'm Brighn (rhymes with Green) or Paul, I prefer Brighn but I really don't
care that much. I've been here for as long as I can remember, maybe seven
years or so, with periods of inactivity and periods of obsessive
Internet-addiction. I live in Fashionable Ferndale (well, The Township,
Oakland County's Ghetto[TM]). I'm a computer geek, professionally, but inside
there's a creative writer and artist trying to get out. On Grex, I tend to
get in long boorish conversations that usually amount to me arguing for the
sake of arguing. I'm opinionated as hell but do try to be nice... not always
polite, though. ;}
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jep
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response 178 of 411:
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Apr 15 13:50 UTC 2002 |
re #177: I didn't know how to pronounce your loginid. Thanks!
I'm John. I've been here pretty steadily since the system opened it's
modems. I'm the fairwitness of the sports conference, which really
needs some attention to boost it. I work in tech support for an EDI
software product. I'm going through a divorce, and have lost most
contact with my 10 year old stepson, but I have shared custody of my 5
year old son. I'm an avid Detroit Tigers fan. I have freshwater
tropical fish at home in a 55 gallon tank.
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keesan
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response 179 of 411:
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Apr 15 14:17 UTC 2002 |
I'm Sindi and I also type for Jim Deigert (jdeigert) my dyslexic partner.
We found grex a few years ago when I needed email for my translating business.
Jim fixes things and we are building a low-maintenance low-energy house in
central Ann Arbor since 1986. Jim used to have two children and now has one
housemate and they are busy digging up the yard to put in underground electric
service and switch to electric heat and hot water which they will prove is
cheaper than gas if you get the special time of day rate. We have a few
persimmon and pawpaw trees.
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remmers
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response 180 of 411:
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Apr 15 17:05 UTC 2002 |
Hi, I'm Entwhistle. My hobbies include sys-skating, lucid dreaming,
and classifying gravestones.
Favorite food: angel hair pasta
Pet peeve: limestone quarries
Sign: bridge may be icy
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edina
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response 181 of 411:
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Apr 15 19:30 UTC 2002 |
Hahahahahaha!!! I'm Brooke. I live and work IN Washington DC - am from
Michigan and am a bit homesick - am currently listening to Alicia Keys - and
am currently loving the weather.
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anderyn
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response 182 of 411:
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Apr 15 23:14 UTC 2002 |
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other
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response 183 of 411:
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Apr 16 00:29 UTC 2002 |
I am Eric. I make most of my living at the intersection of entertainment
and technology.
I love dramatic theatre, motorcycling, swimming, most other outdoor
activities, and many indoor ones as well, none of which I practice with
sufficient frequency to content me. I enjoy eating really good food,
defying categorization, learning new things, hugging my niece Miki, and
accomplishing things I really didn't think I was capable of.
Presently, I am Chair of the Board of Directors of Cyberspace
Communications, Incorporated, which owns the hardware on which Grex runs.
I am thirty-two years old, and I have lived in Ann Arbor or its environs
for most of the last eleven years, during which time I have associated
with homeless people and international superstars, fallen into and out of
love more than once each, made new friends and lost old ones, lived
poetry and breathed art, cried and laughed with equal intensity in
virtually the same moment, and celebrated and bemoaned the passage of
those same 11 years in alternating moods of contentment and melancholy.
I am Eric, and I have been lonely in the middle of a crowd and enveloped
in friendship while alone in a room. I am a pyramid built on shifting
sands, and a gossamer veil on a hurricane's rim.
I am.
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drart
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response 184 of 411:
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Apr 16 00:56 UTC 2002 |
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Here is someone for you Hasan willing to teach you
e-mail me
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eskarina
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response 185 of 411:
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Apr 16 03:34 UTC 2002 |
I'm Anna, I'm enjoying my last month of being 21 before I am no longer the
perfect age. I am currently being eaten alive by the monster that is my
schoolwork, with the most notable claw of the monster being group projects.
I spend a little time in computer labs and making random trips to Ann Arbor
denying that 'tis the season.
My ambition is to survive my finals. The world ends on May 2nd.
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clees
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response 186 of 411:
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Apr 16 06:32 UTC 2002 |
Re #176: did you make the Borders HP?
Maybe some additional info is in place:
I am a librarian working at the Free University of Amsterdam,
which I have bene doing for the last 13 years. So, I am by no means
a job hopper. My hopping is done across the big puddle to the US, for
which I often lack the necessary funds. Living of scraps for a couple
of months should fix that.
I like to ride my racing bike, work my home page and have been writing
a novel for two years now. It should be able to shake the literary
world on its foundations by now, haha.
Others hobbies are reading and cooking (yes, Eric, I like really good
food too)
Currently I am saving money for a cycling trip across America in 2003
East-West or West-East, which should pass Ann Arbor.
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jaklumen
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response 187 of 411:
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Apr 16 11:35 UTC 2002 |
resp:173 Welcome, Oscar. I look forward to hearing your perspectives
from Ireland.
resp:175 *sigh* I am sorry.
resp:176 We are getting a Borders in neighboring Union Gap (which was
the original Yakima many years ago). I think the Valley Mall will
keep Waldenbooks, though. I talk to the HR director for our area
tomorrow at the WorkSource job fair.
resp:179 I'd be curious to see how that works out. Gas and electric
have differing advantages. Gas for hot water heat can be very
efficient with an on-demand water heater. It's also great for
cooking, when you want to saute. If you want to can, however,
electric is the best.
Here in Washington, the majority of systems are electric for heating
because hydroelectricity provides most of the power.
*** reflecting now, based on resp:183, skip if ya want
I regret that all too often I attempt to hide my true self behind
silly facades that are meant to show confidence, but instead, paint me
as a whining, babbling idiot. I am afraid to show myself inside,
because it is a swirling mix of logic and much emotion. All too
often, my thoughts are anything but linear and I struggle to
articulate myself; often, I speak a complete thought in the middle and
work towards the ends. I may use words inaccurately, and even in
writing, yes, indeed, in cyberspace, I find my expression awkward.
I believe in protocol when it facilitates social exchange, but I am no
traditionalist. Instead, I am fiercely idealistic. I am also a great
believer of the espirit de corps and the notion of camaderie, but not
at the expense of individualism. I do not believe in the pressure of
conformity.
I favor the arts and social sciences, and I test as an INFJ/INFP on
the Myers-Briggs scale. I have studied music for many years, mostly
brass and keyboard instruments, but I dearly love my classical
guitar. I have found the company of guitarists most comforting. I
was very sad when my formal studies in college ended, for the last
concert I participated in seemed like a dream. I was with friends,
fellow musicians who honestly accepted me, even though I was new to
the instrument and was still pretty green. I also felt like I was
truly sharing something of myself to the audience. It was a
breakthough and I kept pinching myself, because it wasn't like any
concert I had given.
I am 27 and struggling to find my niche in the working world. I
wasn't very settled in college; I went to four different
institutions. I want to put roots down, but I still am floundering in
useless entry level jobs although I did manage a B.A.
I also am still working to manage the mood swings I live with in
dealing with bipolar mood disorder. I don't suppose it helps my
working situation.
I am excited to be a father, but very frightened about my finances.
I think I may understand Eric's sentiments. I wish I could accomplish
things I didn't think I was capable of, however.
I was shy, almost painfully so, growing up. I have learned to deal
with it, but it is still difficult sometimes. I withdraw when I am
depressed.
Okay, that's enough; you probably know more about me now than you (or
maybe I) care to know (I hate being impulsive)..
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jep
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response 188 of 411:
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Apr 16 12:51 UTC 2002 |
re #187: I can't say much about a lot of what you wrote, but I can
comment about being a father and being concerned about the finances.
I'll bet everyone who's ever had a kid has had the same concern.
I did have a more or less steady job when John was born, but I sure
wasn't making a lot of money. I wasn't very happy with my employer,
and I was driving 50 miles one-way to work, in a car that barely made
it. It's difficult to find a better job under those circumstances. We
got by, though.
A year later I had a lucky break and moved into a much better job. The
better job followed being laid off. You don't know fear until you're
unemployed with a family to support. I was lucky, though, as I said; I
was only laid off for a week before getting hired in at the next job.
Sometimes things work out.
My advice: enjoy your child, spend time with your wife, anticipate the
worst but hope for better, do your best, and things will work out for
all of you. Good things will come. Really they will.
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slynne
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response 189 of 411:
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Apr 16 13:05 UTC 2002 |
re #186 I dont know what you mean by Borders HP ;)
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keesan
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response 190 of 411:
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Apr 16 14:02 UTC 2002 |
Re 188 - John forgot to mention that he and Julie (Morwen) visited Ann Arbor
for a week a while back and got to grex in the same time zone as the locals.
The electricity being cheaper has to do with the fact that we anticipate such
low usage that even a higher rate per BTU will be offset by the fact that we
are not paying the $8/month charged by the gas company for service before they
start charging for usage (which the electric company does not do). On top
of which we will be charged 1/3 the normal rate for heat used off-peak.
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morwen
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response 191 of 411:
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Apr 16 16:36 UTC 2002 |
We did visit. It was fun. Sindi and Jim put us up and our first day
in we got to watch an electrical storm. That was fun. We had a week
where we got to spend time with lots of people and even got to take
the grexwalk. Also, Sindi taught us how to make oatmeal without
measuring it. Sindi, I just wanted you to know, I still make oatmeal
the way you taught us.
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keesan
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response 192 of 411:
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Apr 16 20:03 UTC 2002 |
So do we, and a former housemate taught us. It does not burn when you boil
the water first, turn off the stove, then add oats and cover and wait.
The oats are already half-baked by the rolling process.
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rcurl
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response 193 of 411:
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Apr 16 20:31 UTC 2002 |
That's how I've always done it. I think its on the package 8^}.
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remmers
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response 194 of 411:
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Apr 16 22:59 UTC 2002 |
Hm. Rolled oats, eh? Guess it doesn't apply to the more
nutritious steel cut oats that I prefer.
Oops, we're again risking drift in Item 1...
Hi, I'm John!
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response 195 of 411:
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Apr 17 01:41 UTC 2002 |
Okay, folks! There's a cooking conference on this system for your oatmeal
discussion. Move along right snappy now and i can let you off *this* time.
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gelinas
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response 196 of 411:
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Apr 17 02:08 UTC 2002 |
These are not the oats you are looking for.
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jaklumen
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response 197 of 411:
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Apr 17 04:44 UTC 2002 |
resp:194 hmmm, well, not all of us can afford to buy steel cut grains,
or buy a steel cutting grinder.
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bhelliom
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response 198 of 411:
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Apr 18 17:16 UTC 2002 |
Although one must wonder . . . do you want to eat anything that needs
steel to cut it? Then again, considering what most people consume
these days . . .
Oh yeah, no drift:) Hi, I'm Sylvia, born and raised in and around Ann
Arbor. I started on grex in 1994, but fell of the face of the planet
when I went overseas, and later to grad school in Boston. I've been
back in Ann Arbor for about 2 years now after graduation taking my
first break after 6 years of school, and am enjoying what will probably
be the third and final year of relative ease before the lust for
advanced degrees beckons again. Hopefully that will put me at U of M,
but we'll see. :) That reminds me, I REALLY ought to change my plan.
Oh, and I'm also *supposed* to be running the Grex Store, and doing the
publicity committe thing, both of which got sidetracked in dramatic
fashion. (Don't even ask!) Stay tuned for details on the store, if I
can get through this maze of items, that is. :)
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response 199 of 411:
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Apr 18 17:17 UTC 2002 |
Steel-cut oats are called that because having steel blades in early
oat-cutting machines was a big deal. Call them pinhead oats, if you
prefer. :)
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