Actually, no firth in this tape, it starts out with the Wailers.

Hi y'all. I'm a dis-placed Texan living in Massachusetts... Andover to be exact. I met Terry long ago and far away while living in NYC in an online community called ECHO. He graciously inviited me back to Austin (via cyberspce) where my appearances to date have been infrequent. But, with my new high speed, constantly connected cable modem I 've been able to come 'home'. I've been lurking about for about a week. It's good to already have met a couple of new people (Marcia, John and Wolf). I look forward to seeing you all around the Spring. Now, how do I put a picture in?

Gena, Ginny lives in Boston and has been keeping us updated on their morass called the "Big Dig" on the Travel conference. You've been having really severe weather lately, too!n Send me your picture and I will post it. It has to be already on the Internet to post it, so I will put on my space at spring's hard drive. Email it to me as a file. Most of our portraits were in there and are no longer viewable since Spring moved to a new server.

We can probably get them all back when I get my old servers hooked back up again on the Quail DSL modem.

Really????!!!! I'd better put them back on my space on the hard drive. Let me know when /if to so do. Thanks! I can always reinstall them!

Is that why I've got "X's" where photos ought to be? I thought it was me! Whooo-eee, am I relieved. MArcia, post my 'bike' photo I sent ;-) When I get a uh, more revealing one, I'll send it to you. Oh, and I see from past posts, you're rather the data geek (that IS acompliment), so could ya-would ya email the commans string for posting photos onto this place. I'll file it away until it's usable. Thanks.

and maybe send a couple of hands that can type while you're at it! jeez that last post was a mess!

Gonna make it a little smaller, if that's ok. And yes, I'll send you the command string to post your own pictures. Just keep them under or around 50 BK (I try to keep them below 30 KB As for the mess, I notice I am not all that swift at times, either. Especially late at night after spending all day here. We know what you meant!

Gena, I just sent you the command string for your picture. Please post it for me by pasting it to the submission box and hitting the button.

revealing?

You'll see... Marcia I just received the instructions, so here goes... this is me.

I'm the one in front on the teal bike. This was taken at NH Speedway last summer at a trackday where you learn how to ride the course. It's fun and it's fast!

Awesome, Gena! Isn't it something else to see it unfurl and you on the net forever?!

did you win?

I almost didn't recognize you.

It wasn't a race. We were in a class. That's my instructor behind me in the red penny. First she'd ride in front to show us the correct line to take through the corners, then we took turns going in front with her behind critiquing our skill. This photo was taken as I FINALLY got turn 3 right without losing all my speed.

cool!

What kind of bike is that you're riding? red penny?

My bike is a '93 Kawasaki zx6-e. The red penny is that thingy over her leathers.

Of course, duh! .

don't y'all call those things 'pennys'...i could swear i that's what they called them hen I went to school out that way. Girls couldn't play 'shirts vs skins' so one team would wear 'pennys' and the other team didn't.

Pinniese.... spoil sports *laugh*

I'll spell it right this time - one is a Pinny more are pinnies

Ohhh.. well, spelling can be a problem. Plus with my accent. The Yankees go "huh" sometimes when I talk... then they process, then they understand.

That's ok...Now I know what to look for. I was checking for Penny loafers before *lol* Hey, where's your pseudonym, GreasyRider or whatever??

That's was Propeller Head to you grrlie! I only changed it that one place. I had to night-night last night. I think I'm the only one zipping in from the east coast... y'all stay up too late for me! But isn't Hawaii even more hrs earlier than California? What's the time diff btn you and NY?

Oh... I forgot to mention. As I sit here in my living room today April 26th at 8:27 am EDT, it's SNOWING outside! I can't believe it... Summer's never coming to New England.

Wow, snow. Yeah, you're the first one up every day. I usually get up around 6 am or 7. It's going to be another hot one here in Austin, and I'm planning to be around the pool this afternoon.

I want to be you! Even if you do have a big beard ;-). WARNING! Whine alert! I wanna lay by the pool!!! I wanna get a sunburn!! I wanna NOT BE WEARING polarfleece in April!!!

I get up around 5-6am which is 11 am-12 noon for the east coast. When Y'all go to bed it is still early eveing for me. We get the tail end of the day is Hawaii...but no snow this time of year on our mountains is likely, though it is technically possible. We avoid getting burned and stay out of all polls if possible here. Way too intense unless you are really slathered with sunblock. Too close to the equator.

We also stay out of POOLS as well, excepting tide pools which are cleansed by Nature and stocked the same way with the most incredible life on earth. Y'all get water-wings for that 'cycle of yours and get yourself over here. You'll get the sunburn of a lifetime!

hmmmm. water wings on the zx. A new twist on 'chitty-chitty-bang-bang' if I ever saw it! It's still snowing... it's slushy, wet, cold, nasty, splat snow. At this rate I will be riding my bicycle in my living room until June, and it's so hard to make the corners. My apartment is little!

Have to put your feet down a lot, do you? Yeesh! Where was this stuff in November and December when it would have been welcome?! Send it over here. We just let it fall on the mountains so we can admire it from the deck chair in the yard in the shade of a palm tree sippping a tall cool one. The only way to admire snow, according to my father. I rather like the cold - but hate the rheumatic cold wet stuff. Oh yes, get that zx airborne and you have it made!!! *lol*

I did make it to the poolside, where I am now. The computer's back out there like last summer. So summer fun begins. The pool's clean too, Paul Fuck (the pool guy) has obviously been by here from the unfettered look of the clear, blue water. OK, OK, Gena, I'll stop rubbing it in now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.... and your pool guy's name is WHAT! I truly hope that was a typo. I envision a small boy getting his mouth washed out with soap everytime he introduced himself in school.

My thoughts exactly. Did Terry post a typo *lolrotf*

Paul *Fucik*; it was a typo.

Thank goodness.... I was miserable with pity for the poor little fella

*LOL* aren't we happy for him!!! Not a Freudian slip there?!

I was already thinking of ways to pronounce - like "Fewk" Just hope they don't ask you to spell it...*still laughing*

Bah...just about all the links in this topic are busted (including my own)...

I have a lot of the old pix on my new space on the hard drive... shall I repost the ones I have? (I even downloaded Yours... so I could remember your boysish charm!)