Ramble — The Porch

~aschuth Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (12:51) #601

Is there any marrying going on around this place that I haven't been aware of yet? Test, test - one, two. One two...

~KitchenManager Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (13:17) #602

So, Ray and Stace, you two gonna tell everyone about your plans? (not with each other, of course, or maybe?) When is the preliminary date set for, Stace?

~stacey Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (13:42) #603

sorry Alexander... i posted the news in another conference... but here it is... for all to see again... Brandon asked me to be his wife in Berlin! big fat engagement city! WER - sometime between 10-99 and 10-00... mark yer calanders! ,

~aschuth Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (14:24) #604

OH! That - that does it! First you don't buy that bleedin', then you accept his proposal! What do you think this is, fun?

~aschuth Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (14:25) #605

(Which is exactly what is is , Stacey! And congrats, too! Maybe you can make conditions? One could be a lifelong subscribtion to superstar... hehehe!)

~stacey Thu, Apr 8, 1999 (14:43) #606

I'll try and negotiate that in!

~terry Fri, Apr 9, 1999 (12:02) #607

Why don't you get married at the stroke of midnight on y2k. Just think how easy it would be to keep track of how long your were married. Maybe you could time it to be the first marriage of the new millenium, it would be like winning the lottery.

~stacey Fri, Apr 9, 1999 (12:56) #608

and all the headaches to go with... Paul, regardless of what month we get married, if the wedding is in 2000 it'll be easy to keep track of the years!

~floors Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (01:55) #609

Hi! Just checking to see how this thing works!

~stacey Sat, Apr 10, 1999 (23:19) #610

well... how DOES it work?

~KitchenManager Sun, Apr 11, 1999 (00:13) #611

(hope you find out before your honeymoon...)

~ratthing Sun, Apr 11, 1999 (23:09) #612

terry is just dying for one of us to be the "millenium couple!" stella and i are planning a march, 2000 wedding. yesterday, i popped the question and gave her a lovely honker of a diamond engagement ring. we've been together for a long time, but i've not "officially" gotten down on one knee and given her a ring. it is done now and we are hopefully well on our way toward someday having some semblance of a normal life!

~aschuth Mon, Apr 12, 1999 (04:12) #613

Hooooooray! Terry, thanks for changing his batteries! What wonderful things he does! Going down on ONE knee! BRILLIANT! And: CONGRATULATIONS! But a few questions - what our reader would like to know is: Ray, what did SHE say? And what is fun about a normal life? And MUST married couples lead NORMAL lifes? (And how exactly do you do that kneecap-thang?) (If that would be the case, somebody shoulda told our Ms. Vura BEFORE getting so impressed by Berlins construction sites, that she fell into this trap!) Sorry, I'm just one of these curious folks.

~ratthing Mon, Apr 12, 1999 (09:56) #614

what did she say? that *is* a good question! she said yes, of course, and was thrilled that i got down on one knee. after living thru a dysfunctional marriage for 7 years and living with stella for over 1 year, and working out of town, i am simply anxious to begin living a normal life with a normal family and a normal type of job. by all means, i feel that this is not required for all couples. its whatever makes you happy that counts.

~aschuth Mon, Apr 12, 1999 (10:11) #615

Ooooops, did I botch? You bet! Still, I'm curious how this "going down" works with one knee... Maybe you could illustrate that for our younger readers (perhaps somewhere in screwed)? Also, now I wonder what a normal job could be... Another screwed entry, perhaps? Do you guys have any kids living with you? Anyway, it looks as if that were something that would make you even more a very happy Ray!

~stacey Mon, Apr 12, 1999 (18:15) #616

Brandon admits to "stacking the deck" in his favor by proposing at a castle and getting a damned fine ring... a trap?? maybe. But I'm certainly happy to be caught by him! Congrats Ray! All this time I thought you had proposed and were formally engaged... you sneaky guy you!

~ratthing Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (10:24) #617

so did everyone else!

~aschuth Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (11:32) #618

Stacey, maybe you could (puleeeeze) describe the whole thing for once and for all in the Berlin topic in Travel conference - what castle? Charlottenburg? Go for the full details and high resolution option! Ray, do you have kids?

~stacey Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (11:59) #619

okay... I'll get something together. Reminds me... WER, did I ever send you a user name and password so's I could submit my Front Page docs??

~KitchenManager Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (19:24) #620

nope...

~stacey Tue, Apr 13, 1999 (22:16) #621

i shall do that presently then

~ratthing Wed, Apr 14, 1999 (09:17) #622

nope, no kids. that was part of the problem with my first marriage: i wanted kids and she didnt. i want them very badly right now, and stella and i are planning on starting a family!

~stacey Wed, Apr 14, 1999 (10:50) #623

woo woo!

~aschuth Wed, Apr 14, 1999 (15:29) #624

Ray, I wish you and Stella and the bunch of little starry eyed ratthingies to-be all the best!

~KitchenManager Sun, Jun 13, 1999 (14:54) #625

anyone else got some family ramblings?

~KitchenManager Sun, Jun 13, 1999 (14:56) #626

if not, and/or you're really bored, go critique http://access.spring.net/~wer/jobs/ for me...

~aschuth Mon, Jun 14, 1999 (13:03) #627

Hmh, besides the fact that I for some reason completely unknown to me hate frames, not bad. Like the background, feels familiar... There's a typo I love in the resume, so I wanna share it: "ability to prioritize tasks to meat deadlines" is divine!

~KitchenManager Mon, Jun 14, 1999 (15:33) #628

isn't it just? (can't seem to get away from food, can I?)

~autumn Mon, Jun 14, 1999 (21:36) #629

Aw, you changed it!

~KitchenManager Mon, Jun 14, 1999 (23:43) #630

yep...and the more I've thought about it, I should have changed it from "meat deadlines" to "product expiration dates"

~aschuth Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (12:59) #631

Hey, yo, Werby! Thanks for beefing up the website!

~KitchenManager Tue, Jun 15, 1999 (13:25) #632

you welcome...

~terry Thu, Jun 17, 1999 (09:58) #633

Make the borders of the frames go away, maybe?

~terry Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (09:40) #634

JFK Jr. is missing. He took off last night to attend a family wedding, follow the events in news topic 30 and pray that he is ok. There is a sliver of hope to hold on to, we'll be putting news on our realaudio server and in our slideshow window. My God, I hope he is alive.

~ratthing Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (09:54) #635

i just read about this on yahoo. jeez, what did this poor family do to deserve such misery? i hope he's ok.

~terry Sat, Jul 17, 1999 (09:57) #636

The search continues for the small, light airplane and the four passengers, JFK Jr., his wife, his wifes sister and his flight instructor. Somewhere in the North Atlantic, I hope they're lucky.

~MarciaH Sun, Aug 22, 1999 (14:54) #637

Could someone post something on either the News or the Geo conference weather pages (they are linked) about your hurricane and what Austin is experiencing. Please!

~terry Tue, Aug 24, 1999 (07:36) #638

Posted! As I said, not much effect here in Austin.

~MarciaH Tue, Aug 24, 1999 (13:47) #639

Thanks Terry, I telnetted that post asking for Wx information. I had not found my topic and I needed to log off. I am delighted it go here intact. I think it was one of my maiden posts.

~terry Thu, Sep 9, 1999 (17:33) #640

See topic 21 in the vc (virtual community) conference for a letter from some German students seeking to find out about virtual community. Respond to their poll in hte topic if you like.

~terry Mon, Sep 13, 1999 (10:43) #641

Let's find our ways to the 'spirit' conference and welcome the newby. Quote: Welcome to the spirit conference. This file may be edited by a fairwitness. 2 newresponse items 46 items numbered 1-46 You are a fairwitness in this forum profound. You have mail. Ok: r Item 1 entered Sun, Sep 7, 1997 (13:14) by Paul Terry Walhus (terry) introductions 1 new of 77 responses total. Topic 1 of 46: 'introductions' Resp 77 of 77: Phil Burton (phi) Sun, Sep 12, 1999 (21:18) 4 lines Hi. I'm Phil. I'm brand new to the Spring, after hearing about it on another conferencing system (the Well). Grew up religious, but now pursue spirituality outside of rigid walls and definitions. Inclined toward Taoism and Zen.

~stacey Mon, Sep 13, 1999 (16:58) #642

WELCOME PHIL!

~terry Tue, Sep 14, 1999 (08:03) #643

Phil may not belong to this conference, best to welcome him in the 'spirit' conference.

~stacey Wed, Sep 15, 1999 (12:02) #644

that would mean I'd have to walk over there... and I'm lazy... maybe I should jst write my welcome bigger so's he can see it from far away...

~terry Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (14:56) #645

New topic in sports. Cricket, topic 47. I don't understand this sport!

~aschuth Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (16:57) #646

It's sports, Terry. See, I don't understand sports.

~terry Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (19:38) #647

Cricket is a total mystery.

~MarciaH Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (21:21) #648

Terry, if you have any fondness for baseball at all, you will quickly see the similailties with cricket. The only difference is they have two runners running back and forth between the stumps when the ball is hit into the field scoring runs as they go. The truly wicked games are test matches which run 5 days during which you carry your score with you. If you are down 200 runs at the end of the first day, you begin the second day with the same negative number. And, you don't get your turn at bat till th y are all finished their scoring....but I am not an expert in this by any stretch of the imagination...I am just learning, too. It is a very sociable game which goes on for about 5 hours a day...during which the ladies sit in summer frocks with large hats and ribbons blowing in the breezes eating goodies from picnic hampers brought from home filled with great things...There is no sight quite as lovely as seeing cricket played in early summer with the incredibly green pitch (playing area) and the men in t eir all-white uniforms...*sigh*

~terry Tue, Sep 28, 1999 (09:48) #649

That's a start. But it's still a mystery.

~riette Tue, Sep 28, 1999 (13:06) #650

Same here. Cricket is a great sport, and I love watching it on tv, but I don't get it at all.

~MarciaH Tue, Sep 28, 1999 (16:15) #651

Please see Mark's comments on Cricket: http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/sports/47 but, you'll have to wade through discussions of English food first...from the non-cricket group waiting to be enlightened!

~terry Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (10:21) #652

Spring is back up and running after going down last night.

~Isabel Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (10:43) #653

Good! I wondered what happened...

~riette Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (12:56) #654

Autumn came but for a day...

~terry Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (13:40) #655

It's very autumnlike here today. Cool and windy.

~MarciaH Wed, Sep 29, 1999 (18:41) #656

finally the lady from Hawaii envies you your weather. I don't do heat!

~aschuth Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (15:27) #657

Autumn was back?

~MarciaH Fri, Oct 1, 1999 (16:17) #658

Alas, not Spring's personification...

~riette Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (02:07) #659

Has anybody mailed her, or shall I do it?

~MarciaH Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (12:58) #660

I heard from her this morning: Please tell all our fellow springeurs that I will be back this weekend--technical difficulties kept me from posting early this week (though I could read posts). Obviously, that's been corrected and I'll be back with bells on to see what's going one with all of you.

~riette Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (13:05) #661

Cool! Looking forward to seeing you again, Autumns!!

~aschuth Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (14:52) #662

YES! Happy news!

~MarciaH Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (15:01) #663

They had a rough time with Hurricane Floyd including 72 hours without power. She was hoping it was their Y2K crisis a little early - or at least practice for it...!

~aschuth Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (15:11) #664

They are well! That's all good!

~MarciaH Sat, Oct 2, 1999 (21:55) #665

Yes, Indeed!

~riette Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (08:41) #666

$hit! Autumn was in a hurricane! Now she'll have to compute by candle light, won't she?

~terry Sun, Oct 3, 1999 (08:45) #667

I heard from her by email and she's ok but it sounds like they had a rough week and her isp was down. She should be back this weekend.

~MarciaH Sun, Oct 24, 1999 (15:45) #668

Terry, I brought you a present of a new poster for Spring...another Hilo resident who just happens to be Jim Thorpe's youngest daughter. She is a good friend of mine and has a quick and agile mind. A graduate of UCLA (with a year at Northwestern) she was a music major and has major talents in lots of ways. I am sure she will be a versatile addition to the Spring. Welcome, Nancy (Now, go and post something!)

~terry Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (09:09) #669

Wow, that's great Marcia.

~MarciaH Tue, Oct 26, 1999 (12:46) #670

Now...to get her to post...and to find enough time after work. But, she will definitely be here - she already has her login name. She said she could easily see how I spent over 12 hours a day logged in to Spring...the truth, in fact.

~MarciaH Sat, Feb 12, 2000 (13:54) #671

I have not given up on Nancy Thorpe (Ahia) but she has not been on for some weeks. May have to resort to land line to see how she is doing. I also might have to make a house call to bet her new computer up to speed and to show her how to use it.

~terry Mon, Feb 14, 2000 (08:55) #672

have nancy continue to email me

~MarciaH Mon, Feb 14, 2000 (10:38) #673

Ok! Thanks, Terry!

~terry Tue, Feb 15, 2000 (09:09) #674

It may be some kind of routing problem with our backbone provider. Have her do a traceroute to spring.net and see where it ends up.

~MarciaH Tue, Feb 15, 2000 (11:29) #675

I shall, but I think she is probably going to have to clear the old bookmarks first Methinks she is still trying to acces through the old ip. But, if not we'll do the traceroute and see what we get.

~sprin5 Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (06:48) #676

If we can find her ip address of her provider, we can do a traceroute to her from our site and find out where the bottleneck is or if there is one at all. That will resolve the question of whether she's using the old bookmarks.

~MarciaH Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (12:02) #677

I have already taken care os several ladies who have emailed me that their browsers are not opening Spring files. Invariably, when they send me the URL they are using, it is the old IP. I correct it for them and they applaud the swiftness with which they can access things on Spring now. It take a little while to get the word out to those who have been absent for a while. I'm working on it from my tiny little prospective, but it gets a few more each day.

~sprin5 Wed, Feb 16, 2000 (17:37) #678

We've still got a lot of glitches in our system, one of which is that a lot of gifs were stored in the user directory called cfadm. I created a new directory called /cfadm and put all these files in here. Now I have to grep and replace all the old references to these files. The same with the /~bayou and /~terry and /~spew directories, this is clogging up our error_log file with messages like these: [Wed Feb 16 18:33:17 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~terry/cap.jpg tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory [Wed Feb 16 18:33:28 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~terry/cap.jpg [Wed Feb 16 18:33:31 2000] [error] [client 207.12.4.189] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~cfadm/a/findamazon.gif tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory [Wed Feb 16 18:33:32 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~bayou/wolf-moon4.jpg [Wed Feb 16 18:33:33 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~spew/art/11.gif tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory [Wed Feb 16 18:34:44 2000] [error] [client 207.12.4.189] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~cfadm/a/findamazon.gif tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory [Wed Feb 16 18:34:45 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~bayou/wolf-moon4.jpg [Wed Feb 16 18:34:45 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~spew/art/11.gif tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory [Wed Feb 16 18:35:00 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~bayou/wolf-moon4.jpg [Wed Feb 16 18:35:00 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~spew/art/11.gif tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory [Wed Feb 16 18:35:10 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~spew/art/11.gif [Wed Feb 16 18:35:10 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~bayou/wolf-moon4.jpg [Wed Feb 16 18:35:13 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~spew/art/11.gif [Wed Feb 16 18:35:13 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~bayou/wolf-moon4.jpg tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory [Wed Feb 16 18:36:43 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~spew/art/11.gif [Wed Feb 16 18:36:43 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~bayou/wolf-moon4.jpg tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory [Wed Feb 16 18:36:56 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~spew/art/11.gif [Wed Feb 16 18:36:56 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~bayou/wolf-moon4.jpg tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory [Wed Feb 16 18:36:56 2000] [error] [client 207.12.4.189] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~cfadm/a/findamazon.gif tail: /usr/bbs/resplog: No such file or directory [Wed Feb 16 18:37:29 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~spew/art/11.gif [Wed Feb 16 18:37:29 2000] [error] [client 151.201.61.36] File does not exist: /home/sprin5/virtual_html/~bayou/wolf-moon4.jpg

~terry Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (09:36) #679

It will take a while, but eventually we'll get these glitches fixed. Anyone want to join the glitch fixing team?

~MarciaH Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (14:52) #680

What do we do? (I'll do anything for Spring if I know what I am doing...)

~MarciaH Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (14:55) #681

I fixed my title page in Geo...Wolf should have no trouble with hers... I offered to help her, even...*sigh*

~MarciaH Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (15:00) #682

Hey, Terry, it is easy. I got my amazon back on by removing the tilde from cfadm in the image source URL. Easy! Shall I do the rest???

~sprin5 Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (23:37) #683

Sure, do it!

~MarciaH Tue, Feb 22, 2000 (23:53) #684

Well, I tried in springark and nothing changed. I tried in Paraspring where I am not a host and my changes were refused. Suggestions?

~sprin5 Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (00:09) #685

Yep, get on the host list.

~MarciaH Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (12:25) #686

I shall ask her permission - I think only she should do it...stepping on toes and all that... Thank you!

~cfadm Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (12:27) #687

I believe most of paraspring's graphics problems have been resolved now.

~MarciaH Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (12:30) #688

Thank you. Wolfie will be delighted when she logs in. Do you still think If I download and use FrontPage I will be able to restore my graphics? They are all over Spring including in Spring gallery, travel, and assorted other places.

~cfadm Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (12:33) #689

As near as I can tell, not everything on the old servers made the move. There are certain directories that I have discovered are not here now. I do not know it the same applies to individual files or not.

~MarciaH Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (12:37) #690

Several of us have decided to leave those "where an image should be" there until someone requests its appearance. Since I am one of those strange people with the complete files of responses and image urls, I can easily look it up and either post it again if it is worthy, or just send it in email to the curious reader. Do I really need FrontPage to work with Geo and other things around Spring?

~cfadm Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (12:46) #691

I do not have it so I am not the one to ask.

~MarciaH Wed, Feb 23, 2000 (14:51) #692

I am World Builder again. Yippee! You cannot imagine (or maybe you can) how happy that makes this little person. That answers my question, thank you. Not going to bother with FrontPage for now, anyway.