XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current, rec.arts.movies.current-films, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: medegno@bellsouth.net   
      
   Jeez... Sorry I missed this, Merrick. Gotta get used to this ?!#&!   
   Tera news server. Tera's okay, but, shoot, I sure miss Bellsouth's old   
   news server (and *not*  AT&T's new one); BS was a lot easier update   
   and reload it after a long period of time between postings.   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:12:17 -0500, Merrick Baldelli   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:13:50 -0500, SJohnson    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>Just a dab o' lurking, that's all. First time in a very long time I've   
   >>had a vacation from both jobs in the *same week*, so that allowed me   
   >>time to check in on some of the old sites, and maybe see a few   
   >>long-lost friends.   
   >   
   >	My word...  Vacation.  Yeah, I had a long one last year from   
   >about October 2006 to June 2007.  20 years of being a contractor had   
   >finally gotten to me, and I got seriously burned out with trust issues   
   >with many of the contractors that I've worked for.  So, I hunkered   
   >down with one company in June having been approached at the last   
   >minute.   
   >	Still with this one company too; scary as that is, and liking   
   >it (even scarier given how crotchety I can be about being in the same   
   >job for too long). Of course, I'm completely nightbreed (once again)   
   >so that certainly helps.   
      
   Yikes.  Well, just as I was 'enjoying' my time off during our last   
   talk, my company "asked" one of our older techs to retire after almost   
   28 years of service. I had to rush back in to the office to   
   re-schedule and re-assign all my techs' territories so that I wouldn't   
   have a meltdown when I got back, iffen I had stayed for my original   
   time off...   
      
   Hell, you talk about being 'crotchety'... That's all I've been since I   
   went back! They were, at least, kind enough to give a few days for the   
   rest of this week to make up for it, though.   
      
   >>Damn, it was great to see your crazy-assed sig. Brought back some good   
   >>memories, that did..!!   
   >   
   >	And to think that I've been thinking of changing it either to   
   >the dude or something more plain...  Like my name and some bizarre   
   >quote.  Captain's seems too apropos, and I need something more random.   
   >I'm waiting patiently for the next round of folk that point at it and   
   >say, "do you know that the hand in your .sig has six fingers?"   
   >   
   >>[gives bear hug o' joy!!]   
   >   
   >	Awww, how sweet SJ *hugs back*   
      
   u knowz I likez it   
   [pats foot]   
      
   >>>	This is lightweight.  You should've seen my work at PV; he   
   >>>wasn't thrilled with it.  Accused me of being un-funny.  Bless his   
   >>>heart, I wasn't trying to be, I was pissed with his banal comments and   
   >>>apparent politically correct slant and razed him for it.   
   >>   
   >>Nah, I didn't get the chance to see that one; I finally got my news   
   >>reader to behave correctly for the first time in a while, so I'll try   
   >>to go back later on and catch up.   
   >   
   >	Good lord, Agent 1.93.  They're up to 5.0 now.  I think you   
   >have more than just the newsgroups to catch up on.   
      
   As you probably can tell, I still haven't downloaded it yet (I know, I   
   know... I'll get 'round to it, sometime in the next few days)   
      
   >>>	Good to see you alive.  Did the folk get you filled in with   
   >>>some of the goings on since you're leaving?  Steve C? TurdPackinMomma,   
   >>>and the rest of the crew?  If not look for Nat, she's around.  She'll   
   >>>fill ya' in.   
   >>   
   >>Oh yeah, I did get a e-mail back then from Shammie, just a few hours   
   >>after Steve's sister posted his passing to the NG-- I even got the   
   >>chance to sign Lawyer Lad's e-guestbook, too. (That was also one of   
   >>the few times which I came back- for a few days, anyway- to post and   
   >>receive a few comments on the NGs so I could get caught up to speed on   
   >>things going on at the time.) But since then, I haven't heard or seen   
   >>much from Ms. Shamira at all.   
   >   
   >	I think she's (Shammie's) given up on the net.  Went back to   
   >the great void known as IRL.  Not surprising given she had a hell of a   
   >stalker bothering her for the longest time.  LMB might know of her   
   >whereabouts though, as I seem to recall he was keeping tabs on her for   
   >a while.   
      
   Maybe over the next few un-eventful days [*crosses fingers*] I'll get   
   the chance to snoop around the "internets" to see who else I can reel   
   in, along with Louis...   
      
   >>If memory serves, I think I remember Tool Mama a-blazing out in full   
   >>view of the NG at one point. Did anything else happen to her after   
   >>that..?   
   >   
   >	Turdpackinmomma's squatting in one of the root alt.star-trek.*   
   >groups, spewing her usual slash-esque (from hell) fanfic of Spock and   
   >Kirk being hot ghey lovers.  I occasionally see her vomitous postings   
   >in cross-post to r.a.s.t.  I've had half a mind to head over to her   
   >swill-pit she calls "home" in East Hartford and saying, "hey bitch!   
   >Remember me?  Call the cops."  Just to see her get all psychotic and   
   >unhinged.   
      
   My god, is she really doing that shit STILL? Damn, that was almost 3/4   
   of a decade ago. I guess old habits (and desires!) are hard to grow   
   out of.   
      
   >	Other than entertaining that amusing muse, I've left the crazy   
   >cow alone, if only because I don't need her getting her panties all in   
   >a bunch nor do I need her shrill cacophony she calls her voice   
   >parading on my last gay nerve like some Mad Drag Queen in knee-high   
   >stiletto boots. I have more entertaining things to do actually.   
      
   She was one worrisome ol' female, that was true. Between her, Spook,   
   and He Who Shall Not Be Named (even after all these years!!), they   
   kept the ng's rockin' and a'rollin'.   
      
   >>I also got a nice couple of .jpegs from Mic and Gordon after they tied   
   >>the knot, and once again after the kid was born.  And I *just* saw   
   >>Gisele again over in the BSG group; we were able to re-connect just a   
   >>few months back, so that was a great moment for me as well.   
   >   
   >	Gisele's been relegated to pariah canooky nutcase.  Anim's   
   >here in r.a.s.t. and can fill you in on her other rants -- I've since   
   >given up on her entirely after that fantabulous raving meltdown on   
   >Bush and the invasion of Iraq way back when, when Bush decided to shit   
   >on the desk in the White House and call it "the American Way".   
   >	I admit that Gisele's slipped out of killfile with me a couple   
   >of times, but a quick response to her ISP for TOS violations on   
   >evading killfilters have kept her from doing repeat performances.  I   
   >think looking for attention for the vapid excuse she calls a life.   
      
   Wow. I didn't know she went that far with you. She didn't seem too   
   over the top with me- and it was kinda nice, actually. Maybe she's   
   changed a little since then, Merrick. Heck, a lot has happened to us   
   over these years.   
      
   [Dammit, is that "Memories" a'playin' in da background..??]   
      
   >>But that's been about it, as far as my contacts with the old gang   
   >>goes. I'll take your advice, Merrick, and look around for Nat, too..!   
   >   
   >	LMB's (Louis Brown) in my Yahoo Messenger.  The next time I   
      
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