-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 11-Apr-2015 14:07 <=-

 NB>> Other than getting behind, and/or not checking DADS...?   ;)  Kidding
 NB>> aside, hopefully it had actually made it to you... there is always that
 NB>> possibility, that it didn't.
 DAG> Heh.  It may have made it here and I just lost where it was at.  Not
 DAG> really sure; I've been distracted, and it's affecting my concentration,
 DAG> even for going back and skimming old messages, though if I'd miss my
 DAG> own name in there that's got to be the worst it's ever been.  ;) 
 DAG> 'Course if it was when I was changing around binkd configurations,
 DAG> maybe something nefarious happened to it. 

I suspect we'll never know... ;)  I THINK, though, that we are back on
track now, both of us...  A few days before I left on my trip, the bbs I
send DADS and ASIAN_LINK messages from went down inexplicably, and
wasn't back up until I got back from my trip.  I sent the reply packet
I'd prepared over the few days before leaving finally AFTER I got
back... ;)  Turned out he'd had a massive crash... thankfully he's back
up and running well again.  :)

 NB>> Also, the aliases were definitely more part of the teen scene... and in
 NB>> certain networks...  I just never bothered, except in one local message
 NB>> area that was somewhat a role-playing area... taking on personas to go
 NB>> with the theme of the bbs... :)
 DAG> Yep.  The very first system I was on, which was the only one that I
 DAG> was aware of in my area for a _very_ long time, was alias only.  It
 DAG> really got the concept to stick.  I was always pretty fantasy oriented
 DAG> though, too.  Not so much in actually RPGing, but more in daydreams and
 DAG> the like.  Having a 'hacker alias' was always something that stuck
 DAG> close to home for me. 

We come to the hobby from different places...  :)  I came for genealogy,
where real names are the lifeblood of the area... :)  Games (mostly word
types or trivia) were an addition... as was getting somewhat involved in
messaging in the local areas, getting to know the other users and the
sysop better.  It helped that the sysop of that early board was a
friendly sort, and encouraged good interaction.  :)

 NB>> Aliases or not, the bbs community has indeed been just that, a
 NB>> community... and I've made fast friends over the years, too... both
 NB>> locally and more broadly..  :)
 DAG> For sure.  The community that I frequented up until it went down
 DAG> last was one that I credit with probably keeping me alive through some
 DAG> pretty rough stretches in life.  Maybe not keeping me alive, but
 DAG> helping me find the urge within myself to be safe enough not to get
 DAG> myself killed.  Heh.  It was a crazy decade.  They always pooled
 DAG> together and helped their members in need, too. Even financially. 

There was some of that here, too.  And for some, I'm sure it was a
similar lifesaver as for you.  :)  I remember one teen boy I spent some
intensive time in chat on one bbs (he'd started by trying to "hit" on
me, until I told him I had a son already out of college, at which point
he responded by asking for advice on how to deal with his parents)...

 DAG> I hope that I can roll out this shell that I'm working on to them
 DAG> soon here so that I can give back a little bit to the community
 DAG> that gave me so much. 

A nice repayment..  :)

 DAG>> here, though. I hope to have a trip to the trees under my belt
 DAG>> before April is through here.
 NB>> At least your weather probably will cooperate for that... ;)
 DAG> Well there's been nothing but rain in the forecast, but looking
 DAG> outside right now you wouldn't be able to tell.  It's absolutely
 DAG> beautiful.  

We get that, too... nothing but rain in the forecast, but look out the
window and there's sun and maybe some clouds...  ;)

 DAG> I think that after I get some cleaning done today it's
 DAG> going to be time to take the little man and get out to some of the
 DAG> 'beachish' areas that've been recommended around here.  I'll probably
 DAG> check out forest park then, tomorrow.  Forest right in the middle of
 DAG> the city; you can't beat that.  It's actually big enough to get lost
 DAG> in and not be able to see the skyscrapers at all, too. 

Sounds perfect.  :)  Most of our large parks are outside the city limits,
but it's not that large a city anyway... and there's lots of woodland
and green space around... :)

 DAG> I've got to make sure that I'm getting some time outside; cabin fever
 DAG> is absolute murder right now. Even if it's raining I'm pretty sure
 DAG> that at least the forest park trip will be done.  Just need to treat
 DAG> my son's boots with some saddlesoap and polish first, to make sure
 DAG> they're nice & rain resistant. 

So, did you do your camping trip, yet...?   I sure hear you on the cabin
fever part, certainly is the season when it really is time to get back
out and doing again...  :)

 NB>> Hopefully by now you have received that second message... I did try
 NB>> yet again, and it seems to have been making it around, so hopefully
 NB>> it will have reached you.  :)
 DAG> I got it.  Which leads me to wonder...  am I replying to this one a
 DAG> second time?  Eeeek!

As far as I could tell, this was the first reply to this... ;)  I did go
back and check my saved messages, to be sure... and to make sure that I
hadn't answered it back already...  ;)  I think part of it is that we
are having similar threads in three different echoes at the moment.. ;)

ttyl        neb

... BBS?  Yeah, I do bbs.  But I can control it ...

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