From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   David Goldfarb  wrote:   
   >In article ,   wrote:   
   >>In article ,   
   >>Johnny Tindalos   wrote:   
   >>>Oh dear, was there an infestation?   
   >>   
   >>Doctrinaire libertarians.   
   >   
   >Of whom one was, and I suppose still is, a high-functioning paranoid   
   >who made it hard for anyone with differing views to be around him.   
   >   
   >Anyway, I'm still around. The problem with small size groups is keeping   
   >things going: you need a certain critical mass to sustain a conversation.   
   >Otherwise you just get things flaring up then dying away. Maybe we   
   >can attract enough people back.   
      
   I don't know how much commenting I'll be able to do for the next   
   while: I just had cataract surgery and, while it went very well,   
   I have to adjust to having much better distance vision and much   
   worse close-up vision.  Hal took me to the drugstore and bought   
   me a pair of reading glasses (plus 3.25 diopters, the strongest   
   they had), and I can *sort of* see to type.   
      
   I should be much better in a month or so, when I'll be fitted   
   with new glasses as needed.  In the meantime, I can *read* posts,   
   if I wear the glasses and get my nose around six inches from the   
   screen, and I'll read all your posts and see if I have anything   
   to contribute.   
      
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   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
   www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/   
      
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