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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (21687)	5/18/1998 7:34:00 AM
From: Skipper	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi Christine, Well there was a reason for my disappearance, as you might've guessed, but no it wasn't sailing, which fell by the wayside along with my writing. What happened was that back in December my ex-wife had a nervous breakdown, and my 3 younger sons (the 2 older ones were already with me) came to live with me, and things got busy for a while. She was hospitalized for about 3 weeks, but it was a long road to recovery for her, and all the kids are still with me. For that matter, she is here as well, temporarily, while she figures out what she is going to do next. It's a very strange position for me; her divorce settlement was substantial and never in a thousand years would I have guessed that she would ever again be dependent on me, yet she is. Of course, all the women I talk to seem to think this means we will get back together; it caused major problems with my girlfriend, who no longer is, and I'm pretty much resigned to being a bachelor for the time being. Anyway, I used up the 6 weeks of vacation time I had accumulated and then at the end of January, I left Ascend, a company where I was proud to have been one of a handful of people left from the days of its early and pivotal success with the original MAX RAS. It was a difficult moment, but I am happy to be able to continue to act as a consultant for them, though on a very part-time basis. Mostly I have just been taking care of the kids, which until a couple of weeks ago I had virtually no help with from their mother, and starting up my own business, a publishing concern. Too bad about John - I hope we hear from him soon. What about George S. Montgomery? Has he been around at all? Skipper

To: Grainne who wrote (21687)	5/27/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Hubert Few	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The endearing Gracie spoke with immutable sensitivity and human warmth thusly: "Hubert Few popped up a few months back for one post but then disappeared again as well. It is eerie and creepy not knowing whether someone whose ideas and words you enjoyed is alive or dead." Ahhhh, but I am here, alas, for the duration it would seem. There are some poetic justices that go without a final gratification. Poetry being in the eye or ear (or mind's eye) of the beholder...of course! This is but one less foot further down the path, one less gallon or two stale air to be exhaled and shared with countless generations. Ours is the intrinsic worth of self-sacrifice, the relentless bleating of unsatisfied urges that follow one to the crematorium. (graves are really un-cool in my book) Should I? Would I? Could I? The 3 penetrating lances that rip through the heart of the clueless vagabond. I was, therefore I am. Sideways glances down a dark corrider of underachievement, serviced regularly with patronizing remarks about "unfulfilled" potential. The Midas touch that turns dreams into agonzing fits of torment, the bitter injustice of a world where NOBODY really clicks and rides the same wavelength to a distant satellite that is ALWAYS receiving your signal, and yours alone. Hey, it ain't art, it's just advertisement. Cheers!