On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:38:42 -0400, M. Bevelhimer <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Hey Feesh,
>
>Glad to hear you're avoiding the hurricanes (or maybe they're avoiding
>you)!

Apparently the latter.  If the former, I wouldn't have been scheduled
for GCM.


>Ivan should be sitting right over your house in Choo-Choo town later
>tonight. Not much wind by then, but probably lots of rain.

Glad to hear that!  Doctor Roof was scheduled to fix the roof from
the winds in June;  and an interior fixer shop was going to redo the
ceiling leak from the rain on that storm.  Maybe Ivan will blow the
roof off this time and I can get my money's worth for a more thorough
job of fixer-upper by the insurance. :)  The roof had been fixed only
2 years ago.


>Surely you can find something better to do on a cruise ship than worrying
>about the fate of SCUBA-L.

Who's worried?  I was annoyed by Don's co-authored bible and then he
paid no attention to it.  I only discovered it's late fate (had been
kicked out by Brown, and should have been where it is now, long ago)
when I tried to retrieve the Don-Nick Guideline.


YOu haven't been on a cruise with "at sea" days, haven't you?  There's
much more time to kill on those days than being at home, with no w*rk
obligations!


> Shouldn't you be out playing shuffle board,

They don't even have those anymore.  :-)

I did played in the daily duplicate bridge games though (on the at
sea days).  I finally quit.  Came in first 7 times out of 9, and 2nd
once.  So, I got 7 Gold Medals and 1 Silver Medal, beating Mark
Spitx's record by 1 Silver.   :-)))  They actually gave out medals
about the size of the Olympic metals, with ribbon to hang around the
neck and all.  I overhead the director of the game saying my
participation in those games was like taking candy from babies,
and she was right.  I wouldn't have done it had I not have Mark
Spitz's record to break.  FUC 6.1.


>watching a magic show,

Did watch one, but the magician couldn't quite make himself disappear.


> lying by the pool,

Not on THIS cruise.  The average age of the women is about 72;  the
median about 74;  and the mode probably 70.  (I've been, unsuccessfully
I might add, teaching those terms to newsgroup morons ever since I
retired.  :-))  At any rate, those are not the best sights one would
want to see by the pool.

I did see several whales though.  The kind that spouts water and
flips tails above the water, IN THE OCEAN.


> or gambling away your retirement funds? :-)

Au contraire.  I like the Princess line.  The only one that gives me
unlimited internet use for free while charging newbies $30 an hour.
I don't want it to see it go bankrupt on account of my BJ wins. :-)


>-Mark B.

You need to go out and SEE and FEEL da Real World more often, and
not wait till you're an old and decrepit retard-ee.

Mark my word, Mark.  :-)

da Feeesh.