On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:21:58 -0500, Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Reef Fish wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 22:01:39 +1100, David Strike
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

(I supplied the attribution ... too many ">> >> >" :-)

Jeff> AAAARrrrrrgggghhhh!!

Strike> To be fair, Mate, I did spot my stupid oversight and took
Strike> steps to correct it!  :-)

Feeesh> You beat me to the punch of FACTUAL correction!  :-)
Feeesh> On Feb 16, Strike wrote:
Feeesh> DS>  Bloody hell, I nearly forgot the most important guy there,
Feeesh> DS>  Jeff Kell!  :-)

Now it's down to Feeesh and Jeff:

>> To be fair to the Trumpetfish:
>>
>> 1.  He is OBVIOUSLY behind in his reading of Scuba-SE posts.  :-)
>
>Yep, and I apologized privately to Strike when I found the additional
>post you quoted.  When catching up on mail I sometimes forget the tume
>frame :-)

Nilman, "What is tume?"  :-)  See (3) below.  :-))


>> 2.  (1) is the result of his usual w*rkload PLUS his unexpected
>> hospital stay and his wife's hospital stay.

>about a month ago I
>woke up with complete paralysis in the upper tendons of my wrist down
>to the first knuckle.  I was thinking carpal tunnel, as did the ER,
>but it was diagnosed as "Saturday Night Palsy" as I woke up with my
>forearm lying across the sideboard of the waterbed (but it sounds like
>there are much more entertaining ways to get this condition, see:
>
>   http://www.clark.net/pub/electra/cse0918.html )

Are you SURE your few drinks with Brotha' Barcardi on a Saturday
Night wasn't the culprit?  :-)))   Jeff's unbandaged hand looks
just like the one in the picture!  (Fingers perpendicular to the
arm)  :-)  And that is his GOOD typing hand.

>
>> 3.  Jeff is typing with ONE FINGER now.  :-)
>
>One finger of my right hand; but the left one still works :-)  But it
>should be back to normal in another couple of weeks.

I certainly hope so!  I am less worried about your TYPING than I am
about your contemplated DIVING in May.  :-)   I can just see a chub
or a Green moray chewing away at Jeff's hand, and all he could
sense was, "what's that GREEN stuff coming out of my hands?"  <BG>


>> Here's ONE PIECE of juicy SCUBA gossip about the Trumpetfish for
>> now:
>>
>> He said he'll "definitely" (spelled with an "i"), as opposed to
>> "definately" be in the CAIV02NEDfest!   :-)
>
>Yep.  And possibly (closing in on definAtely) CZM with you and Crusty
>in May.  It's that or a new PC (this old 166Mhz is getting old!).
>
>Jeff

You beat me to the other SCUBA gossip about you.  :-)  Well, Crusty
is now DEFINITE.  His 5:30 am flight will ARRIVE Cozumel at 7:30 am,
and he'll be ready to make the morning dive!  :-)   Talk about a
dedicated DIVER, that Crusty fella.

So far, we'll have a mini-NEDfest of 3 (Crusty, Sue, and me).
Except for Crusty, everybuddy will be there re-testing the waters. :-)
The trumpetfish has been DRY since the Coz99NEDfest -- he DEFINITELY
needs to get WET.  Sue has been DRY since the CAIV00 in July -- the
longest she has ever stayed dry.   Da Feeesh has been DRY since
December 2000 -- the longest he has EVER stayed dry since the
beginning of time.  :-)

Let's get a mini-CozMayNEDfest going, so that we can have a few
Tall Tales to complement Strike's.  :-)

-- Bob.