-=> 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   
      
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