From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Subject: Re: harpy gnu ears
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:38:42 GMT

Barbara Trumpinski (trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: kitten, who has taken a break from delivering pizza and drinks of
: choice to the crowd at callahans, is ready to toast the new year
here...
: 
: "despite the subject line (thanks bloomy) this is a serious
: toast...1992 -- 'what a long strange trip it's been'...last new year's
: day i spent watching "wings" on the discovery channel...10 hours of
: it in fact...because my house guest enjoys that sort of thing...my
: house guest was a dear friend who flunked out of school and went away
: for the semester and summer...and when he came back this fall he found
: a new dear friend...so we are still friends, but he doesn't need me
: any more...
: 
: the reason i spent one of the most important days of the year with
: somebody else than my beloved t.c.....he was in texas for awhile...but
: he didn't particularly like the supercollider folx and unfortunately
: the feeling was mutual...so he came home ... and i am glad, because
: this is home.
: 
: we had an unexpected addition to our family unit...a bouncy baby 15
: year old... my youngest stepson, lee.  he got into trouble and for the
: second time in 6 years his mother said that we either had to take him
: or she was going to have him put away...since we should never have let
: him go back the first time, we said okay...but this time it is
: legal...the lawyer said he is ours...we paid the fee and she can't
: have him back...no matter what she does!  and it's good....
: 
: i was diagnosed as clinically depressed after being sick (literally)
: for a year...and we are working on getting that fixed.  it put lots of
: things at risk (including my job) but things are more secure now...
: 
: i had a spiritual awakening when i went back to "the land" and spent a
: week in the wilderness with women and music and myself...
: 
: i heard spider robinson sing...in person
: 
: here in the Place...people have come and people have gone...and i have
: found some friends who are forever...we did some major
: partying...didi's surprise party comes to mind...we all did that and
: it inspired her to do nick chopper's birthday in oz.....she organized
: it... from her bed in geneva where she nearly died...and i helped her
: post it.
: 
: there has been lots of joy here....and some sadness...and lots and
: lots of fun...and love.
: 
: and that brings me to my toast...'to US....to the spirit...to shared
: pain and shared joy...to 1993!'"
: 
: 
: 
: <CRASH!!!!!!>
: 
: --
:
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: conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten           /\ /\  barbara ann 
: "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?"      {=.=}
:                                               ~  
trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu 
: "love is the wild card of existance"
:                           rita mae brown
: 
Warrior lifts his head, and stares at Jammer.
Jammer listens for a moment, and then says
"Yup. I agree."
He lays another dollar on the bar, collects a mocha,
and says "To Us."

Another mug downrange, and 1993 begins.