From: timk@world.std.com (Tim King)
Subject: My Vacation
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:19:31 GMT

I just got back from five days away (and sifted through 270 postings).
I thought I'd post a little message on the lighter side of things to let
y'all know that there is such a thing as rest and relaxation.

Margaret and I went to her aunt and uncle's place in upstate New York.
They have a cottage of sorts next to Shenango (sp?) Lake and a house nearby.
Although they seem to be rather well off, they're really nice people and
very generous.  I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

We sat out on the dock, read, and talked (and tanned).  We went sailing a
couple of times, and each time the wind died as soon as we got out on the
lake.  (Others went sailing too, and they didn't experience this problem!)
But it was fun just the same.  Margaret did some swimming, but I didn't
really feel like it, so I just sat on the dock.

It's about a five-hour drive between the lake and our home near Boston.
During the trips to and fro, we got to talk some -- we got to talk alot over
the whole week -- and we got to listen to two lectures given by the late
Dr. Walter Martin:  "Inspiration of Scripture" and "Existence of God."
I got to read quite a bit, including finishing off _The_Origin_of_The_Bible_
and completely reading Einstein's _Relativity_, which I found very interesting.
(I had already learned about the Special Theory at NU, but I wanted to learn
a little about the General Theory.)

Margaret's cousin's (Michelle's) birthday is coming up soon, and Michelle's
grandmother's birthday was not too long ago.  So we had a perpetual birthday
celebration for them.  The festivities included an angelfood cake with a
flashlight in the middle instead of a candle as well as a night out to dinner
at a restaurant where the food is superb and the prices... well...

After dinner the waiting staff of the restaurant approached our table with two
pieces of coffee ice-cream cake (yum!!!) singing Happy Birthday.  A few
minutes later Aunt Marsha said to Uncle Bill, "That was a nice thing to do."
He replied with something along the lines of "I didn't do it.  I thought you
did!"  As it turns out, our waitress had overheard us talking and had
arranged the whole thing!  (What a surprise!)

Most of Margaret's family are not dedicated christians, but it would seem
that Michelle is.  (I don't know about anyone else there.)  We got to talk a
bit about various things, including what christian books we like to read.  And
we almost got to go to an alledgedly huge christian book store in Syracuse,
but unfortunately we ran out of time.  But we did get to go to the
Carousel Mall in Syracuse and ride on the carousel!  (That was fun.)

Sunday morning, just before we left, the whole eight of us (Marsha, Bill,
Michelle, her sister Corrie, Corrie's fiance Joe, grandma (Bill's mother),
Margaret, and myself) went to an outdoor ecumenical service.  Michelle's
pastor spoke and delivered an excellent, simple (almost simplistic!),
positively practical message.  The service also involved three other
churches of various denominations.  It was overall quite enlightening, and
I enjoyed myself.

We then went back to the lake house to eat lunch, and while we were eating
Aunt Marsha packed us a bag of soft drinks, fruit, and cookies for our trip.
Then we all said our goodbyes and drove home.

Now that I'm all rested, it's time to return to work.  I'm almost afraid of
what I might face when I show up tomorrow morning... :-)

Most men work from sun to sun,
But a NetMan's job is *never* done!

-TimK
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