Alan Erskine wrote:
Eye reed u lowd and clee-ah.


Test message showed up, but dates and times of messages are all screwed up.
Earlier today "most recent posting" was from early 2007.
Probably something down at my ISP, but if worst comes to worst, I'll
just ditch the whole Thunderbird file and re-install it.
Either that, or simply remove all newsgroup messages and start out all
over again.
Still no word from OM for five days now, which is troubling.
He has his laptop with him in the hospital, and some means of getting
and sending email. His last message was _after_ the amputation, and I've
been forwarding all the get-well-soon postings to him, so no update on
his condition for that long suggests trouble.
I'm back to checking the Austin obituaries day-by-day again. :-(
But you know him - even dead, you'd have to drive a stake through his
heart and stuff his mouth with garlic just to keep him quiet.
OM didn't only break the mold; there was no mold ever used to make him.
Near as I can figure, some sort of strange trans-dimensional lightning
bolt came out of a clear sky and hit his mother while she was carrying
him in her womb, and the rest is twisted history indeed.
The guy is a episode of "The X-Files" in his own right. :-D

Pat