Nightmare!

My FS-102 finally arrived, but it wasn't an FS-102!

It was an FS-78, or some other 80mm scope!

The entire tube was coated and smeared with black grease,
as was the objective!

I was furious!

Later, I reasoned that it must have been some little "project"
of Art's and Fred's...something they had in a back room...
and that it was mistakenly shipped to me...or was it?

Alan

Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
My FS-102 finally arrived, but it wasn't an FS-102!

It was an FS-78, or some other 80mm scope!

The entire tube was coated and smeared with black grease,
as was the objective!

I was furious!

Later, I reasoned that it must have been some little "project"
of Art's and Fred's...something they had in a back room...
and that it was mistakenly shipped to me...or was it?

Alan

Does it have a battery compartment?

Doug Hosey

On 23 Sep 2003 13:26:30 -0700, (Doogie Hoosier) ...reflected:

Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
My FS-102 finally arrived, but it wasn't an FS-102!

It was an FS-78, or some other 80mm scope!

The entire tube was coated and smeared with black grease,
as was the objective!

I was furious!

Later, I reasoned that it must have been some little "project"
of Art's and Fred's...something they had in a back room...
and that it was mistakenly shipped to me...or was it?

Alan

Does it have a battery compartment?

Doug Hosey

Had the 'mare dragged on, anything's possible.

I also dreamed of some nut sending me an e-mail
confirmation of an order for one of their crappy homemade
collectibles. Of course, I never placed the order, for which
they charged my card almost $300. I...was...livid.

Then there's the one about the big, black spider sailing
down from the ceiling and landing right next to my bare side,
whereupon I immediately attempted to isolate it by wrapping
it into the sheets, but to no avail. As I felt it through the
sheets writhing, struggling, and crunching its way back
to my side to do God only knows what, my only thought
was, "LET ME OUTTA HE..."

Then I woke up.

Alan...a dreamer of dreams

Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
On 23 Sep 2003 13:26:30 -0700, (Doogie Hoosier) ...reflected:

Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
My FS-102 finally arrived, but it wasn't an FS-102!

It was an FS-78, or some other 80mm scope!

The entire tube was coated and smeared with black grease,
as was the objective!

I was furious!

Later, I reasoned that it must have been some little "project"
of Art's and Fred's...something they had in a back room...
and that it was mistakenly shipped to me...or was it?

Alan

Does it have a battery compartment?

Doug Hosey

Had the 'mare dragged on, anything's possible.

I also dreamed of some nut sending me an e-mail
confirmation of an order for one of their crappy homemade
collectibles. Of course, I never placed the order, for which
they charged my card almost $300. I...was...livid.

Then there's the one about the big, black spider sailing
down from the ceiling and landing right next to my bare side,
whereupon I immediately attempted to isolate it by wrapping
it into the sheets, but to no avail. As I felt it through the
sheets writhing, struggling, and crunching its way back
to my side to do God only knows what, my only thought
was, "LET ME OUTTA HE..."

Then I woke up.

Alan...a dreamer of dreams

I once dreamed that NASA gave astronauts Big Wheels to ride on the
moon. Seemed like fun.

Doug Hosey

On 25 Sep 2003 02:10:52 -0700, (Doogie Hoosier) ...reflected:

snip

I once dreamed that NASA gave astronauts Big Wheels to ride on the
moon. Seemed like fun.

Ah, but were you one of the ones riding? It doesn't
count if you weren't in the...

...."Matrix!"

You know, "Big Wheels" would make an interesting
Nader-esque topic...

"Big Wheels: Big Fun, or a Big Rip-Off?"

That is, it always seemed no time before the front wheel edge
flattened and then deteriorated further into a large irreparable
hole, thus dooming the thing to an inevitable, static, and
sun-bleached death in a seldom-mowed area of the
backyard...

"Billy Bob, pull that ol' Big Whale outta thuh waids so I kin mow!"

They should've been, and should be still manufactured with
at least...semi-solid wheels; much thicker in any case.

Alan

Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
My FS-102 finally arrived, but it wasn't an FS-102!

It was an FS-78, or some other 80mm scope!

The entire tube was coated and smeared with black grease,
as was the objective!

I was furious!

Alan

Funnily enough, only last night I dreamt I found an identical 6" f/8
refractor OTA to my own in a flea-market. My wife kept urging me to
buy it to make a big bino. I kept worrying whether it was well
corrected and had no way to do any optical tests on the spot. I got so
frustrated in the end that I woke myself up! Argh!

Chris.B

On 25 Sep 2003 14:50:11 -0700, (Chris.B) ...reflected:

Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
My FS-102 finally arrived, but it wasn't an FS-102!

It was an FS-78, or some other 80mm scope!

The entire tube was coated and smeared with black grease,
as was the objective!

I was furious!

Alan

Funnily enough, only last night I dreamt I found an identical 6" f/8
refractor OTA to my own in a flea-market. My wife kept urging me to
buy it to make a big bino.

I take it that you've seen the ads, too.

I kept worrying whether it was well corrected and had no way to do
any optical tests on the spot. I got so frustrated in the end that I woke
myself up! Argh!

That's what's supposed to happen...

....the wasp must never sting, lest we die!

Alan

Alan W. Craft wrote in message . ..
On 25 Sep 2003 02:10:52 -0700, (Doogie Hoosier) ...reflected:

snip

I once dreamed that NASA gave astronauts Big Wheels to ride on the
moon. Seemed like fun.

Ah, but were you one of the ones riding? It doesn't
count if you weren't in the...

..."Matrix!"


I watched my son riding his Big Wheel with evny. So I built one for
myself out of 24" Huffy bicycle wheel and frame parts, and spoked rear
wheels from an old self-propelled mower. It was a blast, and I know I
looked silly as hell, but no sillier than all the other neighborhood
adults that had to take turns on it. We'd wet the driveway with the
hose and see how many "spins" we could get. Booze definitely seemed
to enhance the fun.

It was TOO popular, though. It was stolen within a month. I didn't
have the nerve to get a police report on the theft--"Officer, someone
has stolen my Big Wheel..." I just wish I had taken some pictures of
it.

Yeah, I was one of the astronauts in the dream.

Doug Hosey