Checking In -or- Like A Bad Penny

[dales]

Moved into the "asylum" and there is no internet access. I am at my daughter's house posting this missive.

Hope all is well in Plan B Land.


~dales

[Lord Jim]

Nice to see you Dale...

I really miss having your bat in the line up, especially for the Northern California stories, and helping fight the good fight against cricket, and keeping the Santa Cruz Pseudo Scientist in line...

You really ought to look into that no contract smart phone deal...

[Joe Guy]

This is not good, dales. We need you here to fight the good fight against whatever that fight may be.

You've got to get internet access. You need to petition whoever it is that runs your house and tell them you have a right to access the webernet.

I'll organize a drive to send lawyers guns and money if needed.

[Econoline]

I'll organize a drive to send lawyers guns and money if needed.

Let's see...that would be Andrew/Guin/Sue/BigRR, Jarl, and Jim?

The shit has hit the fan.

[Econoline]

Seriously, Dale, you are missed around here. You are one of a handful of posters who really set the tone for what this place feels like (for better or worse ). I know I've given you a hard time on occasion, but that's only because I know you're expecting it, and can take it.

When you say there is "no internet access" where you live, exactly what does that mean? Is there a Wi-Fi signal in the building or somewhere near enough to use if your computer had a wireless card? I know when I used to rent out rooms in my house to University of Chicago grad students I had a wireless router (which came with my DSL service) hooked up to my phone line and anyone in the house with a laptop could use that. I've also noticed that my Android smartphone (which I use for work, and hate) keeps asking me if I want to use different Wi-Fi signals which it seems to detect wherever I go.

I have no lawyers, guns, or money to offer, but I'm hoping we can somehow get you back posting here soon. (We're running out of people to ban in the "Ban the person above you" thread... )

[Guinevere]

I'm not available to go to NorCal until probably October, but happy to do my time out there then.

Hi Dales - ditto the no contract phone idea!

Oh, and I think Rube has all the money. Or likes to say he does, anyway.

[Gob]

Dales, we're talking cricket here, without any baseball info being added, jump in ....

[TPFKA@W]

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

Come on Dales, we are all old farts here and we need all the other old farts around to natter at.

[Guinevere]

Speak for yourself, I'm not even close to old fartism yet!

[Econoline]

Oh, and I think Rube has all the money. Or likes to say he does, anyway.

You're right. I should have said "...that would be Andrew/Guin/Sue/BigRR, Jarl, and rubato's wife"

[TPFKA@W]

Speak for yourself, I'm not even close to old fartism yet!

It's not an age, it's a lifestyle or a presentation. You are definitely an old fart.

Trust me when I say you natter as well as any here.

[Econoline]

At least she's not a nattering nabob of negativism.*






*(Anybody who gets that reference really IS an old fart!)

[TPFKA@W]

Agnew. I had too google. For a second I thought it was from The Wizard of Oz.

[Lord Jim]

My favorite Agnewism was "pusillanimous pussy-footers"....

[Econoline]

That one was good too, but mine had a triple, not a double, alliteration*...and we were talking about nattering here...




* BTW, he also used "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history." in that same speech! (IIRC, William Safire wrote it.)

[Lord Jim]

Another one of my favorite Agnewisms:

“A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs..."

While the "nattering nabobs" line was written by Safire, the "pusillanimous pussy footers" line as well as the one I just referenced about the "effete corps of impudent snobs" were written by a man who's daughter I went to high school with....

As she and and I are still in occasional contact (and her dad is still alive) I'm not going to post his name.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I'll miss you dales. And if you need guns, rifles actually, getting a pistol permit in NY is problematic, (or bows or crossbows) I have them and I am an excellent shot.

[dales]

Thanks for all your input, people.

I will be in and out sporadically.

I am posting from the Health and Wellness Center, they have internet access.

I trust that Lord Jim and Joe Guy will be able to keep the mongrels at bay.

[dales]

Dales, we're talking cricket here, without any baseball info being added, jump in ....

It looks like the SF Giants won't even matter this year.

[Jarlaxle]

Do they ever? :p