Reminisces to a GUNNA!

[Keith Antoine]

I very often sit in front of this screen and wonder what it was that I 
came in here for and what I was going to say. I then in the past 24hrs 
ahve received from the list some of the nicest emails that ahuman being 
can send and receive. It is some 10-11 years that I have been on/off 
this list and made some of the most (I now sit here trying to remember 
what the words are that I need and getting frustrated at my BLANKNESS)
long lasting and faithful friends that I have never met: in all honesty 
probably never will: with one exceptio Julia and Shaun Tayler, Very 
special memories here.

Val and I now live alone, family has gone, Darren in Sydney with the 
Commonwaelth Bank, Michelle my eldest In Wellington NZ and now pregnant
with our first grandchild: We go over on the 24th March, Sheri youngest 
gets married in July and lives some 10-15 km away. Christmas is for kids 
and they make adults chrismas joy, it can be lonely for two when it had 
been a roudy 5. So this list has been somewhat of a lifeline to me, as i 
can still talk with my fingers. I now know why my parents followed me to 
australia in 61 after I came in 60. Children are cruel without knowing 
it. The one other thing that I can do these days and enjoy with possible 
financial return is my Digital Phoptography: actually have to go and do 
a shoot for some bookmakers up the coast, they want 3 consecutive 
pictures: seacape.

It is Boxing day morning, went around to youngest daughters xmas day to 
find both her and partner with food poisoning, been in hospital all 
night. Its somewhat cooler today ony 34C. I tend nowadsys to type as i 
think no preconceived ideas, just go with the flow.

So after the excitement has died down and I somewhat complaintively read 
the daily injection of email and wonder how much longer this will last. 
Who would have thought of at the time of the Caldera and Mike Andrews 
era, that it would evolve to what is a close and personal friendship 
list. To you lurkers make a New Years resolution to get more involved, 
you too might end up another FRIEND. All it takes is a bit of courage, 
no one really laughs at your efforts or is scathing ((Wonder what 
happened to the OLD Kurt, even the OLD Lonnie)).

Well enough of an old mans rambling, I wish everyone all the luck in the 
world and lastly Happiness for 2006, Doug where are you mate?

Oh yeah! Burnsie lovely to see you are aging gracefully lovely to hear 
from your fingers too <:-()

GUNNA? Its an Oz word that describes a person that is always "Going to"
do something and as such with the Oz idiom it got corrupted to Gunna. So 
a perosn like me today is a typical gunna, in that I am gunna do this or 
that, but somehow it nevers does get done:) Tius bit of open-heart 
surgery did.

-- 
Keith Antoine AKA "Skippy" Online with Dual boot Windows and Suse Linux 
10 64bit OS
SKYPE contact: kantoine
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia
Practising Registered Geriatric: Sometime Electronics Engineer: Brain in 
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