Reminisces to a GUNNA!

[Collins Richey]

On 12/25/05, Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 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.

That's the beauty of this particular list. We all get little snippets
of each others lives, and the feeling of family persists.

>
> Val and I now live alone, family has gone,

We're in transition mode. The daughter is in North Carolina most of
the year, and the days when our house was filled with her friends are
only fond memories.

> It is Boxing day morning, went around to youngest daughters xmas day to
> find both her and partner with food poisoning,

Bummer. We hope they recover quickly. I had food poisoning once when I
was a student in Germany, and that's no fun.

>
> 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.

The one thing you can never complain about is having too many friends.

>
> Well enough of an old mans rambling, I

Never. As I struggle to catch up with you, Skippy, I'm sure there can
never be enough of an old man's rambling.

>
> 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:)

GUNNA is what keeps us going. There's always got to be that incentive
to keep us going.

Here's hoping that your Christmas was as as outrageously joyous as ours.

We have nothing but neighborhood fests. one yesterday and two today.
The neighbor whose hustband died of cancer (late 30's) 3 years ago,
and whose daughter never got to see her father. The neighbor a few
doors further away who holds a Christmas brunch every year. Her
daughter is home for a visit, but the daughter's husband is a soldier
in Iraq. The neighbor down the other street whose husband (much older)
also died of cancer 5 years ago. Her boys (out of college) are home,
and we have a grand time playing board games.

These are the days of our lives, and what a grand life it is.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan