On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:19:17 -0500, m2 <m2@somewhere.com> wrote:
>Hi Spike,
>
>I'm sorry I wasn't thinking when I misunderstood about the 100 pound
>cost for your Mum. A few minutes after sending that email it hit me
>that it was a bundled account, with TV, internet, and phone, and so
>our prices are much the same as yours. I just pay for the cheap
>internet. I get the TV signal thru an antenna, and dont have a smart
>phone, but a pay-as-you-go stupid phone.
>
>So we were both kids on farms. I dont remember much either... one
>memory is my mother wringing a chicken's neck, and the headless
>chicken running crazy around the yard... I was too little to be
>around the farm stuff much.
>
>Well, at least you had the three relationships... I dunno, my problem,
>well, it's a bit more complicated than I better say here. I had many
>wonderful opportunities that I never could take... ugh! But I'm not
>dead yet, so you never know, more opportunities may yet come again.
>Hope springs eternal.
>
>At this point, I'm pretty sure I'll never get into the torrents...
>usenet itself is more than enough for me, and at this point, I'm
>wanting to disconnect from that as well, at least for a time.
>
>One of my loves is sculpting. I didnt have a lot of toys as a kid,
>but had modeling clay and made things... and then in 1980, as an
>adult, and not long after departing that cult, I found my old clay at
>my parents house, and started making stuff again, and then got into
>other materials, polymer clays, and started making little people, even
>little portraits, and got pretty good at it, and imagined all kinds of
>things, but in the end, I'm not a business man, so I went back to
>school to get a job, yada yada, years go by, now I'm retired and
>wanting to pick back up with the art... and more and more years keep
>going by... anyhow, now I'm determined to get back into it and see
>what I can create. Part of my hopes to re-invent myself and get back
>into the game... who knows.. maybe more pipe dreams, but I'm
>determined to make something again soon, just after i finish this ,
>that, and the other! not tonight, apparently!
>
>About Facebook, I've always had mixed feelings about it. I love many
>things about it, and hate other things... I have so many opinions to
>express about it... anyhow, 2018 was a very hard year for me
>personally, and facebook played a big part in the stress, and there
>was a breaking point when I defriended pretty much everybody except a
>very few folks... so I dont do much there now. I deleted all my
>photos and videos, comments, etc...
>
>My mom grew up on a farm, a tobacco farm, so she started smoking early
>on, once she got out of the house, I suppose. She always defended
>smoking, but she didn't like it when I started... I spoke harshly
>towards smoking the other day, and urged you to quit... I wouldn't
>want to deprive you of pleasure and comfort...
>
>Likewise, regarding religion and belief in God and the after-life... I
>dont want to spoil people's dreams and hopes... I dont care what
>other people want to believe, live and let live is my attitude...
>
>But what if I could see that someone had been deceived into thinking
>that something like nicotene is giving them pleasure, when the real
>story is that nicotene's only pleasure is easing the withdrawal
>symptoms from the addiction? but that's me and my opinions... yet i
>would encourage you... to do what, i dunno... i dont know what i'm
>going to do either... i hope to make art... i tried writing a book,
>but nobody wanted to read it, and the few i forced to read it didnt
>like it, so what do i know....
>
>yet, hope springs eternal! You need more hope! :D I dunno where you
>can get it, but it's there, somewhere, you just have to find it...
>when you get a good dose of hope, you never know, you might even
>decide to quit smoking and try round four! Who knows!
>
>And again about the religion, i dont care what anybody wants to
>imagine about, but when it comes to real life, we are in trouble when
>we've got alternate versions of truth fighting with each other...
>that's why I'm trying to defend the need to have a common basis for
>what is truth and what isn't, because without that, we'll never be
>able to make peace and a house divided against itself will not stand
>for long... so that's my take. It's not to hurt anybody, but maybe
>to save the planet!
>
>cheers to you!
>
>Hope you got to check out that concert video!
>
>
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I also take the cheapest broadband package, if I was living alone I
wouldn't even bother with a TV, not even for Freeview, I get all I
need from the Internet alone and I wouldn't be willing to pay the BBC
TV Licence fee that would (automatically) be required to use them.
I have a smart phone which I (mainly) only use for a few app's that I
like and also because I drive a 'not too reliable car' that might need
break-down assistance whenever I drive it.
have ALL Data flow turned off unless I am connected to wi-fi, so I
just pay for the odd calls and texts.
I used to catch chickens as a job, did it for about 15yrs in total,
that may well be how I have COPD, dust and asbestos sheds.
I have seen a headless chicken running around... as well as a 4-legged
chicken !
I had a chance at a fourth relationship but then I thought ! What the
hell am I doing ! my life is (about) perfect as it is.
I got out of it and have not looked back.
I hope that you find someone, if thats what you want :)
If Usenet is enough for you, then why give away your free subscription
? it will probably still be there when you want it again. Doesn't mean
that you have to use it !
Like a lot of kids from my era, I never had many toys either.
I wish I could relate to sculpting... but 'Art' isn't something that I
have ever been interested in... same with religion.
Facebook... I deleted everything soon after my Wife left me, I very
rarely post anything on it, my 'diary' has no entries, if I post
anything then I will usually delete it pretty soon after.
Probably why RIB say's I'm a 'private person' ... there is very little
on there to find anything out about me :)
There is more info about Me in this text than on Facebook... But...
I'm unknown here ((apart from RIB reading this)Hello Mate) :) <BG>
I Know that nicotine is killing me and I don't care... I might care a
bit more when COPD really starts to knock me down, but for now, I'm
happy with my life.
I hope that you get back into sculpting or writing a book.
I have downloaded the concert (Thank-You) and will watch it as soon as
I have time :)
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