In article <5ackj5pi0nhu28pk2qn35m98mqsjqlg2l5@4ax.com>, Ninja
<Ninja@NPsPlayground.net> wrote:
> My dear Mr. Mover --
>
> It was wholly by fortuitous accident that I encountered your greeting
> in your note to my dear friend with the hair. Thank you very much. I
> was surprised and delighted that you would think of me after all of
> this time. I've been away quite a while; I've no idea how much of a
> while.Real life has been richly and abundantly full.
>
> It's tough to imagine that it's been more than ten years since we
> first met. Much water has rolled over those rocks since then. At my
> age, ten years don't amount to much; at yours, they mean a great deal.
> Many important marks have passed.
>
> I've been retired now for many years. Funny things happen with
> retirement. You spend your student days preparing for useful work. You
> spend your working days...working -- for many reasons, towards many
> goals, many worthwhile, some ...well... nobody's perfect.
>
> As you work, things come up. You say, "Some day I'm going to
> <whatever!!>." Years roll on. The list grows. Retirement arrives.
> "Some day" is here! In a lifetime the list grows mightily and the
> list keeps right on growing. It's amazing.
>
> When retirement arrives, you can do ANYTHING!! But!! You cannot do
> everything. Choices abound, but choices must be made. Choosing can be
> difficult. It's a high class problem but, indeed, real life keeps me
> far busier now than ever before. Reconnecting with The Fort and
> processing many thousands of new headers was a major and quite
> fascinating effort.
>
> There are few names I recognize, though there does seem to be a good
> supply of old wine in new bottles. Who can tell? Old carping prattles
> on. Baiters and baitees feed each other relentlessly as always. One
> soul of many names has conjured his own history of The Fort, which
> bears no resemblance to the history I watched. He must be smoking
> really good stuff. Everybody is Y-Not these days, it seems.Maybe I am
> too, why not? I've heard that Y-Not is dead. If so, then I'm
> definitely not Y-Not. I'm definitely not dead.
>
> I often wonder about you and KH and Dodgeboy who first made me welcome
> in The Fort. If you see either or both, please pass along my fondest
> regards. You all have my real life email should you be inclined to
> use it. Such things take time, I know, and I also know how scarce time
> is for folks at your stage of life.
>
> It was a delight to hear from you, however obliquely.
>
> May the new year that's hurrying towards us be your very best ever.
>
> PLH to all.
>
> Ninja
> NP-f2
Seems like everybody has this stoooopid obsession with assuming people
are different from who they say they are, that two posters are actually
one, or more that a zillion, dead or alive. Doc can't stop seeing Y Not
everywhere, and can't keep it from showing in his posts, and some other
seriously demented people are much more than confused about identities,
including their own. Where you fit in this I don't know, but I do know
one thing. You've got the wrong poster here.
It took me a while to figure out who you thought I was, so:
NP said I wasn't NP, so I have to believe him. LOL
So should you. I am not him. Ask him yourself.
I'm not anybody else here, either, but ME. Got that?
Mover, the one and oily.
PS There is a poster here who practically worshiped the ground Y Not
levitated over, who is greatly disheartened, disturbed and maybe even
discommoded (and all the other disses), by the mention of Y Not being
deceased. For his emotional comfort (why not grant him this small
favor) I recommend no further mention of that possibility be made.
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