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Theme: Re: Merry Christmas Mr. & Mrs. Steve Kramer
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Date: 24/12/00
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Author: Popeye
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>From: Steve Kramer
>Thank you, never better! We've been spending a LOT of time traveling and >diving, (the fall/winter semester has LOTS of 4-5 day vacations, and >we've taken advantage of them to dive often,) and are about to leave (in >another 4 hours) for the airport for another 15 days of the same. >Winter, to me, just means more air flights to warmer climes, and we've >been getting in a lot of great diving all over SE Asia and the western >Pacific. We've learned about many great new dive locations, hotels, >guest houses, good boats, met some good people, and have been having a >ball under water! Will that be a working vacation for you and the Mrs.? >I never left. I just realized that I was wasting too much time arguing >with fools. These were not people that I would waste time talking with >in real life, so why was I doing it in Usenet? Rec.scuba has developed >into a chat room during the last year or so, and gotten away from the >newgroup format. It's become a private club, and I have no interest in >clubs, nor interest in chatting. My time is better used in other >pursuits. Right. Could've fooled me. There are 2025 unique messages by Steve Kramer Number of Messages/ Forum 837 rec.scuba 724 rec.food.cooking 200 alt.support.stop-smoking 66 rec.scuba.locations 63 rec.photo.equipment.35mm 62 rec.scuba.equipment 42 rec.knives 5 alt.guitar.tab 5 rec.music.folk 4 alt.photography 4 rec.food.equipment 3 nl.sport.duiken 2 de.rec.sport.tauchen 1 rec.photo.technique.misc 1 rec.photo.technique.nature 1 rec.photo.marketplace.35mm 1 aus.sport.scuba 1 houston.eats 1 alt.journalism.photo 1 alt.support.impotence 1 rec.photo.digital That's twenty more newsgroups than I read. >When we weren't out of the country diving, I just spent time lurking, >looking for dive-related topics in this newsgroup. There were virtually >none, and the few that did occur had been discussed to death many times >before. I had no interest in joining the other ridiculous conversations >that fills this group these days. Listening to people brag about how >many times they have been arrested does not impress me, nor does how >much alcohol can be consumed in a given period of time. I love it. First post in a month, and it's a tribute to me! ob*ses*sion (noun) First appeared 1680 1 : a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling; broadly : compelling motivation 2 : something that causes an obsession -- ob*ses*sion*al (adjective) -- ob*ses*sion*al*ly (adverb) >Our dive friends come from real>life, and we meet with them all over the world many times a year.>Traveling 3000 miles to watch someone drink too much tequila and puke is>NOT my idea of fun. Diving is. LOTS of diving in different parts of the>world, with lots of different people, not just a select few from a>newsgroup. Jeez, I guess none of you guys are from real life..?. And everyone was invited, even -you-. Next time, we'll all pitch in and get you a plane ticket. Of course, it won't be to where *we* are, but it's the thought that counts. >Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy New Year, and to those who don't >celebrate any of the above, Best wishes for this Dec/Jan season. Dive >safely, but dive often. Have a nice trip. Give the wife a break. Isn't it ironic that most people look forward to vacation as a chance to get -off- their feet for awhile. Yore Pal Popeye |