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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="95%" align="center"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"><td> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1"> <tr bgcolor="#234c6f"> <td colspan="2" align="left"> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>T O P I C ��� R E V I E W</b> </font></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Baloo</b> <br /><small>Member # 5</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,23,14,14,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 23, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:14 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> ...I just wasn't hanging around for a while.<P>I won't say "I'm back" because I wasn't really gone. Not really, anyhow. I was just quite busy (and will be in future) with RL concerns that may or may not be anyone else's business. If you need to know, I'll tell you, okay?<P>I'm learning new things about Trek. One thing is that I seem to get these creative impulses during the winter months, and once the weather warms, I turn my attention to other, more important matters (such as sweating and trying to make sure the swamp cooler is still functioning properly).<P>I've been working at the bomb range out by Melrose, New Mexico, about 50 miles from where I live. Don't even suggest I move closer to my work. My workplace is on top of a mesa about 20 miles from the nearest convenience store, and at least 40 miles from the nearest department store. Clovis is the only community of size near the place, and it's only got a populatioin of around 30,000. I'll stay here and commute, thankyouverymuch.<P>There's a lot of wildlife at the range. You'd think that the frequent strafing runs and bomb explosions would scare all the little animals, but no hunting is allowed and the planes aren't aiming for the critters anyway. There are pronghorn antelope (daily sightings -- sometimes the come right up to your vehicle while you're waiting to be cleared onto the range). There are numerous rabbits, coyotes, and multilegged creatures, to include a stunning variety of scorpion variants.<P>Several times, we've had to capture bats that wander into our building and release them outside. They're tiny -- about the size of a winged mouse. We have horned lizards ranging in size from about the length of your hand (biggest one seen thus far) to as small as one inch (captured by me last week, shown to all who had time to view it, then released where I found it). We've got tarantulas, which I am happy to report, really <I>are</I> as afraid of you as you are of them (more so -- in my case, I'm respectful of those big fangs, but not fearful).<P>A few weeks ago I captured a rattlesnake that had entered our compound and released him near the fence so he could go prey where we didn't risk stepping on him.<P>Neat place to work, that.<P>~~Baloo<P>------------------<BR>Beer lovers take note:<BR>Stroh's spelled backwards is "shorts."<P><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/</A> <P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Baloo</b> <br /><small>Member # 5</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,23,14,21,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 23, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:21 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> One more thing...<P>What happened to everyone's post counts? Don't tell me the number of times someone has said something (or practically nothing) has become such a sore point that it has been deleted in the interest of harmony?<P>Pity.<P>~~Baloo<P>------------------<BR>Beer lovers take note:<BR>Stroh's spelled backwards is "shorts."<P><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/</A> <P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Aethelwer</b> <br /><small>Member # 36</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,23,14,37,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 23, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:37 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Huh? They're still in the profiles as usual.<P>------------------<BR><A HREF="http://frankg.dgne.com/" TARGET=_blank>Frank's Home Page</A><BR>"And on a wholly unrelated note, I went to high school with Fidel Castro. So there." - Simon Sizer <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Baloo</b> <br /><small>Member # 5</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,23,14,41,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 23, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">02:41 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Oh.<P>Somehow I (mis-?)remembered they used to be in the Author column, next to (or under) your name, tag line, etc.<P>My bad.<P>------------------<BR>Beer lovers take note:<BR>Stroh's spelled backwards is "shorts."<P><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/</A> <P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Kosh</b> <br /><small>Member # 167</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,23,15,2,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 23, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:02 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I remember the Rattle Snake E-mail, one of my Favs! <IMG SRC="http://flare.solareclipse.net/biggrin.gif"><P>------------------<BR> <B>Sailing the Slipstream</B> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Aethelwer</b> <br /><small>Member # 36</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,23,15,8,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 23, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:08 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Ohh...some fora do that, but Flare never has.<P>------------------<BR><A HREF="http://frankg.dgne.com/" TARGET=_blank>Frank's Home Page</A><BR>"I'd like to have a hard one, though..." - Fabrux <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>AndrewR</b> <br /><small>Member # 44</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,24,11,31,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 24, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">11:31 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> You live on a Mesa!?! Sounds like the Mars Trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson)<P> <IMG SRC="http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif"><P>Andrew<P>------------------<BR>"I threw bitter tears at the ocean<BR> But all that came back was the tide..." 'I Will Not Forget You' Sarah McLachlan <BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Baloo</b> <br /><small>Member # 5</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,24,13,29,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 24, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">01:29 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> No, I don't live on a mesa. I work on one. I commute ~50 miles to an electronic combat (and bombing) range that's about 20 miles from the nearest convenience store. The radar equipment (amongst other things) is on top of a mesa that overlooks the target area of a military operations airspace (MOA).<P>I've posted a few things about where I work at another forum. If requested to, I will look for and copy them here. The one about the rattlesnake <I>is</I> rather interesting.<P>~~Baloo<P>------------------<BR>Beer lovers take note:<BR>Stroh's spelled backwards is "shorts."<P><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/</A> <P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Fabrux</b> <br /><small>Member # 71</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,24,15,6,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 24, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">03:06 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> My personal favourite is the story with your son and the peanuts <IMG SRC="http://flare.solareclipse.net/wink.gif"><P>------------------<BR>"Weirdness doesn't frighten me. Ten-foot-tall purple wombats with shaving-cream-covered broadswords singing 'Kumbayah'... Now, that scares me..."<BR>-Tim Nix<p>[This message has been edited by Fabrux (edited August 24, 2000).] <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Curry Monster</b> <br /><small>Member # 12</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,24,20,52,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 24, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">08:52 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 50 miles? I hope you have a fast car.<P>------------------<BR>"More beer, more beer, more beer, more beer! ARSE!"<BR>- Ode to God.<BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#A3B9CC"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Baloo</b> <br /><small>Member # 5</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,25,12,36,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 25, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:36 PM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Fast car? Well, the minivan can do 95 MPH flat out, at least so I've determined. However, the gas mileage is between 19-22 mpg (~8-10 km/l) when I give the go-pedal a workout. On the other hand, gas is expensive, so I've taken measures to see what I can do to improve the mileage.<P>Soft-pedaling the go-pedal boosted gas mileage to 23-24 mpg (~10-11 km/l). I pulled the middle seat out and moved the back row to the middle (reduced weight) and switched to a mid-grade gas and the mileage climbed to 25 mpg (~11 km/l).<P>What I'd really like is to get a Toyota Corrolla (or functional equivalent) that gets 30 mpg or better even without trying. Cars are much more fun to drive than vans, even minivans, and they get better mileage. If I need to haul as much stuff as the van could hold, I'll rent a U-Haul.<P>Unfortunately, the divorce has left me with little (read: <I>no</I>) disposable income for the time being. The loan on the van is "upside down" (the loan payoff is more money than the van is worth) so it's worth nothing as a trade-in, for now at least. I'll have to stick with the van for now.<P>At least it's roomy.<P>~~Baloo<P>------------------<BR>Beer lovers take note:<BR>Stroh's spelled backwards is "shorts."<P><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/</A> <P><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#E5EAEF"> <td valign="top" width="18%"> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Teelie</b> <br /><small>Member # 280</small> </font></td> <td width="82%"> <font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <img src="https://flare.solareclipse.net/posticon.gif" border="0" alt=" - " /> posted <script language="JavaScript1.3" type="text/javascript"> document.write(timestamp(new Date(2000,7,26,0,50,0), dfrm, tfrm, 0, 0, 0, 0)); </script><noscript><span class="dateformat-0">August 26, 2000</span> <span class="timeformat-0">12:50 AM</span></noscript><hr /> </font> <font size="3" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Sucks to hear that. Divorce is a bitch.<P>------------------<BR>Cute, cuddly, widdle teddy bears usually will eat you alive unless you can prove you're a god. <P>Ex-Admin, moderator at the <A HREF="http://www.trekbbs.com" TARGET=_blank>TrekBBS.com</A><BR> <br /> </font> </td></tr> </table></td></tr></table> <br /> <br />
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