• Re: welcome you to our li

    From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Mon May 20 11:47:00 2019
    Quoting August Abolins to Nancy Backus on 05-16-19 00:47 <=-

    Hello, August... I've seen you in other echoes from time to time, but
    I don't think I've seen you here in MEMORIES before... if that's true,
    I just wanted to welcome you to our little domain... pull up a chair
    and join us around the potbelly stove... <G>

    Thanks for the welcome.
    I've been here in this echo before, but it was many years ago. I
    *think* I popped in here with a post a few times around 2000 to 2003,
    but I can't confirm. But I did spend most of the time lurking.

    Well, then, it's about time you came out of lurking... <G>

    I do believe my mom contributed a few posts every now and then, but I can't find evidence of that now. For a period of years, I set her up
    to use Apoint:
    --- APoint 1.25
    ! Origin: Vija's Virtual VVorld (1:229/1000.390)
    (I just found the above from year 2003 with a quick google search)

    Was she also an Abolins...? Not sure if I remember the name...

    She also followed COFFEE_KLATSCH and a few others.

    I never got into that echo... I was very active (until it all moved to
    the web) in the Genealogy echoes... :)

    I think I tried to email or netmail you about something (many years
    ago), but then I learned you were in the hospital.

    I probably responded once I got home... ;) Perhaps that was in 2005
    when I broke my ankle....?

    ttyl neb

    ... Live so that the family parrot can live afterwards.

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  • From NANCY BACKUS@1:123/140 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Mon May 27 21:14:00 2019
    Quoting August Abolins to Nancy Backus on 05-22-19 22:33 <=-

    //Hallo NANCY, //
    am *20.05.19* um *11:47:00* schriebst Du in der Area *MEMORIES*

    (oops.. I guess I should update that with something in English)

    Probably, although I read enough German to understand it anyway... :)
    And the quote header isn't all that important in any case... :)

    And sorry that it's taken a little extra time to respond to you... I got
    behind with messages, since I was out of town the last two weekends,
    without access...

    Thanks for the welcome. I've been here in this echo before, but it was
    many years ago. I *think* I popped in here with a post a few times
    around 2000 to 2003, but I can't confirm. But I did spend most of the
    time lurking.
    Well, then, it's about time you came out of lurking... <G>

    Just figuring out the best time to jump in when a topic springs to
    mind.

    Or just jump into the existing conversations.... we don't (usually)
    bite.... <G>

    I do believe my mom contributed a few posts every now and then..
    -+- APoint 1.25
    ! Origin: Vija's Virtual VVorld (1:229/1000.390)
    (I just found the above from year 2003 with a quick google search)
    Was she also an Abolins...? Not sure if I remember the name...

    Yes. Full name would have shown up in the echos as "Vija Abolins".

    I guess my memory isn't quite as sharp as it used to be... ;)

    She also followed COFFEE_KLATSCH and a few others.
    I never got into that echo... I was very active (until it all moved to
    the web) in the Genealogy echoes... :)

    I didn't realize that it "moved to the web". It still seems to be a fairly active fidonet echo from what I can tell.

    I was talking about the Genealogy echoes moving to the web... there
    isn't really anything happening in those Fidonet echoes anymore... I
    still have them tagged, just in case, and rarely has there even been any messages left there.... I generally would answer anyone that did show
    up, just on general friendly principles... ;)

    I think I tried to email or netmail you about something (many years
    ago), but then I learned you were in the hospital.
    I probably responded once I got home... ;) Perhaps that was in 2005
    when I broke my ankle....?

    Yes.. 2005 sounds about right. My fidonet journey ended in 2006,
    after my main pc crashed. All the echomail history is probably unrecoverable. I still have the original harddrive (but it is OS/2 format) Before the pc crashed, the harddrive was already making a lot
    of clicking noises.

    How sad... so now you are getting yourself back into the echoes
    again.... :)

    ttyl neb

    ... "And so I thought to myself..." but who else can you think to?

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