>            Sometimes it does get a bit lonely around here!  Maybe we can
>remedy that.  What brings you to SURVIVOR & what topics particularly interest
>you?  :-)

Well, I added the echo to my board earlier this year, I think.  I read a
few of the messages that came in, and found some of them interesting.  I
don't really know why, but they were.  When I was in college, I worked
once a week with a fellow who had a CP-like problem, which was caused by
an injury as a child.  Some of my co-workers were uneasy working with Bob,
in part because he was difficult to understand.  I think I learned some
better listening skills while working with him, as I was always able to
understand him if I took the time to listen.  ;-)

>            Nah... I can't write that much in one day.  Besides, some people
>get annoyed if I'm slow to respond.  How things have changed!  When I was a
>child it often took six weeks to send mail to or from Old Blighty.  A few
>decades earlier it took six months.  Either way a reply to old news was not at
>all uncommon, but one couldn't mention that somebody was ill in case others
>might worry.  The pace of life nowadays seems quite insane by comparison.
>There's more freedom to talk about matters of personal significance, though,
>when a person can send an update without feeling they must fill up a page to
>justify the cost of postage....  :-)

I can remember how excited I was, as a child, to receive mail.  I used to
wait for the postman, hoping I'd have something.  The Internet age has
taken some of the fun out of it, or maybe it is just getting older that
did it.  All I know is that I get a lot more junk mail via e-mail than
I ever do via the post.  ;-)

Mike
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