*** Quoting Bj”rn Forsstr”m from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


BF>> I wouldn't do that for all money in the world. Don't have any use of i
BF>> grave. I'm terrible afraid of heights.

 CS> Not a good thing to have in my job!  Thats ok though, some of the
 CS> as well so we give them the other jobs to make up for it.  Lots of the
 CS> antennas are at no more than 20 feet up and quite a few you can r
 CS> standing on a chair.

BF> I do paint the house and fix the antennas on the roof but not with a s

Not to worry.  I really do understand such.  I might regale folks with my
¨escapades 'on high' but I do go up because I just am the stubborn type who
¨thinks it's wrong to 'order' one of my junior guys to do something they
are ¨genuinely scared to do.  You can tell when you see the 'stiff upper
lip and ¨dialted pupils' and guy llooks like a 5YO being forced to say
'there is no ¨Santa (knowing he'll get no toys that year).  Uh, no.

I get scared on a 40ft ladder just propped against a wall.  I do _not_ get
¨scared suspended upside down from a rope 20 feet from a yardarm that is
200ft ¨up or more (but i do check the rope and attachment first like any
sane person ¨would!).

BF> Now a tunnel on E18 in Norway have collapsed. 25 m of the 1.7 km long
BF> at the town Drammen south west of Oslo caved-in.
BF> They still don't know if someone is dead and today it's 2 years since
BF> the Tsunami.

Well, we know we lost one sysop, one of his brothers, and his wife and son.
For ¨the rest of the people, 'presumed lost' is now dead for the adults. 
Children ¨may have been 'adopted' but some so young, even they do not know,
nor ever will ¨possibly.

Western ethic is 'have to find a body'.  Eastern isnt quite the same.  They
¨move on, not that there is much choice in the matter.

                                       xxcarol

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