*** Quoting Nick Mackechnie from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 >Grin, just that she like I, are not 'dads' (mothers though!).  I have a
 >husband named Don (who doesnt BBS) and a daughter Charlotte, age 11.
NM> Doesnt BBS?? What's wrong with them?  I started bbsing in ohh 1988....
NM> have a wifey, 1 3 year old and a bun in the oven (a man has needs you
NM> know..)

Naw, they just arnt into it.  Charlotte at times has played with it but
she's ¨not more than into chatter with the cooking echo folks and makes a
*rare* ¨appearance there.  Good luck on a heathy new addition!

 >I've never been to NZ where you post from and presumably live, but we are
 >enjoying living in Japan this past 4 years.  I've been to Darwin several
 >times and grunches of Asian places.  Stationed on a US ship.

NM> Sounds cool - I was in te US a few weeks ago for work- LA and Seattle.
NM> Seattle is a great city... could live there very happily!! So statione
NM> ship.. tell me more...

I've been to LA, used to live for a bit in San Diego just south of it by a
2 ¨hour or so drive.  Was in Seattle once but just a flight stop when
headed to an ¨AirForce base inland of it.

Cant tell what to say about being stationed on a ship.  The current one is
the ¨USS Essex (www.essex.navy.mil).  Long hours but you get to travel
places for ¨free that otherwise I'd never have been able to afford to see. 
We are having ¨work done on the ship in the yards just now and for the next
3 weeks so I'm ¨home for a goodly stint for a change. When at sea, I can
still BBS but dont get ¨all the echos so you may findme 'gone' from here
quite a bit.  I may ask to ¨have DADS added to my at-sea feeds though if
it's not there as I like the echo.
                                       xxcarol

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