> On Wednesday 28 October 2020 17:59:24 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > > > @Janek - free your mind and enjoy the "stupidity" of day-to-day life. > > I think no one here uses facebook or similar. Sometimes I have the > > feeling I am of the younger generation being 47. > > You sir, compared to me, are. About 2 generations. :) But you have a rare > attribute, a goodly dose of common sense. > > > You can enjoy and relax - it is much better than Netflix or whatever > > story you find out there. The thing I enjoy more are the life stories > > of people I know. I was considering extracting all the personal > > postings of Gene and putting them together for his next birthday, but > > I never have time for that :D. > > Thank your favorite $Deity. > > > It is a great story he has to tell and > > I am thankful that no moderator censored that. > > Thanks for the flowers, but the net in general hasn't heard more than 5% > of my BTDT's. If I live long enough you'll probably read more. They > are the education of Gene, who in the official record has an 8th grade > education dated in the 1940's. 3rd time married 31 years in about a > month, to a lady thats about done now, and has a B of A in music > education, she wanted me to at least get a GED so I took it about 25 > years ago. Didn't hear by the time I should have, so since the test > givers $DayJob was at the P.O. I went in to check on it, and his > question to me was "Why are you worried about it, you were just doing it > for the exercise, weren't you?" I had to say yes. I did get it about a > week later. I also have a degree from the University of Hard Knocks. One > of the rules for that is that you can say you've made it on a high > school education or less. More disqualifies you. And your claim to have > made it must be proved by a $100 donation to the student loan fund at > Alderson-Broaddus University in Philippi WV where Dee got her Music > diploma from. And of coarse $35 a head for the graduation dinner and > dance. > > I quit school in '48 to go fix what were then these new-fangled things > called "tv's". There's a hell of a lot of history between then and now. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > ____________________________________________________ Cool... Kate ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@... To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@... Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@...