[AT] List member check in Please Read (and other stuff)

[Rick Weaver]

Hey, I'm not a forum or list GURU but isn't there some way to have a
"combined" forum/list.  I.E., those who want to participate via email
can do so, and those who want to use the forum format can do so?

This would be somewhat sophisticated but would work, as long as the
users who reply to emails don't tinker with the subject line, so the
forum software could associate it with the right topic.

Spencer, you ever heard of anything like that?  I would think this would
be relatively easy to program (having been a programmer myself).

Rick Weaver
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Francis
Robinson
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:49 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] List member check in Please Read (and other stuff)

    Here me is...   :-)

I just have too much on my plate right now. Many of you know that among 
other things I owned and operated a shoe repair shop for over 20 years.
I 
retired from that about 11 years ago. I sort of missed it. I am now
setting 
up a (part time) western boot rebuilding shop here on the farm. It and
my 
woodshop will be in a building together that is 24' x 48'. Those of you
that 
have been here know it as the lower level of my former house. I just
brought 
back around 3,000 pounds of used shoe repair equipment from the west
coast 
of IL in Rock Island IL. It is still on the trailer since the building
it is 
destined for is full of "stuff"...
    I'm still working on horse stalls but the weather stopped being 
friendly.
    We had a couple of other interesting events recently. First my new 
laptop was turned into a $1,200 paperweight by a fluke bolt of lightning

after a storm was long over. That was while it was sitting on my lap...
It 
didn't zap me but it is a wonder that a change of shorts was not
required. 
;-)    I'm slowly learning my new one (Acer Aspire 9410-2597) and
Windows 
Vista Home Premium. Vista is not too bad but they sure hid a lot of
stuff.
    Next one of our son-in-laws was working on the gutters on a church
in 
Indianapolis and fell from a ladder. His co-worker said he turned around
and 
saw him "pretzeled" in the remains of the ladder. By the time he climbed

down to get to him he was already purple, not breathing and no pulse.
The 
co-worker and an Indinapolis police officer gave him mouth to mouth and
CPR 
and got him ticking again. The medics transported him to Methodist
Hospital 
Trauma Center and finally sorted it all down to a crack in his skull and
a 
bruised brain. He just has one bruise on his body but that covers about
half 
of his body.  :-)   They ran a couple of CAT scans and put a row of
staples 
in the back of his scalp. He weighs around 325 pounds and in spite of
what 
they show on the cartoons us big guys don't bounce worth a damn. He is
home 
and doing well but still has a little dizzyness. He remembers nothing of
the 
event and as far as the mouth to mouth he doesn't want to....   ;-)

    Gene: put me down for camping at the Portland show... Always...

    I'm sorry but on a slow dial-up connection "forum boards" really
suck. 
:-(   I have all but abandonded the farmall.com board. I hate that since

that is a great bunch of guys but it takes foorreevveeerr to load a page
and 
that is all you do on a forum board, load pages. On an email list I can 
process and read messages very fast. If we get DSL this summer (they are

dangling a carrot) then it might be different. I read the messages on
this 
list but sporadically. I have been here since about 1996 but if it was a

board I would probably have to drop it altogether. I think that Spencer
is 
doing just fine as it is.

    Our general situation is slowly improving and I even hope to be able
to 
claim that I am reasonably sane again by early summer.   ;-)   I've had
a 
lot better decades than this one...

    I was really glad to see so many familiar names popping up on this 
thread that we had not heard from lately. I've been so busy that I
hadn't 
even missed myself.   ;-)

    Old tractors... Old tractors... Hey, I have a few of those...   ;-)
I 
hope to work them in a bit too this month as things warm up. Just might
help 
my brain.


--
"farmer"

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana, USA


robinson at svs.net 


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