-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 September 2001 17:52, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > when the cat is away.... > > [...]
*impression of mice having evil grins* >:-) > holy smokes... [...after reading through the thread of messages on this > subject...] ok...so I get back from my 4 days of camping off in the > wilderness where even my cell phone didn't work and wowzers... > > I think you all have gone overboard on this...I don't even know how to > react...other than to figure out how to squeeze more free time to put > more into this. This is why I was pretty leery of buying you computer stuff. I (personally, can't speak for others) didn't want you to see this is the carrot half of the "carrot and stick" combo :-) I'm happy with everything that you do *now*, no need to drive your wife even /more/ nuts..... Think of it as appreciation of everything you do, rather than a means of making you feel guilty for not doing more. > I guess I should at least answer the question of what you could spend > the money on: > > (in no particular order) > > * Donate it to Debian Good idea, not going to happen. This is all about you, baby ;-) > * No computer items...I have plenty and really don't have room for > anything else at the moment. /me nods. > * Gift Cert's for R.E.I. would be a plus as I can always spend money > there. :) (R.E.I. for those of you who don't know is an recreational > equipment store that just kicks butt) I have two REI's in town that I could get a gift certificate from. This is definetly doable. > * Someone mentioned movie passes...while that would be awesome, there > really isn't a decent movie theatre out here... either way tho I > would definatly use it...there is a United Artists out here... All we have are Edward's Cinemas, maybe UA has something online? > * And the "make the wife happy" bits...ummm...if you want to help in > this arena I would say this...one of my christmas gifts for my wife this > year is a trip to Ireland in May. (May is our anniversary...I know it > sounds strange to give it to her in December...but it gives her 5 months to > save money and anticipate, plan, and freak out over the trip)...anyways > I've been planning on doing one of those 11 or 12 day tours where the > flight, hotel, tour, and some food is included. If you want to help pitch > in for this I wouldn't complain. :) Definetly any cash left over will go to the "making wife happy" fund :-) > anyways...while I only expect not to be bitched out for the work I do, I > won't complain if you do this. Can't complain about free stuff anyways. > > shoot..I still have a crap load of email to dig through and a few bugs to > fix. > > Ivan Well, I hope you had a great weekend off. Welcome back! D.A.Bishop -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7roM2KEJ4huP2XBERAiziAJ440atNEKLERtkP/H2QxOX1fCY53ACffkbS CxRJn0K91f8nneCpjTPixa8= =Vs2I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
