[AGL] sent to Coventry and bragging

[Michael Eisenstadt]

some friends not talking to me because i voted for the orange man.



not having had a vast circle of friends beginning in childhood and
throughout a longish life, i dont notice any personal distress

OTOH, after screwing up my courage, i fixed our car, a 1998 Merc
Grand Marquis. specifically i R&R'ed (removed and replaced) the
ignition set and sparkplug of cylinder number 5. and afterwards,
i erased the trouble code (305) with the computer reader and
got the Check Engine light to go off.

i should mention that i just deleted some thousands of backup emails
stored by Google. as i deleted i fleetingly saw an email by Gerry
Storm flash by. Gerry deceased used to be wildly entertaining
with his posts from rural New Mexico where he astrologized,
drummed in the woods, and drove long drives to his doctor to
treat his disease. Gerry had a good job in Austin. he was the
president of the musicians union, but after unions were abolished,
he turned to fixing BMWs. and wound up in rural New Mexico.

i sorta knew him from Fletcher's Raw Deal bar(s).

i remember that i turned on the archive option and off and
on based on our collective wisdom back in the days. but
it has been turned on for a long time now, and with my
access to it i see that it's there day by day whether the
trafic is active or non-existent. so maybe Gerry's wildly
funny postings live on there if anyone cared to look.

Karen Willis at the beginning of our operation undertook
to poisonally archive the AGL flow on her home machine
but as we now know that is not feasible. home machines
come and go, but we didnt have as firm a grasp on the
limits of the technology as we do now.

Karen has changed email providers so she got automatically
unsubscribed by the maillist's software which also
automatically informs me by email. we have about 25
subscribers. i used to list them with their email addresses
from time to time - which reached a peak of about 70 - but
there again as we morphed into the security state, that
became a no-no. - i just thought naively at that pre-historic
time that as we were all reasonably known to one another
in real life, that a list of one another's emails would be
usedful like a list of phone numbers.

those of us that are still around must be struck by
the enormous social changes since 2001. now we
are increasingly living in a world where less and
less of our fellows were of age in 2001. a clerk
at the DPS when i renewed my drivers license
was too young but apparently had informed himself
retrospectively of what life was like in the US
before 2001. no, he said with a laugh, a DNA
sample was not required - yet - for a driver's license. -