Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 01:12:41 -0500
Reply-To: Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From: Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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Subject: Ree: SinceUs &tc.
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ok, everybody else is doing it so i might as well. done it before but
apparently all you folks ignored it. that's ok, i'm used to it. :)
name is Jodl Volker, alias Joel Walker, alias Unca Joel.
i'm the one that lives down in Tookalooka, Amabala,
where the cotton blooms and blows, and the kudzu grows and grows.
why i left my home in the south to roam round the Nawth, God only
knows ...
but i did. lived up in Chicago for a while. Mt. Prospect, to be exact.
working with
Untied Airplanes. :)
for a mental picture (is there any other kind?), go watch Snow White
and the Seven
Dwarves. i'm Grumpy. i'm the only one that made it out of those woods
and got a
real life. Happy brokered a hostile take-over of the diamond mine
after the Wicked Witch/Queen was dead. his finaceer was that blasted
Mirror. :( anyway, i figured it was time for me to find someplace else
to go. me and Dopey left ... Dopey got into the PC market back in the
early 80's and now runs a company called Microsoft. yup. got hair
transplants and his ears bobbed. :)
i'm a meat eater. i love burned pieces of dead animal flesh. i figure
my ancestors didn't fight their way up to the top of the food chain
for nothing, so i'm gonna enjoy it. :) no big deal, i just like it. i
enjoy stalking and hunting the wild sirloin at the local Kroger game
preserve, but the sirloin is a wiley beast .... and can hide easily
amongst the balogna and salami. you have to have a sharp eye and
steady hand to bag one. :)
i have three buses. yeah, so what? two of them actually run. :( a 91
carat that i just finished replacing the water pump. it's a rescue
kitten from a real DPO and i've still got a lot of work to do on it.
an 87 camper that also needs work, but is driveable. and an 88 4-speed
that is "resting" for a while. all it's gonna take is money and time.
and right now, i've got precious little of either. :(
work? not so's you could tell it. :) i get paid by the state taxpayers
through a state university. i go around to the professors and
secretaries and explain to them that Ph.D. really means "Push Here,
Dummy". :) i fix computer problems. and help manage a dormitory
network (i do the grunt work, along with some other fellows. not the
network setup or admin). got started in computers back in the 1960's,
when a 'computer' was as big as a house and all we had were mag tapes
and punch cards and disk drives were the size of washing machines (ONE
disk drive, that is). prior to that, i was a college student, ditch
digger (worked my way up to driving the tractor), machine shop
helper/flunkie/machinest, sewer plant worker (really :). later on i
worked with Univac, a large computer company as a field support gopher
and then as a classroom teacher in Atlanta. was in the Army, a'sarvin
of 'er Majesty the Queen (Nixon) for a while during the unpleasantness
in the loverly countries of the southeastern portions of Asia. got to
spend time in Australia (lovely place. neat people. great place to
visit if you ever get the chance .... just try not to scream when taxi
takes a turn and you see all those cars coming at you on the 'wrong'
side of the road. :) the cabbies love that, and will drive even worse
to get more screams out of you). more damned sheep than i've ever seen
in one place. and if you want sirloin, you'd better make sure you
order 'beefsteak'!!! otherwise, you get mutton. tastes ok, til they
tell you what it is. :) i was there before the Opera House was
finished in Sydney. also got to go to Hong Kong before it was handed
back to China. nice place, but crowded. very crowded. and busy!!! they
were just starting the tunnel from Kowloon the Victoria when i was
there.
age? gee ...lemme see. i think Roosevelt was president when i first
remembered noticing that sort of thing. Teddy, that is. :) or was it
William? one of them boys. the first one i liked was Harry Truman. but
he got the short end of the stick during his terms. them were some bad
times in the early years.
what else you clowns going on and on about? sex? yeah. had it a few
times. don't recall much about it except a lot of sweating and moaning
and trashing about. it's been a while, so the memory fades a bit. i
think i recall if you do it in the bathtub, you can get bad cramps in
your leg. something like that. oh, what sex am I? male, last time i
looked. i've developed a santa-claus belly (told you i looked like
Grumpy. grey hair and beard and all), so i haven't looked in a while.
if you've seen one, you've seen 'em all.
vw's in the past? first one was in 1958. been driving them ever since.
had hondas (nice cars, but smallish), mercedes (nice cars but
expensive to buy. not to fix, however. figure that), and porsches
(REALLY expensive to fix!!). but mostly vw's. started driving buses in
1970 when i got out of the army (the Aussies used them as transport
around Vung Tau, and they kinda caught my fancy). started in Vanagons
in 1980 with the first year in the U.S.
got a watercooled in 1986 and was seduced by the WetSide of the Force.
:)
likes and dislikes? yeah. very opinionated. i'm old and i'm
entitled!!! so stuff it! :) i figure just about time i get this life
figured out, it's time to go on to the next one. that's the way it
works, it seems. i try to treat folks the way they treat me. and the
older i get, the more i find that Confucius and Ben Franklin knew a
lot more about how to get along in Life than most folks do these days.
people haven't changed in 7,000 years ... only technology changes.
study history if you would know people.
well, anyway. it's late, and i have to go to work tomorrow. no, i
haven't retired. not yet. can't afford it. my gummint won't pay me
enough to live on. :( and after all that money i've been paying in!!!
:(
oh, and i've been around since the beginning of the first list. if you
believe that tom-fool Gerry Skerbitz, who started the first list, he
says it's MY fault that he started the thing. says i nagged him into
it!! well, i never! :) but i can recall when there were only 9 of us
on the list. then 90, and now over 800. i've got pretty much about 800
or so in my outlook address book, waiting for the day i can get this
furschlinger rexx stuff to work again so i can bore everyone with the
Weakly Statz, like i used to. :) hopefully, this year. if the work at
work calms down a bit. :(
goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are. :)
ink-kadink-kado! ;)
unca joel
alias Grumpy
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