[TheForge] Holy crap!

[Mark Williams]

Andy,

Good to hear from you. I don't get on theforge much anymore. Glad that you better half is beating the cancer. I stay off social media. I have enough going on at the HBCU I teach at, 21 years now. Another 30 days and the semester is done. I was in the shop tonight making puzzles. Bed calls me.

Mark Williams
Snow Hill, Maryland
> On 04/15/2021 10:07 AM jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Good to see you again Andy! Yeah, FB has been the death of most of the lists
> but theforge hasn't gone the way of the mullet. I hate FB, I don't like
> being data mined for someone else's profit. The noise to data ratio is just
> terrible. Unfortunately social media seems to be the trend everywhere. Have
> you tried to get tech assistance recently? Unless you can get through the
> phone tree you have to try and find answers on a BLOG. It's like going to a
> football stadium during a game to listen to a lecture.
> 
> Sorry, end rant, FB just gets me going. 
> 
> Prayers for your better half and you. Modern medicine has made cancer much
> less of a death sentence. Give her a warm Frosty hug and long sloppy kiss
> for me please. (;
> 
> I don't spend much time in the shop anymore though I'm still playing with
> burners some. 
> 
> The snow is going fast and the driving surfaces are starting to turn to mud.
> Hopefully it'll rain for a day or two and clear the ground off so it can
> start to thaw and drain. 
> 
> Ahh, enough about us. I'm just glad to see you keying here again and
> stirring a little life into the list. 
> 
> Frosty.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Vida
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 10:57 AM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TheForge] Holy crap!
> 
> Hey guys!  LONG time... I thought theforge had gone the way of the dodo.  I
> am SO glad to see you guys are still here.  It has to be close to ten years.
> My netlabs account went away, got this gmail account, and I guess life got
> hold of me.  Wife had cancer, but survives to this day and I guess after
> that ordeal I'd just assumed the list was over in the wake of Fraudbook and
> other so-called "social" media.  I prefer to call it anti-social media, but
> let me not get started.
> 
> Been awhile since I've swung a hammer.  Bunches of our old compatriots are
> on FB, but to be honest I like this medium loads better.  Less noise.
> 
> I look forward to hearing from you all.
> 
> regards,
> 
> -Andy Vida
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