Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:56:53 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a few Last qstns on the wordpress installation.... Message-ID: <20110119215653.GA16600@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimZPARxH=Wcs_g4hO=yc=iDxdNTk1o-Ycp80n%2BY@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110114193206.GA6200@thought.org> <20110114194807.GC82276@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110114212042.GB7557@thought.org> <AANLkTimZPARxH=Wcs_g4hO=yc=iDxdNTk1o-Ycp80n%2BY@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:34:40PM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> > I've been trying my level best to keep the sharks'teeth of
> > reality from knocking me too far ever since last Sunday when the
> > murders in Tuscon invaded the news and other parts of life.
> > Then, last night, I learned that a girl on my daughter's
> > cherrleading team had killed herself. Practice is M/W/F at
> > 06:00, so nobody at the high school knew anything until the
> > students were told late yesterday. My daughter wasn't in a good
> > mood last night so we are all waiting for more news.
>
> Phew, that's horrible news. I hope your daughter is well and coping
> with the shock.
Thanks. I think she is doing even better than I am. This hit
all of us closer than anybody wants to admit. It's one thing
when somebody is beat up by fate in his 40s and takes his life;
quite another when it is a 14-year-old. .... I've learned that
the girl kept all her pain in her diary; that nobody else knew
anything.
>
> > There are differences between murders and a suicide, but both
> > are tragic events. ESp'ly when they involve the live s of
> > somebody young. anyway, since Monday I've been thinking of the
> > title: "Miles to go Before I sleep."
>
> Ah, the one and only Robert Frost! I know too well how you feel.
Frost is one of my favorites since I am actually old enough to
remember when he wasstill alive! The entire Sr class had to
remember that poem.
>
> To lighten up your mood, here's a little variation sometimes
> used on answering machines. Last heard on one some 12
> years ago, unless memory fails me:
>
> These words are lovely dark and deep,
> But I've got promises to keep
> And miles to go before I sleep,
> So leave a message at the beep.
>
> Now I lay me down to sleep;
> Leave a message at the beep.
> And if I die before I wake,
> Remember to erase the tape.
Very sharp. Reminds me of a take off on "The Twelve Days of
Christmas" that I was reading off USENET. I almost split a gut
laughing.
gary
PS: hope this gets out; been having troubles with my server when
portupgrade installed bind97. {I think.}
>
> -cpghost.
>
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