TheBanyanTree: My, how time flies!

[Jan Denke]

I know I'm way late with this, but I thought I'd go ahead and add my two 
cents worth anyway...

I found the Spoon in December of 1996...Back then there was this thing 
called, "Message in a Bottle", going around the internet so I put my message 
in a bottle and tossed it out into cyberspace...Wes was the one who found 
it...I don't even remember now what my message said, but Wes responded and 
invited me to drop by the Spoon...So I did just days before I was going to 
be going into the hospital to have my first total knee replacement done...So 
I ended up unsubscribing right away until I was home from the hospital and 
was able to spend time sitting at my computer again...

I was mostly a fern lurker just like I'm a hider behind the leaves here, but 
I so enjoyed reading everyone's posts to the Spoon just as I do now here on 
the Tree...I got acquainted with quite a few of the list members by 
privately responding to their posts...I also participated in the Spoon chat 
room so was able to get even better acquainted with the people who stopped 
in there on a regular basis...

That all seems so long ago now...When Wes decided to close the doors of the 
Spoon, I was grief stricken although I really should have seen it coming, 
especially after YB passed away...But I didn't so I was in a state of shock 
when that announcement came...I didn't join the Tree right away 'cuz I 
didn't think anything could ever be like the Spoon again...I don't remember 
how long it was before I found my way to the Tree...Acutally, it's all 
Sachet's fault...She and I had been e-mailing back and forth and I had been 
asking her questions about the Tree and waffling back and forth as to 
whether or not I wanted to join the list or not...Finally she just took the 
ball out of my hands and said, "There! It's done! I've subscribed you!" And 
that was that...I've pretty much been here ever since then, except for a 
momentary lull when I left Rapid City and moved to Lincoln, NE, but I had 
Paul resubscribe me just as soon as my computer was up and running again...

For those of you who know and remember me and for those of you who don't, 
I'm no longer a city bus driver...I'm no longer living in Lincoln, NE 
either...I'm now living in Mitchell, SD...Sheesh! I've gone throgh three 
moves in less than a year so I hope this last move will be my last...

I haven't worked since I left my job in Rapid City back in October...I've 
applied for disability and am waiting to see if I'll be approved for that or 
not...Mitchell is even smaller than Rapid City is so there really aren't 
very many job opportunities here for a person of my age, etc.

Anyway...I really enjoyed reading all the tributes to Spoon and everyone's 
memories of it...There'll never be another Spoon, but the Tree sure does run 
a real close second! Thanks to Paul and everyone else who has made having 
this list possible...I don't say much very often, but I'm up there on my 
branch watching and listening

Take care everyone...Talk to ya all later...

Hugs,
Jan


> >   Way back in 2000, after a couple of weeks lead time, on March the 
>first,
>Wes
> > said "Tonight at 5pm PST, the Spoon, after a four year run will close 
>it's
> > doors."
> >
> >   And so it was.
> >
> >   A few of us had been playing with settings on OneList and we created
> > TheBanyanTree.  Perhaps to keep some of Spoon alive.  Perhaps to have a
>place
> > where we could keep telling stories.  Perhaps to move on to another 
>place.
> > There were lots of reasons.
> >
> >   OneList was bought by eGroups, eGroups was swallowed by Yahoo!, and
>being
> > tired of the ads popping up while trying to do anything 
>"administrative",
> > about a year ago I moved the Tree to my domain.
> >
> >   TheBanyanTree officially opened March 1, 2000.
> >
> >
> >   And now, we are four.
> >
> >
> >
> >   That's my story.  What's yours?
> >
> >
> >
> > paul
> >
> > _____________________________________
> >    http://remsset.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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