TheBanyanTree: Still alive, surfacing for a question

[paul]

Hello Nice Lady,

This has been on my to-do list for a few months.

Things happen.

Puppies.  Work.  FarmVille.  Beer.  Cooking.  A little TV.  Laundry.  Planting 
Brandywines and Cherries and jalapenos.  Fixing the push mower with an new 
carburetor.  Same for the riding mower.  (Ethanol in gasoline sucks, it eats the 
rubbery parts in the carburetors.)  Ripping out the central air to a bare 
closet.  Replacing the central air with new air handler inside and a 16 SEER two 
stage heat pump outside.  Doing a bit of duct work that involved moving a 
ceiling joist.  Replacing the copper from  the air handler to the compressor. 
All the electric stuff, including replacing the breakers (which involved pulling 
the meter off of the house).  Taking out the Earth Stove.  Then the ceiling 
needed to be patched and re-textured.  Oh, and let's not forget replacing the 
sheet of roofing metal the chimney went through.  Installing a water softener in 
the pump house with all of _those_ assorted plumbing joys, some yet to be 
completed... like running a drain from the pump house to the so-called creek 
that is really just a ditch caused by erosion... 180 feet of drain.

Ok, I just watched the ceiling being patched.  My sheetrock tape and float 
skills are lacking.  And the roof, I watched the roofer work.  Did all the rest 
myself.

All of the above is a long way to say "I've been busy".  But I haven't forgotten 
you.  How could I ever forget you?


Tell me what needs to be edited.... what name(s) to change...  Then I can send a 
help request to DreamHost and we'll get 'er done.


I have a pellet stove that vents through the wall sitting in the living room 
that is just begging to be installed.  Just as soon as I get the drain done and 
some pipes insulated.  Though there may be a detour that involves covering the 
air ducts in the attic with batts of insulation.  The motor home needs 
attention, too.

Not much moss growing on me....


paul






Tobie Shapiro said the following on 6/28/2012 12:57 PM:
> June 28, 200000000000000000000000000000000000000121212121212121212
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> Dear group of writing fanatics,
> 
>     This is Tobie Shapiro.  Remember me?  I think the last time I was 
> active in here was in 2007 when I sent in an excerpt every day that I 
> called, for want of a better title, "Life Stories_____", and gave them a 
> number.  Of course before the post of the out of order pieces of life 
> memories, I blathered away, much as I am doing now, telling everyone 
> what was going on at the time in my actual non parallel universe life.   
> Then after the two hundred somethingth installment, I suddenly shut up 
> and disappeared, to no one's great alarm or anything.  The alarm went on 
> in my private life.     As it still does.   But much has happened in the 
> positive column as well.
> 
>     However, I'm not going to bother you with that tawdry stuff.   I'm 
> going to come begging for advice.   This is how it is........I got a 
> call from an old and dear friend who had made the awful mistake of 
> googling herself and finding her name attached to some goings on in my 
> Life Stories project.  She contacted me, upset, asking me to remove the 
> reference to her.  Too many people involved, truths revealed, 
> uncomfortable apologies due (I kneed the floor for a few weeks and 
> promised to edit out the personally identifiable text.  I felt terrible 
> about it.....writing as if no one were ever going to read it  (though 
> that is understandable seeing as how I recall posting what I thought 
> were stories as powerful as land mines but much kinder and hearing 
> absolutely not one word from anyone here.  Well, I do that, but that's 
> another story altogether.  None of us is personally like the rest of 
> them impersonally)/
> 
>     I want to correct that piece in the archives.  Is there someone who 
> can tell me how to get that done?  I love my friend and yet, internetly 
> typical, I posted highly personal information for all 7 billion of us to 
> see, with in mind that only two or three people would read it, and of 
> those, maybe .0003% of them would recognize my friend's name, and of 
> those .0003% maybe less than .000000000000000000000000002413% would call 
> up and harass her 30 years after the fact.   Nevertheless, it's the 
> principle of the thing.  And I was what is known as a rat.   So my work 
> is cut out for me.       Can anyone help me out here?   I wrote to Paul 
> a few months ago, but never heard back.  I could have typed too softly.
> 
>                     Say hello to the nice lady.
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>                     Tobie
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> "I'm Jewish.  I have OCD; and I'm not afraid to use it."    THS
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> Tobie Shapiro
> tobie at shpilchas.net
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