Cathy , you very correct. After the eye operations , I am able to see ! But.... I have to go back over the sentance several times to correct my most eggregious mis-spellings, and as you said indeed... pactice pactice partice. Silverheels, talbot10, brink, charlene, Sheryl, you are most kind and intuitive. Sorry if i miised one or 2 . It is hard to wake up, remember my name with varying difficulty, then desperately try and figure out what day it is, what bills are due, and then after hugging my wife for what must be a full minute not remember how we did the day before. Then go outside and and my next door neighboor's 11 year -old daughter runs up and hugs me and says "Hi Steve!", and I cannot remember her name, though i have seen her thru emergancies and we've baby-sat her as she was growing up for a long time. She knows I cannot remember, but it still brings tears to my eyes. I say this not to draw undue attention to my particular challenges ( I know we all havesome....) but rather to reflect for no good reason what the kind... and otherwise postings brought to mind in my non-sequiter fashion. In My Fashion ! hey , cool. I got one 2 ! to the above kind ppl who responded so nice, I ca't thank you enough. I am begininng toi think I may be in over my head in this forum and its quick-witted majority and sharp-tongued minority. From private postings i know that many of you are recovering or did... from tragic medical events, and I am by no means special or big news. I just thank you for the comradeship. Perhaps when I can indent, make it "more easy to read on the eyes" , seperate into logical paragraphs, etc., then it may be more appropriate to return to this room. I am not meaning to be pathetic sounding, just express heartfelt regret. btw - i just remembered i have a spell-checker ! easy to take such things for granted. Thank for the thoughgtful compliments on some of my content I've written about. As to verbosity, I must apologise and explain briefly. Setting aside my overly-academic background lacking balance, really it comes from humorously listening to dinner table conversations while being raised by absolutely magnificent parents -Ward and Jone Cleaver DO exist ! LOL seriously, Dad is now retired from NASA whwere he was Director of Unmanned Launch Vehicles. He rebuilt the originally trashed Atlas rocket, and built another from scratch - the Centaur. This Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle propelled countless inter-planetary spacecraft into trajectory such as the lunar Surveyor, Viking (the real fist Mars soft Lander !)Mariner, Voyageur ("VYGA from Star Trek One), OAO with Germany , Helios - to the Sun, and countless others. He'd scratch out launch trajectorie and new theory on napkins at dinner, while Mom - a psychologist, who worked in research, would wax enthusiastic on new machines her and Dad were going to build together.....in those days dad would do all intial computations on sliderule, and then do days-upon-days chekcs with original analogue punch-card driven computers. point being..... they spoke in a language I enthusiastically learned so I could ask reasonably intelligent questions for fun. Dinner was moreof a think tank (for them), and an amazement and idolizing of them for me. so... as u can imagine, with a father who wrote IQ tests for CU-Boulder when he taught prior toNASA, and mom who expunged abnormal psychology and theorized it would be found to be bio-chemical abberhations (early insites !) , it wasall i knew as normal to speak in 5, 10, @ $20 dollar words as amatter of routine. been trying all my life to place it in check. well loosing half of my memory helped, butit still burps out at times - and for that I apologize. Perhaps , as I started out to say farther up, maybe I will just lurk awhile to enjoy *your* guys postings on Lightfoot, as thats all i have wanted to share to begin with, or consider getting the bad taste out of my mouth from the very few foul-mouthed ppl who , as far as I can tell, were not this way until I started posting., evidence perhaps being that one perason kindly questioned the room "what has HAPPENED to this forum" with regard, i am sad to say, the ire i seemed to provoke in a few and other who would follow with jeers. its the kind ones i will remember , and believe me - I am SURE Mr, Lightfoot would esily pick out the rainy day people amongst you - didn't take me long. i will once agqain lean back boots on rail, hat down, and ponder all this before posting again for awhile. to those wish to chat - please send me PM's and I'll value them immensely. gots to remember how to typor those full sentences as Cathy put. miss u guys in open exchange for awhile, but the net effect ( no pun) is I have apparently caused more dissension in a room that should be enjoying Gord's work more than condemning or defending me. Ph - and I know that its really only been a small perentage of posting s in the big picture - and Gord talk rules as it should. I have just never had such a problem in a GL room before. I will adjust my attitude first with a hike and some good Gord music, andmy dear wife's company, then look forward to at some point rejoining on more than a lurking basis. in Gord we trust ! - Salute my friends for now ! "her fragrance all... in my keeping" - always thought of this when I caught a citrus waft of fragrance that reminded of my forst love and her perfume, and in turn Gord's "Softly" ".. and it lingered on long after she'd gone..." as wll from "Affair on 8th Ave." . - Peace to all, friends. - Steve geodeticman.
"keep on mappin'"