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So what is going on with JT?

Does she live near you?  Have you seen each other lately?

I'm interested in how your correspondences are going - and I'm glad you 
are so happy.

Bella Donna

"Do you want fries with that?" - some idiot

"Only drooling morons spell it donut" - some other "whining" drooling idiot

And whatta we get folks? - too many bloody idiots in ASH :o)

Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
> (TMI alert, but this is like a romantic sonnet, so who really cares?)
> 
> With my recent revival from emotional death, caused by the wonderful
> time I had with JT on the day we met (6.3.9), I've been crying every
> time I heard the song that has lyrics "I'll be looking at the Moon, but
> I'll be seeing you", and crying when I hear it in my head even when
> it's not on the radio. Keep that thought in your head because it hits
> me smack in the side of the head like that Dean Martin song later in
> this narrative.
> 
> Thanks to JT, last night before the SNL rerun I had an inspiration:
> Among my appx. 20 major inventions, each of which should be sufficient
> to earn me a million dollars if only I could get it marketed, there are
> two that would be especially timely right now if only I could find some
> help developing and marketing them. So I began composing a listing of
> them as the basis of an article I planned to post to some newsgroups as
> soon as I had finished. In the process of that composition, I thought
> of several others of my inventions that would also be timely now, and
> the list grew to 6 major inventions with several sub-inventions of some
> of them.
> 
> But I didn't post it before bedtime, because while I was working on
> that task, I had a second inspiration, a more urgent task to complete
> that night: Make a private Web page that organizes all the information
> about me that JT needs to know, such as my schedule and my contact
> informtion, and send her e-mail with link to it, instead of my previous
> practice of sending her reams of linear text e-mail that have been a
> burden for her to handle. So after finishing the invention-list but
> before posting it, I started this more urgent task, and once again my
> thoughts were interrupted by another task. I made a list of the women I
> would most like to meet in person or see again after meeting
> previously. I finished the basic list of those women, in four
> categories, but again left it not-posted as I returned to the most
> urgent task. I finally finished the JT WebPage and e-mailed the URL to
> JT at about 4 AM, and went to bed, hoping to sleep in late.
> 
> No way! 
> 
> Instead, I woke up at morning light, then tried to get back to sleep,
> but couldn't, and finally I gave up and got out of bed just before
> 6:40, i.e. I had only about two hours sleep after accounting for the
> time it took me to get to sleep and the time after I woke up before I
> checked the time.
> 
> The first thing I did after checking the time was to look out the
> window to see the daylight that had woken me up. Immediately I saw the
> Moon as clear as day, with its arms open as if they were JT's arms
> waiting to give me another extremely-long hug, and the song came true.
> I really did "see JT" literally while looking at the Moon. Then I
> turned on the radio, and the first song KCEA played was:
>    6:41 am - The Clark Sisters - Don't Be That Way (perfect for my lovemood!)
> As I composed the above message, KCEA also played this fine music:
>    6:44 am - Harry Goldson Big Band - Two O'clock Jump (actually OK version!)
>    6:51 am - June Cristy - Midnight Sun (sounds like "cloy lane", why??)
>    6:56 am - Englebert Wrobel with Bob Barnard, Chris Hopkins a -
>      Shreveport Stomp (actually a new-orleans piano "rag"!)
>    7:04 am - Benny Goodman Orchestra v:Dottie Reid - I'm Gonna Love That
>      Guy ("like he's never been loved before", which is how JT did me!!)
>    7:17 am - Dick Jerjens Orchestra v:Eddie Howard - Careless ("you break
>      appointments and don't care, next you'll probably break my heart",
>      good dedication for certain women I know)
>    7:22 am - Lionell Hampton - Dinah (nice to hear)
>    7:25 am - Lionel Hampton - When the Lights Are Low (even better!) 
>    7:27 am - Red Norvo's Swing Octet - Knockin' On Wood (3 good vibes in a row!)
> That's all the really good stuff played up to the point where I'm ready
> to post. (It makes text-editing rather a pleasant task to hear such
> fine music while working!) Locally I'm keeping a complete list of all
> my favorites that KCEA plays while I happen to be listening, and if
> anyone requests that data then I'll upload it to a Web page and post
> the URL as a followup and then update the Web page from time to time as
> local data accumulates.
> 
> ObShy: Before JT revived me, I was too shy to post here. But now I'm as
> lively as I was back in 1999 when a cute chick blatantly flirted with
> me, right behind the view of her boyfriend as they were walking past
> the front of the car I was in, in response to my staring at her as she
> walked by. This past Thursday at GCC I hugged Dave's new girlfriend and
> kissed her on the cheek right in front of him
>   (honestly, when I saw her looking so cute I totally forget she was
>   his girlfriend, and asked her for permission for hug, and she said
>   "yes", so I'm innocent, right?)
> and he sure made a fuss. But it sure was fun finally getting his
> comeuppance!!!!!
> 
> ObHack: I invented that new way of indenting parenthetical expressions
> just a couple days ago, thanks to JT's firing up of my emotions. I
> think it makes it much easier to visually track such very-large
> parenthetical expressions, and it works even better for nested
> expressions!!
> 
> ObPrettyprint(Lisp/C/Java): You-all know where I got the idea, right?
> 
> ObBroadcast: KCEA's near-real-time listing of all "automation" music is
> finally working, and really does add to the listening pleasure. One
> glitch: At the top of each hour, the upcoming listing after the hour
> shows what would have been played if the same sequence had been
> continued, but most times KCEA's master computer switches to a
> different sequence, so what's actually played is totlally wrong from
> what was promised across the top-of-the-hour "event horizon". Is there
> anybody else who has noticed this recurrent glitch?
> 
> As I finish composing this newsgroup article:
>                              Currently Playing:
>    7:57 am - The Syd Lawrence Orchestra - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
>                                  Coming Up:
>    8:01 am - Les and Larry Elgart - I'll Be Seeing You (Speak of the Devil!!!)
>    8:03 am - Earth and Sky - Earth and Sky Sunday Mar 19, 2006
>    8:05 am - Ruby Murray - Mr. Wonderful
>    8:08 am - Denny Farrell - Denny Farrell Friday
>    8:08 am - The McGuire Sisters - Chances Are
> I bet you ten quatloos they'll switch programs at 8AM and not play the
> song whose theme inspired me to write this article. Since Earth and Sky
> is announced as exactly 8 AM and 4(?) PM every day, not the odd time
> shown by the automated listing, I predict they'll simply skip the theme
> of this article, do Earth and Sky as they should, then it's potluck
> what comes after it. I'll wait until the top-of-hour passes and include
> the answer here ... any moment now ... sure enough, here's what
> actually happened:
>                               Played Recently:
>    7:57 am - The Syd Lawrence Orchestra - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
>    8:01 am - Earth and Sky - Earth and Sky Sunday Mar 19, 2006
>    8:03 am - Ruby Murray - Mr. Wonderful
>    8:05 am - Denny Farrell - Denny Farrell Friday
>    8:06 am - The McGuire Sisters - Chances Are
> At least this time they only dropped the one tune they didn't have time for.
> But sometime they switch to a completely different sequence for the new hour.
> 
> ObTalkOrigins: This is only the third Earth and Sky mini-program that
> I've heard so-far, but each of them has been *excellent*. I recommend
> *everyone* listen to these programs because they are very good at
> explaining how science really works. It's somewhat ironic that today's
> morning episode was about the way computer models often disagree with
> what actually happens, with climate modeling in the episode, but
> also slightly applicable to KCEA's top-of-hour glitch. :-)