[ale] Semi-OT: I'm changing my name to Griswald...

Robert L. Harris Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net
Wed Feb 12 11:01:50 EST 2003



Um, go hang out with you guys for a couple hours is great and I was
really looking forward to it, but not at the cost of sleeping on a cold
couch for a few weeks for making her wait to move into her new house...



Thus spake Dow Hurst (dhurst at kennesaw.edu):

> Why not put off the move for one day and enjoy the life the rest of us 
> lead? :-)
> Dow
> 
> 
> Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> > The jokes about traveling with me are a standing thing in my family.
> >ANY time I take any kind of trip of consequence, especially flying,
> >SOMETHING happens.  We were going to fly to a very small town in Alabama
> >that NEVER has a full flight.  My inlaws have been flying there for 7
> >years and never seen a flight more than 3/4 full.  I go to the airport
> >and it seems a tropical storm in Florida has blocked out an airport and
> >everyone going to Panama City is flying to Dothan Alabama instead since
> >it's only a 4 hour drive from Panama... Of course.
> >
> > Trips to Florida to visit my family end up with a hurricane hitting
> >out of nowhere, trips to Vegas involve bizzare weather, flight patterns,
> >etc, you name it.
> >
> > Crap like that always happens.  Even with just daily life.  Went to
> >buy a house and closing was yesterday.  Almost walked a way from it
> >because of the crap with the lawer that "Never Happens" according to the
> >mortgage broker.  Knowing my luck and the rep this broker has with our
> >family I believed him though and put up with everything.
> >
> > Well, we were scheduled to move in on Friday afternoon.  Sweet, that
> >means we can go to the Key Signing Party (My wife was going as well out
> >of some kinda morbid curiosity like you go to the zoo to watch polar
> >bears swim in ice water)...  Crap.  It turns out the other family is
> >going to be out at Noon on Thurs so we're moving thursday instead.
> >Blah.  Getting out of my in-laws spare room and a quarter and into our
> >own house has over ridden the ale meeting.
> >
> > In the next two years we're gonna take a European Vacation, I'm
> >gonna change my name to griswald and have National Lampoon credits put
> >on my tombstone.  Hell, why not.
> >
> >So much for that meeting :<
> > Robert
> >
> >
> >:wq!
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> >Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: E344DA3B
> >                                        @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu 
> >DISCLAIMER:
> >     These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> >FYI:
> >perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> >
> > 
> >
> 
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:wq!
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Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: E344DA3B
                                         @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu 
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'


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