Evening all:
Decided to wait until after the storm of the day at the store to respond.
One of the things I most enjoy about this merry bunch of maids and men is that in the end the marvelous Empire/Commonwealth sense of humour and pluck keeps all of us going.
I am sure it is quite obvious neither Cliff nor I, nor Carmen for that matter, are looking for sympathy. Just explaining why, well at least in Carmen's and my case, we get a bit batty once in a while. We are all adults here (note I did not say mature adults) and we take what we are given and do the best we can with it.
So, enough of that trend of thought.
On a practical note, at least in my case, Pat has convinced me to buy a mini-gym thingie which is recommended to tone up my wearing out parts and get me in a little better shape. As well, my sawbones gave me a link to a sort of "smokers anonymous" web site that she tells me has an amazing success rate. Much as I like my Camels, I am going to give it a shot.
Regarding this particular forum, may I christen it a family, with all due respect to GWB, it is rather small in terms of members in comparison with all of the myriad of military history sites on the web. I see postings on many of those other forums by members of this one and I think they will verify that this one is the closest knit, most genuinely supportive of its membership of pretty much anything out there on the net. I can't really believe I said that.
On to other things. Cliff, may I say in the clear (regarding your PM of yesterday), I would like to offer to send you anything you can use for spares out of my sort of large collection of Tamiya, Italeri and a few other brands of CMP kits. I no longer have the lust to build models, you do, and it might save you some time and money. I know how expensive it is to get stuff cast in resin and I have a lot of complete and partially complete kits that I would really like for you to have to use as you can.
Humour, humour, humour, I am thinking......... Aha I have it.
My scanner took a dump last week and after fiddling around for several days I took it back to the srore where I purchased it.
Turns out it is discontinued (Duuuh) but they had a "floor sample" that had never been turned on and they gave me that one. Got it home tonight and it doesn't work either. Seems the disc I used to install it in the first place may have been bad and the PC does not recognize it and several attempts to reinstall the program have come to nothing. I think I am just going to buy another current model and give the other one up as a bad job.
Last lines, speaking of humour, did any of you bother to watch the first of three (ZZZZZZZ) presidential debates last night between Bush and Kerry. When I lived in Europe, well really Scandinavia, I used to watch the BBC broadcasts of debates in Parliament and was fairly amused. Actually, watching the Swedish Riksdag (Stellan, I may have misspelled the word) was also kind of fun too after I got a feel for the lingo. I think we could take the prize for much ado about nothing though.
Gents and ladies, my meds are putting me down and a couple of draughts of the Scottish elixer are taking their toll as well so I think it is best if I sign off for this one. Unless, of course, someone has a smashing response.
Bill