From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 21:43:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB77106564A for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:43:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B1868FC08 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 65B0BE80C72; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:56:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:56:53 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: "C. P. Ghost" Message-ID: <20110119215653.GA16600@thought.org> References: <20110114193206.GA6200@thought.org> <20110114194807.GC82276@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20110114212042.GB7557@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: a few Last qstns on the wordpress installation.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:43:53 -0000 On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:34:40PM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > >        I've been trying my level best to keep the sharks'teeth of > >        reality from knocking me too far ever since last Sunday when the > >        murders in Tuscon invaded the news and other parts of life. > >        Then, last night, I learned that a girl on my daughter's > >        cherrleading team had killed herself.  Practice is M/W/F at > >        06:00, so nobody at the high school knew anything until the > >        students were told late yesterday.  My daughter wasn't in a good > >        mood last night so we are all waiting for more news. > > Phew, that's horrible news. I hope your daughter is well and coping > with the shock. Thanks. I think she is doing even better than I am. This hit all of us closer than anybody wants to admit. It's one thing when somebody is beat up by fate in his 40s and takes his life; quite another when it is a 14-year-old. .... I've learned that the girl kept all her pain in her diary; that nobody else knew anything. > > >        There are differences between murders and a suicide, but both > >        are tragic events.  ESp'ly when they involve the live s of > >        somebody young.  anyway, since Monday I've been thinking of the > >        title: "Miles to go Before I sleep." > > Ah, the one and only Robert Frost! I know too well how you feel. Frost is one of my favorites since I am actually old enough to remember when he wasstill alive! The entire Sr class had to remember that poem. > > To lighten up your mood, here's a little variation sometimes > used on answering machines. Last heard on one some 12 > years ago, unless memory fails me: > > These words are lovely dark and deep, > But I've got promises to keep > And miles to go before I sleep, > So leave a message at the beep. > > Now I lay me down to sleep; > Leave a message at the beep. > And if I die before I wake, > Remember to erase the tape. Very sharp. Reminds me of a take off on "The Twelve Days of Christmas" that I was reading off USENET. I almost split a gut laughing. gary PS: hope this gets out; been having troubles with my server when portupgrade installed bind97. {I think.} > > -cpghost. > > -- > Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.97a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org