Subj : Re: Am I the only one dum
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Commodore Clifford
Date : Wed Jul 13 2022 14:55:24

On 11 Jul 22  07:45:00 poindexter FORTRAN wrote...

PF> I was in a well-known local othernet called NIRVANAnet, and we had
PF> quarterly  gettogethers. Good times, those. Finding a restaurant that
PF> can handle a  party of N, where N varies between 2 and 25 was a
PF> challenge.
PF> 
PF> Being a sysop meant getting lots of drinks bought on our behalf, and
PF> we had  a couple of relationships bloom online and at the
PF> gettogethers.

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

For us, the location was an event room at a local nursing home (for the
Fidonet crowd).

Our EC was a guy who was living there, who had been paralyzed due to an
unfortunate accident in his youth (drunk skinny dipping and taking a full
dive in a shallow pond).  Tragic story, but the guy always kept good
spirits about it and the nursing home was really great about supporting
his computer hobbies... and all the visits from the "friends" who would
attend the meetings.

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