"songbird" wrote:
Dan L wrote:

...private e-mail would be more appropriate for this DanL...


Songbird are you a techie also?

yes, i went up there for a 4yr degree and stayed 15 years. then i went
to the hills of eastern TN for a few
years, then OH for a few more and then back here where most of my family is.


I am in the Port Huron area, getting about 6 inches of show today.

we didn't get that much, but i was glad to see it
covering the ground (insulates the plants from
the hard freeze and helps even out the temperature
so freeze/thaw cycles don't heave the plants out
of the ground).


Nothing compared to the Upper Peninsula. I remember the white outs,
could not see the hand in front of my face, it snowed so hard.

i used to go out and walk in blizzards (if you wear the
right stuff it's not as bad as it sounds). i loved that raw
feeling of things howling all around me. still though i think my
favorite times were walking when the lake effect
snow was coming down on calm nights (very very few
when the wind wasn't whipping down the canal) you could
look up and see the stars and the moon and there'd be
no clouds but snow would be floating down all around.
sometimes it even made a whispering sound.


The two
years there averaged around 300 inches. I ran out of money and
finished my degree at Wayne State, could live at home and go to the
University. I still under estimate the cost of things.

the statement i made originally said 220+ inches, but that
was a typo, it was over 330 inches that year.


I admit I do not think of the past often, it was 35 years ago. I sit
here and all I can remember was the Dorm name, Douglas Houghton Hall.
I do not even remember the theater or the bars names. It was mostly
go to class, study, sleep, no other life. I stayed to my self most of
the time. People came and went, never really met anyone. Since I had
an Amateur Radio License, They let me operate the local Radio Station
once in while on the top floor of the dorm.

i lived in DHH the entire time i was on campus (7 or 8 years total)
including parts of the summers when nobody else was around . that place
has a wonderful basement for walking through when all the lights are off.
the ice machine in the laundry room scared the crap outta me more times
than i can remember.

there was more than one radio station on campus
when i was there (WGGL public radio running out of
the ROTC building -- and the other station run by
students in Wadsworth Hall that was a place i never
actually went to). i don't recall a station in DHH, but
that could have happened and then moved before
my time. looks like you were there a few years before
me. things have changed quite a bit since i left.
we wandered through two summers ago as they were
in the middle of redoing downtown Houghton streets.

Remember, my goal in life is to be a hermit

who writes to worldwide usenet groups.


songbird

Posting an email address on the usenet is just as bad. My real name is not
Dan or Nad. I have been on use net since the late seventies. I learn a bad
lesson when I first posted my email address. I was getting like 300 junk
mail postings a day. I could not use my computer at all, then it was
dial-up. Had to get a new address and dial in account. So I tend to keep
things in general terms here. I like to keep my distance

DHH... the basement where the laundry rooms were and playing ping-pong or
watching tv with a dozen others. I also liked the CO-ED sauna, it was real
small
HHD hall had real fireplaces in the main rooms gave the place a cozy
atmosphere.

Wadsworth, now I remember the name. I knew a couple of people their,
swapped albums with others. The only thing I like about Wadsworth was the
cafeteria opened until 9pm.

It did not seem that cold. I remember the sound of crunch crunch of walking
on the snow. Large bulldozers for snow removal. Could read a newspaper late
at night with ease with all the snow reflecting the smallest of light.

They may have moved the radio station years later. It was in a small room
on the top floor. The only fun I had there was the station. But I did not
use it more than once a month.

If I had the money I would have stayed it was a First Rate University.
Wayne State was not that bad also and cost less and more convenient.

Small world after all. Won't find an email on one of several web sites I
have.
Usenet is the closet to being public for me. I do maintain family contacts.
Christmas time will be dozens of family members getting together.
Being a hermit is a goal, so far I am a failure at it

Tennessee huh, i know people from Grundy county. Outside of Chattanooga.
That place has really changed over the years. Where old country log cabin
homes use to be are now huge mansions. The only thing in Ohio worth going
to is Cedar Point.

The world is just way to small. I admit I am keeping my email address and I
have a dozen of them, sorry. I am keeping my distance

http://www.nadrhel.com/

--
Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)