The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...

[Ramius]

Then I guess I won't have to share why my college name was "Dahoud of the Desert". Good thing, that.

[Wneighbor]

If you're going to share names you have to tell how you got 'em!

[Fedora]

PS: Wasn't Torgo from Manos: The Hand of Fate helping manage the phones for the pledge drive?

[Ramius]

I don't really remember the whole story.

[Rose in RoseBear]

Ecurbh! You have email!

[Wneighbor]

Oh, yeah, right. The least you could do is freepmail it to me! :-)

Please.

*wink*

Or do you think it's something I just don't want to hear?

[Wneighbor]

Hi Rose!!

Are ya'll feeling better? I just found out last night that you'd both been down.

[Rose in RoseBear]

Yep! My voice doesn't sound all I'm-all-congested-now, which is what I sounded like the minute I started feeling better physically.

And how are you?

[Ramius]

No, I'm really saying I don't remember the circumstances whereabout that name stuck... honest. All I know is that it involved a *whole* lot of tequila and my other bud was named "Mandrew of the Mountain" for reasons that are equally unclear.

It's not my fault... :-)

[Rose in RoseBear]

<eyeing you askance>

Master Sea-man, that sounds like a very shaggy dog story in and of itself!

[Wneighbor]

Well, I am good. I haven't been sick. Glad to hear you're feeling better physically and that your voice is better. I am completely enjoying this springtime weather! It has been beautiful here for a week! :-)

[Wneighbor]

LOL.... not your fault huh? Now, I'm really curious! Nobody said anything about fault. :-)

So, does this have to do with your aversion to tequila? That lovely liquid of the Gods? hmmmm?

[Rose in RoseBear]

<eyeing you askance too>

Since no one asked, my other name is Raylene Antoniette McVeigh ... but I was very young when I made that one up.

<smiling, pleased, as I participate in the general discussion here>

[Wneighbor]

Master Sea-man, that sounds like a very shaggy dog story in and of itself!

I think you hit the nail on the head Miss Rose! :-)

hehehe

[Ramius]

There were no dogs present that I recall, shaggy or otherwise. :-)

Enormous quanties of alcohol may not be a legal excuse for laws bent or broken... but it *is* a plausible explanation for same.

By way of explanation... there are whole *months* of the year 1982 that I don't really have recall. There are really just frames of moments. Some or most of which are not suitable for mixed company. :-)

[Wneighbor]

Hiya Raylene!!!

When I used to write.... years and years ago.... I went by the name Dixie Darlen. :-)

For a time Myranda picked up on that and adopted the name Daisy Darlen for herself. :-)

[Fedora]

Glad to hear you're feeling better, Rose! :)

[300winmag]

Here's an email I got from a non-FR email list I'm on. It's from a recently-retired Army engineer officer, who received one of our HH knives.

From: Bruce O. Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:41:42 -0600 Subject: RE: Hobbit Hole knife update

Rick -- have you ever considered obtaining a quantity of the knives that are confiscated by the TSA at airports? Somewhere I read that TSA sells them by lots somehow (IIRC I've even received spam offering them for sale). I know that someone out there got my $60 pocket knife and Leatherman Micro from the Philly airport. Perhaps you might be able to get them at no or dramatically reduced prices . . . granted, you won't have control over what is in the box, but you might be able to get them cheap.

I do have a CPT and 2 x LTs at Ft. McCoy - deploying to Afghanistan for a year within a matter of weeks if you'd consider sending them one.

BTW, the guys from the XYZth Engineer Battalion in Kuwait asked me to pass on a hearty thank you for the 5 you sent them!

[Rose in RoseBear]

It's been raining down here ... but as long as I don't have to walk around in it, I don't mind.

It's good for the trees. I like this time of year, with everything budding and flowering and growing like mad. it's soooo pretty ...!

[Wneighbor]

Enormous quanties of alcohol may not be a legal excuse for laws bent or broken... but it *is* a plausible explanation for same. By way of explanation... there are whole *months* of the year 1982 that I don't really have recall. There are really just frames of moments. Some or most of which are not suitable for mixed company. :-)

What laws honey?