On Monday 19 March 2018 08:15:05 Mark wrote: > On 03/18/2018 12:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Yeah, the comp sci was the second bachelors degree. I needed it > >> for the job I had when I was still working as a system and network > >> admin at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC. Sure was happy > >> to leave the DC Metro area for the wilds of Northern Michigan. > >> > >> Mark > > > > Oh, a yooper now? I've spent some time in the Iron Mountain area. > > Winters are bad but its sure is pretty in greenup weather. > > > > No poisonous snakes, but ticks by the ton in warmer weather. And > > since I've met most of the radio eng people up there, I could make a > > nice supplemental income keeping the local radio folks on the air. > > They are hurting for transmitter talent, badly. Because I knew > > something about tv transmitters, I was some sort of a $DIETY to > > them. :) > > Nah, I'm what the Yoopers call a Troll. I live beneath the bridge.
Chuckle... > ;-) I'm a little over an hour south of the Mackinac Bridge just > outside the small town of Grayling Michigan. If thats right on 23, ISTR seeing a sign on a turnoff pointing at Grayling, then I've been by your place on my trips to/from Iron Mountain, several times. Nice drive, low traffic. Low human density. And not as many deer as I expected. Did see a few once I'd turned left north of the bridge on US-2. > We got some rattlers up > here though, along with the ticks, and the Michigan State Bird, the > mosquito. I've fed them, enough to get anemic if I don't eat right. We have copperheads here, so I've not met a rattler locally. But I expect they are about. They are endemic where I was born in Iowa. > Lotsa trees, lotsa wild game, and lotsa fishing. Sportsmans > Paradise. It do get a little chilly in the winter up here though. > ;-) I've experienced some of that too. -25F one night, damned rental jeep's battery expired, had to hoof it back to the motel from the feedbag, about a long mile north of the motel, in better than a foot of fresh snow that was 2+ feet by morning. I had better legs back then though. > Mark > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
