At 01:24 �� 3/7/2002, you wrote:
>Hi Phoebus, > >Glad to hear you decided to return to the US - I bet it was a hard descision >eh? :-)) Yes and no... I will surely miss the sea, the good food and my favourite McFarland Red ;) as well as my friends (and football on free TV ;-) but I also missed my high-speed Internet connection and my house as well as the practically zero traffic and the rest of the family (as well as my QL and Archie of course ;-). At least I relaxed this time around :-) >Sorry I couldn't make it out to Greece in the end, but finances and >Girlfriend troubles wouldn't allow it at the time :-( > >Maybe next year..... You'd better ;-) You missed on some VERY "fulfilling" evenings with LOTS of food and drink (needless to say I came back 7 pounds heavier) -Now factor in that I was swimming for hours everyday and see how much I should have gained otherwise ;-)))) >As for the US Show, yep - it was fun. It was in a nice hotel with a pool >(great!) and we had a great time. Nasta showed us his scematics for the >layout of the Goldfire during a talk about it, on an LCD projector. I gave >the first public screening of the QL 2002 DVD and it went down extremely >well - the room seemed pretty full during it. Herb Schaff gave an excellent >graphics demo using his Aurora, based on his "gee, graphics" articles in Ql >Today, and there was also a ready good update from Jim Hunkins on QDT - the >QL desktop. It seems to be coming along in leaps and bounds and its too far >away from a beta version being distributed to certain people. > >Piles of stuff going on - including a virtual D&D Systems stall - they >weren't there but had an information board on display and order forms for >the Q60. Doug la Verne had a pair of faulty disk drives and there were >plenty of experts there to help him out. Steve Reyal and myself also shot >about an hour of footage for the next DVD release so the Europeans can see >what goes on at a US Show. Nice to see a few of them showed up there and >made the journey across - Robin Barker was there as was Alex Wells, and a >good mix of the American users. > >Next one is either in Florida or California - I think the former was the >preferred option. Maybe we should start a petition to get the date moved so >you can be there next year?? Hmmm I think that June is the best time for most US users as it's not high season and things are more easy going before the 4th of July... but who am I to argue? ;-) Florida or California btw will be unbearable for most Europeans (even for me being from a place with REALLY HOT weather -esp. Florida which is hot AND too humid for my taste) at that time of year though side attractions are a plus (hmmmm Marcel, fancy some extravagant roller coasters?). I do think New England (on this side of things ie the East Coast) is better or an respectively Northern side on the West Coast (maybe Washington State?) weatherwise... >Btw, Did you get the bank draft I sent to Greece? Yes I did, (the same World Cup syndrome I guess) before I left Greece (Cashed it yesterday too :-) Cheers (hic!) - Still recovering from my (not so) wild nights, Phoebus
