Kief Morris typed the following: >Andrew C. Oliver typed the following on 06:10 PM 1/6/2002 -0500 >>YANKEES PLEASE READ THIS: >> >>Please come get your white stuff off of the ground and take it back up >>North where it belongs. We have no need for it here in the South. > Yeah? Try it here in Istanbul! I crowed to all my friends back in > London > about how I was leaving crappy weather behind me when I moved here, > and now it's been snowing for 3 days, expected to continue until next > weekend. Sheesh! (Actually, I love snow. So the weather's still better > here, it never snowed worth a damn back there!)
If the North Carolina economy (its worse here than elsewhere in the US because Nortel, Cisco, Ericsson, IBM, MCI, etc are all major employers who just canned lots of Java geeks) doesn't get much better I might just move to Istanbul. (j/k) It only snowed for 2 days here, but you must understand. If you live somewhere where it doesn't usually snow, you're screwed when it does (I have no idea what the weather is like in Istanbul, I was rather surprised to learn it snows there...). They have maybe 2 snow plows in the whole state (okay a little exaggeration, its gotten better since we had that 20" snow come down over night a few years ago) and they don't treat the roads. To illustrate this, I drove my car up from Virginia to Pennsylvania with no problem in a snow storm. You're thinking so what....I drive a Miata (aka Mazda MX-5: 2 seater about the size of a Opal, convertible sporty little thing but no traction 300 lb wait limit). Here it will be a week before I dare drive again (good thing I have no where to go ;-p). They salt, cinder and plow the roads up there. Here...we're stuck. Everything shuts down. Lastly, guess where I grew up: Florida. It snowed once the entire time I lived there and it melted 5 minutes after it hit the ground! (Hurricanes don't really bother me). So... I want the yankees to take their snow home with them. :-D Thanks BTW for the vote of confidence. I'll tell you who is sticking a big "-1" in POI right now.... SOURCEFORGE. They always go down at the WORST possible time. Thanks to them, I did catch up on my email mostly. -Andy > Kief -- YANKEES PLEASE READ THIS: Please come get your white stuff off of the ground and take it back up North where it belongs. We have no need for it here in the South. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
