From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #96 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Saturday, April 11 1998 Volume 03 : Number 096 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: starting...? [DAbbitt32 ] Re: Alloy: Roll Call ["MEYER,ANN ELIZABETH" ] Re: Alloy: Roll Call (Calera, Alabama) ["MEYER,ANN ELIZABETH" Subject: Re: Alloy: starting...? In a message dated 98-04-07 07:41:03 EDT, copse wrote: << ...Tottenham Hotspur - masters of skill and style, beautiful movement (not to mention great upper body strength) ... >> THEN! In a message dated 4/9/98 5:22:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Robin@aol.com wrote: << ... uughhhh (holding my head in my hands) if I read that one more time, my poor husband will have to revive me... Tim, you shouldn't write such things where a fragile creature such as me will read it! "Beautiful movement'!!! *swoon* >> If it helps you fantasize, it's worth saying, I just wanted to let you all know I, myself, had a very "beautiful movement" in the bathroom this morning - right before I took a shower. C'mon, it had to be said. - -Dabb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 14:20:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "MEYER,ANN ELIZABETH" Subject: Re: Alloy: Roll Call Hi, Keith et al.; > Calling Beth Meyer, come in Beth. I just saw on the CNN that the Atlanta area > has been declared a disaster area. > > Please check in and let us know how you are. > -- > Keith Stansell > Denver, CO Thanks very much for your concern! Mark and I are fine, though we did have some interesting times there. Still, we feel extremely fortunate -- a married couple that is on the faculty in our department had three trees fall on their house, and two of the people who were killed were about a ten minute drive from our house. The funny thing is, this huge storm came through on Wednesday night, and I was supposed to turn in the second draft of my dissertation (hopefully the last one) on Thursday. I was about at the point of checking over the pagination when it started getting really violent outside, so I saved the thing to a floppy disk. There were several more things to do, so I was continuing the work, when we started getting some flickering. I decided that it was about time to shut down the computer, finished or not. Of course, Windows takes a little while to shut down, so I was standing there going "come on, hurry up!" as the lightning got worse. Finally, I got the little "It is now safe to turn off your computer" screen, and reached over to flip the switch on the power strip. At the instant I flipped the switch to turn off the computer, the power went off and the whole house went dark. Our power was off until Thursday night. Thank God for that floppy! Thanks to that diskette and our backup tapes (which contained had some files with figures that I still needed to change), I was able to finish the work at school during the day on Thursday, print out the revised dissertation, and turn it in as planned. Our other excitement was caused by the fact that one of our neighbor's 30-foot Bradford pear trees fell onto our driveway, knocking down several power, phone and cable lines in its path. Another tree in our front yard was broken, but it is leaning away from the house, so it shouldn't be a problem. What may be more of a problem was that this huge branch, 20 feet long and bigger in diameter than my arms, impaled our air conditioning unit. We haven't tested it yet (it's been rather cool since the storm), but that could get very expensive. And air conditioning in Atlanta is NOT optional! So basically, we're fine, we just have to drive carefully around our neighbor's tree and possibly dig up at least $1000 for a new air conditioning unit. Considering what a lot of other people had to deal with, we feel very lucky. I used to live in one of the neighborhoods that got hit really hard, where one person died and where (U.S. Vice President) Al Gore is coming to inspect the damage. I know, it's a long answer to a short question, but I thought it made for a good story :-) Cheers, Beth - --------------------------------------------------------------- Beth Meyer School of Psychology Pager: +1-404-866-1362 Georgia Institute of Technology Fax: +1-404-894-8905 Atlanta, GA 30332-0170 bmeyer@psy.psych.gatech.edu http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt9020a ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 15:58:07 -0400 (EDT) From: "MEYER,ANN ELIZABETH" Subject: Re: Alloy: Roll Call (Calera, Alabama) Hi, folks; After dashing off that last message, I realized that there was at least one other Alloy member threatened by the big storms and tornados that just swept through the Southeast. Though you normally keep sort of quiet, Mark (aka PROCAT1), could you let us know if you are OK? The biggest death toll was in Alabama, in a line going east to west in the Birmingham area -- and Calera, Alabama (Mark's town) is about 30 miles south of Birmingham. By the way, if anyone wants more details about what happened here, they are available at www.cnn.com. Of course, since CNN is based in Atlanta, they were able to get lots of pictures and video! Oh, I should clarify one thing from my last message -- no-one was killed by the three trees that fell on the house of the faculty couple in our department. They are fine. (I strung two unrelated facts into the same sentence.) Cheers, Beth - --------------------------------------------------------------- Beth Meyer School of Psychology Pager: +1-404-866-1362 Georgia Institute of Technology Fax: +1-404-894-8905 Atlanta, GA 30332-0170 bmeyer@psy.psych.gatech.edu http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt9020a ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #96 **************************