From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V19 #253 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, January 29 2014 Volume 19 : Number 253 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: I really miss this list [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:38:50 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: I really miss this list I like very much the past tense on that "going poorly" clause, Rex. Glad to hear things are (presumably) going at least somewhat better. As for the axe-grinding bastards: life's too short not to block them even if you only check back in to Facebook once a month or so. On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rex Broome wrote: > Facebook is fine (sort of) when your life is relatively in order and you > can afford to be charming and clever in small pithy doses. > > When your life's going poorly, as mine had been for some time, it's just a > nightmare. > > It might sound like paranoia to say this, but even when you disengage > almost completely from the damned thing, you find that, on a monthly basis, > people with axes to grind are taking small innocent snippets about you > posted by generally well-meaning others and using them as ammunition to > further complicate your already beleaguered life. I've grown so, so very > sick of this happening. > > I heartily apologize to all of you who are over there for having become > such a nonentity. I guess that even the lure of my treasured fegly > friendships, mitigated as they are by the nature of the venue, tends not to > be enough to entice me to dip so much as a toe back into those fetid and > befouled waters... I'm sorry for that. > > I was never especially esteemed for my pith anyway, I guess! > > Love on ya, > Rex > On Jan 28, 2014 12:22 PM, "Aaron Lowe" wrote: > > > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 9:08:14am Vivien Lyon wrote: > > > I miss the list, too. It's not an exaggeration to say that it changed > > my > > > life in profound ways. > > > > I agree wholeheartedly. I guess Ib m just an old guy set in my ways, > > but keeping up with email is hardwired into my brane at this > > point, but I donb t log into Facebook more than a couple of times a > > week, other than checking for messages/comments on my > > businessb Facebook page (a necessary evil). > > > > Hell, the listserv is still here, and obviously still functioning, so > > letb s use it. Ib m in. > - -- ...Jeff Norman Of the Milwaukee ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V19 #253 ********************************