Is anyone doing anything to celebrate RDA's birthday tomorrow? I just made a donation to the Waterkeeper Alliance -- something I'd been meaning to do for months but lacked sufficient impulse. Now I've finally accomplished it!

Well theres a scheduled chat tomorrow which is for his birthday.

Is anyone actually planning to attend? I've seen no-one in the chat room during those times when I was able to drop in on either of the last two.

yeah, Ironic isn't it?

I'm planning on dropping in, but I won't be there uintil after 7:00pm MST. I'll chat anyone who's there to listen.

You know you can send him birthday wishes through his fanmail set up at www.rdanderson.com.

Click on interactive, then fanmail, and follow the instructions.

This is the only way he gets fanmail these days, and he actually reads it!

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If I make it into the chatroom today, it will be later in the evening, round 9pmCST.

Foolish people around here don't consider it sufficient reason for a national holiday...

I'll be chatting amongst ya then!

Happy birthday to Rick!!! Have a great one, friend!!!

As far as the chat session is concerned, I should be able to make it. I'm finally getting back in the chatroom on my own PC. So I should be able to make it.

Yes, MGod and Reptile have done a BANG UP job organizing these little chats.

Rocky and I discussed putting up a reminder notice a couple days ago, but decided against, as it's their little project.

I have a feeling either he or I will be doing so in the future, or just wiping those things off the calender.

Are you suggesting we do away with MLK and go with RDA?

Well I wasn't able to make it upon till now. December 14 was an exam day and before that, can't fully remember but I suffered a loss before that. Normally I should be able to come by.

You can always put up reminders, all help is welcome!

Are you suggesting we do away with MLK and go with RDA?

No, we should keep MLK and get rid of one of the others -- I can think of a couple of candidates, but my reasons would qualify as incendiary, so I'll leave it to the imagination.

Better yet, let's just add RDADay as an extra holiday! I'm willing to take another three-day weekend, yasure yabetcha!

OMG ! I missed out on the chat ! I cannot believe I did that ! I seem to remember we had made that decision to have a chat on his birthday. . . Perhaps it is that I am going to school, now ( Monday, Tuesday , and Wednesday ) and so I would have missed it ! But if it was to still have gone on in the evening, . . .OOOoooh, dang burn it ! Don't that beat all ! Is there another chat planned ? When ? I would not want to forget that time . Now that I am going to school, it is so easy to forget such important things, as a simple get together. . . I am so sorry for not being there . I will do better the next time, . . I promise .

Sincerely,
Kate Mackay

OMG ! I missed out on the chat ! I cannot believe I did that ! I seem to remember we had made that decision to have a chat on his birthday. . . Perhaps it is that I am going to school, now ( Monday, Tuesday , and Wednesday ) and so I would have missed it ! But if it was to still have gone on in the evening, . . .OOOoooh, dang burn it ! Don't that beat all ! Is there another chat planned ? When ? I would not want to forget that time . Now that I am going to school, it is so easy to forget such important things, as a simple get together. . . I am so sorry for not being there . I will do better the next time, . . I promise .

Sincerely,
Kate Mackay

You didn't miss anything. I wonder who's been there. I just logged in for the 2nd time and no one was there. But our next chat should be on February 3 for Jack Dalton's birthday.

Actually she did miss it.

I logged in twice during and found Ratty, MacNymph, Macgyv, Mser the first time and Beth, Loth and Grrl the second time, which was in the evening.

Kate: Go and look at the chat page, all the scheduled chat information is on there.

He said he just logged in. That would make him a day late and *fill in the blank* short.

I bopped in and out four different times yesterday and would say I came across 10-12 different people.

Yeah, and one of the times you bopped out, you almost bopped me on the nose as I came in. Who would ever have thought chatting could be so dangerous?

For all of you who missed the fun, we found the lost chord, cured cancer, recalculated e to its final digit, determined how many MacGyvers can dance on the head of a pin, and conclusively proved that Windows Vista is evil.

Yeah we did, so some of you did miss it. I distinctly remember saying that I was coming if I could and if I was coming, that it would be at a certain time. You can use any simple time conversion to figure out the difference between time zones.

Those of us who where there had a great time. I stayed me and Beth stayed til last call, so to speak. Paying a sleep deprived hangover price earlier today but 2 mochas and a Coke later.............I'm good. Even scored cudos from my boss for making a minor but irritating problem go away. Hey might even get a little performance incentive award for the solution.

So yeah MG, you did miss a few things.

So, who's playing for the next one?

Although Rocky did complain that he had to use a time machine, since from his point of view, the chat had occurred the day before.

And he wouldn't share his time machine either, the meanie.

yeah..........its not like we are going to go back and change history or anything.......adjust it a little, maybe

All I wanted to do was check the fabric of space-time and maybe darn a couple of holes . . . put in a few darts . . . take it in here and there so it fits better . . . and really, those shoulder pads have got to go . . .

Agreed. Bye Bye shoulder pads .

And just in case anyone is wondering how many MacGyvers can dance on the head of a pin . . .

There's only one MacGyver. So the answer is "one".

Whatever I missed, I'll gain it next week. February 3 is a Sunday if I'm correct.