Re: [Paddlewise] winter paddling

From: Hank Hays <lhays_at_canby.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 17:00:49 -0800
At 10:20 AM 2/25/98 -0800, Roger Korn wrote:
>Hank Hays wrote:

>> Now that I live here in Oregon (from Chicago), I feel the same way about
>> this place.  It rains a lot here yuh know.  And it's cold, and the indians
>> shoot arrows at you, and I have to send this e-mail by pony express to
>> Denver before it hits the internet....<grin>

>Out here in North Plains, OR, we gotta put fertilizer around the phone
>poles or our modems slow down to 600 bps. Sure glad the weather returned
>to normal (rain). I was feeling a lot of guilt anxiety after TWO sunny
>days IN A ROW.

Roger, you are from Oregon and might know this, but others won't.  You know
they have a special term here for when it rains two days in a row?  

Call it a "weekend"

There is a bit of truth in the saying, "Oregonians don't tan, they rust."

Hank

By the way, you're not supposed to tell them there's internet access here!


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