Final

Midnight tonight. That's the end of the paid period for SBC. Signing
off now, permanently, I don't need to waste money on the net when I
get nothing for it. One email in the last two weeks, nothing in the
midi groups worth pulling down,

I don't need to go "shopping" on the net to find out when I call them
"Unavailable". 66% increase from SBC, not worth it. Electronic
commerce is only fifty centuries behind the man that you see face to
face and he knows if he's got it in stock or not.

Haven't heard from my "buddy" in over two weeks, email or otherwise,
another "aquaintance". I'm not surprised. Haven't heard from anyone
else either, no loss there.

Traded this compuker off for a couple of small brass locomotives, the
Mac that I have as a word processor/DB/spreadsheet will replace it.
DSL modem going in the trashcan. Smashed first, it won't be used
again.

Have fun as you watch your numbers decline, it's not my worry, I don't
care if they go to zero or if you're regulated out of all airspace, it
won't make any difference to me. Until you kill the attitude that
only higher performance gliders are worthy, that there can only be one
object to flying gliders, they're going to continue to go down. The
"good ole boys" are going to see that it never changes, that someone
in a lower performance ship is fully their equal in their skills will
continue to be laughed at. The idea that soaring can be done "on a
budget" will still be followed with disillusionment when facts become
known, it can't. It can be done at a lower cost, but still far above
what any working stiff with even a grain of sense will spend.

Get rid of the high cost, get rid of the big mouths that want to play
God, and the decline might slow. My prediction is that it will be as
rare as the commercial go-kart tracks have become. Not without
reason, and for most of the people, unmourned.

May winter last forever.

Greybeard/Lennie.

Do not answer, the modem is going to be pulled in another twenty
minutes, then the computer disconnected so I can replace the graphics
card before trading it.