How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 19 May 00 - 09:51 AM

Bonnie/Neo,
live-in maid? Bet Rick didn't know he was teaching the h'aristocracy!
:o)
(adopts Monty Python voice:)"We lived in a cardboard box," "Cardboard, you 'ad cardboard? Weh'only 'ad a paper bag." etc.
Rt[one-clog]S

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:56 AM

By the way Bonnie.......What kind of jam would that be? I mean I can incorporate that on either weekend.......Just let me know the flavor and the weekend.

Spaw

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 May 00 - 01:47 PM

Paper bag! If we'd had a paper bag we'd have been in heaven. We slept in wet mud, and lucky to get it...

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: Homeless
Date: 19 May 00 - 10:19 PM

As opposed to dry mud?

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: MMario
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:14 PM

well, the really poor people just had dust....

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 19 May 00 - 11:29 PM

Bonnie, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Wait, what *is* he doing behind that curtain, anyway? Anyway. I again urge you to get on HearMe, soon, socks or no socks. If you really are too timid to sing or play, just type in that you have no microphone. We'll know you're lying but we won't hold it against you.

For me, HearMe brings back some of the fun of the Seattle Song Circle, at which I was a more or less regular in the late 80s. There ain't no such animal here on the island, and it's wonderful to be able to listen to people sing and play and to share songs. And from all over the world, too! (We even had Andres one time I was there.) The text chat is fun, too. It's even better than song circle, because you can make comments without making noise. And, as Mbo and Praise can tell you, it's often difficult to control your textual urges.

So show up, OK?

And to the downunder folks like Spider Tom and alison and Billythebus, I'm only 4 hrs behind Sydney and 2 hours behind Auckland (the day before). I often log on after work about 5:00 or so (1700), so if you want to start something on a weekday I'll look for you. Just post a note in the Forum.

And a great big mahalo (thanks) to Jon Freeman for getting the tech stuff together and making this happen.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: Spider Tom
Date: 20 May 00 - 12:23 AM

Thanks for that Mark I will keep it in mind and will hear me with you, and hopefully Alison and Billy the Bus.
Brighten my nights as well as my days, thanks.
Spider Tom

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 20 May 00 - 03:13 AM

Oops, that's what you call brain behaving badly. Hawaii time is not behind Oz/NZ, it's ahead. Let me rephrase that. When it's 5PM in Hilo, it's only 1PM in Sydney and 3PM in Auckland, the next day. So I guess you folks will still be at work. But if I'm on call and working late some night, I'll try in what would be your evening. Well, at least there's the regular Sunday time. But wait, that's Monday for you...oh, the heck with it. See you some, uh, time.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 20 May 00 - 05:59 AM

Mark I do plan to show up, in fact I did on Thursday night. But I am having technical difficulties. Can't seem to Hearyou guys.
I'm working on it with a little help from some friends here.
Starting this thread has really help move my butt to make it more of a priority. The postings have been very inspiring.
Thanks guys

Little Neo who is visiting friends and not too sure how often she will be posting

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 20 May 00 - 10:20 PM

Bonnie:

Does this mean that you did not hear me playing the banjo on Thursday night?... gosh... I actually got through the tune without making a mistake ! :-)

Can't wait for you to get all of the bugs to get worked out. It truly is fun.

JAB

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 20 May 00 - 10:34 PM

JAB right now the only bugs I am dealing with are the black flies. I am visiting friends in northern Ontario and the bugs have been eating me for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

Somehow I will get the sound to work. I had some good help from Jon and Lonesome. Eventually I will get it. I would love to hear you play.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 20 May 00 - 10:44 PM

Bonnie: I was joking about not making mistakes. Now, I don't envy you about the black flies up there in Ontario. When I was in highschool we went on a two week canoe trip up there. Noseeums.... scratch... scratch... itch... itch... Those and the biggest leeches I have ever seen...

There is a great song about black flies on a Nightingale CD we have!

JAB

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 21 May 00 - 03:06 AM

And the black-fly, the little black-fly
Always the black-fly, no matter where I go
I'll die with the black-fly a pickin' at my bones
In North Ontar-io, in North Ontar-io.

Shucks, we call 'em sandflies - must try to find the words of an NZ sandfly song. Will sing it for you if'n we ever hit HearMe together Lil Neo.

LOL - Sam

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 21 May 00 - 12:07 PM

Sammy, are you sure sandflies are black flies?
I mean you got a few to pick from here......
No See Ems
Black Flies
Mosquitoes
Deer Flies
Horse Flies
Biting House Flies (they are the worst!)

Little Neo who seems to be like sushi to these critters

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 May 00 - 12:21 PM

On Flies At The Transmitter
(Gelvieh Road, Cheyenne, Wyomng)

Buzzing, drunken
On pink "lemonaide"
Sending the signals,
"Open bar, tonight!"

Not knowing, Death
Comes in and saunters
Down the throat,
A gulp of Thirst-Slake.

Lifespan shortened
To minues, rather than days,
Black bodies, wings folded
Gather dust on the floor.

Transmitter, glycol
Coolant for the system;
Black flies, pickled, snockered
Dead by nightfall.

kat

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: bbelle
Date: 21 May 00 - 12:45 PM

Well ... I don't have stagefright ... don't even have a need to be heard ... but I do have a need to play and sing right now ... and I enjoy singing for others and hearing others. Last night was my first foray into HearMe, harpy made me do it! It was fun ... and putting the voice to the name is doubly delicious. harpy also had me all over her beautiful front yard taking pictures of me with hair and today my allergies are so bad I can barely breathe ... but I came home very late last night and downloaded Hearme ... now I have to find my mic. I'm gonna plug in tonight and if I can breathe ... I'll do some singing. When I was singing in clubs ... it was never a choice ... so I should be able to alter the keys for my allergies!

Bonnie ... having survived 6 years in Fairbanks, AK, the only thing that works on 'skeeters, black flies, noseeums is DEET! I know ... you're not supposed to put it on children ... but you run the risk of having your life's blood sucked right out of you, if you don't use it.

'spaw ... have you no shame? Here you are sending me private messages asking me to come for your birthday and you're inviting Bonnie, too. If that's the case, I'm a languid, late afternooner ... so adjust your schedule accordingly. Don't want any 'Catfights between me and Bonnie. And you're getting old ... who, but someone our age, would remember Bon Ami?

So ... I can't say it's "enriched" my life, but I can say it's a good "thing" for most of the reasons above and what's been said in the other posts.

Jenny

Subject: RE: How Has Hearme Enhanced Your Life
From: GUEST,Pedantia Snootflute
Date: 21 May 00 - 01:33 PM

Sandflies are Lutzomyia

Blackflies are "Simulium vittatum." Picture of human-skewered blackfly (instead of the other way around).

Who's your public health smartypants...?

There's a song in this...
I been bit by Simulium and Lutzmoyia
By insectia and arthropoda
I've waved my arms at the hungry bunch
But still was the main entre at lunch
But if ya give me DEET and long sleeves
Well, then I believes
I'll be willin'
To be goin' outsiiiiiide.

Er, right - stick with the day job.