Journal Entries
A Rev Nick Journal: Where-ever did the year go?
Posted Sep 7, 2008
A year ago today, we were near Cardiff, Wales, sharing time with tsarina. Having already had the most wonderful 5 days with Venus. And we ask ourselves, where the 
has that year gone?
I have gone on a few work travels, for 2 weeks or so at a time. And there have been the usual bouts of panic, mayhem and fretting around me at work. Milady began a new job just before our travels, after 7'ish years at a very trying place. To this day, she is still loving it. But on the whole, there has been nothing really momentous happening. And yet the year has slid by ...
So friends, what really 
and 
stuff has happened to you since, say ... September 1st, 2007 to make the year pass by without realizing it?
Discuss this Journal entry [41]
Latest reply: Sep 7, 2008
A Rev Nick Journal: Distance yourselves ...
Posted Jul 26, 2008
For quite a long time now, I have sorta run a-foul of the powers that be. Much of it is a history with some folks that daily friends are more than aware of. (Yes, I hear you sniggering in the back again. Stop it!)
Anyway, it seems a good chance that a minor flare up of personalities will again bring the Eds into it all. I posted an e-mail to them, an link to a particularly pointy and inflammatory (isn't that against house rules?) series of posts. And a couple of folks have chosen to take this as a challenge. Head-on. as it were.
So, ... You know where to find me come Monday. Probably not here, as even the most recent new thread (a one-to-one) was not even referred or hidden ... Just gone. No e-mails about it, and no reply to a direct query to the "staff". Just gone. Guilty, and that's just that.
So ...
Maybe see ya, ... maybe not ... It has been a grande time and some of the best friends found.
Discuss this Journal entry [160]
Latest reply: Jul 26, 2008
A Rev Nick Journal: An interesting and challenging idea
Posted Jul 22, 2008
Our President of h2g2 has an idea, worked up through conversations with atleast one other friend, of how to give a kick to the back-side of h2g2 AND encourage writing in general.
I would really appreciate it if any friends would take a look at A38600129 , and the threads attached. Give some thought as to how to build on the seed of the idea, maybe give some time as well as things progress.
I have an amazingly disparate assortment of friends, from every walk of life and h2g2. And they all have friends in wild and wondrous circles. It's an idea that could spread pretty quickly, I think.
Thanks, friends.
Nick
Discuss this Journal entry [9]
Latest reply: Jul 22, 2008
A Rev Nick Journal: Sometimes, you can go back
Posted Jun 11, 2008
Some of you know that my season of work travels has again begun, having me in Nova Scotia this past 2 weeks. Well, the job didn't go as planned. The mechanics of it went far better than we had hoped for, and that side actually was completed. The proving and verifications of our work though ... Circumstances of technology caused that to be a no-go. With the fried condition of our $32,000 testing 'toy'.
Because we wrapped the real work early, we have extra time on our hands. Enough to fly home 2 days early. And, enough time to visit another site that the money-man wanted us to check out for a future option. It just happened to be the site that I worked and lived at from '91 to '95.
When Milady and I left there, the functional business was being checked out for remote operations as opposed to being manned 24/7. And the 90-some residences we military we occupied were in limbo. Their state, and the quality of the water source, made them economically unviable to sell to the local economy. Well, something good must have happened because yesterday I found every one of the homes occupied, in good repair and looking like a snug and comfy little community. Even the small zone that used to have semi-mobile homes is now a new and full elementary school! A 'village' that I'd be happy to live in once more.
The work site, on the other hand, has been gutted of everything but one room with some equipments that are necessary. All being controlled and used from 'the city'. Walking through the operations rooms, the work-shops, the extranneous zones ... All fully vacant, paint blistering off of walls, it reminded me of some movies of "after the Big One drops". The one upside of it was the chap manning the gates, who demanded as soon as I was out of the car "where's me dinner, you old bugger? I'm getting hungry!" Milady and I had provided full dinners to him and his co-worker a number of times, on special occassions like Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. 13 years, and uncountable transients through the place since then, we ARE still remembered.
So it was a bit of a sad-sweet visit to an old stomping grounds, and one that I am now so happy I was able to do. My only regrets are that I had neither my wife nor my camera with me to share it.
Discuss this Journal entry [24]
Latest reply: Jun 11, 2008
A Rev Nick Journal: I see by the clock on the wall ...
Posted Apr 1, 2008
... that it's time to bid you, one and all ...
That was, more or less, the sign-out theme of a fabulous Canuck duo of comedians. So I will borrow it for the time being.
It's now a bit over 4 years since I stepped into this site, clueless about such places. I used a false persona, and made a slew of friends. Then changes in one or two caused a lot of discention , and it was time to become my real self. No pretentions, no frolicking, the fake silliness left behind. That caused a few more folks to fall away, but the real friends stayed.
As time went on, one important lost friend became two. And sadly, by design or accident, their dissatisfaction with me caused others to either stay away, or turn away. Things even got very ugly a few times, with the Italics having to step in. I think that was about when much of the shine of this place started to fade. Knowing that impartiality was not likely to be found, among men and women that are otherwise so good at heart, or from powers on-high.
Since then, I have seen the site come and go with activity, frivolity and emptiness, viciousness in debate forums, filters imposed that caused many good and sound people to flounce away ... Quite a lot of change, and very little of it (in my opinion) really being for the betterment of the community. As an online guide to "Life, The Universe and Everything", it is creeping along, not quite flourishing but not fading away either. In all, it's just not a place that attracts or appeals to me any more.
So I am signing off. I have made some life-time friends, and they know how to find me. Many other friends reply if I nudge them, but are faint. There's not much to hold me here. So I have slimmed down my PS and friends' list, ... People can find me if they choose. I can see what is happening in the world of others. I'll obviously continue to watch the place, but I won't be posting. If I have an address, I'll mail folks. Otherwise, I'll keep my opinions and counsel to myself.
To one and all, friends and foes, thank you for a novel experience. From this wire, "it's good night from me, and it's good night from him".
& 
Discuss this Journal entry [75]
Latest reply: Apr 1, 2008
Back to Rev Nick { Only the dead are without fear }'s Personal Space Home
Rev Nick { Only the dead are without fear }
Researcher U903557
Write an Entry
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."