Hello fellow listers,
I received this via email today and thought I'd share. Tomorrow I'm
heading back to Texas for a week to check out the job market there. I
got caught in the dot-com implosion, and am finding out that no one in
Silicon Valley is hiring. If anybody out there needs a highly
certified and experienced Network Engineer/Architect focusing on
Microsoft and Cisco, let me know!<grin> Being out of work has given me
more time to work on the Sprite, but lack of incoming funds limits what
I can do! Everyone take care, and try to be gentle on my Inbox over the
next week...<grin>
Greg Gowins
'69 Sprite
Dublin, CA
Letter to the DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE from Dwight Crawford Sr. of
Sanger, Texas:
TERRORISM-WHAT IS THAT? I get a big laugh at the dialogue of Osama bin
Laden, the Taliban, politicians, and the news media. They say terrorists
will hit us again in the oncoming weeks and months. What a joke! You
have a better chance of getting killed on Interstate 35E than by a
terrorist. Osama has probably seen 100 degree plus summers in
Afghanistan, but he doesn't have fire ants to go with it. If he did he
wouldn't be sleeping on the ground in his cave. He talks of pain and
suffering he is going to inflict on us. He doesn't know what pain is
until he gets kicked in the crotch by a green broke, two year old colt
in a freezing rain. Germ warfare? Texas ticks will give you Rocky
Mountain Spotted Fever and Lime disease, blister beetles kill your
horse, green bugs destroy a wheat crop, and termites eat your house.
Anthrax has killed Texas cattle for over 125 years. What's new? Our
prairie dogs carry the plague, armadillos carry leprosy, and our bats
and skunks carry rabies. We have rattlesnakes, copperheads, and water
moccasins. Ho hum. They talk of gas and biological warfare. They have
never pulled in behind a cattle truck while its raining, or ridden in
the front seat of a pick-up between two cowboys after they have just
eaten a big bowl of Texas Red. Texas ain't for sissies! We have posted
signs all over the state that say "Don't mess with Texas!" Osama,
consider yourself warned!
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