From: Ace Lightning Area: Mundane To: Frank Mertus 11 Nov 94 09:43:00 Subject: Quantum mechanics & causa UpdReq FM>AR>contributes to noise in audio equipment. Also, incandescent light bulbs >AR>last much longer using DC rather than AC. It is very easy to make a DC >AR>converter, but light bulb companies don't make them, because they would >AR>put themselves out of business. (Does anyone want to know how to make >AR>one?) FM>Hello... >How much longer will a bulb last? I would be interested in seeing the >converter, and perhaps experimenting with it. Please do post the >schematic. You used to be able to buy a (US) penny-sized disc to put into the light socket before you screwed in the bulb; it was marketed as a "Bulb Saver" or "Bulb Life Extender". All it was was a little rectifier, so that instead of AC you got (rather seriously fluctuating) DC. Dunno if they still sell 'em. They didn't really do *that* much toward improving bulb life. --- SLMR 2.0 Get an electrician to check your shorts! 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Area: Mundane To: 0 Jan 128 00:00:00 Subject: UpdReq --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Lion's Den -*Home Of LionNet*- (904) 378-0197 (93:9601/2) SEEN-BY: 102/943 382/502 9000/2 10 9005/0 9007/0 9008/0 9010/0 9020/0 9030/0 SEEN-BY: 9040/0 9060/0 9081/0 9090/0 9100/0 9200/0 9300/0 9400/0 3 23 9420/0 SEEN-BY: 9430/0 9500/0 9600/0 7 8 39 9601/0 2 10 9603/0 9604/0 9605/0 9608/0 SEEN-BY: 9609/0 9610/0 9620/0 9630/0 9640/0 9660/0 9690/0 9800/0 9900/0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: out your age Area: Mundane To: 0 Jan 128 00:00:00 Subject: UpdReq --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Lion's Den -*Home Of LionNet*- (904) 378-0197 (93:9601/2) SEEN-BY: 102/943 382/502 9000/2 10 9005/0 9007/0 9008/0 9010/0 9020/0 9030/0 SEEN-BY: 9040/0 9060/0 9081/0 9090/0 9100/0 9200/0 9300/0 9400/0 3 23 9420/0 SEEN-BY: 9430/0 9500/0 9600/0 7 8 39 9601/0 2 10 9603/0 9604/0 9605/0 9608/0 SEEN-BY: 9609/0 9610/0 9620/0 9630/0 9640/0 9660/0 9690/0 9800/0 9900/0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: ing your age Area: Mundane To: 0 Jan 128 00:00:00 Subject: UpdReq --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Lion's Den -*Home Of LionNet*- (904) 378-0197 (93:9601/2) SEEN-BY: 102/943 382/502 9000/2 10 9005/0 9007/0 9008/0 9010/0 9020/0 9030/0 SEEN-BY: 9040/0 9060/0 9081/0 9090/0 9100/0 9200/0 9300/0 9400/0 3 23 9420/0 SEEN-BY: 9430/0 9500/0 9600/0 7 8 39 9601/0 2 10 9603/0 9604/0 9605/0 9608/0 SEEN-BY: 9609/0 9610/0 9620/0 9630/0 9640/0 9660/0 9690/0 9800/0 9900/0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: ?. Area: Mundane To: 0 Jan 128 00:00:00 Subject: UpdReq --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Lion's Den -*Home Of LionNet*- (904) 378-0197 (93:9601/2) SEEN-BY: 102/943 382/502 9000/2 10 9005/0 9007/0 9008/0 9010/0 9020/0 9030/0 SEEN-BY: 9040/0 9060/0 9081/0 9090/0 9100/0 9200/0 9300/0 9400/0 3 23 9420/0 SEEN-BY: 9430/0 9500/0 9600/0 7 8 39 9601/0 2 10 9603/0 9604/0 9605/0 9608/0 SEEN-BY: 9609/0 9610/0 9620/0 9630/0 9640/0 9660/0 9690/0 9800/0 9900/0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: nd of the Lounge Lizards Area: Mundane To: 0 Jan 128 00:00:00 Subject: UpdReq --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Lion's Den -*Home Of LionNet*- (904) 378-0197 (93:9601/2) SEEN-BY: 102/943 382/502 9000/2 10 9005/0 9007/0 9008/0 9010/0 9020/0 9030/0 SEEN-BY: 9040/0 9060/0 9081/0 9090/0 9100/0 9200/0 9300/0 9400/0 3 23 9420/0 SEEN-BY: 9430/0 9500/0 9600/0 7 8 39 9601/0 2 10 9603/0 9604/0 9605/0 9608/0 SEEN-BY: 9609/0 9610/0 9620/0 9630/0 9640/0 9660/0 9690/0 9800/0 9900/0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Area: Mundane To: physicalle 0 Jan 128 00:00:00 Subject: UpdReq --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Lion's Den -*Home Of LionNet*- (904) 378-0197 (93:9601/2) SEEN-BY: 102/943 382/502 9000/2 10 9005/0 9007/0 9008/0 9010/0 9020/0 9030/0 SEEN-BY: 9040/0 9060/0 9081/0 9090/0 9100/0 9200/0 9300/0 9400/0 3 23 9420/0 SEEN-BY: 9430/0 9500/0 9600/0 7 8 39 9601/0 2 10 9603/0 9604/0 9605/0 9608/0 SEEN-BY: 9609/0 9610/0 9620/0 9630/0 9640/0 9660/0 9690/0 9800/0 9900/0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Aladrisa Area: Mundane To: Frendal Fundari 12 Nov 94 15:14:30 Subject: Re: Anouncement UpdReq FF> It is a real hard situation to deal with. It took me over a year before I FF> would even get close to another woman. I was afraid that things might get FF> close again, and that she would do the same thing. In a way, I can say I a FF> glad it all happened, or I would not have met my wife, but it is still hard FF> for me to deal with. You sound like perhaps you would have been a woman in a past life :-) FF> the only woman I have even come close to hitting. (Not that I ever would FF> have, but the feeling was there.) I think it is ufair to stay in an unhapp FF> relationship for the sake of a child. I grew up in such a family, and know FF> how it feels to be the child in that kind of constant abuse. You become a FF> tug-of-war object for the other to get an upper hand. Its a living hell. Whoops, I never thought of that. At the time I was thinking you obviously loved her and the yet unborn child so why not give it a try? FF> If it seemed like I was presenting an ego to you, I am sorry. I was openin FF> up and letting my feelings do the typing. Yes, I must admit, there was a FF> bit of ego in the message, but when is there not for a Would-Be father FF> talking about his could-have-been child? I know the child would have been FF> both of ours, but as it is obvious by both her actions and words, she did FF> not want the child at all. By that, I say "MY CHILD" as oppsed to "OUR I didnt mean it that way (ego) But what I was meaning was that most (not all) guys tend to do that. Thanks for replying :-) al 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Aladrisa Area: Mundane To: Amethyst 12 Nov 94 15:30:18 Subject: Re: Toxic parenting UpdReq A> Not at all since last December. She and my father suddenly came out here on A> Thursday without telling us they were coming. I found out when the school A> secretary called and told me my parents were there to pick up my daughters. I would have FLIPPED! If the school called me to tell me that I would have hopped in my car and went there and told them both off. A> Then they made a point of spending the entire weekend insulting me (and not A> jokingly) in front of my kids. I tried so hard to just keep my mouth shut a A> not get into an argument in front of the kids, but the tension got so bad th A> Erinn was in tears by Saturday night. When I tried to comfort her, my mothe A> insisted on taking over and then promised Erinn that she would send her a A> plane ticket to Toronto so she could visit them by herself (not bloody likel A> especially when you don't ask me first!). I know full well that she would A> just spoil her rotten with all sorts of shopping trips and turn her against Thats when I would have kicked them both out OR told them to can it right then and there. I've told the mother figure so many times to fnark off I lost count. One thing my kids know is that they do NOT have to put up with crap like that. A> the way my aunt did with me. My mother has always felt that the best way to A> win a child's affections is with material things and that's all she ever did A> with my kids. That's what she did with me every Christmas and it never work A> for long...she always went back to her old ways on Boxing day. Material stuff huh? Lucky..I never made it that far. A> When my step-father called from the hotel earlier on Saturday, to ask me if A> was going to put up the big tree this year and I told him I had no room for A> it, he said that there were a few things on the card table in the corner I A> could burn to make room for it...that card table happens to be my altar! Wh A> I came to the hotel later that day, and we went up to their room to get the A> presents they had bought for the girls and hide them in the van (while my A> mother kept them busy with the video games in the lobby), he said "You're in A> that satanist crap again, aren't you?" I said "It's not satanism." And he A> asked "So what is it then?" I briefly explained Wicca to him and I thought A> was listening. Lemme guess...he never hear any of it. You know what I sed when they asked me that? Seriously...I sed "No, its called Voodoo." and walked away muttering I never met a zombie that I didnt like :-) A> Then when my mother got together with my husband (we were separated at the A> time), she told him *I* was the one getting *them* upset all weekend by goin A> at them, trying to start a fight...I was mostly sitting at every meal table A> public restaurants with my head bowed trying to say nothing at all, despite A> the fact that they were really pissing me off. Fortunately, my husband know Man Am...time to nuke her. Destruction must go. A> When they got here, I calmly said that I didn't appreciate the insults all A> weekend and the way she had tried to turn Greg against me and they started A> screaming at me. They got into swearing and name calling...along with Thats when I would have kicked them both out and told them to fnark off and never come back. I have this awful habit of standing up for myself and sticking to my word and now they know it. A> "satanist," I got called "bitch," "lying bitch (when I said I wasn't a A> satanist again...guess my father hadn't been listening to me the day before) A> "slut," "tramp," and my home got referred to as a "garbage can," along with A> the insults about my parenting in general (which as I said are completely A> invalid coming from my mother). They then repeated their ultimate insult of A> our friend David, which is that he must molest children because no man would A> want to be around someone else's children for any other reason (this man is A> now an intern and will be doing his residency in pediatric respirology...he A> loves all children and I would know after 3 years if he had done anything to A> hurt one of them...they wouldn't be rushing into his arms excitedly every ti And you didnt slap her? I want there and already my blood is boiling! A> Since all this, 2 of my daughters' birthdays have passed and the third is A> coming up in less then 2 weeks. I don't expect to hear from them again, and A> really wouldn't want to. I don't have to subject myself or my children to a A> that crap for anyone who treats me like that! And as for my kids, they A> already know it all...I've kept nothing from them...they have a right to kno A> the truth. And if anything happens to Greg and me, our wills give A> guardianship to David...he's the only person we know that would take care of A> them and love them as much as we do. Even if something happens to just one A> us, he has vowed to help the other carry on the job. David has been more A> supportive to my family than my mother ever could be. So it's no loss to us A> Sure, I cried right after they left, and I felt pretty bad for a few days, b A> I've done a lot of growing since then that could never take place if she wer Good. (that you havent heard). WHat a bunch of morons they must be. No respect. SO I take it she doesnt know you have changed your name. Did you change your kids last names? A> No, you didn't. And I'm dying to hear what that's about. I'm suing my father for sexual abuse (he did 5 months out of 15 big whoop) and my mother as an accessory and my mother for child abuse. My goal? To get enough money to continue my education that I missed out on as a teen because I was so messed up and to finally look them pathetically in the eye and say "I've won." A> She still doesn't know. With all the other crap flying around here when the A> were here, I didn't bother to bring it up. She still has my number and my A> address, but I don't think I will exactly welcome her back into my life if s A> or her husband ever call here. Certainly not just so that she can treat me A> like that again. If I ever accept her into my life again, it will be on my A> terms. She will apologize for the way she has treated me in the past, she A> will no longer use guilt to manipulate me and she will treat me with respect A> at all times...and the same goes for her husband. If they can't agree to al A> that, they spend the rest of their lives wondering about us all. I wont accept them into my life. My kids deserve better, I deserve better. She will never change and I would not risk that in a million years. Apology or no.. I dont think I would EVER get back in with them. This may sound cold but I did not attend my aunts funeral, I will not attend my mothers or anyone elses for that matter. WHy would I? To pay my last respects? Hell no! My last respects went with them the day they hurt me for the last time. WHen the mother figure is old and gray, she'll come hunting and I will be no where to be found. A> I have often thought if that image of my mother rocking away alone when she' A> old and gray, and you know something? I don't even feel sorry for her. It' A> her karma and she has to learn to accept it. The stress of her past, that s A> refuses to deal with (but would rather blame me for even though it began lon A> before I was ever born), began to make her physically sick a long time ago. A> She's forever having "nervous trouble" and headaches and being put on A> tranquilizers. I used to buy into all that being my fault, but now I know A> better. This is her choice. This is how she wants to live her life...alone A> and sick. I didn't choose that life for her, she chose it for herself. I Truly. Let her experience 1/8th of your pain and see how she feels. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Aladrisa Area: Mundane To: Amethyst 12 Nov 94 15:32:50 Subject: Re: accomplishments UpdReq A> I know it's a lot. I just wish I had something that powerful and meaningful A> that I could put on a resume and make money with. Maybe I have to get all A> this sorted out first, but that's going to take a long time. A> Money is inportant BUT your life and kids are more important...wait and see... A> I keep looking at all the possibilities and realizing how strong a fighter I A> am. That also keeps me going. That's my sanity right now...to look at the A> stuff that's good about me. I still see a lot of the failures, but at least A> don't completely wallow in them like I used to. There was a time I couldn't A> say one positive thing about myself, and it wasn't so very long ago. Same. New name, new me, new life, brand new! A> We'll be kicking until the day we die...and probably after that! We'll be kicking the people's butts who bother our family religiously! bb al 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Frank Mertus Area: Mundane To: Ariovistus 8 Nov 94 10:59:62 Subject: Quantum mechanics & causa UpdReq AR>contributes to noise in audio equipment. Also, incandescent light bulbs AR>last much longer using DC rather than AC. It is very easy to make a DC AR>converter, but light bulb companies don't make them, because they would AR>put themselves out of business. (Does anyone want to know how to make AR>one?) Hello... How much longer will a bulb last? I would be interested in seeing the converter, and perhaps experimenting with it. Please do post the schematic. --- ~ OLX 2.1 ~ If you can't laugh at yourself, someone else will. -- DLG Mailroom:QWK v1.0 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718