Conference thebay::joyoflex

    Well, I commissioned the following for an Irish colleague who is
    leaving:
    
    	Go neirigh an bothar leat a <insert name>
    
    It means: May the road rise with you  (Irish good luck type greeting),
    and was provided by a Deccie in Galway.
    
    Jeff.

    Hmmm.  I looked for notes with title "Vale" but none were to be found. 
    Hadda take poor seconds with "Farewell."
    
    I see from 396.* that Walter Oslansky's leaving us.  Our loss! :-(  and
    best of luck in future incarnations, Walter -- we'll miss you!!!!!
    
    Thanks for all your great notes, and for co-founding the Latin
    notesfile too...
    
    Regards
    
    Dan :-(

    No time for me to compose an adequate encomium to him -- I will try
    later, but I want to let the JoyOfLex crowd know, so that they might
    add their voices to this one before the plug's pulled on Jim's account
    today.
    
    I'll post some of my correspondence with him later, as my own tribute
    and for the info of his local friends as to what his plans are.
    
    Hail & Farewell to one of the Great Ones!
    
    Sadly,
    Dan 

    A week or two before my group got the unexpected word we would be
    unfunded in FY94, my wife & I committed to a trip to Italy to celebrate
    our younger daughter's graduation from Harvard (Mandy, who graduated
    _cum laude_ today, will be coming along as her graduation present!).  
    
    So I'll be offline soon (hate the caution that decrees "Never Tell The
    Public When You'll Be Away From Home!"), and by the time I return
    (unless I can get the Powers That Be to delay my conversion to
    electronic UnPerson) I may not have access to JoyOfLex while I clean
    out my office.
    
    So -- I wanted to bid a fond farewell to the most erudite and amusing
    group of people in all of DIGITAL CyberSpace, and to ask whether
    there's any internet newsgroup that's anything like "us" here.
    
    Thanks for all the fun and the sharing of the pleasures of language!
    
    Dan Kalikow
    
    PS -- After 6 July, I'll be reachable at nm%DECWRL::"[email protected]"

    Good luck and best wishes, Dan. [Hey, what am I saying? _You're_ the
    one who's going to Italy... ;-)]
    
    -b

    Similimodo (re .6) - sorry to see you go Dan.
    
    b
    ps And a remote/virtual pat on the back for Mandy.

    >(Mandy, who graduated _cum laude_ today,
    
    Sorry to hear that.  If she didn't graduate _cum laude_ then she'd be
    eligible for a job under current global industrial standards, and then
    she'd have some hope of helping you out for a while....
    
    At least, enjoy Italy and be glad that your wife can accompany you
    (not denied a visa) and can accompany you back to the U.S. too (not
    denied a visa).
    
    Also too bad you didn't get laid by Digital when the economy was
    stronger so that you might get a new job yourself while also getting
    a nice fat (earned) severance payment.  But what else is new.
    
    -- Norman Diamond

    re: the typo in .8
    
    I suppose that's another way of looking at it.  :-)
    
    ed

>    Also too bad you didn't get laid by Digital when the economy was
                                 ~~~~
Didn't see a smiley-face.  Is that what you intended to say?  If so, 
"screwed" is the correct term.

Clay 

    There is no typo in .8.  And a smiley-face would have been inaccurate.
    "Screwed" would have omitted the pun, though there would be no change to
    the punishment.  Sigh.
    
    -- Norman Diamond

    'Twould seem that I was harder to get rid of than I had expected.  As
    promised, my Manager gave me the package last Tuesday, after my Italian
    idyll.  However, through lots of initiative -- and a lot of help from
    my friends -- I managed to get several leads this week, one of which
    just resulted (this PM) in a nifty offer to join IM&T in MSO2.
    
    The fun part (aside from the extremely creative folks with whom I'll be
    working) is that I wouldn't have been able to land this job had we not
    decided to take our long-planned European vacation with younger
    daughter Mandy.  As we were flying back last week, the REQ that I
    filled today was just getting signed.  So _that_ was one for the
    books...  You just never know.
    
    I'm still saddened by the difficulties facing the Corporation and by
    the many colleagues we've lost and will continue to lose :-( but at
    least I "live to fight another day."  And to try to help.
    
    See you online!
    
    Dan

    >My own reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated
    
    THAT KIND OF PRANK CALLS FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
    I'LL SUPPLY THE GLUE.  WHO WORKS NEAR HIS NEW KEYBOARD?
    
    
    
    :-) of course.  Glad to see you have a new keyboard.

    
    I do. But perhaps IM&T at MSO2 is enough punishment. :-)
    jc

    Anent today's major earthquake in Japan, I sent EMail to Norman Diamond
    inquiring as to his health.  If he responds offline, I'll post a status
    here.  Unless of course Norman wishes to announce herein that fears of
    his untimely demise or injury were greatly exaggerated.  I trust that
    (a) this will happen and that (b) his announcement will be rife with
    the usual Diamond-hard obliquity...
    
    :-)??????
    

    We're about 600 km from Kobe and we didn't feel it.
    However, if Digital had a sales office in Kobe, we can
    probably wish farewell to them.  I'm told that Internet
    connections to Kansai are still working, though dialed
    phone lines and trains aren't.
    
    -- Norman Diamond

    	The sister of an ex-colleague here in Valbonne works in Kobe. She
    was permitted into her appartment block to collect personal belongings,
    and while there she called her brother here to say she was alive and
    well, so some phone connections work. Other appartment blocks on the
    same street were either unsafe to enter or didn't exist any more.

    Wish I could be less brief, but p'raps I will send something in from
    the Big World Outside when I have a chance to breathe.  Some kind soul
    will likely post it, if it's politically correct enough...
    
    I've LOVED this flipping FILE!!!  So many clever wonderful pun-loving
    word-smithing nuance-tweaking scansion-klomping people...  Ciao,
    
    and see you out on the infobahn.
    
    Dan
    
    :-(
    

    I propose that this file be renamed from JOYOFLEX to just LEX.
    That is, if there's anyone left here to do the renaming.

    But then I can't express my mood by either typing "no joy" to open the
    conference, or "o joy" on those rare occasions when things are
    better...

It got old while the trial lasted...