paddler magazine article- Nov Dec 1999
 

(Oci-One Kanubi) wrote:

Isn't it pathetic, Mike, the way we keep hanging out at r.b.p,
helplessly hoping that SOMEone, SOMEtime, will come back and start
posting interesting messages, or, at the least, an uninteresting
question that we can answer?

big grin

I could start trolling here, but I'm afraid no-one would take that
seriously, including the trolls...

I mean, even Dorian Merrill is evidently so bored here that he doesn't
want to come back to read yer answer; he wants you to take the trouble
to eMail it to him! Newsflash, Dorian: message traffic on r.b.p is so
light these days that you could come back in a week and a half and yer
thread would still be near the top of the list!

O for a good troll to bash. Yawn.

I know where one of them lives up in Canada... with your driving style
you could be there in a day. Bring a big club and bash him to mash!
;-)

(hmmm, wonder if that attracts some response... ;-) )

Wilko
(who's managed to get over the RBP addiction to the point where he
only visits quickly, once a week or so... Sadly, not even getting
withdrawal symptoms. :-( )

--
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Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.
http://wilko.webzone.ru/

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snipped for brevity's sake


OK, I think I got you pegged now. Did you post on the MCC Paddle
Prattle looking for advice on starting a boating program, or bringing
a swif****er safety instructor to Charlottesville for a weekend, or
sumpin' like that? Or am I just remembering enquiries you have made
here on r.b.p?

Yer job sounds like a more formalized version of what is called, on
many campuses, faculty adviser to the Outting Club.

-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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Although I have posted several questions, I think the one I got flamed
for was about correlating river levels, CFS and difficulties of rivers
and trying to explain it to non-boaters / administrators. I think
someone suspected I had an accident in the program and was looking for
something to CMA. I was looking for a canoe instructor at one point as
well but I have mostly just posted on rbp.

As for my job, UVa has an outdoor recreation program which is a part of
the Intramural-Recreational Sports Department (who also maintains the
fitness facilities, runs the flag football leagues, etc.) and that's the
one that pays my salary. UVa also has a student-run Outdoors Club which
is completely separate. UVa has contracted independent organizations
which receive student funding but are not technically part of the
university. But since our program is a part of the university, we enjoy
all the privileges that entails such as liability coverage, monetary
resources, etc. Overall, it's not a bad job and gives me a reason to go
paddling on a work day every now and again instead of having to take the
day off. You know the bumper sticker that says "a bad day on the river
is better than a good day in the office" - well, for me sometimes the
day on the river IS the day in the office.

Eric

paddler magazine article- Nov Dec 1999
 

Wilko wrote:

(Oci-One Kanubi) wrote:

Isn't it pathetic, Mike, the way we keep hanging out at r.b.p,
helplessly hoping that SOMEone, SOMEtime, will come back and start
posting interesting messages, or, at the least, an uninteresting
question that we can answer?


big grin

I could start trolling here, but I'm afraid no-one would take that
seriously, including the trolls...


I mean, even Dorian Merrill is evidently so bored here that he doesn't
want to come back to read yer answer; he wants you to take the trouble
to eMail it to him! Newsflash, Dorian: message traffic on r.b.p is so
light these days that you could come back in a week and a half and yer
thread would still be near the top of the list!

O for a good troll to bash. Yawn.


I know where one of them lives up in Canada... with your driving style
you could be there in a day. Bring a big club and bash him to mash!
;-)

(hmmm, wonder if that attracts some response... ;-) )

Wilko
(who's managed to get over the RBP addiction to the point where he
only visits quickly, once a week or so... Sadly, not even getting
withdrawal symptoms. :-( )


Methinks it's due to your new addiction... BT!

Eric

paddler magazine article- Nov Dec 1999
 

Eric wrote:


Wilko wrote:


Wilko (who's managed to get over the RBP addiction to the point where he
only visits quickly, once a week or so... Sadly, not even getting
withdrawal symptoms. :-( )


Methinks it's due to your new addiction... BT!

Could be, although I've toned down the time spent on BT as well... At
least I spent two days in my boat this past weekend! :-)

Wilko

--
Wilko van den Bergh Wilkoa t)dse(d o tnl
Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.
http://wilko.webzone.ru/

paddler magazine article- Nov Dec 1999
 

Wilko wrote:


Eric wrote:



Wilko wrote:


Wilko (who's managed to get over the RBP addiction to the point where he
only visits quickly, once a week or so... Sadly, not even getting
withdrawal symptoms. :-( )


Methinks it's due to your new addiction... BT!


Could be, although I've toned down the time spent on BT as well... At
least I spent two days in my boat this past weekend! :-)

Wilko



Lucky you. I, however, spent two days on the floor of my house this
past weekend playing with my 3 month old daughter! She'll be big enough
for a boat soon.

E

paddler magazine article- Nov Dec 1999
 

Eric wrote:


Wilko wrote:

Eric wrote:

Methinks it's due to your new addiction... BT!

Could be, although I've toned down the time spent on BT as well... At
least I spent two days in my boat this past weekend! :-)


Lucky you. I, however, spent two days on the floor of my house this
past weekend playing with my 3 month old daughter! She'll be big enough
for a boat soon.

I know for a fact that several paddler's kids had spent some time in a
boat before they were that old. A German paddling buddy and her husband
took her newborn on a canoe when the child wasn't that old yet.

Another padding couple (with her being in her 6th or 7th month now)
joined us this past Sunday, joking that the child needs to feel the
effect of water so that it (dunno yet what sexe it will be) will also
become a passionate paddler. :-)

Before you know it she will be old enough to join you on most paddling
trips! Time flies (...like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana ;-)).

Wilko

--
Wilko van den Bergh Wilkoa t)dse(d o tnl
Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe
Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.
http://wilko.webzone.ru/