Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
The last time he stopped posting, I thought he had died. I thought the
same of Xocyll when he stopped posting awhile back. Then they both
started posting again.
I need to break this habit I have of thinking the only thing that
would take someone away from usenet is their own death.
With that said, as you said, hopefully Spalls is ok.
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
The last time he stopped posting, I thought he had died. I thought the
same of Xocyll when he stopped posting awhile back. Then they both
started posting again.
I need to break this habit I have of thinking the only thing that
would take someone away from usenet is their own death.
With that said, as you said, hopefully Spalls is ok.
Mike S. <[email protected]> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
The last time he stopped posting, I thought he had died. I thought the
same of Xocyll when he stopped posting awhile back. Then they both
started posting again.
Well for me it was a severe case of pneumonia and 3 months in Hospital.
I need to break this habit I have of thinking the only thing that
would take someone away from usenet is their own death.
With that said, as you said, hopefully Spalls is ok.
With Spalls it would more likely be that the Number made him actually
play some backlog.
Mike S. <[email protected]> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
The last time he stopped posting, I thought he had died. I thought the
same of Xocyll when he stopped posting awhile back. Then they both
started posting again.
Well for me it was a severe case of pneumonia and 3 months in Hospital.
I need to break this habit I have of thinking the only thing that
would take someone away from usenet is their own death.
With that said, as you said, hopefully Spalls is ok.
With Spalls it would more likely be that the Number made him actually
play some backlog.
I finally got round to installing Cyberpunk 2077, bought on sale
sometime last year.
This little game popped up in a Discovery Queue and I immediately
thought of Spalls. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3293010/Easy_Delivery_Co/
Xocyll
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
The last time he stopped posting, I thought he had died. I thought the
same of Xocyll when he stopped posting awhile back. Then they both
started posting again.
I need to break this habit I have of thinking the only thing that
would take someone away from usenet is their own death.
With that said, as you said, hopefully Spalls is ok.
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
Our Number, who art in the cloud,
Hallowed by thy Sum.
Thy games do come, games free and fun,
In PC as it is in consoles.
On 10/21/2025 6:34 AM, Xocyll wrote:
Mike S. <[email protected]> looked up from reading the entrails of theNah, he added one game too many to his collection and it all imploded
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
The last time he stopped posting, I thought he had died. I thought the
same of Xocyll when he stopped posting awhile back. Then they both
started posting again.
Well for me it was a severe case of pneumonia and 3 months in Hospital.
I need to break this habit I have of thinking the only thing that
would take someone away from usenet is their own death.
With that said, as you said, hopefully Spalls is ok.
With Spalls it would more likely be that the Number made him actually
play some backlog.
into a digital black hole. :P
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.**--
On 10/20/2025 10:08 PM, vallor wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
5 weeks offline on Steam.
On 10/20/2025 10:08 PM, vallor wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
5 weeks offline on Steam.
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
(blah blah repost sorry for any duplicates blah)
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
I heard rumors that Spalls had to go overseas to deal with a family
situation that would take them several weeks to deal with. Also, that
the tablet brought along to use to surf the web, etc. (and that had
all the passwords on it) would break two days into the trip*, without
which logging into Usenet might become an impossibility.
Fortunately, my Steam password was something I can remember ;-)
* who knew that a $30 USD tablet might have a lifespan of only a few
weeks? But I'm sure the $90 tablet I replaced it with will last much
longer! ;-)
On 11/2/2025 10:46 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
(blah blah repost sorry for any duplicates blah)
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
I heard rumors that Spalls had to go overseas to deal with a family
situation that would take them several weeks to deal with. Also, that
the tablet brought along to use to surf the web, etc. (and that had
all the passwords on it) would break two days into the trip*, without
which logging into Usenet might become an impossibility.
Fortunately, my Steam password was something I can remember ;-)
* who knew that a $30 USD tablet might have a lifespan of only a few
weeks? But I'm sure the $90 tablet I replaced it with will last much
longer! ;-)
You're ALIVE!!!!
Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
On 11/2/2025 10:46 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
(blah blah repost sorry for any duplicates blah)
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
I heard rumors that Spalls had to go overseas to deal with a family
situation that would take them several weeks to deal with. Also, that
the tablet brought along to use to surf the web, etc. (and that had
all the passwords on it) would break two days into the trip*, without
which logging into Usenet might become an impossibility.
Fortunately, my Steam password was something I can remember ;-)
* who knew that a $30 USD tablet might have a lifespan of only a few
weeks? But I'm sure the $90 tablet I replaced it with will last much
longer! ;-)
You're ALIVE!!!!
Obviously it's time he replays Blood.
and being Spalls, he _does_ have the hardware/OS to do so.
Xocyll
(blah blah repost sorry for any duplicates blah)
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
I heard rumors that Spalls had to go overseas to deal with a family
situation that would take them several weeks to deal with. Also, that
the tablet brought along to use to surf the web, etc. (and that had
all the passwords on it) would break two days into the trip*, without
which logging into Usenet might become an impossibility.
Fortunately, my Steam password was something I can remember ;-)
* who knew that a $30 USD tablet might have a lifespan of only a few
weeks? But I'm sure the $90 tablet I replaced it with will last much
longer! ;-)
Glad you're okay. Sorry to hear about your tablet, glad you were
able to help overseas.
Sounds like a bit of an adventure...they say the adventure
starts when everything has gone wrong...
(Fortunately, my Steam password is a 'HorseStapleBattery'** sort of
thing, so it's memorable enough that I wasn't locked out of my
account.*** Can you imagine going THREE WHOLE WEEKS without playing
video games? I'm pretty sure that's a human rights violation...)
(blah blah repost sorry for any duplicates blah)
On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:08:47 +0000, vallor <[email protected]>
wrote:
Haven't seen a post for over a week. Hope he's okay.
I heard rumors that Spalls had to go overseas to deal with a family
situation that would take them several weeks to deal with. Also, that
the tablet brought along to use to surf the web, etc. (and that had
all the passwords on it) would break two days into the trip*, without
which logging into Usenet might become an impossibility.
Fortunately, my Steam password was something I can remember ;-)
* who knew that a $30 USD tablet might have a lifespan of only a few
weeks? But I'm sure the $90 tablet I replaced it with will last much
longer! ;-)
Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
<snip>
(Fortunately, my Steam password is a 'HorseStapleBattery'** sort of
thing, so it's memorable enough that I wasn't locked out of my
account.*** Can you imagine going THREE WHOLE WEEKS without playing
video games? I'm pretty sure that's a human rights violation...)
Well considering I was in a coma for 2 weeks, I don't count that as non-gaming boredom time.
But following that was 8 weeks on two floors in one hospital, plus 3
more at a physical rehab hospital, before I was home to game again.
First 5 weeks, bedridden, couldn't even stand up and had exactly nothing
to do, no entertainment or distraction at all except looking at the
boring sky from the hospital bed,
at least the next 3 weeks had access to a tablet and movies, then the
rehab place had a library of sorts so I could read.
So, yes I can imagine going 3 whole weeks without gaming. Not fun.
Xocyll <[email protected]> wrote:
Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
<snip>
(Fortunately, my Steam password is a 'HorseStapleBattery'** sort of
thing, so it's memorable enough that I wasn't locked out of my
account.*** Can you imagine going THREE WHOLE WEEKS without playing
video games? I'm pretty sure that's a human rights violation...)
Well considering I was in a coma for 2 weeks, I don't count that as
non-gaming boredom time.
But following that was 8 weeks on two floors in one hospital, plus 3
more at a physical rehab hospital, before I was home to game again.
First 5 weeks, bedridden, couldn't even stand up and had exactly nothing
to do, no entertainment or distraction at all except looking at the
boring sky from the hospital bed,
at least the next 3 weeks had access to a tablet and movies, then the
rehab place had a library of sorts so I could read.
So, yes I can imagine going 3 whole weeks without gaming. Not fun.
You mean doing nothing and staring at the boring sky.
That's super boring.
At least, let me watch, read, and listen to medias. Heck, even
use a computer with Internet like newsgroups? :P
I remember back in 1998 with my major surgery, I brought my
laptop/notebook to use, but the surgery drained me. :(
But I learned my lesson. No more $30 tablets from a six-letter for me.
No, this time I paid a whole $90! Three times the price (but 1/4 the
price of 'real' tablets) so you know its quality ;-)
Well considering I was in a coma for 2 weeks, I don't count that as
non-gaming boredom time.
But following that was 8 weeks on two floors in one hospital, plus 3
more at a physical rehab hospital, before I was home to game again.
First 5 weeks, bedridden, couldn't even stand up and had exactly nothing >> to do, no entertainment or distraction at all except looking at the
boring sky from the hospital bed,
at least the next 3 weeks had access to a tablet and movies, then the
rehab place had a library of sorts so I could read.
So, yes I can imagine going 3 whole weeks without gaming. Not fun.
You mean doing nothing and staring at the boring sky.
That's exactly what I mean.
That's super boring.
Indeed, you know you are bored when hospital food is the highlight of
your day.
At least, let me watch, read, and listen to medias. Heck, even
use a computer with Internet like newsgroups? :P
I remember back in 1998 with my major surgery, I brought my >laptop/notebook to use, but the surgery drained me. :(
I don't own a laptop or tablet, and wasn't expecting a long stay, went
to emerg and figured they'd do some tests and figure out why I was
feeling so weak, and I'd get a prescription and be sent home. At worst
I was expecting to maybe be admitted for a day or 3.
2 week coma + 2 months in that hospital + 3 weeks at rehab hospital was
NOT on my Bingo Card.
Even if I had a tablet it could not have connected without purchasing
access at the hospital's extortionate rate (just like TV access,) and
since I don't do credit cards (and wouldn't have taken them to hospital
with me anyway,) that wasn't possible.
Xocyll <[email protected]> wrote:
...
Well considering I was in a coma for 2 weeks, I don't count that as
non-gaming boredom time.
But following that was 8 weeks on two floors in one hospital, plus 3
more at a physical rehab hospital, before I was home to game again.
First 5 weeks, bedridden, couldn't even stand up and had exactly nothing >> >> to do, no entertainment or distraction at all except looking at the
boring sky from the hospital bed,
at least the next 3 weeks had access to a tablet and movies, then the
rehab place had a library of sorts so I could read.
So, yes I can imagine going 3 whole weeks without gaming. Not fun.
You mean doing nothing and staring at the boring sky.
That's exactly what I mean.
That's super boring.
Indeed, you know you are bored when hospital food is the highlight of
your day.
At least, let me watch, read, and listen to medias. Heck, even
use a computer with Internet like newsgroups? :P
I remember back in 1998 with my major surgery, I brought my
laptop/notebook to use, but the surgery drained me. :(
I don't own a laptop or tablet, and wasn't expecting a long stay, went
to emerg and figured they'd do some tests and figure out why I was
feeling so weak, and I'd get a prescription and be sent home. At worst
I was expecting to maybe be admitted for a day or 3.
2 week coma + 2 months in that hospital + 3 weeks at rehab hospital was
NOT on my Bingo Card.
Even if I had a tablet it could not have connected without purchasing
access at the hospital's extortionate rate (just like TV access,) and
since I don't do credit cards (and wouldn't have taken them to hospital
with me anyway,) that wasn't possible.
Wow, that's crazy. Did they figure out what happened to you? :( Thanks God, you're still alive. :)
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