While I have benefited from my father's stuff, I have more benefited from his love and wisdom.
Well yeah, I hope so... but to me that just part of being a parent. Of course you're going to love and cherish your kids, teach them morals and respect, philosophies on life blah blah blah..
I had a good friend I used to work with who had a serious genetic disease (marfan syndrome), and he knew it, and lived his life like he was going to die soon (most of them don't live past the age of 40). He ended up being a father too, a little girl, and when he died at the ripe old age of 26 he left behind squat - no college education fund, no special wedding day for her, no little cute dresses with pink bows for her to wear to sunday school classes.
Love and wisdom and the stupid psalm crap matters in the end, but when my son is sixteen I don't want him driving the piece of crap that I'm driving now...
I got my kit last week and tried installing it over the past weekend. Extremely simple, but alas I was never able to get it to work. Granted I only gave it 15 minutes worth of trouble shooting, but it seemed the problem was in the serial-port wireless transmitter... hmm...
I would love to find sites on how to build the stuff myself though.. 13 bucks a pop to hook up a light isn't cheap...
I've always wondered what happened to a bunch of people - like Tempus Thales, the god of ANSI himself, or RadMan. Even Shihear Kalizad too (though most people couldn't stand his ego)...
shrug... I even still use my old handle to this day.
I'll have to get back on IRC someday I guess...
Killean the Red - Free Beer BBS - TRiBE!!! (chuckle)
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nah, you're thinking of Darkstone...
While I have benefited from my father's stuff, I have more benefited from his love and wisdom.
Well yeah, I hope so... but to me that just part of being a parent. Of course you're going to love and cherish your kids, teach them morals and respect, philosophies on life blah blah blah..
I had a good friend I used to work with who had a serious genetic disease (marfan syndrome), and he knew it, and lived his life like he was going to die soon (most of them don't live past the age of 40). He ended up being a father too, a little girl, and when he died at the ripe old age of 26 he left behind squat - no college education fund, no special wedding day for her, no little cute dresses with pink bows for her to wear to sunday school classes.
Love and wisdom and the stupid psalm crap matters in the end, but when my son is sixteen I don't want him driving the piece of crap that I'm driving now...
blah.. you may not be able to 'take stuff with you' but you still can pass things on to your progeny to make their existance a tad more pleasant...
I'm going to be a father for the first time in about 6 weeks or so, and I've begun to really appreciate the material equity I'm aquiring.
I got my kit last week and tried installing it over the past weekend. Extremely simple, but alas I was never able to get it to work. Granted I only gave it 15 minutes worth of trouble shooting, but it seemed the problem was in the serial-port wireless transmitter... hmm...
I would love to find sites on how to build the stuff myself though.. 13 bucks a pop to hook up a light isn't cheap...
I've always wondered what happened to a bunch of people - like Tempus Thales, the god of ANSI himself, or RadMan. Even Shihear Kalizad too (though most people couldn't stand his ego)...
shrug... I even still use my old handle to this day.
I'll have to get back on IRC someday I guess...
Killean the Red - Free Beer BBS - TRiBE!!! (chuckle)
Nostalgia certainly is the key word here.