Re: Whining and drivel...the final frontier

[Virginia Krenn <asdxvlk -at- OKWAY -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>]

        Gus,

        I accept your apology.

        One question, though. I and several of my colleagues here at Oklahoma
        State University are wondering who this Barry Switzer fellow is that you
        mentioned. One fellow said that he thought that he used to be associated
        with Oklahoma University down south of here but that he had moved even
        further south across the Texas border.  8-)

        Virginia

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     Author:  Gus Lemming <lemming -at- pts -dot- mot -dot- com> at SMTP

To the technical documentation world:

Thanks to all who directly responded to my last thread.  Consider me well
 spanked.

To Virginia:  sorry for the badly aimed thread.  I'm not sure, however, if there
 is
a Santa Claus.

To Oklahoma:  you truly are OK (with the possible exception of Barry Switzer).

To the bit.listserv.techwr host cpu at Oklahoma State:  bleep, bleep, bloop.

The sun was in my eyes.  My dog ate my homework.  I am sharing the same brain
 with
my officemate, and he was using it that day.  I ingested an unusally large dose
 of
monitor phosphor through my pupils, and was prone that entire day to episodes of
stream of consciousness.

Sorry to anyone offended.  I was just trying to inject some levity.  In some
cases I suppose, it turned out to be tavern-level humor.  I violated one of the
rules of any writer worth their snuff; know your audience.

It reminds me of my technical writing professor.  This guy was really cool.
He was my college's writer in residence for a year, and he came from the real
 world.
You know, not like so many professors who couldn't deal with reality and escaped
 to
a life of academia.  Every now and then, he used to come over to my house for
 beers,
and I would pick his brain with all these wide-eyed questions about life after
graduation.

Anyway, not only did this guy teach tech writing, he was a published author too.
And I really wanted to do some kind of creative writing, even if it was writing
copy for an ad agency (which I did for a few years).  However, I was uncertain
if I could really do it, so I would also ask many questions about tech writing.
I'll always remember what he said, "Chase your dreams.  Don't worry about
 technical
writing, it will always be there."  I think I now know exactly what he was
 saying.

Do the following:

1.  Take care,

Gus Lemming