ECCC on September 27, 2008

[RobertB]

The Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention is coming on on September 27, 2008 to Lombard (Chicago), Illinois.  For more information on this year's convention and for a look at past ECCC's, go to

http://starbase.globalpc.net/eccc/

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

[airship]

Couldn't make this last year because of finances. I'd sure like to this year.

[RobertB]

I'd sure like to this year.

If you do go, you'd have to tell us all about it. :-)
     I hope the ECCC doesn't have a precipitous drop in attendance like that of the C4 Expo and CommVEx.

           Truly,
           Robert Bernardo
           Fresno Commodore User Group
           http://videocam.net.au/fcug
           The Other Group of Amigoids
           http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

[airship]

I hope not, too.

I know they never advertise that Jeri will attend, but she almost always has. I'd love to meet her. I wrote an article on hacking the C64DTV for MAKE magazine.

And I've still got my stuff together for the presentation I had planned to do last year on the history of INFO.

[BigDumbDinosaur]

If I'm still upright with a pulse that day I'll try to attend, since it isn't too far away from my dinosaur den.  If I do come it'll be late afternoon.

[RobertB]

If I'm still upright with a pulse that day I'll try to attend...

Oooo, very nice!

             What a trooper!
             Robert Bernardo
             Fresno Commodore User Group
             http://videocam.net.au/fcug
             The Other Group of Amigoids
             http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

[airship]

If I'm still upright with a pulse that day I'll try to attend, since it isn't too far away from my dinosaur den.  If I do come it'll be late afternoon.

If not, let us know where you live and we'll drag your stiff corpse over there and stand it up in the corner.

(I hope that you realize my morbid sense of humor comes from being in your situation more than once. The only way I ever found to handle my potential demise was to make light of it, and I hope you feel the same. I made it through, though, and I sincerely hope you do, too, big guy.)

[BigDumbDinosaur]

If not, let us know where you live and we'll drag your stiff corpse over there and stand it up in the corner.

Yes, but will anyone be able to tolerate the "aroma" of a dead dinosaur?

(I hope that you realize my morbid sense of humor comes from being in your situation more than once. The only way I ever found to handle my potential demise was to make light of it, and I hope you feel the same. I made it through, though, and I sincerely hope you do, too, big guy.)

I coined the "upright with a pulse" thingie so people would know that I'm not taking my situation too seriously.  I figure as long as I can complain about it I'm okay.  If I can't complain then I'm dead and that's the end of the story.

ITP is kind of an odd malady, in that in itself it isn't fatal or any such thing, and the patient doesn't seem to have any outward signs of distress.  Most people who see me think I look reasonably healthy.  The dangerous part comes when I start to resemble a leaky automatic transmission.

[RobertB]

The dangerous part comes when I start to resemble a leaky automatic transmission.

Yow, you need that "transmission sealer".  ;-)

             Where's AAMCO when you need 'em?
             Robert Bernardo
             Fresno Commodore User Group
             http://videocam.net.au/fcug
             The Other Group of Amigoids
             http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

[airship]

Have you considered maybe just wrapping yourself up in Saran Wrap? It would be pretty hard for your bodily fluids to leak out if you were all sealed up.   

(Remember, free medical advice is worth every penny of what you pay for it.)

[BigDumbDinosaur]

Have you considered maybe just wrapping yourself up in Saran Wrap? It would be pretty hard for your bodily fluids to leak out if you were all sealed up.   

(Remember, free medical advice is worth every penny of what you pay for it.)

I had thought about dipping myself in potting compound but couldn't figure out a way to deal with the internal leaks.

I will say one thing: the local mosquitoes have been having a field day with me.  Just think: a victim whose blood doesn't clot.  Talk about easy pickings!

[airship]

I had thought about dipping myself in potting compound but couldn't figure out a way to deal with the internal leaks.

Have you thought about swallowing one of those radiator-sealant turd-things?



And please wear a full-body mosquito net. I now have this horrid image of you with all your juice sucked out, just like in the horror movies. Yuck!

[Golan Klinger]

Like almost every other problem, this can be sorted with duct tape.

[BigDumbDinosaur]

Have you thought about swallowing one of those radiator-sealant turd-things?

I'll pass on the stop-leak.  I just want to quit bleeding, not be eternally constipated.

[RobertB]

I'll pass on the stop-leak.  I just want to quit bleeding, not be eternally constipated.

Ah, then you'll need a bottle of STP Oil Treatment which "improves the viscosity", i.e., thickens it.  :-)

                Truly,
                Robert Bernardo
                Fresno Commodore User Group
                http://videocam.net.au/fcug

[Blacklord]

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