Some help for a newbee please

[Rando]

... in response to Re: Re: Where in PA?, posted by MarkInTx on Feb 5, 2003

Haaaaa,

You will get plenty of chances to bust my chops when it comes to spelling. I IM a friend in VA and she says it takes about two full weeks to learn "Randy Speak...or Spell" as it were.

What are you doing in Texas? I lived there while in the service (Air Force) for about a year. If I ever have to describe Wichita Falls, Texas to anyone I explain as follows....If the world needed an enema..Wichita Falls is where they would stick the hose.

Where where you born? St Marys is an old German Catholic town...we're pretty anal retentive about everything, so being corrected for misspelled words is only one of the many things I can get hammered with here...and thats by the best of my friends.

So its Pittsburgh..guess I was thinking of Philipsburg or maybe Gettysburg...BTW Im running Windows 95 and somehow lost spell check a couple years ago, but the good thing is that if I am able to find a beautiful wife from FSU...she will most likely be unable to recognize my spelling errors ...so that works out really good...:-)

Thanks for making me feel welcome and for your help.

Later,

Randy

[MarkInTx]

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Where in PA?, posted by Rando on Feb 6, 2003

I came to Texas for the job. Wasn't much demand for white collar workers in Pittsburgh when I left.

They still don't pay computer people very much...

I was born in small town between Eirie and Pittsburgh... north of Slippery Rock college, if that helps...

As for Wichita Falls... heck, if you think that is that bad, you need to get out more ;-)

It's not the garden spot of the world, but I can think of better places to "stick the hose". Hell, Harrisbrg comes to mind ;-)

I'll compare Austin to Harrisburg any day....

But, I don't mean to trash the Keystone state. I still do love it. And I miss it terribly every fall.

But now it is February, and I don't miss it at all! It was 72 degrees here two days ago...

[Stan B]

... in response to Where in PA?, posted by MarkInTx on Feb 4, 2003

I grew up in PA, in Wayne, a suburb of Philly. How about you?

[MarkInTx]

... in response to Re: Where in PA?, posted by Stan B on Feb 5, 2003

I'm from the other side of the state from Ya'...

I grew up in a suburb of Pittsburgh.

Wow... Philly to Maui... you must miss the winters, huh?

[Stan B]

... in response to Re: Re: Where in PA?, posted by MarkInTx on Feb 5, 2003

thats what drove me here, I got tired of risking my life trying to get home in the valley I lived in, as my car thought it was a sled in its past life.

[MarkInTx]

... in response to nope, posted by Stan B on Feb 5, 2003

I hear the hockey in Maui sucks!

Actually, I do like your lil island, the few times I've been there... and I haven't like Philly much... so, I think you made the right choice ;-)

(The fact that the last time I was in Philly, I was wearing a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey may have had something to do with my experience, though...)

[Stan B]

... in response to Yeah But, posted by MarkInTx on Feb 5, 2003

I do follow the team and get to see a few games on cable, but they have been so disappointing the last few years that I don't expect anything more than a 1st or 2nd round play-off elimination. Plus I made a deal with my wife that I'd only watch 1 sport full-time, and that is pro football.

[MarkInTx]

... in response to Re: Yeah But, posted by Stan B on Feb 5, 2003

Pro football -- Not the Eagles???

BTW.. my wife says I pulled a fast one on that.

When she was here watching me screaming at my Steelers, she shook her head in disbelief and I said: "Hey, I warned you about this. I told you that I don't watch all sports. But I do watch the Penguins, and the Steelers... I wrote you about that. Before we even met, I confessed that to you."

"Yes, but by then it was too late. I was already in love with you by then!"

Ooops ;-) How did that happen...? I meant to tell her sooner... honest....

[Stan B]

... in response to Re: Re: Yeah But, posted by MarkInTx on Feb 5, 2003

Same here. I told Maryna that I was an avid Eagles fan and that I watched football on Sunday mornings (the games start earlier here), but I did forget about Monday nite. But the funniest thing is listening to my 5 yr old daughter tell people that the Eagles are cool and that the Raiders suck. She is also learning how to play Madden computer football.

[MarkInTx]

... in response to Re: Re: Re: Yeah But, posted by Stan B on Feb 6, 2003


"... Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it. "
                 Proverbs 22:6

Raiders suck. Amen.

[Zoidberg]

... in response to Some help for a newbee please, posted by Rando on Feb 4, 2003

Hi Randy,

Sounds like I was in your shoes a few months back. I was paying similar to you but I found Jack at First Dream (firstdream.com). Turned out if I pre paid for 10 letters it came out to $8 each and that included translation of your letter plus the translation of her letter coming back to you. It was also a little faster then using the $15 a page service... And as far as paying, as soon as I told him the "check's in the mail" he let me start using the service.

He encourages you to send a check as it will save you 10% you have to pay when using a credit card... So go to his page and send him email. He's very easy to work with.

Good luck to the both of you!

Z.