Re: Problems with SBC ADSL services

["R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, life has a funny way of doing that to you sometimes. But you just
gotta go where the road leads you, and sometimes that's right back to where
you came from. I wonder if you and I have passed each other at some time or
other; you in your 18 wheeler, and me zipping by on my motorcycle on some
lonely stretch of western Interstate....:))

Little has changed here in ASA since you left. Back when you were here
before, I was just a beginning player in the alarm business (still am
actually after 10 years), but business has muchroomed so quickly to the
point where my son is now running things, and I just do the fun stuff, like
sales calls, "smoozing" with clients, and cashing all the cheques...:))
Truth is I love this business, but I love doing less for a living even more
as time goes on, and I'm starting to drift away much more quickly than I
thought. I have other "irons in the fire" so to speak that offer a lot more
challenge, and I want to try lots of new things in the few years left to me
(61 in two weeks...)

I still hang around here, but the atmosphere can be quite poisonous at
times. Funny how it only takes a bad apple or two to spoil the whole barrel.
Strangly enough, I don't see the same thing in another newsgroup I spend
lots of time in; most people there act like adults. Too bad.. at times this
newsgroup can be great, but other times....well same as before....you know.

Anyway, I look forward to your forthcoming posts, and do know that you've
been missed. Both you and Irv were voices of sanity back then.....

Very best regards,

RHC
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"THOMAS GERCHAK" <gerchak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Welcome back Thomas ! It's been a few years since you've been on the
>> newsgroup; I thought you'd dropped off the edge of the earth....
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>> RHC
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> I went to work for SBC as a network center technician but got really tired
> of an inside cubicle job after 3 years.  So being 40, I figured I finally
> had a breakpoint to persue only one of my two boyhood fantasies.
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> Well, as it tuns out, and since I didn't see much of a shot at 'making out
> with the Charlie's Angels', I did the next best thing and learned me on
> how to drive a big rig.  (You know, "breaker 1-9 , this here's Rubber
> Duck", and dont forget eleven long haired Friends of Jesus In a Chartreuse
> microbus.) I figured if I can fly a plane, I can learn me how to drive a
> truck. (Surprisingly, if you hussle and don't become a company driver, you
> can make $60k and write off most expenses.)
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> I did the truck driving thing for about a year and a half.  I saw places I
> never would have ever seen in all 48 states and then some.  If I were 20
> years youger, I might try it as a career and invest the money for
> retirement.  I would not recommend it for folks over 45 or so...  As a
> vacation for me, it was great!
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> Now I am back in the industry I have known since 1984.  Like an old pair
> of good jeans, it just suits me.  Thanks for the 'welcome' although when I
> dropped off the edge of the earth, somehow I knew I would always be
> allowed back at A.S.A.  It's quite a motley crew here.  Stay tuned for the
> shocker which is to be continued in R.L.B.'s reply from me.
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> Respectfully,
> thomas
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