[Coco] Whoa!

[Jim Cox]

Guys and gals,

I think Dennis is right in asking that certain threads be stopped.  I
just did a little catching up with this list, and I have to say I am
saddened by what I read.  There is a "spate" of unsubscribes from the
list, Mary seems to be missing, and the "dones and the have not dones"
argument started up again.

I am only going to comment on the latter.  Projects come and go, and
some come to fruition while others do not.  I spent about a year and
half building what I thought was a damn good blog and social site for
a local science fiction group, only to now find out that the new
leadership most likely will ask that it be shut down.  Was this a
waste of time for me?  Well even though it took me away from this
community for a long time and used up a Hell of a lot of personal
time, I have to say the answer is a resounding "NO".   I learned a lot
about blogging and web design, as well as learning a lot about writing
web content.  I will say in retrospect that my time could have been
utilized better studying those subjects, but that's not a reason to
discount the effort.

I also spent a large part of that time working on a project at work
that was eventually mothballed, only to be transferred to another
project that was a reworking of the previous one.  I was laid off this
week due to restructuring, in part to project "rescheduling".

After all this I am a little burned out, but I am also looking forward
to a lot of good things ahead.  I guess the point of this ramble is
that "guano happens" and given that we are a small community working
with very old hardware and software, some projects will happen and
some won't, and others will be canceled.  Some people will have great
ideas and bring them to fruition, while others will not.  What we as a
community need to do is keep moving forward, and while we may disagree
we must stick together, because if we don't the only piece of 8-bit
hardware there world will remember is the Commode and the Crapple, and
we can't let that happen can we? :-)

I am not criticizing anyone here, I am just asking we try to work to
stay together as a community.

Cheers,

-Jim Cox
http://miba51.blogspot.com/