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02/15/1998 Sunday My first web page.
02/16 - 03/29 Ramblings were noted.
04/02 - 05/31 More ramblings.
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06/28 Sunday evening
RE: WHAT'S NEW? - I haven't been posting much since the end of May
and now it's the end of June already. Anyway, a man does not live
BY WEB ALONE. But I have been on and off, answering MOST of my mail,
adding a few links, and doing a little browsing. I even got a
surprise in clicking on one of my own links, that I had only previously
scratched the surface. The surprise was in the history that
I had forgotten or perhaps had not looked too deeply at before. The
link was from the middle pillar to an O.T.O.
historical study.
RE: MYSTERY SCHOOL - Lesson #1 is in process. School was to start on June21 -
I missed that date. The self-starters could follow some links.
This is just a draft.
RE: SATURN - Mini Mystery - Has anyone seen SATURN
in the picture at the link? Just let your eyes relax and look thru
the pattern. Crossing the eyes is another way to do it.
RE: ROSEMARIE - I got some surprise e-mail from my sister. She
likes the page I started up for her. I uploaded a new
seedling planter pot from Rosie
to add to her garden. In fact, she sent me a
second one, also. She says, "Please Hear What I'm Not Saying" on the
first one and adds "A Prayer for a Good Day" on the second one.
RE: DANCE - We missed a few nights. Tuesday the 23rd was a regular ballroom
night. We missed Friday's tango night due to another event and Saturday was a
night of rest. The previous Saturday 20th was a nice evening at Pineapple. This
past Saturday 27th was a showcase at Pineapple which we missed.
RE: WEATHER - We've had some rain, but very little. Manatee County lost about
100 acres of brush to fires about 40 miles north east of home but nothing
compared to almost 230,000 acres of fires in north and north east Florida.
The lightning storms have also started some smaller fires that were kept
under control. We also had a few deaths related to lightning.
DON'T WAVE GOLF CLUBS AT THE STORM CLOUDS #@&!*%$! or hay rakes - -
etc.
RE: ANGEL - Andrea is asking if her site looks O.K. She started it in
mid-May.
I would ask everyone who visits me to visit you, Angel, but I'm not
getting much traffic, yet. I will have to post something that is of interest
to more than just the Grolemunds (and former Grolemunds). I'm working on it.
The other way to get traffic is to make contacts through CHAT or by VISITING
other sites and leaving the page address and/or a calling card/banner. After
everone has seen your wedding pictures two or three times, they will expect to
find some fresh items or ideas. I have to work on my updates more often,
myself, but I need to take the time to collect some interesting links and to
hopefully add some NEW viewpoints on the subjects. And maybe even stir up
a few new viewpoints in the process. But, for some people, THINKING IS
HARD - - maybe even painful??? So, break it to them slowly - small doses.
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07/01 Wednesday evening
RE: LATE AGAIN - (to post for June 28) I've been crashing earlier lately.
Maybe the hot weather is wearing me down? Thank Tesla (or Edison) for
electricity and air conditioning. We can't get along without "things" that
didn't even exist for our grandparents. Or so we think. Can you imagine
not having Windows 98? Well, that's a bad example, but imagine if you still had
only a 286/8, with 1 - 5 ¼ 1.2M floppies, no hard drive, and only 640K
memory. (Like on our network at work.) How could we live without our
Pentiums? Remember when high-end BBS graphics looked like this??
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The Lookout
and how much time we spent to line them up?
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07/08 Wednesday evening
Not much ado about nothing. We had a bit of rain here and in the rest of Florida.
I heard about a fire down south of Ft. Myers but I haven't been following the news very
closely myself. The last I heard was that the total acres lost to fire was over
1/2 a million. Most of the loss was in the north and northeast parts of the state.
Sunrise tomorrow is 6:39 - plus or minus - who cares?
Sunset is 8:33.
Full moon is at 17Cap15 @ 12:01 p.m. High Noon.
It will be straight down.
Again, nobody cares . . . .
RE: PAGE HITS - On June 15, I logged on and worked my way thru registering
at about half of the sites at:
Submit your page to 34 popular sites for free!
Now I'm getting FEWER hits than before. Go figure? I guess I'll have to go
knocking on doors, i.e., VISITING and writing in Guestbooks. I'd also like
to chat, but then I get nothing else done.
RE: ANGEL - Maybe my niece and sister will
come visit again. Angel has her own
site now, as well as a husband and baby at
home, as well as going to college, as well as a job. . . . I wonder what she
does in her SPARE time?
RE: ROSIE - My sister Rosie has a CYBER GARDEN.
She sends me some flowers(?) by e-mail and I plant them for her.
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07/14 Tuesday early morning Bastille day
SPORTS - SOCCER: - Go France !!! On this Bastille Day they will REALLY
have something to celebrate. This is the true international FOOTBALL game.
We AMERICANS have baseball and our version of football -
the WORLD has SOCCER.
FOUR "R's" - I've been doing more reading than writing lately.
Or at least the writing I have been doing hasn't been on my web
pages. I haven't had many visitors in any case. But I should
clean up a few pages in case relatives drop in.
Sandy (my wife) says that the SSG is broadcasting subliminal messages
on the TV sets suggesting that we not read. Maybe the plan is to replace
all three of the three "R's" with TV.
R
eading, w
Riting, and a
Rithmetic are not replaceable by TV, TV and TV, I
don't think so! And there should be a fourth "R" for
aRt, which teaches us
how to use BOTH sides of our brain. This "R" covers music,
poetry, painting, drawing, sculpture, dancing, stage, and a large
variety of experiences. Art helps us to experience life
and to understand each other better, including our apparent
differences. And there is also a lot of art on TV, to say that
not all TV is an undesireable pastime. The TV is a medium, like canvas and
oils, or music and dance, or paper and ink. How we use it
or view it is a personal choice. Hopefully we will chose
it in a manner that helps us to grow healthy in body,
mind, and spirit.
ANGEL says PATIENCE IS
A VIRTUE! She must have learned that from
her Dad.
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07/18 Saturday
DANCE - TANGO - We stayed home last night (Friday) because we
plan to go to the Grand Opening of a new location on the north
side (our side) of the river (Manatee). (Across from John Deere.)
Our former instructors, Martin & Denise Rivera, local champions,
will be doing an INTERNATIONAL LATIN exhibition as part of the
evening. We also will see some old friends there, with whom we
used to dance a couple of years ago.
TALLAHASSEE - CCMS Memo: Thursday meeting = Back to the drawing board.
RETURN FLIGHT - Chris never heard of THE FACE ON MARS. But she
has an internet account - she may have found it by now. Here,
let me look up the definitive book on the subject:
Try this one.
I'll be back . . . .
. . . . later . . . . Later than I expected . . .
I had drafted a few changes but didn't get around to
uploading them.
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09/25 - late Friday p.m. - early Saturday a.m.
LONG BREAK - tinkering with other things . . .
Sandy (My wife) got a new laptop computer on 9/12. She wanted to go on
the net (finally) and didn't want to use her 486 or to share my
old Pentium 266. I can understand that. Now she has a nice little
Pentium laptop with 32 megs, 3+ gigs, a 56K modem (mine is 28K),
and a few other nice accessories.
One of the accessories is a R/W cd drive. We debated getting a
ZIP drive, but the disks would eat up the credit card faster
than the blank cd's, as low as 2.50 each. Since it is an
external drive (lpt1), I can share it with her. Maybe I can
backup the mirror copies I've made of some web sites and free up
a gig of hard drive. I used to just download and then I could
read them at my leisure - images and all - after some minor editing
of the links. That was how I learned HTML coding, in addition to
a few help sites to explain the tables, td's., tr's, dl's,, br's, hr's, etc.
Now that I've learned a lot of the code, they have developed
programs which automate most of the HTML formatting, even allow for placement
of the images, etc. The latest
Word Processors, even Spreadsheets, have options to convert the
document to HTML format. I recently looked at the source code for a converted
spreadsheet and considered that it would have taken me hours to
write all the code to put all those rows and columns into table format.
Writing HTML code makes me feel like I'm back to
"reveal codes" mode in
Word Perfect 5.1 prior to WYSIWYG and windows.
Word Perfect 5.1/DOS is still a very popular
Word Processauraus in the late 90's. Whatever happened to
"JUST PLAIN TEXT?" My old favorite was
Wordstar 3.1. My new favorites are Wordpad and DOS EDIT, both
by Microsoft.
Sometimes I have to be compatible to share documents, so I'm
often forced into Office/Word95/97 or Corel/WordPerfect7+. But for
spreadsheets, my favorite is still Lotus 1-2-3 over either
QuatroPro or Excel.
Enough rambling. Tonight the Huricane Georges is passing by as I type.
So far we are lucky that the center seems to be passing about 150 miles
off shore. We're getting wet, and we're still 8 - 12 hours away
from the worst of it. I boarded the most exposed windows and dug a
drainage ditch from the house towards the lake. Sandy bought a
cover for the new car (garage is full) and we parked it sideways
up close to the garage door. One of our worries is the possibility
of one of the trees coming down on the house. By the same token, we are
glad to have the trees to shield us from large flying objects
(other smaller trees or tree parts) that take wings during the
high winds. O.K, Georges, just stay away from our door.
Well, I have a lot of uploading to do, so I'd better get started. If Georges
is coming, he'll be here in the morning.
RIGHT
line 2?
or 3
No Georges
No Georges
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10/10 - Saturday p.m. - mid-afternoon
HURRICANE - passed us by - - - THIS TIME - - - AGAIN.
Luck is holding out.
TANGO - - I have added some pictures from
FOREVER TANGO
the broadway show which
which will be visiting in Tampa
next week. The touring
cast is not the same as the Broadway cast, I don't think, but
the show should be good. They are probably understudies of
Luis Bravo's Broadway group. They did a nice exibition on a
recent TV show of the Boston Pops.
Last night was our regular tango night. Our regular tango
instructor is now back in Sarasota, since the day before the
hurricane, from several months in Canada. She has been speaking
only French for several months, and her English hasn't recovered
yet. During the evacuation while they were coming back, they
said they were the only car traveling south.
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10/17 - Saturday p.m. - mid-afternoon
TANGO - - Tomorrow (Sunday) is the last day of performance
of the traveling cast of
FOREVER TANGO
in Tampa. We're in second row center balcony.
INDEX & HOME - the logon pages have been revised to cut out
most of the graphics. I noticed on some other slower machines
that it was taking a long time to load. I left them in the menu
as options, but just for archives. The
old menu had graphical buttons which load slower than text.
the new menu is 95% text and should
load a lot faster.
Qelhma - I added a list of links to the page of
THELEMA.
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10/29 - Thursday p.m. - mid-afternoon
TANGO - - Yes, the FOREVER TANGO was a great show.
I didn't change my FOREVER
TANGO picture page very much. The souvenir book has more
good pictures in it, but the computer monitor won't do them justice.
To really appreciate the photos and the story, you really had to BE THERE.
As they say, "A good time was had by all."
You didn't have to be a dancer to enjoy the performance.
Just - - WOW !!
NICOLE - - Don't forget that every Friday night is TANGO night at the
Sarasota South Trail at John Mueller's Dance Club. And Nicole
is back - hurray !! Come dance with us.
HOME PAGE - - I'll have to be more careful about previewing my pages before
I upload them. Or preview them immediately after I upload them.
It's amazing what havoc a missing carrot or quote mark can
cause - or one too many. My fat fingers hit the insert key
accidentally and without knowing it, I am in REPLACE mode instead of
INSERT mode in my editor. As a result this entire page
disappeared into a narrow column in the far right margin.
Who knows, maybe it does that on some browser versions, anyway.
They won't even see these notes. They probably won't come back
again, either. Sorry about that. I am still trying to
make my index page more browser-friendly to lower and slower versions.
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11/15 - Sunday p.m. - late night
WEB PAGES - I added a few more entries to my
family tree. Also, I colorized it. I have been getting
some contacts from some distant relatives. I have heard from
Paris and from Spain. The concensus is that we Grolimunds / Grolemunds probably
originated from Switzerland. A side note from one Swiss cousin - Christoph -
is that he thinks we migrated from France to Switzerland and that the
original name was French - Grolimont. (Maybe from a mountain somewhere.?) And a
cousin in Paris - Stephan - gave me a contact for Alois in Switzerland, who
is doing some research on the name. Alois isn't on the net, so we will have
to reach him by snail mail.
His address is:
Mr. Alois Grolimund
Gehrenmatt 532
CH-4616 Kappel SO
Switzerland
. . . . . . . . . . . if anyone cares to contact him.
TANGO - The recent local (Sarasota) Dance Sport competition was rescheduled
after the first hurricane Georges threatened to swipe us. It was reported to
be a success, with a nice Argentine Tango demonstration. The event was
mostly geared towards ballroom style, including theater arts, and the Argentine Tango
entries were fewer than last year. I added a link or two to my tango pages.
HTML TEST - I was testing with fonts and with
colors to see what differences there were
between 256K color mode and 16-bit. I think I'll stay with 16 bit for a bit longer.
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11/22 - Sunday p.m. - late night
WEB PAGES - I cleaned up a bit more on the format of the
family tree, added more detail for aunts and uncles,
amd added more internal links between the details.
FAMILY TREE SEARCH - About a month ago, on Oct 18, I sent out e-mail messages
to every Grolemund or Grolimund that I could find in a search of e-mail addresses.
There were not a great many addresses, about ten (10) or so. I asked each of them
where they got their funny name.
GROLIMUND -PARIS - I got one immediate response from Stephan in PARIS, who reminded
me that he had given me the info a few years ago on the address of Alois, in
Switzerland, who was doing research on the name. (I think it was on my tape backup
that I never restored because I couldn't get the tape drive to work in my NEW compaq
that I got for Christmas, 1996.)
GROLIMUND - BASEL - My second response was from Sitzerland. Christoph told me it was
his father that gave him that funny name. He suggested that the name might be from
the French Grolimont. (Maybe the first of us came from the mountains. I still have
hillbilly blood in me.) Christoph is originally Himmelried/SO of the Schwarzbubenland.
He gave me a short history lesson on the lex solis (law of the sun - or is that
the sunshine law??) from which he derives his citizenship.
GROLIMUND - MADRID - Carlos had been out of town and got my message late. And now I've
received two messages from him. In the first he said
- "I've got this strange last name
from my grand-father who came from Switzerland and there is a bunch of Grolimunds
in Spain (my father and my uncle plus brother, cousins and nephews and nieces,
actually I think around 25 people.
I know we got some relatives in USA and I know there are some Grolimund people
living in France. I'll send you further info."
I had given Carlos the address of Alois in Switzerland. It appears that Carlos' uncle,
Paco, is also doing some research. After he and Alois sort out the pieces, Carlos will
send me more information. Maybe I can find out where John Grolemund came from. I just
thought to wonder, was John his original name, or did he change it when he got off the boat?
end of notes
S T O P H E R E
. . . . later . . . . before Xmas, I hope. . . .
Hi Matt,
I deleted some of the hidden code now that you know how to get to it.
But I just stuck this in because there was space before
the bottom of the rainbow. Now you don't see it . . .
. .now you do see it.
Almost the end . . .
Email:
billgrolemund@usa.net
or
willnet1@hotmail.com
{Home Page
} or {
Start Notes
} or {
java back .
} or {
Tango}
S T O P H E R E
That's O.K. If you prefer, DON'T stop here. But the middle pillar isn't erected yet.
A middle pillar.
Looks like
people were reading my thoughts.
The end /// Feedback on wnmail page.
Saturn 
