Defunct E-mail Addresses

[Winsor Naugler]

I have a number of computers, and the address books tend to include all too
many names of people I know from skydiving who have died.

At one point the list would have been predominantly people who perished in
association with the sport, but more and more it is folks who succumbed to
cancer, heart attacks, car wrecks and what have you.

I suppose I should go through and remove those with whom I can no longer
communicate, but there is a certain finality to hitting "delete" on an entry
for someone with whom I shared such good times.

I have a check I never cashed for packing a reserve that was never used (the
pilot crashed on takeoff), and E-mail from someone who died right after
sending it - I was there and watched the whole thing without realizing who
it was. I could not think of anything to be gained by disposing of either,
so they are where they were when the author died.

Though the sport is all about living life to its fullest, the longer you are
in it, the more it reinforces one's sense of mortality.

Let's be careful out there.

BSBD,

Winsor

[PeterL]

"Winsor Naugler" <dog...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
news:C8Kdndz8iPy0wojX...@earthlink.com:

I was almost on your 'list' Wednesday.

Worst storm and downpour in Brisbane in bloody decades, 100kph (62mph) on the
u-beaut 4 lane freeway. ........ then everything went to shit.

Got a 'love-tap' at 100k's and the bonnet/hood blew up and smashed the
windscreen and stayed there.

Maybe it was my life as a skydiver, maybe it was my life as a soldier....
maybe it was a combo of the two...... whatever it was, I went straight into
'fix-it' mode.

Foot off the gas, drop the seat belt, lean over and look through the 3/4" gap
between the dash and the hood, and steer it over to the verge....... hoping
like all fuck that the semi-trailers following along behind wouldn't drive
over the top of me!! And all the time waiting for some other asshole to spear
into me.

I've lost at least a dozen skydiving mates in car wrecks.

I still have emails from friends who have been gone for several years.

When I go to clean out my Inbox I'm quite ruthless...... but my finger still
hovers over their emails and I always skip to the next one.

They're gone........ but never forgotten.

--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

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[accelerator]

On 21 May, 20:41, PeterL <P...@brissie.aus> wrote:
> "Winsor Naugler" <dog...@ix.netcom.com> wrote innews:C8Kdndz8iPy0wojX...@earthlink.com:

I've lost a few good buddies to both skydiving and 'other' too.

I had the same thing as you on my mobile phone. An old friends number
stayed there for over 18 months after she died (what, was I expecting
a call?). It's just as well my phone got broken and caused me to buy a
new one and now I just won't download her number from the SIM card.
Feels better than crossing it off. Its tough to turn them off, but as
they say on the Lion King "its the circle of life". And as they say on
the stage "the show goes on". Flippant cliches perhaps, but sometimes
we need to remind ourselves to get on with life.

Fly smooth, land safe