JFFC - I forgive Rick Bradbury for deleting my post!

From: Lady Donna BIC of the JFFC (albc0006@yahoo.com)
Subject: I forgive Rick Bradbury for deleting my post!
Newsgroups: alt.clubs.just-for-fun
Date: 2001-04-16 18:59:02 PST

Ok I will get back to the Subject later on down in this post just wanted
to get everybody's attention..............now hang on while I get some
Coffee.

My day started like most other days, except I was off............ya see
Kent working for the Government I have the privilege of choosing my work
schedule like working 9 hour days to get a extra day off..........isn't
that nice.

Anyway today is Tax Day and I normally have them done in Jan. But this
year I just thru the forms somewhere. So yesterday I started looking for
them and could not find my Federal Tele-File Form I thought no biggy
have until Mon to call it and my State taxes in..............how easy,
so I woke up and made Coffee and thought I have all day so will check
the groups and do some surfing, watch TV take a nap and by 3 was ready
to go on a search and seize mission, I looked everywhere and kept
accusing Patches my cat of hiding it........so I get a bright idea and
get back online go to the IRS Web Site and Figure I can just download
the form...........well you cant use Tele-file unless you get the form
in the Mail has special numbers or something on it. So I thought
whatever will get the 1040ez fill it out and run to the PO............I
needed Acrobat Reader, so start the download and will take 45 minuets,
so by now I am starting to get pissed, so think well what if
something happens and it doesn't work, I have to get that damn Form so I
let the download continue and ride down to the Library...........the
only Tax Forms they have left is the one to get an extension, so I go to
the desk and am told by a sweet little old lady that I can make copies
of the forms..........great I can do that<G> well 15 other people
thought the same thing. So I wait and wait and another nice little old
Lady tells me there is only 1 person using the machine
downstairs............I go downstairs and find out why............some
old man is copying a bunch of stuff, but I wait and am very
patient........he was nice and apologetic.........I told him no problem.
After 10 min it's my turn so I stick $1.00 in the machine and start
copying (Larry should be asleep by now) I hate copy machines they are
all different, had pictures on how to place the paper and everything but
I messed up 5 times, so after I got the machine figured out was done in
about 2 min. I also needed the tax tables and I didn't have my W-2's but
had an idea of what my Gross pay is so made a guess and copied the
tables. Got in the Car turned Golden Earring on full blast and headed
home! (as a side note, I did notice there were lots of men waiting to
make copies but I was not in a good mood so did not pay much attention
to them, so my plan for next year is to do my taxes ahead of time, go to
the Library on the last day around 7pm and check em out more closely)

So I get home thinking Ok now to fill out the damn form and get it to
the PO. than I think oh Shit I don't know where to send the damn Form
to, but remember I am downloading Acrobat so maybe the Forms Section at
the Fucking IRS site will have that info...........finished the
download, went back and found what I needed. To the Couch and started
filling out the form, Ok I was not in a good mood and when I saw how
much I paid and what I was getting back that pissed me off, now for the
State Tax, and gee it was a easy Tele-File Form, did not have a mail in
form in the book, great today is the last day and all the lines will
probably be tied up, but first you have to do a damn worksheet than
call, so did that and called, got in the second time.............the
most annoyingly sweet voice claims she will guide me through the
process, finally that's done. So I get back in the Car and drive to the
PO Golden Earring blasting.

Larry you can wake up now)

And..................I get to thinking about all the turmoil that has
gone on for almost a year, including this past weekend. Rick Bradbury's
deleting or not deleting my post is but a small action he may or may not
have taken, so I can forgive him for that, but what I can't forgive him
for is the fact that after I did as asked and sent him an email he never
replied, he never denied deleting the post, all I know is Carol made a
statement that someone had hacked into his Server and just started
deleting posts and mine was one. Well seemed like a possible answer,
but................he could have taken the time..........if he cared to,
to either post that info on his server or email me..........he did
neither, just put blocks in place so Larry, Manny, Neil and Bobk could not
post to the group. The biggest cause of the turmoil IMO was the total
Lack of Communication, (The Link or Not Link Warz) and his so called
inability to Link one Group the JFFC because his Software was not
Compatible with Larry's, Tom's, Rick King's, Frisco's or James Server
Software. Well he had Linked Manny's PP group with all the other servers
and worked fine as far as I could see, so that did not blow my skirts
up. The Lack of or willingness to be able to discuss this with all the
Members at that time was denied. I can understand not wanting a bunch of
Hotheaded pissed off people posting in the group, but maybe after a
cooling off period we could have discussed this topic and other topics
in a rational manner and maybe the JFFC would still be that..........the
Just For Fun Club. But the easiest way out was to Create the Just For
Friends Club, and so what if the Acronym is the same, everybody will
know the difference right? Wrong is most confusing and misleading which
is why a totally new and creative name was not used, that was done on
purpose.

That's all I have to say right now.