Woh hoo! Hawaii-so glad you all get to go--what a blast! What a pay off for all the hard work. L. ---------- > From: Barber, Kenneth L. <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: how am i? > Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:55 AM > > well, looking forward to a family vacation that has taken me years to > arrange and only announced a little over a year ago. in the seventy's, yes > the seventies, i got in a frequent flyers org. i played all the switch the > phone companys games (switch at the drop of a hat), put in the little bit > from hotels and rental cars for miles. very little flying since we are not > allowed to use mileage from job travel and i do very little flying > personally, i got enough mileage to get free tickets to hiwaii. we have been > saving (even the kids have a hawaii fund) 1 1/2 years. rebates, coupon > savings, profit on a few hobby related sales ect... to cover our other > expenses and we go in june. the reason i never promised that i could attend > a trip to kansas city when this group was discussing a get together. > two months away and the whole family is getting up for it. evevyone is > "oh hawaii, must be nice" but, they do not know how hard it was for a less > than wealthy family to put this together. > i may be going to the washington area in may. but, again it is set in > jello not concrete. i'll wait and see, there is talk of new york too. who > knows, probably they'll work it out to do this in atlanta and keep from > paying travel expenses. it is okay if i have to add 3 hours to my day > because of where the work will be located as long as they save the money. > i guess we are all okay. getting older and sorer in the joints. > i'll not make this any longer