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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 89 00:29:01 PDT
From: Terence_Donahue@NEXT.COM
To: iagarcia@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: late mail


They tell me it's safe to tread waters on the arpanet again.  It's been
down (for us) for over a week.  Here's that mail I sent you over a week
ago.  I don't know if you've gotten it yet, but in case you haven't, here
it is.

					Terry

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From: Terence_Donahue
To: iagarcia@athena.mit.edu
Subject: see below

Hi.  I sent this out to you last week, but our slightly flaky mail system
held onto it for a number of days, and then sent it back to me...
Maybe it will work this time.

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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 89 12:37:02 PDT
From: Terence_Donahue
To: iagarcia@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Greetings, salutations,hailings,bespeakings,callings,  
accostings,welcomings!


A fine Hello, howdy do, ciao, bonjour, salut, guten tag, aloha,
hi, g'day, to you!

Ok, I'll stop playing with the on-line thesaurus... for now.

A typical "Day in the Life of Terry":

I have a few types of "typical" days, depending on when I manage
to get up, and what day of the week it is.  Here is a typical
day during the week:

I either get up at 7:25 or around 9:00.  If I get up at 7:25, I go
through my morning routine and head off to 8:00 mass at Mount
Carmel church.  After mass, I return to my apartment, have breakfast
(usually corn flakes with fruit (banana, nectarine, and strawberries
are favorites)).  Then I often make a ziploc bag lunch for later
on during the day.  Armed with my lunch and shoulder bag, I head down
the stairs to.... the car.  (It's tough to make this part of the day
sound interesting...)  Oh, sometimes during breakfast, I listen
to some of my tapes, or to the radio (NPR, national public radio...)

Once in the car, I drive 1.4 miles to work, which is located next to
a port, complete with boats, birds, and a salty bay smell.  Once
at work, I whisk up the stairs, two at a time, turn the corner to head
to my office, and often run smack into a large plastic sheet that
hangs from the ceiling for no apparent reason.  Most of the time I
don't though.  They're still doing some light construction on the
building...

Once inside my trusty office, I make a quick check for any spies lurking
about in the corners.  Well, ok, I don't.  But I may regret it someday.

After reading my email, and saying hi to any of the graphics group
early arrivals, I spin down the batpole into the batmobile and speed
off to IBM Palo Alto (don't revoke my poetic license yet).  I usually
spend 3-5 hours at IBM each day, since I'm working on porting
the NeXT window server to the IBM PS/2 computer.  There are a
couple of other NeXT employees who also spend time at IBM, working
with abou 5 IBM employees in an isolated top secret room called "The Lab".

I then head back to NeXT (a 20 minute drive if there is no traffic,
more if I leave at hurry,bustle,fleet,flit,fly,haste,hasten,run,speed,
whiz,chase,race,speed,tear,dart,scud,break,boil,bolt,charge,dash,fling,
shoot,plunge,stampede,trot,rocket,scoot,smoke,whirl,zip,barrel,beeline,
bustle,highball,hotfoot,hustle,pelt,skeet,bucket,career,course,scorch,
scamper,scurry,shin,sprint,scuttle,lash, er, uh, rush hour.)

At NeXT, I work on other projects, involving optimization and 3d graphics.
I also attend meetings, test out software on the system, talk with
workmates about various projects (there are people around doing things
from mathematics to music to operating systems to chip design to
marketing to manufacturing).

After work, I do different things depending on the day.  On Tuesday
evenings I have choir practice.  Boy do I wish I had taken some
music classes at MIT.  I am certainly learning a lot about music
in a hurry at choir practice!  Most of the other people in the choir

1. were in it last year, when many of the songs were learned
2. have had musical training (sight reading, some voice training, etc)

So I get to play catch-up.  Which is actually good, since I'm getting
to do types of music that I didn't get to do at TCC choir at MIT.
I really enjoy singing, especially in a church choir.  The group is
fun to be with (a bit silly sometimes, and playful).  The organist/
pianist/choir leader is very good.  He really brings the group
together, pointing out that the purpose of the choir is to be a
ministry to the all the people in the church.  So along with the
fun, there is a definite responsibility and purpose.

On Thursday evenings I go to a Bible study.  This just started last week,
so I don't know as much about it as the choir.  It is a combination
of home study, small group discussion, and large group lecture.  We're
studying the book of Genesis over a period of 13 weeks.  I'm looking
forward to this, since I find it more enlightening to discuss the
Bible than to read it alone.  A large number of people brings a large
number of views, life experiences, and personalities to the study.

On Friday evenings I go to a prayer group.  It begins with the rosary,
moves into a combination of singing, praying, speaking in tongues,
and prophecy, and ends with prayers of petition, and then socializing.
This type of prayer meeting is new to me (although when I was very
young, I went to some with my mother, not understanding anything that
was going on).

All three of these evening activities give me the opportunity to get
to know people on a more personal level than people I know at work.
Unfortunately, there really aren't any other people attending who
are my age.

On the other evenings, sometimes I go out to eat with friends from
work, other evenings I'll cook at home.  Cooking and eating alone
sometimes gets a bit lonely, but some days I like it since it
gives me a chance to think.

At night, I usually read, take care of any US mail, juggle, listen
to the radio or tapes.  Before I go to sleep, I say the rosary,
sing a few songs from some of my choir books, and pray silently.

On Saturdays, I do random things.  Go to Stanford, go shopping (usually
food or random things, rarely clothes, actually :-),  went to
a company picnic (saw a small circus troupe, juggled, fascinated lots
of little kids with the big buggle blower thing), go to work to
do random things (including writing letters to friends, rlogging into
athena, etc.)  When fall session kicks in at Stanford in 2 weeks, I'll be
checking out their juggling club and perhaps some gaming activities
there.

On Sundays, I go to 10:30 choir practice before 11:00 mass.  After
mass, I talk with people for a while and then head back to my
apartment.  I spend much of the day reading, thinking, praying, and
resting up for the next week.

So that's my weekly schedule, more or less.  Howbout yourself?

				Terry

P.S. Compose again.  Shun tarrying extendedly inasmuch as I did, stripling.