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[2Sheds_Jackson]

Yay, 2Sheds!

What are you all talking about with the spare time? I'm still working (essential, don't ask me why, at a hospital) so I still have to get up at Zero Dark Thirty... Luckily, the shift is over by 13:30.....

Ha! Well, in theory, I'm working as well. I work for Motorola these days - the land mobile radio/public safety side, not the cellphone side - and while they've put the kybosh on non-essential travel, I'm lucky enough to still be fully employed. I do a lot of remote connection to radio systems for maintenance/upgrade work, but it's more or less on my schedule. So when Mrs. _Jackson says that we need to refinish the top of the refrigerator, I have to say "yes dear" and hop to it. It's sucks that you're up so early- but yeah at least you're out early as well.

 

[Hollis]

13:30, cricky you have to time to spare to go shopping, in closed (crow bar is needed) or empty stores, drive on roads where there are no others, drive by a closed fast food joint, etc

 

[Euroamerican]

Yep! I get home by 2 PM, eat a quick lunch, and get the doggy out for a hike or walk about four days out of five! Took me a long time to get used to going to bed early though. 9 PM used to be when I got serious about studying or whatever... Now, 9 PM and I'm thinking of a hitting the hay!

Lots of things are closed, but the grocery stores and liquor stores and convenience stores are all still open! ;-)

 

[riderboy]

Anybody see linedoggie or GB-FXST? from the old days?

 

[BravoZulu]

Anybody see linedoggie or GB-FXST? from the old days?

Linedoggie actually joined this site back in 2015 but never returned

 

[Jake84]

Linedoggie actually joined this site back in 2015 but never returned

If LD is still on FB, I’m sure a few here could eventually get a hold of him and bring him back here.

@digrar surely? Probably half his FB friends are from these old Mpnet/TheMess posters.

 

[Jake84]

Anybody see linedoggie or GB-FXST? from the old days?

As for GB, while he was always respectful to me and generally reasonable as a character, he sometimes was a bit of a naughty bugger in debates. He’s more than welcome to join us anyhow if anyone is still in touch with him.

 

[digrar]

If LD is still on FB, I’m sure a few here could eventually get a hold of him and bring him back here.

@digrar surely? Probably half his FB friends are from these old Mpnet/TheMess posters.

I see him on FB, but we're not faceyspace friends.

 

[tomthounaojam]

@Jake84 Yeah, LD is on FB for sure, not so sure why he distances himself from the forum.
Btw nice Avatar, just done watching the season 5 last episode yesterday, man Lalo character is scary.

 

[amishlightening]

Hello everyone! I was a longtime lurker on MP.net/the Mess (I think I only posted maybe once or twice, though) and then at some point I was in the army for a little while.

 

[BravoZulu]

Welcome to MI.net @amishlightening

 

[digrar]

Welcome to MInet @amishlightening

 

[Fortesque]

Hi all!
So this is where everyone is.
Former member of both mpnet and themess. (Elliott70)
I’m an Aussie living in the north west of WA and working in the mining industry.
Thanks for letting me in. (actually, the lock was broken...)

Cheers

 

[Bombardier]

Welcome to Mi.Net @Fortesque , glad to have you aboard

 

[digrar]

Nice to see you at the RV, late, lost, written off. But here at last.

 

[digrar]

Now to try and track down Diving Engineer. We shut up shop while he was off in sandy countries...

 

[t13]

Oh wow, I knew this board 'smelled' right as soon as I found it. Used to frequent mp.net a great deal years back but the replacement; 'themess' seemed real quiet for a long time and I drifted away into internet deep space. How nice to see some old members still about, @digrar in particular is a very noticeable 'remnant'! No offence intended lol.

 

[Jake84]

Welcome @t13

This site is a bit of a combination of either mpnet and TheMess, the later closed shop about four years after it was started and was the offspring of the defunct mpnet.

@Bombardier has been running this distinct forum since 2002, any more question about the place is the bloke to ask to.

 

[t13]

Welcome...

Thanks Jake. I did sign on to 'themess' after mp.net folded but drifted off within a few months as activity was very low. As I'm starting to explore more around here I can see many recognisable avatars from mp.net which is fantastic as it was a pretty good community overall.

 

[BravoZulu]

Welcome aboard @t13