In article <jo7tbhpqncakqia810adabe41pqbsi8rhn@4ax.com>,
J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:28:30 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>Heydt) wrote:
>
>>In article <ts8pah5c3b5u1j3f9cp4doicgo84u6aek4@4ax.com>,
>>Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>"I?e been assured she? still alive."
>>>
>>I've gotten worse;2+ weeks in hospital. Got back last night;
>>doesn't look good. More later when I can type.
>
>I think I may have surprised Hal on another forum. I was having an
>argument with this guy about some point of engineering and I asked him
>"why don't you get an engineering degree and do it then" and he
>replied with something about his sick linguist wife (not quoting him
>here, that's my paraphrase). I said "Your name wouldn't be 'Hal' by
>any chance" and the conversation vanished shortly after.
>
>My apologies to him if that was indeed him and that discussion alarmed
>him.
>
>I do hope you make a good recovery.

(Hal Heydt)
That was not me. I haven't posted to usenet for a very long time
prior to Dorothy's death. And, if it comes to that, I have
nearly all of an EECS degree. Doubt I'll ever bother to get
those last 5 units. Not much point.

On Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 3:25:45 PM UTC-6, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:

> All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
> - Alexander Woollcott

And here I thought that was an Oscar Wilde quote.

John Savard

I am so, so sorry to hear of her passing. She was one of the great
lights of this group.

In article <1b7d4slaj6.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net>,
Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>I am so, so sorry to hear of her passing. She was one of the great
>lights of this group.

(Hal Heydt)
Thank you. She was a great light in my life. Now I am left in
the dark...