Where is Gooserider?

Goose, there is a program on that computer called textedit or simpletext which you can use to type long posts if you have that connection problem.....
or, if you want a little fancier, download a free text editing program called TextWrangler -

You can also use google docs if you have a google account.....but you'd have to check whether that works, cause it is on the cloud.

WOW! Goose and Mary-Anne, My prayers are with both of you! I hope all will be well with you, and over the weekend I will see to sending something to Craig to help out, Man what a shocker!!

Good to hear from you Goose! Hang in there and keep a positive outlook. The mind can do wonderful things to your body.

Goose,
I had read a few of your posts in the past. I don't know you personally, but hate to see a brother in need as I mentioned earlier on this thread. I am a Union Carpenter from Paxton, MA. We union carpenters build lots of wheel chair ramps on the weekends for people who need them. This is all done with donated time and often materials. I would be glad to offer my time to get anything built in your home to accomodate your wheelchair. I will PM you with my home phone # either you or Mary can contact. I also have some lumber that could be used to start some projects. I will also contact my Union Hall to see if we as a group can go out of our local to do such projects. I think these projects have to go through a certain process of approval. But, I would be willing to help on an individual basis nonetheless! I don't know when you will be released to go home. However, if you need a ramp or other adjustments done to your home soon I'd like to volunteer. If there are any other Mass, NH or nearby members who would like to help, maybe we can put our strengths together to help Gosserider.

great to hear you back in there goose.

VCBurner said:

Goose,
I had read a few of your posts in the past. I don't know you personally, but hate to see a brother in need as I mentioned earlier on this thread. I am a Union Carpenter from Paxton, MA. We union carpenters build lots of wheel chair ramps on the weekends for people who need them. This is all done with donated time and often materials. I would be glad to offer my time to get anything built in your home to accomodate your wheelchair. I will PM you with my home phone # either you or Mary can contact. I also have some lumber that could be used to start some projects. I will also contact my Union Hall to see if we as a group can go out of our local to do such projects. I think these projects have to go through a certain process of approval. But, I would be willing to help on an individual basis nonetheless! I don't know when you will be released to go home. However, if you need a ramp or other adjustments done to your home soon I'd like to volunteer. If there are any other Mass, NH or nearby members who would like to help, maybe we can put our strengths together to help Gosserider.

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vc count me in. i'm a electrician by trade, so anything that needs wiring i can handle. i'm only about 3 miles from goose if that helps any. but can help with anything

frank

fbelec said:

VCBurner said:

Goose,
I had read a few of your posts in the past. I don't know you personally, but hate to see a brother in need as I mentioned earlier on this thread. I am a Union Carpenter from Paxton, MA. We union carpenters build lots of wheel chair ramps on the weekends for people who need them. This is all done with donated time and often materials. I would be glad to offer my time to get anything built in your home to accomodate your wheelchair. I will PM you with my home phone # either you or Mary can contact. I also have some lumber that could be used to start some projects. I will also contact my Union Hall to see if we as a group can go out of our local to do such projects. I think these projects have to go through a certain process of approval. But, I would be willing to help on an individual basis nonetheless! I don't know when you will be released to go home. However, if you need a ramp or other adjustments done to your home soon I'd like to volunteer. If there are any other Mass, NH or nearby members who would like to help, maybe we can put our strengths together to help Gosserider.

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vc count me in. i'm a electrician by trade, so anything that needs wiring i can handle. i'm only about 3 miles from goose if that helps any. but can help with anything

frank

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Great Frank,
I hope we can get a group of guys together and do a monster build on Goose's house! I PM'd him with my home # and will keep you posted with any developments.
Chris D.

VCBurner said:

fbelec said:

VCBurner said:

Goose,
I had read a few of your posts in the past. I don't know you personally, but hate to see a brother in need as I mentioned earlier on this thread. I am a Union Carpenter from Paxton, MA. We union carpenters build lots of wheel chair ramps on the weekends for people who need them. This is all done with donated time and often materials. I would be glad to offer my time to get anything built in your home to accomodate your wheelchair. I will PM you with my home phone # either you or Mary can contact. I also have some lumber that could be used to start some projects. I will also contact my Union Hall to see if we as a group can go out of our local to do such projects. I think these projects have to go through a certain process of approval. But, I would be willing to help on an individual basis nonetheless! I don't know when you will be released to go home. However, if you need a ramp or other adjustments done to your home soon I'd like to volunteer. If there are any other Mass, NH or nearby members who would like to help, maybe we can put our strengths together to help Gosserider.

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vc count me in. i'm a electrician by trade, so anything that needs wiring i can handle. i'm only about 3 miles from goose if that helps any. but can help with anything

frank

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Great Frank,
I hope we can get a group of guys together and do a monster build on Goose's house! I PM'd him with my home # and will keep you posted with any developments.
Chris D.

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sounds like a plan. i pm mary anne with my number a few weeks ago to do what were talking now.
now if this rain would stop.
couple of my jobs got flooded. can't work in a live panel standing in water.


frank

Goose: One day at a time . . . and keep hoping and working for the best positive outcome.

It's good to have you back on the site . . . it was even better just having you here with us . . . given the possible alternative. If nothing else, this experience may show to you and Mary Anne that you may have many more friends and extended "family" than you ever thought you had. I know I speak for many of us when I say you both are in our thoughts and we're pulling for you guys.

If you need help of any kind, please let us know. We want to help. Some folks can be pretty darn proud . . . and that's not a problem . . . but there is a time and place for pride and there is a time and place to let your friends help . . . so do let us know if we can help you in any way.

Mary Anne: Thank you for being our go-between . . . our messenger . . . and while Goose may speak now for himself it doesn't mean you have to be a stranger. You've posted more than 10 posts so that automatically makes you part of the Hearth.com family . . . new rule . . . I just came up with that one . . . if you opt not to post any more, that's fine . . . but do take care of yourself and Goose.

Craig: Thank you for bringing Goose back into the fold . . . a loaner laptop may not seem like that big of a deal . . . but I can only imagine how much he appreciates being reconnected to his family here at hearth.com and elsewhere . . . and it beats watching The Young and Restless or General Hospital. Thank you.

Goose, it's great to see you on the forum again. I've been holding my breath - it feels good to exhale.

I'm glad that Craig brought you a laptop, but I doubt that it's a proper open-source device. That's where I might be able to help. Sounds like you'll have more time than you want to pursue the sedentary side of creativity. I don't know to what extent programming is your thing, but I'd be happy to help put together some hardware and software to facilitate whatever intellectual distractions you might need to keep from going stir-crazy. I've got a lot of [del]junk[/del] thoroughly broken in equipment of various sorts here, almost all of which deserves a better home.

PM me and I'll see what I can put together.

Here is a pic of goose with the mac as well as a beantown shot for those of you who like to travel by picture!

This is the view from MGH Hospital (goose has some better views from spaulding), and looking up Beacon Hill - I assume the Gold Dome up there is capital.....not a big Boston expert here!

BTW, the sailboats and crew boats were out in force on the Charles on the day I visited.

Mary-Anne said:

Tonight I am bringing Goose a Lenovo SL510 Thinkpad
and a Kubuntu CD,
so it is hoped that Goose
will have an Open Source machine
and more than one button on his mouse
very soon.
Anyone who wants to offer suggestions on setting that up
should probably let Goose know by PM.

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Glad to hear he'll have a proper computer and OS. lol.

Hey, what's wrong with Unix?


I'm going to be smirking thinking of Goose using windoz...

I'm an Apple nut, mostly these days because I am making so much money on their stock and figure that they deserve my business!

Craig, have you heard of people putting snow leopard on their acer aspire ones? I'm not sure I want to mess with changing OSs right now, but it looks kinda neat on a netbook.... When I venture away from XP it's usually to OpenSUSE, i know it's the Linux version for idiots, but it always just feels so easy to use and you can get as complex or simple with it as you need.

I think people have done it - put Mac OS on windows machines.
My problem is that I fought with computers from 1982 until about 1998, so when OS X finally came out and WORKED, I stopped screwing around. Now I do actual work instead of fighting with operating systems!
The hearth.com server is Linux, though. Very reliable. And I would definitely go for a Android phone and/or tablet or netbook. But right now all my computing needs are met...nothing I want to do that I can't easily do.
Who would have imagined we'd ever get there?

I see it every few weeks with Vista plus a lot of times it just shuts itself down and restarts.

Where the heck is Goose, though? Maybe answering PM's?