From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jul 22 23:30:35 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 23 Jul 2001 06:30:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 87976 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2001 06:30:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 23 Jul 2001 06:30:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta1 with SMTP; 23 Jul 2001 06:30:22 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15OZER-0006cj-00 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:30:19 -0700 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:30:19 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] how can i help lojban? what can $ do? Message-ID: <20010722233019.M20749@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010721141942.00c5d100@127.0.0.1> <4.3.2.7.2.20010720203736.00c7d150@127.0.0.1> <4.3.2.7.2.20010721141942.00c5d100@127.0.0.1> <4.3.2.7.2.20010722045247.00c52ca0@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010722045247.00c52ca0@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 8865 On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:58:26AM -0400, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > At 01:44 PM 07/21/2001 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 02:30:35PM -0400, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > > > A lot of the problem comes down to my own personal foibles and > > > limitations. If I had a little better self-discipline, things > > > would be a lot better. If I could keep my interest level up > > > working on such things rather than writing dictionaries and > > > translating the Arabian Nights into Lojban, they probably would > > > get done. As it is, I have lots of situational handicaps > > > interfering with getting stuff done, compounded with an anxiety > > > streak whenever I face up to the magnitude of undone paperwork. > > > >And yet you've still done a huge amount of work over the years. > > > >Don't be so hard on yourself. > > It is associated with the time of year, as I look forward to facing my > annual carpet-calling for all the things that I haven't done, and I > face the members of LLG again telling me that I shouldn't work on any > of the fun projects because they are lower priority than all the other > stuff that needs to get done. For the record, I won't tell you anything of the kind. It's all good, as far as I'm concerned. You're a volunteer, with _children_, for crying out loud. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/