Reunion of Chris Benton with Barb A & Tim Durniak
Saturday Mar 29, 1997 at 8:24pm EST.
chrisb | Hello, everybody! |
chrisb | Welcome to the 2nd QHS 20-year Reunion Cyber-meeting! |
chrisb | When I told my wife I had invited 17 people over tonight, she made me |
chrisb | Happy Easter, y’all! Thanks for coming. |
barb_a | well its you and us again… tim |
barb_a | testing… |
chrisb | hello, Barb, glad you could come. |
chrisb | hi Tim. |
chrisb | Are you on a laptop in GF? |
barb_a | Hi, Chis, my mom says hi too. Yes, we’re in GF w/the laptop |
chrisb | Kewl! How’s the weather? |
barb_a | mud season |
chrisb | Yuck! |
chrisb | brb ok? |
barb_a | will others be joining us? |
chrisb | hope so |
chrisb | I was on NetMeeting for two hours today |
chrisb | learned how to send pictures! |
barb_a | I will be seeing Donna (Gyle’s ex) on Monday, and we may be having dinner |
chrisb | HI, Mrs. Ammerman! |
chrisb | Tell Gyle, Krista, and Donna I said hey |
barb_a | response seems slow – the network, irc or your typing ? |
chrisb | probably a little of each |
chrisb | Where is everyone? |
barb_a | I thought of inviting Gordon over tonite for this but we just got up here |
chrisb | Gordon would have a blast with this |
* chrisb has a sudden desire to be back in NY | |
barb_a | Mom and I are going to Dirty John’s for lunch on Monday. Nah, nah |
chrisb | Have one for me! |
[SOUND] | |
chrisb | Did you hear that? |
barb_a | we didn’t hear the sound and we can’t open the fie |
chrisb | let me try another one |
chrisb | make sure your sound is all the way on |
[SOUND] | |
barb_a | sound is on, and he file says complete but we just have the blue line on |
chrisb | let’s try this one |
[SOUND] | |
chrisb | These are .wav files. |
chrisb | If you go to find and plug in *.wav* you can double click on them to |
barb_a | we have the sound files can play them from windows explorer but not |
chrisb | maybe, let’s check them |
barb_a | it looks like that we’re it tonite…given that Easter is tomorrow may |
chrisb | ok go to general options (fourth icon over) |
chrisb | yeah, didn’t realize it was a holiday when I booked the room! |
chrisb | and on the "sounds" tab click on "accept sound requests" |
barb_a | barb got us hockey tickets for Easter Sunday – go figure…anyway, I |
[SOUND] | |
chrisb | how was that? |
barb_a | I bought the tix in Oct. – didn’t realize it was Easter. Heard it this |
chrisb | lol |
[SOUND] | |
chrisb | gonna go see the avalanche play? |
barb_a | what do you mean? |
chrisb | it’s a hockey team |
barb_a | and here we thought it was a theatrical reference |
chrisb | ahhh the play’s the thing! |
barb_a | i tried sending you a sound did it work ? *you need to accept I |
[SOUND] | |
chrisb | I see it but it’s not downloading |
barb_a | well I am trying different settings… |
chrisb | maybe it’s mine |
barb_a | oh well…the technology is never like on tv… |
chrisb | I accepted your DCC invite but no you! |
barb_a | very frustrating when you work for the company who puts that |
barb_a | I am selecting DCC – send.. correct ?? |
chrisb | correct |
chrisb | Wendy and I had this same problem thurs. night |
barb_a | try that.. |
barb_a | the file is large is there a size limit |
barb_a | oh well…i hate computers… |
barb_a | That was tim’s remark about computers. |
chrisb | the limit is 4096 but I’m looking for where to put it |
chrisb | OK when you go to DCC send set your packet size to 4096 |
barb_a | roger, packets at 4096…file is 260K… |
chrisb | but still not working |
chrisb | It says I’m acknowledging your send, but I still get nothing |
chrisb | Do you have Netmeeting? |
barb_a | Oh, well, it’s getting late. We need to get up early tomorrow so we’d |
chrisb | ok I will |
chrisb | see ya |
barb_a | tell me where to get it… |
chrisb | Netmeeting? |
barb_a | yeah – was that the thing from Microsoft we used last time ? Since this |
chrisb | Correctomundo! Since it’s only the two of us, we could get a voice |
barb_a | ok, but not tonite…easter bunny’s a’comin’… |
chrisb | They have a new version that’s cool Beta 4 |
chrisb | I believe in the Easter Bunny |
barb_a | we’ll look for it and have it loaded for the next chat in case it’s just |
