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Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I have a new chat room that will be installed in the next week. It's a bit different from the old chat room, hopefully it will also be more secure and easy to use for everyone.
Before I install and activate the new room, I'd like you all to setup a weekly chat schedule, with dates and times for chats...
For instance:
8pm Friday Night Trivia
9pm Saturday Gettysburg Discussions
Think about it and vote for a new schedule amongst yourselves.
Anybody got anything better to do than march up and down the square??
Actually sir, we were going to go off and catch a movie.
Right! Off you go!
__________________ "In mortal combat, a man may and will become so infuriated by the din and dangers of a bloody fight that his heart will turn to stone and his every de sire [be] for blood."
John Hadley, 7th Indiana after the battle at Port Republic
A bit of reality, good people. A chat room tends to devolve into "how's your mom n em" Sometimes there are genuine CW chats goning on. Usually, there's none of that. The chat room we'er about to get will be a venue for each of us to get to know each other on a more personal level. Somewhere, along the line, some CW stuff might come up. I won't bet on it.
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
Well, I'll just throw this out and y'all see if you want to revise it. What about a 9pm chat every night, on different topics such as suggested by Mike, ie: Gettysburg, Trivia, (any other campaigns or battles), slavery, build-up to secession (from 1800- 1860, Wilmot Proviso, Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott etc.) and one night we could do a "how's your mom 'n 'em."
The topics could be changed (a different battle or whatever) if they lose momentum after a time, or don't attract chatters.
I enjoyed the previous chat room on this board before it was hacked into and had to be shut down. It's a great idea. Just some suggestions to try to get this new one off and running.
Terry
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
Time zone.....ok, well, doesn't matter to me. We could take an informal poll on it, or maybe Mike could check and see which zone most of us are congregated in, and we could go with the most populous time zone. I'm open to EST, CST, MST. PST would work too. I'd just have to do a little more mental arithmetic. (I think I have that many fingers.) As far as drill goes, if you're still drilling at 9pm, whatever time zone, then you need to have a sitdown with your company commander.
Terry
__________________ "In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one." Abraham Lincoln - August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment
I usually just show up when time and temperament permit. I can never keep schedules straight and forget to check in as often as I do.
It will take a bit of time to get people used to checking in, and then in deciding what to tallk about, if anything.
ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
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