On Feb 28, 3:05 pm, Sarah Czepiel
cox.net> wrote:> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:38:27 -0800 (PST), PyrateJohn
>
but as we say in the
> :>country "She sure is fucked up, ain't she?"
>
> John, you are trying to rationalize the behavior of someone who you
> yourself reported went to the home of a stranger in New Orleans and
> stood there muttering to herself and then answered her own mutterings.
> I'm not a psychiatrist but I'm pretty sure one would tell you that's
> the behavior of someone who ** ISN'T ** taking the drugs that they
> should be taking. Typical of people like Karen, they often will take
> their anti-psychotic drugs until they become somewhat lucid and then
> unfortunately once they become lucid they think they don't need the
> drugs anymore and they slip right back into their psychotic state.
> This would explain why on some days some of her posts seem somewhat
> rational only to find a few hours later they're followed up by bizarre
> posts where she has anonymous remailers answering herself.
I am sure that you are right. They say that some of those drugs have
nasty side effects and that folks want to get off of them. Very sad.
But also very nutty.
> Remember in one of her bizarre posts she accused Ken of dumping some
> supposed wife in Missouri and running off with your lady in Florida.
> Even when Karen is somewhat lucid she behaves like a teenager. She
> behaves like the scorned teenager and her entire life has become one
> of stalking and harassing you and the people who she thinks are her
> rivals for your attention. These people include Deb, me, Ken
> [ because he's associated with me], etc...
Ken ran off with Deborah?!!?! The bastard!
Yeah, I must have missed that one too. This is getting funnier than a
soap opera.
>
> Being homeless is certainly not a good thing as Karen herself knows
> having been evicted from her apartment and thrown on the street.
> Perhaps had she saved some of her money instead of subscribing to
> every search engine and database on the planet she could have made her
> $430 subsidized rent payment every month. What's funny is the dumb
> old skank wants us to believe she has a " portfolio" and is " an
> architect" after she told us she's been evicted. Believe me, Karen
> lives in a single room in a by the day/week rooming house.
That's doubly sad.
I often wondered if she was living in her travel trailer. Or if that
had been repo'd.
Trust me, I enjoy a bohemian livestyle (something that never occurred
to me when I was younger incidentally, but like a lot of things being
used to staying at a Hilton was keeping me from traveling ;) but
living in a classic Wanderlodge with triple-redundant heating systems
(gas, built-in electric, and a third system that runs off of hot
engine coolant) in Florida is a far cry from living in a tiny travel
trailer in the middle of a Washington winter.
Her buddy in Wisconsin was sort of the same way. The cops that gave
me a print out of his vehicle registrations made a snide comment that
he wasn't anything special since he owned a couple of early 80's vans
and pickups. Someone on alt.obits sent me an email speculating that
the van was actually a handicap van. The Florida property he bragged
about was a vacant lot that he only had an inherited 1/4 interest in
and that wasn't anything special. Real trailer trash stuff. It's not
just speculation that he was living in a mobile home and having
trouble paying his heating bills.
> I can certainly see your point and I know some people get bored after
> they retire. Ken loves his job but after commuting into DC for 25
> years the traffic and general congestion of the roads here just wears
> on you. He has enough time in to retire with a 35 year government
> pension so he's seriously considering retiring and when he does we'll
> be hitting the road like you and Deb to do some traveling and see this
> beautiful country of ours.
>
Oh, I know that just as soon as I say something about never retiring
something positive or negative will come up and I'll quit my job. Or
get shown the door. Or Deb will say "the hell with it, let's hit the
road." Sometimes it doesn't pay to make predictions that folks can
Google ;)
I'd ideally like to find something to do that would tie into a mobile
lifestyle. We are doing more industrial construction and I am
already more mobile than I expected to be. It's not at all out of the
question to think that down the road I may be supervising jobs around
the country as we grow this business.
Or writing. I still haven't given up on trying to find the right
formula for a small publishing company but so far I haven't seen
anything that made me want to stake my future on a concept. It's
tough making $$$ these days out of peddling books, and even tougher
trying to do it exclusively through an online presence.
And disaster relief is a big thing with me. I'd like to get back to
being more active in the field. I did interview with the Florida
equivalent of FEMA and considered applying for some FEMA gigs, but
right now they are all so messed up (imagine Karen on acid - yikes!)
that I'm glad that I didn't take one of those gigs.
So never say never about retiring. But ... just saying ;)
> :>You can see what happens to people with little outside stimulus. They
> :>become trolls like Karen K. Anderson, and that's one step away from
> :>being an antisocial vegetable.
>
> Are you certain you want to stick with the " one step away" part of
> that? LOL!
Really ;)
>
> Yep, the travel bug is going to get us as well if Ken retires. I
> loved Florida when I lived there but I was a kid. My folks had a
> place in Palm Beach up until 1986 when they moved back up to RI.
> They loved the winters there but said the crime in So. Fla. was moving
> steadily north. Same feelings a friend had in St. Pete. The day she
> nearly got car jacked and robbed in broad daylight at an ATM was the
> day before she packed her bags and moved back north.
>
Yikes! I really enjoy South Florida but I think that you are right
about the crime.
And the Florida Keys are beautiful, but I just wasn't ready to move at
the right time. And now, sadly, they don't tug at my heart like they
once did because they have become too overdeveloped and the bohemian
locations have been displaced by gold-plated places. There was a time
when I would have hung with the yacht crowd but my heart is more with
the sail boaters and I'm not going to spend that much money to live in
Paradise ;)
We are planning to head westward in stages. I'd like to get to San
Diego but I doubt that we'll just pack up and move out there in one
swoop; we've talked about settling and working in the Mobile/New
Orleans area and later in Houston or San Diego so that we can explore
that part of Mexico on the weekends.
But as you said - this is a huge country, and other nations are
equally huge. I've seen quite a bit and want to see more before my
time is done.
>
> And we both know her life will go on for decades. She's no more
> dying from cancer than either you or I.
>
> Pity about her...
Well, she's 69 now according to her own profile on a site that I ran
across, so unless she is so spaced out that she cannot remember her
own birthdate I doubt if she has decades. As stressed as she
obviously is, and as screwed up as she must be if she's living in a
boarding house, I'd give her a few more years.
For that matter, I'd only give newsgroups a few more years. They will
implode, the services that collect newsgroup posts are already having
trouble getting ad revenue so they will implode, Google will either no
longer archive newsgroup posts or they will begin to downgrade them
when you do a search, and Karen will vanish into oblivion. It won't
be long.
