Will where do I start. First thing first. My spelling and grammar sucks. It is not official and all the results are not yet in but I know I am not the smartest white boy on the block but I try. A accident left me kind of scrambled up stairs. But I don't let it stop me. I spend a lot of time on this old computer learning. At first I was scared that you can't teach an old dog new tricks but it is all coming back to me. Some time's not as fast as I would like. That is one thing I don't have a lot of and that is patients. Will if any thing some of you might get a good laugh trying to read this mess. Oh ya And thank god for spell check are I really would be a up a creek with out a paddle. I'm 42 and in a nursing home for long term care. I broke my back in a accident and now I have to learn how to walk again. It gets hard some time but I know I cant give up are it will win. All this is no big deal to me. I just woke up one day and said ok I am a mess and the big guy threw me a challenge so it is time to get strong and stop felling sorry for my self and kick this in the ass. I think once you get threw that part then the rest is down hill from there. Don't get me wrong it took time before I woke up and was ready to do a war dance. But I did it. And if I keep this up I just might get to check out of club med. I do know now that you have to live life like there will be no tomorrow. Because tomorrow might not come.I guess now I should till you all the stuff I like to do and stuff like that. Will lets see I love the outdoors fishing camping and just siting out under the stars and listening to the peace and quite. Some day I hope to get a telescope. I guess it don't Hurt to dream. I am easy to get along with. I love to make every one around me laugh. The people here in the nursing home say they love to have me around and wish I would never leave but I know that there is know way I'm going to stay here on minute longer that I have to. I love all the staff here. They saved my life. Before I came here I just wanted them to close the led on me and that be that. Man was I goofy in the head for thinking like that. I love life. Yes it took my legs but It did not take my hands are brain. Will it tryed to take my brain but I won that fight. I hope! Even though I have brain farts some time. But heck I know some guys that have them and they have not been threw what I have. Will now that you all think I'm nuts I better get done here. I really want to meet people on the net to talk to. I don't have a lot of family and the more people I meet here the more it will help me get things up stairs running in the right way. And I wont have know more spin outs. Thanks all Love ya. And remember to smile so the people around you will smile back and then they might go on and smile at some one else. Kind of like pay it forward. I would like to see a national smile day. Boy knows we need it. See ya talk to ya. Norm S.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I know that we are not alone. I also think that there is planets older than we are and look where we are to day, and if they are 1 or 2 thousand years older then we are, then they have to advanced a lot more than we are. I think this project is great. I don't think are Government should have shut it down. They sure can blow money on a lot of stupid stuff and this is not stupid at all. But this is our government for you. Don't get me wrong I'm for our Government but some times they just do things that just don't make sense to me. I'm not smart enough to have any suggestions. I just hope that I can do this right and not mess it up. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.
