Conference back40::soapbox

        I honestly cant say as I would change anything, Ive been through some
    pretty nasty and hard times and I truly believe those times, be they
    good or bad, brought me to where I am today (be today good or bad) if I
    were to change the slightest detail of the past would I be here now? or
    would what will happen to me in the future happen? So would I go back
    and "start over" from any point? no.
    

    
    
    	I would go back to the day I found out one of my best friends had
    terminal cancer. At least I could tell them how much they meant to me
    and say a proper good bye (I was so blown away at the time that I
    failed to do either). I'd leave everything else the same (well, maybe
    I'd change some of my investments). :)
    
    
    jim

    I'd like to pass on the day I crashed my mate's Jag through the
    nightclub wall.

    sept 6, 1985

I assume that when we go back to that particular day, we have the benefit
of "knowing what we know today?"

This would be my worst nightmare.  If I awoke tomorrow, and found that it
was my first day of Jr. High all over again (7th grade), I'd have taken my
first opportunity to fish my father's .45 out of his dresser and plug one
through my medulla.  Really.  Fortunately, I got better.

One thing that makes life so livable is that we DON'T know what's coming
next.  I prefer to leave it that way.

To take a quote from my favorite TV show:

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair.
Then I thought wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair
and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we
actually deserve them? So now I take great comfort in the
general hostility and unfairness of the universe. --Marcus,
Babylon 5

 June something, 1982...the last time I saw my Dad alive.  I'd love to have
 the opportunity to have just one more conversation with him, knowing what
 I know now.


 Jim

    August 4, 1966.  Let's push the reset button and start over.  8^)

    
    it's not my life, but i'd like to take away the day my grandmother got
    cancer.  almost 9 years later, i still miss her.
    
    as for mine, there are a bunch of moments i'd love to do over.  not too
    many from recent history, thankfully...
     

    
    i wouldn't change a thing.  well, ok, maybe one tiny thing. i would
    have invested in Microsoft in the mid 80's.

   'Nam, in the bush....about 5 minutes before that SOB shot me in the leg, we'd
    see who hits who. 
    

    i wouldn't want to start over. i'm simply too tired.

    I would only start over if I could retain my experience.

    If I were to start over, I'd only end up at the same place or maybe
    worse.

    
    I think you have to retain your experience.  Otherwise, what's the use?
    Glenn is absolutely right.
    
    I'd start over on my 28th birthday.
    

    
    <--- um, i thought you were only 26?

    .9:
    
    If it were the late 70s again, I'd have sabotaged Microsquish.
    
    At the time, they were using one of the systems I was managing.  Their
    product set was limited to Basic, but a few well-placed Trojan Horses
    could well have changed history.

    
    	RE: .14
    
    	Lame, lame.
    

    
    quiet, slab, i'm trying to curry favor.

    lemon curry?

    
    no. curry and ives.

berle ives?

    spanish ives...

    
    	spam and chives
    

    Two summers ago, visiting Nicole in L.A., passing
    her a weapon *BEFORE* she opened the door.
    Standing there with my weapon, just in case the
    job needed finishing.  Oh, and a Polaroid camera
    to take pictures for the tabloids, selling them
    for $100K and donating that to Cystic Fibrosis.
    
    [and I don't consider myself a violent person]

    
    	RE: .23
    
    	I'll admit that I don't like Fuhrman, but I don't know that I
    	could have killed him.
    

I struggled with this one because I love where I am now in my life and I 
believe that all my life experiences brought me to this place.  I also 
wouldn't want to take my knowledge back with me ... the point of being 
young is to learn by messing up.

I wouldn't mind going back in time if I could bring one thing back with me; 
some self confidence.  I'd like to go back to August 20th, 1977 (? ... the 
day I left for college) with the self confidence I had when I was 24 or 25. 
Not that I was terribly confident at 24; but I was confident enough that I 
would have experienced college and my early 20s more fully.

Greg
 

    		Man and SuperMan ???
    
    I read a play once, by George Bernard Shaw.  I believe it was Man and
    SuperMan... but it matters not... I won't attempt to try the direct
    quote, but it goes something like this...
    
    One elder character says to a young man that is joining the Corporation
    -
    
    you know, Son... life is strange.  It seems all backwards... we should
    start our lives as Old Men and progress in reverse...
    
    Just think of what you'd know when it comes time to go to the prom!
    
    8^)
    
    /Mic
    
    

    I'd like to start over with Dawn and Andrea.

    
    	Ahah!!
    

    >I'd like to start over with Dawn and Andrea.
    
     I bet you would.