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#1 Post by Sveepz » Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:14 pm

Hi All,
Just rejoined after a long absence. I am an AME, A&P and PPL.

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#2 Post by Rwy in Sight » Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:54 pm

Welcome back Sveepz. I hope you enjoy your stay this time.

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#3 Post by FD2 » Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:19 am

Welcome back Sveepz!

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#4 Post by admin2 » Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:39 am

Good to see you, sveepz.
I am an AME, A&P and PPL
With those qualifications I'm sure your your knowledge will be very useful to folk here!

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#5 Post by EA01 » Tue Dec 06, 2022 7:37 pm

Hi Sveepz, welcome back. :)

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#6 Post by reddo » Sat Dec 10, 2022 1:34 pm

Welcome back Sveepz :D

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#7 Post by probes » Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:11 pm

Hi to all and sundry,
I was looking for a thread of 're-introductions' for the 'long-time-no-see' - and the first sentence of this one seems to summarise my message :). I'm neither AME, A&P nor PPL unfortunately - just older and (hopefully) wiser.
Been terribly busy (uhhh, it's always hard to say no to jobs you really like?), lost my password (tnx for recovery-help!), but as has been discovered before - it's impossible to totally stay away from the community here.
Oh, and youknowwhat - I've terribly missed several of you!

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#8 Post by PHXPhlyer » Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:30 pm

Welcome back Probes. :-h
Glad you found your way back. #:-S
Wondered what happened to you. :-?

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#9 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:34 pm

A very warm welcome back, Probes!
Happy 2024!

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#10 Post by jimtherev » Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:30 pm

Wotcher, Probes... from,
Another happy-24-wisher.

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#11 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:56 am

Welcome back Probes.
'Yes, Madam, I am drunk, but in the morning I shall be sober and you will still be ugly.' Sir Winston Churchill.

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#12 Post by Wodrick » Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:05 am

Yep welcome back

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#13 Post by probes » Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:34 am

Thank you! [smiling broadly]
Well, what happened to me? Life did, I guess :).
Had some 'challenging' translations (that's the original of the last one, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... gaia-vince ) - to remind us even in the times of extinction there are winners, too; also if we want to turn back time for a species, who is to say what's the 'baseline' - super interesting and super full of names of species. Some had to be invented for our text :) - well, didn't do that myself.
Then, taught English to some kids (ok, teenagers) from Ukraine, from around Herson, to help them manage better at school here. Real challenge for me, as I haven't taught kids 'into' Latin alphabet, which they were not fully comfortable with, and the UKR alphabet is different from the RUZ one. So is the language, especially pronunciation (which is why they understand RUZ and russians don't understand them). As they were from the mainly russian-speaking region, they said 'we don't learn russian, we just speak it', even though they communicated in Ukrainian.
Plus, my russian is so-so, but UKR-ENG google translate helped a lot!
One of the guys wants to become a fighter pilot, btw - found some motivating videos of cockpits etc. explained - greatest thanks to you guys for the background over the years for me to know where to start from.
And had an extra interesting experience of touching the ice in my own yard with the back of my head - quite a bang, actually :) - which resulted in inability of working with screens for more than a month after being unable to read anything at all for a couple of weeks, as it just made me sick. Very annoying. Because, it appears it's no fun taking naps if you can't read in between them! Plus, when it was somewhat possible to start typing again, it was much slower than I'm used to and I made typos, which hadn't happened for years, and was extremely annoying :).
BUT, mind you, I think I didn't knock any screws loose permanently! @-)

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#14 Post by PHXPhlyer » Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:18 pm

Probes:
Glad to hear that you are (mostly?) OK. :YMAPPLAUSE:
Teaching is a noble and rewarding venture. ^:)^
Props as well for helping out these kids. Language differences aside, the trauma of what is going on in their homeland has to weigh on them as well.
Book added to my voluminous "To read" list. It's available at my local library. :-bd
Keep us updated. :-ss

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#15 Post by probes » Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:40 am

PHXPhlyer wrote:
Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:18 pm
Book added to my voluminous "To read" list. It's available at my local library. :-bd
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Thank you!
The book did change the way I perceive the natural world around me - even though I've always been more down-the-Earth than average, I think. And I really loved the concluding sentence of the chapter on some species being very successful: "If we think they are weeds, that's our problem." ;)))

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#16 Post by limeygal » Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:00 pm

Wonderful to have you back Probes. Us ladies are very thin on the ground here. We need all the help we can get! :YMHUG:

Welcome back to you too Sveepz :-bd

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#17 Post by G-CPTN » Sat Jan 06, 2024 4:02 pm

limeygal wrote:
Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:00 pm
Us ladies are very thin on the ground here.
Who needs thick ladies?, although I believe the term is used to signify those of generous proportions. :ymdevil:

thick ladies

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#18 Post by probes » Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:53 am

limeygal wrote:
Sat Jan 06, 2024 1:00 pm
Us ladies are very thin on the ground here. We need all the help we can get! :YMHUG:
Thanks a lot, I'd love to join the thin 'uns! :YMHUG:
G-CPTN wrote:
Sat Jan 06, 2024 4:02 pm

Who needs thick ladies?,
Some do, I've noticed? :D

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#19 Post by Rwy in Sight » Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:14 pm

Welcome back kind lady. I am happy you managed to be here despite all those issues you encountered.

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#20 Post by Smeagol » Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:32 pm

Belated welcome back to both. It is good to hear of 'returners' rather than 'leavers', we have had too many of the latter.
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