It's nice to get a good email once in a while :)
Submitted by Rollie Hawk on Tue, 11/15/2005 - 16:07.
I got this email today and it was very appreciated. I don't get too many of these and always enjoy them.
Dear Lineman,
You do not know who I am, and chances are that we will never meet face to face, so I would like to say thank you electronically.
Something about myself, I am 17 and will turn 18 this December, and for the last year or so, was extremely depressed about my life. Depressed to the point of being suicidal. Everything I did seemed to blow up in my face and I was content to simply lie down and die. Fortunately due to circumstances I won't go into, life is getting better.
One of the ways I managed to pull myself out of the hole I was in, was to listen to your podcast. Line Interference. I especially like the last six minutes of the first episode. I also liked reading what you write both on lineman.net (now allyourtech.com ) and your blog.
I love your how to's and the words of encouragement you have for new writers. What you have written is of use not only to those who write tech articles, but are afraid to write in general. (But you probably already knew that)
I am not saying that the only thing I did to get better was to listen to you, but rather that it helped a lot. I am now planning to do somethings with my life that I would not have normally considered. And I owe the inspirations of these ideas to the good people I listen to. One of which is you.
And if I fail in any of my projects? Well, life's a learning experience is it not? And if an old man of 27 years can do it, so can I.
:-)
Many thanks and regards
Dear Lineman,
You do not know who I am, and chances are that we will never meet face to face, so I would like to say thank you electronically.
Something about myself, I am 17 and will turn 18 this December, and for the last year or so, was extremely depressed about my life. Depressed to the point of being suicidal. Everything I did seemed to blow up in my face and I was content to simply lie down and die. Fortunately due to circumstances I won't go into, life is getting better.
One of the ways I managed to pull myself out of the hole I was in, was to listen to your podcast. Line Interference. I especially like the last six minutes of the first episode. I also liked reading what you write both on lineman.net (now allyourtech.com ) and your blog.
I love your how to's and the words of encouragement you have for new writers. What you have written is of use not only to those who write tech articles, but are afraid to write in general. (But you probably already knew that)
I am not saying that the only thing I did to get better was to listen to you, but rather that it helped a lot. I am now planning to do somethings with my life that I would not have normally considered. And I owe the inspirations of these ideas to the good people I listen to. One of which is you.
And if I fail in any of my projects? Well, life's a learning experience is it not? And if an old man of 27 years can do it, so can I.
:-)
Many thanks and regards