Onyx...

jmg · Post by **jmg** » 04 Jul 2022, 21:20

Anyone have contact info for Onyx?

Thunktank · Post by **Thunktank** » 04 Jul 2022, 21:46

I briefly looked for the emails we exchanged some years back. No luck yet. I can’t remember the pertinent words I need to search for it. I hope I can figure it out because I would like to touch base with him again too.

jmg · Post by **jmg** » 05 Jul 2022, 16:41

Thunktank wrote: 04 Jul 2022, 21:46 I briefly looked for the emails we exchanged some years back. No luck yet. I can’t remember the pertinent words I need to search for it. I hope I can figure it out because I would like to touch base with him again too.

He took me out for a burger and a beer when my mom was in ICU in Brisbane. It was super cool to meet and hang out with him. He comes to mind from time to time and I'd like to drop him a "hello."

tuttle · Post by **tuttle** » 07 Jul 2022, 05:19

I really enjoyed his perspective and how the conversation flowed when he was a major contributor to a conversation. Hope I get to talk to him again some day.

coco · Post by **coco** » 07 Jul 2022, 14:53

I miss Onyx.

Post by **Biff** » 07 Jul 2022, 19:37

Who's Onyx?

FredS · Post by **FredS** » 08 Jul 2022, 05:47

Biff wrote: 07 Jul 2022, 19:37Who's Onyx?

He was AFRS on the old site.

sweetandsour · Post by **sweetandsour** » 10 Jul 2022, 08:16

Seemed like a nice guy, with good banter. I pray that he's doing ok.

jmg · Post by **jmg** » 10 Jul 2022, 10:59

sweetandsour wrote: 10 Jul 2022, 08:16 Truthfully, I haven't thought of Onyx as much as some others not on here, such as Wos, and some others whose names I can't immediately recall. There was a guy out in Fresno, and avid student of Chesterton, that always got winter jobs as ski instructor, autumn jobs at county fairs, and summer jobs at various parks or summer camps. Another guy, an old geezer cynic sort of guy in the UK that smoked strong tobacco and drank strong teas and ales, always posted interesting thoughts and cool pics of himself in his chair.

But anyway wrt Onyx, I seem to recall that his parents were Presbyterian missionaries, or Methodist perhaps, but he had fallen away, maybe not yet entirely. Seemed like a nice guy, with good banter. I pray that he's doing ok.

He spoke to me about his faith, but that is his story to tell so I'll let him do that, should he pop back by. Regardless, him coming to meet up with me while my mom was in the hospital there in Brisbane meant an awful lot. Wish we could make it happen again...the hangout, not my mom being sick.

DLJake · Post by **DLJake** » 10 Jul 2022, 16:15

jmg wrote: 10 Jul 2022, 10:59
sweetandsour wrote: 10 Jul 2022, 08:16 Truthfully, I haven't thought of Onyx as much as some others not on here, such as Wos, and some others whose names I can't immediately recall. There was a guy out in Fresno, and avid student of Chesterton, that always got winter jobs as ski instructor, autumn jobs at county fairs, and summer jobs at various parks or summer camps. Another guy, an old geezer cynic sort of guy in the UK that smoked strong tobacco and drank strong teas and ales, always posted interesting thoughts and cool pics of himself in his chair.

But anyway wrt Onyx, I seem to recall that his parents were Presbyterian missionaries, or Methodist perhaps, but he had fallen away, maybe not yet entirely. Seemed like a nice guy, with good banter. I pray that he's doing ok.
He spoke to me about his faith, but that is his story to tell so I'll let him do that, should he pop back by. Regardless, him coming to meet up with me while my mom was in the hospital there in Brisbane meant an awful lot. Wish we could make it happen again...the hangout, not my mom being sick.

Yeah, he and I had lots of speaks over the years. Didn't get to have a pipe him, unfortunately.