[AccessD] Thanksgiving

[Bill Benson]

Late to the party, is there any pie left? (No John Colby, I don't mean
Raspberry Pi).
Definitely thankful for this List as well. I am sure I will get back to
Access  coding again one of these days.



On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 5:25 PM Borge Hansen <pcs.accessd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Arthur,
> I completely concur with your sentiments about Thanksgiving as well as
> AccessD.
> Regarding 26 November as a day of thanksgiving, it was instituted by George
> Washington back in 1789. It’s worth googling and reading his letter of that
> time.
> But why not use a moment every day to reflect on what thanksgivings we can
> offer to family and friends, to community and institutions, to nature and
> creation in it’s immensity … and to our Creator.
> Arthur, .. and everyone else … thanks for your many inputs on this list
> over the years.
> /borge
>
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 1:17 am, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I know the American date is roughly a month away, but here in Canada
> today
> > is Thanksgiving. That means that we pause and take a few moments to
> extend
> > our thanks to those who matter to us. Typically we cook a turkey and
> share
> > it among family and friends, but COVID-19 has pretty much put the
> > kairbosh to that, at least this year, so my little party will consist of
> > three people, all of whom have received double-vaccinations.
> >
> > Here comes the Thanks part. I want to thank all my cyber-friends that I
> > have met here on the AccessD list -- to many to name, or I would go over
> > the message-length limit.
> >
> > So far as I know, Thanksgiving is only a celebration in North America,
> and
> > in the USA it's even bigger than Christmas. Geographic distribution of a
> > moment of thanks doesn't matter. Try a Canadian moment and take a pause
> and
> > give thanks to those you love, and those events that changed your life
> for
> > the better.
> >
> > AccessD is the best site I ever found to exchange ideas and problems
> with.
> > I program in several languages,, but Access +Word + Excel is the main
> one.
> > I've created dozens of apps that begin with Access and then reach out to
> > SQL Server and Word and Excel -- and one of them, which I am revisiting
> > currently -- I wrote the original code in 2004! (How do I know this?
> Thanks
> > to MZ-Tools, which plants headers in your code that include StartDate,
> > Aurthor, Purpose and so on.)
> > When I look back, I think that trivial apps (those you can write in a
> week
> > or a month) have formed a small part of what I've written over my career.
> > More often, the apps I've written involve 100+ tables, and now and then
> > 500+ tables. Most of these were written in Access, and in the large
> > examples, with a SQL back-end (the only way to deal with Terabytes of
> > data._
> > I learned a ton from this list, and thanks to you all, I scaled
> mountains I
> > didn't think I could climb.
> > This is Canadian Thanksgiving, and I thank you all!
> >
> >
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