Anthony Adam Thomann

(this was my great grandfather, who I never met since he passed away before I was born)

4 January 1886 – 6 May 1959

source:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47113216/anthony-adam-thomann

Anthony Adam Thomann

BIRTH	4 Jan 1886 Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
DEATH	6 May 1959 (aged 73) Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
BURIAL	Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
MEMORIAL ID	47113216

Anthony Adam Thomann

BIRTH	4 Jan 1886 Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
DEATH	6 May 1959 (aged 73) Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
BURIAL	Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA
MEMORIAL ID	47113216 · View Source

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Family Members

Parents

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  Adam Thomann

  1859–1912

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  Carolina Vogel Thomann

  1860–1932

Spouse

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  Louise E. Weingaertner Thomann

  1888–1972

Siblings

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  Jacob P Thomann

  1883–1960

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  Philip Thomann

  1890–1922

• 

  Emily Marie Thomann Fischer

  1897–1984

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  Alexander Sebastian Thomann

  1901–1965

Children

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  Henry Arthur Thomann

  1912–1984

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  William E. Thomann (my Grandad)

  1929–2007

• Agnes Thomann
• Anton Thomann
• Albert Thomann
• Carl Thomann
• Helen Thomann

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Inscription

Located on the top face of the stone.

THOMANN

ANTHONY A.
1886-1959
FATHER

LOUISE E.
1888-1972
MOTHER

Residence
Benton, Franklin, Illinois
1900
St Ferdinand Township Jennings Station, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Custom Event
Military Draft Registration
1917-1918
St. Louis City no 14, Missouri, United States
Military Draft Registration
1942
Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States

Sources:

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Antha A Thomann “United States Census, 1930”

Name	Antha A Thomann
Event Type	Census
Event Date	1930
Event Place	Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States
Gender	Male
Age	44
Marital Status	Married
Race	White
Race (Original)	White
Relationship to Head of Household	Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original)	Head
Birth Year (Estimated)	1886
Birthplace	Missouri
Father’s Birthplace	Missouri
Mother’s Birthplace	Missouri
Sheet Letter	B
Sheet Number	11

Citation

“United States Census, 1930,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XSY6-M4P : accessed 15 June 2018), Antha A Thomann, Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet 11B, line 65, family 274, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 516; FHL microfilm 2,340,251.

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Antone Thomann “United States Census, 1940”

Name	Antone Thomann
Event Type	Census
Event Date	1940
Event Place	Ward 1, Benton, Benton Township, Franklin, Illinois, United States
Sex	Male
Age	53
Marital Status	Married
Race (Original)	White
Race	White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original)	Head
Relationship to Head of Household	Head
Birth Year (Estimated)	1887
Last Place of Residence	Same House

Citation

“United States Census, 1940,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KW4B-5NS : accessed 11 June 2018), Antone Thomann, Ward 1, Benton, Benton Township, Franklin, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 28-2, sheet 2B, line 57, family 42, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 – 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 803.

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Anton Adam Thomann “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

Name	Anton Adam Thomann
Event Type	Draft Registration
Event Date	1917-1918
Event Place	St. Louis City no 14, Missouri, United States
Gender	Male
Nationality	United States
Birth Date	04 Jan 1886
Birthplace	, , United States

Citation

“United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3RB-715 : 13 March 2018), Anton Adam Thomann, 1917-1918; citing St. Louis City no 14, Missouri, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,683,753.

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Anthony Adam Thomann “Find A Grave Index”

Name	Anthony Adam Thomann
Event Type	Burial
Event Date	1959
Event Place	Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, United States of America
Photograph Included	Y
Birth Date	04 Jan 1886
Death Date	06 May 1959
Affiliate Record Identifier	47113216
Cemetery	Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum

Citation

“Find A Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVKL-J53J : 13 December 2015), Anthony Adam Thomann, 1959; Burial, Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, United States of America, Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum; citing record ID 47113216, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

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Anthony Adam Thomann “United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942”

Name	Anthony Adam Thomann
Event Type	Draft Registration
Event Date	1942
Event Place	Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States
Residence Place	Benton, Franklin, Illinois
Gender	Male
Employer	Anthony Adam/Thomann
Birth Date	04 Jan 1886

Citation

“United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V1KF-VZ7 : 9 March 2018), Anthony Adam Thomann, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

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Anthony Thomann in entry for Anton C Thomann, “United States GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014”

Name	Anthony Thomann
Sex	Male
Wife	Louise Weingaertner Thomann
Son	Anton C Thomann
Son	Albert Thomann
Son	William Thomann

Other information in the record of Anton C Thomann

from United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries

Deceased
Name	Anton C Thomann
Event Type	Obituary
Event Date	14 Feb 2003
Event Place	Illinois, United States
Gender	Male
Age	88
Relationship to Deceased	Deceased
Birth Date	20 Aug 1914
Birthplace	St Louis, ,
Death Date	12 Feb 2003
Death Place	Mount Vernon, ,
Newspaper	Peoria Journal Star, The

Spouse and Children
Louise Weingaertner Thomann	Wife	Female
Roberta Webb Mcafoos	Wife	Female
Diana Burlison	Daughter	Female
Jan Compton	Daughter	Female
Albert Thomann	Son	Male
William Thomann	Son	Male
Parents and Siblings
Anthony Thomann	Father	Male
Extended Family
David Burlison	Son-In-Law	Male
Darrell Compton	Son-In-Law	Male
Mary Beth Thomann	Sister-In-Law	Female
Mary Ann Thomann	Sister-In-Law	Female

Citation

“United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QK48-MBML : accessed 17 June 2018), Anthony Thomann in entry for Anton C Thomann, Illinois, United States, 14 Feb 2003; from “Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 – Today),” database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Peoria Journal Star, The, born-digital text.

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Anton Thomann in household of Adam Thomann “United States Census, 1900”

Name	Anton Thomann
Event Type	Census
Event Year	1900
Event Place	St Ferdinand Township Jennings Station, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Gender	Male
Age	14
Marital Status	Single
Race	White
Race (Original)	W
Relationship to Head of Household	Son
Relationship to Head of Household (Original)	Son

Household	Role	Sex	Age	Birthplace
Adam Thomann	Head	M	42	Missouri
Carolina Thomann	Wife	F		Missouri
Jacob Thomann	Son	M	17	Missouri
Anton Thomann	Son	M	14	Missouri
Philip Thomann	Son	M	11	Missouri
Agnes Thomann	Daughter	F	8	Missouri
Cecile Thomann	Daughter	F	5	Missouri
Emily Thomann	Daughter	F	3	Missouri
Anna Thomann	Mother	F	70	Germany

Citation

“United States Census, 1900,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M38V-QJ4 : accessed 18 June 2018), Anton Thomann in household of Adam Thomann, St Ferdinand Township Jennings Station, St. Louis, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 125, sheet 10B, family 182, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,888.

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Positive Vibes and Less Stress…

Well, I did pass my EMR exam with NREMT a while back, but have decided to NOT be an EMR, at least for now because I know how much stress is involved with that.  It would be nice to have a few extra bucks an hour, but not if all of that extra income and then some will be needed to pay councilors and medical bills…

I need to start focusing on myself and my own health instead of the health of others for a while, so that I can become a better person, more able and capable of taking care of people than I am now… that ol you have to love yourself before you love others bit is true.

I am a stress eater, and someone that doesn’t take too much care of myself healthwise as far as exercise, mindfulness, controlling my diabetes, controlling my many food allergies and intolerances goes, etc. when I’m stressed. I live in a house with my parents, wife, child, sister, and niece at the moment. Sometimes things are good and happy, but a lot of times they are stressful for a variety of reasons.  I’m hoping to fix the living situation sometime

I need to start focusing on exercising daily. I need to start watching my sugar levels a lot closer than I have been recently. I need to and have started walking to work from time to time – plan to do more of that going forward.  I need to start eating paleo and make that a lifestyle change and not just a diet that I do once in a while. I have a lot of changes to make, and I plan to make them… after this week.  This weekend we have a wedding to go to down south, so we’ll be busy eating and celebrating in traditional ways… which will probably include a lot of non-exercising other than dancing, and eating crap that my body doesn’t need… but after this weekend, watch out world. A new me is on the horizon…

I WILL get to my BMI target weight sometime in the next few years, or possibly in less than a year if I work hard enough.  It will take a lot of work, but I WILL do it.

#legacy

#legacy
If you don’t want stuff online – don’t put it online… If you enjoy life as a curmudgeon with no social interaction with anyone on the internet, stay offline. If you enjoy life, sharing, and friendship, go ahead and get online and share your life stories with everyone.

In other words, SOCIAL NETWORKS exist for BEING SOCIAL…

If you don’t like your pics shared on facebook, don’t put them on facebook and other websites, including but not limited to studio photos websites, youtube, photo sharing sites, etc.. If you want them shared, put them online. If you want to privately share them with one individual, email exists… Anything on facebook has a link to share next to it, even if your privacy setting is set to private – SO DON’T THINK SOME SILLY LITTLE PRIVACY SETTING WILL MAKE THINGS COMPLETELY PRIVATE AND NEVER PUBLIC – doing so you are fooling yourself — much like someone who wants to protect their money by putting it in a pillow case or something – that’s the first place people look… If you do put them on websites and want to limit who can see them, password protect them and only share the password with who you want to see them… however, after they lose the password, or you do, don’t expect to ever see them again since they are basically buried in an online dusty ol closet… from dust to dust… photos that are never seen are no good since art exists only when there is a viewer of what is created. Photos never seen are like phone calls that are made in to a cell phone that is turned off. Even passwords are not 100% effective in protecting things… ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET IS CONNECTED TO SOMETHING ELSE ON THE INTERNET… As long as there is anything online it can potentially be seen by someone someday. It may take a hacker a little while to get your password figured out, but someday, as long as the server exists and someone can try to get it they will get at it… for some breaking passwords is much like solving crossword puzzles… it’s a hobby. Your little password isn’t going to stop someone that really wants what your password is protecting, just like a glass window isn’t going to stop a burglar from breaking in even if it has a siren on it.

Matthew 5:15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. …. When lamps are put under beds or in dusty old closets they tend to burn blankets, clothes, etc. after a while. All photography is a form of capturing light… lights typically come from light sources such as lamps. This little light of mine – I’m gonna make it shine…

One reason that I like things to be public is because it’s kind of nice to know that someone someday may see that I existed here that may never have known of me before… a legacy is created… words of wisdom passed on to next generations. Images of our lives are made to have a meaning that is passed on down in our culture hundreds of years from now after the hard drive on whatever computer I’m using today is long dead and gone… but backups of photos and statements and ideas are all out there on multiple servers backed up for the many or even just one to eventually find.

If the afterlife does not exist (I think it might just exist personally, but sometimes I, like everyone else question it), all we have is this life. It’s a short, fragile thing… It’s definitely worth sharing with others, don’t you think? Have you started creating your legacy yet? Isn’t it time?

David Thomann Memorial Installation

David Thomann Memorial
Oil Paint and Collage on Canvas and Wood
© 1999, Jeff Thomann

I added the above youtube video to this post to help show the work in a way that is somewhat close to the setup it was originally intended to have. Unfortunately, I’ve never shown this work in a gallery or anything, so this was a quick video I took recently in 2014 before putting the work in to storage.

It’s hard to display this work for me due to the emotions involved… It’s difficult to talk about the work or think about it too much for lengthy periods of time because I begin to cry every time I think about it in too big of a segment of time. Many tears were shed during the creation of this artwork.

The installation is probably the biggest work of art that I’d ever attempted. I’ve been told that I try to put too many messages in to one painting many times, and this work is probably the epitome of that sort of thing. there was a lot going on. The work consists of 8 main panels, with the main images taking up two panels each. The panels are just stretcher bars with canvas attached, and they are connected with hinges. Each panel is approximately 3 feet wide x 6 feet tall, so the whole work, when all the panels are standing together is approximately 6 feet x 6 feet, and forms a sort of x if looked at from above. This is one of the few ‘installation’ works I ever attempted to create. I’ll try to add more images of this here in the future as I get more images uploaded to give a better idea of what it looks like from various angles.

Sorry if my rendering skills are not the greatest in the world. This work was created over the process of a semester in college, so I didn’t have an infinite amount of time to work on it. I could have reworked some of it later, but have chosen not to for a variety of reasons.

This work is a memorial installation that I created in honor of an uncle of mine that died due to leukemia several years ago. The reason, that our family believes, that he got leukemia was because he was a helicopter pilot for the United States Army, stationed in Germany, during the time that the radioactive clouds from the Chernobyl “accident” occurred. Around this time many chopper pilots, and other servicesmen in the air started getting symptoms very similar to those that he had… but, as usual the government denies that such a thing occurred.

At the time that I made this installation I was trying to cope with the fact that my little brother had just joined the airforce… and was attending basic training at the same airforce base that my Uncle David died in (It’s in San Antonio, Texas). It seemed to me to be a very bizzare and vile cycle that fate had taken to lead to such circumstances… The weekend that my parents, my sister, and I went to see Danny graduate from basic was very eerie, yet beautiful in a strange sort of way…

On the picture of the panel above, in the lower register of this image is a portrait of my father’s mother, father, brothers, and sisters. My Uncle Dave is the one circled in red. The reason for this is to make his image stand out in a way, and it also sort of implies very bluntly that he was a ‘target’.

The images in the top register are metaphoric symbols of man’s stupidity in creating violence through technology. The people in this register are rendered somewhat icon-like, as they have become mythological icons of our day for the horrors which they have created. The ‘heroes’ of this register are Truman, the Manhattan Project guys, and Hitler. They stand together triumphantly in an eeire background plotting the downfall of man. The middle register is a not-too-well rendered replica of the army identification tags that my Uncle used to wear. Each of the main images are painted copies of photos that meant a lot to me and my family. One of the small images in the top register is a copy of the final photograph my father had of my uncle’s family before he died. I remember when the photo was shot as if it was yesterday. My parents said ‘wave good by to Uncle Dave.’ Tears come to my eyes even to this day as I reflect on that phrase.

One of the ideas/themes with this work was to morph words and stories in to a message that played out like a drama for the viewer. https://jeffthomann.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/img_20140612_093150.jpg?w=949

Brothers & Sisters
Brothers and Sisters happily together at home, but who is this circled?

Uncle Dave, here’s two thumbs up pal!

This is the type of helicoptor that Uncle Dave piloted.

We will cherish you always for all that you have given.

Does E=mc squared always???

Why on earth is that the the case? Why can’t things be less scientific, less destiny driven…Why does death exist??? In the upper register, not even Albert Einstein, Mr. Zeplin, the Wright Brothers, or Henry Ford, the heroes of our time, can answer this question. Remember the Alamo!

E equals mc squared not here here sisters!!!
Our technology is made only for our destruction… Logic makes no sense to us anymore. The greatest accomplishment of man is the destruction of his own. Our walls cannot protect us from ourselves. Our true heroes will sacrafice their all for vain political purposes that our real heroes, the ones that we put in our textbooks, have created for foolish worldly greed, jealously, deceit, and lies…

Brother’s not well.

Fair Well

Fair And Nobyl

Chernobyl

In the green striped areas of the painting where the words are there are some photocopied and typed out excerpts from a book that came out about a year before I created the painting which had a lot of information about how Chernobyl was not really as much of an ‘accident’ as it was made to be at the time that it happened. These texts are embeded/collaged in the painting under a layer of stand oil and linseed oil. The book these texts were taken from documents where many areas where corners were cut in regards to safety measures being taken. These were documents that were top secret and not released until shortly before the time that that book came out and became public knowledge.

http://youtu.be/2qurHn4KVnw

I’m trying to help spread the word about this since it’s about my cousin and a very good cause.

Jon Thomann was injured a couple of years ago, and was in a coma for several months. He finally got back to walking, but he still has a limp and is very unbalanced. He’ll never be the same but at least he is alive. Jon’s father, Joe is working on trying to raise money to get this started in Mid-Missouri. They’ve raised about a third of the money they need, but still have a long ways to go.

Here’s the link to the article on the KOMU site: http://www.komu.com/news/family-pushes-to-bring-brain-injury-center-to-columbia/

Here’s the link to Jon’s caringbridge site: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jonthomann/

If you want to help with the center itself, the donation on the caringbridge site listed above is not for the center – that’s for caringbridge donations, which is a good cause too…. The center’s website is http://www.headinjuryctr-stl.org/jeffday.html

winkflash…

Got winkflash transporter working again, and now am working on re-uploading some family photos. Got about 2 gigs of photos to upload, lol. http://mastermesh.winkflash.com/– if you need the password for the family photos, and are a member of the family (or friend), shoot me an email and/or message on facebook or maybe even a comment here. I don’t get around to the comment editing here too often though, so if you do comment, it might take me a while to get back with you. Otherwise, there’s always the cell phone….

Maria’s getting another apartment. Loooong history…

This post is a lot longer than I thought it would be… what’s sad is a lot of details aren’t in here… a lot has happened in the last couple of years in Entropia Universe for my avatar… there’s enough plots and stuff in here and all that’s been going on with the NBK on the forums at Entropia Forum to make an entire mini-series or 19 of them, lol…
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Maria mastermesh Mesh is about to purchase a second apartment again. She previously had 2 of them… but sold off one a few days ago. Now she’s getting a second one since it’ll be on the same floor as the one that she already has.

There’s a lot of history… now here a little back story for those of you that are in to reading about that sort of stuff…

In the Pre-Maria Days, I had heard of Entropia Universe, via Slashdot.org. However, it sounded like a crazy idea… then… there was this one post about some guy named Deathifier that had spent a lot and earned it all back… and another guy named Neverdie that had spent even more, and earned it all back… so then Maria came in to being…

Yes, the hype was mostly hype, but it was an interest way to spend time and some small amounts of money as I was home on weekends as my wife worked then… and a few months prior to that time, a casino had opened a few blocks away from where we lived… At the casino I could blow through 30 dollars in less than 20 minutes. IN Entropia Universe, I could survive on 30 dollars hunting snablesnots for a month, so it seemed like an interesting thing…

Maria started out her life in Entropia Universe as a poor homeless citizen, like all avatars are when they first begin the game, with nothing more on her back than an orange jumpsuit.

Then, Maria sweated a lot and finally got a little income through that. She also shortly got an income from a deposit from an Earthling and took up hunting. She axed her way across two continents with a few 2×0 axes that got bloodied up pretty fast and needed repair. Maria found that the axes were not very economic weapons eventually (no Skill Increase Bonus – SIB)…

Then, Maria took up hunting with a rifle. Her trusty rifle accompanied her everywhere. Her favorite hunting spots were, and still are locations that are not real busy spots. Prior to the recolonization of Calypso (Version Update 10), she hunted a lot around Fort Argus, Fort Zeus, North of Fort Ithica and radom other spots on occassion.

She no longer hunts much to the east of Argus since it is now a Player vs Player (PvP) Zone. She does still travel north of Argus on occassion. She’s also found a new hunting location that did not exist prior to the recolonization – EOS. She loves hunting Foul in the hills between EOS and Athena Space Base.

Back in the early days, Maria loved trading, and joined the Entropia Forum Dollar Growth Fund (EFD Growth Fund) Smart Trade Terminal Solution (STTS), and thought about joining Entropia Investment Fund (EIF).

STTS only existed for a short time and now no longer exists. EFD Growth Fund still exists on the forums at Entropia Forum. If you are a regular over there, you might think about joining the fund since the only investment requirement is Entropia Forum Dollars, not real money – although it is possible to buy or invest real peds to get EFD in that fund…

Luckily, Maria never joined EIF since they sunk a lot of money in to investments such as Land Areas, a mall shop, and a hanger, all of which have zero Trade Terminal Value. If Maria had bought in to that fund, her money would now be gone with little to no way of getting the money back since the EIF still exists but has no plans on ever selling out for any time in the near future it appears, so all peds that went in to those investments are now gone… The investments are bringing EIF some money, but it’s arguable how much since it’s likely that the original investment money is gone unless they ever sell their invested money, which they have no plans on doing… so until they get that money back, they have lost a lot of cash… Unfortunately, sometimes, to get ahead on Calypso that it is required to make big investments like that. I still think the EIF is extremely risky since there is no such thing as multiple owners of an asset in EU, and everything is based on trust. If the Fund manager dies or something, the assets he holds can be considered gone like the wind, along with all the Project Entropia Dollars (PEDs) that various individuals put in that invested in that stuff through the EIF.

Maria also thought about joining MMA Bigshow in his quest to create Entropia Holdings at one point in time. However, MMA is no longer in game, so Maria is glad she did not do that. MMA’s cockiness got the entire community irritated at him in the forums at entropia forum, even though he really probably had some ok ideas… I guess if you are martial artists that fights all the time, you might get too aggressive sometimes… and that may reflect in other areas of your life…

Maria jumped around to several different societies in the beginning of her journeys. For a while she was in The American Soldier (TAS), where she met some nice friends, including big Dodge Ram, and Fillipe Castanhas, among others.

Later, TAS was disbanded, and Fillippe talked Maria in to joining Entropia Asia Cadets (EAC), which was a cadet society for Entropia Asia. Maria was not Asian but joined anyways because some of her friends were there. Shortly thereafter EAC got blackmailed a little – one member of the society (I won’t name names here) bought a dot com for the Entropia Asia… and did so without consenting with anyone… in part because he ran an ISP… it was a nice site with it’s own forum and things… but wasn’t that great… Later, the higher ups in the society were asked to pay for that domain or something (not sure about all the details since I was a lowly cadet)… and the leaders of EAC broke off to start Zoku instead of staying as a cadet society for EA. At that time Cadets were given a choice – either stay in a dead cadet society, join Zoku, join EA, or go off on their own way. Maria decided to join Entropia Asia because Vortezy, Bryon, and some of the other folks over there were nice, and helpful.

Shortly after that, Maria went silent for 9 months because all deposits and activity from earth that powered her dissappeared (VU updates caused me not to be able to log in for 9 months til I got new hardware… could not even get past the login screen with the ol ATI-All-In-Wonder 9000 Pro and pentium III…).

When Maria awakend from her 9 month slumber, she was still EA, but it was a nearly dead society at least for her part of the world… There were still Asians in the society, but being located in the States, I could not see people in my society unless I stayed up til 3 am… which was a bad situation…

Maria decided to change directions if she was going to continue to survive on Calypso… so I started reading the forums… and I read them A LOT… Over time, I started thinking it’d be neat to cut some deals with shop owners, so I started studying the entropia forum and looking around at various shop owner’s avatars and visiting various terminals in game to see who owned what estates, etc. As a result, Maria met a lot of folks that owned shops in the Port Atlantis Mall and a few other places and befriended quite a few of them. She started trading things at Trade Terminal (TT) Value to some of those folks, including Nihilist, who happens to run EFD Growth Fund. Nihilist sort of became Maria’s mentor in the ways of running a shop successfully in game. He ran, and still runs a consignment shop called Dead Man’s Plunder… He buys things at TT value, trys to sell it in his shop, then pays back a percentage of profits…

Maria bought tons of things off of the auction for him, paying TT value for it. Some got accepted, others rejected. The rejected stuff, Maria did not know what to do with it… so she started trading it. Around this time, Vortexy, which is one of the leaders of EA started handing Maria lots of blueprints to sell too since he was crafting a lot… so she’d go sell his blueprints at Port Atlantis near the TP… and would also sell whatever else he handed her… she was a pretty good scounger in those days. She cut a few deals and met lots of traders… She actually started a non-society guild called United Buyers Exchange Resource (U.B.E.R.) and traded things to and from a lot of folks at TT values back then. It was fun and games, and no losses really since TT value was always growing, or getting traded off for something else to sell. STTS took that idea to a new level, but Josh Edwards (who ran STTS) only sold via auction, so he actually lost a lot of potential profit… and cost people that worked with him 100% of auction fees + 30% of the profits on top of that… pretty steep cost, but it was all junk people normally sold to the TT anyways, so it was not a bad deal… Maria eventually got in to that as an investor, and urged Josh to stop using the auction and get in to using a shop or something… He never listened, so she sold off her investment and moved on… There is still a massive void in EU that STTS filled that should be filled by someone, but is not currently being filled by anyone, so stuff gets sold in to the TT and avatars in the entire community get poorer and poorer because of that…

Around that time, NBK Entrepreneurs was formed by Hardwrath, someone who used to be leader of NBK, but had also been in a deep slumber, like Maria. Maria liked the enticing sound of being in NBK E, since she wanted to change her focus towards running a business and not being a ped loosing hunter the rest of her life… so she joined NBK Entrepreneurs… it got active about a year, had lots of great people in it – several shop owners (some of which Maria had brought in due to her U.B.E.R contacts, including Nihilist), an Land Area owner, and lots of traders… and some of the best crafters in all of the virtual universe…

Eventually though, a lot of the crafters wanted to do their own thing and focus on cutting deals with miners, so NBK Miners started, and NBK E was more or less abandoned by all but Maria and a few other dedicated folks. After that NBK E was forced by NBK leadership to become NBK Otium. Otium means “at ease.”

The idea from leadership is that Otium should be a place for the retired avatars to go that don’t fit in any other NBK society… a while before then, Nihilist quit because the promises that Hardwrath had made with a steady supply line being created when NBK E. first started out was never really brought in to being – it was, but only to benefit skilling crafters and miners, not shop owners… This and a lot of other things going on caused Otium to exist. I still am not sure I like otium since it sounds an awful like like Opium… but it’s started to grow on me a bit… sort of nice to not be under pressure to skill or cut business deals all the time even though I’m still doing some of each…

Anyways, at some point in time, prior to the recolonization, Maria purchased an apartment in Treasure Island. It was Apartment 10A in the Silver Building. The “Stack Exchange” was there, which was a service Maria ran to trade stacks of items among a lot of different individuals. Maria also had 2 shopkeepers that more money that magically appeared on her pedcard from a transfer from earth allowed her to buy. The real purpose behind the Stack Exchange was to get people in to the apartment to look at the shopkeepers and buy things. A few events were done with the NBK (Maria’s society)

Eventually, Maria bought a booth in the basement of the Delta Tower at Omegaton West Habitat… and bought Apartment 1A in the Delta Tower too… Those funds from earth helped her to make that happen…

and the Stack Exchange became the NBK TT shop… when Maria bought out the old NBK TT shop’s inventory and moved it in…

Then a few months later, the Treasure Island Silver apartment deed was traded for a deed to Apartment 4A in the Delta Tower… so Maria had 2 apartments and a booth all in the Delta Tower… 4A, 1A and Booth #3. She moved the NBK TT Shop and shopkeepers to the 1A apartment.. but that business never took off since the booth and shopkeepers were hidden away and not visible… then Maria moved everything out of the NBK TT shop apartment and converted it to a blueprint shop since NBK folks and others were continuing to TT Maria blueprints along with other things…

Then Maria did something radical and traded the two shopkeepers and booth in for the Shop 1 in Block A in Delta because the guy that owned that place, Rufwon, had been trying to sell it for a long time… Maria felt sorry for Rufwon and also found the idea of being visible from outside of the building to be nice…

So the Lost Library was established in Block A, Shop 1 of Delta Tower in Omegaton West Habitat. Maria owned Aparment 1A in the same building and 4A as well..

about 2 weeks ago, she sold 4A…

and now one of the folks that is selling blueprints in the Lost Library, who sniped 1D from Maria in an Auction at time when Maria was a little poor, is wanting to sell 1D…

So going Forwards, Maria mastermesh Mesh will own Apartments 1A and 1D, as well as Block A – Shop 1 in the Delta at Omegaton West Habitat. There’s also potential to eventually buy the booth back or buy another booth too, leaving lots of room to expand the shop at some point in the future, both horizontally, and vertically at some point in the future… The costs of expanding looks way too pricey right now, but I’m going to hold the deeds because that price may not look so bad in the future… I never thought that 2 years ago I’d join the NBK, much less own an estate… or three estates!!!… You never know what will happen in the virtual universe… the future is bright now that I have 3 estates in the same building… lots of potential room to grow eventually, even if the costs aren’t justified for that growth yet… Hopefully I can find a way to make that justification change and get profitable at the same time! 🙂

http://mastermesh.winkflash.com/

http://mastermesh.winkflash.com/ is where I’ll put stock photos and various other free images on occassion going forward. Right now there’s only two pics there in the Public folder. In the future, I may add more. I like winkflash. I just hope they stay around as long as their website claims they will, forever.

Also, for you folks in my family reading this, I’ll probably upload some family photos out there in a non-public folder to share with you in the future. So far, finding a place to upload photos to share privately that has unlimited space has been a major hassle. I’m hoping winkflash is the solution to that major problem.

Need a place in Mid-Missouri?!?… Check this out.

If you is looking for a descent house in Mid-Missouri, not too far from Columbia, to live in or just to flip and resell, you should seriously think about taking a look at

http://www.era.com/property/index.jsp?property=ERA2774027.

721 Locust Street
Boonville, MO 65233

Current Price has been reduced to $49,900 (which is a lot lower than it probably should be because we need to get it sold so that we don’t continue to have utility bills at two places, and sometimes three places when we have to help Mom out with bills at her new apartment)

721 Locust Street
Boonville, MO 65233

MLS / Listing ID#: 09-748
Express Listing ID: 2774027

Features
Bedrooms: 3
Full Bathrooms: 1
Half Bathrooms: 1
Square Footage: 1,550
Construction: Wood Frame
Rooms: Eat-in Kitchen
Basement: Full Basement
Garage: Detached Garage
Fireplace: 1 Fireplace
Amenities: Fenced Yard; Deck; Porch
Air Conditioning: Central Electric A/C
Exterior: Stucco
Heat: Forced Air – Gas Heat
Flooring: Mixed Flooring
Lot Size: Under 1/2 Acre
Water: City Water
Sewer: City Sewer
Age: Over 50 Years Old
Roof: Asphalt Shingle Roof
Zoning: Residential

My brother-in-law owns the place, but we are helping him out with some of the bills there. My mother-in-law was living there up until a couple of months ago. She’s moved in to an apartment now since that is just too much house for one person, especially when that one person is disabled, confined to a power wheel chair, and is on a fixed income.

A new roof was just put on the place earlier this year. A new water heater was just put in about a year ago. There’s a nice sized front and back yard. The back yard is already fenced in. Although one of the driveways is a shared drive, there’s two driveways, so parking is never a problem. Each Driveway has a garage near the back yard. The shared drive is a two car garage. There’s a nicely sized patio in the back that runs almost the full length of the house.

This place is just across the street and two doors down from an elementary shool, so it’s in a perfect location for a family with children. The upstairs is finished, and was previously used as a bedroom. That is where the half bath is located.

If you are interested contact
Gale Boller
ERA 1st Choice Realty, Inc.
gale.boller@ERA.com
Office: (660) 882-6516