On Thursday, September 19, 2013 8:00:26 AM UTC-8, jmcquown wrote:

His house recently sold for far less than the original asking price. It > had mold and was in disrepair. :-( For all his cheerful, albeit odd, breakfast posts, Andy was at heart a sad person. I don't know for sure but I suspect he was bipolar. I felt bad having to rebuke him publicly for calling me all the time. But he ignored private email requests in which I asked him to stop calling. If I happened to be out he would leave sad-sack messages, "Guess you don't want to talk to me, I won't call again". Of course he did call again, usually within the next hour. In his mind he dreamed up a "relationship" between us which didn't exist. I'll talk to anyone from RFC who wants to call me *occasionally*. I'll even call you back if you leave me a message. But don't call me four or five times a day. One night he called in the wee hours of the morning, 1AM and again at 5AM. Sorry, but at those hours it had better be a freakin' emergency! So, since he wasn't hearing me, I addressed the issue here. He went off the deep-end, called me a bitch. He said but you called me back! Yes, I did. Someone leaves me a message, it's polite to call them back. It means nothing more than that. I posted about it here, he called me bitch. Hey, what else could I do? He ignored my requests to stop calling me all day long. Then suddenly he was all peaches and cream again, "smootches" and all that. I don't wish anyone dead, but Andy Burns was definitely battling with some personal demons.

Jill
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I do remember something about phone calls he had been making to you and you and him having "words" in here, but I wasn't sure what the whole story was.. Maybe he was just very lonely, and had an over-active imagination, which included you. Is hard to say. He seemed like a nice enough fellow. I have no idea what age bracket he was in, but may have been older than I realize, as seemed young by his posts? I think he had been married at one time, as seems like he did mention an ex?

Is hard to really "know" anybody in a usenet group, but I was just surprised when I read where he had died, as had never heard that officially before now.

Judy