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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (8909)	3/25/1998 12:31:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Respond to of 71178

Alex, Your post is beautiful in its imagery and eloquence, for lack of better words this early in the morning. A quietly stated but awesomely moving replay of a nation's emotionally devastating flash in time; it was over so quickly. I've saved it to my hard disk. Thank you for writing it. Re #8888. Weeelp, ya' win some, ya' lose some. You're just going to have to get a 'puter on the homefront or move to the lab. That said, I think we should all defer to Miss Penni on #10,000. Holly

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (8909)	3/25/1998 7:14:00 PM
From: username	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

that was a real bad day for me. [segue] I guess nobody wants to talk about comic books. rats. not being able to get on the internet is horrible. one whole day except for about 10 minutes before I went to work this a.m. problem fixed on this puter. Here is my work puter story: 2 months ago, the hard drive (WESTERN DIGITAL) broke. again. took it to Mr. G to fix. He was pretty busy. yesterday I got it back. took it to my new job (Mr. G is at the old job) and got set up. Today got the internet provider all set up, phone line set up, all that. Prepared to plug in the phone line....big hole in the back of the puter where the modem plug used to be. AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! Called Mr. G, not there. not there, not there, not there, not there, not there. 5 p.m. called to see if he would be in the office tomorrow and he answered the phone. told story. "Oh, geez! I was wondering where that modem came from! Sorry, man. Bring it over (45 minute drive each way) tomorrow at 9 a.m. and I'll put it back in, sorry." (laughing) AAAARRRRGGHHH!!!

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (8909)	3/25/1998 11:27:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Yeah, that was a memorable disaster. What I found saddest was the school teacher's aged parents looking uncomprehendingly at the sky. And what was that line Peggy Noonan found for Reagan's speech, "we have loosed the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God" or some such thing? I wonder where she found that. The most memorable space event for me was on my 18th birthday. I was driving through the Cajun part of Louisiana. I stopped for gas, and the locals were chattering away in their French patois. When I walked into the office to pay my bill there was a TV with an astronaut stepping onto the Moon. I hadn't listened to the news for a week, so it came as a surprise to me.