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To: Rambi who wrote (17180)	1/28/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 71178

Penni, A family story: Both of the computers in the house are in the hands of people who understand them at the moment; a consequence of Joey's discovery that there is a difference between deleting programs and uninstalling them. This caused a bit of difficulty, as I have a pile of writing to do these days, most of it on pretty rigid deadlines. So in a moment of inspiration, I went to the closet and dragged out the old battleaxe, one of the earliest 486s. Hooked it up to everything, and by God, it worked. A moment of dumbfounded hesitation, staring at the c-prompt, before realizing that I had to type "win", and soon I'm typing merrily away. Then Joey comes in, and dialogue begins: Joey: Pa, is that the kind of computer they had when you were a kid? Me: (slight stretch of truth) Yes. Joey: How many gigabytes does it have. Me: Less than 1. Joey: (incredulous) Not even 1? How can you play Wing Commander on it? Me: You can't. Joey: How about Fleet Academy (the equivalent, I gather, of tic-tac-toe)? Me: Maybe if you erased everything else on the hard disc. Joey: Well, let's uninstall it. Me: Even if you did, there's no CD drive. Joey: (totally incredulous) But all computers have CD drives. Me: Not this one. Joey: (with scathing contempt) That's not a computer, that's a typewriter. A long silence. Joey: Can we just wrestle instead? Another deadline dies unmourned. I wonder how long it will be before he is teaching me how to do these things? More to the point, I wonder how long it will be before the wrestling matches end with me pinned. I'm still sore. Steve

To: Rambi who wrote (17180)	1/31/1999 11:27:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Hi Penni; Sorry I'm late with this reply, but Wow yours was so nice and thoughtful I felt that anything I might say would expose all my warts. Well to heck with that here I am warts and all. <G> ----------- I guess by now Dan has finished reading "The Perfect Storm." Having myself been a commercial fisherman for years, there was so much in it I could relate to. It was like looking at a mirror of my past. The odd thing is over the years I didn't realize all the changes that take place, as I passed from one character to the next. There was not a man on the boat that I wasn't able to relate to at one time in one way or another. How the author was able to capture the essence of the life style was what impressed me the most. And it was an honest story. -------- When it comes to writing I try, but it's not much better than my singing, I love to listen to the choir at church, so much so that I never learned how to carry a tune. -------- I hope you also read The Perfect Storm. Jim