So, our home PC is sick. Maybe dead, I dunno. My participation will be sporadic and brief until I get it fixed and/or replaced. I'll stop in from work when I can!
Hey Aquaman, If I remember my Justice League trivia, don't you have the ability to communicate telepathically? At least with fish??? Any how, we have a goldfish and if he/she? starts to act up, I'll know you are trying to get through to us. Tom
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"You're in the right place. That's the door right there. Turn around."
I'm always having problems with my PC. My printer is out completely. Very frustrating.
It's funny how humans survived for hundreds of thousands of years without 99.9% of the things we now consider indispensable. I cannot imagine life without cars, phones, microwaves, and computers. It's really ridiculous.
I lived for about 10 years without a TV, a microwave, a cell phone, or a computer. My primary heat source was a wood stove, on which I often cooked food, too. I don't recall missing any of the luxuries I now can't seem to live without. We adapt, whether to simplicity or complexity.
Darned thing self-healed. Maybe it's an intermittent over-heat kind of thing. I'll open it up and vacuum it out this weekend. Maybe graphite up the fan motor. What else can I do with this thing? I wish it had a 1970's era 350 small-block. Then I could probably keep it running.
Telepathy with the fishes...sometimes if I'm lucky, they tell me where they are and what they want to eat. Those are the days when fishing is catching, and I like those days.
I agree, Jasper. We're waaayyy too dependent on technology. I used to be a curmudgeon about my phone "I don't care if the darned thing can track the space-shuttle! I just need a phone!" Now, I really, really want an internet phone. Wired how I used to be willing to go days or weeks between trips to the library and wait until 5 o'clock for my nightly news, but now if I'm more than an hour from "Google" I feel ignorant!
My favorite vacations are the ones out of cell-range, 3-hours hike from my car, with all I need to survive for a week on my back.
I read a cool quote from Charles Lindburgh today while I was out making my sales rounds. A reporter asked him why he packed so little food and water for his trans-atlantic flight. His answer? "When I get to Paris I won't need any. If I don't get to Paris I won't need any either."
