Arrival Bedtime Story

I am an APPLE guy- have been since before the "C"; then moved up the Mac ranks. I was pretty responsive to the intuitive nature of the machine so IBM did not have a chance of prying me loose. In the early 1980's I was on the original Brainstorming Team for DentalMac, just after Patrick and Mike got the 15 page brochure ready to take on the big guys. Lotsa fun!

Due to an injury I was forced to look into something other than being a Cavity CreepFighter. It just so happened that a local dental laboratory was looking for someone to be an all-purpose guy, and that guy became yours truly. A few weeks into this experience I saw "THE APPLICATION" appear before me in terms of what I could do with something as simple as HYPERCARD or FILEMAKER, so I asked if they were interested in using a computer. The current owner was a bit ahead of his time and even envisioned barcoding "product" as it would have traveled through the lab. The project was started; my Mac was portered daily as was its hip "trademarketability".

All was developing nicely when the serious nature of the MacIntosh was displaced by a very expensive IBM system. It was back to overseeing associates at the office.

In March04 I was hired to return to that same lab, where there was enough computer power to have put NASA to shame only a few years ago. The problem was that they stayed committed to DOS too long and it was so comfy that they did not follow expert advice to upgrade with the technology available in both soft- and hard- wares. The bookkeeper got so attached to the DOS that she has made progressing to WINDOWS nearly impossible. (See referenced below about two entries ago)

Long story shortened- they are using towers as printer servers and on occasion they go down. After hooking up the monitor to the printer server a few times and having Hardware Pete guide me through the return to normal, I realized after the third trip to MonitorLand that all I was doing was observing it all come back to life after I pressed F1. Yes that simple!

The other day when it happened I grabbed the damn console without even hooking up the monitor, gave a loud disgusted sigh, and with Steve Martin's "Leap of Faith" churning in my pea brain, I said, "On the count of three, the devil will come out of this machine and it will be healed!"

F1, F-One
Its will be done-
On Earth as it is in Heaven!
Hold the Bread and F3 the Bastards!

Goodnight, Nancy Carol :-)
And NO it doesn't work on Harry!

We'll always have Valley Stream...

BabyRed was not too happy this afternoon
Overwhelmed a bit too much with the learning process.
Kinda like growing pains for the brain/mind nexus.
Headaches have been powerful/Cramps of Olympic Proportions/Dido played next/LOL!
Sometimes it is a crapshoot/Sometimes maybe even a SEND button...

We'll always have Valley Stream/(M)/a

NYPAWAPA

My best friend has quite a trip ahead, and no, the Title is not a tribe of Native Americans.
Left NY to be reinstated as an owner of a Pennsylvanian vehicle with a few miscellaneous errands as well, maybe even a severe haircut! Definitely at least one church gig!
Has to come to some social decisions that will follow some statistical path OR NOT, and those are never easy. That's the WA part. Also several definitions may be reworked after some contemplation. Serious words and definitions.
Then there is the return to the HomeFront where the Truth will be exercised or exorcised.

In either case I will not have lost a friend.

Bfrom Aaetsch

There was a Bfrom Aaetsch
Workt her very same platsch (sic on purpose)
She DOS wants, no windows for her!
Learning surely raises her fur.
Must be tough as a wife
That Bitch from Nu-Life!

Chorus to be announced!

Fondlings

I truly loved the woman I had been living with for around four months.
Her laughs were so visceral they hurt, and her tears came from her toes.
She admitted a heartfelt impression from a time when she picked me up from work.

I hope she remembers.

Groundbreaking

Thanks for the inspiration.
Short sentences and all.
(M)