Ckurts,
Praise God and General Houston that you would not find me cute! So long as the girls do, I'm a happy ole curmudgeon. (And please don't forget the "-mudgeon" part! )
Fact is, I had one of the very first Macs in central Texas (Manager of a computer store). I took it home and loved it more than the Lisa (ugh) or the Apple \\\! (Remember the "drop test"?)
I upgraded my Mac from 128K to 512K (whatever did we do with all that memory??)
But it was the \\e that worked for more than 13 years that did my billing, database work, and all my letters to Congresscritters, etc. Appleworks still is the very best computer program I have ever seen.
My HP (Heavy Package) 8160 hiccups, belches and cyberpukes reliably - everything else is touch and go. I owe more on it that its fair market value (sigh) and it's already "dated". Argh!
But it gets me to TFL so that's the main thing. There seem to be too few gun lovers in my bedroom community of citified Texans (most of whom are from snow country) so I've found a home on TFL. I began to feel that gun owners had all died off except for a few blind ole buggers (yes, DC, even OLDER than I!) who go to the range and have to be pointed toward the targets.
"Here let me help you with that spotting scope. See? That's the target down there.... NO! NO! NOT THE BIG BROWN THING! God Almighty! That's the UPS truck! There, there, the white thing with the red spot.... Oh, yours HAS no red spot? Okay, just sight in on the big white sheet of paper, okay?"
(I've started saying the Rosary and I'm not even Catholic....)
If I had a gun that worked as well as my computer, I'd sell that gun to Sarah Brady.
One night (okay, it WAS after a few Shiner Bocks), my wife stopped me just in time as I was about to drive a wooden stake thru both Hewlett's and Packard's Pentium heart. Clear thinker, that girl.
And the bad part is, out here in the boonies the only computer "experts" we have are pimple-faced fourteen years olds who tend to say things like:
- Oh my! This is MUCH bigger than my Atari!
- Well, let's try this! Oh, the CD doesn't fit in your floppy drive does it....
Not exactly reassuring.
So, ckurts, I DO apologize to those few of you who really know what you're talking about. Problem is, as a mere "user", I don't know how to separate the sheep from the goats!
So, if you come out West to my area, and IF you are willing to housebreak this accursed HP so it works, I'll gladly, happily, and with Texas-sized gratitude give you all the Shiner Bock you can hold!
Just lemme know ahead o'time so's I kin git the Shiner truck up here t'home.
Praise God and General Houston that you would not find me cute! So long as the girls do, I'm a happy ole curmudgeon. (And please don't forget the "-mudgeon" part! )
Fact is, I had one of the very first Macs in central Texas (Manager of a computer store). I took it home and loved it more than the Lisa (ugh) or the Apple \\\! (Remember the "drop test"?)
I upgraded my Mac from 128K to 512K (whatever did we do with all that memory??)
But it was the \\e that worked for more than 13 years that did my billing, database work, and all my letters to Congresscritters, etc. Appleworks still is the very best computer program I have ever seen.
My HP (Heavy Package) 8160 hiccups, belches and cyberpukes reliably - everything else is touch and go. I owe more on it that its fair market value (sigh) and it's already "dated". Argh!
But it gets me to TFL so that's the main thing. There seem to be too few gun lovers in my bedroom community of citified Texans (most of whom are from snow country) so I've found a home on TFL. I began to feel that gun owners had all died off except for a few blind ole buggers (yes, DC, even OLDER than I!) who go to the range and have to be pointed toward the targets.
"Here let me help you with that spotting scope. See? That's the target down there.... NO! NO! NOT THE BIG BROWN THING! God Almighty! That's the UPS truck! There, there, the white thing with the red spot.... Oh, yours HAS no red spot? Okay, just sight in on the big white sheet of paper, okay?"
(I've started saying the Rosary and I'm not even Catholic....)
If I had a gun that worked as well as my computer, I'd sell that gun to Sarah Brady.
One night (okay, it WAS after a few Shiner Bocks), my wife stopped me just in time as I was about to drive a wooden stake thru both Hewlett's and Packard's Pentium heart. Clear thinker, that girl.
And the bad part is, out here in the boonies the only computer "experts" we have are pimple-faced fourteen years olds who tend to say things like:
- Oh my! This is MUCH bigger than my Atari!
- Well, let's try this! Oh, the CD doesn't fit in your floppy drive does it....
Not exactly reassuring.
So, ckurts, I DO apologize to those few of you who really know what you're talking about. Problem is, as a mere "user", I don't know how to separate the sheep from the goats!
So, if you come out West to my area, and IF you are willing to housebreak this accursed HP so it works, I'll gladly, happily, and with Texas-sized gratitude give you all the Shiner Bock you can hold!
Just lemme know ahead o'time so's I kin git the Shiner truck up here t'home.