The Hobbit Hole VI - And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

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Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

And Whither Then? I Cannot Say...

• First thread: New Zealander builds Hobbit hole
• Second thread: The New Hobbit Hole
• Third thread: The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads! (Congratulations, we filled it up!)
• Fourth Thread: The Hobbit Hole IV - The Road Goes Ever On...
• Fifth Thread: The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

[Corin Stormhands]

oops. didn't i do that last night? how clumsy of me.

You need t' cut back on yer sugar intake and eat sumthin' beside donut holes...

[Corin Stormhands]

It got better...for Luke anyway...

[Wneighbor]

You gots some really cool stuff there PE! Woulda been nice to have built some of that with Myranda. Getting her ticket was one of those things in her early adolescence that made her feel special - like she really could accomplish somethin' in her life. Woulda been nice to build something related.

[Corin Stormhands]

Jr. however wuz another story tonite. We had to have a come to Jesus meetin'. Told him if'n he didn't come to Jesus, we wuz sendin' him there...

I know it's been rough on him, but he is not allowed to be rude to his mother or his grandmother. I told him he could consider it a threat.

[Wneighbor]

You need t' cut back on yer sugar intake and eat sumthin' beside donut holes...

'ts prolly it. I can't hold my sugar ya know!

Fixin some Wild Berry Zinger tea now. Reckon that'll help?

[Professional Engineer]

Would you just look at that poor mistreated kid. My goodness.


Great smile he's got there Corin. Is he settling into 4 yet?

[Professional Engineer]

That would've been vey cool. You could still do it ya know.

[Wneighbor]

It got better...for Luke anyway...

That is good news! and a darlin' picture!

[Wneighbor]

I know it's been rough on him, but he is not allowed to be rude to his mother or his grandmother. I told him he could consider it a threat.

Good plan. Somethin' teenage chilluns need to hear from time to time in my experience!

[JenB]

Jen, girlfriend, have you ever even seen Windows 3.1? What languages do you code?

I actually have seen Windows 3.1! When I was six, that was the OS on our only computer. I thought Windows 95 was great when it came along.

I mostly program in C++, Javascript (well... sometimes it's programming) and VBScript. Also a little Java. But I know the differences between ANSI C and C++!

[Wneighbor]

Well... we could.... it is sorta inhibited by her living 250 miles from me!

[JenB]

How long do you have to be up there? A week or so?

Two and a half days. Go up the Wednesday, come back Friday night. It's the driving myself up there I don't want to do.

[Professional Engineer]

Ack geekspeak. Stay back serpent.

[Ramius]

A straight key is not something ....

I'm sure the paddles are a lot easier. All of my morse life however, was all about doing flashing light between ships. We all learned by doing morse by tone on headsets. As it would happen, they say that if you learn by tone you can do light faster, but if you learn on light you can't do tone. So we learned on tone.

But light is just by practical limitation far slower than tone. And we coastie quartermasters that learned light never got nearly so good at it as our navy signalman buds. The CG doesn't have a signalman rate like the navy. It was us QM's that had to fill in when light was needed. We also had to learn semaphore and flags. It is, however, a pretty cool way to communicate. As it turns out, the SINGLE most secure way to pass messages is via semaphore. Second most secure is flashing light. Third is by encrypted radio, and down from there.

[Professional Engineer]

That does inhibit a bit. Hmmm

[JenB]

I'm a geek. I've been one since I was little. I've learned to deal with it. I walk the walk, I talk the talk, I spend my lunch hour drooling over cool new tech.

Heck, I figure it should be a big asset when it comes to marryin' time, since I want a geek myself...

[Corin Stormhands]

Is he settling into 4 yet?

About half and half.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Man, I still remember when I first installed Windows 3.1... I thought it was such an improvement over 3.0! I never did get comfortable with Win95... I think I went from 3.1 on my home machine directly to Win98, after a hardware upgrade.

[JenB]

What's a "come to Jesus" meeting, and why did Jr need to go? Other than because you told him to, of course.

[Wneighbor]

Yes it does! But were you around earlier when she showed up in the hole for a bit? She's visited with us now twice this week! Makes her mommy's day! :-)