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To: OLD REGGIE
MUCH older. Pay due respect Grasshopper.

ROTFL Oh yeah? I can remember making fun of a young man in my subdivision loading animals onto a boat before he even got it down to the docks - and that was during my first retirement. You?

30 posted on 08/20/2007 2:49:43 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (As heard on the Amish Radio Network! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1675029/posts)
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To: Alex Murphy
ROTFL Oh yeah? I can remember making fun of a young man in my subdivision loading animals onto a boat before he even got it down to the docks - and that was during my first retirement. You?

I've been retired since 1992. For about 6 months I made house calls as the Computer Doctor. In those good old DOS days a very common problem was the inability to boot because Command Com (If I remember correctly) was corrupted. A diskette boot followed by SYS C: would fix the problem. After a quick disk check I would be finished in about 10 minutes. When I charged $30 for the house call people would get upset about my "gouging". My travel time and missed meal was meaningless to them. Of course, if I spent an hour doing nothing, lied to them, and charged $60 they'd be happy.

This "Doctor" really retired and never missed it for a day.

My grandchildren are way ahead of me in the use of windows and, while I can still repair my desktop, my super duper laptop scares the daylights out of me. I have no idea how to begin making a hardware upgrade or repair nor am I interested. I purchase a depot repair contract from HP and let them handle it.

57 posted on 08/21/2007 9:44:02 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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