So, Walt, you need to change the laws on the age of driving in the
USA, move to a more temperate climate (we don't need AC in our house)
and buy a new laptop. My new MacBook looks pretty cool.
You will have missed my post that I have snagged a 50-200 and 1.4TC
(both allegedly mint, I don't have them yet) for just over half the
price of a new 50-200 :-). It looks like I'm sticking to the Oly E-
thingy.
Welcome back, albeit 6k poorer ...
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 31 May 2006, at 20:56, Walt Wayman wrote:
>
> Also, the laptop died during the trip, so I couldn't keep up with
> the list after last Monday. I could've checked in from the son's
> house, but he's gone over to the Mac side, and I didn't want to
> touch that thing. I do have certain standards, although I am
> easily tempted, so I decided to just wait and check in when we got
> home. Which brings me to more of the story.
>
> We arrived back in Marietta early Tuesday morning to get things
> going on fixing the AC, only to find we had no dial tone, and, of
> course, no DSL either. It seems that Monday night the spawn of
> some moronically and recklessly over-indulgent parents had lost
> control of his high school graduation present on the curve by the
> entrance to our subdivision and demolished the big, green box with
> the telephone apparatus in it that serves hundreds of people.
> Unfortunately, the brat survived, but fortunately, the Saleen
> Mustang he was driving was totaled. What kind of brain-dead, too-
> rich yuppie scum would buy a 17-year-old a Saleen Mustang anyway?
> They should be shot. I've put that on my list of things to do when
> I get time.
>
> I spend all day Tuesday, until almost 9 o'clock, and today until
> nearly noon supervising the installation of an entire new HVAC
> system, which we decided to do since the dead AC compressor was 17
> years old and the furnace would be facing its 31st winter this
> year. Yes, it's a wonder we hadn't died of carbon monoxide
> poisoning years ago. The bill was just over $6000, but these
> things hurt a lot less when the house is paid for. At least the
> furnace kept going even longer than the mortgage. :-) That'll
> probably delay the 300/2.8 ED Zuiko Digital lens for a while,
> though. (Yeah, right!)
>
> Anyway, winding this up, the phone got fixed just before noon
> today, so I was finally able to visit the Odyssey site and look up
> Gary's address, after which I boxed up the Odyssey OM-1 and rushed
> to the post office to send it on its way. I know I kept it way too
> long. I'm just old and slow, I suppose. :-[ Gary lives just a
> hop, skip and a jump away, but I figured it would be quicker to
> send it priority mail than try to arrange a time to get together.
> Besides, the house is starting to get comfortable again; I've got
> nearly 500 list e-mails to read; I'm deep and getting deeper into a
> fridge full of cold beer and shouldn't be driving, and I ain't
> going back outside until at least tomorrow, maybe the day after. I
> haven't even offloaded the digital photos from the trip yet, but
> I'll worry 'bout that later.
>
> Walt, cool, and getting cooler
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