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While I'm in this mood, let me address another issue. It seems that the Guestbook of the Ladies of the Heart is periodically purged of all comments that don't gush about how wonderful the site is. An interesting game that I would recommend to my readers is to see if you can fake the tone of the other taste-challenged signers while slipping in subtle subversive (perhaps sardonic or ironic) messages. If you're good, the message stays and works its understated magic. If you're too blatant, the message gets yanked. It's a good excercise in literary control. I've done one, and it's still in there somewhere! I'll check the guestbook periodically to read the entries, and if I find a priceless one, I'll post a copy here!
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The task of installing this drive in my 486 was only slightly hairy. In order to copy the operating system over I had to guess the pin jumpers on my Western Digital 40 Meg drive so I could get it to play slave to the new Master. IDE drives are not straightforward like Macintosh SCSI. But I succeeded! Success is not always guaranteed with Master/slave combinations, you know.
In the evening, no one was at the house except for Deya and me. We sat around drinking cold Schlitzes, smoking clove cigarettes (on the front porch) and listening to her copy of REM's Murmur on vinyl. I hadn't heard the whole thing since 1988. It's an exceptionally good album. I suppose that's why REM has gone on to completely conquer pop music (with a little help from an assortment of others).
Before I took my pre-work nap, I did a little hardware work: an old 16 MHz 386SX inherited the 40 megabyte hard drive from the 486DL. I need names for all these nice vintage computers that I keep having to step over to get to my CDs.
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