Hello, Thom.

Sunday November 15 2009 at 06:09, you wrote to me:

 TL> Which flavor of Linux?  I am using Puppy.....it fits the bill for
 TL> me...and I've gotten to the point where I carry around a linux
 TL> bootable usb drive with wine and a lot of Windows apps....kinda like
 TL> an office on the drive.

I use Zenwalk (Slack-based) for my personal machine and use pfsense
(open-source firewall/router distro based on FreeBSD) for the firewall.

 TL> Sorry about the stress....but sheding the pounds is a plus.

I'm working on the stress level going down.

 TL> Based on the roller derby gals around here....I'll bet that if you ask
 TL> them to help you with the food and exercise, they'll whip you into
 TL> shape real fast...or leave you in the corner, covered with bruises.

Heh, well, I missed a practice today but I had to take advantage of the
good weather outside.  I'll catch the next practice on Wednesday. 
Evidently the ref is always seen as a bad guy anyway so I expect to catch
hell.

 TL> Gee...it only took me ending up with zero dollars of any kind, facing
 TL> eviction and loosing evertyhing to clean up my act...sometimes you
 TL> just need an opportunity (g).

Yeah, and in my case, being blamed for the owner's nephew's mistakes and
taking it in the ass, even after you've reconfigured their LAN and help
said nephew secure his wireless LAN because he got four "chill"
letters from the RIAA.

Later,
Sean

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