Hey JEAN!

Dec 13 20:01 05, JEAN PARROT wrote to MAURICE KINAL:

 JP>         No, no ! I got you fine. Just that I am really out in left
 JP>   field and no paddle ;-)

Lost the handle?  Get a grip eh?  :-)

 JP>         I have not seen that figure being tossed about.

I heard that on a Seattle news earlier this year, along with the 'promise'
that MS planned to get tough about it.  Haven't heard or even noticed
anything about it since.

 JP>         I was really looking forward to master the binary world. I
 JP>   wish that I could have been born 45 years later and as my daughter
 JP>   started at about that magic 15 in programming, I presume that I
 JP>   could have too. No use crying over spilt milk.

For sure!  Mind you you really haven't been missing anything lately since
most of the 'fun' stuff was taken care of decades ago but every once and
awhile something challenging rears it's ugly head and requires taming.

 JP>         Thanks.

You're welcome.

 JP>         Mine only has a handle, no blade. ;-)

I am still whittling one with a dull knife.  Hopefully it'll be finished
before the canoe crashes into a sharp rock in these rapids I find myself
trapped in.  Wheeeeeeeeee!!!

Yeah right.

 MK>> France?

 JP>         I was brought up in French and educated too. But I am
 JP>   Canadian, from Montreal. Did not speak a word of English until
 JP>   I joined the Air force.   A struggle for survival, it was.

I knew you were in Quebec but I was under the impression you were from
France.  I am now not sure why I thought that but something you said
earlier gave me that impression.  I knew about the Air Force part.

Just heard a thing on the news about proposed increase to the military
budget in these troubled times.  Mind you there is an election so money
talk is all the rage at the moment and probably isn't wise to take too
seriously.

Life is good,
Maurice

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