Tim Dill wrote from inside the event horizon to Brad Meyers:
 TD>  I was crosing no - one's bounderies excepting maybe yours
 TD> by waking you up  at an ungodly hour of 1:00 pm
   If as a result of some of my physiucal or emotional problems I have 
screwed up sleep patterns you are not responsible for how I respond to them.  
I wish I could remember the call.  It takes about a minute or so for me to 
become huminoid.  If its 1 in the after noon and I get woke up,  then I get 
wokie up.  I may not be in condition to continue on the phone but thats not 
your fault.  Its mine.
 TD>  Yeah and I only take cash if its a service call, the most
 TD> amazing thing  is that I am able to patch a pentium together
 TD> where the tech could not   figure out what the hell was
 TD> happening. Things I have learned since I   got sober, I put
 TD> that to service.
   I take cash for techie calls but with close friends or folks I know who 
are disabled anbd house bound, a decent meal does the same thing.  I set up 
[from scratch-from parts] a p5-133 for a quad on a respirator [permanently] 
who could use a mouth stick.  I started at 9:30 and finished at about 18:00.  
Her aide fed me a  soup and cheese snadwich for lunch, and we had delmonico 
steakes [which are very reasonable priced locally] and asparigus I had 
brought for supper.  in addition they provided diet pepsi.  It probably cost 
about $11.00 for the three of us.   She felt the price was right, I bought 
the parts in places where I get discounts as Bear Consulting, used a used 
Supra fax/modem 14.400 modem that had come out of my main machine when I put 
the USR V.Everythiing in [ever notice how decent modems seem to pile up as 
you upgrade to the next line of fancy go-fast goody?].  It cost her about 
$1100  with a used 21 inch hi-def monitor bought from another client who was 
upgrading and agreed to  help with this project [he sold it at the IRS 
salvage value at its 3 yr deppreciation point-still darned good monitor].
   How much was that job worth?  nothing, because she could not have been 
able to afford it even at Packard Bell Prices [barf-yuck-gag-ker-plop].  As  
result she got a machine that  will probably last for a good number of years 
and I wrote a text file on what/why and anyone can fix a bad part or 
malfunction.
   What did I get out of the job?  Two meals, company while I ate [not common 
in my life]. 2 liters of diet pepsi, some candy, popcorn, and a cat sitting 
on my shoulders supervising the construction.
 BM>    My Al-Anon sponsor says that if I am not sucking up and am helping
 BM> someone just for the heck of it, that its not a problem.
 TD>  Ok, catagory is "Random acts of kindness"
Da Bear 
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