RJT> The hard drives that are out there right now sure are attractive,
 RJT> there's definitely something about the thought of having some tens of
 RJT> gigs of space available to me that sorta grabs my attention.  And I
 RJT> *could* go out and snag one of those,  or something similar.  But at
 
 Once I get the Pentium up it's two USB ports and from what 
 I'm hearing they're available cheaper than other types.
 
 RJT> this point I think I'm inclined to get a scanner and a cd burner first,
 RJT>  and to make better use of what technology I have on hand here.  Got
 
Scanner would be nice but I've no pressing need.
By the time I get around to a CD burner DVD burners may be
affordable?

 RJT> MBs sitting around and I could upgrade some of what I'm running,  like
 RJT> this box ferinstance,  by just taking the time to shut it down and tear
 RJT> it apart,  stick a different MB in there.  And stuff like working on
 RJT> configs,  getting things working better together than they are now...

 RJT> It's really pretty funny,  too.  There was a time when I'd jump at the
 RJT> chance to get a "new" (usually much faster) system or
take a big jump
 RJT> in drive space, or things like that.  
 
 Was a time any hardware tweak got my immediate attention too.
 Now it seems I'm content to lag behind and wait until it's 
 imperitive in order to effectively operate.
 Looking forward that 56K software modem with Linux driver too!
 
 RJT> at this point I'm content to
 RJT> hold off on that stuff a bit.  My one foray a couple of months back to
 RJT> look at what was out there in terms of new MBs and such convinced me
 RJT> that I wasn't ready to jump into that stuff just yet.

 You'd be more prepared if you were online, read reviews 
 at Tom's Hardware site, www.motherboards.org and download
 and read the manuals for the new boards.
 They appear intimidating at first however once you've read the
 manual all the strange terminology becomes apparent and in
 fact is much simpler than what we're used to.
 
 WC> Today's only chore is to bathe the dog which I used to do every
 WC> two weeks, than became a month and just now four months because of
 WC> my back. However now I'm waking up smelling like the pooch as he
 WC> sleeps with me so it needs to be done. Short laid down hair indoor
 WC> dog so he's not that bad.

 RJT> If nothing else there's always the car wash...  :-)

 No way I'd treat my Pit Bull that way.
 I wash him in warm water in the tub and even heated the apartment the 
 other day so he'd not be cold when he got out of the tub.
 
 WC> Another thing I did was QUIT SMOKING which was bringing back my
 WC> earlier problems with a vengence :-( Two years after quitting all
 WC> was well again.

 RJT> I oughta give some serious thought to that one of these days.  :-)

 Today's a day.
 
 WC> readable. The NMRI's came through clear enough though, in fact
 WC> I went to sleep in the machine which the nurse said she'd never
 WC> seen before.

 RJT> Heh.  I'm not that far from it myself at this point.  Been shorting
 RJT> myself on sleep for days,  and I finally have a weekend at hand to make
 RJT> up for it!  :-)

This was 8:30 A.M. and that loud clanking was going on as they
energize the magnets but with the injury I _wake up_ exhasted.
Mildly claustophbic too but they had to wake me up after
the NMRI.
 
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