Subject: Re: Begining of the end (1/2)


Hello Wayne -

 WC> Sorry about your cat companion.

 CA> I enjoy the company of animals too much for my own good.  They don't
 CA> live as long as we do. :-\

 WC>  Yeah they tend to be more trustworthy and reliable than
 WC> most.

I appreciate that a pet's only "agenda" is a warm place to sleep, some
food, and a bit of companionship and nothing else. :-)

 WC>  You could always get a Parrot as they live as long as we
 WC> do.

I should've specified warm-blooded fur-bearing animals.  I've never
liked birds a great deal.  Never disliked them just never felt much
of a bond between myself and any bird.  My friends parrot was vicious
and a bit ugly (my opinion).

 WC> My Pit turns 14 the same time Iraq is supposed to be turned
 WC> over and he won't be with me forever either.

 CA> You might want to get a second pet before that happens.

 WC> No way, it's been a real horror taking proper care of him
 WC> with my mobility limitations. I've managed it but at
 WC> considerable coost to my own personal desires.
 WC> He's given fair value on effort expended however!

 WC> What are you going to do?
 WC> The animal earned every bit of my trust and loyalty so
 WC> giving him away was not an option.

 CA> I think it
 CA> would make the loss less difficult to endure.

 WC>  I know me.
 WC>  I'd be comparing the new animal to Spanky and expecting him
 WC> to
 WC>  live up to the exemplary example he set, it would be unfair
 WC> to the
 WC>  new animal and painful for me to be reminded.

My recent experiences having the mother and kitten is that the
younger animal learns by mimicking the behaviour of the older
animal.  They would become very much alike I think?

 WC>  Perhaps one day they'll splice in some Parrot genes into
 WC> canines
 WC>  and we'll have a lifelong talking canine companion ;-)

A dog with feathers is too terrible a price to pay.

 WC> I finally found out why there are few if any British
 WC> Staffordshire Bull Terriers around anymore, they're all
 WC> being bred to the larger American Staffordshire
 WC> characteristic :-(

 CA> I tend to prefer "mutts" in both cats and dogs.

 WC> Hey this just happened.
 WC> Pure bred Pit came with the girlfriend.
 WC> Girlfriend took to smoking crack.
 WC> Threw out the vicious one and kept the Pit Bull 

Neither of the cats was mine.  I was just a caretaker of sorts.

 CA> They have fewer
 CA> genetic weaknesses and seem to live longer because of that fact.  The
 CA> cat that I gave to my brother was a "tabby" and the one that died
 CA> recently was also a "tabby" (catspeak for mutt).

 WC>  Well spanky at 14 is going strong and he's not even
 WC> neutered, just lucky I guess.

Luck is always a factor.

 CA> btw: How are you getting along with your live Linux CD lately?

 WC> It valued, resides near at hand however unfortunately the
 WC> Pentium is currently down so I'm on a DOS - Win 3.1 1993 486
 WC> :-(

There are worse places to be.  I still have my W31 box and find it
quite pleasant to use many times.

 WC> The hard drive's boot sector failed and the drive is no
 WC> longer recognised.

 WC> I could use Knoppix in ramdrive mode but prefer the
 WC> alternative. So I'm saving for a high capacity hard drive
 WC> and BIOS'ed Belkins I/O card to overcome the machines built
 WC> in 32 Gig hard drive limitation.
 WC> Not certain if I'll purchase them both this coming month or
 WC> next.

I can't get KNOPPIX to work on this laptop - I tried though. :-)

 WC> Oh yeah the PCI I/O card will also upgrade me from
 WC> ATA66 to UltraATA133 as well.
 WC> CompUSA has a Maxtor 20 Gig drive in stock locally and I
 WC> could install it without the new card but not gain the data
 WC> transfer speed advantage.

 WC> Once I install those parts I believe I'll leave the Windows
 WC> O.S. entirely.

I need too many of the applications for Windows to ever abandon it
entirely.

 WC> Fortunately I saved my work on installing Ztelnet and OLR
 WC> to floppy so I need not start from scratch and merely need
 WC> overcome the few error messages I was receiving when I
 WC> invoked them.

 WC> Actually I only had two errors in Ztelnet as the OLR
 WC> was only complaining that I hadn't as yet edited the proper
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