-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 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. :-\

 Yeah they tend to be more trustworthy and reliable than most.
 You could always get a Parrot as they live as long as we do.
 
 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.  
 
No way, it's been a real horror taking proper care of him with 
my mobility limitations. I've managed it but at considerable coost
to my own personal desires.
He's given fair value on effort expended however!

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

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

 I know me.
 I'd be comparing the new animal to Spanky and expecting him to 
 live up to the exemplary example he set, it would be unfair to the
 new animal and painful for me to be reminded.
 
 Perhaps one day they'll splice in some Parrot genes into canines
 and we'll have a lifelong talking canine companion ;-)
 
 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.  
 
Hey this just happened.
Pure bred Pit came with the girlfriend.
Girlfriend took to smoking crack.
Threw out the vicious one and kept the Pit Bull 

 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once I install those parts I believe I'll leave the Windows 
O.S. entirely.
Fortunately I saved my work on installing Ztelnet and OLR
to floppy so I need not start from scratch and merely need
overcome the few error messages I was receiving when I 
invoked them.

Actually I only had two errors in Ztelnet as the OLR
was only complaining that I hadn't as yet edited the proper
file as to where to place uploaded .REP messages
and downloaded QWK packets.

All I'll have to do is mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
and unzip it back to where I had it before and knock out the remaining
errors.

Take it easy on yourself Charles, I know it's hard as I'm the same
way.
Feeling better this last week I immediately overextended myself and
hit the wall on the stamina that I no longer have due to
my chronic condition.

Still feeling better though, just a lot more tired than I'd like.

 
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