RB>> Paul, I am sorry to have missed your phone call on sunday.

RB>> I was called out on Sunday about 15minutes before you rang.

RB>> And would you believe it Rained, the river rose 10 feet,

RB>> and I could not get home until 9pm monday night.



 RS> A likely story, we know you were blind drunk, staggering around

 RS> in a daze, and fell into the river, crocodiles and all.



Don't drink... bad for your health you know, but I an in to Diazepam

(Valium) at regular intervals.



Actually, talking of croc's.

The Cairns post reported a croc on fairway number 9 at a local Golf course.



RB>> I watched a ten foot wall of water come down carrying a bullock,



 RS> Hallucinating too by the looks of it.

Diazapam fix's all that. The side affects are the same as the reasons for

which you take it.





RB>> when it hit the old wooden bridge the bullock was dumped on the

RB>> bridge. Dazed and staggering the bull got up on its feet then fell

RB>> over the otherside of the bridge, gone for good now I would say.



 RS> What you might call a tad of a hair day for him |-)



RB>> We have had 15inches of rain in the last 8 hours

RB>> Inisvail had 20inches in the last 24 hours



 RS> Farkin ell. My home town, and you cant spell

 RS> it for nuts, you should be publicly whipped.



Sorry, I knew I had the spelling wrong after I wrote it. but I thought that

it would not really matter as the city limit signs where under water as I

saw the the town float past me.





RB>> Disaster has struck (in more ways than one)



 RS> Probably best to just shoot yourself.



RB>> I also accidently formatted 2 * 1.6gig

RB>> (stacked drives) near 6gig of files gone.



 RS> For about the TENTH time. You must be accident prone.

 RS> A Japanese would have committed Hari Kari by now.



Funny you should say that, you are not the first.

In fact I can blame (well I am going to, anyway) Win95/Dos7



I had a c: that I wanted to fdisk and reformat with the system files on it, 

and after I finished the fdisk, it popped me back to the A:\.

I did dir, It told me I had an invalid drive.

( I should have rebooted and updated the memory, but NO) 



So it told me that I still had an invalid drive then, and moved the drive

letters 



I thought, invalid drive... I thought I had already formatted drive c:.

Anyway, So I formatted drive c: again (which by then was actually drive d:)



(Am I making any sense, I am still comming back from a trip on Diazepam, 

honestly)



RB>> I had to scrounge a boot disk and terminate 3 to get this message out



 RS> I think you should be publicly whipped.



Only if you are a she & also a blonde in leathers, will I let you whip me.



RB>> Problem two, is that with all this rain, my perfect

RB>> lines are for the moment now down to 28800/26400 to

RB>> dave drummond and 2800/28800 to another number in Brisbane



The bugger did not tell me that he had put the sporty on line.

But it was still not good. I do have stats here I will post later.



 RS> Interesting. Presumably your local line more than a tad damp.



Oh yes, All I could get from a guy at the exchange was that it was AXE,

thats all, and he was too busy to let me come in for a peek.





RB>> (with audible noise in the line and 217 errors

RB>> on a 270k mail packet, yet no block errors)



 RS> What ?  You mean 217 Zmodem errors ?  Likely just Terminate etc config.



Must be, I am still getting them (always 2 errors with any download) with 

the same setup. Now that I have hit Brisbane. Too many things changed at once

to track it down fast, But I must soon.



RB>> If it fines up by say thursday (and I get my good

RB>> lines back) then I will call your number some time.



 RS> Please dont, you might jinx my line.



RB>> You just cant beat stupidity or nature.



 RS> Or mobile disaster areas going by the name of Russ Brookes |-)



So, whadid I tell ya before, You are not the first to notice that I

do things different to anyone else....Called independant..isn't it



Russell



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