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damn. death is a lifeless bastard.

This list ain't going nowhere till next week I am going to take the sticky off and let slide for now.

I been thinking about replying to this one.

And how was your day?

When I get the new dead list up I am going to have one for dead computers. "I have had the kind of day that would make St. Francis kick babies" The Long Dark Tea Time of The Soul.

I been thinking about replying to this one.

She'd probably get some kinda kick outta that... then maybe not... you never know.... i stand corrected: i never know. surprise her.. she likes surprises.

dead computers. now there's something that can get my furor rollin'... a computer behavin' like it shouldn't. damn, drives this old man to stressin'... and you know how ruthless stress is the older we get. the other day i booted up the old dell and was cruisin' around the programs and noticed my wordperfect was gone. wtf??? maybe the shortcut was gone... so i looked into it and nope! no wordperfect anywhere i could see. so that got me freakin' a bit... until i looked up my documents and they were all there... but no way to write new words... not even a cut n paste... nada. stress started movin' in like a bad neighbor. i was upset. so i waited a day or so to do something... maybe some great idea would come to me like a lightnin' bolt. check the recycle bin... again, nada.

soo comes to my rescue after two days of freakin'... she downloads
'free office' for me and i relax. she saved me from additional stress... nasty stress... the kind that slaps me around and calls me negative names. i'm okay now. me and free office are cool.

I will try it out on you as if I was Jack Kerouac and this was the mythological scroll box. You can [sic] me all you want. Just so it don't make you sick.

No stress Cecil, none at all just a mourning period for my number one computer that I brought into this world, put it together from bits and pieces. The best computer I have had so far. And I ripped its heart out. like an Aztec priest. An eggregious error in two in the morning sleepy groggy not enough coffee good intention on the road to hell I think I may have posted something about it somewhere already.



This my back up back up computer, the Smithsonian been after me for years to donate it.

A Pentium three. No Firefox no spell check as I go, I will clean it up before I even think about posting it there.

wasn't it said that you have several hard drives sittin' on a shelf like books?

an old friend has apple computers... him and his wife. has had one or another for years now. never complained about any of them. says they never get viruses or never seem to break down... reliable as a well-fed mule. i like their modernity... you know - the classy look and the way they present things on the screen vs. pc's.... just something about a Mac that makes me desirous... but i can't afford them. like lookin' at some european sports car that costs three lifetimes of work to pay for... but they sure look fine.

Those Macs are nice, but totally different operation system. I got an old G-4 powerbook. but I have to yet to learn the ins and outs of how to navigate through all the buttons. No right mouse button function I still struggle with that.

I got a ton of hard drives Cecil. I am talking about the heart of the computer. The CPU the central processing unit. It is a piece of silicon about the size of a half dollar. There are hundreds of tiny gold wires sticking out of it. Maybe 478 of them I am not sure. But the mother board is called a socket 478. There are like 478 tiny holes in the socket that the CPU slips down into. Over the half dollar sized chip is a heat sink and fan the size of a 1948 Buick carburator {I exzagerate slightly and spell poorly} I decided that the fins on the heat sink looked like they were loaded with dirt which keeps it from disapating the heat. I was going to remove the fan and heat sink from off the top of the CPU. But, the thermal grease that is put between the CPU and the heat sink to ensure that they make good surface to surface contact with each other had dried out welding the two together. I should not have pulled on it. Probably should have gave a little twist. I would up pulling the CPU out of its socket. And it was all down hill from there.

Oh lordy do I have hard drives.
I just don't have another CPU.

I thought I did but my baby sister came by yesterday and I am busted

CPU



Socket on motherboard



Heat Sink and Fan

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• If I ever find Eating Ghosts by Head Burner I will put it here.
• If I ever find Limbo by Lenny Z I will put it here.
• If I ever find yabyum's poem about The Crumbs of Happiness

i'm big on tiamat - she lays down the law in the best motherly tradition.

I woke up from a dream just now, one of those dreams that drives you awake. A urination dream. I was standing by the side of the road squirting the dirt. I was a bedwetter when I was a kid. I learned to pay attention to those dreams. I also was dreaming about Oranges. I was going make a new category for my yardsale called Fruits and Vegetables. That was my first thought on reaching consciousness.


Tiamat the darkness in the deep. It is a Hebrew word I think. From Genesis maybe. She is a good old girl. Reminds me of a Jimmy Buffett song called A Pirate Looks At Seventy

"Mother mother ocean
in your belly you hold the treasure"

there is only one god and he looks a little like mr. ed.

If you say so Dino.

I am one of the blessed who have not seen, yet believe.

Can you still see your shadow?

i'm no authority; i was just playing a hunch.