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I'm so depressed & bored -- I've become a real couch potato, and there's nothing on! While channel-surfing, I came across something called C-NET, a TV show tied into an on-line service. They offered a digital recreation of the O.J. Simpson murders, and having nothing better to do, I connected to their URL and am downloading a 4.5Mb AVI file on Brucilla as I write this.
I've been spending some time on the Afro-American forum on CI$, and had to tell one member that Hondon Hargrove is dead, which is why his letter has gone unanswered. <sigh!> I uploaded a GIF of the 366th Regimental Flag, and will probably upload Pop's paper after I've re-scanned the photos from the yearbook.
This download is taking so long I'm beginningto wish I'd requested the 1.6Mb file instead. If I'm going to spend much more time on the Web, I should probably get a 28.8 modem, but selling my 14.4 may be a problem now that they've become so popular & cheap. Prices of 1.7Gb IDE drives are down to $800, but again, my 452Mb drives are now just door-stops, so all of these hardware expansion dreams will have to remain just dreams for the forseeable future.
Shotz! The download timed-out only ¼ of the way through, so I'll grab the smaller one after all.
Things are still going strange with FurFace -- she seems most "content" with the Turkey & Giblets cat food, but is still finicky about the brand. She's starting to accept other flavors in between for variety, and the biggest problem seems to be quantity -- if I put out too much, it gets stale, and she refuses to eat it, so we're trying smaller portions and more frequent feedings. I caught her eating the (stale) dry food one day when the canned food did not meet with her approval. She sometimes wakes me up to be fed, amkes the most infernal racket while I open a can, then she merely sniffs the spoon and walks away. <sigh!>
I was up at dawn this morning, and shaved my head for the first time in weeks. I also shaved my beard, which I have not done for a long time -- finally got tired of it.
Loaded the income tax software over the weekend, but have yet to make my entries -- it has to be done to go in Saturday's mail at the latest. I see Betty Case this afternoon, but I still have not made arrangements with a physician to monitor my going back on the anti-dpressant, even though Pop supplied me with several months work when I got my last refill of the other drugs.
Anywho, I decided to do some errands this morning, so I thought I'd start with a real sit-down breakfast. I'm still depressed & sleeping a lot, but I've been re-reading the Leo Frankowski SF series about the engineer who got sent beack to 13th century Poland just before the Mongol invasion and started the Industrial Revolution 500 years ahead of time. Pretty sexist, but a good read if you can get past that.
Talked to a guy in New Hapmshire last week about "business opportunities" -- Salleh Diab owns a company called Expert Infocad Corp, which has a facilities management (PDM) product that was licensed to a company that is now in Chapter 11. He claims they owe him $2M in royalties, and he is head of the creditors association. The company is now just a few officers, one developer, and an office full of workstations. If he can succeed in his plans to take over the company before the hardware is liquidated, he plans to hire the people back and build it up again. I told him I'd be interested in a management position in the $60K range, but as for his other "contract" opportunities, I think I'll pass.
My swivel reclining chair for the 'puter room has finally bit the dust, so I think I'd better start looking for an "office seconds" place to get a new one. <sigh!>
Got some checks in the mail, and a bug from Lorsl on that special filter I did for Sheree Yang ... took all of an hour to fix. Brian was in town last weekend to do his income taxes, but only had time to call -- the day after he gets back from this trip, he & Jan fly off to France for their vacation.
There was supposed to be an interim IGES review meeting in Albuquerque in a few weeks, but it's been cancelled -- Mac will be disappointed.
Pop called last night around 23:45 to tell me that Uncle LeRoy had suffered a stroke about an hour before -- it appears that his right side is affected. I'll call Lisa later today.
Just got a call from Uwe Stölle, one of my German customers. They havethe source for IGESPEEK and IGESDRAW, and he wanted to know if I wanted a copy of their revised source and executables for SUN and HP workstations. He also wanted to distribute shareware copies of the executable, and I told him that was fine as long as he restored the banner and "beg screen".
I've done a few updates to my Web pages, but have had little enthusiasm for doing the additional scanning of both familiy pictures and the 366th Infantry yearbook. I check out prices on a 28.8 modem, a tape back-up and a 1.6Gb hard drive -- even though have no money, I really need to do something about my system resources, as I'm approaching flood stage again. <sigh!>
06:32 PM - Brian just left -- he called around noon to say that he'd just arrived about an hour before, and while Jan was busy closing up he office for the day, he was doing some errands, one of which brought him to my neck of the woods.
We watch a REBOOT video and "crawled the Web" -- I blew Netscape out of the water twice, but it was probably because I was running the CD player in the background (Brian was impressed by my Windows Exit sound-byte, "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave!" from the Eagles live performance CD, so I played Hotel California.)
I showed him how there would be a link from my PATRICK STEWART page to a BRIAN&JAN page Real Soon Now -- I have to scan some snaps of them and brain-damage the Photo CD shots of them. Since he left, I've been reformatting and adding to Phynque's HomePage -- I've hit on the scheme of 96 pixel high icon images with hot-spots, and a caption that includes the real GIF's file size. I also converted all of my GIF files to 89-Interlaced format, and am currently FTPing my entire \INFOBAHN\WIZ-WORX directory into my Ultranet account.
BTW, I finally called them about my domain name last week, and after a few calls they got back to me that yes, it had been eight weeks since the application was filed, and they were sorry that it had come back approved a few weeks ago, but had been misplaced. <sigh!>
On Friday, they told me that the aliases were in place, but none of my attempts at sending mail to the new address got through, although messages from "dennette@wiz-worx.com" got to Compuserve within an hour.
On Monday, the message finally bounced back as "3-day undeliverable", so I forwarded a copy with the header from "remus@mail.ultranet.com" to their TechSup e-mail address. They called while I was making this entry to say that they'd found the bug in their database, and they could see messages for me in the queue, still being routed, so i told them I'd check in a half hour.
Where to begin -- spent a delightful evening with Paul&Lynn, watching an episode of REBOOT (left the tape with them, the one that Brian forgot last week), crawling the Web, and other techno-nerdy kinds of conversations.
I gave them two of the haram MREs that finally arrived last week (beef stew and spagetti with meat). Much to my dismay, these were "civilian" variations without the chemical heater or the Tabasco sauce!! Apparently, they are targeted for the "survivalist" market, and they can always boil water over a wood fire if they want a hot meal.
I've been actively enlarging my WWW presence now that my domain-name has been activated. I'm also excited at the prospect that I might be able to get Netscape to run on the OmniBook without a null Winsock!
There's so much for me to do now, and Betty Case noticed the improvement at this week's session -- Brian's visit has really invigorated me. I even picked up an employment application today for the Computer City up in Nashua, just a 15 minute commute in the "right" direction. I've recovered enough from the stoke (anniversary coming up next week!) to do the kind of "light" work required to explain computer hardware and software to the Great Unwashed Masses. I also realized that $8 to $10 an hour for 20 to 30 hours a week is just what I need to get up and shave every day -- it's more therapeutic than financially or intellectually rewarding, but like I keep saying in my mantra, "it beats picking cotton!" Besides, it would be a "low stress" job that I could leave behind once I punch out (Lord! Time card clocks!!), leaving my free time to concentrate on Luminscript, Ltd.
Speaking of LL, I've dropped off a few of my flyers with portrait studios, and once I print labels for the PSP and MC shareware disks, I'll let each of them play with it. It looks like the going rate for an internegative and 3x5 print is $6 per photo, regardless of size. Since I was planning to charge $5 per photo for a 24bit scan, the merchant can keep the same price for digital or photographic copying, and make a buck a photo for handling the order!
I'm really psyched -- it's all starting to fall together. I'm glad I procrastinated about getting back on the Zoloft, because I know that this euphoria is not drug-induced. With Betty to monitor my emotional state, if I get too manic or slide into depression again too soon, then I'll take the anti-depressant medication toot suite.
Last update: 06-Nov-95 by
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