On Thursday 04 October 2018 23:15:53 Olivier wrote: > Gene, > > > And beat me with whatever. Ouch, egg on face. Shtoopidity, must come > > with a large birthday count. 83->84 today. > > > > In posting that script I suddenly noticed the \ after the previous > > last line was missing. Its rebuilding now, with that file moved to > > /etc. My apologies. > > > > And amcheck is happy. > > That's a kind of weird present, but Amada is building, happy birthsday > > :) > > I hope to reach 84 one day and still be as bright as you are by that > time. > > Olivier
Thank you Olivier. But I had a pulmonary embolism 3 years ago that I think had a cost in the IQ dept. I sure as heck don't recommend it as a way to die. Scary as can be. They are generally 99% fatal, but while he's had several good opportunities to put a ~30~ to my story, he's not done it yet. Interesting comment by the ultrasound tech late in that 10 days in the shop, he came into the exam room, spent a long hour looking into me with his probes, commenting on the enlarged condition of my heart due to its trying to get some blood past the blockage, but said it would be back to normal in a week or 3, looked some more, valiantly trying for a good excuse to open me up and fix something, but finally sat back with a disappointed look on his face and declared I ought to be good for another 20 years. With a straight face I said thats good news, then laughed. Anyway, I'm still here and still playing with dangerous machinery that I've converted to run as CNC controlled stuff since I retired, more or less, from broadcast engineering. I'm still keeping the local Ma & Pa radio station on the air though. He tells me that as someone who actually fixes things, I am a dying breed. And he's right. I've been chasing electrons for a living since around 1950, on an 8th grade education. It has been a wild ride at times, generally well paid. As several have pointed out, I am still looking at the green side of the grass. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
