The shower went wrong this morning, so I called out a programmer. It was my fault. I rebooted the john, owing to how it wouldn?t flush, but was stuck on a modal dialog saying Now wash your hands OK/Cancel and thought I would freshen up while I waited for it to finish its login sequence. So I stepped into the cubicle and waved my hand over the virtual faucet, and of course I got a stream of boiling mango scented gel down my right boob, Yipe!, because, as Bill explained later in his email, the Net DDE link with the boiler had gone down when I rebooted the toilet.
Then I got mad, which was kind of silly, because this sort of thing must happen to other people most days, and I pressed the emergency reboot button for the whole bathroom, which of course you mustn?t do while the toilet is rebooting in case it picks up a stray interrupt and goes into its emergency back up routine. Which it did and it did. I wouldn?t have minded so much except of course I couldn?t wash it off in the shower because the shower was still spurting molten mango goo, and I wasn?t really in a fit state to call out the 24-hour programmer over the vidlink. So in the end I emailed him priority Urgent. It took him ages to get here, because of course you need LoveNest security clearance level to get through all the doors to our en suite bathroom, and he had to literally hack his way in, so it was 4:00 pm before I got to fix myself up and have a blueberry waffle. I do wish that Bill were here, instead of on an evangelising mission persuading the Native Australian Aborigines to use NT for boomerang design. He is such a practical man to have about the house. http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=410 -- Usenet is a co-operative venture, backed by nasty people. Follow the standards. -- Chris Rovers, in the Monastery
