hardware issue -- update

[dep]

quoth Matthew Carpenter:

| BTW-  How was the new SuSE computer received?  Did he like it?  I
| trust the trip back was copescetic (if a bit sniffly)?

the new suse machine -- to bring everyone else up to speed, i took a 
2-gig athlon machine loaded with suse 8.2 to my sister and her two 
children, a 10-year-old girl and 16-year-old young man for christmas -- 
was instantly beloved. my niece got things figured out on her own to 
the extent that she was giving her mom tech support; it went even more 
swimmingly for my nephew who, of course, was interested in linux games, 
so i'll have to locate some of those, oh joy.

the trip back was actually worse than the trip out, in that the 
ibuprofen wore off in four hours but the truck held five hours' gas. so 
i had an hour of literally feeling my temperature going back up. which, 
anyway, gave me the pleasure of enjoying it going back down again. a 
pattern that, dammit, continues.

i'd go to the doctor to get diagnosed with pneumonia except that she 
would likely tell me to go to the hospital, the place where people who 
have pneumonia get really sick and then die. which is not in my current 
plans for the year.<g>
-- 
dep

Nuclear bazookas are wholly ineffective against space monsters.