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87,648 hours….

My oh my look at how time flies.

Yes ten years ago my parents came kicking and screaming into the 20th century. They got the internet. We were far from the last family in town to get the internet but the first of the people I knew and worked with.

Curtis you don’t count… I didn’t start dealing with you until after this event.

How do I know this much less remember this? It’s easy. I was helping my dad try to find “the damned election results” for two people he knew that were running for office. I think both of them lost but that is my first definitive memory of helping someone find something on the internet.

Yes in those days we were styling with our 80486SX/8MB/220MBHD w/ a 12inch color monitor. Windows 3.1 and Dos 6.2

Yes it was ancient even then… I got my first computer that was truly mine about a month later as a early graduation gift.

OH and don’t forget the 28.8k modem on both of them 🙂

7 computers later…. I think I need another upgrade.

So hug your loved ones and remember it could be worse we could all be using some mix betweenm minitel and aol

The love below

The love at work… the following is a email exchange from work… I know I have a strict don’t talk about work error.   I’m going to make a exception in this case since I got a good chuckle.

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Tom, I need to find you a XX Chromosome fast.  Thinking like this will give you ulcers.. Then again, so will an XX chromosome, so you might be OK>>

Nathan
 

—–Original Message—–
From: Tom
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:27 AM
To: ‘VICK’;Greg; Nathan
Cc: Victoria
Subject: RE: bonjour from france

It’s 5am according to this email…

So that means it’s about 2:15 pm local time in France…

Which means that your flight probably leaves after 2:45PM local time… In France

According to Yahoo there are 5 direct flights from Paris to Houston… I know that you try to do direct flights whenever you can…

There are two flights that leave France after 2:45… One is a Air France the other is a Delta flight.  

We know that typically you like to fly American based airlines when you can… So I’m going to say your on a Delta Flight…

That flight arrives in Houston at 7:35 PM –> 5:35 Az time…

So after that… I’m going to guess that it’s a 8 or 9 pm flight from Texas to AZ… So 6 or 7 local time. 

That puts you at sky harbor at ~9pm local time. 

…….

Your going to be late to work tomorrow aren’t you?

Tom

—–Original Message—–
From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:10 AM
To:Greg; Nathan; Tom
Subject: bonjour from france

online at Chas De Gaulle airport waiting for Air France flight to Houston.
Ready to sleep in my own bed, sad to leave Italian countryside, definitely not ready to return to work. Dan has kept me up to speed on the snails pace for test system, but you guys have been very quite…hope that,s a good sign. This Frence keyborrd is the worst, the A  is a Q, the M is a , the Q is an A… sacre blu!!!!! vick