Good one, Buckeye! :rofl:
Dennis and Doug, I'll bet I don't retired for another 20 years! Oh well, I'll just appeciate it all the more! I'd like to do like Jon and a little like Chief and find something to do even after I'm retired, just to keep busy and be around people and stuff. After I did that work at home for a couple of years, I realized that I like to work around people. Kurt, at least you got tickets, so it's better than paying more for what you've got...
Roy, Don and Doug - I had a whole closet full of old computer stuff including old HDD's. Some had tax and other stuff on them and I think the biggest of these old ones was like 1.5 gig or something? They were from Windows 3.1 and 95 days. I finally took them out and drilled holes all through them, then burried them in sand under the deck for a few years. Nobody is getting any data off of those things :thumb: I gave a bunch of other stuff including video boards and soundcards to a buddy who does repairs for people. He just had to upgrade a computer from ME because MS has stopped supporting it and Norton expired and killed it. He put XP on that system and it's working well.
John Baker - you need a better firewall/antivirus, I think. I'm using F- Secure and it seems to be very effective.
Jeff - nice pic!
Been semi-retired since 96 (56yo) got a one day a week job within three weeks, finished up working almost 24/7 running the whole outfit single handed after finding a market for special boiler plant components by sheer accident. Health gave out in 2000 haven't worked since. Took up supporting a brewery but I'm now sick of that , got fat and lazy. Now trying to rectify the damage, got an appointment with the Vet. next month, unfortunately I have a good idea of the verdict.
I have a top of the range ERNI on which I drive trains from around the world. I love drag freights over the high passes, keeping the ammetre out of the red without stalling on the hills or cooking a motor, I also get a buzz from chasing the schedules on high density passenger routes.
Just downloaded and installed Service Pack three for XP and Avast have just put out a few updates.
Get a lot of fun from humorous e-mails which bounce back and forth across the pond, some of them I translate from English to English before I send them on.
Smiley's back, so it aint that bad.sign1