May 23, 2005

• Well, Rats!

  
  

  Greyfox here, bearing the bad news.  The computer arrived all beat to shit, for want of a more precise term.  The cooling fan had broken off, the faceplate was badly damaged, the software dics were rattling around loose and one was missing a piece that had broken off.  Kathy is wrestling with the insurance issue (I feel her pain there–as a rule, when I get damaged merchadise in the mial, I just eat it if the wholesaler won’t replace it–dealing with the USPS insurance red tape is hell), waiting to here from Roseabelle (sp?) the good samaritan who sent it in the first place.

  
  

  Kathy needed to contact her, but neglected to keep her phone number.  So she gave me the number of another Xangan in Chicago–I called her land line on my cell phone, gave her the message to pass along to Roseabelle (in California) via email.  Ain’t modern communication great?  Shit, I miss the old  days, when I could call my neighbor by picking up the phone and dialling 333.  Oh well. . . .

  
  

   Meanwhile, Doug has been in tears of frustration and despondency–anticipating a free computer, he spent most of his money on an expensive monitor.  Now he is evidently  fucked, for want of a more precise term.  Between the stress and recent physical activity, Kathy has been getting angina pains.

  
  

  Stay tuned for further updates.

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