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       "It Was a Dark & Stormy Night"   
       by Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@ filegate.net   
      
       Forgive me if I use a well known example of 'bad writing' made   
       famous by woof icon "Snoopy" as the title of this article...   
      
       Sadly that's about where my brain is at given the mentally   
       exhausting events of last evening...  It was NOT stormy - IIRC,   
       the temperature hovered at a pleasant 42F at the warmest part of   
       the day...  even the evening lows were not so cold for the   
       middle of January.  So my system did not overheat, it did not   
       lose power suddenly from some wicked thunderstorm, snowstorm or   
       other weather event...  it just decided at some time around   
       5:30PM EST to suddenly 'give up the ghost' so to speak.   
      
       "No problem", I figured, "I'll just reboot" - something I've had   
       to do on this system several times a week most recently.  At   
       times I said to myself 'this is not good...'.  I could hear the   
       death throes of this singular HD in my system more often this   
       week and it made sense to me...  I've had this one drive that   
       powers <), the system did what it was supposed to do and just.....   
       rebooted the way it should have all those previous times last   
       night.   
      
       I ran the script on my system to put the BinkD mailer back   
       online - good, no problem.   
      
       I ran the script on my system to put BBBS's mailer back online -   
       Geez so simple...  and I went to sleep around 1:30AM, hoping the   
       daemons that had haunted all those bad earlier reboots were   
       finally at rest...   
      
       I feel like last night ended just like some bad sci-fi movies   
       finish, with the sun appearing showing a bright happy new day   
       after a storm.  I know I still have to take care of that new   
       install at some point today, but hey...  once I get enough   
       coffee in me today, even that will seem simple and easy to do.   
       Time to get the 'gazette out, a day late :)   
      
       P.S.  Thank you again so much Marc for being there last night,   
       offering hardware, advice and most of all general 'hand holding'   
       :)  You are the best!!   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
       FIDOGAZETTE  Vol 14 No 03    Page  2         January 15th, 2020   
      
      
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