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|    Andrew Alt to Maurice Kinal    |
|    keeping in touch    |
|    18 Oct 20 23:39:22    |
      MSGID: 1:261/38.0 b8270062       REPLY: 2:280/464.113 5f879a12       TZUTC: -0500       CHARSET: LATIN-1       -=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-               MK> Hallo Andrew!               MK> Good to hear. I don't have cataracts but my vision started going south        MK> in my late 40's. Before that I had 20/20 vision in both eyes, as well        MK> as excellent peripheral and night vision. The peripheral vision is        MK> still good but everything else is nowhere as good as it used to be.        MK> Mind you I could say the same about everything as time goes by.              I've been wearing glasses for distance since I was 11 or 12 (47 now).              Left eye was done on Friday. All good. I can see fine without glasses now, but       not       20/20. Quite a change from my previous life. ;)               AA> I got some OTC reading glasses               MK> I can relate. Also I am using kbd's LatGrkCyr-12x22 consolefont so I        MK> can read these msgs without glasses. Works like a charm. Everything        MK> else I definetly need glasses. :::sigh:::              I use xfce-terminal with monospace regular 16. Though I could probably decrease              that now if I wanted to.               AA> How are things on your end?               MK> At the moment I am doing okay all things considered. However some        MK> extra cash for an epyc server wouldn't hurt my feelings any. I see a        MK> supermicro one that has caught my eye but my bank account says it is a        MK> no-go. Stinkin' banks.              Banks are great because they feed satirists, and writers on SNL. 2008 and 2009       was       a great year ;) (I've been watching a lot of SNL reruns during the pandemic)               MK> Het leven is goed,              Das Leben ist gut.              --       -Andy                     ... Computer Hacker wanted. Must have own axe.       -+- MultiMail/Linux v0.52              --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5        * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 123 15/0 16/0 101 19/36 20/4609 90/1 106/201 116/18       SEEN-BY: 120/331 340 123/130 131 140 128/2 153/757 7715 203/0 218/700       SEEN-BY: 221/0 222/2 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 452 550 616       SEEN-BY: 229/664 1016 230/150 152 240/77 1120 5138 5411 5832 5853       SEEN-BY: 249/206 317 400 250/1 261/38 100 1466 266/512 267/155 275/100       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5006 282/1031 1056 291/100 111 292/854 310/31 317/3       SEEN-BY: 320/119 219 319 322/0 757 340/400 341/66 342/200 396/45 633/280       SEEN-BY: 640/1321 712/848 801/161 189 2320/105 2432/390 2454/119 3634/12       SEEN-BY: 5020/715 1042       PATH: 261/38 320/219 240/5832 229/426           |
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