On 07/30/02 at 10:27 AM,  Earl F Hampton  said:

>I'm back.

Yay! Glad to see you.

>I don't remember if I gave details of why I left for a bit or not so
>I'll just update.

Earl, I had the briefest of summaries...enough to keep me very
worried. And from the next sentence down there, worried with good
reason.

>The Docs found bone cancer on my wife's (Tracie) shoulder blade. We
>went to UCLA and had it removed(not the preferred method of loosing
>weight but it was effective). At the same time I was retiring from
>the USMC and we were supposed to be moving to the coast of NC.
>Needless to say the move was delayed ( I wont be getting cable or dsl
>any time soon as we'll be staying in Ca till her physical therapy is
>done).

>After the stay in the hospital I returned to a dead hard drive. (Now
>I had an excuse to pick up an 80gigger). On install I found the
>controller on my mother board was also acting flaky. After a few days
>of trouble shooting interrupted by "fix my socks", "my shoulder
>itches" and "I'm stuck on the couch and can't get up" I found that a
>bad power supply had killed my Mother board regulator. Thanks to the
>mail I got the replacement chips and power supply in so am now on
>line (remember no cable or dsl so I was back on line after
>downloading Debian for 2 days)

>T is up and mobile again and feeling much better demonstrated by the
>fact she now remembers how poorly I cook. They say they got all the
>tumor so in her words "I'm stuck with her for a while." On the good
>side I'm still in control of dressing (she can't pull her pants up)
>so while stuck at the house I can at least get the scenery I choose
>to.

>We still are unsure of when we will move (at some time in the future
>I'll be gone for another month Eris) but I should be online for a
>month or 2 at the least before then.

I'm really glad to hear that Tracie is doing well, and ya'll will
continue to be in my prayers. I'm sorry about the computer woes, too,
but computers aren't *anywhere* near as important as people. 

IAC, I'm glad to hear from you, and welcome you back.  BTW, you got
here just in time to be one of Mira's patients. 

Eris
AKU GM
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