Today and tomorrow I get the dubious honor of attending Microsoft security training with my fellow LAN Managers. Should be a hoot ;) We're all in fine form these days, now that we know we are actually going to get raises, and we have an idea of how much. Most, like me, have probably already calculated to the penny how much more we can expect in the old pay-snub, and how close we are to being thrown into the next tax bracket. You know, it's hard to be a democrat and have money too...
Like a bad penny.... We used to scuba dive as our hobby, a hobby which eventually led to the procurement/construction of a small dive trailer to haul four sets of gear and four cylinders. It was a simple but elegant design - a box on a single axle frame, with the beginnings of a mural painted on both sides, and dive flags at either end. The kids had helped paint it, with Stephen taking special pains with the sharks. When we moved to Nashville, we sold it. We didn't dive as often, and we had no place to store it. Nearly ten years have passed since that October in '99 when we came up here, and I hadn't thought much about the trailer. I thought I had seen it the last time we went to Greenfield, but I wasn't sure. Then Saturday my mother-in-law called to say the neighbor across the street had our trailer for sale. The neighbor was asking a certain price, and we offered a little less. She called back later to say it was ours for the picking up. Sunday we made the trip to fet...
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