Today I had to give a presentation on how to use a program I'm not particularly fond of, and pray that I'll never have to implement in my area. Sometimes I feel like a sell-out, but hey - for the record, it worked as expected and did what I asked it to. The developers deserve kudos for a job well done. It's just slow, and that isn't the developers fault. Using this product to image a machine versus the solution we're currently using is like comparing snail mail to e-mail - both will deliver most of the time, it's just that one is WAAAAY faster than the other. I'm still trying to figure out why I was the chosen one to stand in front of all the other LAN managers and give the presentation - surely it's not my wit and style ;-)
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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