From: s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Christopher Francis Anderson)
Subject: Just a quick (and much needed) visit.
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:34:20 EST

Thunderchild oozes through the roof, plonks a dollar coin on the bar, and
orders a Tequila Sunrise from Mike (who else would I get one from?).

Making his way to an empty seat, he sits back and relaxes, for the first time
in a fortnight.

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me .... oops, sorry - wrong speech!

"At long last I've managed to have a few free hours to catch up on news, mail,
and do all the other things I've been putting off (like doing this post).

"For the past two weeks I have been working flat out to get umpteen different
assignments done, and I've still got about three or four labs to do, but they
can wait. I've been up each night until at least two, either tapping away on
the computer, or wiring up one (a computer, that is!), which meant that I've
missed all my morning lectures for a fortnight. Not good.

"In order to save time, and before I get booted off a terminal, I copy all the
posts to a file, and get a hard copy, to peruse at my leisure later on. All
well and good, except that I've had to go through about a months posts in one
night in order to catch up just in this group, and that does strange things
to your mind. When I'd finished, I felt that about four months had gone by,
and I hadn't posted anything, but the dates on the posts were all close
together, and at two thirty in the morning my brain just felt like a lump of
Swiss cheese - full of holes! I still have all the Dragons Inn post to go
through, from about mid-July (my God, that's a lot of posts!!!) to the
present, and I've missed a dozen or so of the latest ones, because they've
expired on me. I also missed about eight or nine Callahans posts as well.
What a real bummer.

"Anyway, enough of the whinge, I didn't pop in here just to complain! I've
read what you people would do with a squillion bucks, and I agree fully with
whoever it was that said that the money would not change much, except for
the degree of what they would do. This person (or it might have been someone
else) also said they wouldn't quit their course, etc.

"I think that that's what I would do, as well. I wouldn't quit my course,
because I like it, and would probably get really bored, really quick if I
didn't have something to occupy my time (even if it does make me ultra tired!)

"But with a squillion dollars I could probably afford to by a Cray for my news
reader - overkill, really, but who cares? Besides, I bet you could write some
briliant games to run on it. (Anyone wanna try it?)

"Anyway, by brain has finally run out of steam, and my fingers are killing me
(Okay everyone - one, two, three, ahhhh!!!) and I've got a heap of other things
to do, so I think I might just sit here and power down for a month or two!

"By the way, is there anyone here who is going to Fowlcon (25th to 27th of
September)? I'm definitely going, so if you are too, Email me and we'll see
if we can't organise a get-together, or something.

"Adios, amigos."



-- 
Thunderchild                           "Smile, it makes people wonder
s903040@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au            what you've done - PARANOIA! ;-)"
RMIT University of Technology
Somewhere Down Under (Down under where? I don't know, I just live here!)
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