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msattler:
Ya know.......sometimes.
I have been vanquished for almost a month now.
And it gives me pause...or paws, so to speak.

Paws......yes, that's it.
It's an old paradigm.

The original saying I think, goes like this.

We, the unacknowledged, have done so much
For so long,
With so little.
That we are now assumed capable of doing everything.
In an instant.
With nothing.

It's a bit of a trip sometimes when some folks think that this is easy.
Just turn 'em on, and rack 'em up.

It is not, friends.  It is not. I have done so much for this project for so long with so little except my time.
Which, other than some might suppose, is not infinite.

There are times that I have thought about shutting it all down and buying myself a fine car.
I could pay for in in months.
Instead, I have chosen to drive a 24 yo 1990 Olds Cutlass Ciera.
I like the car a lot.....I really do, because I have the shop manual and I get get into every nut and bots that car is made of......but....I wonder at times.

Where would I be if I was not a Seti addict?
What could I have become over the last ten years or so?

Some of you make fun of me when I go off into the high timber.  'S OK, your right, I guess.
But, please think about it....for just a minute or so.

In my quest, I have achieved a level that no other on the planet has.  Not with 9 computers at his own home.
A new guy has upstaged me, but he has, what......500 some servers in a business setting?
Wow, that's great.  But I am betting that once he figures out the real costs of doing so, in terms of electricity, he will be gone like many before him.  And if not......more power as it were, to him.

I can only speak for myself.  Where I am, why I am, what I am.
And sometimes I cannot answer all three of those questions without wondering.

It's a combination of my fascination with the project, my sometimes numbing ability to deal with machines rather than men.
Machines, I can usually fix.  Fellow man, not so.

Enough now.
Most of you have my email, or access to somebody who does.\
Share it freely, but not with the bots....LOL.

I am the kittyman.......24/7.
You are welcome in my little warped world.  Any time.

Meow for now.

Mark

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