Irreverent Tutorials... I don't like their tone.

Do you know what a typewriter is? Well, a typewriter is a mechanical device which was used last century to produce printed documents. :-)

After you have typed one line of text on a typewriter, you have to manually return the printing carriage to the left margin position and manually feed the paper up one line.

In Windows applications, a new line is normally stored as a pair of characters: carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF). The character pair bears some resemblance to the typewriter actions of setting a new line. In Unix applications, a new line is normally stored as a LF character. Macintosh applications use only a CR character to store a new line.

From W3schools.com XML tutorial. I should complain more except a wonderful explanation of the inner workings of iron ring and drum memory units have been useful to me. Maybe there are people out there who never owned a typewriter. Ah, the joy of being 30... What else didn't people own? I had a slide rule when I was 9, but I never did learn to use it. I had a speak and spell, and a sit and spin, and a slip and slide. I had a mechanical typewriter with black and red ink tape, no built in magic paper well, and the carriage return was separable from the line feed. Two very long arms. I think Typewriter parts look like the magic pieces of a clarinet.

Home again

Well,

I picked Beth up from the hospital on my birthday. She is able to walk short distances and doesn't need constant supervision. She has another 10 days of antibiotics to complete, then she should be better.

Hope all is well. Summer is upon us all (or at least those in the north.)

A small update

Beth is in the hospital, here in Lakewood. Lots of calls from friends and family. She will not be taking her planned roadtrip back to the old country (wisconsin). We wait patiently (or less so sometimes) for information, and an outlook on her treatment. We do not have plane tickets yet to go to Madison for her sisters birthday on the 14th.

I am turning thirty later this month. Lynda flew out to drive back with Beth, and spent her time as a nurse. I dropped her off at the airport in Seattle at 420AM and went to work. It is amazing how much I can get done when I go to local jobs at 530AM!

I just discovered the hot sandwiches at Safeway. If I hadn't cut in on the deli girls boyfriend I would have had a wonderful experience, and the food was great!

I don't understand the allure of energy drinks. Jolt never cost more than the other canned refreshments.

Long Hiatus

Well, Back in town... trying to make a plan for the voyage home. Going to Madison in a few weeks, after a 4 day trip to Irvine.