From:    Rose Dawn                              Area: THE_OASIS
To:      Frater M.'. O.'. M.'.                  11 Jan 95 10:27:24
Subject: Re: CALL WASTING...                    UpdReq 

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
  > Well, glad to inspire a laugh, one way or another.... :)
 Yes, again, that's what yer beautiful high ascii looks like by the time it 
gets to me!  ;>  What does the M.'.O.'.M.'. stand for? I'm not sure if you 
ever said...unless of course, you don't *wanna* say!
  > Oh, I believe it.  For me, the *70 doesn't work.  Go figure.  Must be
 > the daemons in *my* puter prefer one way, yer daemons have different
 > tastes, that's all.  This is a Grand Mystery that relates both to that
 > sub-variant of Murphy's Law (It always works for the repairman) and
 > the Christeos Pir-inciple.  To wit, hast thou made the appropriate
 > offerings to your Holy Guardian Electrons of late?
 Actually, that's one Mystery I understand...your computer daemons are set for 
pulse dialing <11> and my computer daemons are set for tone dialing <*>. At 
least that's what Ms. Bell tells me. Uhm, offerings...well, I havent' dusted 
the computer in a while....
  > Tired as hell, hurried, no time for much of anything but Burger
 > F***ing King.  Still chugging away through _A True and Faithful
 > Relation_, Thelema Lodge Calendars, and _Collected Works of Aleister
 > Crowley, Vols. I-III_.
 Got all the TLC's...want the Casaubon!...have Volume I of CWAC, not quite 
'ready' for Vols. II or III yet. I think all the rain and flooding's got me 
down! Had any snow in Caroline?
  > works.  Now I'm running a multi-node BBS, putting out limited
 > advertising again.  Really, all the damned memory configuration/com
 > port/IRQ juggling plus trying to bludgeon my way through Windoze has
 > been devouring my time.  Keep putting off asana work.  Keep putting
 > off pentagram rits.  Keep putting off complete sentences, too.  :)
 Kewl deal on the bbs upgrades!  :>  I'm putting off mundane work...leaving it 
till the last possible minute and then making myself crazy by doing nothing 
else seems to work best for me...either that, or it makes a handy excuse to 
screw off. I'm 'preparing' for my next init--getting to be a short-timer 
now--mostly by alternately forgetting all about it, then worrying like hell, 
repeat cycle, etc., ad infenitem, ad nauseum.  :/  Heh! Don'tcha love those 
wild swings from one extreme to another?  ;>
  > Actually, the prose style above rather mirrors the terse, staccato
 > feel of my life at the moment.  At work, we're running a $.99 Whopper
 > promotion, which means about six times the normal business, with half
 > the normal employees.  Suprised I have time to *breathe*, much less
 > spend hours plooking around with modems and Windoze and BBS
 > software...next month, 4 megs more plus an additional line,
 > hopefully...and perhaps some sleep.  :)
 I'm theoretically working on an article about computer games...should be a 
piece of cake...plug in, play, write about it. I can't seem to get past the 
plug in and play part though! LOL...was doing Merc at Dawn this morning, and 
the only communicating I seem to be interested in is responding to posts. 
Sigh...maybe it's just a phaze. Either that, or I'm plain lazy. I'm leaning 
toward theory #2 at the moment!
 Maybe you should hold off on the extra line till you get some crash time? And 
maybe *I* should hold off on the games till I get some *work* done!
 Love is the law, love under will.

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