| Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley |
 | Actor Bernie Mac arrives for the 60th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California in this January 19, 2003 file photo. The award-winning actor-comedian has died at age 50 from complications of pneumonia, his publicist said Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008. |
The Donkey
Young Chuck, moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.00. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.
The next day he drove up and said, ‘Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the donkey died.’
Chuck replied, ‘Well, then just give me my money back.’
The farmer said, ‘Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.’
Chuck said, ‘Ok, then, just bring me the dead donkey.’
The farmer asked, ‘What ya gonna do with him?
Chuck said, ‘I’m going to raffle him off.’
The farmer said, ‘You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!’
Chuck said, ‘Sure I can. Watch me... I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.’
A month later, the farmer met up with Chuck and asked, ‘What happened with that dead donkey?’
Chuck said, ‘I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit of $898.00.’
The farmer said, ‘Didn’t anyone complain?’
Chuck said, ‘Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.’
Chuck now works for the government. |
| I spent most of yesterday working on Ben’s computer. He had told me the day before that it wouldn’t start up and I spent a few hours Saturday diagnosing the problem. I finally discovered that several sectors on his hard drive were corrupted beyond repair. I got him a new hard drive from Staples yesterday and the fun began. I messed up by leaving the old drive in and the new drive got formatted and Windows installed but the partition was named “F:” drive and so I messed around a bit trying to change that before finally starting over. ERrrggghh! Then it took forever to get all the updates loaded to Windows over the Internets. (I will KILL Bill Gates if I ever meet him!) Etc., Etc., Etc. I finally had it ready to turn back over to Ben late last evening and he has to install all his junk again. Fortunately most of his stuff survived the disk failure but not all. |
MjL 11 Aug 2008, 07:16 a.m.
| If it makes you feel any better, I’m going to have to save everything I can from my computer and move it onto another drive so I can install a “genuine” copy of Windows that Clayton gave me--his school gave him 3 licenses for XP Pro to use however he wishes. Then I will get to move it all back, and hope for the best, or spend all night cussing at it :P |
Noah L 11 Aug 2008, 4:53 p.m.
| Noah => I’m just glad I found the original disks for Ben’s computer so I had the Window’s disk, drivers, etc. I hope your migration works out OK for you! |
MjL 12 Aug 2008, 04:43 a.m.
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