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So here's the deal (Part II)
Spartus Started conversation Sep 14, 2000
The phone is now on. Amazingly, shockingly, yes, yes it is. When you pick up a receiver, you get a dialtone and EVERYthing like that. Makes me feel nearly normal.
Here's the problem: the modem, whether it was bored from disuse, shocked beyond belief that there was a real, live dialtoney phone line plugged into, or committed suicide months ago, decided to stop working.
I think it angered the computer, too, 'cause it doesn't notice it anymore. Maybe it was a love affair gone sour...who knows? The end result is the computer is pretty much a really big solitaire-playing machine until the problem is solved. The problem, likely, would be solved by buying a shiny new modem, a step I really didn't want to take, because I want DSL and I want it soon, and spending some money on a new modem for a month's use of the thing before I take it and gaily chuck it out the window isn't really in our budget.
Then again, food really isn't in our budget either, but we keeping buying that, too.
Enter a phone call from Mom today. We had decided, at best, we'd buy the same-model modem we already have, if we could, use the install disk, as the install disk to ours is conspicuously missing, then return the modem we'd just bought with a "Sorry, wouldn't work with our machine", which, if you want to pick nits, is technically true. I really don't think the new modem would work alongside the old, now-functioning one. I mean, if you wanted to get semantic about it, or just rationalize. Whichever.
But I seem to have digressed. Mom called this morning, modem in hand from who knows where, offering to mail it to us. Actually, no. Offering to Federal Express it to us, so we can get online from home again. Finally. Provided I get home today and the computer hasn't melted down from sheer boredom over the last six months or so.
Plus, once I can get online from home, the other job starts more or less immediately, since I'm working from home for a friend of the family.
So things are looking up. 
So here's the deal (Part II)
Classic Krissy Posted Sep 18, 2000
Yep.
Oh, and "We like Spartus' mom!"...
she of the modem-providing type.
So here's the deal (Part II)
beetle, return of Posted Sep 19, 2000
Now it's time to get down to buisness.
First order of buisness, find some buisness.
So here's the deal (Part II)
Cheezdanish, Slacker Princess Posted Sep 19, 2000
Monkey business, knowin' you two... 
So here's the deal (Part II)
Spartus Posted Sep 21, 2000
Does she have a CAPE? Or a MASK???
She could trap criminals by encasing them in goo.
So here's the deal (Part II)
Classic Krissy Posted Sep 21, 2000
She has a blankie and she stops criminals by grossing them into immobility.
So here's the deal (Part II)
Spartus Posted Sep 21, 2000
She could fling sharp, snot-hardened tissues at people, too. Like snot ninja stars.
So here's the deal (Part II)
Classic Krissy Posted Sep 21, 2000
She could even have some sort of super-gun called "The Atomic Booger-Flinger"
So here's the deal (Part II)
Cheezdanish, Slacker Princess Posted Sep 21, 2000
And her Kryptonite would be zinc and echenacia...
So here's the deal (Part II)
Spartus Posted Sep 21, 2000
Ooh! And her nemesis could be Cough Syrup Man!
So here's the deal (Part II)
Classic Krissy Posted Sep 21, 2000
Phlem Girl?
Mucus Mom and Phlem Girl!
Orrrrrr....
Loogie Lad!
Mucus Mom and Loogie Lad!
So here's the deal (Part II)
Classic Krissy Posted Sep 22, 2000
*waits for the non-boring people who actually have an OPINION to add*
*pokes Ant and Beetle enthusiastically*
You can't just show up and not say anything.. it makes me feel stupid.
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So here's the deal (Part II)
- 1: Spartus (Sep 14, 2000)
- 2: Ant (Sep 15, 2000)
- 3: Classic Krissy (Sep 18, 2000)
- 4: beetle, return of (Sep 19, 2000)
- 5: Cheezdanish, Slacker Princess (Sep 19, 2000)
- 6: beetle, return of (Sep 20, 2000)
- 7: Classic Krissy (Sep 21, 2000)
- 8: Spartus (Sep 21, 2000)
- 9: Classic Krissy (Sep 21, 2000)
- 10: Spartus (Sep 21, 2000)
- 11: Classic Krissy (Sep 21, 2000)
- 12: Spartus (Sep 21, 2000)
- 13: Classic Krissy (Sep 21, 2000)
- 14: Cheezdanish, Slacker Princess (Sep 21, 2000)
- 15: Spartus (Sep 21, 2000)
- 16: Spartus (Sep 21, 2000)
- 17: Classic Krissy (Sep 21, 2000)
- 18: Ant (Sep 21, 2000)
- 19: beetle, return of (Sep 22, 2000)
- 20: Classic Krissy (Sep 22, 2000)
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