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                  HONEY, CAN OUR COMPUTER DO THIS?"
                                   By:
                             WAYNE GARRISON
                          (MDC-RCC STL.99ers)
      I'll never forget the day my wife asked me this question,
            for that was the day when all my troubles

began. My loving wife had heard me talking about the computers I

            work with and decided she would buy me my

very own. We were both excited about it on Christmas morning

            when I unwrapped it and took it from the box. 

Her excitement began to diminish after I had set it up and slowly

            became familiar with it.  The excitement

level hit bottom when she discovered that there was a lot more to

            these things than just turning them on and

watching them go. Eventually I was able to build a nice computer

            system starting with what she had bought me

and ending when I had all the peripherals and gadgets I needed.

            She was careful when picking out a desk, to be

certain it would match the furniture in the living room, which was

            where she had a nice spot picked out for me

to do my computing. A few years went by and she decided she

            didn't want me in there anymore, so she moved my

desk into the guest bedroom.

      I wasn't quite as happy in the guest bedroom at first,
            but soon I realized it was working out ok.  If

I had some important computing to do, the television among other

            things wouldn't bother me anymore.  All I had

to do is just close the door. This bedroom was still a guest

            bedroom complete with a full-sized bed to

accomodate her parents when they come to visit, so it was a

            little crowded.  After a while she began calling it

"your Computer Room". There was barely enough room to turn

            around in there and my wishes to get a bookcase for

my computer manuals was out of the question. There just wasn't

            room enough there for it. I offered to carry the

bed down to the basement and make a little room. She promptly

            asked where her parents would sleep.  My answer

swiftly earned me a knot on the head.

            One day she approached me with some papers which she had

brought home form the office. They had all

            kinds of fancy printing on them and she said it was done on their

computer at work. "Honey, can our computer

            do this?", she asked.  I was quick to say, "Of course it will." 

She then began asking me about a few other

            things such as graphics.  She was quick to point out that the

computer at work was so easy to use. I tried to

            explain that our computer wasn't hard to operate but as it turned

out, their's at work was set up to be fool

            proof and would boot up and load the software by simply turning

on the switch. Well after I had convinced her

            of our computer's capabilities, she asked me to start it up for

her and show her how to do it. Altough it

            didn't start up as easy as the work computer, she realized that

she could do some of her work at home. Well,

           it wasn't long before I was competing with her to use my own

computer. I decided it would be a good idea to

           get her her own computer asd set it up to be as easy to operate

as the one at her office. Now, she was doing

           some of her work at home, so this meant that she would need a

nice desk to work at. Well as mentioned before,

           the room was a little crowded.

Because the room was so crowded, now I sit at my very own

           computer, at my very own desk, in my very

own corner of the basement. It's a little cold down here, but I

           guess that's good.  I won't have to worry

about my computer overheating. So take it from me, if your wife

           should ask you, "Can our computer do this?",

tell her anything but the truth.

                                Happy Computing!
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