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[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

As do I, though the month I started my year as a pump jockey regular gas was $.309 (Sep 72).  The following summer it went up a bit.  (OPEC crisis #1)
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

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From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
> The saga continues;
> 
> The first cable modem that I had on hand passed it's self tests, but would
> not do Ethernet.  So we went to Wal-mart and got a gateway router and cable
> modem.  The router turned out to have been used and someone had set the
> security password, so I was unable to administer it's settings.  One more
> trip to Wal-mart.  Then yesterday we came home to find both router and cable
> modem dark and evidence of a power outage.  All of the UPSs showed no
> problems.  The quick tests had me looking at the power supplies.  Lo and
> behold, both power supplies were dead.  Yet another trip to Wal-mart, and of
> course another call to customer service to register the new MAC address.
> 
> I will say that, when it works, it works nice.  Now I'm off to check
> CoCo3-dot-com for the latest on my favorite computer and yahoo to adjust
> some settings.
> 
> As to the price of gas?  I remember 29 cent gas.  So when did it drop?  ;)
> 
> Bruce W.
> 
> 
> > From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
> > > I convinced the wife that the crappy dial-up connection was costing more
> in
> > > side trips to town to download files than a cable connection would cost.
> > >
> >
> > Keep an eye on her, the price of gas has dropped.
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> > Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net
> 
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