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Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. (Epson 10000 XL.)

Today (Monday, December 1, 2008) I went to vaunted Canandaigua YMCA for the first time in over a week.
First time since the saturated “prostrate” biopsy Friday, November 21, 2008; where I was told to not do the Y, not even the aerobic trainers.
I notice an open parking space in the YMCA parking lot — the sort that the Bluster-Boy would loudly claim I couldn’t do.
Yet I did, of course; despite it taking two reverse moves to get situated so I could back in.
“SO DRIVE IN, INSTEADA BACKING,” the Bluster-Boy would loudly bluster.
In which case I get to back out, and then perform three reversing moves, or back entirely outta the lot onto the street. —That’s a 100-foot backup move.
So I back in, and once parked notice an Apple sticker on the rear side-window of the station-wagon adjacent. (Oh dear!)
The car-owner was walking toward her car, so being my father’s son, despite speech compromised by my stroke, I decided to walk around her car and congratulate her for using a MAC.
“Knock-knock-knock,” on side-window.
Power-window rolled down. “I see you have an Apple sticker,” I said.
“I really love my MAC,” she said.
“So do I,” I said.
“Lessee; double-processor G4 tower — had it a while, and been drivin’ OS-X at least three years, and it hasn’t crashed yet.”
“Of course, I get severely excoriated by all my siblings, that I should be using a Gates PC.”
“I know,” she said. “People just don’t understand.”
“I’ve used Windoze machines at libraries far away, usually with Internet-Explorer, but am always glad to get back to my MAC.”
Pray for MAC users. Pray unceasingly, that they may switch over to the all-American platform that performs like an American car (i.e. sometimes; like when it’s not in the shop). It’s the American way! (Tinkle! “NOW WHAT?” Reboot time!)

I work out at the Canandaigua YMCA’s exercise-gym.

RE: “Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth........” —All my siblings use Windows PCs, but I use an Apple MacIntosh, so am therefore reprehensible and stupid.

“Saturated” in that it was 30 samples instead of six.

The “Bluster-Boy” is my all-knowing, blowhard brother-from-Boston, the macho ad-hominem king, who noisily badmouths everything I do or say. —He insists the “prostate gland” is spelled “prostrate.”

RE: “Being my father’s son......” —My father used to walk up to complete strangers and try to make them friends; thereby embarrassing everyone else in our family.

I had a stroke October 26, 1993, and it slightly compromised my speech.

RE: “Double-processor G4 tower.......” —My MAC is a twin-processor tower of the Apple G4 architecture.

“OS-X” is Apple’s current computer operating system. (OS-10.) —It competes with Microsoft Windows, which occasionally crashes.

“Gates” is Bill Gates, the president of Microsoft.

“PC” is Personal-Computer, what you see most of; a system of proprietary parts that uses Windows® as it’s computer operating system. —Although Personal Computers can have other operating systems, e.g. Linux. The Apple MAC (“Macintosh”) is also a personal computer, but it uses an Apple operating system and architecture.

“Windoze” is the Apple advocates’ misspelling of Windows, implying it’s slow. (Computer users divide into two camps: the Apple elitists versus the Microsoft users.)

“Internet-Explorer” is Microsoft’s Internet browser. I have it, but it’s a mess. I use FireFox® as my Internet browser.