Accio the !@#$ Laptop Bag! (OT)

[Aberforth's Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 7040

Just wanted to say hi to all--I'm back home from my adventures in the land
of my birth.  That is, *I* am, but my laptop bag isn't, nor the new laptop
and the copy of GoF it contained.  <sighs> In a moment of insanity, I
checked it in, and it never showed up in Zrich. <sighs & curses> The
airline won't pay more than $20 per pound, and my insurance won't pay
because the computer was lost, not stolen. (They cover electronics only if
they're stolen ... ) <sighs, curses bitterly, mumbles horrible things in his
beard>

And I was so proud of my copy of GoF--it was a first ed., and I was the
fourth person to get one here in Zrich ... the binding was shot and there
were comments and scribbles in the margines ... it was absolutely *mine.* Oh
well ... have they got the new & improved ending out for the UK edition yet?

Anyway, I just got my wife's pentium 100 up and running and am attacking the
backlog.  They're are quite a few interesting threads out there!

Like a lamb to the slaughter, but not going quietly,

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
http://profiles.yahoo.com/aberforths_goat