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HONEY, CAN OUR COMPUTER DO THIS?"
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By:
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WAYNE GARRISON
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(MDC-RCC STL.99ers)
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I'll never forget the day my wife asked me this question,
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for that was the day when all my troubles
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began. My loving wife had heard me talking about the computers I
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work with and decided she would buy me my
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very own. We were both excited about it on Christmas morning
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when I unwrapped it and took it from the box.
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Her excitement began to diminish after I had set it up and slowly
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became familiar with it. The excitement
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level hit bottom when she discovered that there was a lot more to
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these things than just turning them on and
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watching them go. Eventually I was able to build a nice computer
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system starting with what she had bought me
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and ending when I had all the peripherals and gadgets I needed.
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She was careful when picking out a desk, to be
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certain it would match the furniture in the living room, which was
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where she had a nice spot picked out for me
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to do my computing. A few years went by and she decided she
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didn't want me in there anymore, so she moved my
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desk into the guest bedroom.
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I wasn't quite as happy in the guest bedroom at first,
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but soon I realized it was working out ok. If
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I had some important computing to do, the television among other
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things wouldn't bother me anymore. All I had
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to do is just close the door. This bedroom was still a guest
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bedroom complete with a full-sized bed to
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accomodate her parents when they come to visit, so it was a
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little crowded. After a while she began calling it
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"your Computer Room". There was barely enough room to turn
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around in there and my wishes to get a bookcase for
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my computer manuals was out of the question. There just wasn't
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room enough there for it. I offered to carry the
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bed down to the basement and make a little room. She promptly
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asked where her parents would sleep. My answer
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swiftly earned me a knot on the head.
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One day she approached me with some papers which she had
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brought home form the office. They had all
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kinds of fancy printing on them and she said it was done on their
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computer at work. "Honey, can our computer
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do this?", she asked. I was quick to say, "Of course it will."
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She then began asking me about a few other
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things such as graphics. She was quick to point out that the
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computer at work was so easy to use. I tried to
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explain that our computer wasn't hard to operate but as it turned
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out, their's at work was set up to be fool
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proof and would boot up and load the software by simply turning
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on the switch. Well after I had convinced her
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of our computer's capabilities, she asked me to start it up for
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her and show her how to do it. Altough it
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didn't start up as easy as the work computer, she realized that
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she could do some of her work at home. Well,
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it wasn't long before I was competing with her to use my own
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computer. I decided it would be a good idea to
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get her her own computer asd set it up to be as easy to operate
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as the one at her office. Now, she was doing
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some of her work at home, so this meant that she would need a
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nice desk to work at. Well as mentioned before,
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the room was a little crowded.
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Because the room was so crowded, now I sit at my very own
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computer, at my very own desk, in my very
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own corner of the basement. It's a little cold down here, but I
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guess that's good. I won't have to worry
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about my computer overheating. So take it from me, if your wife
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should ask you, "Can our computer do this?",
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tell her anything but the truth.
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Happy Computing!
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