Mr. Bill York,

J.L here.  I am glad I finally made it back.  I wasn't exactly stranded on a desert island like Tom Hanks in that movie.  No super-genius, I was just a competent returning student in the engineering school back in '91-93' and sure had found something to work at under Professor Edmond Miller trying to bring an old MIT surveyor's program into WIN3.1.

In '04-'05 I had another Dell for eight months or so and picked up what I could with that Visual Basic.

I ought to be and really am pleased to have taken delivery of machine4, my second new Dell, on 12 June.  I did meet a good man late last year who did give me a VS2008std disk he was given at a convention.

I was also able to afford to one of the Hewlett-Packard "iPaq 111" units.  and the transmitter part called a router or access point.

To be honest, I do not have a contract right now and do not know where but have faith I will be doing something for the rest of my time.  Having said this, I must say with my contacts on and reading glasses, that handheld device is nearly useless to me almost.  I want to believe if I buy the proVS2008 I ought to be able to write some code to make bigger boxes and numbers show up on it, maybe even having others use them for me.

About three days ago I concluded I had to, had to learn like the old days, and, (almost ),format my harddrive and reinstall all that MS stuff.

Sir, I confess I am only guessing a 'ICHP 9' is a interrupt controller, which I heard of but never really could grasp what it was except they worked.  I was in civil not EE.  Still, if I take my time and am very courteous there may be much I can learn

I saw some-odd text file mentioned, "Argon," and boot disk and alternate OS is seems important to me.

Finally, I had to finally get cash-pay support from MS about 22 hours back because all that database/server/Outlook business no longer works properly, if it did to begin with. This afternoon I just happened on an item in, "Control Panel," about errors.  I was not given anykind of notice of this; none.  Well it said ya'lls ICHP 9 was out of whack as was some huge display adapter?  Well, ya'll do what you do, but I finally loaded up and improved network tester, (which is truly astonishing, which I had already been through

I apologise for this verbiage.  I shall add you, sir to head of Account projectGulfStream, and check back in.  Oh, downloadable updates might have issuance dates and so forth?

these text strips, I clicked something and then about twelve more times, and just let it go. Thank you sincerely for what we have wrought