救電腦

其實，不是要救電腦，是要救電腦裏存在的過去。

我們從密蘇里帶來亞利桑那的舊電腦，其實是董仔的老爸旳舊電腦。我們接手後，又給它用了好幾年。後來經過幾次搬家，買了三台新電腦，我常想著要把裡頭的資料轉存出來。

因為又要搬家了，再不花點時間在這個電腦上，我可得要担心那些舊的檔案是否可以在現在新的軟體上打開！

這幾周，終於撥出一些時間，好好的花在這個電腦上。等了半天，終於開機了。哇，2002年... 這是一部十年的舊電腦！

這才發現，讀卡機壞了。還好，網路卡沒壞，也許可以把檔案轉存到自己的信箱裏。

滿懷希望地接上網了，天啊，開一個網頁等了個老半天，又發現，舊電腦的Window98已經沒法子支援現在的網路頁面了！還好的是，電子信箱可以用，但是大的檔案電子信箱並不接受。像小姪女在學講話時唱歌的錄像，就轉不出來。

現在，我還沒放棄，在搬家前，還有一點時間，希望可以找到好方法。

Love this picture - it was on my desktop.

有够呆 (二)

買完生平第一張大樂透，周日到電影院上班時不免說來和年輕人＂分享＂一番。一說才知，買的人倒不少。助理經理約翰宣稱如果他中了，經理級每人一百萬，員工每人１０萬，之後，他要把小鎮的電影院買下來。


在中午時我只不過順口說了如果我中了，中午大家的飯我包了。馬上就被小員工吐糟，又說起了助理經理約翰的承諾。

哦，真是的，我是忘了。可是啊，人家約翰是個沒有家人的年輕人，朋友對他而言比什麼都重要。而且，現在也還沒開獎，說說可不難。我呢，不想花心思去想＂如果我中了…＂ 我比較實際，中了，看到現金了，再來想。

下班時，資深經理夏天興沖沖地跑來告訴我，她中了１５０元。

哇，不錯吔。回到家，董仔等不及要對獎….看著號碼，除了知道＂全部號碼都對到＂是大獎，其他都不知道。

我們有幾組號碼 match 到，可是到底是中多少啊？

算了，我上網去Google了一下，總算知道了，我們＂中三元＂！

天啊，又覺得很呆了，白忙一塲。

Wonderful people make the world wonderful

The trip to Utah was nice - until Sunday night at 6pm. 

We were just about ready to walk into a restaurant for dinner.  Then, Don found out that he lost his wallet!  He believed that it must fell out from his backpack between the parking lot of Buckskin Gulch, the hike to see the "mushrooms" at Toadstools, and the parking lot.

We both thought the wallet has greater chances got lost at the parking lot of the Toadstools or the trail.  So, we returned immediately, and hoping we will find it there. 

When we realized, the entrance to Toadstools parking lot was already past.  Since we were on the way to the exit of the road to the Buckskin Gulch, we decided to check Buckskin Gulch parking lot first.

With disappointment, we did not find the wallet.  But we left a note at ranger’s box, and hoping someone would turn it in.

As we toward to Toadstools parking lot, we can’t help thinking that wallet must have taken by someone by now.  Very soon, we past the entrance again…  We returned, and parked the car into the parking lot.  Meanwhile, we both saw a SUV was just about to leave. 

We jumped out the car and searched the ground and sign-in box.   I heard this driver approached to Don and asked his name. 

Well, who would ask a stranger’s name without a reason?  Maybe he has the wallet?  Very next conversation I heard was how he found the wallet, and tried to see if there is a business card with information for him to contact the owner.  He said that he has asked every individual on the trail.   Now, he was trying to figure out where to turn the wallet in. 

I asked if he is a local and turned out that he is a foreigner visitor from Austria. 

How amazing the timing just worked out perfect!  If we did check Toadstools parking lot first, we would have missed the person.  If we arrived 5 minutes later, we would missed him.  So many if, but we just happened to meet him at that moment!

No words to express our relief – we can’t image what will happen if people use the ID or credit card to do whatever it should not be doing.

It was after 8pm, and finally, we could think about dinner again.  

Stranger, we thank you very much!