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    Default Is this the life, or What!

    I'm sitting here with my wireless 2.8 lb VAIO laptop, on my deck, by the pool in a new cushioned armchair. In front of me is an outdoor coffee table that in the center has a small fire pit--good for heat on cooler evenings or roasting marshmellows. Tonight, though, there are just a couple of cintronella candles burning in it, where they can't be knocked over.

    There isn't a cloud in the sky (Wow! THAT'S been a lot of weeks) and there's no moon so the stars are twinkling. I hear water trickling back in the swale, and the night-callers are there but just softly--like elevator music, only better.

    Even though I'm stuck with a heavy cold the moist air is giving me some relief--better than the A/C!

    To sooth my throat I have a glass of 15 year old aged Martinique rum that's smooth as fine cognac, but a lot more exotic!

    Does it get any better than this?
    Carl

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    Um, that would be "NO"!!!

    Enjoy!!! Hope you feel better soon too!!
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    Can we come over and play???
    ~Grace

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    but alas, no pool... yet!

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    Carl,
    About the only thing I could think of that would make it better would be to have a winning grand prize lottery ticket in my pocket!
    Retired pool store and commercial pool maintenance guy.

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    Maybe if the Hawaiian Tropic bikini team bus broke down in front of your house, and you had about 20 new friends join you for a swim?

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    The one thing I enjoy is the wireless internet. I upgraded to a all in one Motorola modem / wireless router.

    I can work from home outside by the pool, the sunroom or lounge on some patio furniture. That is nice!

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    Sorry Jetta - gotta disagree - probably because my work life IS computers, I feel they should stay at work - I have absolutely NO use for anything computer related - especially wireless around my house. I keep minimal equipmet at home to allow me to remotely run things in case I'm ever sick, but i will NOT go to the point of making it available all over my house/yard - this would just make it way to easy to actually work when you're supposed to be sick!
    A great thing that developed from this is that my wife and i can both attest that we have a child (a great child at that), and not just some MSN identity on our PC that for some reason keeps blue screening the system!

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    Quote Originally Posted by CarlD
    I'm sitting here with my wireless 2.8 lb VAIO laptop, on my deck, by the pool in a new cushioned armchair. In front of me is an outdoor coffee table that in the center has a small fire pit--good for heat on cooler evenings or roasting marshmellows. Tonight, though, there are just a couple of cintronella candles burning in it, where they can't be knocked over.

    There isn't a cloud in the sky (Wow! THAT'S been a lot of weeks) and there's no moon so the stars are twinkling. I hear water trickling back in the swale, and the night-callers are there but just softly--like elevator music, only better.

    Even though I'm stuck with a heavy cold the moist air is giving me some relief--better than the A/C!

    To sooth my throat I have a glass of 15 year old aged Martinique rum that's smooth as fine cognac, but a lot more exotic!

    Does it get any better than this?
    Later that evening I was also out (albeit with no internet) by the pool. Being out in the Boonies we're serenaded by all kinds of things, and that evening it was a pack of yapping coyotes one field over. Must've been the moon.

    C.

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    Sunday was my day to think the same. Laying in the sun on a float(I work nights) smell the hickory smoke comeing off the smoker,and a splash from the kids cannon balling in the pool. Life is good untill .... well untill monday nights fire.
    Steve

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