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DaveB -> RE: Check the Front Page! (5/9/2008 8:41:37 PM)
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This story will go on a bit (unlike all my other posts, hah) and it is completely devoted to explaining to Matrix why they ought to release AE on July 8th, so feel free to exit at this point unless you are involved in releasing AE or like to hear a well reasoned spot of begging.....
I live in northern Scotland, I came here 31 years ago when the RAF posted me here to cruise the vast reaches of the north Atlantic, a young, eagle eyed (am I laying this on a bit thick?) sentinel protecting the seas against communist aggression. For approximately, oooh, 31 years now we've had a nice sunny week in May, and it's pi$$ed down from mid May to October (at that point it freezes and becomes that annoying slushy stuff that freezes your n*ts off but isn't quite bad enough to phone in to work to take a day off).
My wife and I have tired of this, so my wife (bless) invested in a holiday home, while I changed my job to ensure we were all off for the school summer holidays. Now we enjoy sunny (and thundery) summers each year in the USA. We have, much to my own personal regret, only enjoyed 4th July once out there - our schools persist in closing a week too late most years - and this year, after 2 days travel (approx 8 hrs London-Orlando, 1 full day by ox cart escaping Scotland prior to that) and we arrive on 7 July. Allowing for the TSA, and the unique 'reclaim your baggage only to put it back on a carousel' etc we won't get to our sanctuary until maybe 8 pm. (Okay, I often get the Orlando exits mixed up, my wife doesn't read maps, and I have occasionally spent 2 hours trying to find I-4...but I'm getting better. Please don't mention the time I cried 'if only the sun weren't overhead I could find north and orient my map'....2 hours later I noticed the hired wagon had a compass display at roof level...guess who was heading north instead of south? Look on the birght side, I almost got to see what Carolina looked like - I doubt I'd have hit New Jersey without at least an inkling of a wrong turn at some point).
So, I will stop to buy Beer, milk, coffee, beer, cereals, beer, orange juice, bread, beer and beer at Walmart on 7 July. I will then go out on 8 July, while my wife re-activates the phone/cable/internet, and buy a PC 'cos I'm fed up unzipping the laptop bag endlessly at airport security desks (why they seem to imagine laptops are a threat whilst allowing people to carry didgeri doos and guitar cases aboard unchecked I have still to figure out), and laptops don't have 19" screens anyhow.so I'm off to Staples, Walmart etc on 8 July to get my holiday setup sorted and I will spend 8 July snarling at the family, taking the occasional dip, connecting everything up and installing Windows, Office, and WITP.
Isn't this a long story?
And the moral of this story is.....
Just think what a stunningly great PR coup it would be, if, on the evening of 8 July, having travelled umpty thousand miles (don't forget the ox cart - there's good PR in that) when I finally get my new PC to work and actually connect to the Matrix e-store.... the first thing I get to do is download and install AE?
Wow - how could Matrix fail to be motivated by that?
So, 8 July it is then guys, okay?
Dave
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