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« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2006, 08:14:38 PM »
all this talk of movies about Don's book........i'm going to start a new thread!!!
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« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2006, 08:17:03 AM »
SFGKW is my favorite Don book, but I think I would use TPD to introduce someone to Don...even before BLJ.

So, Geof, tell us how you're liking the book.

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« Reply #17 on: April 13, 2006, 09:08:02 AM »
I haven't gotten any further.  I spent last night making the server behave.

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« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2006, 09:10:03 AM »
Did you send it to the corner for time out?
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« Reply #19 on: April 13, 2006, 09:11:14 AM »
Quote from: Holls on April 13, 2006, 09:10:03 AM
Did you send it to the corner for time out?

No, we doubled the RAM in it, and I kept waking up to check on it all night.  It seems to be doing fine now, which means we shouldn't have the sporadic downtime we've been having.

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« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2006, 09:12:30 AM »
Goef, you're a trooper...its like taking care of a baby or something, getting up many times in the middle of the night to take of "baby server" ... your hard work is very much appreciated!
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« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2006, 10:22:40 AM »
Quote from: Holls on April 13, 2006, 09:12:30 AM
Goef, you're a trooper...its like taking care of a baby or something, getting up many times in the middle of the night to take of "baby server" ... your hard work is very much appreciated!

I think of it more along the lines of lunacy.  LOL

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« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2006, 10:29:19 AM »
lunacy ... trooper ... super trooper? Smiley
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« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2006, 10:32:59 AM »
Technically, MOON trooper
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« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2006, 10:58:51 AM »
Something like that.

GFM <-- going to have to get back to reading this book to get this topic re-railed Wink
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« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2006, 11:02:05 AM »
I'll help ... another good part in the book (more funny than anything) is when Don tells Paul about a dream he just had about a girl, Cheyenne ... you can just hear the sarcasm and joking going on between them.  Throughout the book I really felt like I could hear the tone when each of them was talking.  Or the midnight golf part ... that sounds painful!!!!
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« Reply #26 on: April 15, 2006, 08:16:50 PM »
Well, I churned through a bit of the book last night and have finished it today in several strafing runs through the book.  It's a warm day in Alabama---up into the mid 80s, with lots of humidity---and my A/C is acting up, so between trips for errands and such, I decided to take the day to read.  The other stuff in my life can wait a couple of days, I guess.

I agree that it would make an interesting movie: the mechanic coming along out of the blue, the providential linkages in the junkyard, the sidebar into Vegas.  It'd have to be an art film, though, because I think this kind of a movie would have to be told with a lot of silence, with a lot of still shots and glances and shrugs broken up by brief snippets of dialogue.

Frankly, that's the way the trip would seem; road trips with guys always start out with flurries of conversation, and then fade into the miles.  I was reminded of my old hockey trips, back the year after I finished school, when we would travel to Minnesota or Denver or Connecticut or New York to broadcast a game.  It was a familiar rhythm: work the week, gather on Thursday night, throw your stuff in the car, talk until we got to Nashville, and then just drive.  When you drive a long time in a row---and Huntsville to Minneapolis is 18 grueling hours, most of it through the Midwest, with Madison and Nashville your only touchstones to urban America---your thoughts turn to God ... or at least ours did.

I think that I resonate with TPD mainly because long drives are my thing.  Sometimes it takes a trip to give you perspective on what really matters in life, for your thoughts to go away from your boss, your co-workers, your alarm clock, the humdrum crap that annoys you and occupies a bunch of useless brain cycles.  Stripped away from all that and put on the road---where, to be honest, we really just have to stay between the lines and under the speed limit---our brains can rest from all the frustrations that so easily flood our consciousness.

So yeah ... good stuff.

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« Reply #27 on: April 16, 2006, 09:05:06 AM »
SO...how did you like meeting Don??

I say meeting because that seems to be what happens when you read his books, they are so personal and conversational, it feels like you just met the guy!
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« Reply #28 on: April 16, 2006, 11:20:21 AM »
I definitely saw myself being like Don, fat and slow, hiking back up out of the Grand Canyon.  LOL

I'm hoping to run into Don in PDX next month...

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« Reply #29 on: April 16, 2006, 06:39:48 PM »
I haven't read TPD yet, but I look forward to it.

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