Neanderpundit

Where you really understand how well looked after you are.

When I was a pup of a robot programmer, I did some pretty interesting things- some of them, I was told, were impossible. But like a bumblebee, I wasn’t well educated, so I did them anyway, and customers far and wide are still using those processes I wrote long ago.

None of this is me, of course. I owe all those skills to the Creator, and Saturday he reminded me I was in no ways responsible.

A very good friend and sometime hunting companion put his hands on a used robot of a fairly decent vintage, but in unknown condition. We got it some power, and it acted like it wanted to come online, but it wouldn’t get past the boot monitor.

There are procedures to resolve this. I knew what they were 20 years ago, but I’m damned if I remember now. But i did remember. I reinitialized the control and reloaded software and in almost no time I had it online and working properly.

Left to my own devices I would never have remembered that crap. It’s like having someone tell you how to build a submarine and having to remember it all and not leave anything out after only hearing it once and letting twenty years pass. It all came back, though, and it worked, and even I don’t fully undertstand just how miraculous it was. My friends, of course, took this all in stride and assumed it was just me knowing what I’m doing.

But I know better.

I don’t want for much, but I get what I need when I need it. So I’m difficult to purchase anything for, and those around me despir of ever purchasing anything of value to me- whcih is fine, I don’t need people doing for me anyway.

But sometimes someone will do something and get it so right, that I am astonished, and I am so rarely surprised by anything it is a rare treat.

So it was with some excitement that I cut the strapping tape on the box, and tunneled through the packing tape to find this:
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What is it? What could it be? A heavyish case covered in velvet? why, it could be anything, even a deed to a bowling alley!
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In a moment, thursday night, when i was feeling mentally and physically like the dogs breakfast, a good friend sends me a care package of sorts that makes me grin.

Too busy to even take a picture but soon enough i will share.

The value of good friends is inestimable.