August 28, 2020, Friday

A guy walks into a bar and orders two hurricanes and a corona. Bartender 
says "That'll be $20.20". 

That joike pretty much sums up 2020.  Thankfully, I got my dad to leave 
Beaumont for the landfall of Hurricane Laura. More thankfully, Beaumont 
did not get hit by the hurricane in a significant way.  The hurricane's 
path shifted to the east enough that a lot of damage was averted. Prayers 
go out to those who did not find safety, those that are dealing with 
property damage or injury and the first responders. 

I like trying out different retro ways to do things. I never worked with 
Sun's Virtualbox VM before but now I have ticked that box. I installed 
Windows 95 and I am telneting into SDF from my Windows 95 installation in 
Virtual box.  I was prompted to try this by seeing a Toshiba Libretto for 
sale in my area.  I had one of those for a brief period.  When I tore my 
achilles tendon and was on crutches for 3 months, the software vendor that 
serviced the firm I worked for loaned me his Toshiba Libretto. I loved 
that tiny machine and I always wished I could have kept using it.  

Of course, a Windows 95 machine today doesn't have the same usefulness 
that it had in 1997. Correction, it has exactly the same usefulness as it 
had in 1997.  Still, I am tempted to buy and tempted to relive some 
Windows 95 and DOS goodness.

Hope you are safe and well and hurricane free.
The Proprietor