Drugs suck... They are screaming their heads off trying to legalize marijuana when they should be getting rid of tobacco... My dad ended up in the hospital getting a quadruple bypass surgery, the only reason it wasn't worse than that is that he had stopped smoking about a year before that when he had a heart attack. Although eating fast food most of the time probably didn't help... I LIKE sitting in a basement all day... I wake up around noon, go check my email, grab something to eat, go try to figure out where I put that repair manual for whichever computer is broken today, eat a snack, try to find parts to repair the broken computer, eat lunch, try to fix the computer and break it again, surf the web for a couple of hours trying to find someting about my broken computer, eat dinner, go to sleep at 3am... OK, so I'm not quite THAT far gone, but you get the idea. I also volunteer at the local science museum once a week in the computer lab(30-odd computers and a sleeping System/34 in the corner), and I might even start working on the submarine parked outside... So I'm not in the basement all day. In the summer I ride around the neighborhood on my bike for a while, although it gets pretty boring. I think it's better to spend the summer in a nice cool basement and only go outside in the morning when it's cooler, or maybe just in the spring and fall. And then spend half the winter inside sitting in front of a nice big fire. And the only reason I get away with this isthat I'm home schooled... Been doing that for a while, but the first year was the worst. The entire year my mom sat there torturing me with multiplication tables... I hated it, but it worked. Right now I'm refusing to go near anything that hasto do with algebra(keep getting stuck on a few things), but all the stuff that interests me(quantum whatchamacallits, trig, and all that other fancy stuff) you need to get past algebra first... And that's where I've been stuck for the past two or three years. I HATE ALGEBRA!!! And learning morse code so I can get a ham radio license is the perfect excuse to stay away from it... :-) Well, I can't stay in the basement much longer, I need to go get supplies to keep my computers running! Well, I guess I'd better go get a job so I can buy the stuff before my computers completely fall apart. Anyone sick of reading my email yet? I am... I don't think we could get much more off topic than this. -JR http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.html http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/1681/