Computer Heaven

Carey:

Just in case you decide to come back to the office, our computer has now taken the trip to pc heaven. When the people putting in the phones blew the Navasota hospital circuit our computer bleeped over. We called Code Blue but it could not be resuscitated. People from HISS came today and took the body parts away. No files could be recovered. Its all gone...gone...gone.  I called Wende and asked what we had lost and she couldn't think of much. The mailing list had already been sent to me. I have most of the important stuff on my home computer. We will have to get the daily census from one of the hospital's computers. This death brings good news that there is one less item to move to Virginia. It was good that our long suffering pc died here rather than be buried in a foreign land.

Dad:

Glad you can laugh about it, even if it is the hysterical, admit-me-to-the-BHU type of laughter!

Love,

Wende

Dear Wende:

What an unbelievable transition. Everything, literally, everything that could go wrong has gone wrong at the office. I don't know how much your mother has told you and the tragedy is too involved to write about. Your wonderful Mother deserves the Nobel Prize for Grace Under Pressure. She has done fantastically well. Anyone else, including Carey and Chrystal, would be in the hospital receiving ECT. 

Thankfully a few minutes ago Carey called on her way back from her vacation. I told her that I wanted her to return her bonus check for leaving us and that I her mother and father would be unforgiven forever for taking her away. With those threats she agreed to come back for a few days. Of course, she called to say she wanted to come back and help us. She was concerned about us even before she heard the American Office Tragedy. I want you to pay her $20/hour (this actually computes to a little under time-and-a-half, but sounds better) because she has been so faithful. Before she left Vicki and I decided that she did the work of three people and her absence proved our conviction. (Chrystal also did the work of three). Their absence makes me realize how lucky I have been these last eight years and how glad I am to get out of the office, because I would never be able to find another like them.

I really haven't suffered any except to watch the trials and tribulations of your mother. 

Love,

Dad