I took myself out for a nice dinner on Saturday. It went pretty well.
Rather than boring you with the details, I'll let Tom Waits do it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYQDJpp4WAs

On 2026-02-16 14:09, John Sessoms wrote:

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Am 16.02.26 um 23:09 schrieb John Sessoms:

Great indeed. Our Windoze work computer gave up the ghost with a
cracking kernel panic in the morning and we had to buy a new one. Was
quite shocked to see how much hardware prices have gone up, especially
for RAM.

An hour later, our most important customer sent us an email wishing us a
wonderful Friday and would we please lower our rates substantially so
they can earn more money. We're now back at the rates of 10 years ago
while everything else, food, rent, energy, transport, health insurance,
you name it, has at least doubled.

So, if that wasn't a real Friday 13th I wouldnt know what could be one.

Ralf

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On 2026-02-16 14:37, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:

Did anyone show up wearing a hockey mask?

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Am 17.02.26 um 01:11 schrieb Larry Colen:

A hockey mask?

Ralf

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On 2/17/2026 3:56 AM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote:

Reference to the villain in a popular aeries of "teen slasher" movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Voorhees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_(franchise)

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