I posted that admonition at work cuz I liked the philosophy, and I thought it would make people ask questions. Kind of a Buddhist thing. At work it is universally ignored. However, at home the concept of letting go has now come to the fore. I am about to install Linux on my PC.

You ask what connects the two. (just play along, OK?) See, I am one of Bill Gate's reluctant concubines. I tried OS/2, and loved it, but alas, the world belongs to Bill, and Windows®. I came back when IBM stopped agressively supporting OS/2, for Bill's bed is soft, and safe (sort of) and filled with many, many wonderful applications, and I have been in it so long I no longer know how to "fool around"--so to speak. Besides, many years of accumulated stuff populates my cozy little Windows environment, and Bill makes it very VERY unpleasant for a straying bedfellow. (i.e.; When switching to OS/2, it took me weeks to extricate myself from all the hazards created by Windows95®.)

Clinging to the familiar is the surest way to doom. (I just made that up.) Ideally, I would persue an intense affair with Linux by day, returning to Bill's bed for rest and recuperation each night. I could start learning the new system, and when I get frustrated, still have My Desktop to return to, with all its years of tweaking and personal configuration, to comfort me. In other words, I intend to attempt a dual-boot installation.

I now go off to the netherworld of OS installation, prepared with Pepto Bismol, manuals and CD's, a boot-floppy and a pathetic naivete. This may be the last time I pass through these windows.