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“You’ve got to ignore the voices. They are not on your side, and you never tell anyone about them, especially your teachers. They get panicky for no reason.” Reese — “Malcolm in the Middle”

Another joke from Ross

The day after his wife disappeared in a kayaking accident, an Anchorage man answered his door to find two grim-faced Alaska State Troopers.

“We’re sorry Mr. Wilkens, but we have some information about your wife,” said one trooper.

“Tell me! Did you find her?” Wilkens shouted.

The troopers looked at each other. One said, “We have some bad news,some good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to hear first?”

Fearing the worst, Mr. Wilkens said, “Give me the bad news first.”

The trooper said, “I’m sorry to tell you, sir, but this morning we found your wife’s body in Kachemak Bay .”

“Oh my God!” exclaimed Wilkens. Swallowing hard, he asked, “What’s the good news?”

The trooper continued, “When we pulled her up, she had 12 twenty-five pound king crabs and 6 good-size Dungeness crabs clinging to her.”

Stunned, Mr. Wilkens demanded, “If that’s the good news, what’s the great news?”

The trooper said, “We’re going to pull her up again tomorrow.”

Ken posted a comment a while back to the effect that I needed to post an update. I agree it’s been far too long but I just couldn’t seem to find anything I wanted to write about. Tonight is not all that much different but I guess I’ll force myself to write something.

I mentioned in a previous post that I’ve been trying to learn Java. Since then I’ve read a couple of more books on Java and I’m taking a Java I class at Mesa Community Collage. The class is OK but I’m not learning as much as I want. I plan on taking Java II next spring but I’m not sure I’m going to be able to learn what I’ve not been able to get out of books on my own.

I found a web site, Java^TM EE (J2EE) Programming (with Passion!), online that has an informal self-study Java class that might be helpful. I think I’ll work though it when his next session starts the middle of next month. I’ve got the basics of the language down but getting my arms wrapped around the tool and environment APIs is proving to be quite a challenge.