Editorial Note

On Sunday my PC refused to boot. When I powered on, it made a squeak and powered itself off again in less than 1 second. None of the BIOS screens or anything appeared on the screen. I feared a disk crash. But there was no trauma and I suspected that it might be nothing.

Now, two days later, I took out the PC and it (gladly) started right up. Mystery unsolved.

Anyhow, the next 5 blogs were written longhand. My friends will know how painful that was for me to write with a pen. My writing skills were always bad, and I switched to only keyboard 30 years ago.