Kragan, You said you bought a VCR/DVR combo so your wife could transfer old VCR tapes to DVD. What did you buy? I have looked at a lot of them online and can't always tell if you can copy directly from the tape to the DVD. I have a lot of old home video VCR tapes that I want to transfer before they get too old.

I worked for DEC for 17 years. First I programmed in Pascal on a contract, then I did customer support for the VMS operating system for 9 years, moving to support of programming languages (FORTRAN was my main focus), and finally I went back to programming. Did 7 years of development on their automated backup system (in C and C++). I loved VMS...the most secure operating system in the world. Have fun!

My family was on a camping trip in the midwest. Another family had a hardsided camper and had hooked up a TV outside of the camper. The whole campground gathered around the TV and watched it. Since we were outside, we could look at the full moon in the sky and wonder at the fact that they were up there. :)