Blaine, WA - Software Update Tango #2

We’ve spent Monday and Tuesday getting our financial software updated.
Today, Thursday, we get an e-mail from Fusion, one of the update companies that we can get a 25% discount if we purchase during the next 3 days.
Well, sprinkle me with dressing and call me a salad. Gary got on the phone and, after speaking with 3 different people for at least 35 minutes each, we got the discount and got the update.
Then Gary checked our e-mails. You guessed it - we just got an e-mail from Quicken, another of the companies that we can get a 40% discount if we purchase during the next 3 days.
Oh, shucks.


Back to the library part of the story. We were in a meeting room and, because I sometimes get bored, I was up and walking around looking at the pictures on the wall. Nice pictures of a Blaine family with 2 young kids on a freighter in the Pacific. Several other pictures of some young deckhands on the freighter just lounging around. Then I read their story. One night they were murdered with a .22 along with the 4 deckhands. The freighter was set afire so there was no evidence about who had murdered them. Unsolved murder. Ooh. Much more serious that some neat pictures of a Blaine family.