He quits his job and buys 50 acres of wilderness as far from humanity as possible.\n
Apart from the postman who calls once a week it\u2019s total peace and quiet.\n
After six months or so of almost total isolation, he\u2019s finishing dinner when someone knocks on his door.\n
He opens it and there is a big, bearded islander standing there.\n
\u201cMy name\u2019s MacDonald. I\u2019m your neighbor and I\u2019m having a party Saturday and thought you\u2019d like to come.\u201d\n \u201cGreat,\u201d says Jim, \u201cafter six months of this I\u2019m ready to meet some local folks. Thank you.\u201d\n As MacDonald is leaving he stops and turns,\n \u201d I gotta warn you there\u2019s gonna be some drinkin’\u201d\n \u201cNot a problem\u2026 after 25 years in the computer business, I can do that with the best of them.\u201d says Jim.\n Again, as he starts to leave MacDonald stops and turns.\n \u201cMore \u2018n\u2019 likely gonna be some fightin\u2019, too.\u201d\n \u201cDamn,\u201d thinks Jim, tough crowd.\n \u201cWell, I get along with people. I\u2019ll be there. Thanks again.\u201d\n Once again McDonald turns from the door.\n \u201cI\u2019ve seen some wild fun at these parties, too.\u201d\n \u201cNow that\u2019s not a problem\u201d, says Jim,\n \u201cRemember I\u2019ve been alone for six months! I\u2019ll definitely be there \u2026 by the way, what should I wear to the party?\u201d\n MacDonald stops in the door again and says\n \u201cWhatever you want, it\u2019s just gonna be the two of us\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jim Has Been In The Computer Business For 25 Years He quits his job and buys 50 acres of wilderness as far from humanity as possible. Apart from the postman who calls once a week it\u2019s total peace and quiet. After six months or so of almost total isolation, he\u2019s finishing dinner when someone knocks\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":66237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Jim Has Been In The Computer Business For 25 Years","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[676],"tags":[384],"class_list":{"0":"post-66236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jokes","8":"tag-jokes"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/30-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}