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Date: Friday January 14th 2000

 Hi, my name is Scott Rryan. When I discovered "surfing", I would spend hours on the ol' computer.  My wife, Sheri, used to sit and get absolutely disgusted with me for spending so much time sitting in front of the monitor.  "How in the world can you just sit there for so long?"

Well. . . I decided to put Jezzball on and see if she liked it.  OH MY GOD!!!  At first I used to catch her sneaking off upstairs to play.  She would just sort of drift out of the room.  After about thirty minutes, I'd get a bit curious and go searching around for her.  BAM. . . there she'd be. . . a slave to the red and white spinning atoms.  Mesmerized by their beauty and fluid motion.  Every once in a while I'd hear a shreak of horror that could only indicate one thing.  She had a great score going and tried some move that she knew wouldn't work.  But. . .that's Jezzball for ya.  Always making you think you can "split the atoms."

"Just going up to work on bills", she would say.  "Just have a few proposals to write up for work", she would say.  All feable excuses of legitimate work to place her a mouse click away from what was fast becoming her one true addiction.

Now. . . she doesn't even bother with the excuses.  She's hooked!!!  She will sit and play forever.  At least she finally realizes how easy it can be to waste away an entire afternoon staring at a 17" screen.  In fact, she will often keep a game going over a period of a couple of days.  Such was the case when she finally broke 1 million (1000003 to be exact).  The score rests proudly at the top of the list with the caption mom*the*greatest!!!!  Now, when I really want to throw a scare into her. . . I simply tell her that I accidentally cleared the "High Scores."  I fear I spend the remainder of my days in the Dog House if I made that big a mistake. We have affectionately "renamed" it SheriBall.  She is truly the Jezzball Queen in our house.

Have a Blue Heaven Day!!!
Scott and Sheri. . .

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