>At 11:38 PM -0500 3/16/97, J. D. Crutchfield wrote:
>	[snip of rockin' lawyer bio]
>>it would be hard for me to give up my Makita cordless drill
>
>	Jim, stay with us on this one. We can work you through the Makita
>thing.  upon successful completion of the *Twelve Steps of the Galoot* you
>will be using, and liking, a different sort of cordless drill.  The
>one-handed models are mostly Yankee, made by North Bros.; two-handed by
>Miller's Falls and many others.  They don't weigh nearly as much as your
>green plastic pistol jobbie, take their energy from the food you eat, and
>are q.u.i.e.t.

   Not to mention that the batteries seem to last indefinitely...