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Computer Men [message #1918]

Wed, 22 October 2008 20:01

jmeadows
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Computer Men

Smooshes!

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Wed, 22 October 2008 20:19

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Woooo, Firefox! It works a *lot* like Internet Explorer, so you will be *fine*. You will be more than fine. You won't crash. (If you do, I'll knit you a new pair of fingerless mitts or something to make up for Firefox's cruelty. Really, it's always been good to me.)

You have really sarcastic Computer Men. And those doughnuts! Don't worry, I'll take care of them for you. I'd hate for them to go to waste. Let me get in my canoe and I'll be over in -- *checks watch* -- a week.

So...I saw you online just as I was posting this topic tonight. We're all dying to know: does it work now?

Smooshes!

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Wed, 22 October 2008 20:20

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I can just imagine the Hellhounds in raptures due to the more than one Computer Man being present. And they had food.

Maybe the homeopathic software needs to be on its own little computer... alone ....

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Wed, 22 October 2008 20:24

jmeadows
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b_twin_1 wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 20:20

Maybe the homeopathic software needs to be on its own little computer... alone ....

I agree. The homeopathic software sounds like a bully!

Smooshes!

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Re: Computer Men [message #1929 is a reply to message #1918 ]

Wed, 22 October 2008 20:34

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Awwww! The poor homeopathic software will be getting a complex!! I'm sure it's a lovely program and plays nicely with the other programs really.....

(Okay, I HAVE to stop crediting inanimate objects with feelings.....)

Fingers crossed that you'll be able to come play in the shiny forum properly now, Robin!

Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....

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Re: Computer Men [message #1931 is a reply to message #1918 ]

Wed, 22 October 2008 20:40

Julia
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And about Firefox... if you do crash, it knows it, and saves what you had open. And then reopens it for you. So it isn't as bad. And the crashing is much less often than in Explorer.
Annddd, you can drag the little tab things up under the navagation bar so you can just click on the little link tab symbol thing rather than typing in an address or going through favorites/bookmarks etc.

Wow, I didn't explain that well at all. Maybe someone else might be able to figure out what it is that I am trying to say, and clarify?
You all are quite good at the clarifying and explaining and simplifying and so on. -- a skill which, it seems, I need to work on--

Smile

At any rate. Yay? I think? Firefox is a good thing. If it helps keep Robin on the forum, that is.

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Wed, 22 October 2008 20:44

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Julia wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 20:40

Annddd, you can drag the little tab things up under the navagation bar so you can just click on the little link tab symbol thing rather than typing in an address or going through favorites/bookmarks etc.

Wow, I didn't explain that well at all. Maybe someone else might be able to figure out what it is that I am trying to say, and clarify?

Do you mean the bookmark toolbar? They're super handy, but let's not overwhelm the woman just yet! (You can drag a link to save it in the bookmark toolbar, or you can do the traditional bookmark -> bookmark this page -> select 'bookmark toolbar' from the list of folders you want to save it to. 'Cause like my bookmark toolbar? Has no room left for dragging. It has an arrow for the ones that don't fit on the screen.)

Smooshes!

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Re: Computer Men [message #1935 is a reply to message #1933 ]

Wed, 22 October 2008 20:52

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jmeadows wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 20:44

Do you mean the bookmark toolbar?

Um. Yes. That makes sense. A toolbar where you drag bookmarks so to access them more easily. Thus, the bookmark toolbar. Duh, Julia.
See! I knew that you would have an obvious simplification/name for it.

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They're super handy, but let's not overwhelm the woman just yet! (You can drag a link to save it in the bookmark toolbar, or you can do the traditional bookmark -> bookmark this page -> select 'bookmark toolbar' from the list of folders you want to save it to. 'Cause like my bookmark toolbar? Has no room left for dragging. It has an arrow for the ones that don't fit on the screen.)

Mine too. And it goes on and on. And on. And on.
I have a problem, where I bookmark everything. Somehow thinking that I WILL go back to this. And eventually I do. Usually. But not to everything that I bookmark. Of course, only a fraction of those things that I bookmark as a general thing end up in the toolbar, but there still are a lot of them.
I suppose it is the same thing with saving every single bit of paper and so on. I have become a virtual packrat. Oh no.
Smile

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Re: Computer Men [message #1936 is a reply to message #1918 ]

Wed, 22 October 2008 20:56

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Dear Robin, I hope you can play on the forum too! I hope all your computer troubles are over (as much as any computer troubles are realistically over, when using these fiendish but most useful machines). Plus biker girl, how about some leather photos? (that sounds quite obscene - it was meant in the nicest way: show off your Harley Davidson gear). I have no firefox advice to offer - I don't use it. I am firefox ignorant too. Good luck.

_{“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges}

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Wed, 22 October 2008 21:02

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Julia wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 20:52

I knew that you would have an obvious simplification/name for it.

*whispering* I had to look it up.

Smooshes!

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Re: Computer Men [message #1941 is a reply to message #1918 ]

Wed, 22 October 2008 21:08

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Hey now, you can't go talking about owning a motorcycle (you are in the presence of at least one motorcycle-lovin' blog reader here - 1991 Honda Nighthawk 750 cc, candy apple red, never been ridden in the rain and 30,000 km, SHINY), and not say what kind of motorcycle you owned. Was it always Harleys for you?

Edit - Here's a picture. It's not current - I ride without that giant windshield, which was on the bike when I bought it.

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o10/scosborne/1991HondaNighthawk750.jpg

[Updated on: Wed, 22 October 2008 22:31]

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Wed, 22 October 2008 21:09

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jmeadows wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 21:02

Julia wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 20:52

I knew that you would have an obvious simplification/name for it.

*whispering* I had to look it up.

...well okay then.
You can still be the Great and Powerful Oz- I mean Jodi-... just in a sort of " pay no attention to the Google [or whatever] behind the curtain" kind of way.

How would one go about looking that up, though? Type in: ' what is the name of that thing where you drag stuff in Firefox that is very helpful and such.' ?
Razz

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Wed, 22 October 2008 21:11

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So, homeopathic software, that would be, like, when there's not any actual, like, code, but the computer vibrates with the memory of ones and zeroes? Kewl!

"...the Renaissance was just something that happened to 'other people', wasn't it?" -- Lord Blackadder

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Wed, 22 October 2008 21:12

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Julia wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 21:09

How would one go about looking that up, though? Type in: ' what is the name of that thing where you drag stuff in Firefox that is very helpful and such.' ?
Razz

I clicked on the bookmark menu, bookmark this page, and checked in the dropdown menu to see what my options were. 'Bookmark Toolbar' seemed likely. Wink

Smooshes!

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Wed, 22 October 2008 21:12

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Blogmom wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 21:11

So, homeopathic software, that would be, like, when there's not any actual, like, code, but the computer vibrates with the memory of ones and zeroes? Kewl!

I just snorted orange juice up my nose. Thanks. Razz

[Updated on: Wed, 22 October 2008 21:13]

Smooshes!

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Wed, 22 October 2008 21:22

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jmeadows wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 21:12

I clicked on the bookmark menu, bookmark this page, and checked in the dropdown menu to see what my options were. 'Bookmark Toolbar' seemed likely. Wink

Again with the obvious answers. Why do I even bother?
Oh well.

Papers to write, books to read, forum to be distracted by... hunger to assuage... more textbooks to read... more being distracted...[i]I mean[/i] PAPERS TO WRITE! TEXTBOOKS TO READ! RESEARCH PROPOSALS AND REACTIONS TO KING ARTHUR AND RENAISSANCE GARDENS. And a fairy tale to finish cobbling together. [I keep changing it. But I only have four pages, double spaced. Normally, I wouldn't mind that at all. I would very much be in favor of a short paper. but when I am trying to write a story...
as you just might have noticed by now, brevity and conciseness are not my strengths.]
I really should go away now.
And so I will.
For a while, anyway.

Smile

[EDIT: P.S.! Oh look! I'm not a junior member anymore! Hooray!]

[Updated on: Wed, 22 October 2008 21:26]

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Wed, 22 October 2008 22:45

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Blogmom wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 02:11

So, homeopathic software, that would be, like, when there's not any actual, like, code, but the computer vibrates with the memory of ones and zeroes? Kewl!

Snork!!!

Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear

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Wed, 22 October 2008 22:55

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But they aren’t playing with several gazillion KB of imperfectly domesticated homeopathic software.‡

Ah ha! The culprit revealed!

Well, I did the full leathers thing myself–after I’d taken my first header off my bike at speed, destroyed my nylon parka and developed a nice case of road rash.

Lucky that's the only thing you destroyed and developed. Everyone I've known who was a lover of bikes has had at least one hideous accident involving broken bones or worse; it's rather taken the edge off my childhood dream of owning an Indian.

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Wed, 22 October 2008 22:56

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Julia wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 21:22

Papers to write, books to read, forum to be distracted by... hunger to assuage... more textbooks to read... more being distracted...I mean PAPERS TO WRITE! TEXTBOOKS TO READ! RESEARCH PROPOSALS AND REACTIONS TO KING ARTHUR AND RENAISSANCE GARDENS.

Augh, yes! I need to work on my 25-30 page paper. But...online is so much more fun!

Seriously though, we've got one of the top scholars in the area the class is on coming to give a lecture and talk to us individually about our papers. I'm entirely intimidated.

[Updated on: Wed, 22 October 2008 23:37]

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Wed, 22 October 2008 23:07

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And I was going to have to fall on my likeliest-to-impale writing instrument, because there was no other answer.

I tried falling on my dogs, but they thought I was playing and it got very silly very fast ;p

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you can see the doughnuts inside! They’re all plump and light golden brown and dusted with sugar and the one in the centre of this perfect framed picture of depravity has the little hole where the jelly-squirter went in facing out and a single drop of deep garnet jelly is poised there!

Arrgghh! You torture with every sugared word you spin from air to page. Stop it! Now!

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When HCM passed me the invoice today I looked at it and uttered involuntarily, J—-. My eyes are bleeding. That’s why we keep you, said HCM. We enjoy your use of the language.
Fine. Buy some of my books. The money’ll come back to you in a few hours anyway.

Snork! So green, this concept of recycling Smile

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Wed, 22 October 2008 23:49

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Maureen E wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 22:56

Augh, yes! I need to work on my 25-30 page paper. But...online is so much more fun!

I KNOW. Why is that? It's NO FAIR. But true. Online is so much more fun. And it is SO easy to get distracted online... ooh look! shiny! interesting! oh, what's that? hmmmm... click, click, click, click... hours later: oh wait! I have to write my paper! *panic*

Yep.

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Seriously though, we've got one of the top scholars in the area the class is on coming to give a lecture and talk to us individually about our papers. I'm entirely intimidated.

Oh? What is the class about?
And good luck, then!
Smile

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Thu, 23 October 2008 01:16

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Julia wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 20:52

I have a problem, where I bookmark everything. Somehow thinking that I WILL go back to this. And eventually I do. Usually. But not to everything that I bookmark. Of course, only a fraction of those things that I bookmark as a general thing end up in the toolbar, but there still are a lot of them.
I suppose it is the same thing with saving every single bit of paper and so on. I have become a virtual packrat. Oh no.
Smile

Use delicious. It's useful for compulsive bookmarkers. I find typing in/clicking a tag easier to do rather than creating new bookmark folders and then remembering to drag files into the appropriate folders.

firefox >>> IE, by far. (and a mac > PC Wink

I'm using Camino most of the time now, though, because it blocks ads all by itself; I think there's a Firefox - how much do I want to type Firefly - program that does the same thing, but I haven't gotten it.)

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Thu, 23 October 2008 04:04

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Robin, you'll like Firefox. It's fast and easy, and its updates are quick and work once installed. I put it on our computers because AOL does not always play nicely with other programs (although my husband frequently blames it for problems caused by other residents on his computer; don't ask me about TurboTax, I want to forget).

It has my Phi Beta Kappa key dangling from the breast pocket. I was a cow when I was young too.

I modestly never wore my PBK key until the PBK newsletter ran a series of stories about what people did with theirs. One woman wrote that when she was pregnant, sometime in the 70s, she had to see the OB/GYN, and as frequently happens, she had to wait on the table under the sheet until he came in. She was wearing the sheet and her PBK key on a chain. The doc came in, flipped the key up, and said "Oh, whose is this?" Which made her VERY ANNOYED. Twenty-odd years later, this anecdote made *me* so annoyed that I went out and bought a chain for my key and started wearing it occasionally. Brava cows!

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Thu, 23 October 2008 05:04

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jmeadows wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 01:24

b_twin_1 wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 20:20

Maybe the homeopathic software needs to be on its own little computer... alone ....

I agree. The homeopathic software sounds like a bully!

If you've got the whole of Samuel Hahnemann and related remedy finding mahickeys on there NO WONDER the poor little computer had a teensy overload problem. My niece is a homeopath, and she has (as suggested above) a WHOLE OTHER COMPUTER for all that stuff. But the million dollar question is how much more complication can you take in your life (what with the new Firefox stuff you have to get to grips with and all...) :-0

Lucy xx
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Thu, 23 October 2008 05:47

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Robin wrote:

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The bag has a little plastic window in it so you can see the doughnuts inside! They’re all plump and light golden brown and dusted with sugar and the one in the centre of this perfect framed picture of depravity has the little hole where the jelly-squirter went in facing out and a single drop of deep garnet jelly is poised there! I can see the calories beaming out at me! Especially the jelly calories! AAAAAAUGH!

My word, there's a lot of detailed description in there for what was, I'm sure, only a casual glance at the doughnut bag! YOu wouldn't have spent more than 0.47 seconds looking at it, after all...?

I'm glad things are on the way to being sorted, and welcome to the Firefox club. Smile

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Thu, 23 October 2008 06:01

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AJLR wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 10:47

Robin wrote:

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My word, there's a lot of detailed description in there for what was, I'm sure, only a casual glance at the doughnut bag! YOu wouldn't have spent more than 0.47 seconds looking at it, after all...?

Ahhh! But authors can take in an unimaginable amount of detailed information on an infinite number of levels and store it away for future descriptive uses in novels. Robin was ACTUALLY working and doing research when she looked at that doughnut bag... Wink

Lucy xx
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Thu, 23 October 2008 06:05

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Oh Lawdie Ms Clawdie! Be still my beating heart! I HAVE GRADUATED TO A MEMBER!! How did that happen ? Wink

I think I've come over all faint and wambly and need one of Robin's jelly doughnuts. But better not because I have to go for lovely root canal (Part 1) with Soothing Dentist Man now.

Lucy xx
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Thu, 23 October 2008 06:22

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Lucy Coats wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 11:01

Nice try, Lucy! Smile

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Thu, 23 October 2008 07:05

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Blogmom wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 12:11

So, homeopathic software, that would be, like, when there's not any actual, like, code, but the computer vibrates with the memory of ones and zeroes? Kewl!

Blogmom, you are a krewl, krewl woman!

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Thu, 23 October 2008 07:10

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For homeopathic software, you can actually fake having a second computer by setting up the computer to dual boot (basically dividing the computer at a basic level into two personalities). That way only one can crash and go off into the weeds leaving the other alone, it's a cheaper option that two pieces of hardware but you need to have enough memory in your single box that you can divide it in two.

If you're going through hell, keep going. -- Winston Churchill

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Thu, 23 October 2008 10:06

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Robin, please please please do wear your harley-davidson jacket to the next bell ringing event...and tell us all about it. Some of us live vicariously through the exploits of others, and we love to be suitably entertained.

Best of luck on the whole computer adventure. It stinks to be spending time on repairs, when in the end you just wind up with the same thing you had before only you lost days (or weeks) waiting for it. Unfortunately, we've all been there...

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Thu, 23 October 2008 10:12

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AJLR wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 11:22

Lucy Coats wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 11:01

Nice try, Lucy! Smile

But it's TRUE!! (she says, moaning quietly to self and dribbling after 7 injections and 2 1/2 hrs in dentist man's chair for NO RESULT!) Am sure Robin will be able to verify this little known authorial fact when she gets back from computer nightmare land!

Lucy xx
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Thu, 23 October 2008 10:20

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Lucy Coats wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 10:12

But it's TRUE!! (she says, moaning quietly to self and dribbling after 7 injections and 2 1/2 hrs in dentist man's chair for NO RESULT!)

Oh, ugh! Sympathy, hugs and chocolate.
And yet, after all that, you are right back here with us on the forum!

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Am sure Robin will be able to verify this little known authorial fact when she gets back from computer nightmare land!

...little know authorial fact indeed.
I like it.

Feel better!

[EDIT:
p.s. I don't think I mentioned this before, Lucy, but I love your signature line quote thing. Brilliant.]
Smile

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Thu, 23 October 2008 10:34

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When computers go down, there is only so much I can do. After that, I ask my kids.

I had a Yamaha 400 once upon a time. Put a lot of interstate miles on it but never crashed it. I crashed my BICYCLE, however, and shattered my upper jaw and lost several teeth.

Go figure.

Scar

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Thu, 23 October 2008 13:53

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AJLR wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 06:22

Lucy Coats wrote on Thu, 23 October 2008 11:01

Nice try, Lucy! Smile

snort* i was drinking soda girls, not funny. Very Happy

i want to see pics of leathers when robins ready to join us again.the riders always look so cool.

Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get

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Thu, 23 October 2008 16:16

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Julia wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 23:49

YES. Especially the *panic*.

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Oh? What is the class about?
And good luck, then!
Smile

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Thu, 23 October 2008 16:19

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Black Bear wrote on Wed, 22 October 2008 21:55

Everyone I've known who was a lover of bikes has had at least one hideous accident involving broken bones or worse; it's rather taken the edge off my childhood dream of owning an Indian.

Ooh, Indian. Back in my college days in the early <mumble>ties, my boyfriend at the time owned a lovingly restored pre-War (back when the War was WWII) Indian with a sidecar. This has to be one of the most beautiful machines ever built.

One sunny autumn day, while we were out for a spin on a country road, I asked "How fast can this thing go?" I have learned much about men since then Wink

I never had any great urge to own one, though. I guess riding horses satisfied my need to wear a helmet and risk falls from a height at speed.

-- Karen

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Thu, 23 October 2008 16:27

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Come on, one doughnut can't do that much harm, can it? Have one for breakfast.

But boy do I know from menopausal weight issues--I just lost 36 pounds, and have a few more to go. The weight comes on so fast! I got a care package from Angel and Charis and a couple of other friends, and among many wonderful things there was LOTS of chocolate. I eat a couple of pieces a day. And that's enough. So I think I turned a corner on the MUST EAT EVERYTHING part of menopause, or I sure hope I have.

Still, we do need our little pleasures...

"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."

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Thu, 23 October 2008 16:38

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Shelley, I debated whether the therapeutic aspects of chocolate outweighed the more negative aspects before I sent it to you and the therapy of chocolate won. I'm glad you've been rationing yourself rather than eating it all at once!

"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."

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Thu, 23 October 2008 16:40

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Oh now you KNOW I needed chocolate, Angel. Sort of like an apple a day. It's good for you, you know.

"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."

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