Hi, Daryl! I gather you've been having one of those weeks... as have we. I notice also that Mark Lewis has stepped in to offer help.

Dallas & I have found Amazon to be helpful & co-operative when what we
ordered doesn't quite suit our needs. While I could go on at length, I want to
ensure this message actually arrived somewhere before commenting further. :-))




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24 Oct 16 23:41, you wrote to Daryl Stout:

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Hi, Daryl! I gather you've been having one of those weeks... as have we. I notice also that Mark Lewis has stepped in to offer help.

Dallas & I have found Amazon to be helpful & co-operative when what we ordered doesn't quite suit our needs. While I could go on at length, I want to ensure this message actually arrived somewhere before commenting further. :-))

it did... here's your seenby and path lines... your repost in ENGLISH_TUTOR arrived, too...

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Ardith,

Hi, Daryl! I gather you've been having one of those weeks...
as have we. I notice also that Mark Lewis has stepped in to offer
help.

Without a reply from the developer, any "help" is worthless. I know there
are other things outside the BBS, but when you can't get assistance for weeks or months on end, it's as if support has vanished.

Dallas & I have found Amazon to be helpful & co-operative when what we ordered doesn't quite suit our needs. While I could go on at length, I want to ensure this message actually arrived somewhere before commenting further. :-))

I got it OK.

Daryl

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Hi, Mark! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

While I could go on at length, I want to ensure this
message actually arrived somewhere before commenting
further. :-))

it did... here's your seenby and path lines... your
repost in ENGLISH_TUTOR arrived, too...

Ah. Thankyou! Glad to see we're still making it to Russia, even if
the noisier crowd from Z2 prefer to continue ignoring us... [wry grin].

When I tried calling Janis's system last week to find out whether my
messages had travelled at least that far it was yet one more thing which didn't
work. In view of a recent thread in another echo I had visions of being banned
for xxx hours. Although Dallas was able to do it on his computer I didn't want
to keep bugging him because he'd just finished dealing with the original issue.

To make a long story short... the mail appears to be flowing again &
I have a new keyboard. Meanwhile your response was very much appreciated. :-)




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Ardith,

Hi, Daryl! I gather you've been having one of those weeks... as have
we. I notice also that Mark Lewis has stepped in to offer help.

I saw a whole slew of messages from you in my packet, and am just now
getting to them. I'm normally not up at this hour, but during nightly maintenance, one of the routines was making a screeching audio sound
(I'm glad the headset mic was hooked up for the speakers)...and it woke
me. But, I did a few tweaks, and was able to stop it, without having to
reboot the system.

Dallas & I have found Amazon to be helpful & co-operative when what we AH>ordered doesn't quite suit our needs. While I could go on at length, I want AH>ensure this message actually arrived somewhere before commenting further. :

Yeah, it got here OK. I was just surprised to see a bunch of messages
from you in my packet.

Daryl

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Hi, Daryl! Recently you wrote in a message to ARDITH HINTON:

I gather you've been having one of those weeks...
as have we. I notice also that Mark Lewis has
stepped in to offer help.

Then we had another of those weeks, and once again Mark Lewis stepped
in to offer help. (Thankyou, Mark!) Is that "history repeating itself"?? :-Q

I saw a whole slew of messages from you in my packet,
and am just now getting to them.

Bless your heart... it looks as if you answered all of them too. :-)

I'm normally not up at this hour, but during nightly
maintenance, one of the routines was making a screeching
audio sound (I'm glad the headset mic was hooked up for
the speakers)...and it woke me. But, I did a few tweaks,
and was able to stop it, without having to reboot the
system.

After which you were thoroughly awake & needed to work off the excess
adrenaline, I suppose. Glad I was able to help... [chuckle].

While I could go on at length, I want [to] ensure this
message actually arrived somewhere before commenting
further.

Yeah, it got here OK.

I remember the occasion. It was also a comedy of errors. Just after
I'd posted in the E_T echo, our mail machine crashed in a spectacular way which
took quite some time to fix. Later on I tried to contact Janis's BBS, using my
own computer, to find out if she got my post... but her system didn't appear to
recognize my password. Reposting was the quickest & easiest remedy there. :-)

I was just surprised to see a bunch of messages from
you in my packet.

I'd say they were old messages... but since you've just written +/-30
more recent replies, I'll have an abundance of new material to work with. :-))




--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
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Hi, Daryl! Recently you wrote in a message to ARDITH HINTON:

Hi, Ardith...

I saw a whole slew of messages from you in my packet,
and am just now getting to them.

Bless your heart... it looks as if you answered all of them too.

Unfortunately, all of the BBS's message bases got corupted, and I lost
all the incoming messages from March 5. So, I had to completely delete, rebuild, and re-iniitalize them. Not sure how they got corrupted, but at
least stuff is working now.

After which you were thoroughly awake & needed to work off the exc
adrenaline, I suppose. Glad I was able to help... [chuckle].

I just hope I didn't miss all of your replies in the message base
corruption.

I'd say they were old messages... but since you've just written +/
more recent replies, I'll have an abundance of new material to work with. :

As if you needed something to do. <G>

I do have some good news. Friday the 13th...of April...will be lucky
for me...in several ways.

I finally got the chance to have a consultation with my
gastrointerologist. I am overdue to get both a colonoscopy and an EGD (basically a lower and upper GI).

I was lucky enough to get them set up on Friday, April 13...which
gives me an OUT for NOT being able to do a 2 hour drive to Batesville,
Arkansas on April 14, for a square dance deal, and a set of meetings.
All the hotels in town were already sold out, anyway.

But, by doing both together, I get the following:

1) Medicare will pay 100% of the colonoscopy, as it's part of the
"Wellness Check".

2) Medicare will pay 80% of the EGD.

3) Since I'm having them both together, I get 50% off of the cost of the EGD...AND I only have to pay ONE anesthesia bill.

The worst part is obviously the prep work (bowel purge). I got that
NuLytely, with a lemon lime flavor pack. I drink half of it at 5pm April
12, and the other half at 3:30am April 13. I hope it makes it halfways
decent tasting...I have to add luke warm water first, then chill it.
I'll likely prep that on April 11, so it's nice and cold when I need it
on April 12.

Considering I'll spend much of the rest of that time on the toilet, I
won't get much sleep overnight. But, I will get a chance to sleep during
the procedure, and that night at my Mom's place, after it's all over.

If everything comes out all right (puns intended <G>), I won't have to
have either done again for 3 to 5 years.

Daryl

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