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Yays for good health news, Mr C.
Looks like we'll be taking our first trip to NZ next year, for Anzac Day; supporting the Swans against the Saints. The match is going to be in Wellington, and it's a great opportunity to see the neighbours!
The range there today was 4-13°C, I think, and April is not dissimilar. Anything could happen, but assuming the aerial ping pong is being played in the Cake Tin expect some missed marks.
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{just to inform all Antipodean friends that Secret Santa is up and running)
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Banner Lady
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What I really need from my Secret Santa, or Fairy Godmother etc right now is a new computer. My 18 month old iMac has just died. Hard drive is completely kaput apparently, so all is lost. *sigh* No resurrection possible.
I am taking this as a sign God means me to have a new slate.
*posted from my daughter's laptop
Pray for me, shippies!
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Welease Woderwick
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BL, I hope your data is recoverable or is backed up somewhere - I have had a total wipeout in the past and IT IS NO FUN!
I now have an external hard drive and a back up programme [a fab piece of freeware called Karen's Replicator] backs everything up automatically - I have it set to run every 2 hours but the frequency is purely up to the user.
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Banner Lady
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no back up - altho anything important I have in hard copy - just something TP & I were supposed to get around to this year but didn't because Life kept getting in the way. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
All my work, gone ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
All my photos, gone
Que sera, sera.
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
no back up - altho anything important I have in hard copy - just something TP & I were supposed to get around to this year but didn't because Life kept getting in the way.
All my work, gone
All my photos, gone
Que sera, sera.
My Mac mini runs Time Machine to an external drive. Total set up cost was not all that much over $100 and it backs up several times a day. When the huge external drive is full it just starts over again. I have only used it once when for some reason my bookmarks decided to crawl out and die. I just chose a day from a few earlier when I knew they were all there.
Have you had a professional opinion on recovery BL? Son used to do that and often got back a surprising amount. That said, he too lost some photos of a trip to Africa a couple of years ago. He used to say to leave to someone who knows what they are doing. Fiddling would make recovery less likely.
It's very reassuring to see external drive light flashing and to know I have the back up.
I knew something was up in Sydney this afternoon. Lots of big black intimidating vehicles of Public Order and Riot Squad went down Parramatta Road early this afternoon, then a huge comms truck and some people mover vans too. Then another dozen or so police vans and cars and three dog squad vehicles. Very ugly protest with hotheads both sides, I guess.
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Emendator Liturgia
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
I knew something was up in Sydney this afternoon. Lots of big black intimidating vehicles of Public Order and Riot Squad went down Parramatta Road early this afternoon, then a huge comms truck and some people mover vans too. Then another dozen or so police vans and cars and three dog squad vehicles. Very ugly protest with hotheads both sides, I guess.
Having watched it on TV this afternoon/evening I cannot help but think that what we saw is damaging to all religions and is only likely to fuel the pre-conceptions of the ignorant and ignighte further the passions of the religion/ race haters! Can imagine the rantings of Alan Jones et al and the extreme right now!
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I saw a cartoon this morning on face book that sums up the feeling of much of the public. It had two toilets, one with the Koran in it labelled "Hate Crime", the other had the Bible in it and was labelled "Art". I don't like either, it is a sign of the times I'm afraid.
On back ups, I use an external hard drive plus I back up really, really important stuff to the cloud via my anti virus program.
I think Mac users are going to have to realise that Macs are just as unreliable as PCs, more so than some of the better quality PCs.
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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
no back up - altho anything important I have in hard copy - just something TP & I were supposed to get around to this year but didn't because Life kept getting in the way.
All my work, gone
All my photos, gone
Que sera, sera.
Oh dear. I've been there too. But you seem to be taking it very well (and I would note that my life did not come to a crashing halt when it happened, so, as you say, que sera, sera). But it does remind me to go out and buy myself a portable hard drive to back up stuff that I care about.
James, have you moved to Cat Town yet? You are not buying Corio Villa, are you? Because, if you are, I'm moving in with you.
I still don't have my husband back. He'll be in hospital for a couple more weeks yet and then in rehab as an outpatient for a few months. It will be nice to get him home and not to have to go to the hospital every day. But he is looking rather good, for a bloke I thought was going to cark it on my three weeks ago.
Glad your choppers and ticker are being attended to, Mr C.
Hope all are well and happy.
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External hard drive is the thing – get one, everyone who doesn't already have one. I don't keep mine attached but every ten days or so Time Machine tells me reproachfully that it 'couldn't complete the back-up' so on it goes.
Vulpior – there are a few of us in Wellington, not al frequent hangers-out on the ship but a meet might be possible. We'll see...
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Originally posted by Zappa:
I had a great meet in Wellington several years ago ... though 50% of those present no longer post(s) and the other 50% do(es) so rarely.
Ah, well.
Still around (if I'm the rare 50%), but that dreadful real life thingy is taking up far too much time. Between my job and trips up and down the country every fortnight to see my mum, there isn't a lot of time for the Ship. I've just been in the Bay, helping her buy a car (fingers crossed, but I think she's OK).
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Lothlorien
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I haven't had a Nigerian scam email for ages and ages, must be six weeks, but have just received a scam message on my mobile. I have won 720,000 pounds in ongoing freelotto bonanza.
It screams scam at me and apparently is quite common. What a shame. At current rate of exchange to AUD, that would be a nice little sum. 720,000 pounds =1,106,511.24 AUD
Was annoyed about mobile message. Apparently randomly generated numbers occasionally hit the jackpot.
Be warned.
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Welease Woderwick
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Friends here get a lot of those SMS - I am on the Do Not Call Register so rarely get anything untoward though I did get an e-mail this morning about a Coco-Cola competition
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Friends here get a lot of those SMS - I am on the Do Not Call Register so rarely get anything untoward though I did get an e-mail this morning about a Coco-Cola competition
I'm on Do Not Call number for landline which is only used for my naked ADSL connection. Down here charities are exempt from that so I receive the occasional charity call.
Apparently all mobile numbers starting with 4 or whatever are generated automatically and some are genuine and get through. Not that I'll be answering it any time soon.
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I'll talk meets when we get closer to the date. Currently looking forward to Sydney next weekend and maybe, hopefully, Melbourne the weekend after.
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Galloping Granny
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Originally posted by Arabella Purity Winterbottom:
Still around (if I'm the rare 50%), but that dreadful real life thingy is taking up far too much time. Between my job and trips up and down the country every fortnight to see my mum, there isn't a lot of time for the Ship. I've just been in the Bay, helping her buy a car (fingers crossed, but I think she's OK). [/QB]
Now that we don't have a road test for drivers reaching 80, a doctor has told me that part of the medical test involves being able to stand on each foot for 5 seconds. WHY? I'll get there – I'm practising – but what's the point? Can anyone tell me? My 83-year-old cousin drives and she has difficulty standiing steady on two feet.
I don't think all doctors interpret the requirements the same way.
Wish me luck when the time comes. I drive hundreds of kms a year between Wellington and Matarangi.
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Aaaargh BL!
I suggest that you take your imac to Apple and see if they can salvage anything. My last imac started to make noisy hard-drive noises. I backed it up on to an external drive, then took it to an Apple shop. Luckily I had bought an extended warranty when I bought the machine (and forgotten all about this) and the shop people thankfully scanned the barcode on the machine and reminded me of it. Knowing what the computer repair industry can be, I expected weeks of waiting and angry phone calls to get some action, instead I had the computer back in a week with a new hard drive and CD burner, with all of my settings replicated onto the new hard drive. Excellent service experience! As others have said, get an external HD and set up Time Machine!
Typing this from home today, I have a miserable cold, and I'm keeping my germs to myself (and trying to be well enough to make it to Cryptogirl's band concert tonight).
The riots in the city were frightening on Saturday. I was accompanying a friend into the city at that time for an exam, we heard about the road closures just in the nick of time to avoid being stick in gridlock and caught the ferry instead.
Loth - could you use your lottery winnings to buy BL a new computer???
[just correcting a typo that made for some confusion in my half awake state - WW]
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
Now that we don't have a road test for drivers reaching 80, a doctor has told me that part of the medical test involves being able to stand on each foot for 5 seconds. WHY? I'll get there – I'm practising – but what's the point? Can anyone tell me? My 83-year-old cousin drives and she has difficulty standiing steady on two feet.
I don't think all doctors interpret the requirements the same way.
Cor! Mum would never pass that test - the stroke she had last year conclusively put paid to any likelihood of that. Her doctor just gave her a one line note saying she is fit to drive, as far as I can tell without examining anything! However, she drove fine with me in the car, and successfully got herself to my aunt's place and back yesterday without me.
Her eyesight is better than mine though, so maybe that counts for something, and she's not planning to drive more than about 10km at a time.
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Lothlorien
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balance is important in agieing and mine is not good. But sitting in car? Don't quite see that.
We managed to get to MIL's doctor when we knew she had an appointment. She was a dreadful driver and I'm sure we heard about only 10% of the dings she had.
He nonchalantly mentioned it to her and gave her a "test on reflexes." Held up his fountain pen and dropped it to see if she could catch it. Failed miserably every time so he rang RTA on spot and cancelled the licence. She was furious and never went back to him.
We were glad as she really was a danger on the road. We went straight there and took her car on excuse of giving it to one of my sons. We knew quite well that she would drive to the club every day by back routes. She could easily have killed someone else.
I was made to go with her to my son's place one day as she said she would be lost. I was horrified at reaction times etc. Then she said to me, "If I'd known I would be giddy so many times today, I would have stayed at home." I refused to drive home with her.
Arabella, my sister's FIL was still driving at 99. Almost blind and so shrunken that he actually looked through the steering wheel when he drove. His justification was that he drove locally only. Fortunately for others on the road, he had a stroke and went into a nursing home before he had a major accident. There have been a few nasty ones reported here in the last few months.
BL, when my lottery cheque arrives, I'll be in touch about a new computer for you. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
quote:
Originally posted by Arabella Purity Winterbottom:
Still around (if I'm the rare 50%), but that dreadful real life thingy is taking up far too much time. Between my job and trips up and down the country every fortnight to see my mum, there isn't a lot of time for the Ship. I've just been in the Bay, helping her buy a car (fingers crossed, but I think she's OK).
Now that we don't have a road test for drivers reaching 80, a doctor has told me that part of the medical test involves being able to stand on each foot for 5 seconds. WHY? I'll get there – I'm practising – but what's the point? Can anyone tell me? My 83-year-old cousin drives and she has difficulty standiing steady on two feet.
I don't think all doctors interpret the requirements the same way.
Wish me luck when the time comes. I drive hundreds of kms a year between Wellington and Matarangi.
GG [/QB]
GG, probably nobody can tell you. I'm not sure if NZ licensing systems are like they are in Oz-they might even be related but they get a team of Drs together and they just make up stuff-I kid you not. A new assessing fitness to drive guide came out here recently and included certain medical criteria for people with medical conditions that are completely irrelevant to fitness to drive. Advocacy groups have raised the issue, Drs say there is no evidence to support the criteria and when asked, the Committee who came up with the guidelines can't show any evidence as to why and seem a bit embarrassed, six months on, the matter is being referred to various depts etc and confusion reigns supreme about the whole thing. It really is disgraceful.
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Banner Lady
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
BL, when my lottery cheque arrives, I'll be in touch about a new computer for you.
Better go buy a ticket then, Loth! Computer is now bouncing between shop of purchase and their HQ who no doubt will both deny they should be the one to help the complainant.
Meanwhile, I seem to be having a Very Good Time without a pc of my own. Who-da thunk?
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Emendator Liturgia
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
I haven't had a Nigerian scam email for ages and ages, must be six weeks, but have just received a scam message on my mobile. I have won 720,000 pounds in ongoing freelotto bonanza.
Was annoyed about mobile message. Apparently randomly generated numbers occasionally hit the jackpot.
Be warned.
Hi Loth, I received ones of those the other night - well,I should say early morning! Same good news same reaction! I was more annoyed at being woken up in the week small hours than anything else. And yes, we're also on the DoNotCallRegister - mobiles and landlines.
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GG, I am not the calmest passenger ever, but after you having given me a lift I can definitely say I would feel safe being driven anywhere by you. If testimonials counted I'd give you one without hesitation.
I've just spent the last few mimutes practising and I can stand on one leg, but I think it's safer for everyone that I only use my driving license for ID purposes, not having driven since 1998.
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Mrs Dr C has lots of fun with aged drivers. One kept making appointments and coming in complaining to the doctors about losing his license. He was a danger to himself and others, and his family had to resort to basically stealing his car to keep him off the road.
I hear tell that my soon-to-be employer has a Macbook Air and iPad with my name on it ready to be picked up when I actually start. Maybe Thursday.
It will be interesting starting "real" work again after 18 months at home writing. The first client I'll be working on is a major bank, so it will be full on, I think, and me six weeks out from a heart attack, so there is a major adjustment to be made. And with the money coming in . . .
Stormy here tonight
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So congratulations and commiserations are in order Mr C, good to get money coming in but a shame to have to go to work in real clothes instead of PJs. Make sure you take care of your health.
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Hi Loth, I received ones of those the other night - well,I should say early morning! Same good news same reaction! I was more annoyed at being woken up in the week small hours than anything else. And yes, we're also on the DoNotCallRegister - mobiles and landline
What a shame it's a scam. Between the two of us, we could have replaced dodgy computers for quite a few.
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Hey Huia,
Just discovered the Cathedral in Christchurch has a fruit and veg co-op.
What a great idea! Are you familiar with it?
And the cardboard stints have arrived for the new building and they're looking for painters. Looks like fun!
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Yes, I still get the Cathedral Extra, , and more or less keep up with what's going on. Even though I now worship elsewhere I have friends from my years of worshipping and volunteering there who are still involved with the Cathedral. At least once a week I catch a bus that goes past the site of the Cardboard Cathedral in Latimer Square and have a look to see what progress has been made.
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Originally posted by Evangeline.
GG, probably nobody can tell you. I'm not sure if NZ licensing systems are like they are in Oz-they might even be related but they get a team of Drs together and they just make up stuff-I kid you not. A new assessing fitness to drive guide came out here recently and included certain medical criteria for people with medical conditions that are completely irrelevant to fitness to drive. Advocacy groups have raised the issue, Drs say there is no evidence to support the criteria and when asked, the Committee who came up with the guidelines can't show any evidence as to why and seem a bit embarrassed, six months on, the matter is being referred to various depts etc and confusion reigns supreme about the whole thing. It really is disgraceful.
Don't forget the cackling and laughing that doctors do whilst they try to destroy your life, liberty and freedom in making stuff up.
Could you please provide some references for your statements. Having read the guidelines, and used them, I don't see them as quite as draconian or ridiculous. But I am happy to review your references and learn.
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Originally posted by Evangeline.
GG, probably nobody can tell you. I'm not sure if NZ licensing systems are like they are in Oz-they might even be related but they get a team of Drs together and they just make up stuff-I kid you not. A new assessing fitness to drive guide came out here recently and included certain medical criteria for people with medical conditions that are completely irrelevant to fitness to drive. Advocacy groups have raised the issue, Drs say there is no evidence to support the criteria and when asked, the Committee who came up with the guidelines can't show any evidence as to why and seem a bit embarrassed, six months on, the matter is being referred to various depts etc and confusion reigns supreme about the whole thing. It really is disgraceful.
Don't forget the cackling and laughing that doctors do whilst they try to destroy your life, liberty and freedom in making stuff up.
Could you please provide some references for your statements. Having read the guidelines, and used them, I don't see them as quite as draconian or ridiculous. But I am happy to review your references and learn.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit and this thread isn't really the place for this, but perhaps you should familiarise yourself with the guidelines a bit better before you put yourself out there on a limb. So this is your lesson for today;
The specific issue of which I am aware (there may be others) is the lack of ANY evidence or justification of
The section of the guidelines titled Medical Standards for Licensing 3.3.2 Satisfactory control of diabetes which states:
"When assessing whether the criteria for a conditional license are met, ‘satisfactory control’ of diabetes will generally be defined as a glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) of less than 9.0% measured within the preceding three months, as against a general goal of less than 7.0% in people with diabetes."
There is NO evidence that hba1c>9 in the prior 3 months (or any level above that actually) has any impact on the ability to safely drive. In fact the LOWER the a1c the greater statistical risk of severe hypos and hypo unawareness which is a MAJOR risk to safe driving.
This measure is completely out of step with international guidelines and is in absolute contradiction to the very well respected American Diabetes Association's position statement on driving and diabetes
available here.
Simple outlines of the issue are available here and here
If you do have evidence to support the notion that diabetics on insulin are a risk to road safety if their a1c>9 then I would be interested and I'm sure the Diabetes and Driving Working Party would be extremely relieved to hear it. Otherwise, consider that you have learnt something today.
This requirement has no impact on me. It will affect those who are economically and or educationally disadvantaged and don't have access to high quality medical care and the best and most expensive treatment options, I know of clinics in regional Australia where medical staff say that none of their patients will be able to drive if this regulation is enforced.
In their enthusiasm to improve general health outcomes, the drs on the working party appear to have imposed a medical measure of hyperglyceamia over the prior 3 months that has no relevance to driving (ie they made something up) and this is unjustifiable.
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I didn't see your last post Patdys, as you can see I most certainly took your response as very snippy.
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Happy birthday Evensong.
And also to you, LATA.
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Fair enough too Evangeline- my post was too crude for All Saints and I am sorry. I will look to see what evidence is being utilised if any and let you know via pm. Thankyou for the links to your specific concerns.
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Fair enough too Evangeline- my post was too crude for All Saints and I am sorry. I will look to see what evidence is being utilised if any and let you know via pm. Thankyou for the links to your specific concerns.
Good luck with that, a great many people including professors of endocrinology and the American Diabetes Association have found no evidence to support the requirement I mentioned and the Chair of the Working Party remains silent when asked what evidence was used to justify this.
Sorry, antipodeans for this lengthy, irrelevant and technical tangent, my excuse is PATDYS started it ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Here it wasn't a diversion and it was fine for a little while but if you want to start a thorough discussion of diabetes and driving and government regulation then I suggest you might try Purgatory - if you want to rant at government incompetence then Hell's the place to go!
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Originally posted by Evensong:
Thanks DK and Patdys.
LATA and I share a birthday?
No wonder she seems cool. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Or perhaps it explains a great deal! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Many happies to both of you!
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Lata
Evensong
'cause I can!
On another note, I said goodbye for the first time today. One of my favourite nurses is going on holiday and I will miss her. With various leaves and rosters in force it will be a lengthy "see ya later". ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Felicitations from over here, too. Try to keep the partying down to a respectable volume.
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Thanks DK and Patdys.
LATA and I share a birthday?
No wonder she seems cool.
Heh. Happy birthday, sister.
Thanks all.
I am at home with my senile cat and my kids. Getting my husband back next Tuesday. We'll do a birthday then.
Hope all are well.
ETA: Mr A isn't allowed to drive until he's given the OK by and OT. Until then, I am a taxi driver. My advice to all is: Don't have strokes.
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One doesn't like to boast, but this review of one of my books cheered me up yesterday.
Getting back into the delayed handy man jobs today - the house is a mess, as is the garden, but at least the energy is returning.
Oh, the study is a mess too. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Belated HB's to LaTA & Evensong. May the celebration of Life never stop!
I am still without a 'puter and my next assignment date is creeping up on me. It has made me realize how bad my handwriting has become over the last decade - flat out deciphering my own notes.
James, friends fly in and out of our lives, but somehow never drop off the radar altogether. I'm always fascinated by the intersecting loops in time and space that bring us together again when we least expect it.
As for driving, can I say there are times I think having a menopausal brain is probably just as dangerous as having poor reaction times. I am really looking forward to getting my brain back soon.
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