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Your move sounds exciting, Candace! But a lot of work, it is a good way of “purging”. And I have had 3 Dells, Garvin, and with my provider, invisimax, a small local one, once I have the address book filled one by one, I just type the first letter of the person I’m writing to, and it fills in, some times its two or more letters if I have several that start with the same letters. But I also have a Yahoo account, and when I type the first letters, it gives me the choice of all my addresses that start with that letter.

I think one’s address book is on your “mail” page, but I’ve never thought about just where one has addresses. I’m sure someone can explain better, but I like my Dell. However, my first lap top Dell wouldn’t go online, I sent it back and it was replaced for no charge, of money, but hours of time, talking with people from India, mostly.

I’m back from 4 days with youngest daughter and family in St Paul. I helped with child care and did some cleaning. They have 3 “fur factorys” living with them. 2 cats and 1 dog, I couldn’t believe all the fur in the vacum cleaner—several loads! But they love those animals. And the three of them are very personable and seem to be everywhere. I’m glad to help out though, they live 350 miles away, 6 hours, but I catch up on phone visiting while driving, not much traffic the further north one drives.

Jacky

I have heard that Austin is a wonderful place and I am sure you will like it. You have a lot of work coming up but I am sure you will be happy when you are all moved and close to your kids.

August 5 I went about my routine as usual. August 6 I had an email from my son with the subject: “Here’s a house Susie found for you up here, what do you think?” and a website. From the time I opened that email, went up to see the house–love it–I’ve been on a 24-hour roller coaster from excitement to despair. The work involved in uprooting 51 years here is daunting. I’m not yet to the point where anyone can help me–no one else can look at something and decide what to do with it. So far, all the closets filled to the limit with “stuff” have been emptied and in process of categorizing–donate, trash, keep. They had wanted me to move to Austin ever since they moved there but I didn’t give it serious thought. Now a sequence of circumstances converged in a way that it almost seems to have been eerily ordained. Closing on both houses are being set within days for possession on or before October 1. Back to work!

Candace

Oh, Garvin. Frustratrio. I like a lot of things about my new computer but I wish they had’ not tried to improve on some things. I also wish I could use some of the old programs on the new computer. It takes awhile but you will be comfortable with it in the ordinary things pretty soon.

Georgianna

Our little “Games Group” plays and enjoys UpWords very much. They don’t have the patience to play Scrabble, so UpWords is a good “substitute.” We are mainly canasta players, but when we finish a long game of that, UpWords is almost always the board game we choose to play next!

Well, at last I have my new computer; it’s A Dell. Delightfully faster than my poor old dying Gateway. That’s about the only advantage so far. Do any of you have a Dell? Where do they hide their address book? When sending an e-mail, I have to type out every single name — either friend or business. It doesn’t remember anything.
I find this annoying. Also, when I want to stress or underline, it comes on with the word “strong” in brackets. Why does it have to do that? The old Gateway simply underlined, emboldened, or italicised on the spot. Well, I suppose I’ll get used to it. But any suggestions would be welcome. ‘
I do remember than any new computer has new quirks one must get used to.
~~~Garvin

I saw the movie Julie and Julia on my birthday and thought it was wonderful compared to the other offerings out there….we arrived on time and were subjected to 30 minutes of violent movie previews at a deafening volume. My husband also enjoyed the movie…..people actually had smiles on their faces when they left the theater…a nice treat and a sweet movie.

I saw this movie and thought it good but not great. The acting was terrific. I did watch Julia Child on TV, not that I was that interested in cooking but she was very entertaining. Around here movies for matinées are $7.00 for everyone and for seniors at night. I don’t know what they are for others at night as we never go at night. I fall asleep as soon as I have had my popcorn at night.

I think you have to go to a blog site or something and pay to set one up. It isn’t much but I don’t know how you do it. Our web master set this one up and we have a family one too although that isn’t used much since we are all on face book.

I meant to ask, How do you do a blog, or find one? Julie, in the movie blogs everyday as she does every recipe in Julia’s French cook book. Jacky

So glad to hear you are feeling better, Darlyne, and hope you get relief, Jan, and your tooth problem fixed. I have 4 front teeth in a bridge, and try to take very good care of them, and the rest! Its so expensive, and trouble in general to need a dentist.

We had a wonderful time at my sister’s cabin. She jokingly said she’d like to “adopt” my youngest son in law, to go fishing with her husband every time he decides to try it again, even though it rained most of the time. Eric likes to fish a lot too, so it worked out well. We played at lot of a game called Up Words, sort of a scrabble. Grand kids played a Nancy Drew game on Leah’s computer. And watched a lot of Sponge Bob Square Pants on TV.

I saw Julie and Julia with 7 other ladies the other afternoon, tickets are 3.00 for seniors on Tue and Wed. I really enjoyed the story. I never saw Julia Childs on TV, but learned she lived until 04, and was in her 90s. She was very tall, someone said 6′2″. Husband was a dear shorter fellow.

Clive had a PSA test today, and is doing ok, a slight elevation, so a recheck in 3 months. He has had a prostate freezing twice for cancer.

I read Dr Phil’s wife’s book on the way home from the Angle. Robin surely sounds like a very admirable lady. Grew up in a home with an alcoholic/gambling father, but a wonderful mother.

Also still in Jodi Picoult’s Change of Heart. It surely reminds me of the Green Mile.

Jacky

Check your pulse when you are short of breath. If it is below 60 you may need one. Mine went down to 38 and that was scary. I feel much relieved now and still get a little short of breath, like this am when I carried groceries from the garage to the house in 90° high humidity but nothing like before.

Sorry about the tooth, I wouldn’t go for a transplant though from what I have heard about them. Good Luck.

Congratulations, Darlyne, on a successful pacemaker implant. You make it sound so simple.  I get out

of breath so easily with very little exertion - wonder if that is what I need.

 Right now, I am trying to get accustomed to talking with my front tooth missing.  It was a crown and

had been in my mouth about 45 years so it was probably about time, but is there ever a good time for

anything like that to happen?  The dentist has glued it back twice in the past four days, while I have been

trying to make up my mind what I want to have done.   I have a singalong group here that I am in charge

of - we meet every Saturday afternoon.  My daughter was just here and I was  trying to sing to

see how I would be able to manage - not good, I’m afraid.  You don’t realize how many “s”es are in a

song like Blue Skies until you try  lisping your way through with a missing tooth.  We were both in

hysterics!  Don’t know why my computer insists on coming out with italics every so often.

I’d like to have been in the room when people were deciding what to call this new gadget and have them explain why this sounded like something people would just have to have……

Candace

Actually a blue Tooth is a thing you put in your ear to have access to a telephone or maybe a computer. The little computer I was using had Blue Tooth written on it so I thought thats what it was. My daughter just said it was blue tooth compatible.

I have heard about that area. I wonder if the National Geographic had an article about it one time, or I read a mystery taking place there. Anyway have fun.

I am up and running,er- walking slowly. I haven’t run for a long time.

A friend, Margie Veralrud, just mentioned her pace maker last week, and how much it has helped her. She is a lot younger than me and I didn’t know she had one.

So glad to hear you are home, Darlyne, and feeling better!!!

Our youngest, Rhonda and husband are coming this evening and we are going to my sister’s cabin at the Northwest Angle tomorrow. For those of you who aren’t from MN, the Angle is surrounded by Canada. You have to drive through Manitoba to get there, actually its a mistake made by surveyors a long time ago, making this tiny piece of land part of the USA on the north side of Lake of the Woods. Its very pretty and pristine, which the natives want to keep that way, so the road there is gravel, not pleasant driving. Part of the reason Clive said, “Please don’t make me join you!”, he also doesn’t like lakes, boating or fishing. So he will stay in front of our hd large screen tv.

Again, so glad you are better, Darlyne, and I don’t know what a “blue tooth” is although I’ve read that term. Jacky

Great news, Darlyne. It’s such an amazing development. I have friends who have them and have for years–makes all the difference.

Candace

I had the pace maker put in last evening. I was an add on, I think they didn’t want to wait as my pulse went down to 38 at times. I got home this evening and feel fine, actually much better. I don’t get short of breath on the least exertion. By the way, the lap top I had wasn’t a blue tooth, it was just a small lap top. This slow pulse thing had been coming on the last month. I thought I was short of breath because of the high humidity here until I noticed the low pulse.

I didn’t know you had a slow pace problem, I’m praying for “speeding up”. And Ive been wondering about “Lost”. Its very well liked.

Thanks for letting us know.

My sister and I drove 160 miles, half way to our youngest grandkids home in St Paul, and picked up, Sydney, 13, Jack, 9, and Savannah, 7. It changes life in Oslo for us, but glad to have them, Our other 5 grew up really fast, and I’m thankful they stayed with us as much as they did, which wasn’t a lot.

Jacky

I am taking a little break from the normal routine. I am in the hospital and will have a pace maker inserted in the am. They say it is a simple procedure and should fix my slow pulse. I should be home in the am. I have my daughter’s blue tooth and she has put two seasons of Lost on it. I never watched Lost on tv but am really enjoying it and will from now on.

Have any of you heard of this book? The author is Kris Radish. One of my friend’s is traveling across country. they saw a spectacular fireworks display in Iowa last night. She called to tell me about this book. i went to Border’s and bought it. This author has certainly peaked my interest. I only got the book about an hour agao. More when I have a chance to read some of it.

Georgianna

  I really liked Change of Heart, Jacky.  Keep reading - it has a surprise ending and I’m not so sure how I

felt about that, but it is one of her best in my opinion.  I think I have read every one.!

Glad you found your driver’s license, Darlyne, I had to order a new social securiy card a few years ago. I used to carry it in my billfold, and maybe threw it when I got rid of a bunch of cards, kind of credit cards that we no longer used. It took a while to get a new SS card, and I no longer carry it with me. But I have to really think, to remember the number, and one does need it at times, so I wrote it backwards on a small piece of paper sort of hidden in my purse. then its just to remember where I hid it! It is in my head if I think long enough. the number, I mean.

I just finished The Doctor’s Daughter, a friend loaned it and I’ve never skimmed a book so fast, and still got the gist of the story, which wasn’t very interesting to me. Also am reading Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult, and I don’t like it as well as some of her others, in fact, she even mentions Green Mile, and there are similarities. I’ll finish it though. Also listening to John Grisham’s Bleachers, he must like football, probably played it, its ok, but not as gripping as his trial stories for me. Maybe I’m just not in a reading mood, its so nice outside, and I do enjoy my bike rides.

Jacky

Glad you found your way back through the computer maze, Shirley.

Candace

Glad to see you here again Shirley.

I am reading The Condition by Jennifer Haigh. This book was a gift and a little slow getting into but it is now getting interesting. I find that happens with many books that I read now days. It starts out with the McKotch family retreat on Cape Cod. This gives you a view of the young family. The next chapter skips ahead 20 years . The parents are divorced, the daughter has been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that keeps her in the body of a child but has a sound mind, and the brothers also have problems. I will keep reading.