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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Baloo: [QB] Greets, all! Well? Where's the party baloons? I'm back! Let the pidgeons loose! About the middle of last November my sister sent me her old computer. She upgraded to a new one she didn't need (she uses it mainly to email jokes and pictures to other folks she has sent to her from one of those joke-a-day sites), but who am I to complain? To save shipping costs she decided not to send me the monitor. I bought an old 12" IBM PC-I monitor at a pawn shop and it worked, but only in 640x480 resolution. Eh! At least I had a computer. Less than a week later I found a 17" monitor (marked down to what must have been a mistakenly low price) at Office Max (They've never again advertised this model for fewer than ten bucks more than I paid for mine.) :D Now I view the digital world in glorious 1024x762 resolution. I have also added an 80 Gbyte HD and upgraded the memory to all she'll take (256 Mbytes -- like I said, it's an [i]old[/i] computer). This officially makes it better than the one my sister bought, but I won't say anything if you don't. ;) As little as that cost, it put a severe crimp in my financial style so I did not get on-line until about a month ago. I'm still with 3lefties, but I have a new email address. Everyone who still has my old addy may delete everything before the "@" and just type "baloo" (all lower case). At first I was using Internet Exploiter, then I switched to Netscape, then back to IE again, but now I'm using Mozilla. Mozilla is sort of like Netscape without the quirkiness, or at least the quirks are ones I can live with/don't notice. BTW, can anyone tell me how to make the default program for my graphics files switch back to Paintshop pro? Mozilla co-opted them during the changeover. I've been playing the Sims -- well not so much playing it as downloading krep from all over creation and even making a few objects of my own (a Flintstones-style TV was my first object). All the really good stuff is on pay sites, so I'm gradually figuring out how to "roll my own" as it were. I am completely (okay, [i]mostly[/i]) unfamiliar with things Trek as of late. Enterprise isn't on any of the channels I get from the airwaves and it doesn't seem to be in syndication yet. The only good Sci-Fi program I've been getting is Stargate SG-1 on the local Fox channel late Sunday nites. I hate getting network TV, but I like the price (yeah, I'm cheap, too!) [IMG]http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/BearLaugh.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8641/BalooAni.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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