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Good morning folks - Almost said 'good morning guys', but I learned the hard way not to assume anything recently when I got an email from someone on the Forum replying to an email I sent to a member who had a masculine name, only to have the reply indicate an (actual) feminine name. Confusing ? So, I replied back to that person with the feminine name, inviting them to have coffee with us " here ", because we could use some help with our cooking, making the coffee (attempt at a chauvenistic joke), and other things to keep us in line. Well the reply came back with a 'confession' that the masculine 'screen name' (that had an actual feminine person's name) actually was, in fact, a guy using his mother's email ! Reminds me of the Crocodile Dundee movie scene when he attempts to pick up a gal in a tavern in NYC, only to discover - the 'hard' way (couldn't resist) - that she wasn't a 'gal' You can never be too sure to whom you speak, especially when on the internet. . . Noah - thanks for fixing screen width. Don't know about you, but I am so sick of and bored with all the UP 'this and that stuff ' on the Forum recently. I am not even going to read any topic with any mention of UP in it, unless it references a specific piece of rolling stock, or that it obviously has something to do with 'modeling UP something'. Ed - hope the waterproofing works out for you. You, Noah, and anyone else w/ an interest in that topic may want to check out DIY channel's web site : www. diynet.com , and the specific thread : www./diy/diy_kits/article/0,2019,DIY_13787_2792095,00.html , for a brief "how to waterproof a basement" discussion w/ links to related stuff. (Beware of the popups !) My 90 yr old Mom sends her thanks to you guys for the tip regarding making coffee ice cubes so that the iced-coffee doesn't get diluted when regular ice melts. She's been drinking iced-coffee ever since a little girl (she claims they had refrigerators back then)and never thought of that idea - she said "the wonders of the internet", and I teased her that my Dad used to make lemonade ice cubes fifty years ago so that his lemonade wouldn't wimp out as the ice melted, and she said "if you and your internet buddies are so damn smart, why aren't you making iced-tea ice cubes?" (has anyone tried that?) It's drizzling and muggy in nw Georgia this AM, and it is real lazy, magazine reading type weather, but I need to get something done today on the house-remodeling, or on the construction of my shop down in the basement, or 'the boss' will surely make me go get a day-job. I could always go inventory all my HO and G scale for the upandcoming swap meet in the Atlanta area later this summer. Getting out of G scale mostly, and parting with a lot of my 'blue boxes' and Western prototype HO now that I have switched to L&N and Southern for my new layout. A good time to upgrade across the board, except for some favorite pieces not avail. in newer products yet. It's like parting w/ old friends that you no longer have much in common with. . . Discovered something interesting last nite. I was doing a scan of cookie type attachments on my PC using SpyBot S&D and deleting some parasitic files including a constantly recurring one called Commission Junction (www.cj.com) , and when attempting to find out what site I've been frequenting that keeps reintroducing it to my PC, I searched thru their "books and media" client base and guess what came up? Kalmbach Publishing. What may be of further interest is what I discovered when I was checking out Kalmbach's "Scale Auto" Forum site last nite to revisit a recent topic string I had started there re: adware, spyware, spam, etc., as well as another thread (in the same topic area) that had a lot of what appeared to be very useful tools to combat those annoying pain in the tail wastes of time, and 'that topic' had silently been yanked out, without a trace of it in the archives. Why? There is another very annoying 'hijacker? program -someone else's suggested description, for I don't know yet what it is - that still attaches to my PC whenever I access either this Forum or Scale Auto's - and it is identifiable by either a 'blue' flame (MR), or a 'red' flame (SA), right on the curser just as soon as you open up either of their home pages, or now, even when I open up the MSN home page. Wierd, haven't been able to eliminate it yet, and it does all kinds of nasties to your posts when editing them, for it is a targetword type attachment that has forced me to avoid using certain "key" identifier words, and to use synomyns instead. When I figure out more I'll let you know. Gotta go. Coffee's cold and ugly. Need some more fresh stuff. BILL
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