Goodmorning yawl, It seems like forever since I sat daown to write on this machine to you good folks. It was good having Ed here. It is even better when someone does not act as a guest, and makes himself at home ...as Ed did We sincerely enjoy that kind of informality. BY, why do you think you perfer a PD Villalge. I think that integrating with the mainstream is helpful, challenging, and a way of staying sociall ...all of those things we need to not give in. A support can provide the "of our own" enviornment, but sitting in a community of PDers could not and will not help us in dealing with a world of people that would not know PD if it bit them. ....and no one can deal with anything without the society of non PDers. In fact, the State of Florida has one U S Senator whoo does not thhink that PD is an issue at all. How could you deal with him if you were in some isolated placce of PDers, doing what all the other PDers were doing ...........beads for the tourist?{G}? More awareness is what is needed ....NOT segregation into a PD Village. It sounds "cozy", but would it be productive to soom end ........I think not. My show is opening Sunday. If all come that say their are comming, we will fill the place up. I'll let you knwo how it turns out. JG .....I got the report yesterday. It was a squamouss cell cancer. The pathologist said it looks as if he got it all {hell if he had gone any deeper he might have struck oil), and they (Doctor and pathologist) have agreed to cut no more for now. He thiks I have another next too it however, and will chop it off on Sept 13th. He disagrees with me (think of thtt!) about radiation at this timeo ...so we will wait less than amonth and s ee. Hows Lynne doing ? BTW, thanks for the article ...that guy was telling the TRUTH! JF, I wish you a safe and happy move. Up until now, I always looked forward to a move ........new things to see, learn, and do. Now that I've found my Paradise, I don't even want to think about moving anywhere. .......Iin fact I'm so happy here, I don't really want to go anywhere. AH, there is the rub. I have trouble staying social these days .......never leaving the property for days on end. Sue says she has to pry me out of the house. Just think what I would do in a community of PDers .........probably become non0existant. All of you have a fine day, youhear, VernD Well just checked, and this mssg of the AM has yet to leave the house. T'it appears that AOl is broke down again ...rem9nds me of the days when $P$ used to check out their developement software on line ...remember!? Or maybe they have let the programmers lose that are doing Mac 3.0 AOL softwawre. I have been trying to beta test Mac 3.0 as requested, but you can't hardly get there from here. If you store your password (easy enought, right?), It twlls you you have not stored your password OR it tells you - right out of the blue - that your pasword is not valid for batch jobs. BBATCH JOBS?????????, all I want to do is to sign on to the system. Talk about SS*CC*RR*EE**WW**EE**DD**UP, it is impossible. The ystated that this program was a completely new re-write, not u sing any of the modules out of 2. 7. I wrote and told them to start over. The person that is writing Flashmail has never used flashmail. I'll bet money on that one., For example,, I often just hit "answer all". That is a simple way to do it (except for the variences of JF's Phoenix's address), and it works fine ....NOT SO with Mac 3.0!!!!!! In fact you can't get there from here. If you hit answer alll, it immeciately gives you as dialog boox that says "This letter has been stored in the out box file BEFORE there is any text in teh text box. Then It gives you too choices. 1) select set up Flashmail schedule (which if you select, puts you right back into the letter you want to answer. If you select "continue" The machine crashes. ....FUN, did you say fun? It is unbelievable for a professiona services company to have crap like this on the line ...even if it is in beya. Well back to work. THis may get sent some day...provided I leave the machine on, provided I have a stored password, provided this is a batch sessiion, provided you all think I have gone off in a huff, what else can AOL prove today. VernD