good morning cyber-dad! you wrote: >i know i am doing wrong by putting this on the list i don't think you are doing wrong by putting this message on the list some messages don't really 'have' to be private if they are shared then the chances are good that someone else might be helped or that someone else might help if others are unsure about whether a message 'should' be public or not i'd rather they post it and let me make the decision as to whether it's relevant to me that's the whole idea behind the list, isn't it? sharing? >please forgive me. nothin to forgive, dad >i goofed up an earlier message. so you goofed up, so what? that's how our brains learn how to do things right you can tell them and tell them but they don't 'get it' till they experience something going wrong and then 're-wire' themselves accordingly! >all so my new printer. went up and had a cup of coffee. jumpin jehosephat! i hope you mean that you had a cup of coffee and not your printer! >but can't get this off of my mind. i would like barb patterson >email it comes back to me. barb the program you i think down load >for me i lost. i saved it lords know where. my baby want to see it. >be for i goofed up my printer. i made a 500 times size pics of you. >for my rough gallery. need it again. just for fun... imagine the identities here switched 180 degrees if you had sent a program to barb p and she had lost it and needed a replacement would you mind? ...i didn't think so... >i wish i could get to remember things. ...so maybe... you are remembering to focus on the things you forget and forgetting to focus on the things you remember ...or... exaggerating the negatives and minimizing the positives huh? maybe? >should be happy that Mr pd is not here 'should' ??!! ono one of those 'shoulda' 'woulda' 'coulda' words! they don't count for anything real >am afraid he might come back. aha! 'awfulizing'? 'catastrophizing'? and, egad, trying to foretell the future? somehow, i can't see you with a wizard's cap and a crystal ball! >can't work my new scanner >now my printer wont print. >going to see if my ribbons is bad. >if it's not one thing it's other. aha number two! are you feeling frustrated and want to be mr-perfectionist-fix-it? ahem... did you R.T.F.M.??? [Read The 'Flipping' Manual?] ... might be an idea.... just a suggestion.... >but i will will not give in to pd. good! neither will i! >radio, paper is going to give us a story on April 11 hurray! do you mean you have convinced them to recognize april 11 as pd day? whadda guy! >going to try TV next... i repeat... whadda guy! >so i will not try and put private messages on the list again. >if i can remember. see above for this sibling's opinion re 'private' and 'public' messages >glad you got my card marling. >thank you pwp for under standing this time and thank you, dad, for brightening up my morning! i am now ready for my second cup of coffee! with love to you and vivian and the grrls sis