Book Board Chat

Hi, everyone. We've been on the go a bit this past week...glad to see most of you are feeling okay - may it continue!!! Beth, I think you were right on the money about that knee pain. And should that happen again, get checked for uric crystals right away. I remember your description of the agonizing pain and it did sound mighty like gout. I'm very lucky; haven't had any arthritis and only a little assorted pain in the bad ankle and my knee (both old surgical sites that are bothered by barometric pressure changes or something!

I laid hands Friday afternoon on the very newest John Sandford: Gathering Prey! I'm saving it back for a couple more days while I catch up on a couple Kay Hooper woo woo (sort of psychic phenomena stuff) books.

We went to an auction Saturday; left at 7:30, drove 75 miles to the site after looking at one yard sale on the way, then had to hang around for many hours....left at 9:30 p.m. after DH had gotten the tools and tool boxes he'd been waiting for. I drove the van back and it was raining most of the way. The two lane roads bother me a lot at night; I have to drive with the low beams most of the time because of so much oncoming traffic...though Saturday nite it was better than usual and I was able to use the high beams to see further down the highway. I always hope for a "rabbit" - someone who is traveling the same direction and who passes...not driving overly fast so that I can tuck in behind them at a little distance and get an early warning in case of deer or critters on the road. That did not happen. I had some leg cramps during the night though because the van is a 1988 (the one he bought for 109.00!!) with still only about 75,000 miles on it. It's reliable, but the dimmer switch is up on the firewall (rather than on the steering column) and I had to stretch my legs out a bit to keep my foot near it. Tired as I was, I had to keep getting up and walking the floor until the cramp(s) eased up. That old bar of soap doesn't seem to help, alas.

Glad to hear that Ken is doing okay; wish he would communicate a bit with one of us, but perhaps he really doesn't feel like chattering away. AT least it's good that we found him! Thanks to Dramlin.

I am heading for trouble if I don't do something about preserving the contents of this computer against the day when it drops dead. About 8 days ago, for no reason, I could not open my outlook express mail. Contacted the techs at our isp, and one of them told me the program had disappeared from the computer, and the only way to access email would be through the magic mail system (the one you use when you're using a computer in a motel.... I was pretty bummed, because I save a lot of things in my mail. There was no trace of the program, for real. I shut the computer down and went to bed. Next morning I turned it on, and heard a familiar beep - outlook is always trying to get me to let it compress files - and here it was again! Talk about gremlins.... I wonder if Carbonite might be useful for getting everything out of here and safely stored somewhere where I could get it later? I'm still running a tweaked version of XP which I like, but I know pretty soon many things will stop working - even now Pogo is having trouble with Java - apparently Chrome or one of them is trying to take over the world and good old java won't work with some of the games. I don't want to join google or chrome...though I know parts of those are in this computer, but I don't use them. It's the same reason I hate Walmart. It wants to take over and drive everyone else out.