quote:Originally posted by Gaby:
[B]I Frankly, you North Americans can talk whenever you want so, if you could adjust your hours to include us lot at a sensible time, that would be fantastic. I do also realise that it would be unreasonable of me to ask you to do this.
{/B]
Well said Gaby but there really is no solution at least being an early Saturday time for you you do not have to rise for work that day as far as I Know. But.... the chat room is always open so (and as I suggested to you before by email there is absolutely nothing to stop you or another Brit from organising a "BritChat" session at any other time. (we had a 2PM GMT Sunday britchat back in 1999 which worked well when North Americans could join in on a Sunday morning
Think about it
Meanwhile:-
Newsgroup Highlights w/e 17 September 2004
As has been depressingly similar on the Newsgroup for some time there has again been little of consequence. Indeed there was so little comment about the upcoming celebration in Hamilton that I felt obliged to somewhat cheekily ask "Maybe only corfid readers are going???" this brought several responses including this from Gaby
'My friends think I'm mad, travelling 3,5000 (sic) miles to see a man they've
never heard of.. {More fool them!)
Apparently, you're all pervs and I will be dragged into the sordid
underworld of international trafficking!!!!"
Actually G-baby you'll find it is not quite that far despite the continental drift and all that!! Just ask your glorious
leader Tony!!
So again I'll give you a link to another old thread on the Newsgroup.
This is one that I started after I received my Songbook box set in 1999 and one that I am particularly fond of because it degenerated into a discussion on the good old British Pound sign (£).

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e....svr.pol.co.uk
Hopefully more Newsgroupers found thir way here for their reading where the usual activity continues unabated
Last Friday eight chatted including regular (catman) Ron in Melbourne and David (Bardford)in Sweden making a very welcome first visit fresh from his successful picture displaying exploits her.
So again this evening at:-

http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com at:-

9 PM East Coast time or
2 AM GMT in Blighty
6PM on the West Coast or
10 PM in Newfoundland (Wendy where ARE you???) or
6AM in Sweden,France,Holland or Finland or
11 AM tomorrow nmorning in Melbourne
which is 1 PM in New Zealand.
Yes Ron Jenkins from the South Island once responded to a real time email invite to chat


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starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

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quote:
and you never did call Bru to wake her and get her chatting!
http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif[/B]

She knows better than try that! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
But you know, I used to stay up for the chat getting to bed around 5am. That's only works if you dont have to get up in the morning. Besides, I am frequently working late into the night and just dont have the energy to get into 'Chat'. Even us 39-ers have to get some sleep sometimes http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif

quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:

So again this evening at:-
http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com at:-
9 PM East Coast time or
6AM in Sweden,France,Holland or Finland or


It's actually 3am in Sweden, Holland, and France, and 4am in Finland.

Dunno if I can make it this time round. I truly enjoyed it last week, but the time is awkward. If I am awake I shall be there, but no promises.

David

Newsgroup Highlights w/e 24 september
There has been minimal activity on the Newsgroup this past week, so nothing much to report on
unless you are vitally interested in knowing where Derek (Zippo) Kidd will be streaking
next or are a devotee of that other great canadian singer (no not Kalen the Porter I mean Montrealer Leonard Cohen)
so I'll content myself br referring you to an earlier
"The Watchman's Gone" NG thread started by Cathy at"- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...47FE%40gwi.net
Also a nice explanation by no less than our Florian on the NG about "That Same Old Obsession"
at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...m%3DFWBz3%20.1 522
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OK now the commercial:-
ten happy chatters last Friday
including at least one who omitted to enter his desired nickname before
coming in
This evening at 9PM EST and assorted times for non-US attendees at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com

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starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot



[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited September 24, 2004).]

Yet again little to read on the Newsgroup except for guitar fanatics
I have however been severely taken to task over there for my continual ranting and
mention of corfid. But I know which one I enjoy the most!
we were not many in number in the chat room last week but do drop in tonight 9 PM EST at http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
(sorry if I am getting boring on these chat reminders also!!)

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

Newsgroup Highlights w/e 15 October 2004
Once again I am unable to recommend any new threads for you to look at so have found another old thread to give you something to think about!
one fan back in 1999 had the gall to ask "I've always wondered what the words were in the background of the break in 'Talking in your Sleep'"
the thread started at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...nnrp1.deja.com
OK it's Friday reminder time again
Last Friday saw a good crowd of 8
iocluding the renowned corfid member bjb from Alberta
initials that she insisted stood for
"Bonnie June Babelicious" Personally I don't buy that but Bonnie she now is (at least until after Hamilton!)
We also welcomed back into our orbit corfid member Gary Sprang a.k.a "sputnik"
So tonight again at 9pm EST at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
John
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites??
Is there another word for synonym??




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(at least until after Hamilton!)

John, how could you! The person you mentioned, who wishes to remain ANONYMOUS, is sending her ugly stepsister to Hamilton, so please be careful of her fragile ego and oh yes, no pictures please.

awe, bb, you're sweet as pie, eskimo pie, edmonton eskie pie http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

but jut in case i'll mark your parcel 'Fragile, do NOT break!' http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif

be patient, i'm slow, just ask lsh, char, bru, john, etc, lol

Newsgroup highlights week ending October 23rd
OK at the considerable risk of receiving further opprobrium I will start by saying again that not much has stirred of
abiding interest over there this past week
It probably needs the stimulation of the upcoming Hamilton jollifications to get the creative writing juices flowing again!
So I again I have delved into back postings and in view of some speculation regarding if and when Massey will take place
next year with an update on Wayne's site now overdue after he deleted the May dates
I refound a nice posting about Massey 1998 by "glutomodo" (Andy Thompson) now in Wyoming I believe (his family home is in
Fort Collins, Colorado) So I was at one time hoping that brink could arrange a Gathering someswhere in Colo(u)rado since there are several fans in that area,including colorado sue from here and Susan and my good friend from the 1999 chat room sessions Sue Bloo(mer)
andy's posting is at the thread starting at:-

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=1998050806303 900.CAA12283%40ladder01.news.aol.com
Note that in giving the URL of any old Newsgroup threads I always go to the very first posting and click on the "view this article only" link to get the shortest URL: once open there is then another link to for example "Complete Thread (5 articles)"
Here on corfid the ever lengthening topic "Picture that Song" has now attracted just over 900 replies and looks set to continue past the 1000 mark even though the Torontonian who dreamt this up is showing the first signs of tiredness:-

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002499.html
it has been a frequently frustrating fanciful frolic of fecundity often awfully funny and IMHO worth keeping an eye on from time to time It has however revealed two problems:-
1,. the corfid sytem of allocating web page titles means that although the index shows the most recently posted-to topics in date order with the date and time of the most recent posting it is only after you open that you discover just how many pages now constitute the topic so you then need to reclick on the latest page number in the case of this topic there are now all of 19 pages and the latest is at:-

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002499-19.html
2.as one fellow 56k user commented:-
"I don't have time to go through 16 or 17 pages especially when they take forever to load"
Of course each page is full of graphics but I find the loading time is not a problem probably but not conclusively because
once viewed any one page will together with any images thereupon be stored in one of the Windows folder's "cache" sub-folders
Amongst other items that some here might have overlooked was my discovery of free (albeit short-time) file hosting site at:-

http://www.upload4free.com
which I and Jimmy Jones used to good effect on the Test forum at:-

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000122.html
And this very day thoroughly confused Bee ZeD
at:-

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002690.html
OK Tonight I should be around for a longer time in the chat room than I was able to last Friday an evening most notable
for the apparent and silent (non-typing) attendance by someone using the nickname silver_heels which next morning Bruna
insisted was a troll as she was in dreamland!
So Australia tomorrow morning Karen you're on and yes there has never been any other chat room organised from corfid only a
short lived attempt to use the voice capabilities of a Yahoo Group's chat room where we used to hear (notdogman)ron's
measured Victorian drawl!!
So 9 pm EST again at:-

http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
John Fowles
I've mixed up my gloves," Tom said intermittently

[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited October 22, 2004).]

quote:Originally posted by johnfowles:
Here on corfid the ever lengthening topic "Picture that Song" has now attracted just over 900 replies and looks set to continue past the 1000 mark even though the Torontonian who dreamt this up is showing the first signs of tiredness. It has been a frequently frustrating fanciful frolic of fecundity often awfully funny and IMHO worth keeping an eye on from time to time

Thanks for the plug Sir John Fowles!
I am not tired of the topic but I do get tired when I stay up too late! http://www.smilieland.com/graphics/tired.gif

Newsgroup Highlights week Ending 29 October 2004
The erudite Ed Mullen reported back on the fruits of some recent googling at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...%40comcast.com
He also managed to rediscover on his hard drive alternative wreck lyrics which were archived at:- http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...64F4%40csi.com
Other than that you had to be a guitar geek to get much out of the NG this past week
so there remains the commercial
only a few braved the chatroom last Friday
so tonight at 9 PM at:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
David Bradford over in Sweden has said he'll try to attend as he is working
night shift tonight]
John Fowles
If a hairdresser loses the tools of his trade does he become discombobulated??

Newsgroup Highlights week ending November 4th 2004
For once one of the guitar threads proved rewarding reading as it contained much humo(u)r
regarding the continuing saga of the use (or misuse) of Ed Mullen's American Express credit
card this time Ed has had the final word by aasking plaintively
"If you all could hold off on any purchases for about 30 days I'd really
appreciate it. I need some new underwear"!
the thread asks
Guitars under $1000? Is there any such animal?
And starts at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e....supernews.com
Doug (Plumguru) Kirk delved into his archives for his report on his
First Trip To MAssey Hall at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...mb-m16.aol.com
and is now trying to coordinate attendance at next April's Ceritos CA concert see the thread underway at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...mb-m01.aol.com
I hope everybodty is reasding the great monthly commrentaries nmby the Newsgrouop foundert Wayne Francis
the current one has interesting comments on last Friday's great Hamilton broadcast go to:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/comnov04.htm
and now for my weekly chat room commercial:-

A fine group of 8 chatted last week
But apparently David bradford working late in Sweden found entry to the chat
room blocked and the Java applets would not load.
Just a thought David has your administrator disabled Java for security
reasons??
We'll try again this evening at the usual time 9pm EST
and place:-

http:www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
John Fowles
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

Eh, I rarelly check the newsgroup. I had no idea Cerritos tickets went on sale Monday. Thanks for the heads up.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by johnfowles:
[B]A fine group of 8 chatted last week
But apparently David bradford working late in Sweden found entry to the chat
room blocked and the Java applets would not load.
Just a thought David has your administrator disabled Java for security
reasons??

Java was enabled, and I have admin privileges. I can also chat with msn and the like, but couldn't get through to you. Oh well, perhaps sometime from home if I am ever awake for any reason at 3am!

quote:Originally posted by djb:
[QUOTE]Java was enabled, and I have admin privileges.
See below David it may well be that your work machine has WindowsXP SP2 (Service Pack 2) installed and that has no Java Virtual Machine!!
Newsgroup highlights week ending November 12th 2004
As I just said in my companion Newsgroup advert
"I'll be brief this week as I have two other pressing projects to complete before meeting up
with some Lightheads at the tribute concert in Wayne NJ on Sunday"
I have liitle to draw your attention to on the NG this past week
Char replied at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e....earthlink.net
to a thread about an amusing article entitled
"The Unhappy States of America. Re: Your application for
adoption by Canada"
which I thought was too overtly political to post here so I started a small talk topic at:-
Oops looks like our moderator has deleted it as it ain't there anymore!!
In another thread Valerie brought me up to date on the forthcoming problem with trying to use Java applets on web sites see:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...%26selm%3DyIKd ndH-88kFzhHcRVn-rg%2540comcast.com
That is my companion corfid Highlights thread and I ended today's posting by saying:-
"Valerie really spoilt my week by warning of potential WindowsXP Internet Explorer Java problems because my chat room largely
depends on one of two Java applets for access by those punters unwilling to sort out installing the recommended mIRC chat room
clientprogram(mme).
although I did recently successfully open the other Java applet on my own web site a beautiful working Java powered Pocket
watch at:-
http://www.pocketwatch.notlong.com
on several probably pre-SR2 equipped WindowsXP machines at my local college
Also I wonder how that affects MACs??
Anyway as the erudite Ed Mullen pointed out there are ways around this problem but for now anyone wishing to chat this
evening at 9 PM EST please go to:- http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com"
John Fowles

see you on Sunday Sir John!

F you had visited the Newsgroup alt.music.lightfoot at:- http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
this past week you would have found that discussion had been hijacked by the daily haranging and regaling of a soap opera
of the marital affairs of the Bipolar Kentuckian Douglas Crowe (or his alter ego "Cap'n Fishlips") with a troll making a few
quite uncalled for stoopid comments in an "unmagnificent" outpouring.
Last Friday 7 came into the chat room including two of our lady bikers
(Lori and Brink)
There will be another seesion this evening at 9PM EST and we would love to see a few fresh faces so how about it Sheryl and BillW??
Full details are on my web site at:-
http://www.lightfootchat.notlong.com
Note that when that page loads you will be asked to accept the download (actually from my own site) of a small Java Applet
(which is the program(me) that contains the basic chat room format)
Alternatively the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) server I am using (dilexnet.net) also has an applet and there is a link to theirs
on my page. However I have been asked for a simple link to the dilexnet applet for those in a hurry and who do not wish to use the superior
chat client mIRC.So if that is the way you intend to access the chat room please click the following easy-to-remember link:-
http://chatlink.notlong.com
You should then be presented with a sign in screen
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot/dilexnet.jpg
.Simply type your preferred nicknmame over where it says
"DilexNET-Guest-number" and then press the "chat!" button and after the applet loads
click the "Gordon Lightfoot" button to join us
If you omit to enter your desired nickname (as Bill Hall regularly does) you will find that you face a barrage of calls to change it from the default "DilexNET-Guest-number"
which is then a simple matter of typing
/nick then a space then the nick you wish to appear as. In fact much hilarity not to say confusion reigns when in light-hearted mood chatters change their nicks willy-nilly
John Fowles

Firstly my apologies.
In the last minute rush to get ready for our automobile expedition to Hamilton I ran out of time to prepare a highlights/chat advert last Friday,
Oh well
Newsgroup highlights week ending December 3rd 2004
I was somewhat astounded to read a new topic on this forum started by our recent newcomer Sheryl who "was just cruising the 'net and found" alt.music.lightfoot despite the fact that she must have read this topic in which I highlight that august site every week several times since she discovered corfid!!
As far as interesting NG threads go this past week there were rather fewer new ones about Hamilton than arose here but I see that Char like myself has taken to posting her topics and other Lightfoot ephemera and interesting topics that arise on corfid on the Newsgroup.The trouble is that this will often produce a slew of responses by Newsgroupers that you have to visit alt.music.lighghtfoot to read.
A prime case in point is the thread there that Char started on "Gord Got It Done"
which is essentially the same as her topic here but the replies have concentrated more on her literary prowess the thread started at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=NfSdnfK1c6ACjDLcRVn-ug%40ro gers.com
When it was suggested that she should take up writing as a career after being told that she was "pretty awesome with words too!"
Char finally said "perhaps one day I'll give it a go..." ????
I had the pleasure at Hamilton of meeting the legendary one time member of Gord's "entourage" Richard Harison
whose picture appears in colo(u)r in the Gord's Gold 1 LP gatefold cover and in Black and White in the GG1 CD booklet:-

http://johnfowles.org.uk/LIGHTFOOT/richard.jpg

Of course he now looks somewhat older and greyer/grayer (don't we all!!!) but stil recognisable from that picture Jenney also spoke to Richard (who regularly posts to the NG go to :-
http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com and put his name into the search box to find
interesting tidbits he has contributed there)
I was also able to get him together with Lynne Ackerman for the first time in many years (Lynne featured in the Macleans magazine article that Char so competently displayed here recently and Lynne goes back to the "Tronno" Riverboat days with Gordon)
See Richard's posting in which he was kind enough to say "Nice to meet you at Hamilton last night!" it is at:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&selm=IO9rd.13997%24 kI6.924677%40news20.bellglobal.com
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Chat Room Advert:-
We dropped into the chat room for a few minutes last Friday (we had intended to rise early on Saturday in order to be able
to spend time in Niagra on the way to Hamilton but left rather later than planned but we still saw all we wanted to of the
fabulous falls in sunny weather albeit with the great wettening spray from the Horseshoe Falls.
No doubt a few will appear this evening at 9pm EST to discuss the two concerts: everybody (especially newcomers) is/are welcome
just click the following link then overwrite your required nickname http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
John Fowles


[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited December 03, 2004).]

Newsgroup highlights week ending 10 december 2004
It is very tempting to say that there has been a ghostly silence on the NG this past week
The latest news is the fact as I had discovered the beta version of Google groups has now supplanted the original slow version
and both of my short links now end up on the improved version:- http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com and http://www.newsgroup2.notlong.com
Ithe most important improvrement is that whereas before for some completely illogical reason after you posted a message or
reply you were told that it would take 3-9 hours before it appeared and it did which was simply ridiculous. Now it says that
your posting will appear "momentarily" and it does within as few seconds or minutes.
Three other things I spotted
1.The search box that on the old version you had to check the search alt.music.lightfoot box tgo avoid searching every group
has been replaced by a pair of boxes one to "search (all) groups' the other a more sensible specific "search this group"
2. there is now choice of "Sort by date of first message" or "Sort by date of most recent message"
3 If you click on a new "about this group" link
you get a set of statistices on "Last month's top posters" and "All time top posters"
plus a yahoo style archive listing by month and year starting at August 1995 so the oldest threads from Waynes initiation of
the group in 1994 have vanished
4. on the same page is a pair of useful links to either "new topics" or "new messages"
One feature I cannot get to function is "my groups"
when I click the relevant link I find:-
"All my groups

You are not a member of any groups. You can locate a group by searching or browsing the directory below.
You can then join groups that interest you by clicking the "Join this Group" link. "
And this was despite the fact that I had already I thought joined and had been posting so I searched for lightfoot then found
a subscribe link to alt.music.lightfoot and now all is fine strange
anmongst the plethora of ghostly threads that have appeared
you'd be hard pressed to find anything else worthwhile to read
Of the ghost stories be sure to read the thread subject
"cathy's cane story" at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...e07c106c82fd16
where on December the 8th Bruna (silverheels) Zanelli- that's Zanelli with a ZED
revealed that she could not bring herself to say "boo" to a ghost!!
all this grew out of an earlier thread concerning an ebay auction of a peculiar grilled cheese sandwich leading Douglas Crowe
to find a ghost up for auction!!
see http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...5?dmode=source
all in all a slow news week or as Roger Guinn eloquently put it
"We in this group are definitely living in the past. I mean, here it is
nearly Christmas, and we are breaking out the Haloween stories...


Slow news day? Whatever--it's entertaining, anyway!
"Procrastinators, unite! Tomorrow."
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and finally my weekly advert
an encouraging onumber dropped in for a chat last Friday
and some dicussion took place about our experiences in Hamilton earlier in the week. Golly two weeks ago we were preparing to
venture to the great white North!!
so this evening at the usual time 9pm EST and place http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
John Fowles

sorry but I have no time to review Newsgroup for highlights this week but go there if you
have an excessive interest in the gee gees (Ghosts and Guitars)
usual all accessing link:- http://www.newsgroup2.notlong.com
chat this evening as usual at 9 pm EST at http://www.chatlink.notlong.com

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My Gordon Lightfoot webring
starts at
http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot

Recent Newsgroup Highlights
The combination of two successive festive family Fridays with their attendant parties and preparations left no time to attempt
my usual weekly reviews. so a lot of water has flown under the bridge since I last troubled you. I hope by now that a few of
the more adventurous corfidians have made their way to http://www.newsgroup.shorturl.com
nd read the latest postings there.
OK now the chat advert
This evening at the usual time 9pm EST and place:- http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
thanks
John Fowles

[QUOTE]Originally posted by johnfowles:
I was somewhat astounded to read a new topic on this forum started by our recent newcomer Sheryl who "was just cruising the 'net and found" alt.music.lightfoot despite the fact that she must have read this topic in which I highlight that august site every week several times since she discovered corfid!! [ snip]

Gee, thanks, John! I feel really good now! Actually, some topics I merely "scan" rather than read.

[This message has been edited by Sheryl Klein (edited January 07, 2005).]

The Newsgroup last week bubbled on as usual
Apologies for last week's chat both Susan and I dropped off and although I went into the
room when I woke up at about 11 there was nobody in there so if anybody did turn up they
probably got tired of waiting.
I'll try harder this evening at 9 pm EST
at http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
John Fowles
oxymora
divorce court
death benefit
open secret

I went in using the mIRC and sat for two hours. No one showed. I left at 8:00 p.m. P.S.T. A few days later, Brink told me that she and several others *were* in there (at the time I was!) and they kept getting booted. We met up later and discovered I was, apparently, in the "wrong" room. I have no idea how that happened, it seemed to be the correct room. I followed all your instructions. Oh, well... I'll just have to stick to the original system.

Newsgroup highlights week ending 21st January 2005
Char's parallel Newsgroup posting on the first Hugh's room concert drew a spirited response including a contribution by one
time Lightfoot entourage member Richard Harrison (see his Gord's Gold picture in my December 3rd posting above) who described Red Shea and Gord's habit of "boiling" their
guitar strings see the thread beginning at:- http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...d16e47c4a6baef
A good number chatted last Friday including Sheryl who managed to tame mIRC
and appeared in the correct room this time
To clarify matters I'll shortly add a couple of screen shots to my chat room page to define what you will see on screen
depending on whether you used mIRC or the simpler browser /Java Applet method
(catman)Ron contrived twice to appear in triplicate
Erica regaled us with how she was one of the "prancing ponies" when she was a little girl of 8
Tonight we'll try again at 9 PM EST at:- http://www.chatlink.notlong.com
John Fowles
do stairs go up or down??