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I need help. I thought I followed all the instructions, but I can't download the new movie, Strange Wine. I got an account and a password emailed to me, but when I click on the file name a window drops down prompting for a name and password, but the ones I enter dont work.

Looking for an editor/proof reader

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Hello everyone. I am looking for someone who would be interested in editing/proof reading some stuff before I submit it. My current project is a multi part story involving a sci fi type transformation. The story is action/adventure oriented and contains some violent content, but nothing extreme or gratuitous. If anyone is interested please send me a PM or email me at [email protected].

A Sweet and Sentimental Holiday Tale

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We need to have at least one weepy sentimental holiday story. My sister sent me this and I thought I would pass it on. Have a Kleenex handy!!

Always believe in MIRACLES!!

Three years ago, a little boy and his grandmother came to see Santa at Mayfair Mall in Wisconsin. The child climbed up on his lap, holding a picture of a little girl. "Who is this?" asked Santa, smiling. "Your friend? Your sister?"

"Yes, Santa," he replied. "My sister, Sarah, who is very sick," he said sadly.

Santa glanced over at the grandmother who was waiting nearby, and saw her dabbing her eyes with a tissue.

"She wanted to come with me to see you, oh, so very much, Santa!" the child exclaimed. "She misses you," he added softly.

Santa tried to be cheerful and encouraged a smile to the boy's face, asking him what he wanted Santa to bring him for Christmas. When they finished their visit, the Grandmother came over to help the child off his lap, and started to say something to Santa, but halted.

"What is it?" Santa asked warmly.

"Well, I know it's really too much to ask you, Santa, but ..." the old woman began, shooing her grandson over to one of Santa's elves to collect the little gift which Santa gave all his young visitors. "The girl in the photograph ... my granddaughter .. well, you see ... she has leukemia and isn't expected to make it even through the holidays," she said through tear-filled eyes. "Is there any way, Santa ... any possible way that you could come see Sarah? That's all she's asked for, for Christmas, is to see Santa."

Santa blinked and swallowed hard and told the woman to leave information with his elves as to where Sarah was, and he would see what he could do.

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jijillian

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in the old BC jijillian had a good story in multiple parts about a sister dressing her brother up for a date with her boyfriend. it was very good story but i dont see it anywhere anymore. what happened to it?

Ramblings of an overreactive insomniac

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Well another day has gone by and I'm still alive, I figured that was something to feel good about so I decided to celebrate with a chocolate biscuit. (cookie for those of U.S. origins)
Only problem with that is that i kind of felt guilty about eating it so went in search of something to lift my spirits.
After eating a few more chocolate biscuits I was feeling a little better, after all nothing picks me up better than a few triple choc's.
With the packet of biscuits now empty I was feeling a little guilty because I knew my dad would want one with his tea in the morning, but now he couldn't because I'd eaten them all.
Looking in the freezer I decided to have a few spoonfulls of caramel swirl ice cream, just to take my mind off the biscuits.
As no-one other than me in the house eats caramel swirl ice cream I was feeling considerably better after a few spoonfulls and at least I wouldn't have to worry about anyone complaining that I'd eaten it out of the tub.
Having eaten all of the ice cream I was a little upset with myself as after all I'm supposed to be on a diet, so figured I should at least put things straight with my health and have a salad sandwich.
Now that I've used the last of the mayonaise my sister isn't going to be happy with me in the morning when she has to prepare her school lunch. I think I should stop eating before I get in any more trouble and go outside for a cigarette.
After smoking a whole pack out on the veranda I had a dry throat so headed to the kitchen for a drink, having learnt my lesson from the mayonaise and triple choc's I decided it was best I didn't drink the last of the orange juice as mum would want that in the morning so decided on a glass of lemonade instead.
The couple of glasses of lemonade finished what was left of the bottle, but as there was another bottle in the fridge that wasn't too much of a problem. However it did tend to go straight through me so i headed to the toilet to relieve myself.
Having relieved myself of the excess lemonade I realised there was no paper with which to wipe, so a quick dash to the bathroom was in order to get a new roll out of the cupboard.
I decided not to bother with the bathroom light as it would only wake my brother who's room was just across the hall so I carefully reached into the cupboard to get a roll of toilet paper.
After knocking over most of the household cleaning supplies in the cupboard I went back down the hall to the toilet to finish up before trying to get my brother back to sleep after all the noise I'd made had woken him. I then headed back to the bathroom to clean up the mess of cleaning products I'd spilled all over the shelf in the cupboard.
An hour or so later I headed out of the bathroom certain that shelf was now the cleanest spot in the house, feeling a little worn out by the exercitions of the cleaning I went into the kitchen and had a long cold glass of orange juice.
Oh shoot!

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nursery rhyme without reason

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jack be nimble
jack be quick
jack jump over the
candlestick
peter peter
pumpkin eater
had a wife and
couldn't keep her
put her in a
pumpkin shell
there he kept her
very well
little jack
horner sat in a
corner
eating his curds and
whey a-
long came a
spider
sat down be-
side...
her?

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Discordia

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The Physics of Bras

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I found an interesting article in Discover Magazine this month. Take a look at it. It discusses the physics of one of my favorite garments.

http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-05/departments/physics-of...

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All work and no fun

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My programming project has mired significantly. I've switched from managing the data in SQL to Access for short term convenience because VB 2003 .net doesn't support what I want to do extensively enough for now without writing entire toolboxes of interface routines.

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of lillies and remains

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the inevitable sound of age is creeping into my appearance
the feast of youth is dying in my arms
the champagne laden hope that was once my path to enlightment is being
closed down due to a restructuring of reality.

have you ever asked yourself :
where have all the wishes gone ?
where have all the hopes gone?
where have me and you, for heavens sake,
decided to drown like a bunch of easterbunnies on christmas eve ???

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Postponements, etc

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I'm tired of not working with computers full time, anymore. As a result, I've (kind of intentionally) bitten off a large chunk, quite possibly more than I can chew. At least at first. (I'm writing an entire restaurant POS system in VB 2003 .net using SQL as my data management.) As a result, all creative writing is on hold.

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Editing

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Hi Everyone...

I'm a relatively new writer and learning something new each day.   I use a spell checker and will often set a finished story down for a few days (or longer) to review it for type-"O's".   Problem is I never seem to catch it all. Always mistakes of one sort or another.   I hate it.   I really do and my question....

Would like a little more story information.

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Would it be possible to add the story length, in kilobytes, to the story information at the beginning of each story and also wheather or not the story is complete?

Story length and completness are two things I look for when selecting a story to read. Often, I don't have time to read a long story. I also avoid reading stories until the are complete, I have been burned too many times by authors who start a really good story and then lose interest in the story or dissappear altogether.

Cowards and Sneaks

It seems that there are some cowards, who are visiting Topshelf.   They obviously fit this description, since they read posts here about writers not getting feedback, and cowardly sneak attack by posting the lamest excuses for reviews on Fictionmania.

Cowards and Sneaks

It seems that there are some cowards, who are visiting Topshelf.   They obviously fit this description, since they read posts here about writers not getting feedback, and cowardly sneak attack by posting the lamest excuses for reviews on Fictionmania.

Fiction Sketch 2.0

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Hi everyone,

For those interested, Fiction Sketch 2.0 is now available for download on my site. New features include:

  • Custom Fields! Need more than what I provided? Make your own!
  • Clues for the mystery writer in you!
  • Factions instead of the four previous character groups.
  • Import from XML (Fiction Sketch 2.0 XML output only).
  • Move relationships to the story level for better usage.
  • Define your own shortcut keys for different menu items!

As usual, you can find it on my site.

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Futher musings

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5Oct2005 - Not much has been happening for me, lately. I am a channel operator, in the form of a temp op (basically a reservist for when the registered ops are not available) in an IRC channel now. There is a 50/50 chance I will be installed as a permanent op. This is only interesting in its irony. The channel is a flirt channel. Meanwhile, I hate me. I don't like men. I'm not attracted to women (except that I love to watch them and either admire their style or pick them apart for lack of it, though I keep my thoughts to myself on that point). I even hate sex (just accept it at face value). I'm not sure why I go there, much less as much as I do.

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No Story Posts in almost a Week

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What's going on? Back when every post required editing by me before posting, I sometimes had 20 or 30 stories in the queue, eight or ten new ones every week. Now that posted stories appear immediately, posting has slowed down to two or three a week.

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My very first blog and blog entry

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10 Sept 05 I've never really tried a blog before. At this point, I'm strictly engaging in the novelty of a new toy. I'm sure that'll wear off quickly.

I recently (very lightly) edited Perchance to Dream and compiled it from 8 seperate serial parts into one complete story. It has had a few reads (74) but no comments. My insecurity is screaming "NO ONE BLARGING LIKES IT!". My rational mind is all about "it's a numbers game, someone will eventually like it enough to write and they probably represent some sample percentage" or "It's been posted on a previous version of BigCloset, it's yesterdays news. Get over it and write something fresh". That mollifies me for a moment that I panic again and go back to "NO ONE BLARGING LIKES IT!". What can I say? Insecurity is a big player in my life. I'll deal with it as best I can, in the meantime.

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Katrina

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I have Been working at a Red Cross shelter in my home town. We have about 500 victims from the New Orleans area. It is so humbling to see how they who have lost everything can still smile and laugh. I wouldn't wish what happened to them on anyone but I wouldn't trade my time with them for anything.

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Donating to Disaster Relief with Southern Belle

I am Southern Belle, not only a Superhero, but a SOUTHERN Hero!

The Disaster from Katrina is effecting all of us, but as a Southern Hero, I need to help!

To do this, ALL Profits from the sales of my adventures in both Book and PDF format for the next 30 days will be donated in the name of my friends and fans to the Red Cross for Katrina Disaster Relief.

Even Heros need help in times like this - can you help?

Sapphire and E.E.Nalley

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Katrina

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Disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes put our lives in perspective. For all of us who have homes, family and friends close by, let us be thankful and humble. For those who have friends or family in the path of the destruction, hope is a lifeline against despair.

Going on Vacation

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Sorry I haven't gotten anything new posted lately. I have about four stories in different degrees of completion in my file, plus a bunch of ideas for new stuff. Just to complicate things, I have been informed that my position will probably terminate by the end of October, so now I'm doing the job hunt thing. (It could have been worse. About 30 folks were shown the door yesterday. At least I still have a job while I look.)

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Fiction Sketch 1.2

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Hi everyone,

It seems that this little package may have a bigger following than my
fiction and so, here is version 1.2 for those who are interested. New
features include:

  • World creation work sheets.
  • Race creation work sheets.
  • Import from other story files.
  • Ability to adjust the screen font as desired.
  • Added relationships to sketches.
  • Printing.
  • Some appearance cleanup.
  • Automatic online version checker (off by default).
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Susan's Place Transgender Resources

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Crystal's Storysite

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Moving Again

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As if I haven't had enough of it in my life, I'm moving again. :)

Griffen, the cartoonist for whom I write Morty, and I, plus Griff's partner Danny, will be taking an apartment together in September. It's only a few miles away so I can continue to keep an eye on my Mom, which is good, and I'll be spending almost half my time here at Mom's. But I've discovered I really can't do much creative stuff with Mom in the same house. <sigh> Never could, I've always done my writing in coffee shops when I live with Mom.

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"G11-Colony" and "Gaby-the Anime Years" now for sale!

  
I am so very happy and honored to announce that two new books are now for sale from Sapphire's Place Press!
  
1) " Gaby - The Anime Years " ( Gaby #1 ) from Madeline Bell is NOW fully available! B/W internal graphics in Book, full color graphics in PDF format. Buy BOTH for a full experience!
  
As a note, Every copy of Gaby sold will provide support for youngsters with gender identity issues through the Mermaids charity - ( http://www.mermaids.freeuk.com/ )
  
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Troubles with the QnEZ server.

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That's the old server, the one that runs my qnez, ateros, fictioneer, beastlythoughts and about 25 other domains admined by Theresa Sanchez; this time it isn't hackers but the ISP that operates the server farm in Texas. They updated some software on my server at midnight last night and now pop access to email does not work, nor do a lot of control panel functions for the server.

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Thanks...

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Today i have taken a decision that I have been fighting for what seems like eternity. This is not a cry for help as it seems noone can help nor even wants to. Sadly I will not be able to complete any of the stories that I was writing. Nor will I be able to read any of the wonderful stories that I have enjoyed so much on here.

All my stories both written, planned, started and stopped.

Announcing Fiction Sketch

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Attention authors!

I just thought I would post a quick note about some software I've written. Basically, it's designed to help organize plot, characters, scenes, locations, and track notes and ideas that you have during the course of developing a story. It's written in C# so it does required Windows and the 1.1 .NET framework (which is freely available). I have no idea if it would work with the Mono project codebase, but you never know if you're adventuresome.

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Can't edit my stories...

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Why does it log me out every time I click on a story? I can't edit any of my work or post replies to comments. It's really frustrating, because in Dangers, I wanted to clear up a few mistakes, and answer a comment from someone that seems to have mostly misunderstood the thrust of the story. Anyway, I'll keep trying, and hope it works sometime, because this story is important to me, it hits pretty close to some of my own issues, and I want it to be just right.

Spam Fighters

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Since I spend about half an hour to one hour a day deleting spam comments by unregistered users, I'm going to suspend commenting privileges for unregistered user for the duration of my trip. Sorry about that, I hope to be able to restore such privileges as soon as I return on or about July 6.

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Road Trip

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For the next two weeks or so, my access to the internet is going to be spotty because I will be on vacation to the Bay Area. My apologies to readers and authors who may experience some inconvenience. If you live in the Bay Area and want to chance a meeting with me, you can leave a PM or email me at [email protected]. That will be my email addy on the road because it will be easiest to access without compromising security. :)

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Misfile

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For The Record

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A number of readers have noted the similarity of my recently posted tale, "Escape From Harmony," with another author's work. "The Sisters of Athernia" by Diane Christy.

EFH is indeed inspired by Ms. Christy's tale, a fact I do not deny. I enjoyed her story and am disappointed that she never managed to finish it.

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Gamex

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Hi everybody, I'm attending Gamex in LA this weekend at the Airport Westin Hotel. Look for the fat lady in the open gaming room running the Mutants and Masterminds game if you're in the area. :)

Hugs,

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Rules for Constructing MIBD Stories

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Now that Erin has graciously awarded my creation a universe of its own, I thought I might post the rules for writing MIBD stories, just in case anybody would like to try their hand at it. Please feel free to add to the body of MIBD stories. Just do me a favor and e-mail me a copy before you post it. Thanks ever so much!

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Male/Female brains

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There is an interesting article in the May issue of Scientific American titled " The Differeences in Male and Female Brains". I am not sure it is if any use to anyone except researches and acedemics; on the other hand, it is interesting to read about what is currently known.

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Fudge

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When I moved in with my mom after Jeanne died last October, I had to find homes for my cats. My friend Don took in Bebekat and another friend, Shelley, took in Fudge. Rocky, our resident psycho-kitty, went to the pound along with fifty dollars to help him find a new home.

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Wish me luck

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Wish me luck. :) I'm going to Fontana for 24 hour comic day tomorrow. :) I'll have a 'puter with me but I dunno if they have internet for us. Google for 24 hour comic day if you want to find the place. :) If things work out, by Monday I'll have a 24 page comic done called, "The Secret Life of Roadster T. Rodent". :)

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The Wotch

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El Goonishshive - TG Webcomic

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Some web comics with TG

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Since Erin pointed out one, I thought I'd mention two of my favorite web comics that include TG elements.

El Goonish Shive at http://www.elgoonishshive.com has several TG story lines, including an up comming party where most of the characters are going to get changed to the opposit gender.

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I finally figured out why...

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... I've been reading fewer stories here than on other sites.


On other sites my main way of choosing which stories to read is by reading the short synopsis that authors provide. Very few authors do so here, and I'm thus provided little incentive to read unless I'm familiar with the author. Categories alone are not enough.

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A Question! Visual Kei, Japanese Street Fashion, Elegant Gothic Lolita, Elegant Gothic Aristocrat.

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Hello Everyone!

       I had a quick question, and am hoping that this is the best way to get it out to you.

I'm wondering how many of you are familiar with some of the more interesting

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Just an Hello

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Just a line or two to introduce myself.

Been reading BigCloset and Top Shelf for ages, and the TG/TS stories in particular.

Reason?   Simply to live my childhood somewhat vicariously through them - since I didn't get to be a girl (physically) til I was 50 - I may one day put in a story, but I am without a plot at the moment - though I suppose I could write an autobiographical one - if you all want boring to death...

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Blogs and Frogs

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Griff and I have been having weekly meetings about cartooning lately. These have been a major help to me in coming out of what now appears to have been a several year long depression. I still miss Jeanne but I'm beginning to take an interest in doing the things I like again. Griff and my other local friends, as well as all of you online here at BC and elsewhere on the net are part of the reason.

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No Respect

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Gosh, I can't seem to elicit a comment without bitching.
Maybe I need to write something so filthy and bad somebody will take notice?
What does one have to do to get at least a, 'hey good rewrite,' out of those couple of hundred what is reading my stuffs?

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Happy Christmas or Whatever...

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Well it's officially Christmas in the UK now, so I would like to wish everyone out there a happy christmas, I should have some presents round here somewhere but they aren't wrapped yet. Sorry. Um actually I haven't got round to writing them yet, I'm always like this at Christmas though. Ah well maybe for new year...

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Still moving

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Still working on getting things moved, having a yard sale today. If you're in the area, stop by, 7862 Stark St, Huntington Beach, CA. :)

- Erin

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Computers being moved...

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I'm going to be partly offline for about a week starting an hour or two from now. Bob Arnold will be watching for any problems with the server and he has my number so he can contact me. I'll look in from time to time on friends computers. Wish me luck.

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Long time no C...

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Well I have been... well not busy exactly just um well not really with it, done a little bit more work on various stories, currently working on a Health and Beauty website for a (hopefully) paying customer. Spent huge amounts of money recently sorting out my PC so now it runs nicely and looks cool. Thats about it...

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Snow!

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I went up to my mom's last night and this morning it snowed! About 8 inches of fluffy white stuff, it was really funny watching all the little old ladies and men in mom's retirement community making snowmen. :)

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Still Moving...

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And probably right on through Thanksgiving weekend. I have to be out by November 30 and there is still a lot to do. I'm having a big garage sale this weekend and people are coming over to help out.

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Chatbox

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A suggestion about the Chatbox status on the home page, wouldn't it be better to show occupancy rather than current conversation, if any. A couple of other members have mentioned that they stay logge

Gone to Mom's...

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...for a couple of days, getting ready to move up there. I should be back late Thursday night, if there are problems with the servers, Bob Arnold has access to try to fix things. :)

- Erin

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Why Separate is Not Equal

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California's domestic partnership law grants the same rights to domestic partners as to surviving spouses except for narrow areas BUT, the state agency overseeing crematories does not accept this and refuses to grant licenses to crematoriums on the authority of a surviving domestic partner.

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An Appointment with Grief

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I'm feeling better today, tired and sad but I can see the fading of pain already.

I called the Neptune Society on Saturday and they will make all the arrangements, including a boat for going out into the channel and scattering the ashes. The price is very reasonable, less than $2000, including $600 for the boat with 20 people in the memorial party.

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Halloween arrives

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The moon travels its silent path, as it rises over the earth, Halloween arrives. A ghostly scream cries out seeming coming from all directions at once. The high drifting clouds part and a blue radaince shines down from the moon above. Creepy Halloween treats sparkle into existance on a small flat rock in a forest clearing.

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The Last Forgiveness

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The hospital just called, Jeanne died this morning at about 12:50 a.m. I had last seen her at about 10:00 p.m. when her other best friend, Sandy, and I left the hospital. We had spent about four hours with her, telling her we loved her and that she had our permission to do what she had to do.

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