Hi Tim,
-=> Quoting Tim Dill to Andrea Fleishman <=-
 TD> Yes I am, however it get's harder and harder just to stay even
 TD> especially in the programming class that I am in.. should see the
 TD> amount of people  that are no longer with the class....
      Like a lot of other things....some can't take it and don't put in that 
extra effort.  I'm proud of you and how you've kept at it.  I know it's been 
tough and has taken it's toll in time and frustration too.
 TD> OS2 has a habit of chewing up and spitting out any dos application
 TD> that it finds, it's even worse with WIN95....
      My Blue Wave is the OS/2 version.  I wish I could figure out the color 
stabilization problem.  I'd rather use it full-screen but this is working for 
now so I can't quibble.  I had my first real taste of Win95 over the weekend. 
My son brought home his new "baby".  It's a Compaq Pentium and had Win95 
loaded. 
I had taken a course at Kelly's on the 95 but it crashed 3 times that morning 
and I had to leave because I had a lunch conference set up at Xerox and 
couldnt 
stay with it after the 3rd crash.  I did a new resume in Word on the 95.  I 
did 
part of it and did a save.  Did more to finish and also did a save.  Put it 
on 
disk and moved it to my other computer.  The second save didn't take and I 
only 
had half of it.  Is this another screw-up for Microsoft?
 
 TD> BTW: I did get your snail, just never did get around to reading it
 TD> and it's on the desk somewhere....
      Good...
I've started to finish a project I began 20 years ago.  This is an "amend" 
that 
should have been taken care of soooooo long ago.  A friend gave me some 
chairs 
to refinish.  Very old ones.  I stripped, wove new rush seats, painted and 
did a
marvelous stencil pattern.  I even mixed my own gold paint to do the detail. 
They began to be beautiful and almost done.  The problem?  I got more drunk.  
I 
began to lose interest at that point in msot things around me and 
unfortunately 
those chairs got pushed into a corner in the basement adn left undone.  I ran
into that friend a short time ago and remembered this.  I apologized, of 
course.
Buthow do you do that for a 20 year thing.  But the first chair came upstairs
and I cleaned the dust off.  My worst fear was the rush seats sitting in our 
damp basement for that long.  I figured the musty odor would be awful and the
seats would ALL have to be rewoven.  I stuck my nose in the first seat and 
it's
as fresh as can be!!!!!  I can't believe this.  If the other 3 are the same I
don't have to do the seats over.  Is HP watching out for me?  Can't figure 
this
one.
Off and on over the years the guilt over not doing these chairs for him has
preyed on my mind.  It's been adding to my feelings of failure for a long 
time 
and this is not good.  I found a can of the finish that I'm using.  It's very 
old and few places have it anymore.  But I found it and can finish the chairs 
now and call him to pick them up.
Amends can be msot difficult to handle.  I've done many and most of them 
haven't
made any earth-shaking wonders.  Somehow I expected a hug or two but in most 
cases this didn't happen.  The only one, and this one surprised me, was my 
brother-in-law.  He hadn't writtne in YEARS.  I wrote to him with an apology 
for
some things that were said and done while I was drinking.  He wrote a logn 
letter to me, he also said he was proud of what I had done.  So it does work 
adn
a wound was healed.  We won't be great friends I guess but some bad feelings 
are
taken care of.  That counts.  :)
Spring is trying to sprong around here.  My maple trees are budding out.  It 
was almost 60 yesterday.  
[[[[[HUGS]]]]]\
Andrea
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