Its working, but its holiday season over here and I am guessing others are on hols too.

I will be going on holiday next week too

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I'm also here.

Just not good at thinking of things to say.

And due to the whole house being rearranged while I was on holiday, my PC is in pieces without a good place to be reassembled. So there's my fic work, graphics tablet and programs and scanner, and all my general file thingies unusable until I find a new home for it. This PC I'm using right now isn't really up to the job of having all my extra stuff put on it.

I think one of those tft / lcd monitors would help a great deal. I must go and buy one with the long service award I got from the people who pay me to turn up and stare at a screen all day 20 years, on July 1st. Quite an achievement considering we were bought 3 years ago by a company that turned their apparently friendly buyout into a hostile one. Out of the 270 people I worked with at the time of the buyout, less than 40 remain. Given that we're been bought again this year by another company that's bound to cut down even further, I don't think I'm going to reach 21 years.

So, I shall comfort myself with a hard-disk dvd recorder and a nice thin new monitor.

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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny."

Nah, I'm still here too, wondering about the same thing you were Thorn.

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A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. - Agnes Repplier

Oooh, Meridian, I hear you. Buyouts are a pain, hostile or not. The new owners usually see their new plans rather than an existing team and product. My hubby's been told for two years that he'll get the extra training and be able to start work on the new product as soon as.... But, the paycheck's secure for quite a while yet, the coworkers he sees daily are fun, and there's no guarantee that a new place would be any better. Regardless of what eventually happens, we're grateful for 15 years that were better than many people ever see in an entire career.

Cep, as far as the board, so long as it's quick to load and easy on the browser-specific stuff, I'll be happy.

Cricket

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In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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