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Hello Herb and friends of the DD well okay so I finally made it in here and am reading the instructions that I printed from the mail rec'd from Jay. It is now 10:15 a.m and have been on the comp. since 7:55. Had started after getting out of bed to make a bowl of H-O inst. oatmeal cereal 160 cal and 25 from fat and a coup of black coffee. had gotten up much earlier just to have a Banana which is a daily ritual you might say. My next attempt was to sign on to my online banking and pay some bills and that turned out to be a disaster cause there seems to be a problem with the site and I do not have an extra phone line for the PC so that I cannot call their Help like while I am on line. Gave up that idea and checked out the weather on yahoo at Rochester. NY cause I had hoped to be there with a group of my friends from Amateur Radio land and thursday they had predicted rain and I cancelled my plans to go there and here it is this morn. 45°F at the Monroe Fairgrounds and it was 53°F and the sun was shining although they say there may be rain in both areas later today. So instead of being at the Hamvention in Rochester Went to my Sister Ruths' retirement party at her office at McCann Erickson where she has been for 25 years. And boy they sure gave her a great send-off with a catered affair with all manner of temptations. I am proud to say that I restrained myself after having been only on a slice of matzoh in the early afternoon and had a couple (2) of delicious shrimp, 2 swedish meatballs the rest was some coliflour, carrots, broccoli and monster great looking strawberries and some other fruit and several slices of different cheese bits. also there were some warm nuts on the bar where I had a glass of wine and later a diet sprite. Both my Nephews came also and the younger one Michael who is a magician did some entertaining card tricks. I tried to get him to make my stomach dissappear it failed. Earlier in the day I had gone to PC Richards and Son to purchase a digital camera after spending the last couple of weeks looking at all the different models and wound up with a Canon Elph S 100 and came home and had enough time to get the Battery charged up and do some reading of the owners manual. It is not quite as easy or simple as I had thought but the camera is small enough to keep in a shirt pocket and with the 8M flash card can take 12 images in L format or forty some in the small size. you can check out the Camera on the Canon web site. Also had my old Kodak 4100 APS with me and took some pix with that one and my sister gave me her Pentax and wanted me to shoot for her also. We took a cab from the city and got home exhausted at about 8:30pm. I think that is enough for my first entry and have to get ready to call the bank and see what can be done about my problem with the online banking program. ciao
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Comment left by herb on 06/01/2001:
Hooray Hooray! You finally made it. Just one suggestion, and this is the one I gave to Connie (Pushed to the Wall), and it's this. When you put in a big block of text it becomes hard to read. To avoid that separate your thoughts frome one subject to another by hitting the "Return" key twice. I will demonstrate.
(Return, Return) See I left a little light between the two lines, and it now becomes easier to follow your thoughts.
Once again Welcome, and I hope you'll become a regular contributer. Now all we have to do is get Lisa's (Mommy of Two) son Korbey on and we'll be OK.
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Comment left by minea on 06/01/2001:
Welcome to DD. We'll be looking forward to your entries. Can you tell us a little more about your grapefruit diet?
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Comment left by diva on 06/01/2001:
Hello Ron. I don't think I have wrote to you before. I just wanted to say hello and I hope everything is going fantastic for you. Do you have a challenge to yourself for the month of June yet? Most of us do. I hope everything goes great for you this month and I will be here every day to offer support. I am sending you some willpower and inner strength through the e-mail. Nice to meet ya, and be strong.
Sherri (diva) soon to be a sexy vixen!!!!
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Comment left by thatmochagirl on 06/01/2001:
Hey there ROn... welcome to DD, I like to give Herb a rough time as he is such a sweet heart..and has a BIG heart.... Everyone on here is so supportive.... you'll love it... Have a great day...MOCHA
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Comment left by SoccerMom on 06/01/2001:
You did well to avoid all the tempting foods at the party. Congrats!
I've been thinking about getting a digital camera, too. What made you decide on the Elph?
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Comment left by pastagal on 06/01/2001:
Welcome to DD's and will look forward to getting to know you and watching your progress with your lifestyle change,,your entries remind me alot of Herbs,,,:}
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Comment left by pushedtothewall on 06/02/2001:
Welcome, Ron! I am happy to "meet" you, finally. Herb has been promising you to us and here you are. Wonderful. Grreat big day today for you. I am one of the ones at this site who know nothing about digital or electronic or cookies scanners, etc. I am here with a webtv unit and this remote keyboard. Some of the others talk back and forth about tricks and tyrades connected with their computer problems but I am out of the loop, sadly. I have asked Herb and DVDmon about their opinions in that area because I am on the ragged edge of buying a REAL thing, and Herb suggested Apple might be more for me. In any case I will be so interested in following your entries and knowing about your days and goals. There is great support and focus here. I hope that you like us! Connie
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Comment left by mommyof two on 06/02/2001:
welcome ron, so you are friends with our deloved herb!? he is one sweet fella. i,m sure you are as well. it sounds like you,ve had one busy day... and i see that you do the camera thing like herb.. do you two develope your own film? that would be neet, well you take care ron..by theway, i have a half brother named ronnie....good name , lisa
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