Re: Keith Manison
Good to hear that you are okay, Keith! You will stay in our prayers and thoughts as you do your work at reconstruction. I assume that your locos came through it okay, too, then! Also, good to hear that the Reshews are okay. Any reports on the Ramada Inn at Diamondhead? Vickie-Marie Keith Manison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Clarke and list, We are back on line, although links to the outside world remain tenuous. When IVAN went over Grand Cayman it snapped th fiber optic cable from Florida, and cut us off. We are now going through an old earthstation and some individual satellite links. IVAN passed about 30 miles south of Jamaica, so most of the damage is along the south coast. You may have seen the CNN coverage of an area called Portland Cottage, which is probably the hardest hit. The north coast fared much better, and overall, I don't think the damage is quite as great as hurricame Gilbert in 1988. However, it's still pretty bad. I'm involved in getting relief supplies to some isolated areas at the moment, and then will be working on reconstruction projects. Grand Cayman is much worse. There seems to have been little CNN coverage on Cayman, but it's a total disaster. We sent a ton of food and water yesterday on the first Air Jamaica flight in. But the whole island will need rebuilding. There is no electricity anywhere, and he reports coming out are very scanty. I'm OK. Just exhuasted from non-stop pre and post hurricane preperation and work. We will get through this and if IVAN doesn't knock down the Ramada at Diamondhead I'll see you all there. Cheers Keith = Vickie-Marie Ward
Re: DH
In addition to the Reshews and the Ramada bunch, has anyone heard any news about Keith Manison from Jamaica? He's been in my prayers, too. Vickie-Marie Parker Ward Sacramento, California /Ashland, Oregon / Kapa'a, Kauai, Hawaii ===== Vickie-Marie Ward
Re: Test Message
Aloha! You came in fine here, Jim! Vickie-Marie --- James OHearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all > > I'm having some difficulty responding to messages so > I'm sending this message to try to resolve my > problem. > > Jim O'Hearn > > = Vickie-Marie Ward
Re: summer steamup
The Steam-Up was really special this year since I had missed the last two. It was wonderful to see so many old and dear friends. I was absolutely amazed at the first class set up with nine available tracks! WOW! And the thirteen Shay event was phenomenol! My husband, Glen, is thrilled to finally have his own loco and everyone was tremendously helpful in getting him started with it's care and feeding. I may have created a monster by letting him get started with "my" hobby though. Our remodeling project has just been readjusted, again. He's already talking to LLagas Creek about the track he now wants to add to the refurbished deck in Ashland! Oh, and Steve, thanks,again,for the pizza! And Sonny, please give Jaime our best! And Dave, I will be sending you some Steam-Up photos shortly. Love & Aloha, Vickie-Marie Parker Ward Steve Shyvers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Just got home from the Summer Steamup in Sacramento: Fantastic! Many thanks to the organizers for a relaxed, convivial, and steam-full event. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.summersteamup.com/nss04-pix-sat/ > > as with yesterday's batch, i'll clean these up next week, adding > captions and the like. > > enjoy. > > \dmc > = Vickie-Marie Ward
Re: Computers & Wicks
Thanks for the kind words. I really like your son's idea, Gary. We are planning to reconfigure and/or replace the hard drive on my old CPU eventually. Gaobot went right past my Norton and I had the full bells and whistles program. Well, I like my new Pentium 4 better than the Celeron, anyway. If only I could figure out how to get this thing off of HTML so I could send directly to the list! Dave, also lost in my adventure was all reference to the West Coast Steam-Up registration information. Would you mind terribly if I ask you to mention the address, yet again? My husband visited Clark Lord's Steam-Up in LV and had a great time even without a loco. (Thanks for your hospitality, Clark!) I'm going to have to change his ownership status so he can keep his hands off of my collection! Taking him to the West Coast Steam-Up will give him a better idea of choices. Also, does anyone know of any gauge one live steamers in Hawaii? I'm familiar with several excursion steam trains, but no steam-ups or small scale sites. Vickie-Marie Ward
My computer's hard drive was destroyed ...
Aloha y'all! My computer's hard drive was destroyed by a combination of the Trojan virus and the Gaobot worm about a month or so ago. It has taken that long to figure it out, order a new CPU from Dell and get it installed with all of the latest appropriate firewall and anti-virus software and such. Meantime, I hear that the Trojan virus was bantying around my e-mail address, as well as all of the e-mail addresses in my address book, and, probably, introducing the virus with it! My apologies for any inconvenience and my assurance that I really wasn't behind it! To put it mildly, I'm not amused. One of the outcomes of this whole ordeal is that my new software is far more restrictive in what it will accept in the way of spam (yippee!) as well as attachments. Therefore, a lot of the attachments that I receive are destroyed before the e-mail reaches me and all of the "old" ones that I had on the previous computer have been lost. So I may be asking some of you for re-sends or I may be unaware of what you might have sent me. I took a pretty big hit, so I'm not inclined to loosen up the standards at this time. I think you can guess how I'm feeling towards hackers right about now... I hope this finds you, yours and your computer all happy and well. And, once again, please accept my apologies. Vickie-Marie Parker Ward Vickie-Marie Ward
