I'm back!!!

WB Unka Steve!!! We misted you. Purrs for the injured kitties and for you
to get your puter back into the shape you want. I assume it's a new puter?
Fun stuff. Please keep us informed about the kitties and yourself. We all
love your stories about your owners. Any new pictures for us as well?

Pam S. on behalf of the Fayetteville Mafia, who love their Unka Steve.

"Steve Touchstone" wrote in message
...
If it seems like a long time since you've seen me post, well you're
right. Besides being extremely busy around here - the old computer
died. Seems there was a couple metal clips holding the CPU onto the
motherboard, one came loose, and stay pieces of metal laying on a
motherboard is NOT a good thing.

I finally got agent working tonight - after a couple messages back and
forth between me and their support site to get a new username and
password. Once the reader was working, I had to go through the same
thing getting the news server to recognize me.

Other than that, things have been going about as well as can be
expected. I've spent this past week downloading and installing
software trying to get everything back to normal. Pretty much
everything is back now, though I still have to install AVG and word
perfect, and connect the scanner and printer before I'll be back to
normal.

My girls are all doing fine. Furby is almost as big as her momma now,
and I often have to seen the face before I can tell who is who.
They've all been mad at me lately, since I'm trying to get Little Bit
and Spotty to lose some weight, and prevent Princess from getting too
fluffy. The problem is that when I feed them Sammy and Furby just eat
enough to satisfy their hunger, and the other three eat until
everything is gone.

A couple of the neighborhood cats need some purrs, though. Seems they
got into a fight, probably with each other, and both have abscesses. I
know where one of them lives, and I finally talked to the owners
Saturday. The lady said if it wasn't better they'd take Frank to TED
today to be looked at. The other cat, who I call Gray Kitty, has been
a regular visitor here for several years. I know there is, or at least
was, a home somewhere, because Gray has always seemed to be taken care
of and only comes by to eat here about twice a month. For the past
couple days, though, Gray kitty has been spending most of the time on
my patio in one of the carriers I keep out there. I expect I'll end up
taking him to TED for treatment this week if I don't see some
improvement.
Steve Touchstone
Little Bit, Sammy, Spotty, Princess and Furby
Pix at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8
Vids at http://tinyurl.com/4yb6nj

wrote:
If it seems like a long time since you've seen me post, well you're
right. Besides being extremely busy around here - the old computer
died. Seems there was a couple metal clips holding the CPU onto the
motherboard, one came loose, and stay pieces of metal laying on a
motherboard is NOT a good thing.

I finally got agent working tonight - after a couple messages back and
forth between me and their support site to get a new username and
password. Once the reader was working, I had to go through the same
thing getting the news server to recognize me.

Other than that, things have been going about as well as can be
expected. I've spent this past week downloading and installing
software trying to get everything back to normal. Pretty much
everything is back now, though I still have to install AVG and word
perfect, and connect the scanner and printer before I'll be back to
normal.

My girls are all doing fine. Furby is almost as big as her momma now,
and I often have to seen the face before I can tell who is who.
They've all been mad at me lately, since I'm trying to get Little Bit
and Spotty to lose some weight, and prevent Princess from getting too
fluffy. The problem is that when I feed them Sammy and Furby just eat
enough to satisfy their hunger, and the other three eat until
everything is gone.

A couple of the neighborhood cats need some purrs, though. Seems they
got into a fight, probably with each other, and both have abscesses. I
know where one of them lives, and I finally talked to the owners
Saturday. The lady said if it wasn't better they'd take Frank to TED
today to be looked at. The other cat, who I call Gray Kitty, has been
a regular visitor here for several years. I know there is, or at least
was, a home somewhere, because Gray has always seemed to be taken care
of and only comes by to eat here about twice a month. For the past
couple days, though, Gray kitty has been spending most of the time on
my patio in one of the carriers I keep out there. I expect I'll end up
taking him to TED for treatment this week if I don't see some
improvement.
Steve Touchstone
Little Bit, Sammy, Spotty, Princess and Furby
Pix at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8
Vids at http://tinyurl.com/4yb6nj
Glad to see you back, Steve. Sorry about the neighbor cats. Hope
everything works out for them. "Fluff"-losing purrs on the way for
Little Bit and Spotty.

Sam, supervised by Mistletoe

wrote:
If it seems like a long time since you've seen me post, well you're
right.

Always nice to see you, Steve. Purrs for the fighting kitties. Caliban
sends 'I know how you feel' purrs to your dieting kitties.


--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

Steve Touchstone wrote:
If it seems like a long time since you've seen me post, well you're
right. Besides being extremely busy around here - the old computer
died. Seems there was a couple metal clips holding the CPU onto the
motherboard, one came loose, and stay pieces of metal laying on a
motherboard is NOT a good thing.

I finally got agent working tonight - after a couple messages back and
forth between me and their support site to get a new username and
password. Once the reader was working, I had to go through the same
thing getting the news server to recognize me.

Other than that, things have been going about as well as can be
expected. I've spent this past week downloading and installing
software trying to get everything back to normal. Pretty much
everything is back now, though I still have to install AVG and word
perfect, and connect the scanner and printer before I'll be back to
normal.

My girls are all doing fine. Furby is almost as big as her momma now,
and I often have to seen the face before I can tell who is who.
They've all been mad at me lately, since I'm trying to get Little Bit
and Spotty to lose some weight, and prevent Princess from getting too
fluffy. The problem is that when I feed them Sammy and Furby just eat
enough to satisfy their hunger, and the other three eat until
everything is gone.

A couple of the neighborhood cats need some purrs, though. Seems they
got into a fight, probably with each other, and both have abscesses. I
know where one of them lives, and I finally talked to the owners
Saturday. The lady said if it wasn't better they'd take Frank to TED
today to be looked at. The other cat, who I call Gray Kitty, has been
a regular visitor here for several years. I know there is, or at least
was, a home somewhere, because Gray has always seemed to be taken care
of and only comes by to eat here about twice a month. For the past
couple days, though, Gray kitty has been spending most of the time on
my patio in one of the carriers I keep out there. I expect I'll end up
taking him to TED for treatment this week if I don't see some
improvement.
Steve Touchstone
Little Bit, Sammy, Spotty, Princess and Furby
Pix at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8
Vids at http://tinyurl.com/4yb6nj


Great to see you again, Steve, and purrs for GK & Frank.

Yowie

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:45:14 -0400, "tanadashoes"
wrote:

WB Unka Steve!!! We misted you. Purrs for the injured kitties and for you
to get your puter back into the shape you want. I assume it's a new puter?
Fun stuff. Please keep us informed about the kitties and yourself. We all
love your stories about your owners. Any new pictures for us as well?

Yep, new puter. Although it was the second cheapest at Office
Depot I can tell the difference in performance between this and the
several year old system it's replacing. I got to thinking and this is
the first time I've replaced a system because it crashed - and it's
the first one I bought as a system rather than sitting down with a
catalog and ordering parts and building it. The old system I built in
93 still runs DOS and windows 3.1 fine. Course back when I was
building my own I paid more, because I was picking the best parts and
not getting a discount for buying bulk. One of the things the old and
now defunct user group I belonged to was that several of us could get
together and order and get a discount.

There are some new pix, but it may be awhile before I get them up.

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:27:36 -0400, "jmcquown"
wrote:

Welcome back, Steve! Hope the kitties who got in a brawl are okay.

Jill

Both seem to be doing well. Frank isn't limping anymore, so I hope
that means his hoomins took him to TED. GK actually seemed friendly
when I got home this morning - though that may just be because I was
changing his water and putting out food. Even in the best of times he
usually hisses if I reach a hand out toward him, and this morning he
let me touch him without complaint.

wrote:
If it seems like a long time since you've seen me post, well you're
right. snip
A couple of the neighborhood cats need some purrs, though. Seems they
got into a fight, probably with each other, and both have abscesses. I
know where one of them lives, and I finally talked to the owners
Saturday. The lady said if it wasn't better they'd take Frank to TED
today to be looked at. The other cat, who I call Gray Kitty, has been
a regular visitor here for several years. I know there is, or at least
was, a home somewhere, because Gray has always seemed to be taken care
of and only comes by to eat here about twice a month. For the past
couple days, though, Gray kitty has been spending most of the time on
my patio in one of the carriers I keep out there. I expect I'll end up
taking him to TED for treatment this week if I don't see some
improvement.
Steve Touchstone
Little Bit, Sammy, Spotty, Princess and Furby
Pix at http://tinyurl.com/22pfn8
Vids at http://tinyurl.com/4yb6nj


Welcome back, Steve!
Lots of purrs for the kitties that were in the fight,
Polonca and Soncek