well, I've broke down and gone high speed - via a wireless modem. As
long as I was doing that, I upgraded my newsreader from the free Forte
Agent version 1 whatever to the newest version 4.2. I imagine there
will be a learning to catch up on all the new bells and whistles. One
thing I've already noticed, and I'm sure you all will apprecuate is
this version has a spell check - we'll see if it catches my mistakes
in this message.

A 3 month trial subscription to Agent's newsgroup server came with $29
bucks I forked over for the upgrade. Now I just have to figure out how
close I can come to using the 10 gigs a month they allow ;-) After the
three months it's going to run $2.95 a month.) BTW, if anyone is
interested, they offer a 1 month trial subscription those who not
buying thier newsreader.  http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php

I just finished installing it, and found messages on rpca going back
to dec of 05, and alt.binaries.pictures.animals to mid may of this
year. No, that doesn't mean I'm going to go back and try to read
everything I've missed since my old server started messing up last
year. I'll have enough just trying to read the 1300+ seince the first
of the month.

'nuf of that 'puter talk, now for the really importent stuff -
kitties! Nothing new with Sammy and Spot. I can't really tell if LB is
improving or now. Just from watching her around the apartment, you'd
never guess she couldn't walk a few weeks ago. That isn't to say she's
back to where she was before her episode. She still can't jump from
thje floor to the bed. She makes it up there OK, but when she jumps
she lands on the edge and ends up climbing the rest of the way. I'm
thinking I may just take off the legs and set the box spring on the
fall. Hey, it may not look right, but anything that makes LB happy is
a good thing in my book.

this has gone on long enough - now it's time to see if this new
program will do the spell check and send this off, or if I need to
tweak it some more.

Steve (with Spotty doing the supervison tonight)