Finally back - to a complete mess!
 

|waves| Yes - I know some people might have actually missed me, most probably not, and many knew why I was away: weeks before it happened to Jim (my condolences) my mother had died, too.

This meant in my case:
· travel to Germany on real short notice (like: learn it Thursday night, try to find flights on Friday, arrange all things and pack on Saturday, leave Sunday morning)
· arrange funeral
· deal with all her estate (and she had been a collector extraordinaire)
· and as an "alien" (I don't have citizenship any more) try to deal with lots of German bureaucracy...

Unfortunately the distance and that I'm the only close relative remaining didn't make it very easy.

It's been a testing time in Germany, and our return wasn't made easy either: Singapore Airlines (I always liked their service in the past) stuffed up our booking in Singapore, and then on return in OZ our first experience after an exhausting journey was to be locked in between immigration and customs for 3 hours because the airport staff refused to unload luggage due to a severe thunderstorm - finally arrived home after 3 at night...

And it didn't get much better after that:
the first time I tried to turn on my trusted computer it booted half way and then died - and I mean really completely utterly dead:
|goodnight power supply, motherboard, video card, memory, CD rom - all gone!

Now that I have finally set up a brand spanking new machine I find heaps of smaller nuisances: several sites I always dealt with are gone (and it has been only 2 months!!), some sponsors changed their log-in procedures and scripts (can't get at all into CCBill[?!], Silvercash's new log-in console is the stupiest thing I've ever seen: doesn't even run on this newly installed version of WIN XP/IE 6 and ADSL!), and so on...

And I thought I could simply go and continue from where I left on the 7th of December... |banghead|

Keep you head up George. Tackle it at your own pace. Sorry to hear about your loved one!

soggy

Silvercash's new system is a pain in the butt. ;-}

Welcome back George.

Geaorge welcome back, sorry for your loss.

Hopefully moving forward things will smooth out and fall right back into place the best it can.

I was saving my 200th post here on this board so it could
be a special one...



I'm giving it to you GeorgeTH...



sorry to hear about your mom...

I can see that you need help....

I was giving your situation some thought...

and if you are a strong promoter of my all-time
FAVORITE sponsor - ExtremePaychecks.com
then I will help you with your TGP - till you can
get situated and back up on your feet...
(that way I can be doing all 3 of us some good... I'm only one
person... I can only do so much... but when I can multiply myself... I DO... )

you can reach me via eMail if you need my help...

be sure to put your GG&J nickname in the subject line
of the letter... and if you don't hear back from me the
same day - - - eMail it again...

hang in there kiddo...
things will get better...

~Bell

eMail: evelyn937 at LYCOS dot COM

GeorgeTH - most of that sucks ass, but it is nice to have you back :)

My condolences on your losses. :(

Looks at it this way the rest of this year has to be better.

GeorgeTH, you know that I know how you feel. But, I am also glad to see you back here.

Welcome back George, sorry to hear about your mother.