OT: PING: PETER!!!!!!!! U OK??????????

Laureen said:

Peter,
You ok???? I never heard back from you in private after we were talking
about you coming to my hometown. Did you get my reply? In it I told you
it ended up in my spam filter and I found 4 days later. I hope you're
OK! EMail me
Laureen
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I think he was in an accident....i saw the pictures on his website....

"Laureen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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| Peter,
| You ok???? I never heard back from you in private after we were talking
| about you coming to my hometown. Did you get my reply? In it I told you
| it ended up in my spam filter and I found 4 days later. I hope you're
| OK! EMail me
| Laureen
| 410/364
|

Hi Laureen ,

I had a hardware problem on my computer and had to send it back to the
manufacturer to have a new motherboard installed; it's in the pc hospital
right now. They've had to reformat the hard drive and I've lost all my
emails and addresses along with all my other settings and information.
Bummer. Right now I'm using an old laptop I've had on a shelf for years;
you'd laugh if you saw it. Windows 98, 2gb hard drive, 300mhz processor.
I've had to do a lot of tweaks to coax it to work with my cable isp,
including buying a USB/ethernet adaptor and fooling with the settings, etc.
Then the keyboard went out on it so I went out today and bought a cheap usb
keyboard to use for now along with a USB hub (the old clunker had one usb
port). Then, I had to buy an external USB hard drive in order to have
enough space to install the software I needed for minimal operation. I
just now (at 2:30 a.m.) finally coaxed and stroked it into working online!
I should have my other computer back in about 2 weeks but can make do with
this in the meanwhile.

So yes I did get your reply to my email, but I'm assuming that it was lost
when they reformatted my hard drive. I asked them to back up Outlook first,
so there's a possibility some of my messages may be saved. If you have a
copy of the email you sent can your forward it to me again? Send it to
[email hidden]; that's my email acco unt I've been able to get working
with this tired old 'puter.

My sister and I have been talking more about our plans for a cross-country
Amtrak trip in 2006 to visit you and Larry in BC; it will be my best train
trip yet and will enable me to see the only part of thecontinental USA that
I haven't seen yet by train: the Northwest. This year's vacation is
planned out already; this May I'm returning to Key Largo FL to try to
revisit the best vacation experience I ever had two years ago when I went
there.

Thanks Laureen, I'll talk to you later, it's alost 3 am and I'm a tired
puppy! I also just got back today from a 4-day "retreat" sponsored by my
employer for all the Hotel GM's in the company. We went to Wintergreen
ski resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains of VA. It was absolutely beautiful
there; it snowed Wdenesday night and all day Thursday and turned the resort
and forests into a winter wonderland.

Peter

"Xtile" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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| Laureen wrote:
| > Peter,
| > You ok???? I never heard back from you in private after we were talking
| > about you coming to my hometown. Did you get my reply? In it I told you
| > it ended up in my spam filter and I found 4 days later. I hope you're
| > OK! EMail me
| > Laureen
| > 410/364
| >
| I think he was in an accident....i saw the pictures on his website....

Um , that was in 2001 :-)

Peter

pmarengo said:

I had a hardware problem on my computer and had to send it back to

the

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manufacturer to have a new motherboard installed; it's in the pc

hospital

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right now.

Hi Peter, Im so glad is was a compture hardware problem and its your
puter in the hospital and not you. I didnt save my mail I sent to you.
So......... let me know when you plan on traveling to this neck of the
woods and we'll plan a get together. Maybe you can spend time here
first, then all of us go to BC and we will jump the ferry back home and
you and sis can continue on. Whatever you want to do. I'm hoping it is
when Larry if off so we can go to the rainforest, national parks,
hurricane ridge, the lakes, see the wildlife etc on the USA side. When
you are up and running again send me your snail mail and I will send
you a visitors guide and good stuff.
Glad you're Ok!
Laureen
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