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Sleepless on LI wrote:Joe,
Your name sounds awfully familiar. Why would I have heard of you in NY? Did you do any work here that would make me think I've heard of you?

Hey Sleepless in LI, thanks for the complement, but I've never been on the air in New York. I'm small potatos compared to that market. My 'air-name' was Joe Logan. The towns I worked include Little Rock, AR; Peoria, IL; Birmingham, AL and Savannah, GA. I'd love to have been able to say... "yeah, I worked in New York."

On another note: As far as the guest post above, is there a chance someone (a admin) can clear that link from the post?

Joe,

I reported it as SPAM. The Admin will have to delete the post.

Den

if you don't see the properties by right-clicking, then right-click and "copy shortcut". paste the link (shortcut) to notepad. this will expose the actual real link. That is, the hypertext. (but STILL don't go there!)

What I get is:

"kewl topic guys http://xxxxxxxxeo-toolz.com/" (deliberatly misspelled)

But when I right-click, properties, I only get:

"images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"

One is the image, the other is the hyperlink.

Just got home from babysitting my almost 2 year old granddaughter for 4 days and I thought I was tired before!

I was a nurse for 9 years, then stayed home with the kids doing a lot of volunteer work. The twins are 28 now, my son is a video game programmer for the BIG ONE in Seattle and my daughter is the mother of my granddaughter. My middle son is 24 and an actor in NYC. He worked on the Disney Cruise Line as an actor and has been in Off Broadway productions and hopes to be on Broadway before long. My youngest daughter is 21 and still in school and living at home.

I went to work as a secretary for the local Women's Shelter in 1998 for a few years. Got divorced after 29 years of marriage and I am now a software assistant, doing quality control, techinal support, testing, writing the manuals, etc. for our company's software. We develop computer programs that help large oil, gas, and chemical companies to comply with the EPA Federal and State air pollution regulations.

Diagnosed with OSA and on CPap since Dec. 22. I also used to catch fireflys in jars to light my little tent in the back yard here in Texas when I was a kid.

krousseau wrote:Guest I'm new to this-what does kewl mean-

krousseau, just fyi, here is a short list of internet lingo:

http://www.netlingo.com/lumenu2.cfm?cat ... at+Acronym

A vaguely similar diminutive dialect is know as "LEETSPEAK", (that is, "elite speech"), or should I say, "13375p34k". Barely recognizable until you catch on to the secret code. Then it jumps out at you. Also here's a tool to convert english to leetspeak:

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/l/leetspea.htm

Don't laugh. I bet at least SOMEBODY here remembers walking around babbling igpay atinlay and thinking how kewl (cool), our secret language that our parents couldn't POSSIBLY understand. (?) A parents responsibility then is to feign complete ignorance. What folllows is usually most candid and insightful. Come to think of it, our parents probably INVENTED it, for that very purpose. I'm just beginning to see through them. DRAT ! Too late.

It's a generational thing.

I am a vocational counselor, working with injured workers and employers. It is crazy - most people really want to work, but I have run into some real shysters! Like twins. One had a bad back, the other didn't, but they were both getting benefits as the same brother would show up for all the mri's and testing - too crazy! It's pretty interesting though - deal with people who have anything from carpal tunnel snydrome to head injuries, back injuries, etc.

Also, you guys are cracking me up because this is my first week on here and now I am afraid to click on any link for fear of it being a robot. I have an image of this robot out to get us all, spamming away with an evil laugh!

W#<O*#?W is that what that little thing is at the bottom of my screen??? Was that last comment figurative (like moleskin) or can little "robots" really show up. I'll be working on something and this one inch square shows up at the bottom of my screen- a robot shows up-does a little dance-if I click on the close box he'll finish his dance and leave. Otherwise he just keeps dancing. I thought you guys were just talking about some little computer bot that wanders the net collecting info. Do they take up residence in a computer (Mac) and is he waiting for me to open my checking acct before returning to his robbers den with the wad (not very big but it's buying me a new mask Friday). Or am I being paranoid and its something the Mac people put there for us users to get a little laugh when we are hard at work on a word document.

Ric-thanks for the links to lingo-learning that ought to stave off Alzsheimer's for a month or two. Love your signature line.

Talked on the phone to a friend who is my "consultant" on computer problems-she is rof as I imagine a lot of you are after my last post. My little mascot was put there by the Mac people but not for a laugh-he's the MSWord HELP guy-apparently not too helpful because nothing happened when I clicked on him. Maybe I'm too old-maybe you have to hit-not just click.

I'm an HR Manager - been working in HR for 15 + years and most of the time, I love my job. At my current company, our warehouse crew calls me "the nice HR lady". Apparently, at their previous company HR was mean! I figure it's my role to make folks successful in their jobs - the managers, the employees, etc. - because that keeps the company in business, the employees with secure jobs, and me with less problems to solve

I'm happily married - will be 11 years in May. I have 3 stepdaughters and 2 granddaughters - and I'm only 40, so young enough to enjoy it!! The oldest daughter is 24, middle 21 about to be 22, and the youngest 17 - senior in high school. The teen years have been "fun" as we've raised the girls, since I'll always just be "Karen, the stepmom" - but when the oldest had her first baby she asked me to be in the delivery room with her - so in the end it all works out! My granddaughters are 5 and 1, and a real joy.

I've been a CPAPer since October 05 - it seemed at first that I would never adjust - now it's easy as pie. And WHAT a difference! It took several months, but gradually my energy returned, and the best part - my BRAIN and memory returned!! I've read all the things people do/have done while suffering undiagnosed with OSA - we must all really be amazing people, because how else did we manage everything while half-alive???

Very grateful to be a part of this wonderful hosehead crowd,
Karen

commerical real estate developer

I'm a Realtor for Century 21. Used to be a computer consultant until companies decided it was better to ship the jobs to India.

Wow, what a bunch of busy, talented people. I feel downright lazy compared to most of you. This is my first post on this forum, but I've been browsing it for a few days. (Took just about that long to read "curiosity")

I'm a 57 year old female with both OSA and COPD, just recently diagnosed. Have been on oxygen therapy since November, but have not yet started xPAP. I have been married almost 34 years, two daughters, aged 31 and 29. The younger one is married and has my 2 grandsons, aged 8 and 5. Career-wise, I was a stay-at-home mom involved in most of the kid things; PTA, Girl Scouts, etc. My hobbies include sewing, quilting, needlework, reading and camping.

A few pages back posters were talking about fireflies. I happen to live near the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Did you know they have a population of fireflies at one particular spot that blink simultaneously for just a few days each year? It is one of only a very few locations in the world where this happens. You really wouldn't believe the crowds of people this draws.

Thanks to all for a wonderful forum.

I'm a product safety engineer of about 35 years....age 59. Will probably retire from corporate ranks in a few and check out consulting as a way of getting more control of my time and activity while still having fun.

I have 5 kids, 4 are off on their own.....1 is a soph at college.

My terrific wife and I of 33 years will likely move in a few years, but stay in the Chicago area where most of the kids are. No grandkids yet.

I'm a wilderness canoe traveler fanatic. I paddled 450 mi. of the Yukon River last year, and I sneak off to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota whenever I can....ususally twice a year whether I need it or not!.....lol

I was diagnosed last fall with sleep apnea after going through all sorts of heart/lung tests to find out why I often felt tired. My sleep doc is terrific. He understands what I know due in large part to the training all of you have given me here....Thank You! The sleep doc basically agrees with my therapy strategy, and has no problem writing me a new script if I ask. He says I am his only patient who takes nearly this much control over therapy. He says he studied partly under the person who invented BiPAP.

Also many thanks to CPAP.COM for making the products and this website available. I've NEVER been to a DME !!! Thank you all for making me realize that's good!

I guess I'm more or less addicted to this site. It's all your fault.....Thank You!

Well I will put in my 2 cents . . Very cool to read about everybody by the way!

I am an architect by day and a wrangler of 2 adopted children by evenning. The rest of my free time (lol) has been spent in community and proffesional theatres as a lighting and set designer.