Ms Kathy ~ aka ~ LLF ~ Luna : don't even know what to say... I guess I'll say... Hang in there girlfriend... Man... Morton Salt says... when it rains.... ~ it ~ pours and ya'll have been getting it... troubles and pains and more troubles... BUT........ God Still Loves you and you are indeed one Tough COOKIE ! ! ! and after you walk through all of these ordeals.... You are going to be even S T R O N G E R ~ & I see you are keeping your silly ~ willy ~ sense of humor.... *** Oh my visual of you LLF with those patches all over you and the BossMan walking in... oh what a day that would be ! ! ! *** & Yes... I would wear a Hat & Gloves & shawl and leg warmers.... Of course... beings I'm from T E X A S... and your neighbor.. I wear all this EQUIPMENT in my own home... cause I'm a Southerner and ya'll Northerners LOVE IT COLD up here ! ! ! ! ** Guess My advice: Do what you have to do to ~ S U R V I V E ~ ~ ~ Keep Your Sense of Humor ! ! ! * SMILE * & make them wonder *** WHAT ? ? HAS THAT GIRL BEEN UP TOOOOOOOO??? Tons of Prayerss & Special Thoughts coming your way!!! ~ * ~ * ~ Never Give Up ! ! ! ! Love, Blessings ! Special Thoughts ! Tons of Prayers ! ! ! Your GJ Buddy SusieSunshine

Well Bob got the computer up and running. For the time being. It seems the XP program his computer buddy found on eBay cannot be validated by MSN so we aren't able to update it. I still want to buy a new computer and use this one as a back up. I'm afraid to upload documents and pictures in case something else goes wrong and I lose them. Jan, I have heard of maggots working wonders on infections. Not sure I'd want them in the house though! Yuck! His foot could probably use a few though. Some of the surrounding tissue is dead looking so I'm not sure if the doctor will want to cut that out or not. We will have to mention maggots to him and see what he says. he-he Not sure what the maggots could do for the bone on the next toe. That doesn't look so hot either. The doctor thought he might have to amputate all of Bob's toes. I guess he'd end up with a foot like the Chinese ladies of yore who had bound feet. It is unseasonably cold here in southeastern Wisconsin. The high is around 72 degrees every day and it goes down in the low 60s at night which is just fine with me. I just wish I could work outside instead of in our office where it feels like a morgue. At lunch time I go out to my car and sit in it with the windows rolled up. It takes me a few minutes to thaw out and it feels wonderful. I can feel the muscles loosening up. One day I will have to quit and apply for disability. It gets harder and harder to sit on a chair in the same position for 8+ hours a day in the freezing cold. Keep those prayers coming for Bob! As long as he is feeling good, I'm feeling good too! Love ya guys! Kathy

chortle, chortle That's an oldie which reminded me of a well-liked IT at the office. She used to mutter that phrase after once again untangling files for one the less computer-literate.

The only suggestion I can make is to uninstall the program and upgrade, do a search on your computer for PE Design and delete those folders, shut down your computer, restart, do a search for the program folders and directories again to make sure they are completely gone, and reinstall the program using the disks you received when you bought the program, install the upgrade, and then look at the Brother download site for any fixes, especially if you have service pack 2 on your computer which will do strange things to some programs and accessories such as reader/writer boxes, printers, and cameras. When you reinstall, make sure your virus protection and firewall are off. Also go into control panel and fonts and see if your embroidery fonts installed there. After everything is installed and working correctly, move any designs on the hard drive to cd or disk and keep them there so you have more memory to work with PE design in the future and no risk of losing designs again. You can categorize designs by type on a cd for each design type, flowers, fonts, animals as an example, and then print the design out and keep the notebook categorized by that cd type, --we did this for years for word processing in business numerically or my person's name so we could find files quickly. When you download purchased and free designs, there are "terms of use" written somewhere on the sites or on the purchased card. The copyright issue has caused more than one person on Garden Web, other sewing sites, and E-Bay a lot of grief, time and money...just a friendly, concerned caution so you don't end up a victim. With sewing/embroidery machines, there is a warranty issue. A notebook of designs is a good idea as well as renaming designs that have a descriptive meaning to you. Once you get your PE design going, you should have the ability to bring the design up and then print it along with the color definitions if included. Some free designs have a .jpg file included along with the color changes that makes it easy to print out.