Congratulations! How did you manage to get it back? Did you have to beg and plead with GardenWeb?

I tried that before. I signed up for a new membership with an alternate email address. Did it the easy way! LOL.

What happened?

Hey, I'm Joann M - I could change my user name to joannm and no one would ever be able to tell us apart!

Good for you... I like the joan_mn much better!

Now if only GardenWeb would give us our capital letters back. I was Lindsey_CA when Spike was here.

Hmmm.... Maybe I should have said, "if only gardenweb would..."

Hello Joan. Glad to hear that you got your dash back, or in your case, an 'underscore'. This remined me of a poem that I found whilst doing other ssearches. I've copied it below.

How to Spend your Dash

I read of a man who stood to speak at a funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone  .

He noted that first came her date of birth
And spoke the following date with tears,
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years.
(1900 Â 1970)
For that dash represents all the time
That she spent alive on earthÂ
And now only those who loved her
Know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own,
The cars the house the cash
What matters is how we live and love
And how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hardÂ
Are there things youÂd like to change??
For you never know how much time is left
That can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
To consider whatÂs true and real,
And always try to understand
The way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger,
And show appreciation more,
And love the people in our lives
Like we have never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect
And more often wear a smile
Remembering that this special dash
Might only last a little while.

So when your eulogyÂs being read
With your lifeÂs actions to rehash
Would you be proud of the things they say
About how you spent your dash?

Author Unknown
The Connecticut Nutmegger © September, 2002 Page 193

Joann, don't you dare! I used to be JoanMN1948, then JoanMN, then when gardenwe became part of ivillage, I lost my caps. I don't understand why we can't have them.

YES! I want caps back too.

I'm happy for you Joan.

Congratulations!

I had to change my name here awhile back for reasons I don't remember now. I was here several years longer than what my account shows.

Lori

Course, the replies are not getting emailed to me, cause there is always something that goes wrong! The things we put up with to be a KT member! :>)

Hi retreaded Joan,

I'd like to stay and talk ... but I gotta -

Oh, no, it wasn't that ... we need to _ that it was an _ that was missing.

Give us time ... soon we should get it right!

ole joyful