Subj : Re: FidoGazette Vol 13 n
To   : JANIS KRACHT
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Tue Aug 06 2019 11:09:00

JK>Hi Daryl,

Hi, Janis...

JK>Dale Barnes is still working on the software/process (email and netmail
JK>submissions). He's in touch with number of us and had us send in "test"
JK>records so it seems to be moving along :)  I am so thankful for the
JK>work Dale is doing.

  Agreed.

JK>Do you mean the email issues of the fidogazette, or just downloading various
JK>files,etc. ?  Perhaps you are using the wrong port to grab the files?  Here 
JK>the ports I'm using here:

JK> WebBBS: Filegate.net:8090/bbbs
JK> Telnet: filegate.net:2030
JK> FTP: filegate.net:6072

  I was just going through the browser to the IFDC website to download
them.

JK>...and then some days life gets completely bonkers here, and I don't have a
JK>chance to update web pages at filegate.net ... this week was one of "those"
JK>weeks.  Ron found out via an MRI and other testing that he's got arthritis i
JK>his spine.  It's started causing incredible pain.. so much so that he can't
JK>even sit at the dinner table for more than about 10 minutes.. he'll probably
JK>have to have surgery or an injection of steroids in his spine to get some
JK>relief..

  They diagnosed me with degenerative disk disease in my spine nearly 2
years ago. I'm using a cane, but have a walker on standby.

  I'm going in for urinary bladder stone surgery on Monday. Combine that
with increasing thunderstorm chances in Arkansas each day through the
weekend, then the surgery and overnight hospitalization, I'm going to be
offline for a few days.

  If you recall the James Bond movie "Live And Let Die" in 1974 (not
sure if Sean Connery or Roger Moore played Bond -- but I loved the theme
music for it), think of the scene where he's trying to escape from the
airplane hangar in a small plane. His enemies start closing the hangar
doors, and he says "Holy $h!+!!". That was my reaction when I saw the
stone in the bladder...likely more than 10 millimeters in size now.
They'll break it up with lithotripsy (sp?), then flush out the
fragments. They'll have me stay overnight to make sure there are no
complications.

  I thought the BBS had crashed last night, but somehow, the legacy mode
under Windows 10 in the Command Prompt window got turned off...and none
of the BBS's batchfiles would run...which included the doorgames,
maintenance, and other utilities.

  Then, I remembered a fix that my cousin had noted, and that did the
trick. So, now if that occurs again, that's the first thing I
check...and I put a note on the desktop to remind me of such.

  I've been fighting a migraine sinus headache for 4 days...and I think
I'm trying to get a head and chest cold...not what I need before
surgery. Plus, the headache gets so bad at times, that it's hard to hold
my eyes open...making driving, computer work, or much of anything else,
dangerous. At least I can find my way to and from the bathroon...and I
remember the cardinal rule my late wife noted..."leave the seat down".
As we get older, incontinence is a bear at both ends...and there is
nothing golden about "the golden years".

Daryl

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