The Onion Field

 The Onion Field is a novel by Joseph Wambaugh. I used a lot of onions for Farm Town food factories, which is why I named this farm The Onion Field. I must have remembered that a dead body was found in an onion field. Using a swimmer for the dead body, I created a murder scene. 

In the beginning when we visited our neighbor's farms we could see the graphics. If anyone noticed my murder scene they did not mention it. When Slashkey came up with a funeral parlor, players complained. Thus they added the option, not to show the funeral parlor when helping work other's facilities. Religious stuff could also be hidden. I think those items were all decor, not workable facilities. 

I change names and decor of farms often. The Onion Field was one of my originals that stayed the same. This year I started changing names, to that the flower farm became Lilies of the Field. Random farm: Field of Dreams. One is Primitive Radio Gods. It features a person standing outside a phone booth. Game does not offer broken hearts, so I just put regular hearts next to the phone booth. 

Farm Town photos

 
I tried to take Farm Town Photo of this Flower Farm (Lilies of the Field.) "New" post to Facebook. No thanks, no longer have Facebook. Click Next, and nada.  So used snipping tool. Which was quite annoying trying to capture the dates. I used to know how to take screenshots. I guess it is time for a refresher course. 

I find it hard to believe that I stopped playing in 2009, returning in 2017. Still a long time to play a Facebook game. I would have preferred Gourmet Ranch, if they had not ditched to game. Just do your own thing with no demands from game developers.

Slash Key moved the game away from Facebook  with their independent game site. I made a mistake. I have $35. farm cash, I decided to buy the Dance Hall instead of the Banquet Hall. Oops, need Farm Town beer for the Dance Hall? How did I miss that? I was thinking ~ fill with whiskey and other product from the Distillery.

Banquet Hall was the better choice  ~ have all the factories to produce everything needed to fill it. C'est la vie. I could have tried to earn $40. farm cash to get a larger flower harvester, but I am so done with Slash Key and their Farm Passes!

Bug Zapper

 I bought a battery powered bug zapper to put on puzzle table. It zapped  a few. I was on elevator with Julio, I asked if he could get a better battery powered bug zapper, explaining this one was not attracting and killing the biting flies. He said "put in a work order." 

Next morning, I went to sunroom to get one of my sticky paper traps; I wanted to show the bugs. I brought along the bug zapper. Bruna receptionist has trouble understanding me. First off she says, "You are not allowed to have one of those." Kathy comes in as I am raising my voice. "You are not allowed to have those things, blah, blah," How long has it been, since you put in the work order? Shall I sue your to pay my medical bills?

Beth comes running out ~ Mary Alice, that was me that put in the work order. Bottom line: they will put in a work order.They said Dale might have taken my sticky traps. Dale? Who cleans the sunroom daily suddenly took them? Not allowed, not allowed, not allowed. Well, then why did Beth not tell me I was not allowed to have them all those months ago?

I did not ask; in the heat of the moment, brain stopped processing. How many months did I have sticky traps and no one touche them or told me I was not allowed to have them? I had brought along my plant bug traps, suggesting they ask the plant ladies to put them in the plants. Not allowed, not allowed, not allowed. Do they wonder why I Lost My Temper? Thus far Ehrlich has not come to deal with the biting flies problem. 

How do I know? When I was setting up the new puzzles, fly lands on my finger, lucky I flicked it off with out getting bit. 

My solution would have worked ~ plant traps in the plants and battery powered bug zapper for table. I had a giggle ~ now that someone took the traps with the dead flies, how was Ehrlich going to identify them. What will the rep do? Sit there for hours waiting to see one? 

I would have asked the plant lady if she would put the traps in the plants. But she is not a nice person; and I suspect she may have been the one who took my traps. Someday I will ask if Ehrlich is ever going to come and fix the issue. At the moment I am waiting to see what That Lady does when Santa puzzle if compledted. 

The Fight

 The bug bite medicine made me woozy. Told doc they always give me Prednisone. She did not want to do that. Never had side effects. The prescription she gave me ~ would feel like an earthquake ~ hold on to sink when brushing teeth or washing face, and hands. So I did not go down to sunporch. Someone finished the puzzle I had been putting together. I got a new puzzle; took lids to my apartment, to flip pieces, pick out edges. Went to sunroom to put frame together. Could not finish it, so left it hoping, someone would finish the frame.

Next day I went down to finish it. The completed puzzle was gone. 7/8 years the system was to move the completed puzzle to the right side of table, until a new puzzle was completed. Then we would take that puzzle apart moving the new one in its place. WTF. No one has ever taken a completed puzzle off the table. I am pretty sure I know who did that; although it could have been a new person. 

Typed a sign, put in frame explaining why I was no longer doing puzzles. At least once a day someone would ask: why are you not doing puzzles. CAN YOU NOT READ THE SIGN!   Yes, I have a temper, but I did not lose it; would just reiterate what I wrote on the sign. The woman I suspect of taking the gone puzzle asked. As did her son. Neither one seemed to notice the part of someone taking the puzzle. 

I went to office to put in a work order. Can Ehrlich (pest control) do something about the bugs. Beth did not understand about the bugs, so she came to look. I showed her the dead flies at the back of table along the wall. I shower her with my magnifying glass, what they looked like sticking to the sticky paper. A few days later maintenance wiped the table clean of the dead bugs.  I went back to office, to put in a new request.

What part of calling Ehrlich to identify the bugs and treat them do then not understand? I changed the sticky paper a few times;  catching regular house flies in addition to the tiny biting flies.

Bug Bites

 The fight I had with the office ladies was due to bug bites. Tiny flies. The sunroom is filled with plants. Two walls have windows. Maybe 4 feet from floor, going up to ceiling, creating a Greenhouse of sorts. There is a door leading to the garden and another door leading from parking lot into to the building. Pre COVID, Branda asked Julio if he could get a bug zapper. I do not remember if he told her to put in a request at the office.

He got a zapper. It did absolutely nothing. The wall outlet is too far from the table. Brenda, Francisco and I all got bit. Teresa never did. I am the only one who got cellulitis, requiring a visit to doctor or Urgent care. Brenda and I made traps; Dawn dish detergent & vinegar. He traps caught more than mine did. Julio must have seen our bug traps.

After COVID Brenda got the office to put our puzzle table back in place. That bug zappers is gone. Clarence, Fitness Instructor holds "Happy Feet" classes in Sunroom He used to have them in the West Community Room. But a hassle for him to transport all the stuff from Fitness Center to the Community Room. There is a door from the Fitness Center into the Sunporch. He used to move the stuff back and forth. Now he leaves a table, and supplies on the floor next to it, right in front of the outlet the bug zapper used to be. Did he remove it?  

I have this sticky paper to put in plants to catch plant fungus flies. Since my Dawn traps are not working, I put those sticky traps in styrofoam to stand them up. Caught many, many of those pesky flies. I still got bit. The last time, I decided to walk around the corner down the block, to the Hospital Emergency Room, rather than ask daughter to take me to Urgent Care. Mistake. Four hours later.

Doctor ordered blood test; wait on results; said I might get admitted to hospital ~ not this hospital, the one on Cedar Crest Blvd. WTH? I texted daughter; she came to sit with me. Blah, blah, blah.

That Lady

 That lady, assuming it is a woman, did another little thing that annoyed me.

I had a box lid where I put pieces that went together. Put together part of Santa's scrolled list. The list falls below the table, where there is a globe. I found all these light green pieces that looked to be a part of plants, but were actually part of that globe. So that lady, takes all those green pieces out of that box lid and puts them in a different box.Why? 

They had put together some of the list that I had started. I also had some parts of Santa's white ruffle, red sleeve in that box lid. He is holding that list, so they went together. I did not bother to find the red/white pieces. I just put the globe together. I was able to attach the globe, bottom part of the list to the puzzle. Now do you see why I had those green pieces in that box?

I do not know if the person would notice. The Puzzle Ladies, Francisco, and I often put together parts of the puzzle in box lids. I would put faces together, so when we got to that part of the puzzle, we did not have to search. We also would put words together. We would never take pieces out of the lids someone else was working on. I am glad someone new is doing the puzzles, but the little things annoy me. 

Rose said she did not like new people helping (me!) because they wanted to do things their way. Actually, my way, was the same way as their way. Now I feel the same way. How dare they decided to change our established routine? That last puzzle that some one finished; there were often pieces turned upside down. I never understood why someone would flip them back in the box that way. I know one lady  that would do that. A lovely person; who would only try to put a few pieces of the puzzle together.  

I have a cold or flu. Have not felt up to going downstairs at odd times, to try to catch That Lady. The Santa puzzle will soon be finished. I am not helping; just move the image box off the top of the puzzle; ditto the lids. 😎 Shall see if That Person starts a new puzzle. 

In the meantime I did a 1,000 piece 1950s puzzle in my apartment. I miss the Puzzle Ladies. Even Francisco could be fun to work alongside. Share some laughs. 

Little Things

  Little things disturb me. How many times did I wake last night thinking about little things?

There was the One Big Thing, that I had to force out of my mind to be able to drift back to sleep. 

The little thing: I have been doing jigsaw puzzles with "the Puzzle Ladies" ever since I moved to this apartment complex. 7 years? 8 years? Rose was the first to leave earth for the Great Beyond. Followed by her sister, Teresa, a few years later. Earlier this year, Brenda had enough of Pancreatic cancer, and gave up. "I don't think I can stay here anymore," she told me and Carolyn. We thought she meant in her apartment. Two days later she was in a pre-death coma.

I kept doing puzzles on the sunroom table, because Francisco was doing them. He would never set up a puzzle; did like to finish them. One day we were working together and he has to leave. What did he ask? "So you want me to stay/" I said, "yes,' then said, "no, I am not your boss, do what you want to do." That was the last time he helped put together a puzzle. After a while, I stopped setting up new puzzles. 

People complained. So I relented and started new puzzles. Got into a fight with ladies in the office. After a while, I set up a new puzzle  ~ the frame, flipped all the pieces. I was glad that someone finally finished that puzzle. I had planned to leave it undone, indefinitely. I started a small Santa puzzle. I was glad someone was doing that puzzle with me. Except for the little things. 

We use puzzle box lids to sort pieces. The system was that we put those lids, stacked, crosswise, to the left and right to the puzzle. We would keep the puzzle box with the image, in back of the puzzle. I was leaving it to the side, to make it easier to see the image. So they come along and put that box on top of the puzzle in the middle.Francisco used to put the box on top of puzzles when we were done. I would take it off the puzzle and set it to the back. So I assumed maybe Francisco was helping again.

Later the person would take all those lids, and stack them on top of the puzzle. Why? Ladies used to come check on progress of puzzle daily. Why cover up the puzzle? Must be someone new to the building. I considered leaving a note, telling the person to STOP DOING THAT! Instead, I just keep removing the lids, putting them back to the left and right of the puzzle. Person not getting the hint. 

So that is the Little Thing that was disturbing me. Some newbie comes along deciding to be the Alpha Lady? Assuming it is a lady. I am going to do puzzles the way I want to do them and screw you? 

Rice Fields

 At one time, my Rice Field farm had bamboo trees. I moved the trees to a Chop farm. Not as aestich as this farm once was. 

Halloween

 Farm Town offers new decorations and holiday themed gifts for major events. I have one small farm where most of my remaining Halloween decor is on display. That farm is named "Loco." It is a small farm where I grow Pumpkins which take four days to ripen. When I put a train on this farm, it's engine was Locomotion. I no longer recall why I had to know which farms had which trains. There is a train manager that I used to load, request boast, and upload. 

I had a lot of Halloween stuff on my Flower farm. I used a lot of the decor to create a graveyard. For some unknown reason all the gravestones disappeared, and that farm had a radical transformation. Perhaps it is now the one with the airport, landing stirpe and planes taking off or landing?

Loco

The deep building was one of those unwanted Farm Pass gifts. Likewise, the deep pit. Sold all of these things, except a few skulls. 

Seaside

Seaport 

Cargo ships were loaded and sent to neighbor's ports. Changed name to Port of Long Beach.

Seaside Park 'farm" also went through changes. The Fish Farming Plant got moved to "Mines Farm." Do not think it was originally placed on the beach. The Plant produced fish bait and containers, such as Oyster container. 

I kept the Santa Lighthouse, Statue of Liberty and sold the other decorations. I had shps ~ some Farm Pass giveaways. I had to keep adding seacoasts to catch enough fish for facilities, such as Sushi restaurant. I liked my original seacoast "farms." This not a favorite edition. 

Tourist Trap

 
I loved my Tourist Trap farm. The fields in upper right corner were not part of the original, never changed farm. 

Seniors heading for restroom and tourist studying "park" map.

Road leading to Tourist Trap entrance, featured school bus class trip and others heading to the attractions. There was a circus, Sports Arena, gift shop, hotel and food places. I would empty out the facilities, to move them to other farms. Factories in the back produced items needed for the shops, such as hats, mascots, jams and nuts. 

Had a lot of fun pretending to be an owner of so many buildings. 

Animal Farm

Had chicken coups, dairy barns, rabbit hutch, wool sheds, on many farms. The Stables cost Farm Cash dollars, so only had one. I had a much nicer horse farm at one time. One of my farms had a zoo. Maybe I took screenshots of those long gone farms saved on a USB thingy. 

Do not know why I save the images. I seldom take a walk in the past to view them. When I am gone,will anyone want to see my "art" creations using game images? 

 

Valentines Day

Moved Valentine's Day stuff to create this image for Facebook post. 
 

FT LLL

 

I had frozen lake so moved it to LLL winter farm, along with other dollar seacoast and lakes. I moved the Winter Clothing and Winter Decor stores and factories to farm 13. Oversized buildings from Farm Pass. 

Later moved the waterways back to one farm ~ these four could fish twice a day; the others once a day. 

FT LLL

 

One of the many changes to farm 13 LLL

FT LLL

 

Farm for daughter Lori who loves Xmas and pink. I used the people to represent her family, brother, dogs, and sister's then husband. 

FT LLL going

 

I changed farm 13, LLL many times. Sold a lot of decorations when I was quitting Farm Town.

Second Farm Pass coming Dec. 15th

 I have some farm cash. I thought I would stay playing until I got enough to buy something. Mainly $32.  Why buy something when I am quitting? Dunno, but hate to lose the fake cash.

Yikes another Farm Pass? The last time I quit playing was due to that Farm Pass! I guess I was feeling nostalgic when I started playing it again. Does not take long to remember why I quit last time.

When you get points, the Farm Pass gives you something. Like a crop. One needs to spin wheel to see how much one earns. Round and round it goes, as if the amount is not already predetermined. 

Then it stops, then you click to collect, then wait to collect it. I hate that spinning wheel. Also get rewards like oversized houses or mountains. I get rid of stuff to make room to place them. Sometimes I sell them for coins. 

The new pass will run from 15th of this month to 15th of the next. Do I really want to keep playing come 2025? 

Anyway I am now going to do a photo dump.

I do not own rights to images from my games. Doubt I will get in trouble for sharing. 

Farm Pass

 The game has 3 quests. One is a co-operative quest. The other is a daily quest. And a Neighborhood Chains contest. Enter a new feature; the Farm Pass. The Pass gives three goals daily. And longer goals next to them.

Daily Goal: come in number 1 in the Neighborhood Chains contest. Or two, three or 7. Most weeks I could not get to number 7. They had two dollar facilities and wo coins ones. I have very few of the dollar ones. Even when I had one of them, I could not place in #3. Some of my neighbors had all 4 facilities, including the two dollar ones. WTH.

Often my neighbors would post they earned $2.00 (or $1.) on the NC contest, where I came in #5. How can that be? I earned more points than they did. I assume they have different neighbor's than I had. I got rid of neighbors like that, and still did not meet the goal. So stopped playing the NC contest.

I sometimes win $1.00 in the Neighborhood chains. We all get products to make; we check our neighbors to get ingredients needed. I think I got 13 once, $2.00 reward. Games give me dollar facilities to produce or load, so lose that quest.  The Daily quest needs stuff that take 2, 4, 4 days to grow. No thanks. 

But that is not the worst part of the Farm Town Pass. 

Bored

 Bored I started playing Farm Town again. I was hoping to start fresh, and not make the mistakes I made last time. I would not plant flowers and buy dollar facilities that required them! I did not mind spending real cash to buy fake stuff, but after awhile more dollars were required than I cared to spend. Going to a movie might cost $10. so the games were my "going to a movie" expense. But I never went to movies daily or even weekly. 

The game gave me back my same farms, minus some things, like Olive trees. I hated harvesting flowers ~ I only had the equipment that harvested them 9 at a time. So many tools so little Farm Cash dollars. So I played for a while and quit again. How many times? Will add image later from flower farm where I used flowers to spell out the new year. I loved my first flower farm ~ placement of flowers. Know not how many times I changed it.

Ships: load cargo via name of product. One is needed products like flour. That container has flowers. I started selling flowers from the farm. Why waste time harvesting red roses, that I did not have much use for just to sell them at Market?

Neighbors did not load ships. Why? Dunno. It takes less than a minute to load all containers, with maximum 10 clicks. They get lots of product, and $$$ for helping advance the ships to next port. Started ditching neighbors who did not help with ships. 

Read: '"ored people are boring people." Why am I doing this? I forget. Oh, I know. 

Rule of 40

 I had a rule of 40 ~ that is, I would not limit the number of neighbors to 40. Had to add those neighbors as Facebook friends, and I had more game friends than real family/friends. Those Farm Town cheaters pestered Slashkey developers to increase limit on number of neighbors we were allowed. Perhaps the limit had been 100. 

How could one keep up with that many neighbors? They did not. The ones that had to most neighbors never helped with speeding up production, or selling more products. They posted daily, sometimes twice, asking us to help them. At first, I helped all of my neighbors. Then stopped helping those high level players who never reciprocated. Many did not send gifts or requests for ingredients to help those who requested it.

I increased the number of FT neighbors ~ maybe worked my way up to 60, trying to find people who would give help for help given them. Plus to increase the number of gifts. Some needed items, like an Olive tree are available only as gifts.After a while, I started removing the high level neighbors who had lots of neighbors, stacked, layered farms, that did not help me at all.

Then I quit. 

Farm Town

 I started playing Farm Town via Facebook around 2009. It was fun at first. Every month they issued a new farm. I could buy them with farm coins. They added new facilities, and shops. I could buy the coin ones and some farm cash dollar ones. They came up with farm expansions. Early on I learned, via neighbors how to cheat ~ created layered farms. A Slash Key glitch. Slash Key forum frowned upon the practice but did not label it cheating.

They also stacked farms. Farm would have plots for crops; on top of that would be trees; on top of that would be rivers/seacoasts, and on top of that buildings. I layered one farm. Too much work for me. Instead of playing the game by rules, they spent hours creating stacked and layered farms. Those that did this leveled up so fast, I was left way behind. Not that it is a contest, but...

To keep the game interesting, I would try to catch up to the person who was one level above me. Soon people 5 levels below me were passing me by. 

At first I enjoyed playing; I built theme farms. Someone told me "it is like you are telling a story." That is exactly what I was doing using, the houses, and decorations. When I bought my 13 farm, I named it LLL in honor of my daughter born on the 13th of July. I uses snow cover ground and made it all about Christmas ~ she so loves the holiday.

I used the characters to represent family having snowball fight, building snow people, skating. I was a non working farm ~ purely for decor ~ like playing with a doll house. Later I simply became bored with the daily routine, plant crops, harvest, trees, flowers, fishing, to start producing products to put in retail outlets. 

So I quit playing. Time waster.

Octordle

 Octordle is like Wordle but one tries to guess 8 words, instead of one. After playing Wordle before the NT Times took over the game, I removed my bookmark. It got annoying with pop ups asking us to subscribe to the Times. 

I had subscribed to the Times for a while. After trial period was over, the cost to renew was too much for my budget. They offered me a lower price. I declined. I seldom went to the website to read news articles, and games, like Crossword puzzle were not included. 

I realize companies need to make money to keep their companies solvent. Maybe having a million subscribers paying a dollar is better than having 1/4 million, or less paying $20. a month? 

I am thankful there are still free games online. I do miss the old Solitaire games I had on my computer. I do not like the online ones at all.

https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/

Tightrope

 Tightrope is a timed trivia game. There are 9 questions; each correct answer earns a letter starting with T to spell out Tightrope. I like TV trivia game shows. 

The Chase, Master Minds, Switch are favorites. Switch was on the same time as Jeopardy. Game Show Network keeps changing time slots. Do not like the Match Game at all; it has replaced Switch's time slot. I used to watch GSN games in the AM. Seldom turn on the TV until late afternoon, when the game shows I liked used to be aired. 

Some days I do great with Tightrope; others I get three wrong and have to start over. Do not know if I will retain newly learned trivia answers, but I enjoy playing the game. 

Blossom

 Blossom has 6 petals, like a daisy, the center circle's letter must be used with the petal letters to form words. Did I used to say I was the queen of four letter words in Scrabble? Or was it three? 

Today's Blossom ~ I had trouble forming four letter words. Surprise myself, when I create longer words, pangrams, even. 

Blossom is the least favorite of new word games I am playing. Perhaps I lack patience trying to use the supplied letters to form words. I want to be done fast, and move on to something easier. 

https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game

Quit Facebook

 I quit Facebook, now owned by Meta.

I stopped playing Farm Town several times. I am playing again, halfheartedly. Do not need to play via Facebook. SlashKey created a direct link to the game, some time ago.

I have been posting that I was leaving Facebook for months now. I do not like Meta posting on my Feed "People You May Know." 

No, I do not know my distant cousins' best friend's father-in-law. No I do not know my brother's co-workers. And so on.

I do not like Meta showing me "Groups You Might Like." Everyday I would click the three vertical dots and say "Don't show me this again." Since I would check Facebook several times a day, several times a day I clicked: DO NOT SHOW ME THIS AGAIN.

I started removing every known MAGA from my friend's list shortly after November 6th. I kept a few, hoping to irritate them with anti-their dear leader. No, we can not be friends. You voted for a felon, sex offender, liar, crook, traitor rather than the educated, decent, prosecutor. 

I intended to stay on Facebook until Dec. 31, 2024. Did not want to read new Terms of Service starting on Jan. first. Something went wrong; middle of the night insomnia; computer and Google screen wide and flat looking. Hurt my eyes. Cut to chase ~ had a hissy fit, removed all my FB friends, deleted my account without a word. 

Oops. I could have deactivated, so I could go back to clean it up or post a better goodbye. Want to keep in touch? E-mail or snail mail me your address via messenger. C'est la vie. 

Horrified!

 Did not work on Bucket List today. Nor start chores for upcoming apartment inspection. Nor did I cut my fingernails; they seem to have grown overnight. I would have loved this when I was young and still wore nail polish. 

Trying to break Facebook game addiction. Instead of going directly to Facebook, loading Farm Town, when I woke up, I did Wordie. I average 4 tries to get the correct word. Twice it was dumb luck that I got it on the 2nd try. Today it was 5th try. Somedays I do not guess it at all. Why do I keep playing when it just irritates.

Then rather than check Google news headlines, I checked Yahoo news headlines. I decided to stop replying to comments on articles. Instead, I copy comments for my political blog, then add my thoughts.

Oh my, 9:30ish, I needed to get to FT. Luckily I did not plant crops that needed harvesting. I did forget about loading and sending a ship. Why do I keep doing that if I am quitting soon.

Then I jumped back to Yahoo news headlines to read articles I did not get to first go round. More copy comments for blog so I could reply. Now 6PM and I am still sitting in front of computer. I did make breakfast, gave a bad review on No Bake Betty Crocker Cookie Dough Cinnamon Rolls. 

Aside: new Grocery outlet opened in Aharts location. Aharts was my main I can walk to grocery store. The outlet had some bargains. Most was the same as Giant or Weiss markets where my daughter usually takes me. I had to buy butter which I seldom use. Needed a whole stick for the bargain 2 for a dollar Betty Crocker packet. Maybe I did not notice the "edible cookie dough" notation. 

One star rating. "If you love butter topped with tablespoons of sugar, go for it. Did not taste like cinnamon Vanilla flavored glazed topping did not taste like vanilla." I feel bad, later when I ate another butter bite, I tasted the cinnamon. But still butter and sugar overpowered it. Donation to Giant food collection next trip there, goes the 2nd box.

You can see why I am still sitting in front of internet; I start typing and I never stop. Tomorrow. Always tomorrow. 

I also heated up leftover lentil soup for lunch. Made a quick chicken salad with left over chicken. To make matters worse I read some Google news articles. I found a Media Fact Check site that lead me to read more articles, then go to the site's Facebook page to load it, read several more articles. Shared two Memory Halloween photos. Added book I Am Malaya to Goodreads. Person's Halloween costume reminded me. Then I had to search for my Slash costume to post. Took some time to find it.

I was going to stop preaching on my Facebook Timeline, but I had to Like Dangerous Meme on Facebook, scrolled them, then searched and found article explaining why one should not copy/paste, blah, blah. 

I used to say I am easily distracted from my goals. How true. I had to log back on to Yahoo because I could not resist replying to some comments. On and on and I am shutting up.