"I. STEPHEN MARGOLIS" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thank you Trisha.  Visited the site you referenced.  Realized I
> hadn't accepted virus protection offered with my new computer.
> I wanted another brand.  Guess I should have bargained with
> Dell.
>
Practice safe computing, just say NO (to e-mail attachments).

> I bought a Dell Inspiron 7500 Laptop loaded with ram and mucho
> gigs, a newly minted Pentium III, Windows NT Workstation (with
> free upgrade to Win 2000, assuming Microsoft gets to market
> next year.  I've had one hell of time getting this beasty to
> work.  My old Aptiva died before I could transfer files, so I'm
> starting anew on many levels.
>
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> While my finances challenge and repair the best news to date:
> the Doctors haven't found anything medically significant in the
> tests I've undergone: the worst, so far,  spastic
> colon...maybe...One benign polyp removed.  I'm still writing
> and waiting for written reports.  No other signs of cancer.
> I've gone off the Zoloft--which I'd hoped tro use as a pain
> repressdant, muscle relaxant, and to prophylax a winter
> "depression"--as it was making happen what I was taking it for
> not to do.  Actually am finally feeling more serenity, mental
> acuity, and well being than I have in ages.  Not that
> everything's as it might be, a lot needs doing: finally more
> seems possible, if only at a day at a time.
>
Really good news, ism. (By the way - haven't we all got spastic
colons?)

> Appreciate your support and caring.  You have your charm.  Hope
> you and Amber enjoy the holidays.  Think of the rest of us as
> pagans who don't know we are, that may help you feel more part
> of the party. [ || ;-)>
>
> Steve

Is the '[' anything Jewish? ;-)

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Deri James