You can tell the role of semiotics in language with the last few posts here. The idea that if one person says "tree" that the listener person visualizes "tree" it will be two different trees. You said orchard, so my Washington state roots visualized to "apples." :)

I got home from work in time to stash the notarized letter into the box with the bear rug (at school the notary public said this was her first document about a bear skin rug!) and after fooling with the UPS software for too long I did get the box lugged out to my truck and over to the nearest UPS store. Unfortunately, a sign said "sorry to close early, but we have no A/C. Back at 8am tomorrow." As I was heading back home I passed a gas station with the brown UPS truck parked in the driveway, so I stopped and explained about the box and he said he could take it. Yes! That bear is finally out the door!

After fussing and squabbling and an answering email from the computer tech guys at his university, my son is setting up Ubuntu for now as his new computer OS. He has questions about partitions and adding Windows, and I can answer a few, some of them based upon answers I got earlier today on a thread I started. Mudcat is such a great networking place! Anyway, he has the machine up and the BIOS say everything seems to be operating and I just plugged in the last port on my modem router to go to the data plug near his computer in the living room. We have a few things to pick up so as soon as some software finishes downloading we'll run over and get a few cables. It's coming along.

It would be nice if my broken glasses are repaired by tomorrow, when I have some time to go pick them up. So much coming and going as we prepare to take this trip out West.

SRS