I have had 2 episodes of Mudcat deprivation. The first was in June-July when it took a month to restore my poor little laptop after the Great Big Gi-normous Almost Fatal Crash.

Then in the past 2 weeks it was back to reading my mail tru my IP's website & looking at Mudcat on occasion as a Guest using the broswer at work after my laptop died & my personal help desk (mudcatter Chris Maltby) could not dismantle enough of the laptop to get the hard-disk out to load into my new iMac. Those last few damn pieces & screws would not move & it is now in the hands of his puzzle-loving colleague. Maybe I should just say Smash it! It's probably only worth 50cents these days.

But now I am (back) on line using my new iMac (so cool) without my address book & email records.

Shanghaiceltic, you can survive Mudcat deprivation, why, JennyO is just back on line after a week's total deprivation as she can't access a computer at work & she survived. If she can do it, anyone can!!

sandra