Actually, the gift Tom gave me , while seriously cool, is also very old, valuable and fragile -- not really a great thing to have around this menagerie/museum/library/wildlife refuge where I really don't have the proper place for it. So it will be photographed and then converted into something practical -- like a case of page protectors or summat. Besides, we already have a repro.

Things looking good on the job front, but I don't want to jinx it by saying anything.   

AND my sister is home from the hospital, will be back to work tomorrow, and may actually be on the right path (finally) to getting her health straightened out.

I think Katlaughing is right -- luck is changing as of my birthday and this year should be a lot better than last year. Well, at least this year I didn't have to take Tom to the ER first thing on my B.D. morning!

Linn