In the last couple days two things have transpired that bode well for my ability both to spend more time on the Mudcat and to reply more cogently and with more forethought than has recently tended to be the case.

First of all, my church has redone the locks, and now the key that I have had for years will let me into the church office, which means I can come in here in the middle of the night and post stuff if I want to. Heretofore I've only been able to use it on Sundays and on those rare weekdays when I get here early enough for the pastor or secretary to let me in. Most of my posting has had to be from public library terminals, where I'm limited to 45 minutes a day — barely enough to sift through my email.

And secondly, my brothers collaborated on getting my scanner working, so now I can scan stuff and post it or email it. Text, graphics, whatever. I feel like I'm finally somewhere in the late '90s, approaching the millennium. This will allow me to scan and post homemade sheet music, like this version of the Cornish-tune God rest you merry, gentlemen. The first image is what my machine calls a GIF; it has sort of purplish discolorations, but it takes less than half as many bytes as the second one, a JPEG.

Liland
Happy as a butter clam when tides are high ;-)