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That is correct, Janet. I have since contacted the author and know what group it was posted in. This person also agrees that sending an email to someone who can't read it is pointless.

~Tom

Outstanding, Randy. Quite an accomplishment for you.

~Tom

Maggie Simpson comes to mind. There are several others, but they belong more to the Manga set.

~Tom

The timer reached zero. BOOM!

The unicorn bowed. "Hail Queen!"

Sword unsheathed. Strike. A kill.

Hey, this is real fun!

Hold my beer. Watch this.

"Never mind the smell. Dig!"

The huge wave struck. "Mayday!"

As far as backing up goes, Microsoft has a great piece of free software called SyncToy. You can get it from the MS site. The URL is:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/downloa … x?id=15155

It will run in Windows 10, but in order to use the task scheduler to automate backups, you have to do a tiny bit of fiddling (instructions are on the MS site also). There are three modes of operation:

Synchronize - which allows additions/revisions/deletions to be exchanged between source and destination
Echo - additions/deletions/revisions are only ECHOed to the destination from the source.
Contribute - additions/revisions are copied to the destination from the source, but deletions are not made.

I have it run every night, making sure that I have backups of my Documents directory on 2 separate USB drives.

Open Office works well for me as I do a lot of editing on my laptop which run only Linux. I've not noticed any problems between OE and Word, but I don't get too creative in the formatting arena anyway. One of the initial problems I had was that OE on Linux didn't have any of the fonts Word used. I installed them using the Ubuntu Software Center. Now I use the same fonts in both word processors.

~Tom

What you're seeing, Ann, is the contents of the email. The subject line doesn't identify the author. Some email clients automatically open the email on receipt or viewing (which is not a good thing in a few cases).

~Tom

I agree completely with Matthew, Sol. When I get eight or nine emails in my TNBW inbox it woudl be a good thing to be able to tell who they concern. This goes for Booksie also.

Why not just append the author's name instead of the word "connection"?

~Tom

The only sticking point I can see is that points garnered here cannot be transferred to anyone else. If they could, I'd be standing in line as I have 850 points.

~Tom

In the same movie (2001: A Space Odyssey), David Bowman blows the escape hatch of his shuttle and enters a vacuum for around 5 seconds until the ship's emergency hatch slams shut and the air rushes in. Very dramatic, but probably not relevant to what you are asking. I would imagine that a slow leak, plugged just in the nick of time, might cause "the bends" as Vern says. If the leak was small enough, and the air loss slow enough, the humans would eventually lose consciousness, pass out, and eventually disintegrate (ewww) like the scene in Sean Connery's movie "Outland".

~Tom

Are you ever coming back, Karen? I really miss chatting and reading your story.

~Tom

I've been writing for quite some time and have never felt the need to get past what I call my "OneCab". It is filled with notes and stuff for each of my stories. OneNote seems nice but only if you are starting out as a new writer. It would take me several months, if not more, to transcribe all the flotsam and jetsam (as Charles points out) into electronic notes. A lot of them are maps which I use to plot travels of my characters. They would have to be scanned in.

http://intellisigsys.net/pics/onecabinet.jpg

~Tom