Here is a compilation of info from different sources. Please take a few minutes to read this (especially if you hvae forwrded emails.)
First, make sure you’re sharing the email, not the addresses in it by removing all addresses from the forwarded message.

Hoaxes are chain letters telling interesting (sometimes funny, often scaring) stories of computer viruses, something for free (even money), new laws and much more. They all have one thing in common: they are not true.
Don’t Forward Hoaxes

This is why you should not forward such a story unless you have investigated it yourself.

You will irritate those that do not spot the hoax and
they will probably pass it on, causing more irritation.
Those that identify the hoax will likely send you a message notifying you that you passed on an urban legend.

If you know a message is a hoax but have a specific reason to forward it nevertheless (for scientific purposes, for example), you might want to include your reason with the message.

Forwarding emails as attachments is a clean and useful way to share them with others. Unfortunately, doing this will usually also share all the email addresses of the original message with the recipient of the forwarded message: the sender (which is desirable), but also all the To: and Cc: recipients (which should be avoided in general).
Forward Emails as Attachments Without Revealing Addresses

To forward an email as an attachment without revealing all the addresses in it:

Save the message you want to forward as a .eml or .msg file.
Open the saved message in a text editor like Notepad.
Delete all the email addresses you do not want to reveal.
Usually, you can simply remove the To: and Cc: lines completely.
In your email client, forward the original message as an attachment.
Before sending the forward, however, delete the automatically generated attachment.
Attach your edited .eml or .msg file instead.
Continue composing and delivering the forward as usual.

Some email messages are worth forwarding.
If many people share that opinion, many will forward a particular message, and they will forward it to many other people. Most email programs insert the headers including To: and often Cc: by default when you forward a message.

What Happens if You Do Not Remove Addresses

This has the single advantage that everybody knows who already got a particular message. No need to forward the same mail to the same person twice.

But including all header information with all other To: and Cc: recipients has overwhelming disadvantages.

The message looks horrible, and often the actual content is buried and hard to find between all the email address.
You share the email addresses with third parties without the consent of the addresses’ owners. I wouldn’t want my address given to I don’t know who just because somebody forwarded me something that she also happened to forward to 150 other people.
Remove All Email Addresses When You Forward a Message

That’s why you should always remove all email addresses
(except for the original sender if you deem it appropriate) before you send a forward. If you forward the message inline, just highlight them and hit Del. If you forward the message as an attachment, you might have to take some extra steps.

Well my iPhone s going to be exchanged. This time for the wi-fi problem that had apparently been restored due to the 3.1 software upgrade. After working for a day and a half the wi-fi stopped working and has not returned. I will be getting my 3rd iPhone in just over a year. Too abd the thing is so useful or I would opt for a Palm on a sprint plan and save some $$.

I’ve been hearing quite a bit of hype lately about Google and especially their Google Docs. I had a chance to check it out and I am impressed. This may be old news to some of you tech-savvy youngsters but the secret is just now getting out for everyday folks. Google offers, FOR FREE, the use of a nice word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, and form builder. But they are not done with those; one of the coolest programs I have found from Google is their calendar. It works like the calendar in Outlook but is web-based and will sync to other calendars (iPhone or Outlook) so you’ll never have to be away from your calendar as long as you have internet access! How cool is that? Their contact manager, in Gmail, (Also Free) is one of the best I’ve ever used. And it imports contacts from just about every imaginable source and provides a very easy way to organize and merge contact info.
I’m not exactly sure why Google is offering these services for free now but I speculate it is to get as many users as possible familiar with their format so when their cell phone and internet communication products are released they will have the bear share of the market (not unlike AOL did back in the early –mid 90’s) I, for one, say bring it on as the items that Google has provided have enhanced my lifestyle. Kudos Google!

I am testing the Plugin called Twitter Updater. Hopefully If I can get the settings right then my twitter followers will not be bombarded with tweets.

For a few weeks now I have not been able to even search for Wi-fi networks with my iPhone 3G. The AT&T store said there was nothing to do other than call Apple. Best Buy (I have their $15/mo iPhone warranty) said I would have to replace my iPhone by letting them keep it and they would ship me another one “in a few days.” Apple said that I DID need a replacement iPhone and could go through them directly if I wanted to.
After the 3.1 software upgrade through iTunes I now have my Wi-Fi back!
Here is a HUGE discussion and workthroughs many people participated in:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2044754&start=0&tstart=0

I will cross my fingers and hope the fix is permanent.

It seems our son has acquired the hunter/gatherer skills necessary for survival. Dude gets hungry and produces food seemingly at will, from nowhere. It took us a couple of days and the cat finding a stash to figure out that the groceries were disappearing quickly for a reason.

It seems the little shit has figured out that he can hide food: Between the cushions on the sofa, behind the entertainment center, under his bed, behind his TV, and I’m sure some places that we have yet to figure out.

To this point we have installed a padlock on the pantry and I am seriously thinking of an alarm buzzer for the refrigerator door. Between the cats and my son I somehow get the feeling I am about to partake in a losing battle. Maybe I will contact France for advice on losing gracefully…

Cats are pretty slick animals. We have two now and I have been impressed with the cunning efficiency of these animals. When they set their mind to achieving a task they will often sneak around when you are not looking and figure out a way to make it happen (not unlike a woman.)

Recently Skeeter (our little cat) has figured out how to nose her way into the kitchen cabinets. While enjoying an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place with Brandon a few days ago I heard a weird noise coming from the kitchen. Following the slight noise led me to the cabinet in our kitchen that contains our medications…maybe a mouse. Actually it was the mouser. Skeeter was going through the meds methodically like a junkie might. The priceless “what the hell are you looking at” face she gave me when I busted her was classic. After grabbing the squirt bottles and taking her down mafia style with sprays of water she decided that cabinet was not worth another look.

Audrey, our bigger cat, learned today how to stand on her back feet and grab and open the cabinet doors by the handles. I’m thinking of contacting Disney to put her in the movies. She has figured out the container where we store her food is in the cabinets…and has explored all of the cabinets in one day. She has also figured out how to climb the built-in ladder to our loft. 9’ of 2X4 ladder gets scaled in about 3 seconds.

These little ones are more mischievous than I have mentioned but at some point I have to edit what I post to keep a halfway intelligent image of myself. I feel like Jerry from Tom & Jerry when Tom was getting the best of him.

Anyways…so far they have gotten behind the Entertainment center and managed to cut off the power switch to the supressors powering the entire system, Nested on the top bar of the window curtains, attacked all family members and made hasty retreats before punishment and then come to us each purring and meowing and cuddling lovingly asking for forgiveness (once again, not unlike a human woman.)

Next cat will be male.

While visiting Pop I get a call from Sandy…Allyson took a tumble while jogging and cut her elbow, scraped her hand and knee, and has a big strawberry on her hip…

I get home and realize the elbow needs help so we end up with 4 stitches. Poor kid has had a rough summer.

Last week started off hectic with Pop going into The Med Hospital in College Station. Mom and I rotated being there with him on Monday and Tuesday. Allyson was not feeling well on Tuesday as well. She was not eating and was sleeping a lot. She was also complaining of pain in her abdomen and sides. Later in the afternoon she started vomiting and complaining of shortness of breath. We figured she had picked up a bad bug when we visited Pop at the hospital the day before. I came home to check on her around midnight Wednesday morning. She was feeling very bad and appeared to have a low-grade fever. I gave her a dose of children’s Tylenol and stayed with her until around 3am. I then went to stay the rest of the night with Pop in his hospital room. Around 7a.m. I left to come home so Sandy could go to work. When I got home Ally was whimpering and her breathing was erratic. She was in pain and requested I take her to see a doctor so I called to make an appointment with her doctor that morning. As we were on the way to the doctor she pleaded with me to hurry and looked really bad so I took her to St. Joseph Emergency room instead. She was in a bed within 10 minutes. The doctor quickly ordered blood tests and started her with morphine after quickly assessing her condition. Her heart rate was around 150-160. We were possibly looking at an appendix problem. Sandy came to be with us and only a short time later the Doctor informed us Ally’s blood sugar was indicating that she was a diabetic. He also informed us that she needed special care because of her condition and recommended to make a call to Texas Children’s Hospital. We agreed that whatever she needed we would do and within a few more minutes a Doctor and staff were in an ambulance headed towards Bryan. Willie and Lupe came to get Brandon for us and we rushed home to pack a few things. I phoned Marc and he agreed to check in on our cats for a couple of days. Before we knew it the ambulance containing the doctor and her staff had arrived with the necessary medical equipment to keep Ally stable during transport. They told Sandy that there was a “Kangaroo Crew” airplane fueled and waiting for them at the local airport. As you can imagine we were overwhelmed by emotions and the events that were transpiring. I then said goodbye to them and headed to The Med to make sure Joni and Mom had Pop’s situation under control and I left for Houston. By the time I got to the hospital Ally was in PICU (Pediatric ICU.) From the moment of my arrival to the time we were discharged the staff at TCH made sure we were taken care of. They had Ally on a testing and treatment plan to get her stable from the start. They kept us informed of her progress by sharing test results. They also informed us that, in addition to the Diabetes, Ally was suffering from DKA and Pancreatitis. Ally had her fingers pricked every hour and had blood drawn 10-15 times per day at first. As her condition improved the tests were spread out but were very invasive as they needed the information. She had 3 IV inserts and was on 4 bags for the first few days. Her inner arms, outer arms, back of her hands and inner elbow areas were bruising badly but we knew it to be necessary. Her lipids were going crazy and her blood looked like strawberry milk and clotted so fast that some of the tests had to be repeated because the blood was clotted in the vials before the transport tubes reached the lab. It was painful for us to see our child in that condition. She didn’t do anything to deserve this condition. Guilt had set in, big time, by this point. Why had we not realized what was happening before now? What should we have done differently? The low point happened when, during a routine check, Ally could not respond to myself or the nurses. She had a blank stare on her face with her eyes wide open. I was more afraid at that point than I had ever been in my life. Luckily the doctors came in and within a few minutes she was normal. It would seem disrespectful if I ignored the fact that some greater intervention had just occurred. Prayer groups had started in churches across Texas, on many on-line forums throughout the world, from family and friends…even other families with children in the hospital. After a few more days in PICU, Ally was up and responding well. She started taking solid food again and was feeling much better. Her numbers were coming in line with a few exceptions. Her pain was subsiding and the main numbers that the doctors were watching was her triglycerides and cholesterol .The triglycerides were over 3,900 (normal is below 150 and over 500 is considered high risk) and the bad cholesterol was off the charts (seriously the results were: “unable to measure”) Allyson was eventually moved to a regular hospital room after a few days. Her recovery accelerated as treatments continued. The nurses and staff of TCH became like family. They treated Ally with great care. They also helped us by introducing Sandy and I to The Ronald McDonald House at the Hospital where we were able to nap, shower and eat snacks that had been donated. There was a couple of computers, a library and an outdoor garden area as well at the Ronald McDonald house. All free for parents of children in PICU. What a blessing. Throughout Ally’s stay we received special visitors. Randy and Kimm Knight brought us our initial snacks and special gifts to help. The Bryan Bass club got together and set Bill Ray down as well with more relief. The support from our friends was timely and touching. We also had special visits from many family members. We even had to curb visitor traffic a little so we could get some rest  . We realized just how fortunate we are to not only live in America; but that we are blessed with a network of people that were there for us through difficult times. I felt humbled and grateful all at the same time. Allyson is doing well and is home now. We are testing blood sugar levels and communicating with the doctors at TCH and our own pediatrician to come up with an accurate medicine schedule to enable her to have a normal life. She appears to not have suffered any long-term effects of the illness or treatment. She is even testing her own blood, logging her food and carbohydrate intake, and helping select meals that are appropriate. She has gained about 3, much needed, pounds since being released. She could use 10 or 15 more to be back to normal so her clothes will fit again. As I am writing this it is 5pm and time for another blood-sugar check and meal preparation. I will end here and continue to update soon. Mikel

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