[Vickie]

You guys are a hoot! I don't have the tech capability to highlight, italicize and barley enough brain power to keep up.

Thanks Yoda for your compliments and encouragement! We are all just making our lives work to the best of our ability. I am grateful to have something to contribute. Now to get the big drive.

For your benefit Matthew, I married and divorced a man primarily because of his culinary skills, hindsight being 20-20,. I learned to cook and hate mircowaves but love paper plates. I do use real cutlery, that's what dishwashers are for but find the plates too much of a space hog. Cut down on your soda's by introducing sport drinks and juice into your mix. Really! Sprite mixed with a little grapefruit makes a Fresca. I actually helped a raging alcoholic get off, or on as the case may be, the wagon by beginning to find a new association with her beverages. Water mixed with cranberry juice or a juice of your choice is another way of moving to better, healthier choices.

To 12 piece bucket: For what it's worth I hardly know what an IPod is much less an HP IPAQ,, I still don't have a CD player in my Jeep. I have to work hard to find tapes to play. My son, just turned 18 * yeeks, has suggested I get an adapter that will allow me more choices but . ..The IPod came thru an old friend and even though I have all the 'tools' I haven't figured out how to program new music as has been gloriously suggested by this thread. We're all learning . . . it never ends.

I also wanted to tell EdStraker that I saw the Moody Blues at Chastain pPrk a few years ago in their first performance with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (if I remember correctly their first live orchestra) and it was wonderful!!!! I didn't know anyone still appreciated this type of rock. I am so encouraged!