TheBanyanTree: Test of Changes

[Pam James]

Way, way back in the golden days of dial-up, when I was still on active
duty, my friend Steve worked some kind of computer-geek magic and made my
computer 'smart' enough to even GO online!   Once I was there, he suggested
I join a group he was on called 'The Spoon'.

And so it began... Steve and I both retired and remarried and he even moved
away to someplace west I think.  The truth is, I have no earthly idea what
ever happened to him - he was in my life long enough to leave his mark:
the internet and the Spoon, and I will forever be grateful that ours paths
crossed right when they did on this journey called 'life'.

Back then I remember hearing about people 'collecting' email addresses and
trying to see how many they could get.  It didn't sound like anything that
I'd find fun - who has the time?! - and my feelings haven't changed.  And
back then I was just 'gunnymom' at time warner.

I can still hear the sound of the internet dialing up, and I can still see
the screen that was my email inbox.

Until I found gmail!  Who-hoo!  My first account was my first name dot my
last name at.  I think I may have tried to keep 'gunnymom' but it was
already being used.  Eventually I remarried and made a NEW account, and
again, my first name (and middle initial) dot my new last name.

I hate that I did that although I was probably thinking something silly
like, 'it was forever'!  Pffft.  Not me.

And so, again, I am changing my name and changing my email account.  What a
major freaking pain in the youknowwhat!!  It gets more complicated every
time because as time as the years pass by, more things have become
automated and I do  more things online.  Logins using names from a marriage
or so back - what was I thinking?!

Certainly I was never thinking that I'd fail so magnificently at the whole
marriage thing - that's for sure!!!

So here I am today opening up the newest account and slowing getting things
transferred over.  I asked Laura to please cancel my old subscription and
please start a new one -  and she asked that I test it.

But I didn't see a reason to test it without telling you the story...

Pam  (why I can't just be 'Pam'?!  The world has Reba and Cher and
Madonna... why not Pam?!?!?)