PLEASE IGNORE THESE plain-text  " NOTES TO MYSELF"                           Ignore = don't read them . . .

02/15/98
My first web page. I "played" with the HTML code for about                   Who's reading my notes.  Drop
a year. It makes a good presentation package. I started my                   at note on my guestbook.
page on  Valentine's  night plus one , 1998.  Matt told me 
about his web page using WEBTV, and he asked to see what it 
looked like on a  "real" computer.  That's how I found out 
about ANGELFIRE.  Suddenly, here I am on the WWW.                            Matt's wife is a co-worker.
 
My monitor is set for high-res 1024x768 in 256 color mode.                   About average for a PC today.
I'm using WordPad to edit the HTML code  and  Netscape 3.0 
to preview it. My color scheme and font  sizes may look OK 
to me, but may not be fully  compatible with webtv, mac's, 
etc.  I'm open to hints and  suggestions.  My future "HTML-
HELP" notes will  offer links or  suggestions on ideas and 
shortcuts that we can share with each other.  But first, I
should probably read the HTML guide in the links that the
ANGELFIRE net provides.  I don't need to reinvent the wheel.                 A "better" wheel?

Then I tested the code with my display set at 16 colors and 
800 x 600.  It doesn't look  like the same page . . .  some 
links are invisible . . . . . .   let me fix that . 
..won't take long .. did it? (actually, yes, trial & error)

Saturday morning 02/21:
Back in 256 color, Well, you poor guys that don't have color,                WEBTV is how many colors?
what can I say?  A lady drummer was once explaining that she 
would be demonstrating techniques for the right handers only.
She added, "You left handers will have to do what you always
do."  So you grey-scalars will  have to do  what you  always
do.  But I'll try to avoid frames  -  or too much JAVA . . .
I don't want to write a page that people can't read.                         May wish they hadn't.

Sunday evening  02/22:
Where was I?  Oh, yes. Did I upload this, yet?   Sandy and 
I went to the "shell" (seashell art, etc.)show this morning
and then we "Tango'd the afternoon away." Between times, last                It's getting "OLD" fast.
night I uploaded some pages for a web site for my work place,                The web posting, that is.
Project Child Care.  Check it out. This is test only, and not
yet for linking to searches. When I get a real home, I
will move it.  For now, it's just  a sample test site.   

Hey Matt, let me know if WEBTV can see thru the colors. Thanks.              Did you see margin notes?
(He lets me know if my color combinations are readable.)

Next I have to find out about GUESTBOOKS.  Also, my sister,                  Like a home page BBS.  Then 
Rosie, has a friend who wants instructions on how to set up a                Other people can think aloud
CHAT room.  Except for a few times on AOL, I haven't done any                and post to the web.  Gives
chatting since my BBS days about 10 years ago.  I was all chatted            Everyone a chance to say
out when WWW started to catch on.  I was a late bloomer for                  "something" or "nothing"  or
getting on the web.  Now I have some catching up to do.                      comment publicly or privately.

Rambling on - - -  this week on willnet1 and e-mail . . . 

Matt says there are female hormones in beer (daily joke club).               Info age.  More jokes faster.
The proof was in a test showing that men started "babbling" 
incoherently and couldn't drive after 10 pints.

Rosie says you have to "BE" a friend to "HAVE" a friend.                     Some married women miss life.

Emily says she'll send some pictures (probably NOT tango).                   An old Army friend.

The guys in Clarion never heard of Baldyville.                               Out where the buses don't go.

Don't forgot the address of your home page.  (I think                        Or was the first letter a CAP.
they delete them after 60 days of inactivity.  Inactivity                    (It was.  I found the page, but 
is another word to describe "doing nothing".)                                WHOWHERE came up empty.)

Speaking of doing "nothing", it's not easy.  Some say they do                Close your eyes.  Now see if you
"nothing" when they meditate.  But I still think the hardest                 can think of absolutely nothing
part of doing nothing is:  HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'RE DONE?                 for 10 continuous seconds.  
Example in case:  these notes of mine . . . .                                O.K., try again  and  again.

Charlie isn't talking very much.  Maybe he's still doing nothing.            My brother-in-law

I don't hear much from Berny, Andy and Sylvie.  It's probably                My other brothers and sisters
because they're not busy doing nothing.                                      don't do Windows (95 or 3.1) ...
.. or busy not doing nothing                                                 Hey, hunting season is over.	
.. or busy doing not nothing.    NOT?                                        But we still love each other.

Jaymar Puss survived his plumbing repairs.  But he's not over                Our cat is 13 years old.
the hill (except in age) from this illness yet.  We may have                 He had a urinary tract
to turn HIM into a HER.  Those little tiny fixtures are very                 infection. This is second time.
delicate to repair, or so the vet says.                                      First time was 7 yrs ago.

Most of thses notes will probably be erased soon.                            Maybe not.

More mail - 

Last week Rosie was remembering MOM.  Now she's starting to 
ramble.  Must be the beer.  Or the rambling runs in the family.  
I should be answering Rosie's mail instead of playing with my HTML.

Emily sent some pictures.  From 1970, I believe.

Matt's webtv site is looking nice.  Interesting links/rings on it.

I found Marla's page.  Her family tree starts like a fairy tale.
Which reminds me I should look up the family history for my tree.

AOL sent some "upgrades" (whether I wanted them or not) and now 
some of the angelfire sites (especially my own) are starting to 
look normal.  This is in the v 3.1 for Win95.

03/08 Sunday morning

Sad news on Jaymar.  He was with the vet all week.  Friday 
afternoon the vet called to say that he wasn't eating his 
food and maybe he would eat for us if we took him home.  
When we stopped by the vet to pick him up, we were told 
(gently) that Jaymar had expired about an hour earlier.  
The cause was unknown, but the vet suspects heart failure 
coupled by weakness from not eating.  He asked our permission 
to keep the remains for an autopsy. We will miss the little 
beggar.  He followed me around like a puppy dog.  I feel 
his spirit around me still.  A week before he died, a psychic 
lady told me she felt his spirit around me.

Emily sent some more pictures, including some of a recent visit                    She kidded me about my side 
with her brother whom she hadn't seen in 20 years.  She sent a                     note above, describing her as
picture of him from 1970 to compare the changes, if any.  I was                    an "old" Army buddy. She let me 
also in the 1970 picture, but I missed the 1998 reunion.                           know that she's still "young".



    Matt sent me some kind of mail with some animated 
    dancers that blew my Netscape into fatal errors the 
    three times that I tried to retrieve it. But I did 
    get the sunset picture.  It looks like Florida.
    This is part of Matt's signature.    Thanks, Matt 
    (I linked the picture to a local copy.)  Hmmmm.
    I didn't know I could mix TEXT and HTML like this.

Where is the margin now? Oh, there it is.  O.K.  Onward.

Not much net news this week, otherwise. But it was a busy week
for me in other ways.  I guess I'll remove the "NEW" markings 
from my links.  they're all relatively new (2-3 weeks) but they
all now link to somewhere - -  and back (usually).  Those little
icons are easy to make.  They just take time.  I make them up 
using Windows Paint and WINJPEG, cutting ans pasting between the 
two and finally saving with WINJPEG into either GIF or JPG format.

Sandy and I just rented "Michael", the movie, with John Travolta. 
I haven't seen all of Travolta's movies, but it's rumoured that he 
dances in every one of them.  An archangel's job must be tough.
And just wait until "WE" get our next assignments . . . .

Monday/Tuesday 03/09   03/10
Matt gave me a lead to a Family Tree Chart blank form written in
HTML code.  All I had to do was insert the names, dates, places
and watch it grow.  I tried doing my own first, but it was too
much work.  This one works fine.  See my link to TREE OF ME and 
then the link to  the chart.


Thanks, Matt.  By the way, tell me if you want some code copied 
directly into your site.  We can work that real easy.  It might 
save a few hours of keypunching the WEBTV and trying to fix any
"typo errors" by trial and error.  Let me know.


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03/15 Sunday evening

Index goes to home after only ONE(1)friendly ad from our sponsor.                  Nice guys, but each "BACK" 

I'll be back after dinner to update this page.                                     Happy Birthday, Page.  

Quick mail check.  Then upgrade to Netscape 4.0  ( Communicator?? )                Even 3.0 is better than WEBTV.

Maybe I'll be back.                                                                Maybe Not .  

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03/16 Monday evening

Netscape 4.04 is not bad.  But I can't cut and paste directly from the browser.

Not many changes, other than cosmetics.  I'm finding out 
that e-mail is not the same on all services.  And some 
services make some additions or deletions to the files in
the mail transfer processes.  AOL seems to be pretty bad
at stripping our all of the HTML, unless you send from
AOL to AOL, but then you have to use AOL's editor.  Forget
sending in HTML . .   it converts to gibberish to the
AOL recipient.  Links are O.K., I think, but don't use the 
carrots before and after.  just the http:// activates the 
AOL link in the message.  Maybe I need to study this more.


Matt got to see my page on a real PC this weekend.  It looks
a lot different than on the WEBTV, he says.  The colors don't
show up on his WEBTV.  I guess he plans to get an upgrade to
his old PC and hand down the WEBTV to Kimberly.  Its tough
to work without a hard drive, and no cut and paste options.
Any code that he found, he had to write it down, then type it
into his page, and hope for no major typo errors.  If you 
forget just one carrot or quote mark, the rest of the page 
will be a mess or just not even come up on the screen.

I haven't heard from Rosie.  I guess "work" became too
busy.  I hope her PC didn't crash. 

I found some good family history leads in Paris and Pensacola.
These two were originally from Switzerland and Pennsylvania.  I 
sent out some feelers, and hope I get some info back.  Meanwhile,
I need to work on the pedigree chart.  I have a lot of the data,
and just need to take the time to fill it in.

Emily is going to take a vacation to Reno.  Maybe we'll see some
more pictures?

Sandy is looking for some more angels.  Tomorrow night she gets to
dance with Stephen.  I get to dance with Stephen's students.  There's 
only ONE of him, but he has quite a following.  I'll have a lot of
"WORK" to do tomorrow night.  Somebody's gotta do it.  So I guess
I'd better get rested up.  Those cha-cha's, mambo's, and swing's can
wear you out pretty fast.  Maybe we'll get some tango practice, too,
between the waltzes, foxtrots and rumba's.  I'll sit out the hustle
and the jive which I have yet to learn.



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03/22

Now I'm updaating from the web to my archive . . .  going 
backwards . . . I don't usually update while on-line.  I'll come back 
and update this file a bit later.

Rosie called.  Her computer was down and has been down for
about two + weeks.  I kind of thought that was the case.  She didn't
get my last two e-mails re: MOM and re: RAMBLINGS.   But that 
was the first time we "talked" in several months.  Even at 10cents 
a minute, I guess we should talk more often.  Yeah, I need to call
the other three also - Berny, Andy and Sylvie.  I haven't seen them
in two years.

. . .   to be continued . . . .    Sunday went fast.  (muy rapido)