FAQs

[Penny Linsenmayer]

Hi everyone --

Huge thanks to Steve and Paul!  Great job on the design work.  It really 
looks fabulous.  I'm so excited that we will soon be able to go "live" with 
this project.  It's been so long in the making, and lots of good work done 
by lots of people.  I am eager for our hard work to be of use to all the 
members.

Steve, I'm sorry that my composition method is turning into headaches for 
you.  I will be happy to go back through all my FAQs and change the 
footnotes into endnotes manually if this makes sense.  Or, is there another 
method I could use that would help you out?  Is Composer the program that is 
part of Netscape?  I'm not familiar with it, but I could also try cutting & 
pasting my work into that program (or doing whatever is necessary to fix my 
documents so that it will be less work for you).

Steve: the Potential Romance Pairings FAQ that you have uploaded is 
definitely an old draft as I think Simon pointed out.  I've deleted the old 
drafts each time I reuploaded a revised one.  I'm guessing maybe that you 
downloaded that draft to your system some time ago perhaps?  Anyway ... we 
will definitely want to get the revised one uploaded.

As for formatting consistency, I agree that it would be way too much to ask 
Steve & Paul to try and make all our essays have the same "look."  I think 
it will be fine that each person's style comes through.

There is a list of who is doing what FAQ in the Files section somewhere.

Of course, I cannot do any work myself on any of this until I'm back in my 
house.  Personal update: we fell victim to the fury of Tropical Storm 
Allison on Friday evening/Sat morning.  The city of Houston took 28-32 
inches of rainfall in the space of about 6 hours, and the property damage is 
severe and extensive (not to mention a death toll of 9 victims so far).  Our 
neighborhood which has never flooded in the 40 years since the homes were 
built flooded.  We were very lucky actually in that only 2-3 inches of water 
came into our house, and we were able to save virtually all our personal 
property.  We evacuated to our next door neighbor's home which has a 2nd 
story about 1:30 am when the water started running into the house.  Of 
course, tons more poured in when we opened the door to get out; the water 
was nearly waist-high on me when we slogged through our front lawn to get to 
the neighbors.  My sister who was visiting for the weekend came back over to 
our house with Bryce and helped him move furniture and things off the floor 
for hours. So, we only need to replace carpet, hardwoods, and a few sofas 
and things that couldn't be moved higher.  We were able to get plastic bags 
around the legs of heavy wood furniture as well.  We are lucky that my 
mother-in-law is in property management and was able to beg, borrow & steal 
a contractor to go to our house today to get the wet flooring removed and 
start remediation. But, I will likely be at my in-laws (and stuck with their 
slow dial-up connection) for a week and probably longer. If they have to 
replace walls after all, I'll be here for a month or more I'm told.

All in all though we are quite lucky.  There was nothing more frightening to 
me than standing and holding my 6 week old baby as I watched the water 
rising up to our door and the rain coming down in unrelenting sheets.  We 
were able to get to a 2nd story house though, and there were plenty of 
people in Houston who were plucked off their roofs or off the top of their 
cars by boat or helicopters (some areas of Houston the water was level with 
the roofs on 2 story homes).  The freeways became rivers with almost no 
warning as the bayous broke loose, and 18 wheelers were submerged by the 
dozens on all the freeways.  They are saying it was (or will be proven to 
be) one of the worst natural disasters in US history.  It was far worse than 
any hurricane Houston has ever experienced anyway.

So ... long story to say that in addition to having a new baby, I also have 
no home at the moment ... so my involvement will be severely limited I 
imagine.  My inlaws also don't have a 2nd line so I need to close off here & 
quit tying up their phone.

To those of you who were in on the Harry & Hermione bears that were sent to 
my daughter, I thought you'd like to hear that we brought those to my 
in-laws home with us and Elizabeth recognized them right off (cooing, 
gurgling and smiling at them).  :--)

Penny



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