Been gone for a while and missed EVERYTHING!

[Jen Piersol]

No: HPFGUIDX 9131

Okay.  I decided a while ago (couple of months?  can't remember 
exactly) that I was going to take a computer break and that "well,
not much is happening on the HP4G list that's news... I mean, the 
movie's not coming out until November, the next book isn't due for 
another *2* years... there's plenty of time for a break."  So I 
stressed about seeing my in-laws for Christmas and spending 2 weeks 
away from the cats and dog and house... went on that vacation...
came back, and started catching back up on the news here a couple 
of days ago.

It seemed to be pretty similar to when I left.  We were up to 
chapter 25 in the summaries... cool.  Oh!  People want to get 
together with each other to watch the movies in November!  Great 
idea!  (btw, I'd love to go if there are any plans for a 
get-together in Los Angeles.... San Fransisco would be fine, too, 
but I know my way around L.A. better)  And then I'm scanning the 
subjects tonight, and lo and behold, I find one that mentions Penny 
and others being doubly famous.  Huh?  What's that about?

Okay.  WHY DIDN'T ANYONE WARN ME I HAD MY HEAD UP MY.... um... 
sorry.

First of all, I feel dumb for not even keeping up enough to know 
that the more recent editions of the books had been altered.  I 
still have to go "back in time" list-wise to find out what happened 
originally (anyone want to point me in a direction?  Message 
number?).  And, of course, I've been taking a net-wide computer 
break, so I didn't have a clue about the Salon.com article, either!  

Boy.  That'll teach me to think "things are pretty tame on the HP4G 
list, so I'll just take a vacation."

Anyway, good to see you all in black and white, again.  Hope I can 
meet up with some of you in living color come November.

Jen (who now has NO chance of being one of the top 20 posters, and 
now probably has 1000 messages to thumb through to get up to speed 
on everything.)