THANK YOU SO MUCH, SISTER! SENDING YOU LOVE ALWAYS!

Why, thank you! So sweet of you!

Hi, Margarida,

       I didn't include the prior messages, since I stay in the habit of not letting messages pile up so I then have to use Dropbox just to send emails (when I'm just on the email server, that is). Glad I could help. You might also take the time to wipe your browsing history (unless you've got that set automatically) and run Disk Cleanup and Defrag (or "optimize drives" if you've got Windows 10). If you're on Linux, you might have to get a third-party app for that, from what I've noticed, depending on the Linux flavor you use. Just some thoughts.

        Still haven't gotten around to those laptops yet, as the "neighbors" have me feeling worn-out, and I was already feeling somewhat worn out by dealing with computers a bit, anyway. I hope to get to at least one of them today.

        I am uncertain what you mean by a "broker", as you didn't clarify it for me. Not meaning to pry, just curious. Well, I need to get going, as I've got other tasks to do yet today. Have a good week, and God bless.

Sincerely,

Bill

Thanks!!!! It was wonderful!

A very bad flu and after work accumulated, I'm fine now.
I wish you a great night!

Hi Margarida. I am glad that you have fully recovered and are feeling better. May your Saturday night be a good one for you and your loved-ones.

Have a magical weekend!

Hi, Margarida,

Well, I'm glad that you're over that flu and hope you can get some resolution concerning those greedy realtors with whom you have to interact. I think that your husband would agree that, about computers, there's always so much to review, both on and about the computers.

Since it's been a while, I think I said something about the CT scan on my lungs. I have another one scheduled for Monday, since the doctor wanted to give it time to see if the "masses" the first scan showed were simply excess left over from the pneumonia. Also, since I'd been infected with Hepatitis C 29 years ago, now the doctor says it's gone active, so I have a liver ultrasound scheduled for Thursday. It seems that whether it's caused any psorrhosis is a factor in determining the best medication for treating/curing the infection. Whichever medication it turns out to be, it'll probably be for an eight-week regimen.

Now I've got more ongoing problems with neighbors who are also addicts of one substance or another, but these two are getting really ridiculous about it, having no regard for the lease on the "quiet time" clause and not disturbing neighbors in the middle of the night. I've been trying to get it resolved with the onsite support staff, but the "new" property manager seems reluctant to talk to problem tenants, which is what's supposed to be the first step before the three written notices start. Since she's not doing anything, it gives the perpetrators "free rein" to continue. I recently had to go over the on-site manager's head to the corporate office, and have yet to see if they're any better.

All this after recently winning free of a 52-year emotional traumatization (from when I was 7 3/4 years of age). It's not been boring, but I don't think all this is such a good remedy for boredom, even if I have made positive progress. Well, that's the recap, mostly on my health. Have a good weekend.

Bill

Hi dear friend,
Are you getting ready for Halloween?
Have a good week!

Hi, Margarida,

Actually, the exams aren't going at all. During the time since we'd last written, I have changed my work search focus back to CDL driving, as I was getting NO responses from employers. I recently found out why. It seems that there is a charge on my criminal record, a petty offense of "public consumption" (alcohol), from January of 2017 of which I have no memory. I'm doing all I can to discover as much information as I can about it, but after my bank account was afflicted with a fraudulent check, the bank has closed my account and won't let me check bank statements from that time period, so I can't confirm or deny it that way. A church brother said he's going to loan me the money to pay off the bank, then I'll pay him back after I get paid when I'm working again.

Now that I got into a fist-fight/wrestling match with one of my problem neighbors, then called the police and reported him to the Property Manager, with supporting audio recordings and the security camera coverage confirming my description of what happened, NOW they're going to take action on the on-site nonsense. Actually, I don't feel repressed at all anymore, either, thank God.

It's been quite the "long haul", but I've finally broken the "victim syndrome" with which I had been afflicted since late 1970, after almost smothering a neighbor kid when he acted as if he was his cousin's parent and went too far with it. The horror reaction afterward was too much for me, and I experienced a trauma-induced emotional blunting. I didn't start to break that cycle until 1988, when a nightmare ex-girlfriend was smothering her own 45-day old infant son when she was mad at ME. It was still quite a long time until I could once and for all completely extricate myself from all that mess, though.

I well understand about years of suffering with no end in sight, though, believe me. I hope it will get better for you soon, Margarida. Good to hear from you, too. Have a good one.

Bill

Hi, Maegarida, Halloween is not one of my favorite times, but I always love to share thus, here we go!

Hi  Margarida. Thank you for your comment. Yes, I am getting ready for Halloween. I am working on my decorations. I hope you are keeping well.

Love from Karen.

Hi, Margarida,

I wish that your country had the resources which ours does to solve problems. Maybe it's the upside of being a younger country. Please don't ever think that I would be insensitive to anyone who cannot find the resources to get more done in a better way, because I am not insensitive. Lots of hugs back, and ciao for now.

Bill C.

Hi, Margarida,

Now that you mention it, you must mean the same weekend when I couldn't get on the site, either. Apparently they'd had to re-certify on the server site which handles the temple's Domain Name Service for the internet, so I'm sure all the site users would have had the same trouble. They had it back up after that weekend was over, though. Have a good weekend, Happy Halloween, and "Feliz Dia de los Muertos" (to render it in spanish, sorry - I don't know the equivalent Portuguese. You can tell me if you like).

Hi, Margarida,

"Dia das Bruxas", eh (did I spell it right?)? Good to know, thanks. I know, Halloween is a slang form of the term "All Hallows Eve". As for the witches, not all of them are evil, any more or less than any other way of life, sect, or creed would be. It all comes back to people and the choices we make. Some are inclined toward good, and others, not so much. Wicca (Latin for "way of the wise", as I understand it) has within it a "Wiccan Rede", which states "...an' ye harm none, do what ye will" (as rendered in Old English terms). Actually, Wicca might even be the world's "oldest" religion, or way of life. Please don't take that as any participation or lack on my part, I'm simply presenting my findings after my own preliminary examination of the matter over the past 10-15 years. Thanks for noticing that I generally incline toward being "good-hearted" and "sensitive", as well. Most haven't noticed over the decades. Well, take care, and enjoy your weekend.

Bill

Dear Margarida,

Well, then, Happy "Natal" (even if we haven't gotten past Thanksgiving yet - wait, that's specific to the United States). Thanks for confirming "Dia das Bruxas" for me. As for the clarifying entries, I am simply interested in clear communications and accuracy. Being another programmer/coder, you can probably relate well to that. My primary work right now is actually in transportation as a shuttle driver, and I don't mind keeping any computer stuff I do as a hobby - IT work here in the states can be a bit on the neurotic side, and that would take a bit of explaining about the U.S. and its peculiar form of the I.T. field of work. Well, take care, and have a good evening.

Bill

I recently reviewed your earlier comments and caught more on your health issues. I'd only caught parts of it, I'm sorry to have to admit. Tonight marks my last dose of Mavyret, a medication for treating Hepatitis C. I hope it works, I've had it for just over 30 years. I've heard only good reports on its effectiveness, though.

I hope you can find something which helps with your (spinal?) column pain and the coughs. I suppose it shouldn't surprise me, as Brazil is just south of the equator and is largely jungle, thus rather moist. Hoping all is well for you. Blessings.

Bill

A friend is a bond and not a knot, a friend is a "GIFT". - Rita Maidana

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I wish you a blessed holiday season dear friend and a very happy new year!!

Feliz Natal Margarida

obrigada pelo seu BG que copiei

Beijinhos

Hi Margarida. Thank you for your kind Xmas and New Year greetings. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to you and your loved-ones. 

Hello Margarida, Thank you for the lovely Christmas and New Year's greetings. It's appreciated. Feliz Navidad y Ano Neuvo to you and your precious family and friends. Namaste. 

thank you for always being there, my friend

My silence? I guess you've not been checking my wall lately. I've just been terribly busy of late, is all it is. Happy New Year!

Bill

Happy Friday and a great weekend!
May be one of the best.

I quit all the sites except here, WM and the music site.  I just have no time to do the other sites justice.  I barely have time for these.

Hi, Margarida,

       No problem, and you don't have to feel sorry about being concerned. I didn't take your comment as though you had "charged" me anything (it sounds like a credit card company comment, the way you worded it, though). That's OK, English is a complicated language.

        Well, take care, and have a good weekend.

Bill

"Living is tearing and mending yourself." - Guimarães Rosa

NICE WEEKEND!

We will meet in a place of love and peace.
Happy week!

That's not necessarily what I had said, Margarida, it's just that sometimes these online translators don't function all that well, and sometimes they translate the words but don't really convey the true meaning of the words in the phrase. It's not really your fault, so no apology is necessary. English may seem easier to you than Portuguese, but it's also a language in which it's easy to confuse the meaning of some phrases, especially when you throw in slang terms and phrases. Have a good day, Margarida.

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU ARE OUR FEATURED MEMBER FOR MARCH!

Thank you

Margarida,

       How are you doing? I hadn't heard from you in a little while, and I've been busy. Sometimes in English we use the word "you" in a general fashion when describing a concept, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily you specifically.

       I've been going through a bit of turmoil myself, lately. Somehow, despite my best efforts, some of the adverse influences from where I live seems to have slipped into my work environment - not from me personally, but in general. PDX is a bit of a crazy workplace, it seems. After six months, the bad attitude from the DOT "trainer" ("sabotager" would be more accurate, actually) has begun to infest my surroundings at the airport. That's one of the negative cycles which I've been trying to break. Although I've had some success at that, I'm just going to have to accept that the human parts of this world are just going insane, to some degree - those who have no belief in anything other than themselves, that is.

       It's gotten to the point that I cannot tolerate the notion of continuing to work there, so my last day is this Friday. I've already submitted the two-week notice on April 28th, so they cannot honestly say that I wasn't professional about it. Thus, I have a much more recent favorable work reference to add to my resume, which ought to make it easier to get work someplace else much more quickly. Previously I hadn't worked since 2018, and a lot of employers don't seem to like that. At least the job at the airport lasted six months, and it was full-time.

        Now if my narcissist neighbors would wake up and show some good sense, it would be a lot better. That's probably expecting miracles, though. Just a quick update, have a good week.

Bill

Love the picture and thank you for such a wonderful welcome surprise Margarida.Peace and love sister.

Happy Saturday to you.  Thank you for the welcoming greeting.  Have a great weekend.

Congrats on bein our featured member of the month!

I'm sorry for my delay.
Thank you for being a featured member.
Blessings.

Hello friends,
I thank you, albeit belatedly, for being a prominent member of this beautiful site.
My problems continue and I also continue trying to solve them.
I'll make it.
A good week to everyone and a good end to Sunday.
Blessings.

Thank you.Walk in light

Oh, nice, you included a cat picture (kitten, actually). Excellent taste. Have a good day.

Bill

Hello,
A lot has happened to me.
Talking is not worth it.
We are in a time of hope and renewal. Christmas.
I also don't know what happened to this site.
It disappeared for me for quite a while.
Now it seems to me it's back.
I would like to wish Happy Holidays and a great New Year to you and yours.

Margarida, since we are in so many of tese pages, I never know where and how I have lost track of all of them!

But I wish you a merry one!

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Thank you to the few people who returned the last message I sent.
It's good to know we're still on air and can still communicate.
A kind word and a hug could save a life.
Happy Holidays!

Wishing you the best 

Good Morning Temple 2024!

Well, it's a start.  

Thanks, Margarida, you, too. Bill

Cute picture MARGARIDA just a shame I'm a dos man

Thank you! :) lol