Lundy Says-Amusing Info from Lundy Wilder

We got an email, well, 3 of them, on Fri about mid-day saying that they would no longer support MS Frontpage extensions and after 4 days (a weekend and national holiday included) the extensions would be removed from the servers. We spend a whole day searching for a local copy of Dreamweaver, called friends in other states trying to get someone to overnight it to us....yipes, 3 days now...still searching...finally buy it on the phone from a place in FL for almost 100 dollars cheaper ($309) and add on overnight shipping at extra cost...best we could do. I just got off the phone w/ 1and1....they told me to re-read my email letter carefully, and note that the only functionality that would not be working after the specified date is the stuff listed at the bottom of the letter. (which does includes forms). They said, in the States , shared borders and includes (SSI) will continue to work. Not sure outside of the states. I was in a huge panic as we have about 25 FP sites and all navigation pl...

This article on CNN totally brought me to tears. I skip most news articles but this one's title caught my eye. Disabled Iraqi children get wheelchairs, big smiles Beautiful day here, Rain was forecast a few days back. One lone Mexican is working on my house today. I said hey to him. It is Sat. s the total crew works on weekends, sometimes, no one and today, just him. Terrible news on Friday morning...the web host of about 20 of my sites, some mine, some for others, is deleting all MS Frontpage 'extensions' in 4 days, the email said. This means loss of functionality of all the sites which were built using FP's mini- behind the scenes programs that provide navigation and other shared functions. I wont bore y'all w/ the details, but let me tell you it is both a mental and physical scramble to figure out what to do and how to go about it and how to get my hands on the needed software in warp time. I called all over the neighboring cities and no one has on hand what...

Happy Valentines Day from me to all my readers, faithful or otherwise. I did not get any valentines in the mail to anyone this year...just no time for it. I may send Summertine greetings instead later on. OK, that t of the way.... I just got this email from my bro Stephen who is an engineer at large manufacturing plant in Mississippi. He says: This is a true incident that happened to me today on the production floor. There is a woman working here that is originally from the Ukraine. She has lived in the states for several years. She approached me today smiling. She said, “I was bored this weekend, so I learned the capital of every state.” I said, “Fantastic. OK well then what is the capital of Missouri?” She said, “m.” I looked at her funny and said, “m? I don’t think so.” She said, “I know it is because I learned them all this weekend while I was bored, I told you.” I said, “Then what is the capital of Mississippi?” She laughed and said, “m. The same as Missouri.” while laughing at me...

I used my laptop on the plane to jot some notes to add to this blog when I got to it, which is now so I will paste it in below. Progress on my house continues. We are suppose to have 3 sunny days in the 70's so they may work thru the weekend, don't know. The workers missed several days due to gloomy weather and of course Tuesday which is a NATIONAL HOLIDAY here. School is out, streets closed off for parades, even the state highway for a while. Mardi Gras is a BIG DEAL here in case you were not aware. I missed it being in Memphis, where no one but me even mentioned it. I wore some little gold fleur-de-leis earrings to Daddy's just to see if anyone noticed and commented about Mardi Gras. They didn't. Funeral notes: Several church going close friends who attended the very formal service, .... who happen to also be active Christians thought the funeral sermon was a little long. They mentioned getting 'restless'. Of course I would never tell Momma that as she was d...

Mississippi Pols Seek To Ban Fats New bill would make it illegal for restaurants to serve the obese FEBRUARY 1--Mississippi legislators this week introduced a bill that would make it illegal for state-licensed restaurants to serve obese patrons. Bill No. 282, a copy of which you'll find below, is the brainchild of three members of the state's House of Representatives, Republicans W. T. Mayhall, Jr. and John Read, and Democrat Bobby Shows. The bill, which is likely dead on arrival, proposes that the state's Department of Health establish weight criteria after consultation with Mississippi's Council on Obesity. It does not detail what penalties an eatery would face if its grub was served to someone with an excessive body mass index. Wonder if the waitresses will do the Special K pinch to determine BMI. Or if they will have hula-hoops in various sizes for measuring girth based on age or height. I guess this means the Subways and McDonalds inside Wal-Marts might face a huge...

My Daddy died last night. I'll be heading to Memphis and it looks like by car. I've ck'd all he flights, even did Priceline where I don't get to specify a time or route but the only offer was too close to full price and about 3 times what driving costs. But worse, if I had agreed to there price I might have had to go thru Detroit or something and leave at 6 a.m. (which as we all know means leaving G.S. for P'cola about 3:30 a.m., no thanks). If Priceline had accepted my offer , which was what I paid to fly in December, then I'd have clicked the --OK button, and hoped for the best, but they didn't. Luckily, Cary is in Memphis already. She flew in on Thurs or Fri and had planned to stay a few days. Momma pretty much already has all the funeral details figured out ahead of time, but she and Cary don't know when Lisa and Henry get back from Costa Rica, and haven't called the church yet, so don't know if funeral will be Mon or Tues. The carpenters ar...