There are 9 messages totalling 307 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Off Topic: Very bad news (2) 2. Bad News for Ashton Press (7) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 03:13:05 -0700 From: Danni Butterfuss <dbutter@wvi.com> Subject: Off Topic: Very bad news I'm not sure if if this is even going to get through, haven't had any list mail since last evening. As most of you know, my mom has been in a rehabilitation facility since late November 02. She has been going down hill from about the middle of August. As of 1 1/2 days ago, she terminally ill. They did a MRI today to see how bad the illness has spread and it is all places of her body. It started in her lungs. I haven't told DeeDee yet. I want to take over to see her Grandma , before she gets much worse. My mom hasn't given her prognosis. that is one of the reasons I don't want to tell her until Monday. I will tell her that Grandma has become very ill and isn't going to get well this time. I don't think she needs to know that it is what it is. I do not know how this little girl is going to handle this again. My mom is the only grandma she has been around since she was 2. She did see Les' mom when we had the memorial when he died late December '99. She was 6 then and 10 now, I really think she doesn't need to know just what grandma's illness is. Her therapist did say I needed to tell her something as I'm not sure when I will need to be over there on the coast. I do have 2 girlfriends here that will be happy to help out w/ DeeDee. I do know she is going to be a handfuls though. She was really a monster child last school w/ her revisiting daddy's death. It took a long of work w/ me, our doctor, finding her therapist and getting her back in Mother Oak's child. (meeting place for kids that have lost some one, or losing some one do to trauma or illness). I am to call MOC monday to talk to the person in charge. I am going to ask about have a place for her even if the sessions have started. List moms, can you put me no mail until I find out just what is going to happen w/ where mom is going to be. I'm sure if when mom know just does find out. she will want go home. She is on oxygen now. she is still on a low dose of pain meds and this more than likely that the visit on Sunday, will be the last time she see grandma Rose. I didn't think she needed to see her dad when Les died. I wanted her to remember her dad alive , not seeing dad dead being her last memory of him. I don't think she needs to watch grandma getting sicker. If my mom is going to be able to go to her home, there is going to be hospice involvement. Some one in the family has to be there 24/7. Goddess, I'm rambling. Please contact me off lists as I'm going to go no mail until I know where and how this all these things are going be worked out. Prayers for a painless passing for mom would be very much appreciated. Thank you All, Danni ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:45:05 -0700 From: Stephen Bryce <sibryce@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Off Topic: Very bad news > As most of you know, my mom has been in a rehabilitation facility > since > late November 02. She has been going down hill from about the middle > of > August. As of 1 1/2 days ago, she terminally ill. Damn... Danni, I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say that we're all terribly sorry, and our thoughts are with you and your family. I'm not sure what more I can say, so I'm sorry if that doesn't feel like much consolation, but maybe some of our other readers will be able to come up with something. Steve ===== "I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch. " (Norman Bates, "Psycho" [the movie]) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:27:45 -1000 From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Bad News for Ashton Press Annie-- > I do have all of the websites and graphics and such on my hard drive. But > everything as far as the subdomains and uploading the files, etc., will have to > be redone by hand, from scratch. This will, needless to say, take me quite some > time. So, as our sites slowly come back online, please be patient. Well, from what I've seen of your sites, you could have everything back up in a snap if you limited yourself to what YOU actually own. Nina mac.westie@verizon.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:16:55 EDT From: Highlandmg@aol.com Subject: Re: Bad News for Ashton Press Annie-- > I do have all of the websites and graphics and such on my hard drive. But > everything as far as the subdomains and uploading the files, etc., will have to > be redone by hand, from scratch. This will, needless to say, take me quite some > time. So, as our sites slowly come back online, please be patient. Nina <Well, from what I've seen of your sites, you could have everything back up in a snap if you limited yourself to what YOU actually own.> Wow nice touch Nina.. Anne has links for the convenience of many of us ..she has photo's from past cons which she owns for us to enjoy. She has Leah's artwork. I guess its then jealousy. I have been on this board a long time. I like to know if you ever said any thing nice? How sad you must be to be so unhappy all the time and never satisfied.. Try some sugar it might make your day a little pleasant. Mary ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:37:03 +0100 From: Jette Goldie <jette@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: Bad News for Ashton Press > Wow nice touch Nina.. Anne has links for the convenience of many of us ..she > has photo's from past cons which she owns for us to enjoy. She has Leah's > artwork. I guess its then jealousy. I have been on this board a long time. I like > to know if you ever said any thing nice? How sad you must be to be so unhappy > all the time and never satisfied.. Try some sugar it might make your day a > little pleasant. > > Mary I don't think there is enough sugar in all the cane plantations of the world for that, Mary. Jette "Work for Peace and remain Fiercely Loving" - Jim Byrnes jette@blueyonder.co.uk http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:39:00 -1000 From: MacWestie <mac.westie@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Bad News for Ashton Press Mary-- > Wow nice touch Nina.. Anne has links for the convenience of many of us ..she > has photo's from past cons which she owns for us to enjoy. She has Leah's > artwork. Annie/Leah have (or had) MANY things on their webpages. Some are even Highlander-related. If anyone really wants to debate the legal & moral merits of them one by one, please feel free to start right up & I'll join in as my time & interest allow. However, I have a nap planned for this afternoon & a busy schedule next week, so.... >>>How sad you must be to be so unhappy all the time and never satisfied.. Try some sugar it might make your day a > little pleasant.>>> Actually, I am having a perfectly lovely day, & Annie's travails don't enter into it one iota. (Neither do you, Mary, & neither does Jette. Or your mutual psycho-babble. FYI--I live next to a pineapple field, sugar cane being grown at lower elevations. Both can rot your teeth.) Should anyone be interested in a brief personal note, 5 years have passed since I was treated for thyroid cancer; I just finished rather unpleasant testing that resulted in a welcome finding of no recurrence. Nina [Anyone needing info on thyroid cancer should start internet research at the ThyCa website, an organization started by thyca survivors. http://www.thyca.org/ The site offers exhaustive info re: diagnosis, surgery, radiation, LID, recurrence, research, & much more; valuable links to other reliable resources, internet & otherwise; several email support groups; one-on-one email support; toll-free telephone support; an annual conference coming right up (held in Houston Oct. 24-26 this year) & featuring dozens of medical experts from around the country; & local in-person support groups meeting in communities nation-wide (one of which I run).] mac.westie@verizon.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:05:36 EDT From: Ashton7@aol.com Subject: Re: Bad News for Ashton Press Good news for Ashton Press now ... the greater majority of our sites are now back and online and we'll be announcing a couple of new Highlander zines shortly. Most of the links haven't been tested yet but they are undergoing testing right now (or will be shortly) thanks to the kindness and generosity of volunteers. And our web hosting company tripled our space allotment so lots of space for many more photos, cartoons and fanfics to come your way. Annie "I'm back!" -- Dr. Daniel Jackson **************** Our Stargate Discussion Forum: http://forums.delphiforums.com/ourstargate/start Ashton Press: http://ashtonpress.net/ Gateway, A Stargate Slash Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gateway/join Stargate Solutions: http://www.savedanieljackson.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:09:40 +0100 From: Jette Goldie <jette@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: Bad News for Ashton Press > Good news for Ashton Press now ... the greater majority of our sites are now > back and online and we'll be announcing a couple of new Highlander zines > shortly. Most of the links haven't been tested yet but they are undergoing testing > right now (or will be shortly) thanks to the kindness and generosity of > volunteers. And our web hosting company tripled our space allotment so lots of space > for many more photos, cartoons and fanfics to come your way. > > Annie > Good to hear, Annie. always nice to get *good* news for a change. Jette "Work for Peace and remain Fiercely Loving" - Jim Byrnes jette@blueyonder.co.uk http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 19:23:59 EDT From: Ashton7@aol.com Subject: Re: Bad News for Ashton Press In a message dated 10/11/2003 7:09:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, jette@blueyonder.co.uk writes: > Good to hear, Annie. always nice to get *good* news for > a change. > Yes, it is, isn't it? I'm amazed it all went so smoothly and so quickly. But, after 22 years in the computer business, I had, of course, kept my own back-ups, so it was mainly just a matter of re-establishing the various account settings and then the time it takes to upload 300 or so megabytes of graphics since the great majority of our site is taken up by Leah's artwork and my photos. Annie "I'm back!" -- Dr. Daniel Jackson **************** Our Stargate Discussion Forum: http://forums.delphiforums.com/ourstargate/start Ashton Press: http://ashtonpress.net/ Gateway, A Stargate Slash Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gateway/join Stargate Solutions: http://www.savedanieljackson.com ------------------------------ End of HIGHLA-L Digest - 9 Oct 2003 to 11 Oct 2003 (#2003-226) **************************************************************