Thanks for your concern everyone and a special thanks to Leah for emailing me the link to this topic. I haven't been to the board in ages, I lurked once or twice that's all.

Leah is right, one of the reasons for my absence is due to the problems I've been having at home, my father did take a turn for the worse about 7 weeks ago and was hospitalized yet again, now he's home but during the first few weeks at home the problems were far from over since he couldn't do anything by himself. Even if his condition is still critical (his age does not help) it has stabilised, he is much better and can now move around the house with one of those "frame" things. For a while my life was a complete chaos and I hardly had time to think. Luckily I have my 3 angels to keep us sane. I don't know how what we would have done without them.

Besides that, at work they have piled 7 of us (with 2 PCs each, printers, fax machines etc) in a tiny room (the room was used by 3 people before) until our new premises are ready, and this does not my Pet Talk visits easy, some people here already think that there's something slightly wrong with me, I wonder what would they think if they read some of my posts!

I promise though, I won't disappear again, I missed Pet Talk far too much. And in January I'm definetly going to buy a PC (and a scanner...)

Once again, thanks for your concern
Gio

[ December 12, 2001: Message edited by: Gio ]