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Senior Net Learners Newsletter 2/27/00 Wow!! I don't know about you folks, but for me the past two weeks of Wednesday and Thursday morning classes have been exciting. I've enjoyed being part of the sessions and I've learned so much from them. I get warm and fuzzy when I see so many having fun, sharing, and enjoying the new challenges and that is what I saw and heard a lot of the past two weeks. I'm looking forward to this week.
I know it is pushy to start on St. Paddy's already but it is one of my favorite holidays. It pushes Spring and it is green. Green is my favorite color. Think about it. Spring brings green and warmth to the outdoors. Emeralds are valuable and beautiful. Green eyes can be very penetrating. Money is green. There is a Mean Joe and a Clean and Green. I can handle Green Beer. Irish Brogue is challenging. Irish stories can be funny. Irish Blessings, Toasts, and Sayings are neat to quote. Leprechauns are cute. "The Luck" is good to have. Oh! Did I mention the color of money?" At least what we use around here is green and "The Color of Money" was a good movie. Still not convinced?
Well, anyway.

CLASS CHANGES ARE IN ORDER:
The Thursday Senior group will be discontinued. The last session will be March 9. KCnet will be starting a third level for Seniors in this time slot. It will be for Intermediate level folks and will have course content spanning six weeks. There will be a course charge of $12.00 for the six sessions. Hopefully the course content will bring participants to a level of knowledge and confidence so that joining the Wednesday Senior "Free For All" will be painless.

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE:
Tuesday 2/29/00 @9:00 AM
Tuesday Newbies (fifth session of six sessions)
This class is full. Registration is available for the next Tuesday Newbie class scheduled to begin March 14, 2000. The next
Wednesday opening is April 5. There will be a $12.00 per course charge for this class. The class size is limited to ten participants. Interested participants should preregister. This is a very basic course in computer techniques for the internet. Skills taught in the beginner classes include mouse techniques like drag and drop, plus very beginner basics for email and browsing the Web. Mike Foust will provide the leadership for this class.
It is not necessary for attendees to have their own computers.

Wednesday 3/1/00 @9:00 AM
Wednesday group of Senior Net Learners: We will be doing a third session with Web Page creation. The Zip stuff I've promised the last two weeks will be postponed until we have a better projector, better be pretty soon huh?. Of course we will have time for problem solving and a question/answer session. We will get into html email also. So, come with questions and something to share. Please suggest topics for future sessions. New participants are welcome anytime. It is not necessary for attendees to have their own computers. Mike Foust will provide the leadership for this session.
Intermediate computer knowledge and Intermediate computer skills are necessary.

Wednesday 3/1/00 @ 1:00 PM
Wednesday Newbies (second session of six sessions)
This class is full. Interested participants should preregister for the next Tuesday or the next Wednesday group.
The next Tuesday Newbies course will start March, 14 . The next Wednesday Newbies is scheduled for April 5. There will be a $12.00 per course charge for this class. The class size is limited to ten participants. Interested participants should preregister. This is a very basic course in computer techniques for the internet. Skills taught in the beginner classes include mouse techniques like drag and drop, plus very beginner basics for email and browsing the Web. Bianca Barbaro will provide the leadership for this class.
It is not necessary for attendees to have their own computers.

Thursday 3/2/00 @ 9:00 AM
Thursday group of Senior Net Learners: We will be doing a third session with Web Page creation. The Zip stuff I've promised the last two weeks will be postponed until we have a better projector, better be pretty soon huh?. Of course we will have time for problem solving and a question/answer session. We will get into html email also. So, come with questions and something to share. Please suggest topics for future sessions. New participants are welcome anytime. It is not necessary for attendees to have their own computers. Mike Foust will provide the leadership for this session.
Basic computer knowledge and basic computer skills are necessary.

IRISH BLESSINGS:
There are good ships,
and there are wood ships,
the ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships are friendships,
and may they always be.

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven
half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

INTERESTING SITES:
These sites are Irish.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/1906/stpattoc.html
http://www.globalgateway.com/st.patricks/
http://www.myeire.com/

Thanks to John Laubscher. This site is deep in lessons on web page design.
http://www.bfree.on.ca/html/lesson1.htm

Thanks to Howard Casselberry. This one has some fun to it.
http://world.std.com/~howie/calif.html

QUOTES:
Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.
-- Helen Hayes

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.
--Mary Lou Retton

BET YA DIDN'T KNOW THIS:
Why are there 21 guns in that salute?
It's got nothing to do with any card game. And it's not because the person being honored has come of legal age. But it's curious that the number should be so specific and that we just accept it without ever questioning why.
The 21-gun salute originated as a British naval custom. The reason for any cannon shot being offered as a salute was that firing a round meant that the gun was disarmed for the
considerable amount of time it took to reload. This period of disarmament, even more than the bang, was the real sign of respect. A person of great stature was given a multi-shot salute, but always an odd number because sailors thought even numbers brought bad luck. Heads of state got the maximum, 21 guns, because that's how many cannon were mounted on the side of a major ship of the line.
(Source: DICTIONARY OF WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS)

FAST FACTS:
There is about as much water on Earth now as there was three billion years ago. But while the amount of water has remained
static, the amount of tequila and Triple Sec available for the making of Margaritas has expanded enormously. So you see, we
have made progress after all.
(Source: DO FISH DRINK WATER?)
HEY, AREN'T MARGARITAS GREEN?

SOME CUTE ONES: Of course they will be Irish. No offense intended please.
Two men were sitting next to each other at a bar. After a while, one guy looks at the other and says,"I can't help but think,
from listening to you, that you're from Ireland."
The other guy responds proudly, "Yes, that I am!" The first guy says, "So am I! And where about from Ireland might you be?"
The other guy answers, "I'm from Dublin, I am."
The first guy responds, "Sure and begora, am so am I! And what street did you live on in Dublin?" The other guy says,
"A lovely little area it was, I lived on McCleary Street in the old central part of town."
The first guy says, "Faith & it's a small world, so did I! And to what school would you have been going?
The other guy answers, "Well now, I went to St.Mary's of course."
The first guy gets really excited, and says, "And so did I. Tell me, what year did you graduate?"
The other guy answers, "Well, now, I graduated in 1964."
The first guy exclaims, "The Good Lord must be smiling down upon us! I can hardly believe our good luck at winding up in the same bar tonight. Can you believe it, I graduated from St. Mary's in 1964 my own self."
About this time, another guy walks into the bar, sits down, and orders a beer.
The bartender walks over shaking his head & mutters, "It's going to be a long night tonight, the Murphy twins are drunk again."

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman are being chased through the streets of a village by an angry mob intent on tearing them to bits for previous jokes.
As they turn a corner, they spot a pile of sacks by the side of the path. The Englishman grabs three sacks and hands them out. "We'll hide in these until they've gone!" he explains. "Just do as I do."
They climb into the sacks. Just as they do so, the mob arrive. They see the sacks and stop. Suspicously, the leader of the mob prods the Englishman's sack with his pitchfork.
"Oink! Oink!" shouts the Englishman. Satisfied, the mob proceed to the Scotsman's sack. Again, they prod it with the pitchfork.
"Quack! Quack!" shouts the Scotsman. Happy that this is also full of livestock, the mob go onto the Irishman's sack and prod that.
The Irishman shouts "Potatoes!"

Three guys work on a construction site. They're building a sky scraper, and work on the 25th floor. They have lunch together every day, eating their sandwiches, looking over the city. One day, the first guy opens his lunch-box and starts swearing. "I've been married now for 20 years, and every single day I get these same cheese sandwiches. I'll tell you what, if my wife gives me cheese sandwiches tomorrow, I'll jump.
" The second guy opens his lunch-box, looks at his sandwiches, and says: I've been married for 15 years, and I've been eating tuna sandwiches every day at work. If my wife gives me tuna sandwiches again tomorrow, I'll join you, and jump with you."
The third guy (Paddy) opens his lunch-box, and says: "For 20 years I've been having spud sandwiches every lunch break. I hate spud sandwiches. If I'm having spud sandwiches again tomorrow, I'll join you guys, and jump with ya."
The next day, the three are having lunch again, on the 25th floor. The first guy takes his lunch-box, opens it and shouts: "Cheese!" He stands up, jumps and drops dead, 25 floors lower.
The second guy takes a look at his sandwiches, yells: "Tuna", he stands up and jumps. Dead.
Paddy looks at his sandwiches, says, Spud sandwich. " He stands up, jumps... Dead.
A week later, at the funeral, the three widows are crying together for the loss of their husbands. "I don't get it", says the first one. "We had a perfect marriage, three lovely kids... For 20 years, he never complained about the sandwiches. If he had only told me once he wanted something else... But he never did.
" The second widow cries: "I don't understand it... Fifteen years we've been married, we always talked about everything. But why did he never tell me he hated tuna so much? I would have prepared him something else for lunch... But he never complained..."
The third widow cries: "Do you think I understand it? For 20 years, Paddy has made his own lunch sandwiches."

Two Irishmen, one short and one tall, get a contract to paint a flagpole.
While trying to compute the area, so they'll know how much paint to buy, the short one stands on the tall one's shoulders and stretches to reach the top to compute the height. His reach is short by several inches. So, the taller guy says maybe if they switch positions, because he's taller maybe he can touch the top. (???) They switch positions and naturally he can't touch the top, either.
While sitting, pondering another approach to computing the area, a weight lifter comes by. The Irishmen explain their problem. The weight lifter goes over, wrestles the flagpole out of its socket, lays it down, measures it from bottom to top, gives them the figure, then manhandles the flagpole back into its cement socket and walks off.
One Irishman looks at the other one, then says, "If that isn't just like a stupid weight lifter. You ask him the height and he gives you the length.

HELP NEEDED:
I am looking for the game "Wheel Of Fortune" for the computer. I've promised Gloria Miller a session for the Carter Tower Senior Center. Would you believe that Gloria and Vana White share the same birthdate? No wonder they are mistaken for each other all the time. Of course Gloria is a great fan of the show and would like to introduce the Carter Tower Seniors to computer fun using this game. Let me know if you have a copy we can use. Gloria will be happy to supply you with an autograph.

I hope you enjoyed this communication and can attend one or more of the sessions scheduled for this week.
Mike