August chitchat

[Virginia]

Agate, I just recently heard that song being sung in the movie Ghost by Patrick Swayze. Now it shows up again!

It is 1:30AM here. I need to go to bed. See y'all tomorrow or maybe I should say later today.

[nuthatch]

2:18 a.m. and were still partying hard at just 6 registered users and 1366 guests! Sure!

[Sunshine]

On my SPS forum, when I post something new on a thread, or start a thread, the count immediately rises usually. Although this past week, the count remains at 30 and hasn’t dropped despite my poor attendance. I figur lots of bots, but some are real SPS hunter patients

[Howie]

How do you see the number of guests, and number of members?

[agate]

At the bottom of the first page you see when you visit the MS forum, you find a section called "Forum Information and Options," and under it you'll find "Users browsing this forum." Under that you'll find how many are currently online at this forum--906 just now as it happens.

If you visit some other BrainTalk forum, you'll find a different figure, usually far less than the 906 showing up here, but that may be just because the MS forum always has been one of the most active sections here. Also, MS is one of the more common neurological disorders.

That number is broken down into registered users and "guests," as you'll see. The "guests" are often not real people. If you look at the Member List, you'll find that BrainTalk has 55,186 members, most of whom aren't real. If they visit here without being logged in, they're "guests." At least that's how I understand it.

[Howie]

Thanks Agate, I see it now.

[agate]

Your name would show up there too but you've made yourself invisible.

Has Sam made herself invisible too? Every time something goes haywire with this board, I of course suspect Sam, but she's never showing up as online. I'm just sure it's all her fault. She's probably the one dragging those 900+ guests in here. They're all her guests.

[Howie]

That's VERY possible! Instead of bots, lets just call them cats!

[Parsi]

The last time I was here I checked the number after it was being talked about. It had gone down to 200 something. So perhaps I chased them away. Can't a party that way.
I now see 10 members and 467 guests.

[agate]

No, I'm sure you didn't chase them away, Parsi. Once again it had to be Howie's formidable cat Sam. She brings them here, and then she probably chases them away. She chalks that up on her list of daily achievements.

[stillstANNding]

I was watching a Good Will (shopgoodwill.com) auction online. They were selling someone’s frog collection. I thought of our Vicky.

Tomorrow, if I think I can sit most of the day, we are driving to Albany. One of Peter’s relatives has been told to get his affairs in order. We plan to spend a little time with him and stop somewhere to swim - maybe- on the way home.

ANN

[stillstANNding]

I did not go to Albany. It’s one of those trade-off decisions we have to make. I realized that it was like driving to the tip of Cape Cod and back in one day. I can’t sit that long even with breaks. ;-(

ANN

[Howie]

I watch mostly Comet TV. It stopped coming in Friday. So finally, I went online and found out how to contact them, told them the problem, and am waiting on an email to answer my questions. So busy today!

[agate]

Hurry up and wait--that seems to happen a lot.

I waited all day for a callback from the eye doctor's office. No call. I was also waiting for a scheduled package delivery by UPS, supposed to be here by 4:45. It might still get here. I was hoping it would arrive today so I could put it together before the hotter weather starts up tomorrow.

It's a stand for the printer to sit in. That's the printer that isn't here yet but I've checked out its dimensions.

[Virginia]

Agate glad you are getting a new printer. Sorry about all the waiting you are having to do. That’s aggravating.