Is this thing on?

Testing 1, 2, 3

I was recently talking to someone on the phone when they complained to me
about the lack of Jolee and Shayna updates since the turn of the millennium,
and I asked them what they were talking about. I've been doing them
religiously, I asserted, perhaps they were just not getting them. I showed
them my computer and the hundreds of saved files that I have toiled
laboriously over in the past several years. "Bill, you dolt!" my friend
replied, "You used a 2 instead of an ampersand (@) in everyone's e-mail
address! You forgot to hit the shift key! Didn't the e-mail come back to you
as unsendable?" Hmmm, I thought, now that you mention it, no one sent me
comments about my Dave Barry-like wit over the past several years, no
comments about my Pulitzer-like writing style. "Yes," I grudgingly admitted,
"But I just thought it was a side effect of the AOL-Time Warner deal. At
least I have them saved, so I can send them out to everyone belatedly!" It
was at this point that my friend morphed into a Mako shark and said, "Yeah,
right! Like anyone will believe such a story!" He then grabbed my hard drive
in his fierce jaws and dove out through the hole in the window screen that
Jolee and Shayna have managed to widen with numerous digits and Barbie heads.

What can I say? I hope everyone has had a splendid holiday weekend. We all
went to Coney Island yesterday and visited the New York aquarium. Among the
highlights were the beluga whales and the dolphin show, except for the part
when I was violently splashed by a Dolphin named Presley. Shayna only
shielded me partially, and I learned, Never Laugh at Your Wife When She Has
Been Splashed By A Dolphin Because You Will End Up With A Mouthful of
Seawater.

Then, we headed over to the plethora of amusement rides that are along the
boardwalk, the highlight of which was riding on the world-famous Wonder
Wheel. Of course, pictures are worth a thousand words, and so it goes: for
visual images, please visit

(Defunct Site)

Enjoy!

Bill