C:Amie - 2023-10-13 9:11 AM
I have tried several times, alas I have been completely unable to get hold of @Joval. I fear something bad has happened
ArchiMark - 2023-10-13 9:37 AM
C:Amie - 2023-05-10 12:05 AM
Unfortunately I have been unable to get hold of Joval, I have been trying for many months now to check he was okay, but all my attempts have been unsuccessful.
Me too.....I've been hoping that he just got burnt out on this and decided to lay low for a while.....
I have his contact info, so, will try to reach him...if I hear anything will let you know....and certainly will let him know that we miss him around here....
Mark
Thanks guys for caring...it's hard to come back to these posts.
Something really bad did happen: Patty, My wonderful wife of ~50 years suddenly became ill on her birthday with a horribly aggressive leukemia-like lymphoma was hospitalized for a month, 23 transfusions, chemo, intubation x 2 weeks...a noble struggle...but she died 5 weeks later on my birthday.
Oh, that was so so tough to just witness being there nearly everyday. Holding her warm hand, she nodding that she loved me and I vice versa. Afterward I was a broken man, a lost soul, life was meaningless... everything I had been working for for decades seemed lost, gone. I couldn't face the world, isolated myself, for many months. As Dante wrote: Abandon hope all ye who enter... it was a heartbroken lonely empty hell... for many months. Like John Lennon's song "Hey, you've got to hide your love away." or the Bee Gees Robin Gibb 'I can't see nobody." I felt like a complete and absolute failure. High anxiety almost unbearable, unable to sleep more than 1 or 2 hours---even with sleeping pills. Tons of bills and financial responsibilities rained down, the house was cold and empty... worst winter in decades... I was miserable.
My darling precious little HPC's meant nothing to me, thought of getting rid of them all...certain I would never enjoy them again or ever visit this website again.
But finally... a miracle. You see, for decades Patty used the same password for all her accounts: Martha. On her many sequential laptops, various email accounts, comcast, Ebay, Amazon, you name it. Why? Because she enjoyed Martha Stewart cooking and crafts etc. Of course I kept prodding her to change her password for security reasons...and she did in some cases add a birthyear, or Upper case spelling, but remained a loyal fan for some unknown, unmentioned reason...
And so it was some 8 months after my loss, that I met a very pretty woman, chemical engineer in management, who had lost her husband of 18 years to pancreatic cancer after a long downhill fight some 2 years earlier. Her name : Martha! I saw her at a friend's retirement party, and get this, she was accompanied by her then rather platonic boyfriend of 1 year: Stewart!
A few weeks later we started to see each other and within 3 days my life was back on tract, filled with teasing laughter and joyous warmth once again and beaming with confidence. And little by little... the cuddly Jornada 720 and MP900 HPC's began to cast their spell and led me back here to this web site... really a miracle I thought would never ever happen again. So, Thank you Patty... for keeping your faith in Martha. Thank you Martha for making me smile again!
And thank you HPC:Factor for... well... just being the wonderfully supportive HPC:Factor that you are!
Now, the future does look Bright...yes, very bright... indeed!
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