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I am getting ready for NYC! Billie, per that link I sorta redid my homepage on AOL. I'm going to *on my own* and at my own pace try to spiff it up and learn something about tables and stuff.

Thank you for that link, Free! I checked out the ones on the page, too. You STILL look 20! What beautiful long, wavy hair! The - uh - coatrack was interesting! Maybe sometime you'll share why you chose that name!

I have no doubt whatsoever that you will learn about tables and stuff. :)

Thanks for showing us your NYC poster, too!

Yeah, figured I had to show it to you since I "stole" the background from your aquamarine profile. I thought I could try duplicating that beautiful effect, and the result told me that, well, I have to learn tables! (All in good time. I'm *so* busy right now.) I joined AOL hometown and last night uploaded the photos for the next profile to my bigger webspace! Baby steps . . . .

I chose "coatrack" because I joined the web/AOL community early on. And back then you didn't want to have a name that identified you as a girl or you'd get all these unwanted emails and IMs. (Of course, nowadays, *everyone* gets them -- but back then it was just women, LOL.) So I thought hmmmm, I must avoid this junk stuff. And I decided to be an inanimate object. And I thought of my office and things I had in it and the coatrack sprung to mind. So my webpage has a link to the actual coatrack that is my namesake. It's kind of an inside joke: "I'm a coatrack, not a girl, stop bothering me." (Early on in 1996, when a whole bunch of people started coming onto the internet, people were so tired of the sex talk that there was even a "kill the newbies" black ribbon campaign, jokingly suggesting that the newbies should be chased off the net.)

P.S. I confess those photos of me are five years old, even after account for the two years I routinely deduct when asked to report my age.

"You STILL look 20!"

Clean living. I really do look young. It's not vanity -- people think I'm much younger than, gulp, 42, all the time. It could be the way I behave and it's certainly that I still have my babyfat. (Working on that though.)

True story: Although I rarely drink, on my 40th birthday I needed one. Bill and I were in North Carolina at the beech and we went to a store and I tried to buy one bottle of beer (which is *really* much more than I should have!). They carded me! I laughed and thanked them for the compliment but noted I didn't have my driver's license. They said "no beer" then. They insisted. They were serious. I could have kissed them!