Hotmail is HORRIBLE -- it's like they can tap right into everything. I get emails from spammers using the same name as family, spam from ME, for god's sake. I get around 40 or so emails a day -- if I'm lucky eight are for real. I bought www.atomic-raygun.com and they forward email, so I can be anything I can think of -- each time different if I want -- @atomic-raygun.com -- like auntiev@atomic-raygun.com, or weaponsofmassdestruction@atomic-raygun.com -- I have to keep myself interested somehow! I went to dinner with Lucia and Elizabeth at Chiang Mai. There was a card on the door exhorting customers to buy "bubble tea," so L and I did (E had a beer). I had coconut, Lucia had strawberry. Came with a super-wide straw and black tapioca pearls in the bottom, which I used to peashoot at Elizabeth. Yucky sweet. The food was great, though -- squid and prawn stir fry, and green curry. I was going to take my straw home so I can peashoot at the Lakefair parade next week, but I forgot it. Then I took E food shopping at Safeway. I rode around on a scooter (I've done that the last two or three times). monkeypoxvirus@atomic-raygun.com