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LOL....that is great. Gotta love technology.

So sorry to hear this Dan. You've had way too much of such things over the last few years. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

Brenda, I honestly suspect that it's the battery. That is the very first thing I would check. Like Bob, I have serious doubts that your starter or starter solenoid are bad.

Please keep our friend Rick Butler in your prayers. I am sad to report that his wife Linda passed away around 10:00 pm last night. Rick and Linda have been personal friends since long before I started VentureRider.org and Eileen and I have been on some amazing bike trips with him and Linda. Linda was only 64 years old and they had been married for 44 years. I can't even pretend to know what he is going through at this time. They were pretty much joined at the hip. I guess it was relatively sudden. From what I understand, she suffered a heart attack a few days ago.

Well, we all know that the Rum won't help solve the problems but sometimes I guess we just need to relax and try to forget about them for a little while. I sure hope things get better for you. That's a lot to take all at once. There are words that go something like "the Lord will never give us more than we can handle". I tell you, though, sometimes I wish he didn't have so much faith in me. Prayers with you, my friend.

No problem and changing it is certainly not a requirement, just makes it easier to know what you are asking. Glad you have joined us. HEY....good job. I see that you got it changed even before I finished typing my reply. You are more computer literate than you though.

Russell, you old hoot owl, make no mistake about it. You are missed my friend. Your profile says that you are member number 48 but we know that after the famous crash a few years ago and everybody had to re-register, you lost ground. I think that you were originally member number 3 or something like that. Bottom line, you have been here from the very beginning and I think that you know how much your support meant to me back then and still today. You are the perfect representation of what VentureRiders is all about. Now you take care of yourself and get back here. We truly do miss you.

I straightened the picture for you but I have another question. You stated that it is an '83 Venture? The color would actually indicate that it's an '84. Does the title show it as an '83? It is possible that the plastic has been changed but I doubt it. One more thing that will be helpful when you ask questions. You can add the year, model and etc. to your posts. Where your's says "supporting member" twice under your username, you can replace one of those with the bike's year and model. Then when you post a question or comment, other members will know what bike you are talking about. Here is how to do it. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?90684-Help-us-to-Help-you-with-your-bike-info-in-your-header-updated-to-new-forum

Folks, there is always camping here at the Nelson Campground.

Well, maybe if some of you want to go, we can get together here and go together. Might be a fun day. Will have to see how my schedule looks when it gets a bit closer though. I am slammed right now.

Looks like on July 15th they will be auctioning off over 700 cars and other vehicles from a private collection. Auction is in Norwalk, OH which is only about 30 minutes down the road. I may go if I am able to. Wish I had LOTS of money though. http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/01/31/collectors-700-car-stash-heading-to-auction.html some pretty good pictures here: http://www.vanderbrinkauctions.com/auctions_pictures.php?page=1&detail=205

For future reference, I have also copied this to the General Tech Library and stuck it at the top.

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I think that I got all those pictures restored.

Of course you can use it. Heck that there's official...I say OFFICIAL club business.

Could be a hoax. Are they asking you to click on a link to verify anything at all? PayPal will NOT send you an email asking you to click on a link to verify your information. They will tell you to go to PayPal and login as you normally would.

I don't know how far I would go. My general rule of thumb is about a 100 mile radius. To be honest though, I travel so much that I could probably work them in further in some cases if the customer would be OK with me installing in the evening. As for Eileen, she would sure like to help but there just isn't much that she could do. Besides, she pretty much has her plate full taking care of doctors appointments and other stuff.

By the way, if anybody knows of someone in the Ohio area that needs a stairlift, I have also redone and taken over the website. They can contact me there. http://www.northcoastmobility.com

As some of you may have read, I'm trying to help my brother in law as he struggles with cancer by keeping his business running. He owns a company called NorthCoast Mobility where he sells and installs Acorn Stairlifts. I do sales calls on Friday afternoons and evenings and then do the installs over the weekend. It's not that big of a deal except that his illness came on very quickly so he never got to train me on cutting and preparing the rails for different length stairs and we never got to do an install. Here is a picture of my first install. Did it this morning and then two more after this one. So three in one day isn't too bad for somebody who had never done it before. Not that difficult to do but a little time-consuming. It took me about an hour to cut and prepare each one before going to the install sites. By the third one, I had learned a few little tricks that made it go faster. I think that I am getting to the point where I can do the onsite install in 1 to 1 1/2 hours. I sold these three last week. Now I just need to sell some more. So here is a picture of my first install. After doing 3 of these today, I feel like I need to install one in my own house so that I can get to my bed.

Hate hearing about anybody suffering, especially the children. Prayers up.

I will second the recommendation for OpenOffice. I use it all the time. My work laptop is a PC. My personal laptop is a MacBook Pro. I have OpenOffice on the Mac and it works with all the Microsoft Office files perfectly. Word, Excel, etc. are no problem. The Mac came with software that is supposed to work with them but it often doesn't display Office files correctly. OpenOffice always does. It is so good that I would never spend the money for Microsoft Office regardless if I needed something for a PC or a Mac. The company supplies Microsoft Office on my Dell or it wouldn't be there.

I found and modified a simple ride waiver online. Emailed it to you. It is in .doc format. If you need it in a different format, just let me know and I can convert it.

I just emailed you the registration form from last year's rally. I haven't found the ride waivers yet but will keep looking. Some years they have been used and other years not.

If you have an Iphone, Ipad, MacBook, etc., they have "AirPlay". With my Apple TV box, anything that I can see on my phone can be linked to any TV with the Apple TV box connected to it.