You don't seem to be posting, beets... ah well, all in good time I suppose...

I have taken up the task of building a computer with a budget of NZ$1500... Lets see how that fares throughout this & next year....

Luke.

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- Luke.

Keep up the strength and all problems will fall one at a time, 'though they may seem like a range of mountains.

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

Just in to say hello to Beets and others.. ;-)



May you all have a lovely day!

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Good morning to you Arizona. I hpe you are fully recovered and that the better weather, coming, is starting to bring Spring (in bursts) to your part of the continent?

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

;-) Hei John!
not recovered in body, but when i look at the
weather today, im surely recovered in mind ;-D

Its lovely.. and im on my way out to enjoy it.

..the best wishes.. ;-)

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;-) Hei John!
not recovered in body, but when i look at the
weather today, im surely recovered in mind ;-D

Its lovely.. and im on my way out to enjoy it.

..the best wishes.. ;-)

Been good weather, most of the last few weeks here as well.

Look forwards to your outdoor visit, and keep positive!

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

. . . eh y'all - Hope Each of You are Well & Accounted for

< espressO is served up @ Rocky's - help yourselves

> catCh ya's!! later . . .

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Hello Dear Friends!!!


Richard, John, Arizona, Luke:

How very nice to see you on this thread, what a truly pleasant surprise! :]]


I'm sorry to have been away. I'll do an update soon but very briefly: Dad's will went missing, the lawyer who drafted it went missing, the intended executor had also disappeared! So I've been hunting high and low. My good news today is that I found the lawyer; he's starting a case in Washington DC and won't be back in Canada until Friday, but at least I've now found him. :]]

I've also had a lot of banking to deal with, and have a good friend to help out on a tricky legal situation. So it's been hectic, you know?

But I look forward to getting some of my troubles solved and spending some pleasurable time with you guys (and lady) either here or on Rocky's Cafe.

Thanks ever so much for thinking of me!


GOD BLESS!!!


Beets

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Good to see you back Beets.

While I'm here I think I'll grab myself a hot chocolate, maybe a piece of cake for supper?

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Good to see you back Beets.

While I'm here I think I'll grab myself a hot chocolate, maybe a piece of cake for supper?

Hi Andy!!!

What a good idea, I think I'll join you. Here's some hot chocolate with what the Viennese call "Schlag" (freshly whipped cream) and cinnamon sticks, courtesy of John originally. :]]

I hope that hits the spot for you.

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Oh yeah! That would do it Beets, thank you :D

Yum!

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I'm glad to hear it and I hope you have a real nice day!

It's nice to have some contact with a real friend as I chase and wrestle with my problems. :]]

See you later,


GOD BLESS!!! my friend...


Beets

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Hey Beets, it's the other end of the day here, but you know, I am always here to chat to a friend. You can PM me any time you want to talk, get something off your chest or need advice. Always happy to help.

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Good to see you back Beets.

While I'm here I think I'll grab myself a hot chocolate, maybe a piece of cake for supper?

Hi Andy!!!

What a good idea, I think I'll join you. Here's some hot chocolate with what the Viennese call "Schlag" (freshly whipped cream) and cinnamon sticks, courtesy of John originally. :]]

I hope that hits the spot for you.

Hi Beets, Albert, John, Richard! (Sorry if I forget any of you!I'm still a newbie...)

That looks very tempting right now......

Has anyone seen the article of SETI@home on Wikipedia....
Dunno if everyone else feels the same, but I don't think it retains a NPOV....

On the lighter side....
Phoned my future ISP today to get things sorted in the next few weeks.

Anyone got some news?

Luke.

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- Luke.

Good to see you back Beets.

While I'm here I think I'll grab myself a hot chocolate, maybe a piece of cake for supper?

Hi Andy!!!

What a good idea, I think I'll join you. Here's some hot chocolate with what the Viennese call "Schlag" (freshly whipped cream) and cinnamon sticks, courtesy of John originally. :]]

I hope that hits the spot for you.

Hi Beets, Albert, John, Richard! (Sorry if I forget any of you!I'm still a newbie...)

That looks very tempting right now......

Has anyone seen the article of SETI@home on Wikipedia....
Dunno if everyone else feels the same, but I don't think it retains a NPOV....

On the lighter side....
Phoned my future ISP today to get things sorted in the next few weeks.

Anyone got some news?

Luke.

Hi there Luke!

I'm glad things are getting sorted with your ISP. Boy! Will you ever enjoy getting faster speeds on your web pages and your downloads coming up! HAHAHAH! I can just picture how happy you'll look when that happens. :]]

I'll tell my news of what's been going on for me in the next post.


You have yourself a nice day, now. :]]

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Dear Friends!!!


Today's update:


Well, as I said below, I found myself in a very awkward position. Dad's Last Will and Testament had disappeared! The lawyer who drafted it dropped out of sight. The intended executor couldn't be found.

I'm embarrassed to even tell you all this, I can imagine what an idiot this makes me look like. But I'm doing it because I'm blogging on this topic of "What Happens When Your Last Parent Dies" (among other reasons) in the hope that those of you who haven't gone through it will learn from my experiences.

Lost the Will, lost the lawyer, lost the executor...how can this happen to a father and son who are both lawyers?! Well let me start by saying that if it can happen to me, it could happen to you, too. So let me explain how this came about.

I lost touch with my very experienced and successful Estate lawyer because as he became more successful, he became harder to reach. My first mistake was in thinking that I could always easily locate him.

Well that just isn't always the case with your lawyer, not when you're talking about a lawyer rising in his profession. You see the legal world for the last 10 years has been responding to globalization. The largest law firms are going international, merging with other firms and starting law offices all over the world. So they are becoming more and more like multinational corporations, the big fish gobbling small fish. They also do their best using head-hunters to steal the top lawyers away from each other.

The last time I tried to contact John (let's call him that), I couldn't. He had left his last law firm for a better partnership position with a bigger firm. The law firm he had been with misled me, they acted as if he had retired. They didn't want me to follow John to a competing law firm. I can't say that they outright lied, but they did a very cleverly worded spin job of misleading me into a wrong impression. John hadn't left the profession, he was just taking a brief vacation and then relocating to the new firm. When I called the Law Society (Bar Association) they simply hadn't kept up to date in keeping their records. So it looked like John dropped out of sight. No luck with his home number either. He had bought a bigger house, and finding himself very busy, he had changed his telephone numbers and even gotten his personal name delisted from the telephone directory. So I was looking for him in a period of transition. These are happening more and more to good lawyers while all this global jockeying and expansion is going on.

But how does someone trained as a lawyer and his lawyer son lose a Last Will between them? Easier than you might think. Like most people, we agreed that the Will would be kept in Dad's safety deposit box. He even made a point of taking me with him to the bank to see him place it there. But what happens is this: as people grow older and think more about what will happen after they die, they start to fret about their will. Is everybody covered? Did they remember to give their friend So-and-so that personal item they would so much enjoy and remember the deceased over? ...and so on. So they go to the bank and take the Will home with them, to go over it. In many cases you see, there are several small gifts or "Bequests" in a Will, several conditional executors, beneficiaries and so forth. The Will is several pages long and you can't go through it standing next to your safety deposit box, it just isn't convenient. When you think about it, Testators (Will makers) often change their mind (and their Wills) by amending them with additional codicils as their feelings about people change too, or because they've remembered someone else they wish to treat. The problem is: the Will often doesn't end up being taken back to the safety deposit box. I'll bet you any number of Wills get mislaid that way.

The same with the executors. They retire, they die, they become ill, they move, they leave the country...for one reason or another, they become unable or unwilling to act as executor for the Will. You just can't expect people to remain in place 10 years later.

So what's to be learned from this? People's situations change, so once a year you should locate the lawyer and the executor, and check with your parent to make sure of what's what, any codicils, and who is where. You'll save yourself a lot of aggravation that way.


I hope this will be of some help to you.


Thanks again, Dear Friends, for all of your good will and support!!!


GOD BLESS!!!


Beets

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Good advice, thank you Beets. Advice I should follow as I know it is going to catch me one day too. I presently have no idea who my Mums solicitor is!

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All that is many years in the past for us. We are now the senior generation, or coffin dodgers (as I oft quote).

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It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues

As I put it: "Everything is always changing"

We are all here for you Beets!

ON THE TOPIC OF MY ISP:
Things will be sorted out in a month or two, hopefully.
Broadband is only at MAX about 6 Mb/s...

Your Average News Headline: "Unbundling of Local Loop to occur, 2012"
or: "Telecom fined $220m, breached consumer rights for third time"

Keep on crunching,
Luke.

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- Luke.

Good advice, thank you Beets. Advice I should follow as I know it is going to catch me one day too. I presently have no idea who my Mums solicitor is!

I'll be there for you, Andy!!!

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