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Last night I made a guest talk along with Will Cate at the AMUG monthly meeting. Stood on the stage at Emory's White Hall to talk about my trip to the MacWorld Expo in Boston: "The Greatest Mall on Earth."

I capped my talk my demonstrating a Video Postcard that showed me holding a lobster in front of a rolling street scene shot at Faniel Hall saying "Hi Mom I'm on Mac TV!" So I got to introduce QuickTime to the group. Pretty good for my first meeting.

Got a free mouse pad and some bright yellow sunglasses from Lotus. Nicole got the glasses.

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Kathy went job hunting last Saturday. She had a follow up interview at Ruby Tuesday's yesterday. She has decided that working one or two nights during the week would give her back her weekends, let her work hours that are more agreeable, and probably lead to more money.

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I did something very stupid this morning. I thought I would clean my glasses by letting hot water circulate around them in the bathroom sink. Shut the plug and let the hot water run over them. I figured the water would be drained by the overflow drain at the top of the sink. Then I went off to iron my shirt.

Amazing how much water can come out of that faucet in such a short time. The overflow drain didn't work, and I opened the bathroom door to see a bunch of water on the floor. Kathy hopped up, and we got most of the water up with towels. Then we discovered that everything under the sink was soaked, so we cleaned all of that out and dried it. Set up the fan to blow the bathroom dry.

Downstairs, Kathy felt a drop on her shoulder. The fluorescent light fixture had about an inch of water in it. The water had gone through the floor and was coming out of the light fixture hole.

I shut of the power and took the light fixture cover off, carefully tilting it toward one corner where Kathy held a bucket up to catch the water.

I had to take off the entire fixture. Light brown water started coming through stippled plaster. I set up a hair dryer connected to a vacuum cleaner hose to blow air up into the ceiling. Don't know if that helped. Looks like we'll have to repaint the kitchen ceiling.