Hi everyone!!

I've been missing in action for almost a month now. For the first few weeks I was recovering from the worst case of the flu that I have ever had. It went into pneumonia. The first anti biotics I took didn't work at all. In fact I believe they made me sicker. The second round did the trick and in 5 days I was over it.

As soon as I felt like getting out of bed, I went to my computer and found out that it had finally stopped working. A friend dropped my big screen television on it. The monitor (which is also the computer since it's an apple iMac) has 3 very large cracks in it.

Even with the cracks, it ran fine for a while. A few days ago it stopped working. I thought to myself, that's fine... I'll use my Toshiba backup computer... It's been stored on the desk table every since my move. I picked it up and looked around for the cord. After searchin the entire workspace and my bedroom, (I have a habit of using this computer in bed), I realized that the cord for it must still be packed in one of the hundreds of boxes that I have not had the time to unpack.

Deciding that it would take me weeks to unpack everything, I decided that buying a new cord for it would be the best idea. The cord arrives this Tuesday so I will be back online late Tuesday.

Now on to business... I need to pay for our server. I honestly can't remember if I paid the server last month. I was very sick at the time. Hopefully hobie will let us know how much I owe the server.

I also have a $600.00 electric bill that needs to be paid before the 5th.

I have gone back and forth for years now about charging a fee to read RMN. I still want RMN free for all to read... but I am not physically able to work like I used to and pay the costs of running the webpage myself. If my ebay plans don't work out... I don't know what I am going to do except continue to beg for money.

We missed the March goal by $1000.00. I have yet to put up an April fund raising widget, so it looks like March will stay up for all of April. The combined widgets need to have $6,000 in them to pay for all the expenses involved in running the home office for RMN.

Believe me, I have no frills. The RMN office is quite austere as are my needs. I have not bought new clothes in years. Once you start shopping at Goodwill and Salvation Army, you have "sticker" shock when you look at the prices of clothes at Walmart... and you would almost faint when you compare the price of clothes at Macys to what you find at Thrift stores.

If you can help me pay the electric bill of $400.00... I would truly appreciate it. And if there's a little extra for the cable/telephone/internet I won't have to do another beg to pay for this.

Thank you so much for your encouragement and support.

Rayelan