I hope she is safe and thanks georgy for writing this post. I hope she feels loved (georgy too) Sucha great gal who put us all together in one place or another. For me it was the triva where we had a fun time. I know others have special relationships with her. I think she was the first to greet me here. I have her in my heart. I will speak in the first person to Jasdip as I hope you are reading this: Miss you, woman, you are as real and talented as they get and hope that you are centering yourself and where you're supposed to be. Thinking of you.

Jasdip, There's a lot involved. There can be logjams on the internet, your computer could be doing extra processing on something, there can be a quirk in the memory, there can be busy servers on the net and more, and none of these are caused by the internet provider. Your modem can occasionally freeze too, for whatever reason, again, doesn't matter the source. There's certain times of the day the internet just plain gets busy. And if a big event happens, the internet gets packed and that slows things down too. Overall though, I don't think you should be noticing things too slow too often. If it does, a reboot solves a myriad of problems. And sometimes, we all get a little impatient when things aren't really all that slow! :D On a different system I used for a while I did notice some occasional slowness and I'd just do a "repair" on the connection and it would fix it. If you have Vista, try right clicking on the monitors icon in the tray and click Diagnose and Repair.

Oh, I'm so sorry. You had such good and hopeful news last I heard. I'll be thinking of you; must be so very hard to see your mother ill and not be able to help.

Ok, where were we? Oh yeah. After clicking to create a new Ideabook, you get to name it something awesome, like "Recipes and Tips I want to try!" Then below that you can add a description. You can type in whatever you wish, but don't be a smart aleck like this person... Also, you have the option of making it Public, or Private (in case you're embarrassed by the number of posts your saving. I don't embarrass easily!) Then click Create. ... And look at that! You have a new Ideabook! Whoo-hoo! Oh, but you want to save a post with a recipe in it, or some tip, or an idea? Okay... So head on over to the Cooking Forum of Garden Web (coz that's the best place to get recipes, help, tips, and inspiration, and also, it's where all the cool people hang out.) Now, you see a post that inspires you? Okay, see the Save button at the end of that post? Well, don't just sit there, click it! And you get this pop-up. So hit the arrow button and click on the Ideabook you want to put it in (the one you just created would be a good place), and type in (if you wish), a comment to remind you of why you saved that post. Like Jasdip's poppadoms. Never had one, never heard of them before, but sure would like to try them! Ok, click Save to Ideabook... Now, because Houzz thinks everyone should have their nifty Houzz save button, they ask if you want it (even if you already have the darned thing, like I do!). You can click that, or just click no thanks to get rid of the pop-up. And next time you go to your account, you can click on the new Ideabook you just created, and look at the various posts you saved : ) I'll just add this: It's a good thing to make that little note of why you saved the post (unlike me when I first started doing this), because you would otherwise have a zillion unlabeled posts, and what if you were looking for something specific? Have fun Jasdip! PS: I didn't know one could save posts to Ideabooks until recently. ...back to the sawdust and sweat : /