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This issue of Keeping in Touch deals with several matters of interest to Prime Time Surfers:

1.) This special Christmas edition includes some thoughts about how special this Christmas has become because of all that we Americans (and the rest of the world, for that matter) have been through the past few weeks and months.

2.) We want to share a special thought for our Prime Time lady readers, taken from recent world events.

3.) We hear much about computer viruses. But, what are some things each of us can do to help prevent the spread of viruses? If each of us did our part, we could virtually quarantine these vicious little bugs!

4.) Final Christmas thoughts

1.) A Christmas Thought

We Americans have been through a lot this year, especially since September 11. Even before the terrorist attacks, we were feeling the effects of the slowing economy, and the September events served to make even those concerns secondary to our sense of security and well-being.

Because of all that we've been through lately, this Christmas season will be very special in many ways. Those of us at SeniorSSuperStoreS want to thank so many of you for your kind words of encouragement and for sharing some of your thoughts with us through the year, and especially at this Holiday season.

One of the thoughts that we want to share is the following that was provided to us by a friend, Don, in Texas. He notes that it was provided to him by another Internet friend. (Isn't it interesting how the sense of "community" encourages us to share thoughts and sentiments among others of like mind?)

We hope you enjoy.......

Ways We're Different This Christmas

2.) For our Prime Time Ladies

Have you ever felt like this?

Take all American women who are within five years of menopause and train us for a few weeks, outfit us with automatic weapons, grenades, gas masks, moisturizer with SPF15, Prozac, hormones, chocolate, and canned tuna. Then drop us (parachuted, preferably) across the landscape of Afghanistan, and let us do what comes naturally. We'll find bin Laden!

Think about it. Our anger quotient alone, even when doing standard stuff like grocery shopping and paying bills, is formidable enough to make even armed men in turbans tremble. We've had our children. We would gladly suffer or die to protect them and their future. We'd like to get away from our husbands, if they haven't left already. And for those of us who are single, the prospect of finding a good man with whom to share life is about as likely as being struck by lightning. We have nothing to lose.

We've survived the water diet, the protein diet, the carbohydrate diet, and the grapefruit diet in gyms and saunas across America and never lost a pound. We can easily survive months in the hostile terrain of Afghanistan with no food at all! We've spent years tracking down our husbands or lovers in bars, hardware stores, or sporting events...finding bin Laden in some cave will be no problem.

Uniting all the warring tribes of Afghanistan in a new government? Oh, please ... we've planned the seating arrangements for in-laws and extended families at Thanksgiving dinners for years ... we understand tribal warfare.

Between us, we've divorced enough husbands to know every trick there is for how they hide, launder, or cover up bank accounts and money sources. We know how to find that money and we know how to seize it ... with or without the government's help!

Let us go and fight. The Taliban hates women. Imagine their terror as we crawl like ants with hot-flashes over their godforsaken terrain. I'm going to write my Congresswoman. You should, too!

3.) Help prevent the spread of computer viruses.

Here's a short follow-up on the various computer Virus Alerts which have been going around. It's a computer trick that's very important and ingenious in its simplicity.

As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads straight for your email address book and sends itself to everyone in there, thus infecting all your friends and associates.

This trick won't keep the virus from getting into your computer, but it will stop it from using your address book to spread further, and it will alert you to the fact that the worm attacked your system.

First, open your address book and click on "new contact" just as you would do if you were adding a new friend to your list of email addresses. In the window where you would type your friend's first name type in !000 (exclamation mark followed by 3 zeros).

In the window below where it prompts you to enter the new email address, type in "WormAlert," which of course, isn't a real email address. Then complete everything by clicking Add and OK. Now, here's what you've done and why it works:

The "name" !000 will be placed at the top of your address book as entry #1.

This will be where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends. But when it tries to send itself to !000, it will be undeliverable because of the phony email address you entered (WormAlert). If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further and your contacts will not be infected.

Here's the second great advantage of this method: if an email cannot be delivered, you will be notified of this in your InBox almost immediately. Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an email addressed to WormAlert could not be delivered, you know right away that you have the worm virus in your system. You can then take steps to get rid of it with your anti-virus software!

Since cyberterrorism may be on the rise...please pass this on.

4.) Final Christmas Thoughts

As we approach Christmas and the beginning of a new year, we at SeniorSSuperStoreS.com want to wish each of you the very merriest of Christmases and the best that life has to offer for the new year. If you can spend some time with family and friends, please do so. Take the time to express to each of them how much they mean to you.

If you can't be with the ones you love and who love you, then volunteer for some worthy cause or visit someone who may be lonely, too. Just maybe, you'll find a new friend or circle of friends. Each of us has too much to offer someone else than to keep it all bottled up.

Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

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