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If I read more slowly, I'd fall asleep.

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For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) January 22, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. https://tinyurl.com/shxshtfd Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/u6a8pa4m Mibbit has changed something and our link maker no longer works on Mibbit, sorry. mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) January 08, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "The Cactus" by O. Henry. https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/the-cactus "The garments of his soul must have appeared sorry and threadbare. Vanity and conceit? These were the joints in his armor. And how free from either she had always been--But why--" Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/56xcczxk mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) January 08, 2022 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "No Forwarding Address" by Laura Jarosz. https://tinyurl.com/yckfwccv A package arrives at your house, but you didn’t order anything. What happens next? Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner If you have any problems or questions or wish to be removed from this list, just email me at the email link above. Mibbit Link Users: https://tinyurl.com/y59x7gs4 Kiwi IRC link: https://tinyurl.com/56xcczxk mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

Do you see this?

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For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) December 11, 2021 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) "The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame. https://americanliterature.com/author/kenneth-grahame/fairy-tale/the-reluctant-dragon The Reluctant Dragon is one of our Favorite Fairy Tales, published in Grahame's collection, Dream Days in 1902, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. The boy discovers he and the dragon are both struggling poets, and tries to convince Saint George that there's no sense in slaying a good dragon. Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner Please note that we have added a link to the channel for kiwi IRC (The Webchat we use on our website) as well as Mibbit, use whichever one you're most comfortable with. If you have any problems or questions, just email me at the email link above. Mibbit Link Users: https://tinyurl.com/y59x7gs4 Kiwi IRC link: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.koach.com/readers_corner mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.

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I click on "All Programs" but the ones I use often are on my taskbar

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Thank you, Lizzie.

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ROFL, Tony.

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Here's what my start menu looks like on win10.

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Happy Birthday, Edgar.

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LOL!!!

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Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) September 25, 2021 -- 01:30 A.M. (GMT) For comments or suggestions, email to: alpinetx79830@gmail.com "Suffer the Children" by Mary Ann McGuigan. https://tinyurl.com/nb4hv382 Meeting Place: #Readers_Corner Please note that we have added a link to the channel for kiwi IRC (The Webchat we use on our website) as well as Mibbit, use whichever one you're most comfortable with. If you have any problems or questions, just email me at the email link above. Mibbit Link Users: https://tinyurl.com/y59x7gs4 Kiwi IRC link: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.koach.com/readers_corner mIRC Users: /server -m chat3.koach.com:6667 -j #readers_corner I hope to see you all at our chat. Don't forget to bring a friend.