PING kaliopi!

Here is a checklist for preparing your family against pandemics. (No, I haven't learned of anything scary heading this way.) :)

Sweeps "win" :)

I won a first prize (one of 100) from Deilmann Cruises. (Grand prize was a 7-day cruise on the Mozart.) The prize is for $2000 towards a cruise, plus they'll discount the stateroom by $1000, and they've given me a list of cruises with free airfare from NY. Still -- the least expensive cruise with a queen-bed stateroom (because I'm not going through the QE2 debacle EVER AGAIN) would be $4632 out of pocket for six days, plus drinking and spending. That's not a win. :)

However -- I poked on the sweeps site and saw that other winners were able to apply their winnings towards one of their river cruises, which seem to be less expensive. I called the company and they're sending me a brochure about those -- we'll see if it's a viable option. The company very nicely post-dated the letter until the end of July, so even though I have to get it notarized "within three days," that buys us some time.

Still. A win is a win, and exciting. Now...when will I win a car?

Firefox help requested

I'm not exactly sure what's changed recently, but I can't view PDF files in Firefox. It think it's loading the PDF, and will display "done" in the lower left corner, but the page is blank. I can right-click and opt to view most things in the external application, but not in the case of passworded sites.

I have Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional and Adobe Reader 7.0. I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.4, and my computer is running WinXP with SP2.

Anyone have any ideas?