http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/images/rosetouch.gif Updates and news for a Year to Remember http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem I must apologize, I have not kept my promise, my goals yet again are not met. I was tired one night, then needed to help a friend with her resume the next night, uploading it online, then the next night talked to my sister on the phone for a long time, and then too tired the next night, so I have not kept my promise, not met my goal of updating one page a night. It's really hard in the summer, my six cats and I stay out back, the fenced in backyard, on the patio, working in and watering my garden, I don't make it until 8:00 or so, then am so tired. But I have read while out back. I don't know why I could never make it all the way through Nicholas Sparks' The Notebook until now. I've read almost all of his other novels, but it was either the Alzheimer's in the story, the fact that it was New Bern, NC that was the setting, which was one of the places I lived with my first husband, I'm not sure why, but I stopped read about half-way through the book. Over the past week, I began again, read it all, just finished tonight, and it was so wonderful, such a beautiful story, I have added a trailer from YouTube on the Filmograpy page, this is the book of all books as far as Alzheimer's related novels, the movie of all movies, and I applaude Nicholas Sparks, a bit late, but still I applaud this great book and great movie, so real, so true, as all of his other novels are, got to admit Nicholas Sparks has become my favorite author over the past few years, and it's so great that his first novel told such a beautiful love story, where one of the characters had Alzheimer's disease! Thank you, Nicholas! http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/update009 I went over the Alzheimer's Association Chapters page once again tonight, this time getting the correct names of the chapters. I still need to add any that I'm missing on this page, so I guess it will take one more night of work. Got to go to bed now, it's back to work tomorrow. http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/update008 I've updated the Alzheimer's Association Chapters page tonight, and there weren't as many URLs to comment out, most that had moved left redirect links, so I changed them to the new URLs. Yet a few links disappeared. I know the Alzheimer's Association has gone through some reorganization in the past few years. My state no longer has a chapter but has a local office of the chapter in a neighboring state. My local office is still as active as ever, and I'm at their Memory Walk every year. Anyway, I know too that names of chapters have changed, I didn't change that yet. I probably should work on that tomorrow night, working from the Alzheimer's Association site, changing the chapter names and picking up URLs for any that I missed in updating the page tonight. So once again, progress, but slowly, yet if I keep it up, one page a night, in a month I would think I will have pretty much updated the site. If you see a page I need to concentrate on right away, email me: bsparris@charter net. Thanks, and I hope you all are having a good weekend. http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/update007 I updated the Research Links page tonight, and once again, there were a lot of broken links, but still some excellent ones remain. My goal is to update at least one page per night. I think I've done all I can do tonight. So tired. Goodnight all. http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/update006 I've begun checking for broken links, starting with the Caregiver Resources page. I'm commenting out the broken ones, thinking maybe someday I will go back and search for them, finding the correct links, if any exist. I'm wondering if there will be any links left on these pages when I finish. It just makes me want to cry when I see how I've neglected this site. My reasons/excuses were several and varied, been through a lot the past few years, not enough time, whatever, thought I'd get it updated when I retired, but am realizing, retirement may never come, and this is more important than the online games I've been playing at night, though I've been telling myself those relax me and help me get tired so I'll sleep better. I think that in fact I will sleep better knowing I've done as much as I can, as well as I can, towards making this site a little better tonight than it was last night. And as for this rss feed, true I learned how to do this at work, but I'm not doing the fancy things here that I'm doing on the one at work, no tables, no HTML coding, no customizing to match the site, no images other than the site logo, maybe someday, but right now I just need to concentrate on updating this site, getting it back in shape, getting rid of the frustrating broken links and other problems. I apologize, and again, thank you for your patience with me. http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/update005 I've got quite a bit done tonight, took some stuff off the main page, trying to lessen the scrolling. I've added the ribbon (if you have a Web site or blog, click on it and get a ribbon of your own--The Alzheimer's Association will get $10 for every site that adds a ribbon!) I've added links in the drop-down menu to my other places on the Web, like at MySpace. And in the Photo Album I've added photo slide shows and videos of mine from YouTube and Webshots. I'm on a roll! There's still so much to do, and I could keep going all night, but I've got to go to work in about seven hours, so I'd better try to get some sleep. Again, my apologies for not getting with and updating this site sooner. http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/update004 I apologize for neglecting this site for a couple of years or more. I'll have to admit, I've neglected it so long I even forgot my password. Thank you, Chris at Zarcrom, for resetting it for me. I'm learning to do new things at work, like rss feeds, and I have blogs scattered all over the Web that I need to organize and link here. I have broken links everywhere on this site and I will work on them, though it will take time to fix them all. Pages I intended to be updated frequently, like Alzheimer's in the News, have been neglected for years, but I will try to get them going again, and to make use of some newer technlogy, maybe use rss feeds for this. I have a lot to learn and a lot of work to do, but I've got to try to rejuvenate this site, get it going well again, work on it regularly each evening and on weekends as I used to. Thank you for your patience with me. Brenda http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/update001