Founder's comments: travel emails, suggestion, my orthotics

September 15, 2005

Dear ers,

It is wonderful to hear about all our Ers traveling. At this time

I would like to suggest something. Take all the notes on your

vacations/trips that you want. Then when you return, send us one email

about the entire trip. It seems most do this anyway, so I guess this is

just a reminder.

Another reminder, while I've got your attention: Please do not send

FWDS or attachments along with your posts. These will not show up

with your post because they are automatically discarded.

I'd like to personnally thank Rick for pitch hitting for me yesterday

while I was in the city and offline. I had several appointments, one of

which was visiting my orthotist at Swiss Balance. Hurray, I didn't need

any changes to my orthotics, they were just cleaned and got new tops

and bottoms.

I asked Stefan if he could make me waterproof ones...well that answer

was no, because the chlorine would damage them. Something I learned

from Stefan, which I did not know, that while working out in the pool,

even my feet are getting less stress on them, simply because of the

water buoyancy, so he just gave me some extra lightweight dryable

insoles to wear. But like the rest of my body, my feet still benefit

from the exercise

I also was able to attend 2 hearings on SSI and SSDI cases - as you

know I am on a fast track program for learning non attorney

representation in these cases. So, sitting in on these hearings was so

interesting, and I sure learned alot. Nothing like keeping my mouth

shut and just listening and watching faces, body language and absorbing

everything.

I also had the chance to sit in a court room where a lawyer friend was

defending his cousin for an issue. Really interesting to see a Female

Judge, younger than I am, on the bench, and watch her demeanor, plus

watching the guys from the DA's office and their drug-possession cases

get reviewed - now that was really like a scene out of the 3 Stooges.

One heck of a d*** interesting day with all these " legal eagles " , plus

my feet and shoes are ready for another 50 thousand miles, LOL.

And Rick, THANKS AGAIN! Next week is our 7th birthday - I have

some big news for you all then!

~ Gretchen/ Founder

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