Starting off with a bang — at least if you like drum circles.
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December 31, 2020
December 15, 2020
Drum Circle
Starting in January, we will have a drum circle every Thursday at 4:00. Everyone is welcome. The only requirements are respect for the instruments and for your fellow drummers.
Drumming is one of the most basic ways of connecting with our deepest feelings. It is also a way to connect with other people. A group of drummers can settle nto a state of harmony by listening to the drumbeats around them and answering with their own. The effect is both relaxing and invigorating.
December 4, 2020
Do not forward e-mail
— especially if the message tells you to!
It is very likely that you will get e-mail warnings about a huge, horrible virus that will “burn your whole hard drive” or some such horse-hockey. These hoaxes probably go around more during the Christmas season because people are actually sending e-cards. This makes a warning about e-cards more potent.
The facts are: Viruses and worms may attack your computer if you click on links in e-mail from unknown senders. One disguise for bad e-mail is a greeting card notification. BUT there is no big new terror lurking out there. Reasonable precautions — updated and fully functioning antivirus, Windows security updates regularly installed — and common sense are all you need to be perfectly safe.
Don’t click on links in e-mail! That is a simple rule that everyone should learn in Internet Kindergarten.
The other rule is, don’t forward e-mail! If you must send something on, copy and paste (more kindergarten) the old message into a new one.
But before you tell all your friends about the latest impending doom, check it out for yourself. Use whatever search engine you like, but use it. You will usually find out that the same tired old e-mail has been going around for years.
Don’t send lies onward. Find out the truth and send it back.
From Snopes.com — Postcard/Hallmark/etc. warning
