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Talk about making me feel old. I'm old enough to be your mother! LOL.

Unfortunately, something's come up and I won't be able to make it at 4pm tonight, so we'll have to reschedule. Anyone that's interested, please PM me what days and times are good for you and I'll try to coordinate something that fits the most schedules.

Sad news… Actor Dennis Burkley has passed away. He played Bubba in episode "Find Loretta Lynn" and Mickey Larsen in "Strange Visitor To Hazzard". He was also seen in several great 70's and 80's shows like Rockford Files, Greatest American Hero, The Fall Guy, and Knight Rider.

Hey folks, I'm testing out an online conferencing site that might allow us to not only have chat, but allow me to stream Dukes episodes for us to watch together online. Would anybody be interested in helping me test it out this Saturday? Say around 4pm PST? PM me if you're interested! I need more than 5 folks. If Saturday doesn't work, but you're interested, let me know what works for you. Buford and I did a test run tonight and he said it was "pretty cool".

I just wanted to chime in here. I'm not gone and I haven't abandoned HNet. I just have very little free time due to my new job. I do have some ideas to revitalize HNet, but unfortunately a number of them rely on version 5 of the forum software which I don't think is quite ready enough yet for our purposes. It will allow me to highlight specific threads on the main forum page and super-customize the site. I think that will help highlight the most interesting content and keep folks interested, perhaps get more folks signing up. Facebook has definitely taken over a bit. I've seen participation on other forums slow because of FB. There is still a place for forums though. FB is good for quick one-off conversations and forums are best for in-depth long term conversations. One thing I want to do when I have time is to get a chat room up and running again. Since the show isn't currently on tv, I would love to have a once a month chat where we all view our dvds at the same time. I know some of you have done that before. I think we could get quite a bit of participation for that, especially if I advertised it to our 12,800+ Facebook fans. I appreciate all of you who have kept things going here in my absence. You all are the heart of HazzardNet.

There are a lot of things on the history channel now that I'm not sure counts as history. LOL.

My webhost informs me that HazzardNet is being migrated to a brand spankin' new server. (I hope that means faster performance and less issues!) Sometime in the next 48 hours, there might be slight downtime as they transition over.

For battling malware, I would recommend MalwareBytes and SuperAntiSpyware. The last time I checked, they had free versions. They've gotten me out of plenty of jams when I was using Windows (which I don't anymore). I haven't had a virus or malware since I switched to a Mac (knock wood!!!).

Thirty million dollars? For that kind of money, I just might sell HazzardNet to you.

If I won, my life wouldn't change much. I'd just travel more. Most of it, I'd probably give away to charitable causes or set up my own charitable organization. That's just way more money than I could ever spend. Looks like both rolled over. Powerball is over half a BILLION dollars. Holy moly. I'd be happy with 1/1000th of that.

Well, I didn't hit the $190 million Mega Millions tonight, but I have tickets for the $360 million Powerball tomorrow night. If I win, party at my place.

That looks like it might be Bob Aaron. He stood in for Denver sometimes and played bit parts throughout the series. Great guy. He took me under his wing while I was on the reunion set and showed me around. Got to see him again some years later at the first Dukesfest. Some day I'll have to post the autographed photo he gave me. The message he wrote is hilarious.

Same thing happened to my brother, Hoss. It was cheaper for him to get a whole new laptop than to replace the GPU.

Welcome, Roth. Glad to have you here and I hope you enjoy yourself in our little community.

Sounds like you're having as much fun as I've had with the HazzardNet server the past week, Rog. I think I FINALLY have all the problems ironed out (she said hopefully). At the very least, I've stopped getting emails every few hours saying that the server's down, up, down, up, down.... (Fingers crossed.) It took me forever to figure out what was going on because there were multiple problems, including a site of my sister's that had been hacked and used to send spam. Ugh. I spent a LOT of time deleting spam and bounced emails.... on the order of 100,000 of them. I have upgraded, updated, hardened, secured, and done everything else you can think of to the server this week. Hopefully, it'll be stable for a while. Computers... you can't live with them, you can't toss them out the window because eventually you'll need them again for something and they're too expensive to replace too often.

Ok, I'm going to stray from the shoes theme and use the "of" in that last title. A Room of Our Own - Billy Joel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVJDFpOGsVM

Nylon Curtain actually has a few one word songs: Allentown Pressure Surprises http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WsdGXcxWyw

Laura - Billy Joel I love this song. In fact, I love the whole Nylon Curtain album, but this song especially. Edit: Hoss reminded me this song does drop an f-bomb, so... you've been warned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqCav-cvuz0

It's just another reminder of how much evil there is in the world. Honestly, we don't need any more reminders. My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.

Once you've had a chance to look around the new forums, please leave feedback here. I've already gotten some feedback and am trying some small changes here and there as well as finishing up the customization of the theme. Also, if you find any bugs or issues with color (I already know about the white background on quoted text), please post about that here as well.

The forum upgrade is complete. Now, there's just the matter of tweaking the colors a bit more, as some backgrounds are white, making the text unreadable. I will get to that later today. Right now, however, I'm going to bed, as I pulled an all-nighter on this. If you encounter any bugs other than something to do with the colors/layout of the site (i.e. posting, logging in, PMing, etc), please PM or email me.

I just found this online, rather amusing. Captain Grizzy’s 2011 Showboat Parade on Lake Pococtopaug featured a boat that you might recognize! It's the Boar's Nest, complete with a jumping General Lee and a patrol car crashed into the back. You can read more about the parade and see the other interesting boat entries here: http://www.ctcameraeye.com/?p=3841

Ok, forum software upgrade has been purchased. Found a $25 off coupon too. Yay! Still, it was pricey. Fortunately, though, I don't think I'll have to purchase another upgrade for quite some time. Thanks to all who've contributed. I'll put the thank you page up when I do the forum upgrade. Of course, if you haven't already donated and would like to, please feel free. https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/9SHfc With the upgrade will come a change to the look of the forums. I'll try my best to make the changes minimal, but you will definitely see some difference.

I am planning the forum upgrade for this Sunday, April 14th, at midnight Pacific. The site shouldn't be down more than a few hours. I won't be upgrading to the latest version (5), as there are still several issues with it, but I will be upgrading to the most recent version 4. If anyone would still like to contribute to help me pay for the upgrade, you can do so here: https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/9SHfc

Hope you have a wonderful birthday today!