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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 865114, member: 16948&quot;]Hi all.&nbsp; As some of you may know, my computer crashed this past week.&nbsp; It&#039;s been very frustrating since the hard drive is &quot;dead&quot; and I hadn&#039;t backed anything up for a few months (never again will I wait that long to do a back up - please, I encourage all of you to go right now and back up your computer!!!).&nbsp; The good news is that it crashed just before I was coming here to Seattle where my computer guru brother lives (he used to work for Microsoft), so he helped me buy a new laptop and has loaded everything I need (and more!) so I&#039;m posting this from my brand spanking new amazing and awesome Acer laptop!&nbsp; Any way, I&#039;ve been out of touch and sort of in limbo lately when it comes to computers and the internet.&nbsp; But hopefully, when I get back home, everything will start falling back into place.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ve been really enjoying spending some time with my brother.&nbsp; We just finished playing &quot;beat your buddy&#039;s buns&quot; (a card game with similarities to spades)!&nbsp; He&#039;s also in a jazz band and a concert band so I got to hear them rehearse on Thursday night since they have a couple concerts this week.&nbsp; He&#039;s also been wonderful at carting me back and forth to the show!</p><p>In any event, this is my first PNNA show here in the Seattle area and I&#039;m having a blast.&nbsp; The show has been more than fantastic for me, all the new dealers I&#039;ve met have been very kind and welcoming, and they even say they enjoy the music I play on my iPod speakers!&nbsp; I&#039;m very sorry not to have been able to say hi to you SeattleSlammer, but you were right in that my table has been very steadily busy at this show.&nbsp; It&#039;s probably one of the best first shows I&#039;ve ever done, and has far exceeded my expectations in every way.&nbsp; Even with the rain here, it&#039;s a very beautiful part of the country with all the sweet smelling tall pine trees, fresh air, country roads, and friendly people.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial">Back to the show, on Friday I saw a several CU forum members and one CT member (please forgive me I can&#039;t remember his user name). My brother stopped by at the very end of the show today to pick me up so he came in to see what a coin show was like. He sat with me at my table while a scragly looking gentleman was sort of staring at my case, which he&#039;d been doing for about half an hour. He really looked like a homeless man with long unkempt hair, bad teeth, and baggy clothes. He chatted quite a bit about this and that and then finally asked to see a coin (1909-S AU55 Indian cent). I showed it to him, gave him a price, and he quickly bought it peeling off several hundred dollar bills. My brother was quite surprised as he would never have guessed a guy who &quot;looked like that&quot; could afford a coin worth over $800. I told him that I&#039;ve definitely learned never to judge a coin collector by his &quot;cover&quot;! </font></p><p><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Arial">Any way, I&#039;m headed home in the early afternoon tomorrow, and would love to come back to this show if space permits. I&#039;m on a TSO status for now, but hope to be able to participate again next year. This show will definitely be on my calendar next year! </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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