This first one doesn't bother me too much, given all of the suspension of disbelief needed in these stories, I find this quite acceptable.  However, the I Ching presumably isn't meant as a means of time travel.  When Barnabas used it, he thought he would be contacting Quentin's spirit.  He didn't know he would travel in time.

Even if the hexagram of change does mean a change of time, it wouldn't necessarily mean the same time.  Yet Barnabas and Julia both go back to 1897.  Since they went "back" in time, why does Petofi assume he'll go forward?  And why necessarily to 1969?  Yet both Charles in his attempt and then Petofi do, indeed, go to 1969.

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The more problematic one is Petofi's hand.  I think they forgot what they wrote about it.  The entire beginning of that story was "our" people's possession of the hand, Petofi's search for it, and then finally getting it reattached.  He went 100 years without it, and if he didn't get it back at that point would have died (presumably).

Now, I'm sure he still had formidable powers without it, but why are Kitty and Charles so afraid when he holds out the hand and asks if they remember what it can do.  They could never have known the Hand.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAROL!!!

Glad things seem to be going well for you now, may this be the start of lots of good things to come!!

Corel Word Perfect has a linux version.  It's a great word processing, spread sheet, etc. package.  I've used this program for years to make my life as Microsoft free as possible.   Also, MS Word does not have the nifty feature, Reveal Codes.  A must have IMHO.   But I don't think they have a version for the Mac.  Oh well you can't have it all.

I don't know much about Macs or Linux, but I know at some point WordPerfect had Mac versions and I think they still do.  I've also heard of them in connection with Linux, but I'm not sure if there's a full operating version for it or not.

I quite agree about Reveal Codes.  Aside from not being able to figure Word out, I'm at a total loss in it without Reveal Codes and can't imagine how anyone manages.

BIRTHDAY WISHES, Cassandra!!!

Hope you had a really special day!

      

Thank you - I definitely would have forgotten about it if you hadn't done this.

That's wonderful news Annie and Carol!!  Keep up the good work!!!

I love Gerard's Adam and Eve idea - that would really be funny.

For a week or two now, I have been able to come here with Mozilla and haven't had to bother bringing up IE just for this.  What a pleasure (a couple of little details I've been meaning to ask about, though).

A little while ago I got in and was reading Robservations (in Mozilla).  When I then tried to access anything else, I got an error message that it's no longer working with Mozilla.  That was really weird, since I was using it at that moment!

Anyhow, here I am, back with IE.  I hope this is temporary.