We are going to post the link to the chat room on this sticky message until we solve our little problem of installing the Chat button here on the board.

Click HERE to access the chat room

Feel free to schedule chats for your upcoming cruises or just drop in and chat as many of you have been doing all week. (Thanks everyone, for being my guinea pigs)

Here are a few tips for enhancing your chatting pleasure :)

Choose the "color" button at the top of the chat window to select the color of your text.

Right click your mouse on the area where you type your messages. You can choose from various smilies and audio sounds. I am still working on changing the sounds to a nautical theme but I did get all the smilies changed over to a pirate theme today. (Try the titanic button in the smilie list, I don't have any idea what we can use it for but it's so cute!)

Click the "float" button and it will dock the chat on top of another webpage (like our message board) so you can do two things at once.

Coming by next month, the software is being updated and we will have a much nicer looking chat window with loads of new features, such as choosing avitars for ourselves.

Just got off the site with Karen and Ngaire.

Great job, Karen. You are THE MASTER!

Check it out, everyone! You'll LOVE what Karen has done!

Well just checked it out and picked my color, it worked great - was chatting with myself, as no one else was signed in, but then I talk to myself all the time anyway, so whats new?
Great job Karen - I'm sure it will be a wonderful addtion to this board.
JoAnn :app:

Help teacher Karen! What am I doing wrong? I tried the link and nothing happens.......just get a little x in the corner and nothing else.

Pat, you must have Java installed. Let me find the link to solve that problem for you. I will edit this post in a mintute with the link.

Free Java download

After you download the java, you must make sure that you have java enabled on your pc.

Right click the internet "e" on your desktop.
Scroll down to properties
choose the security tab
choose custom level
Scroll down to Microsoft VM and make sure the disable Java button is not clicked.

You might want to check to see if you already have java on your pc but it is just turned off by following the steps above before you do the download.

Karen,
Good job! I got in, and it welcomes you and it says good bye also. Who's voice is that??? Jan

Jan, I can't remember for sure but I want to say that the bon voyage sound came from Monty Python.

The welcome sound is just a generic one.

John had installed a link to the chat room in the forums list on this page .

I will be unsticking this post since we have a link to the chat room now (thanks John!!)

So when are chats going to be scheduled? Claudia, JJJ & I had a fun chat earlier this afternoon.

R

So how will we know when people are in the chat room and whats going on? I've signed into the chat room several times, only to be the only one there, so I just chat with myself, which.....I have to admit I do on a regular basis anyway, buts it's much more fun seeing it in type, rather than just in my head!!!!!!!!
JoAnn

LOL JoAnn!

The only way to know is to happen by and see if anybody is there. I pop over a few times a day.

R

Thanks Robert, you reminded me to laugh at myself!! Which we all need to do now and then, right?? And.... a few more glasses of wine and I won't care anyway right????????????

JoAnn <img border="0" alt="[Drinking]" title="" src="graemlins/062802drink_prv.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Drinking]" title="" src="graemlins/062802drink_prv.gif" />

Ummm ok, just tried the chat room again, and I was the only one there - now maybe, just maybe I'm not accessing it right - is that possible? I go in thru the "Chat Room Link" listed on the forums by Mr Kimmi, it takes two or three clicks to get in, but maybe I'm missing something thats more obvious somewhere on the main page, so I'm going into an old chat room, could that be??? How is everyone else accessing the chat room? Sorry, I'm not of the same computer age as my kids - who would probably be laughing at me right now!
JoAnn

try now I'll wait for a few minutes

The chat room is there for when we want to schedule a chat. Unless you happen to log on when someone else just happens to be there you very well could be there alone. If there is a cruise coming up and those people on that cruise want to chat this is the perfect venue. A lot of the time it wont be used at all.

I thought though that we were talking about setting a time for the group together to chat. If I remember correctly (and remember that my memory is often faulty), Marc and Margo were talking about doing something at 9 pm EST on the weekend ... weren't they?

Masaki

Masaki:

There was some discussion of 9 pm EDT on Sundays, but many of you were cruising at the time and I don't think there was a firm committment. Maybe we should all just try to stop by next Sunday and see what happens.

Ok, 3 PM for us left coasters. I'll try and be back from the beach by then - oh wait - no computer set up (with our friends at UPS)...oh well. Somebody post how it went and if a follow-up is planned.

Happy Friday!

R

R, it will be 6:00 pm Sunday on the left coast...right?

Uh Robert,
wouldn't 9 p.m. EDT be 6 p.m. for the Left Coasters?

I have a feeling you were thinking 6, subtracted that from 9 and came up with 3 :banana:

Either Robert is planning on visiting Masaki or he was answering for Masaki.

I will be there! I will bring the Chex mix. I am baking it as we speak. You do bake it, don't you?

Yes, K, you do! Here is a link http://www.chex.com/recipes/introduction.asp

:)

R

I don't understand??
What is the difference in the chat room from what we are already doing??

Jim:

The difference is that the chat room is real time. Think of it like a party line (phone).

Hope that helps.

R

No, it's simply that the concept of "new math" eluded me in school...lol...

R

robert - thanks for figuring out what time I need to be here. :)

Masaki

Thanks Karen! Finally figured out what was wrong. It was Java. Had a major problem with my home computer two weeks ago and had to wipe everything out and do a reinstall. However, Java was not part of that reinstall so you were right on the money and pointed us in the right direction. Reinstalled Java and it works fine now! Yippee!