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ABOUT  ME
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Hi,

My name is Rita Jones, I am a widow in my early 60's, who lives in the United Kingdom, and has pottered about on the internet for years.

I started off in l994 buying a computer that I knew nothing about, so much so that I did not realize that they needed to have software installed!   That was the start of a long, and infuriating time when the computer won more than I did.  Through trial and error, a lot of bad language, tears and joys, I finally learned how to get this darned machine to do what I wanted it to do. 

IT had trained me!!!!!

About the same time I became ill with a type of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome called Fybromyalgia.  Because of that I lost a very good, enjoyable and thriving Driving School business overnight.  One morning I got up and could hardly walk from my bedroom to my kitchen!  I was in no state to go out and drive, let alone be in charge of a learner.   I canceled my lessons, passed my pupils on to other instructors, and tried to find out what was wrong with me.

Two years and many visits to doctors, hospitals, etc., later, I was no further forward.   Doctors agreed I was ill, but they did not know what  was causing it, and could only offer me pain killers to help.  

The first breakthrough  came when I was reading a Sunday newspaper.   There was an article about a lady suffering from a condition called Fybromyalgia.  EUREKA!!!!!!!!!  That article could have been written about me, word for word.

Mind you, even after I got my doctors to agree that it was Fybromyalgia that I was suffering from, the treatment changed very little, as they still did not know what caused it, or how to treat it.

It was a chance meeting with someone in an online chat room that changed things for me.  It turned out that he was not only a qualified doctor, but also qualified in natural medicines.  He suggested I try drinking a relatively new product back then, called Noni juice.   I did, and within a week the aches and pains which had ruled my life almost to the exclusion of everything else for several years, lessened.  They have never gone away completely, but from then on they have been more manageable.  

Even the fatigue changed.  I still had attacks, but over the following several years they gradually became less severe, until today my "bad bouts" usually  last for only a few of days or so.   If I give in and rest, they are just days when I sleep longer, and have to potter about the house.  A big change from times when I could do no more than stay in bed for weeks at a time!

During those years, the computer helped to keep me sane!  It was my link with the outside world.  I could use it when I felt able, sometimes during the day, sometimes during the long night hours.  It was always available. 

So, when I decided I felt well enough to start doing things again on a regular basis, it was to the computer I turned.   I am still not well enough to hold down a "regular" job, even if I was not now officially classed as an Old Age Pensioner (who, me?).   Like lots of other people all over the world, having a computer in my home allows me  to communicate, do research, and a hundred and one other things from the comfort and convenience of my spare room, at times of day when I feel like working.

Of course, this is only a small snapshot of my life.  It really only covers about the last 15 years.  I will not bore you with any more of my life, it has been a very happy, fulfilled, varied  and rewarding  journey, which is far from over yet - I hope!

My intention with this newsletter is to give my slant on this working from home industry that has sprung into being because of home computers.   I admit freely that I am working a couple of lottery programs in the hope of earning some extra income.  In the process of working the programs I am also playing the lotteries, so there is always the chance of winning too!  (I have won  a couple of times already, but the big one is still to come.)

I intend to pass on my own experiences, opinions and  findings about working from home, working on the internet, working lottery programs, even working at an older age, and any other interesting and things I think you may like to read.   In fact, although the newsletter is in some ways lottery biased, just about anything and everything may at some time or other crop up!

Also I am hoping that it will be an interactive experience.  I want subscribers to feel free to contact me with any information, tit bits, comments, whatever, and quite possibly some of it will find its way into the newsletter.  

I do stress that the contents of the newsletter will be my own (and possibly some of my readers own) findings, comments, experiences, etc., and that everyone reading this newsletter should make up their own mind about things. Take what is written, along with  whatever you already know, or find out, and decide for yourself based on all the facts.  Never take any one persons word for anything without checking (a little wisdom learned with age!!)

I am looking forward to sharing the next chapter in my saga with you.   Through this newsletter I hope that we can help each other build whatever it is we each want to accomplish here in hyperspace.

Best wishes, happiness and prosperity to all.

Rita