Seeking help or staying isolated -- it's a decision we make every day.

All of us reading these thoughts and sharing these meetings have made a profound decision: We have become willing to ask other people for help. We have quit living in isolation with our problems. Most of us feared letting others know what our lives were really like. How refreshing to learn that our struggles and shame are manageable, that others have lived through equally trying experiences, some perhaps even worse than our own.

Living in isolation for so long made it hard to trust our new friends right away. But patience, coupled with listening to their stories, has taught us that it's safe to reveal our secrets. We all have them. We all gain from one another's vulnerability.

Deciding to get help and reflecting on the good that has come from that decision make it easier to take action on other matters. Twelve Step meetings and sponsors give us ready sounding boards whenever we need clarity and guidance. We'll live in isolation no more.

Today I'll not stew in isolation. I will ask for help when I need it.

I have about 6 metres of vinyl albums that I would like to convert to MP3 files complete with track listings and details. Is there any other person out there who would like to share the task?

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Looks like you are definatley on your own with that one Stan.

Save yourself a bit of time and turn the abba ones into frisbees.

You have a mathematical mind... see if you can calculate wind velocity and lob them all back on Sweden.

I did that once. Hugh Masekela went flying out of my bedroom window and made it out onto the road. It now turns out the record is quite rare and would now be worth a lot of money. Anyway, I did not like that African Jazz trumpet crap and it flew very well. Donny Osmond played very well using a pair of scissors rather than the stylus.