My apologies for the interrupted chat last night. The chat room was 'locked up' - a participant could see the list of those in the room and their own messages, but the messages of others didn't appear.

Using the 'admin console', I closed the chat room, expecting to be able to re-open it and get it moving again.

However, once I closed the room, my ability to be the 'administrator' and reopen the room was lost. (Catch 22).

I called Parachat's help line, which allowed me to have a system operator paged, I left my number. Five minutes later, I got a call and in another 5 they had reopened the room. (I'd call that GREAT customer service!)

So we'll be back next week on Wednesday the 20th at 9 pm ET.

John