[Leica] more LHSA adventures

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

Thanks to all of you who referred me to Madge Brown at the LHSA. She's sweet 
and kind and helpful. She also lives on a different planet than I do, which 
is probably why I'm writing this here instead of sending it to the LHSA. She 
doesn't really seem to know very much about the online world and didn't 
understand my desire to accomplish things online. But she gave me what I 
needed: my login code and password.

I managed to get into the Members section of the lhsa.org website, and after 
taking some Marezine to deal with the vertigo of the visual focus jumping 
all over my screen, and the circular links taking me forward and back and 
around, I managed to figure out how to navigate to the "renew online", where 
it told me that the renewal rates were $55 for the USA and $65 for Canada 
and $80 for other countries, I filled out the payment form. When I got to 
the part where it asked me what country I lived 
in, I was given two choices: USA and United States. I selected "United 
States". It then charged me $80, presumably because the $55 rate is only if 
you reply that you live in the USA.

I'm beginning to understand that historical societies and computers will 
never have a smooth relationship. And I accomplished my goal of renewing, 
though it took approximately 25 times as long as it took me to renew my 
membership in Salon Premium a few moments later. I hope they don't try to 
refund my excess $25 but instead apply it to hiring a new website designer.