Almost there
I am posting on the sick laptop which, if I can manage to talk into booting now and then, will become The Spare until such time as it expires for good.
I returned the Compaq. The peripheral web cam didn’t take. The printer was fatally rejected. Barely within the 14 day return window, I had to think fast. Read the rest of this entry »
35 Year Anniversary and not speaking to each other
How misleading is that! Yes, we have been married 35 years as of Monday the 26th, approximately 7:00pm. We will be spending the day with friends on a pilgrimage to a church where my 4-great-gramps was the first preacher in 1783. Yes, we will be celebrating by looking for evidence of dead relatives. The romance continues to thrive.
It’s the new computer and the printer who are not speaking to each other. Read the rest of this entry »
From designer babies to engineered species
This from the UK reported by The Family Research Council:
The British House of Commons has passed an animal-human hybrid law that pushes the U.K. deeper into science’s uncharted waters than any other country in the world. After just three hours of fiery debate, critics of the research fell far short of blocking this radical marriage of the human and animal species. By a lopsided 336 to 176, MP’s granted scientists the license to create any kind of hybrid, including those derived from cloning, animal eggs and human sperm, genetic engineering, and more. From here, the outlook is bleak. Hybrids will likely be approved in a final vote next month. Making matters worse, MP’s also approved the creation of “savior siblings,” which means that parents can use fertility treatments to create an embryo whose genetic material would be harvested to help a sick older child. Here at home, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) and Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-N.J.) bill banning animal-human hybrids sits idle. Contact your leaders and ask them to move quickly in distancing America from Britain’s ethical quagmire.
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Sooner or later we’re going to have to speak up against things we’d rather not look at.
Up and not quite running
The restore process worked but I’m not sure what the 700+ errors were. The good news is that the biggies are back, the budget spreadsheet which wouldn’t have been that difficult to recreate. All the money coming in goes out, so how tough is that? Read the rest of this entry »
Transitioning again
I’m really fed up with the new disposable computer mindset. Since there is so much that can go wrong with hardware, software, spyware failure, scams, spams, slams and bams, the best and the worst manufactured units are equally vulnerable. Read the rest of this entry »
To catch up before the next orbit to the backside of the moon
And the moon’s backside is not pretty.
Here’s the deal. Are you old enough to remember Louie the dog? Ed Sullivan (oh, go look him up!) Read the rest of this entry »
Could be off the air soon
We are having intermittent difficulties with the laptop, my only access to my blog maintenance, my hotmail and my gmail as all three are blocked at work. They don’t want us on the internet at all and won’t expose the company network to these and other potentially harmful sites. So…. that said, if the computer dies — when the computer dies, it will take a bit of time to decide to find, buy, and set up a new unit. We’re going for troubleshooting, seeking advice, and possibly going to a repair shop. Oh, I do hope not the shop, but you do what you have to do to do what you have to do.
Truth or Fiction . com
It has been pointed out to me that the post from the missionary about Barak Obama’s connections to Kenya should be checked out at Truth or Fiction.com, a watchdog of all these forward swirling about the email world. It’s truth, unproven, and fiction. The alleged fiction was that the writer declared him to be Muslim and TorF.com said that’s not true. Excuse me. The missionary who wrote the email was contacted and stands by everything she said. So who says his faith affiliation is not Muslim? The western press. I’ll take her word for it as she is there and the press doesn’t exactly balance its information when it comes to a liberal candidate they’ve chosen to support for president.
A banner day, banner, I say!
The search for a vehicle of higher mpg and reliability has ended with a pristine 1999 Corolla with a modest accumulated 41,000 miles. Honey says it’s for my longer commute but he’s taking it tomorrow to do oh, I don’t know, plate transfer, tranny fluid replacement, something, something. I should have contact with it by … Thursday?
In the meantime, while he was racing across three counties to be the first in line, I was at Radio Shack next door to my place of employment, giving the owner a headache. While he’s in the middle of activating a flip model phone, I asked if this pretty little slider version was available and it was! For the same price! “I want that one instead” to which he said no problem but when he was making the switcheroo, he messed it up and they had to roll out a chair for me while he called Sprint, his manager, and gee, it seemed like few other people too, all to avoid a $300+ fee for swapping, hence the aforementioned headache he claimed he had had all day but I think he was just being nice. I think I gave it to him.
I am now the proud owner of a Samsung M520 slide phone with camera –will use; video–won’t use; TV and internet access–won’t use; music chip–might use; texting–won’t use, and the cutest little graphics you ever did see. I took the 200 minute lowball plan, single line, and $4 insurance in case it gets sat on or tossed in the wading pool. The next move is to replace Honey’s phone with a RZR Tracfone for basic utility use such as locating me in Wal Mart. Longer calls and family talk will be nights and weekends on the Sprint. The combination of the modest plan plus the pay per use phone will be at least 20% less consistently. I’ll be transferring the existing numbers this week and ending our love-hate relationship with AT&T.
The new car gets the 30+mpg we had to have. It’s a champagne color, breaking our white with blue or tan interior 35 year streak, and it’s paid for. No payments this year unless the remaining rolling teenager dies an untimely death.
My next immediate project is to figure out the new fun-fone. Honey’s current immediate project is to get a good night’s sleep now that he doesn’t have to twirl around on the internet and wade through newspaper ads. God is good. We are still waiting on the stimulus check otherwise known as home improvements — shade from that warm Tennessee sun.
For now, we say whew.
eye witness
If you refuse to acknowledge that we have an enemy, that that enemy has declared itself to be our enemy, that our self-declared enemy wants all of us dead, Christians, Jews and homosexuals, that this very enemy will have nuclear weapons of stronger magnituded than that dropped on Hiroshima by the end of this year, read the following as often as it takes to convince you that we need to eliminate this enemy’s power before it eliminates us. Call it preemptive, I call it self-defense. We won’t have an economy or market or even a country to worry about or fix if these guys stike first. Can you say JIHAD?
We need to get this message out! Please circulate this to all your contacts!
This man must not get into office. Read the rest of this entry »
