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Gotcha, you spammer!

Ha! Glad to still be here in front of the computer when someone posted a couple comments to my previous blog posting. It was an adult-type spam. I copied and deleted the post, activated my blog to where only registered users may post a comment, and I moderate it, then reposted my blog. So, for all you who know me, just email me or join blogger to become a registered user that you may post a comment. I'll still have to moderate the comments to allow them, but this is worth it to keep the spammers away! The kid in me says to the spammers: Nanner nanner nanner! Phooey on you! Pfffffft! LOL

Ah, home at last!

Flew through a sea of puffy white clouds all the way to Orlando on Monday. Sisser, Karen, picked me up after her work...timing was just right for my arrival. Making the transition from nights to days has been the hardest, but think I've made it. Had a nice, short visit and mom and I left the next morning just after 9 a.m.

Talk about a trip that did not go as planned. The windshield wipers did work...not the day we took off, however, and it was raining like crazy up as far as Macon. We wasted a lot of time trying to find someone to fix them as it is against the law to not run the wipers when raining. We stopped at a few places, even at a U-Haul place (mom's truck is an old U-Haul). They only service the vehicles-no mechanic-type stuff. Sooo, we ended up spending a bit of money for a motel and a good supper. I was just too tired to drive till late up in the night. Live and learn. Next time, if ever again, she will take the truck or whatever vehicle to be serviced and spend the money on the servicing. Isn't it a shame that money couldn't have gone toward fixing the wipers instead of a motel so we could have been home sooner. Mom says that hindsight is 20/20, eh?

My theory is trial and tribulation. Because of my belief, I feel that we are given much in trial and tribulation to see how we handle everything. What can I say...fell short for a bit, but came through in the end on learning the lesson and stopped grumbling to ourselves about doing things right the first time. If it weren't for these lessons, would we ever learn? NO! Our other trial in this tribulation is to try to find the good side to it and not let it get us down...handle the stress properly. Do believe most all our lives are like this...full of hurdles to overcome and learn from. Perhaps the grumbling will eventually go away when first we come to a tribulation?! That's a lesson that's a hard one to overcome, sometimes.

It's been an eventful day. Today is Stan's 57th birthday. After lunch, laundry, doing some organizing, supper, baking the "birthday cake" (it's a special cake...tell ya bout it later), watching a video, setting up a blog for mom, everyone's deserted me and gone to bed. Thinking I'd better start making tracks that way if I want to keep with this daytime shift for the better part of my vacation. I need to start with some deep cleaning and jumping in that pool that Stan's worked so hard to keep sparklingly clean. Whooohooo! Night all...wow, it's actually night!

All's well that ends well

The joke were flying today as Stan was getting ready to go get his colonoscopy done. The getting ready part was much worse than the procedure itself, he says. Hmm, I could tell, and I felt miserable for him. Now I know what to expect when it will be my turn. All he could eat was chicken broth and Jello and lots of liquid laxative...some pills...the last two with time limits on the taking. He got to come home with pictures, which proves what I've said about his being an (insert the knowing expletive here) when I'm mad at him.

Thank goodness all was "clean as a whistle"...literally and figuratively. Only one little polyp the doc snipped. He's sure it's benign and we'll know when test from pathology is back.

My only problem was making that quick transition to daytime living as I work at nights and don't deviate this schedule on my off days. No problem, tho. I'd do anything for my darling hubby! Am tired though and this will be short this week. I really wanted to say more, but must hit the hay and read a bit. Not before saying that I will have my vacation week after this next week (Aug. 13th...taking 11 days, however), flying down to Florida to get my mom and drive her U-Haul truck back up here to put her stuff in storage and go looking for a house closer to where I work where she can also build her dome home...will elaborate later. Night and have a great week.

Shrimply can't wait!

Mmmm, supper's smellin' good! Ok, so I'm going off my cholesterol lowering diet for tonight. Grilling some beef tenderloin and making up some shrimp scampi w/mushrooms, bit of finely diced carrot, and mushrooms added to the recipe. Got the salad ready and steaming some green beans, okra, and carrots. Then, gonna kick back and watch Eight Below and Failure to Launch.

Since we got Charter so many years ago with the biggest package for all those movie channels, we haven't been to Blockbuster. Well, I splurged for tonight. We're thinking about getting rid of all those movie channels and going for a smaller package and doing the snail-mail thing with Blockbuster. Will have to price it and see how it works. We're tired of watching reruns on all those movie channels. Besides, I'm not home on the nights they have the newer stuff on. I'll let you know how this works out.

The desktop tower is in the shop. I don't have an extra computer or all the diagnostics and it kept crashing so often I couldn't do anything with it any longer. Hope to hear, in a couple days, from T at the shop to discuss what the problem is.

Hope all who read this are well and have a good week!

Blow it out and redo it

I'm surprised my WinXP Pro has lasted this long. I think the video card is degrading, too. It's been installed since 2002, I think. I believe I did a format/reinstall in 2003 or 4, can't recall. At least it's lasting a couple/few years between degradation. This is the second video card I've had installed. The first one was still under warranty.

At first, I started getting the BSOD (blue screen of death) showing the stop errors to be the fault of a driver. Finally figured it to be the display driver from repeated crash analysis tests. I have the error reporting shut off and the automatic restart unticked as well. Still mighty unstable.

It stayed up long enough for me to do a backup of the Documents and Settings. I'll be getting a 200 GB external hard drive on Friday. I'll try to keep the computer going long enough to be redundant in backups and saving what I really want, so that I won't lose anything else. After that, it's on!

Oh the torture. It takes hours to get things back right, again. The programs, the passwords, the user names, the loading and loading and loading of all those years of programs I paid for and must install. Too, it's time to part with a lot that's become quite useless. Needless to say, I'll not be blogging next week.

As to my Dr. apt. last week. I had a nevus shaved off. It looked like a pink mole, but was actually a benign bump on the right shin just below and left of the knee. Dr. said likely caused by some earlier trauma to the area. He numbed it with injections...made me feel like a pin cushion for a bit. Once numb, he started slicing. Could still feel a bit of a sting a time or two, but it was relatively painless. There was a bit of discomfort the next few days, but not unbearable. This is likely a bit graphic for some people, however, it's nice to know what goes on with these sort of things if you ever have to experience it.

The cholesterol/triglycerides that are going the the roof will have to be controlled by diet/exercise. I've signed up with Anne Collins Weight Diet Program...google it as I'm too lazy and tired to provide the link this week. There is terrific information at this site and I've found my diet. Wonderful support group, too.

Bout time to lie down and read a bit. I haven't even done Emma's blog this week. That's okay. It's been pretty uneventful for her, of late. She's just as spoiled rotten with love as we can spoil her. Have a good week.

Don't do it!

I had logged in to create a post for my blog, did it, went to publish it, and lost it. This has been happening in 4 sites where I log in to do something and they are timing out when they did not before. I downloaded the Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3. Do not download this beta version unless you are able to create a system restore point. Beta versions are versions of software that are still in development and not yet stable. The community who downloads these beta versions are those who have some knowledge of hardware/software issues, are developers, etc. Then, there are those daredevil types. I have signed up to give feedback for any issues I come across and have been reading the feedback on many other issues from scripting problems to memory leaks to crashes for various reasons.

I had a nice posting going on, but it will have to wait till next week or sometime when I have time. Have a good week!