Did Aye Sea That Rite?

I was watching the news this afternoon on our local CBS affiliate, KWTX-TV when they posted the following Burn Ban notice:

Now, either they were in a hurry to get it on the air or .... well, they were not paying any attention.

1st-"limestone" should be capitalized. After all, it is the name of a nearby county-Limestone County.

2nd-"McClennan" is not a county in Texas. perhaps they meant McLennan County.

3rd-I have never heard of "ariel" fireworks. "Lion of God" fireworks may sound good, but I don't think that is what they meant. Again perhaps, AERIAL fireworks is more in order.

Way to go Channel 10!

PS-In their defense Channel 10 is not alone in their....hmmm....eggcorn or just plain misspellings. Witness this by viewing the many other uses found by Google for "Ariel Fireworks".

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Get The Phone, It's For Me

Started to try to do things with my new phone. I was reading the instruction booklet and it mentioned some software on line that could be used with the phone. I went to the Sony Ericsson site and looked up the software under on the Support Page. There it was. The PC Suite software. I downloaded it and clicked on the .exe file. It started to install. And then......Error 1935. AARGH!!!



If it doesn't work the first time certainly the second time will work. Nope! It doesn't. Maybe the third time will be a charm. It wasn't. How about a fourth time. Better yet, how about a different plan of action. Google to the rescue. Hmmmm! Quite a list for that error message. Time to start reading and figuring this thing out.



Found one that made sense. Finally. Here it is on allaboutsymbian.com. It suggested disabling the spyware program. I did that and did a reinstall. Viola! It worked. By the way I found one that wasn't worth 2 cents; not even 1 cent. I found it on the MSDN site.



After I got the software installed and working I decided to try it out. Aaargh!!! The software works, but.......I need a special USB data cable for the phone. Of course, none of mine will work. Back to Google and the search begins again. here it is---DCU-60; Data Cable USB-60. I found them on Amazon like for real cheap. Gee! The shipping is more than the cable. I might go that route.



At least I did my lesson plans before I got started with the download. It was after 10:00 PM by the time I finally finished.



By the way, I did remember to turn on all of my security software after the install. So I shouldn't have to go down that road again.



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Insert Twilight Zone Theme Music Here

Julie called me from work yesterday. Monday was apparently a slack day at her workplace. She told me that she Googled my blog. I suppose she couldn't remember the address and wanted to look at it or show it to someone. She clicked on the link that she thought was my blog. She got a surprise and had to call and tell me about it.

Cue the Twilight Zone theme now.

That's OK. I've done it for you here.



It turns out that there is another blog with a similar name as mine. This other blog is named Horst Happenings; mine of course is Horst Household Happenings. Now wait a moment. The similarities do not end there. First, both blogs are hosted on Blogger. Next, I started my blog on December 11, 2007. The other blogs first post was on December 23, 2007. WOW! Now, the weirdest part is that the other blog belongs to Barry Horst in Hanover, PA . Our names are almost the same. Our middle initial is different though.

The web address for my blog is horsthappenings.blogspot.com.
The web address for the other blog is bbhorstfamilyhappenings.blogspot.com.

Is that not weird?

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