Sea World Update

The family went to Sea World in San Antonio yesterday. The big event was the Dwyer Group's annual picnic/outing. We had to drive about 200 miles to get there. The trip was about 3 hours and was pretty uneventful. Once in San Antonio it was fairly easy to locate the park. The biggest problem was the traffic. Boy I'm glad we don't live in the area anymore. It would get really old having to deal with the traffic. The weather was in three words, "Hot and Humid!" The perfect day for sunscreen and water.

We all had a great time and enjoyed the many activities and rides. It is hard to decide if the best part was the rides where you got drenched, got to go swimming, or the all you can eat lunch with burgers and hot dogs. Oh the memories!

That was yesterday. Today, all I remember are my feet; and the blister. Oh the memories!

I got up late today because of the trip. I then started to deal with the computer. It still is having problems with the highly mysterious "Application Hang." This has caused me to twiddle with the computer and restart and then start all over again. Time wasted. And the error logs on the computer aren't much help.

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He What?

I was looking at the online edition of the Los Angeles Times. Here is the headline I saw: Steven Spielberg: He wants to shoot 'Abraham Lincoln' in 2009
12:46 PM PT, May 10 2008

I suppose he doesn't remember that John Wilkes Boothe has already done this. © 2008 Barry T Horst


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Today Is the Day

Today has finally arrived.

Today is the day that many people have been waiting for. I know that I have been looking forward to today for some time. You see, today is a very special day. It is an event that many people have been looking forward to.

Obviously today is May 10, 2008. People have made special plans for today some time ago. Today's event has caused many people to make travel plans for this weekend. I would imagine that all the people involved have prayed for perfect weather.

What could be so special about today? There are so many things that happen today across the world. But this is Central Texas. What could be happening here you say?

The event of which I speak is not the big wedding up the road at the ranch in Crawford. Yes, I know for some that will be a big day; president's daughter and all. But apparently my wedding invitation got lost in the mail so I will not be attending the Bush's big blowout.

No the big event of which I speak is the Dwyer Group's annual company picnic. This year it is being held at Sea World-San Antonio. So the blog is short today and maybe tomorrow also. Look for pictures though. I will get a few.

Gotta go, it is time to load up and head south in IH 35.

Bye-Bye!

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SUCCESS!!!

We had success yesterday and it was not the rice variety.

The new hard drive has been installed. It is a Western Digital Caviar drive. The new Windows XP operating system has been installed. All updates and drivers have been installed.

Most of last night was spent locating installation discs for many of the very necessary programs. I have to run 3 separate word processors due to the variety of computers I work with at work and other locations. It took a while but I finally located my Microsoft Office installation and added it to the other two programs. I also use Mailwasher Pro from Firestrust and it took some time to locate the registration key for it and a few other programs.

The next thing I need to do is to reprogram my macros into my keyboard to get all my shortcuts back. I use a Logitech G15 keyboard that allows me to program up to 54 shortcuts and macros into the keys to make work easier. And let me tell you, that does come in handy when it comes time to work on the blog.

After the keyboard I will need to work on my Favorites. Fortunately I was able to import them from del.icio.us. The only problem is they were stripped from their folders and I will have to reorganize them for ease of location. After this I will need to try to get all the e-mail addresses back into Outlook, as well as redoing the calendar and trying to recreate the schedule.

Hopefully the blog will be back to normal by Sunday. Thanks for bearing with me through this crisis.

Oh, I also installed a nifty backup program to back up data off site. Maybe that will help to alleviate problems like this in the future.© 2008 Barry T Horst


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Mixed Bag Today

Well, yesterday was a mixed bag. We got the Kindergarten Texas Primary Reading Inventory End of Year (TPRI EOY)scores today. The results showed a lot of growth and all at the school were much relieved. That was the good portion of the mixed bag.

Now the bad portion. Started to install a new hard drive last night. Much more difficult than you would think. Spent much time transferring data from the old drive to an external drive so that I have the files and can go through them at my leisure. Then had to try to get the old drive to boot in order to run data tools as an extra safeguard. I was planning to reinstall Windows XP as a clean install on the drive. This way I wouldn't have all the "junk" that comes with a new computer. Buttttt, I couldn't get the disk to boot on the new drive. Now I'm stumped because I've tried every combination of drive settings, etc. that I can think of.

Update tomorrow.

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BLACK TUESDAY

I woke up yesterday morning to every computer owners nightmare; or least my nightmare.Something happened in the dead of the night. When I went to sleep my computer and I were in 2008. I woke up yesterday morning still in 2008. My computer didn't. It thought it was in 2003. In fact it thought it had just been taken out of the box. That's right. It wanted to take me by the hand and guide me down the path. I wasn't ready to deal with it so I got ready for work and left it secretly hoping it would come to it's senses and come back to the present.I got home after work and decided to check the computer. It was still in 2003. Man that's bad. It doesn't recognize the keyboard. I had to drag the old keyboard and mouse out and reattach them before I could do anything. Gack!!! The screen, the drivers, everything.....all screwed up. It wanted to install things and do things that it shouldn't be doing. Most of my programs, KaBlooey!I guess the hard drive reformatted, sooooo----Hard Drive City, here I come.I am able to blog though. If things look a little different or blogs are a little late it's because of the current computer situation. Bear with me and I will endeavor to work through it.© 2008 Barry T Horst


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