Here's What I've Been Doing Today! How About You?

Busy day today. I have been taking advantage of many of the recent downloads from Giveaway of the Day (GOTD) that I have a link to near the bottom of my blog page on the left hand sidebar. Because of this my blog has been late today.

Some of the recent downloads that I have been able to take advantage of now that all of my computer issues have been resolved are XTweak (Retail $26.95), Total Privacy 5 (Retail $29.95), and a squared Anti-Malware (Retail $39.95). A few others that I have picked up recently have been A One DVD Copy (Retail $39.95), A One DVD Ripper (Retail $39.98), Wondershare Flash Slideshow Builder (Retail $39.95), and iSpring Pro 3.5 (Retail $199).

This morning I also picked up StarBurn Network V.10 (Retail $495). So this morning I have been burning some CD's for the truck.

All of the above have been free, courtesy of Giveaway of the Day. A big thanks goes out to GOTD.

In addition I have been able once again to play around with Google Earth, WorldWide Telescope, and World Wind 1.4. These are all free downloads also. Yea!!!

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Picture Monday, August 4, 2008

More pictures from the album that Chris found in the closet. The first set are posted on Picture Monday, July 28, 2008.

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I'm Ba-a-a-ck!!

Well if you're still with me I want to apologize for the unintentional hiatus that I took over the weekend. It seems that the "perfect storm" of events took place this weekend and kept the blog from carrying forward.

There were several reasons for this happening.

First, I just got tired of my computer anti-virus just working half-way, and my mal-ware scanners just working half-way. So I decided I would devote my time to solving it. This meant running scans until they froze and determining what caused them to freeze or hang. Then I had to either isolate, solve, or remove the problem file, agent, Trojan. etc. as the case may have been. Long story short, this involved countless scans that ran into two days and various procedures to correct them but it was successful and all scans run beautifully and now they report a clean machine.

Second, school days are approaching. that meant we had to look for school supplies for our grandson Jace. That's not any fun when everyone else is doing the same thing and it's 105 degrees outside, the truck is hot and then you go into the stores and they're hot also. Add to that, we could not find all the supplies at one place. AAARGH!!

Third and final reason, I was just plain tired. Messing with the computer and hunting for school supplies will just do it to you!

As if that were not enough, About the time I finally finished fixing the computer Sunday night, a freak summer thunderstorm moved into the area. Along with it there was a lot of lightning and strong gusty winds. Apparently, the winds blew a limb or something across the lines and we lost our cable, phones, and Internet. I couldn't' log on to post so I went to bed.

Once again, thanks for hanging in and we're back on line for ya.

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Not Again, Please

I apologize for the late post this AM. I got up only to discover that There is some sort of "something" going on with the computer. Actually, "something" has been occurring for a couple of weeks but it never occurred to me that there might be a problem. Only after putting two things together did it dawn on me that "something" may be wrong.

First, over the past couple of weeks my anti-virus software would freeze in one spot and never complete a scan. It always seemed to freeze when it got to the C:\System Volume Information\tracking.log. Initially, I thought the software was buggy so I picked up another and then a third one after the same thing occurred again. One would think that would be enough to tip someone off that there may be "something" wrong.

Not me boy. It has got to be bigger than that.

So, one day recently it was time to defrag the hard drive. Well the same thing happened, although I don't know if it was the same location since my utility doesn't share such private and intimate information with me.It seems that all I can do now each morning is to check the computer and see if the scan completed. If not, I have to bring up Windows Task Manager and then select the scan from the Processes Tab and end the process. Of course, any time I do this I am warned of the eventual end of the world and all humanity as we now know it. But what can I do? Scan the same file endlessly?

I would sure love to fix this problem. The thing is I have not noticed any deleterious effects on the computer since all of this started and am really in a quandary as to how to take care of it.

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Legalize--Only When It Fits The Agenda

I read an article yesterday about more lunacy in California; Los Angeles to be exact. Now the city council is trying to protect the "poor" from their own apparent bad habits. They have now voted to approve a one-year ban on new fast food restaurants in South Los Angeles. Yes, they are now limiting personal choices because they presume to know better on how to take care of the citizens. The year long ban is intended to give the city time to attract restaurants that offer "healthier" food choices.

What happened to personal choice? Oh yes, it seems that the people in the community have been practicing personal choice all along. I would think that if the people in the community had wanted "healthier" food choices then quite possibly a restaurant would have moved in to fill the niche'. Apparently the people in the community want the fast food and buy it. I'm quite certain that the restaurants would not stay if they were not patronized. But that could just be me. (Thanks Garrett for the line!)

It seems that California has also now outlawed trans fats in restaurants. Why outlaw something that the marketplace has been taking care of on its own? I'm all the time seeing packages in the store claiming "No Trans Fats". The same thing with many restaurants. It seems they did it because this is what their customers wanted; not because someone wanted to regulate our lives.

Sorry for the rant!

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Notgeld #5

Well here we go again. Yes, more Notgeld. These individual specimens are some smaller denomination notes. They are all from the city of Erfurt (der Stadt Erfurt). The 10, 20, and 25 pfennig notes are all dated 9, April 1920.

The 50 pfennig note is dated 20, Oktober 1918. Less than a month before the end of the war to end all wars, World War I.

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