Author: Peg

Just an ordinary sort of late summer day. Spent yesterday getting all my audiobooks on the new kitchen computer. Turns out I have over 300 audiobooks. 140 odd DAYS of listening pleasure. Well, some hours are more pleasurable than others.

At this very instant I need t0 figure out what to cook for dinner. Had a great dinner of stir fry chicken and peaches yesterday. Don’t think there is anything that fine in the fridge for tonight.

No blog page yesterday – but yesterday’s image:

Got my new little computer a big ass external drive. And, I am setting it up as my audiobook repository.  I think with all my file shuffling I might have lost some old files. But, I don’t image that will be a big loss. It was some stuff from the Ubuntu Home Folder. All of my really important stuff lives on the Airness and it is backed up on a very regular basis.

I am giving Mr Perry a week of “being nice”. But, he is going to be a great target. (What’s not to love about a guy who jogs with a dog and a pistol?)

What is it with vampires? Why are we 21st century human so interested in vampires? Why would we secretly like to be vampires? Maybe we would just like to look really good in evening clothes. But, if that is all we want – we could want to look like Fred Astaire.

I don’t believe in vampires. Well, I do believe in vampire bats and vampire squid. But not vampire people. Vampires are right up there with transubstantiation in my belief system. But, I’ll give vampires this – they have caused a whole lot less trouble than transubstantiation.

Nevertheless, it would be cool to look really good in a bias cut silk evening gown.

 

This young man is definitely the one your Moma warned you about!

I work for food. Today my “employment” provide an entire homemade real cheese cake and a whole bunch of garden tomatoes. Life is good.

The local Bolivian community had their annual dance festival across the street today. I took about 700 pictures. Busily deleted about 600 of them. Will cull down the rest of them next week.

And, I found a new home for the big Grey Dell. It is going to be in a high school english class. I hope it is happy. Beats going to computer recycling in China.

Got the new kitchen computer setup organized.

The black thing to the left of the antique iPod is the keyboard/mouse. I still have my beloved IBM keyboard and a regular mouse for serious computer work. But the little thing works fine for just playing around.

Silly woman, I have been feeling sad about killing off the old Dell that I used for a file server and tax preparation machine. I will load it up with a nice new copy of Ubuntu. Maybe someone will adopt it …

I decided to move away from Open Office to LibreOffice. It seems to be getting more attention from the open source universe. It opens all my files. I haven’t thrown my killer spreadsheets at it yet. But, to be honest – OO couldn’t handle all my spreadsheet tricks either. We’ll see.

Got the Airness to mount the disc drive of the new computer.

RIP Daniel McCracken – you saved my sorry ass more than once.

Still no new photo. So, I have been polishing up some of the images that are still on the Airness.

Here we have the Sunset Grill in TorC NM. Everyday, I strolled past the Sunset Grill and saw the Open sign. I said, “Yeah sure.” But, surprise – it really was Open and on the last night in New Mexico – I had a fine dinner of chili rellenos and the ultimate New Mexican junk food – sopapilla.

We had one of those “September-ish” days today. The Weather Goddess doesn’t want us to give up all hope of ever turning the A/C off again.

I puttered around with the new Kitchen Computer. Rounded up printer and scanner drivers. Got the external DVD drive going. Installed my favorite Windows software.

Next task – clean-up the old computers. And, dispose of them.

After that – police-up the cables.

Boys and Girls, do not attempt the above self portrait at home if you are over 20. Unless you have already scheduled an appointment with your plastic surgeon. The results are scary.

Got the new little Lenovo computer working in the kitchen. It is currently a mass of wires. Like the HDMI monitor connection.

I liked the way the sun rising sun  turned the balconies across the way to gold. After I downloaded the images, I noticed that a man was standing on one of the balconies enjoying the sunrise.

Stock market was nicer to me today.

The Kitchen Computer has made it from Brooklyn, NY to Laurel, MD. Should be in the kitchen tomorrow.

Let us just say that this was a really ugly day in my personal equity portfolio.

The new Kitchen Computer – Lenovo Q150 w/Windows 7 – is supposed to arrive Wednesday. The current kitchen computer has sort of been the data “Trash Can” for the last five years. So now I am furiously weeding out the drive. I could just remove the drive and pop it in an enclosure. But, that really is sort of like renting a storage unit.