Wet this afternoon. In fact I got drenched coming home from grocery shopping. The groceries were safe. I was all wet. But, one thing I learned last summer in Japan was that if it is warm you just keep doing whatever you were doing and just get wet.
So, I am taking advantage of the wet afternoon to clean off the little computer. After boot-n-nuke finishes, I’ll load up Ubuntu and Samba and decide if I want to keep this machine around. It is tiny. Too tiny for my old lady eyes. Maybe I’ll find it a new home.
Funny Carlton story. He admires a poem that is on a tombstone. He was sure it was unique. And he wants it read at his memorial service. I told him “Just write down the first sentence and I’ll find it online”… Well, you would believe that Carlton didn’t believe me. He copied the whole thing. And asked me to type it up for him. I entered the first 5 words. Found it online. Had it printed out in less than 5 minutes. I found the poem on a “Dead Dog Memorial” Web site.
If you come to Carlton’s memorial service, or if your dog dies – then you too can share the “unique” poem.
(No, we don’t have the memorial service scheduled. Carlton is just very interested in his memorial service.)
Busy day. I finished a third photo book and while I was on the way downstairs to look at it using one of the buildings fine fast iMac’s – we had a 5.8 earthquake. I checked and saw that the Washington Monument was still standing. And, that the pool was not cracked and headed down to use the computers on the ground floor. Everyone and their dog had left their apartment and were hanging out in the lobby. Which made no sense to me. If I were afraid – wouldn’t I go outside and stand in the park across the street??? Why would I stay in the lobby where 19 floors of building and one swimming pool of water could land on me????
Day 82 - One from the vault Dec 2007 - Kailua-Kona Hawai'i
The Shutterfly computer knows that I have a big ass book waiting for printing. So, they sent me a 50% off coupon. That was all the push I needed to finalize my 100 page Japanese book. And, I finished up my “Favorite Fotos of 2007” book. Who knows I might even whip out Favorite Fotos of 2008.
I plan to sit in my rocker and look at these books when I am in Assisted Living! Also, Carlton will look at them, now.
Investing. I am assuming that August 2011 is October 2008 redux. In October 2008, I kept trying to catch a falling knife, thus exacerbrating my losses. This time, sell rallies. And maybe harvest some tax losses.
Why is the new Martin Luther King monument white??
You might have noticed that HP is getting out of the computer business. My one and only HP computer – the HP Vista Whore – melted its own motherboard. And, this weekend continues to haunt me. When it was dying – I backed everything up on DVDs. I decided to see if I really need to save those DVDs – from March 2009. Well, the DVDs mount OK. And list the directory. But, I have not been able to copy a single one. Each DVD contains at least one file that forces me to cancel the copy and reboot the computer.
HP should have gotten out of the computer business 5 years ago – then I would have missed the HP Vista Whore.
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.
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.
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 New Lenovo Q150
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.
