Orphan

The little girl being the ripe old age of two decided to plop onto the floor and cry tears of hunger in a house void of humans; as it happens, there were no humans left on Earth.

Computers down

Yep two vintage 2001 computers down... Graphics card and a mouse... Not online anyway... Got the Blackberry.

testing my blckbrry crv

There is only so much one can do with a cell phone...

think your way into success

Thinking about something all the time will get what you want, particularly if it involves you and a deep desire. Not the desire for success, caring about your family or life in general. (Learn to spell Mike! 2/24/2011)

Flyswatter power

I pushed the max-force button on the flyswatter today... still failed to kill fly's, brain versus an accurate swing are still at fault.

I wrote this on 8/22/2010 just in case...

Willpower

All it takes is a willpower, I do not have it, so I drink.

I got a Gov. grant!

I received $24,000 Gov. grant to study why milk dribbles down the chin when eating cereal; full report when I return from a vacation Cancun?

A note

cold
walking
and no net

hate writing

Writing.  I hate it. The act takes too much time. Getting clever thoughts to 'paper' is a darn hard thing to do. At least the words in my head seemed clever. By the time I review what I have written, all the three dimensional thinking I put into what I wrote looks rather black and white and very thin on paper.

church computer

Here I sit at the church computer to get on-line; this happens way too often! The 2002 Dell win XP pro with a C drive that has 4 GB with XP pro using app. 3/4 of the drive with working memory of 147 MB 1 GB, it varies for some reason... hey I got 256 MB of RAM! just tooting my horn. For some reason I can not access the web even though I am on-line... Been asking around for a couple older towers that may still work... let me see... my last new computer was in 1985...

a 360 degree panorama

this is what one does when one does nothing... OH and drink 24/7

Five bits of information about me...

Five bits of information about me;

1. too fat to do technical rock climbing anymore.
2. woman only put up with me for 10 or so years... and then quit men forever.
3.  if it was not for booze... I would have to take real medications.
4. a friend to me is someone you can tell your darkest secret to and not worry about it... it is sad... he is dead     now.
5. I am a very good at lying because a lie lives within my reality.

Depression

Depression is to be avoided or is that voided.
     I will get back to this soon, I have lost interest for now.

The Monster

One spring evening I was walking a meandering path through a vast garden like field of deep green grass and bright yellow flowers when I decided to wander off the path in favor of the soft, gently blowing grass and a closer experience with the fragrant flowers. An orange sunset was at my back when I suddenly stumbled and fell over what I thought was a rock. As I fell the rock seemed to rise from the ground to tower over my prone figure. When the now towering rock stared at me through a large acid yellow eye I somehow knew I was looking at a monster. The quizzical cock of the head is the only thing that kept me from fleeing, that and the fact that the monster had pinned me to the ground with his massive walking stick. With some relief the monster smiled, if one can call thick gray lips suddenly expanding in an upward fashion exposing brightly polished yellow front teeth and if I may add, sharp teeth. My agitation increased again when the creature pulled a big sharp looking stick from a large breast pocket. I am now thinking that I will be permanently pinned to the ground like a beetle in a natural history museum. Then the smile became even broader and the monster began picking large chunks of meat from hidden teeth at the back of his mouth, a mouth, despite the polished look had a stench that wilted the lush flowers around my prone body. At about this time the light began to fade or was I passing out, this I figured might be a problem either way. I definitely did not want to deal with a monster after sunset. I then began to feel as if a spell, like I knew what a spell was, was being cast over me when the scene before and around me began to fade into swirling disconnected images of fields, flowers and lazy clouds. Finally after a troubled night of odd dreams of large creatures, dawn arrived with light streaming through a bedroom window. I stretched my muscles, threw off my yellow flowered green comforter and crawled out of bed to stretch again. To be continued.
4/19/08
   Dreams fade.
   The day was off to a great start with the smell of coffee mingling with the fragrance of spring flowers. I sat at a white enameled table with red trim and silver legs sipping at my hot coffee, warmth that was keeping the cool but pleasant morning breeze that filtered through fluttering drapes at the kitchen window at bay. A window that, between fluttering curtains, exposed a world that I knew well having grown up here. Being retired and in good health I pondered the days tasks, I spent a goodly time in this mental task, no point in rushing life. The thoughts flowed, the coffee good and the scene out window was somehow different from what I knew to be my world, a thought that faded as I decided to have a stroll in the gardens in order to check on what needs doing. My favorite spring jacket and hat were hanging by the back door where I hung them the day before. I put on the jacket and donned my hat and grabbed my staff as I opened the door to walk onto the creaky back porch I noticed there was a quality to the diamond willow walking staff that gave me added energy an energy that was not there before. As I step into an expanding view of nature the pleasantries of coffee are replaced by a wash of olfactory reminders of the power of spring.
   The natural sounds of the outdoors mingle with the creak of old wood porch planks as I head for the steps leading to the garden. Pausing at the steps I  take in the view of my world a world I am very fond of.
    April showers must have been good, the flower garden looks great even thought I do let it grow a little wild, must be part of my nature like the land around me.
   For reasons unknown to me I live a solitary life in the foot hills east of a mountain range with high jagged peaks. I have often dreamed and thought about what was on the far side of the mountains but alas I have not the mountaineering skills needed to explore such a region. My life is so solitary that I do not remember the last time I saw another being besides the beasts and flying creatures some of which I hunt and preserve for the harsh winters in these parts......

Photosynth a good view

Photosynth is a site where you can compile panorama images and view them. Look around photosynth to see some amazing panoramas that you can manipulate in various ways.
  Check it out at the following link;
my panorama, a different look
   You can pan and zoom in on the image.

following a brass rail

There are personalities on the loose pretending to be experts on what the American people think. These 'personalities' are like a shinny brass railing; they can lead you along using false premises they invent out of thin air, like that Beck dude. The people who believe Beck that his rally in Washington was a coincident that it was held on the anniversary of King's speech. The people who believe this are the one's with their hands firmly grasping the brass rail.

A butterfly

Walking around the other day and took a few shots of butterfly's doing their business. The problem with the shooting the butterfly was that I was too stupid the switch from the view finder to the screen thus I just guessed where the butterfly was in relationship with the lens/frame. OH well... here is the best butterfly image;

throw a rock through a Muslim family home, let them know how we feel!!

Before you throw a rock at window of a Muslim family home, throw one at a fundamentalists Christians window, remember Timothy James McVeigh?

Michelle and her cars

 Michelle, as I mentioned in a previous post ruined another car. Just to give you, my only reader, an idea how bad her driving is; Michelle's father well before he met me, I and Michelle had just gotten together, told her to bring me down to drive a car back for her to replace a previous car she ruined, this was 13 yrs ago. OK, back to the future. Michelle's last car was showing increasing problems that needed attention, no matter what I said she just kept driving until it was way to late to do much. Michelle, the poorest of the sisters and brother is also the one who looks after their mother up in the home... Michelle's sister lent her a spare car, well and good, maybe, the car was delivered to Bill's pizza and steak house where Michelle works, still good.
 After work Michelle drives the car home... I go out in the morning to take a look at the car... it is running right there in the drive with a locked door... I went into the apartment and informed Michelle; let us make this short... she had one of those really irritating black button things and I believe as she was getting to the apt she pressed the blue button and started the car. The good news, she got some fantastic MPG!

broke... down... not out yet

I am the proud owner of a 2002 Dell computer with the original 5 GB hard drive, 512 RAM (installed spare RAM from other junk towers). This Dell like all my computers since 1998 have been used units. The operating system is windows XP professional and that takes up app. 3/4 of the hard drives 5 GB of space, not good. So I installed a used 10 GB slave drive to run various programs. The tower did not have a slot for an extra drive so I had to cut some card stock to place around the HD to keep it from touching sensitive spots.
   So far so good; the bad bits. This Dell does not run videos, will not load win SP 2 or 3, will not run various programs due to the SP problem and there are a multitude of app's that I need to run other software that can not be installed. For instance I decided that using ICLOUD would be a good way to get around some of these problems, well, NOT, need an app for that too...
   I do have an old Dell laptop with win XP, SP 3 and most the win net stuff etc.. with a 20 GB HD. However a couple days ago, the day Michelle cooked her car, The Dell laptop had a meltdown to. So I was left with no way to view videos or manipulate images, Gimp needs SP 2. I did locate a freeware image processing program that does work and quite well too, (PhotoScape), solving one problem.
   Michelle uses her car like a large ashtray and treats the car like a gift from God and that God will take care of the car for her! There is, I believe, something about trying to help yourself first, isn't there? 
   Off to the net to look for more open source/freeware programs and applications to help me get up and running at a slow walk on this computer.
   The word is out for another used tower...