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• What Have I told You About Backup and Restore?

  2009 Nov 05

  I was sent on a mission.  My daughter’s computer died and I was to get the system restore disks to her. Following the directions to find them in her things was like being on a Lewis and Clark expedition, but I found the box in her closet. No disks in the box. As I read the manual, [...]

• Will I Lose My $100?

  2009 Oct 31

  I haven’t decided. Just like I haven’t decided if I am going to give up my high fat Greek yogurt or not. My daughter and I have a competition to each lose 10 lbs. before Dec. 16. She would then be at her goal weight and I would be, let’s just say, closer to mine. I bought [...]

• Halloween Cow Tale – cookies and milk

  2009 Oct 28

  Sometimes you just can’t make these things up. Like this story in last night’s paper where a man in a cow costume drove nto the river (after some partying). I had to laugh several times as it was just a comedy of errors complete with the video surveillance copy of his drive into the drink accidentally erased. [...]

• Two Oldies But Goodies

  2009 Oct 25

  Finally watched the Netflix movie that’s been cluttering up my counter top for the past three weeks, Twelve Angry Men. I can tell it’s a good movie when we don’t fall asleep after the first ten minutes. So far, the oldies have been the goodies. Henry Fonda was really good, of course, but the other jurors were [...]

• Flu? Been There, Done That

  2009 Oct 20

  Yep and it wasn’t pretty. Sure, just when I decide to kiss my girlfriend’s baby on both cheeks, I get the flu. I spent half of my fever-induced stupor hoping I didn’t pass it along and wanting to research the incubation period so that if it passed, I could let let my guilty feelings go, [...]