Prince of Wales, hard to believe the heir to the throne is now 60 years old! Margie and I chatted last night for a long time and she said she could not believe that she is turning 80 in June. And I will turn 64 next birthday in April. I guess it’s all the more reason to get that song by the Beatles about When I’m 64 down by then.
I checked out a few of the “audio books” from our library and I was surprised they are cd’s rather than cassettes like they used to be. Gosh, am I ever old hat. I would think one could check out books on CD and then simply copy the CD’s to blanks. CD’s here are very cheap now, about 20 cents or so each in bulk.
Heat isn’t kind to electronic stuff. I know my computer tends to get warm (the laptop) and I bought a little cooling base for it with whisper quiet fans in hopes I’ll get some more mileage out of my Toshiba No. 1. You know it’s not at all “if” they will go, it’s “when” they will. Chilling thought.
You are way ahead of me with your techno-gadgetry. I have some music on iTunes but most of it on files ripped with media player (and I believe they are mp3-ish). iTunes has some nice features and so does Media Player, especially the new one that comes with Windows 7. As far as your “Arcos” being old, if it still works I’d go with that for some of the gadgetry. But then I don’t know doo-doo compared to some of these kids who text message one another at unbelievable speeds.
As far as TV-type quality goes, both Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional have a Media Center to manage all your music, let you watch internet TV and more. With my $29 TV tune (ATI Wonder), I get high definition TV. My only limitation is my antenna, I get like 4 or so channels clear as a bell and the others are iffy at time. I’m cheap, could buy cable for $20/month but I can’t be bothered. I’d probably be a TV addict in no time.
The Apple people and the PC people are certainly like the classic dualing families, Hatfields and McCoys in our legends. I see some good in both, actually. However, hardware seems to be much less expensive in the Windows world than Apple, particularly because you have to buy the hardware from the Apple folks.
The www.networksalinas.org site isn’t on any search engines to my knowledge. I’ve been putting it together bit by bit and it’s a pasttime right now, fills the void so to speak.
As to writing fancy websites, there seems to be the position that Dreamweaver is the favorite of professionals. I have a hell of a time sometimes with FrontPage and its quirks (it is obsolete now) but I’m used to it by now. I am looking at the new Microsoft product called Expressions. It is purported to have features designed to rival Adobe’s product and I don’t know enough about either to make a comparison. One thing in Microsoft’s favor is that they make their software available to students at incredibly low prices. The Expressions software, for example, is available academically for $29. And that’s what I paid for the academic Windows 7, no foolin’.
Your site looked fine when I looked at it, certainly a plethora of information on your topic.
I may develop a subweb having to do with mood disorders, but that is on the back burner for now. Next week school starts (taking a speech class for the helluvit) and possibly another but I don’t want to overload the old noodle like I did last time with two graphic arts classes – they together were over the line/limit for this old geezer.
As for text around pictures, FrontPage is not great about that feature, and don’t know if Javascript would do it, but the newer features like CSS are not part of it, but are part of Expressions. Hmm.
The inheritance is a mystery still. Margie was helpful with some recollection but we split up in 2004 and I’m blank on what happened after that. She thought I gave some away and I did, $100 to the hospital and $2,000 to the Elks Club to fix a plumbing problem (bit generous of me, wot?), and some to buy a car that was only 600.
I’m not obsessing, but where the heck did $92,000 go? I’m going to the bank where I deposited it to see if they can help me in this. Margie was concerned that I was not well and perhaps looking into it was an indication of this, but I do not think it is. I need to know and think it is only good sanity to look into it and find some answers.
Money burns a hole. Oh, my, does it ever! Since I’ve been living and with much more sanity, I’ve been frugal as can be and managed to save up a small nestegg towards car or something in the future, if not just for a bit of a piece of mind, a rainy day fund.
No, not to Chinese shop yet. Hell, I’m so out of stuff now I have the traditional Mother Hubbard’s pantry now, nary a bit. I need to get to Target rather than munch on Subway sandwiches (fresh, tasty). The happening in Haiti is sure a wakeup call. One needs to have some food set aside for something like an earthquake if it should hit here. The one in 1906 that hit San Francisco was a doozy in the order of magnitude like the one in Haiti. Even though building codes now require much more seismic bracings, a 7 on the scale will be a test supreme.
Losing the 3 inheritances? Pshaw, at least I’m 63 and in good health physically, treading water but doing reasonably mentally, so what’s that worth? Having a quarter of a million dollars and having lousy health – not even close to compare.
Bob Dylan, ha. There is a song that also suggests the same called Me and Bobby McGee. “It was somewhere near Salinas, lord, I let her slip away…and then…freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose…” Having great wealth or great poverty do fuel the proponents of each. An elderly student in the computer room just made an email account (took so long) and she came in last Tuesday wanting to send a letter and piece of her mind to Warren Buffet. It turned out to be a great exercise on how to Google. She’ll become a good Googler before she gets a personal note from Warren.
I’ve wondered whether the restore feature is a way around viruses (virii?). McAfee is okay but if I ever restore my machine because of a problem, I always have to reinstall it, a pain in the arse. However, to its credit, Windows 7 has been extremely good in comparison to Windows Vista. Norton Systemworks was the product I used to use and it was awesome, but expensive to renew and the updating feature is annoying, but with a fast connection, not so bad.
You do sound healthier in the self-esteem department, proud of your accomplishments (rightly so) and beat out your Mensa competition in an area or two. The comparing of ourselves to others is so ingrained in our competitive mentality but so worthless it would seem. But one does need to feel some self-worth, true. It may be unfortunate for some bipolar people who may have a low self-worth sense and perhaps that is what fuels the manias with delusions of grandeur.
They are going along with my request for having a group for people who only have mood disorders instead of the whole 9 yards. The director type guy told me the new plan is to run another group concurrently that would be more appropriate for those not with mood disorder issues. I like that – but tis going to be very slim pickins until things pick up more.
Five weeks, yes, not that far off. Looking forward to it.
You are using Outlook Express? I think it is now obsolete and replaced with Windows Live mail (which I don’t care for). I find the Outlook program lets me manage all my email in a tidy way (that’s my obsessive-compulsive needs talking.
And last, I am so thankful for online banking and getting online statements, it is more greenish indeed. Some people make a career out of coupon shopping but I haven’t gotten into that. But they still send me junk; I wonder why?
