After speaking, yet again, with AOL, they actually got me connected to my Mac mail accounts. So, now instead of having to log in and out of my 3 email accounts every time I want to check my emails, I can just click on the Mac mail names and see them with no login-and-out nonsense.
And I was annoyed at being told I would be charged $5 per email account per month for the accounts and "free" help desk. But I couldn't recall giving them any billing information, so I called them and checked. My accounts are free just as they were on Verizon!
So it is all still free AND I can read my email accounts on mac mail just by clicking on an email name on Mail. I am almost back to normal, but with a computer many times faster and with 4 times the memory!
I don't like the iPhoto changes much. Do any of you who use Macs know how to get iPhoto to routinely show the file names on photos? Other than that, I am thrilled again and getting back on track!
I am keeping the camera in my pocket for pictures of all kinds again.
March was miserable on the computer and I spent on-phone and online about 40 hours, but it is all straightened out now.
I forced it. They didn't want to let me do things as I wanted, but they did finally. It took time, but now I have things set up like I want it. They weren't thrilled, but that is THEIR problem.
I'M HAPPY and I'm going to bed until tomorrow!
Friday, March 31, 2017
Flower Friday
It has been a strange year for my Spring bulbs. First, the warm weather encouraged the earliest daffodilsin the front near the house to emerge sooner than they should have. Then a bizarre hailstorm knocked those earliest ones down and 3 nights in the low 20s finished the job. The flowers bloomed, but only laying on the ground. They don't show up very well that way.
But some of those sent up a 2nd wave of flowers, so there was something to look at, though thin. Still, I have some mid daffodils in front, and the flowers are jusr emerging. Even that is a bit confused this year. The new bed in the backyard has 2 kinds also. One is early and one is late, but they are both blooming together now.
Half of each of those were planted in Fall 2015 and I doubled each type last Fall. New plantings tend to come up late the 1st year, so I have 4 groups this year. So the established early ones bloomed and got knocked down. The new early ones and the established later ones are blooming now, and the new later ones are just emerging. Things should make more sense next Spring!
Meanwhile, in the good news department, the 6 patches of hyacinths I planted in Fall 2015 never even emerged last Spring, but I let them be hoping some would show up this year. And they HAVE! Not as many as I planted but some is better than none.
The Fall 2015 tulips bloomed well last Spring, but the leaves look rather ratty for some reason. I assumed they were dying young, but I noticed that they all have bud emerging and that is a good sign. I can't recall if the leaves were up when the hail hit, but that would explain the leaf damage.
The soil is not great in the bulb bed, so I plan to fertilize well this weekend and cover the entire bed in 3" of compost when the leaves die back naturally. I think I will cover it then in landscaping cloth to kill the weeds. A year of the compost nutrients leaching into the soil should help a lot. Here is the entire bed. You can see the daffodils easily; the tulips and hyacinths are in clumps (18 of tulips and 6 of hyacinths).
I would like more tulips and hyacinths, but you have to bury them in wire cages to protect them from the voles around here and that is a LOT of work digging large deep square holes. I may just add a lot more daffodils between the cages. I have an auger that fits in my electric drill and that makes it really easy to plant daffodils. Drill a dozen holes, put daff bulbs in them, shove soil back over. Voles don't bother daffodils!
The bottom edge of the bed has a double row of various daylilies. As they mature, I'll divide and interplant among them. A 30x3' thick band should look nice.
Every year things will get a bit better!
But some of those sent up a 2nd wave of flowers, so there was something to look at, though thin. Still, I have some mid daffodils in front, and the flowers are jusr emerging. Even that is a bit confused this year. The new bed in the backyard has 2 kinds also. One is early and one is late, but they are both blooming together now.
Half of each of those were planted in Fall 2015 and I doubled each type last Fall. New plantings tend to come up late the 1st year, so I have 4 groups this year. So the established early ones bloomed and got knocked down. The new early ones and the established later ones are blooming now, and the new later ones are just emerging. Things should make more sense next Spring!
Meanwhile, in the good news department, the 6 patches of hyacinths I planted in Fall 2015 never even emerged last Spring, but I let them be hoping some would show up this year. And they HAVE! Not as many as I planted but some is better than none.
The Fall 2015 tulips bloomed well last Spring, but the leaves look rather ratty for some reason. I assumed they were dying young, but I noticed that they all have bud emerging and that is a good sign. I can't recall if the leaves were up when the hail hit, but that would explain the leaf damage.
The soil is not great in the bulb bed, so I plan to fertilize well this weekend and cover the entire bed in 3" of compost when the leaves die back naturally. I think I will cover it then in landscaping cloth to kill the weeds. A year of the compost nutrients leaching into the soil should help a lot. Here is the entire bed. You can see the daffodils easily; the tulips and hyacinths are in clumps (18 of tulips and 6 of hyacinths).
The bottom edge of the bed has a double row of various daylilies. As they mature, I'll divide and interplant among them. A 30x3' thick band should look nice.
Every year things will get a bit better!
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Political Partisanship
I was politically aware when I was young. At 10, I stayed up late to see the results of the Kennedy/Nixon election. It was not as partisan then. There were liberal Republicans in the NE and conservative Republicans in the SW. There were conservative Democrats in the South and liberal Democrats in the Midwest.
Both parties had candidates and supporters in each wing and had to get along somewhere toward the center. So the both parties strategies were to see how close they could get to the center and still have candidates who would promote their general programs.
Nixon changed that. He managed to move the Republicans away from an economic to a soccially conservative program in the South. He left the Democrats without a southern base and won.
Since then, the 2 parties have been separating politically. I used to be a Progressive Republican in Maryland, It took more years for the Republican Party to purge the NE of Progressive views and there are still a few rogue holdovers. My Liberal Democratic party conservatives have been equally purged.
The "purification" in both parties has damaged our political campaigns. We used to be able to choose between candidates who 55% liberal vs another who was 55% conservative. Now our choices are 80-20.
This can't go on. Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan would not have a chance at getting the Republican nomination today. Jimmy Carter ( mildly conservative) or Bill Clinton (a Centrist) could not get the Democratic nomination today. You now have to be a fanatic, rabid, and never give an inch, to get a party nomination. I doubt that John Kennedy could get the Democratic nomination today or Dwight Eisenhower the Republican one now.
I think there are 2 main causes for this. First, Gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is named for a Massachusetts government official named "Gerry" in the 1800s where they structured a single congressional district shaped like a salamander. It has been used over the decades since, but never so successfully as since the 1990s. The purpose is to make sure your voting district have enough of one party to guarantee victory every election.
Back then, that couldn't be done for the whole State, because the State had many voters from both parties. That has changed. When a State hits about 75-80% one party, Gerrymandering works for the entire State. It is politically wonderful but ethically evil. But politicians trying to keep their jobs don't worry about "ethics" very much. Both Republicans and Democrats to it.
I support measures to prevent that.
The other thing that is destroying voters from controlling elections is Dark Campaign Money. That's where people with extreme amounts of money can get involved in even your local campaigns and influence them with negative ads and you don't know who is paying for it.
I'll create an example. "Candidate Smith voted to raise taxes twice. Vote against Smith". And the fact is that Smith voted against a bill to allow out-of-state industries to dump raw toxins in the local lake for a 1% tax fee on the dumpers 2 times. Which is actually a pretty pathetically weak response. But that's how they work.
And connected to that is the "astroturf" campaigns. An "astroturf campaign is the opposite of a "grass-roots" campaign. A grassroots campaign is started by people at the bottom and builds it way up for a local cause of larger national purpose.
An astroturf campaign a fake one (like astroturf). It starts at the top of industry or politics and works its way down prentending to be real. They aren't, but the sure sound like it.
1. 'The Center For Consumer Freedom' supports tobacco companies and fast food restaurants.
2. 'Al Gore's Penguin Army' looked like a local criticism of his movie 'An Inconvenient Truth', but was sponored by ExxonMobile.
3. 'Americans for Technology Leadership and Citizens Against Government Waste' was funded by Microsoft, which organized a letter drive.
4. 'Save Our Species Alliance' - Many of these false flag operations have vaguely Orwellian names, but perhaps none are so bad as the Save Our Species Alliance. The group describes itself as “a nationwide grassroots organization comprised of property owners, farmers, ranchers, miners, foresters, builders/developers, sportsmen, recreationists, business owners and ordinary citizens sharing the common goal of making the Endangered Species Act friendlier to local conservation efforts, property owners, and local governments while at the same time, doing a better job of actually saving species at risk.” Naturally it actually opposes most of the Endangered Species Act, especially all the parts that inconvenience the logging/timber and cattle industries. Who naturally bankroll most of the group’s operations.
5. 'Working Families For Wal-Mart' was/is a group created by Wal-Mart and PR firm Edelman to give the appearance that a grassroots organization was rising up to support Wal-Mart against unions and labor. The effort mainly consisted of fake blogs including one called “Wal-Marting Across America”.
Another corporate and political trick is to pack the microphones at some town hall meetings with prepared speakers. The announcement is made that the mikes are open, and a dozen people wearing identical clothes instantly stand in line up to say nearly identical speeches. They are all sitting at the aisle seats waiting to go. They use up all the audience speaking time and no one else gets a chance.
We have to find a way to stop this nonsense. Otherwise, we will go the way of the Greeks and Romans and French and British. Things can change, but it will take effort and determination.
Vote for the most centrist candidate in the primary (and VOTE). Vote for the most centrist moniee in the election. Get people elected who will stand more toward the center. The CENTER CAN HOLD! We just have to all decide to reconstruct it.
Sure, we have had hotly contested elections. But most were closer to the center than you may know. Kennedy and Nixon were like 45-60 on the political scale. Kennedy was hard on the Communists and he wasn't friends with hard line unions. He expanded our actions in Vietnam. Later Nixon worked to make peace with China and created the Environmental Protection Agency. Watergate aside (and Kennedy had persoanal faults) they weren't 80-20 apart.
And now we are. We have to get back to some degree of general agreements. Or we will fail.
Both parties had candidates and supporters in each wing and had to get along somewhere toward the center. So the both parties strategies were to see how close they could get to the center and still have candidates who would promote their general programs.
Nixon changed that. He managed to move the Republicans away from an economic to a soccially conservative program in the South. He left the Democrats without a southern base and won.
Since then, the 2 parties have been separating politically. I used to be a Progressive Republican in Maryland, It took more years for the Republican Party to purge the NE of Progressive views and there are still a few rogue holdovers. My Liberal Democratic party conservatives have been equally purged.
The "purification" in both parties has damaged our political campaigns. We used to be able to choose between candidates who 55% liberal vs another who was 55% conservative. Now our choices are 80-20.
This can't go on. Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan would not have a chance at getting the Republican nomination today. Jimmy Carter ( mildly conservative) or Bill Clinton (a Centrist) could not get the Democratic nomination today. You now have to be a fanatic, rabid, and never give an inch, to get a party nomination. I doubt that John Kennedy could get the Democratic nomination today or Dwight Eisenhower the Republican one now.
I think there are 2 main causes for this. First, Gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is named for a Massachusetts government official named "Gerry" in the 1800s where they structured a single congressional district shaped like a salamander. It has been used over the decades since, but never so successfully as since the 1990s. The purpose is to make sure your voting district have enough of one party to guarantee victory every election.
Back then, that couldn't be done for the whole State, because the State had many voters from both parties. That has changed. When a State hits about 75-80% one party, Gerrymandering works for the entire State. It is politically wonderful but ethically evil. But politicians trying to keep their jobs don't worry about "ethics" very much. Both Republicans and Democrats to it.
I support measures to prevent that.
The other thing that is destroying voters from controlling elections is Dark Campaign Money. That's where people with extreme amounts of money can get involved in even your local campaigns and influence them with negative ads and you don't know who is paying for it.
I'll create an example. "Candidate Smith voted to raise taxes twice. Vote against Smith". And the fact is that Smith voted against a bill to allow out-of-state industries to dump raw toxins in the local lake for a 1% tax fee on the dumpers 2 times. Which is actually a pretty pathetically weak response. But that's how they work.
And connected to that is the "astroturf" campaigns. An "astroturf campaign is the opposite of a "grass-roots" campaign. A grassroots campaign is started by people at the bottom and builds it way up for a local cause of larger national purpose.
An astroturf campaign a fake one (like astroturf). It starts at the top of industry or politics and works its way down prentending to be real. They aren't, but the sure sound like it.
1. 'The Center For Consumer Freedom' supports tobacco companies and fast food restaurants.
2. 'Al Gore's Penguin Army' looked like a local criticism of his movie 'An Inconvenient Truth', but was sponored by ExxonMobile.
3. 'Americans for Technology Leadership and Citizens Against Government Waste' was funded by Microsoft, which organized a letter drive.
4. 'Save Our Species Alliance' - Many of these false flag operations have vaguely Orwellian names, but perhaps none are so bad as the Save Our Species Alliance. The group describes itself as “a nationwide grassroots organization comprised of property owners, farmers, ranchers, miners, foresters, builders/developers, sportsmen, recreationists, business owners and ordinary citizens sharing the common goal of making the Endangered Species Act friendlier to local conservation efforts, property owners, and local governments while at the same time, doing a better job of actually saving species at risk.” Naturally it actually opposes most of the Endangered Species Act, especially all the parts that inconvenience the logging/timber and cattle industries. Who naturally bankroll most of the group’s operations.
5. 'Working Families For Wal-Mart' was/is a group created by Wal-Mart and PR firm Edelman to give the appearance that a grassroots organization was rising up to support Wal-Mart against unions and labor. The effort mainly consisted of fake blogs including one called “Wal-Marting Across America”.
Another corporate and political trick is to pack the microphones at some town hall meetings with prepared speakers. The announcement is made that the mikes are open, and a dozen people wearing identical clothes instantly stand in line up to say nearly identical speeches. They are all sitting at the aisle seats waiting to go. They use up all the audience speaking time and no one else gets a chance.
We have to find a way to stop this nonsense. Otherwise, we will go the way of the Greeks and Romans and French and British. Things can change, but it will take effort and determination.
Vote for the most centrist candidate in the primary (and VOTE). Vote for the most centrist moniee in the election. Get people elected who will stand more toward the center. The CENTER CAN HOLD! We just have to all decide to reconstruct it.
Sure, we have had hotly contested elections. But most were closer to the center than you may know. Kennedy and Nixon were like 45-60 on the political scale. Kennedy was hard on the Communists and he wasn't friends with hard line unions. He expanded our actions in Vietnam. Later Nixon worked to make peace with China and created the Environmental Protection Agency. Watergate aside (and Kennedy had persoanal faults) they weren't 80-20 apart.
And now we are. We have to get back to some degree of general agreements. Or we will fail.
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Spring!
I am glad to say that Spring seems to finally be here for real. Today was in the 70s and the long range forecast suggests that even the low temps will be in the 40s. So I can safely get on with planting.
The earliest daffodils are all flower-down from stem freeze, but the new wave of flowers are opening. There should be some good pictures soon. The hyacinths that were completely absent last year (planted Fall 2015) are showing small flowers this year. I am relieved they are alive at all. I'll hope for a better show next year. The tulips are emerging but not blooming yet.
I planted 25 astilbes in a re-dug bed last month. I assume the cold isn't a problem for them since they a perennials. I have another 25 for an island I created around a tree and 3' rock on the front yard. Astilbes will appreciate the half shade AND they are listed as being deer-resistant, which matters in the front. The deer ate most of my hostas last year so I am moving the survivors to the fenced-in back yard. There are 2 kinds on large crinkly-leaved hostas the deer never touched so I will divide them into 1/4s and fill in the empty spots. I have been tending toward more of the same plants in large masses, so that works too.
For too many years, I have planted "6 of this" "6 of those" etc. Which is nice from 5' away, but looks rather jumbled from further away sort of like a pile of mixed tiles on a table. I'm going for at least 25 sq ft of the same plants for most of the beds.
EXCEPT I'm also going "cottage garden" along the 75'x 8' bed along the fence. That should become a riot of self-sowing color of various height I hope! And if I'm lucky, they should grow tall and thick enough to shade out the runner grass that showed up about 5 years ago and seems impossible to eliminate by digging them out.
Along with the new astilbe bed and the fence bed, I have 3 edged areas in the middle of the back yard. One is a wildflower bed, one is for an invasive lychamistra, and one is for mostly spring bulbs where I am also planting dwarf butterfly bushes, dwarf roses, yuccas, and annuals that don't need much water (spring bulbs like dry summers).
The wildflower bed was initially planted last year. I tilled the soil loosely and gaily scatterred seeds from a "wildflower" packet around. I didn't get much. So this year I bought specific wildflowers suited to partial shade and poor soil. Some I planted inside in flats so that I know I have something growing to transplant randomly. The rest I'll scatter and hope that Nature lets them grow.
And I'm cheating a bit. I also bought a packet each for Bees, Hummingbirds, and Butterflys. It might be a very odd-looking bed (about 30' x 15').
The lychimastra (I simply CANNOT ever remember how to spell that) bed is only 10' diameter. But it is easy to mow around so they can't spread. Indeed, I thought I killed them 2 years ago, but they keep coming back ("invasive" right, have to remember that). I admire the purple foliage and the gold flowers are nice. I just need to remember to shear off the dying flowers before the seeds spread. Hedge trimmers are good for that.
The spring bulb edged bed is my real hope. IF they ever grow. Last year, the hyacinths never came up at all but have (weakly) this year. This year 1/2 the daffodil flowers froze. The tulips are looking promising. And it is the closest bed to the deck. I have the sunflower seed feeder in the center and there is always lots of activity there. The birds go through enough seeds that the shells are pretty good mulch. I might change the pole the feeder is on from an in-ground pole to a free-standing one I can move around to mulch other spots.
This is last year in April. It will look like this soon, but I have 3x the daffodils and the tulips have multiplied a bit and I have gotten rid up most of the weeds...
I need to mark the spots where the existing tulips are (with cardboard pinned down with tent stakes) after the leaves are dying back so I know where to plant more between them this coming Fall.
The finches are starting to color up. I see slightly more gold on the males each day. Boy can those guys EAT! I have 2 tube feeders of Nyger seed and I have to refill them every day (about a qt/liter of seeds). I buy the stuff in 50# bags and fill up qt bottles I've saved and store them in the basement freezer. I order it from a local home project store, but sometimes it is available from Amazon too. The 50# cost $75 which is $1.50 per pound; a lot better than the $2 to $2.50 per pound the small bags cost in local stores.
This is from April last year. They aren't this gold yet, but will be soon. I can't wait to see them like this again. And it is good to know I'm helping them get there. I have no doubt that I have the healthiest, brightest goldfinches in my area!
It is hard to count them, as they flutter around and fuss over perches, but I probably have at least 2 dozen. I have about a dozen resident cardinals, a vague number of purple finches, a few woodpeckers, some doves, some titmice, some sparrows and and a few random other visitors at the black oil sunflower feeder. The goldfinches eat more weight in seed than all the birds eating the sunflower seeds.
I watch them using a target range spotter-scope on a tripod. That's a lot easier trying to hold binoculars in my trembley hands (DDT exposure as a teen, I suspect). I should buy a serious camera for taking pictures of the birds too.
The earliest daffodils are all flower-down from stem freeze, but the new wave of flowers are opening. There should be some good pictures soon. The hyacinths that were completely absent last year (planted Fall 2015) are showing small flowers this year. I am relieved they are alive at all. I'll hope for a better show next year. The tulips are emerging but not blooming yet.
I planted 25 astilbes in a re-dug bed last month. I assume the cold isn't a problem for them since they a perennials. I have another 25 for an island I created around a tree and 3' rock on the front yard. Astilbes will appreciate the half shade AND they are listed as being deer-resistant, which matters in the front. The deer ate most of my hostas last year so I am moving the survivors to the fenced-in back yard. There are 2 kinds on large crinkly-leaved hostas the deer never touched so I will divide them into 1/4s and fill in the empty spots. I have been tending toward more of the same plants in large masses, so that works too.
For too many years, I have planted "6 of this" "6 of those" etc. Which is nice from 5' away, but looks rather jumbled from further away sort of like a pile of mixed tiles on a table. I'm going for at least 25 sq ft of the same plants for most of the beds.
EXCEPT I'm also going "cottage garden" along the 75'x 8' bed along the fence. That should become a riot of self-sowing color of various height I hope! And if I'm lucky, they should grow tall and thick enough to shade out the runner grass that showed up about 5 years ago and seems impossible to eliminate by digging them out.
Along with the new astilbe bed and the fence bed, I have 3 edged areas in the middle of the back yard. One is a wildflower bed, one is for an invasive lychamistra, and one is for mostly spring bulbs where I am also planting dwarf butterfly bushes, dwarf roses, yuccas, and annuals that don't need much water (spring bulbs like dry summers).
The wildflower bed was initially planted last year. I tilled the soil loosely and gaily scatterred seeds from a "wildflower" packet around. I didn't get much. So this year I bought specific wildflowers suited to partial shade and poor soil. Some I planted inside in flats so that I know I have something growing to transplant randomly. The rest I'll scatter and hope that Nature lets them grow.
And I'm cheating a bit. I also bought a packet each for Bees, Hummingbirds, and Butterflys. It might be a very odd-looking bed (about 30' x 15').
The lychimastra (I simply CANNOT ever remember how to spell that) bed is only 10' diameter. But it is easy to mow around so they can't spread. Indeed, I thought I killed them 2 years ago, but they keep coming back ("invasive" right, have to remember that). I admire the purple foliage and the gold flowers are nice. I just need to remember to shear off the dying flowers before the seeds spread. Hedge trimmers are good for that.
The spring bulb edged bed is my real hope. IF they ever grow. Last year, the hyacinths never came up at all but have (weakly) this year. This year 1/2 the daffodil flowers froze. The tulips are looking promising. And it is the closest bed to the deck. I have the sunflower seed feeder in the center and there is always lots of activity there. The birds go through enough seeds that the shells are pretty good mulch. I might change the pole the feeder is on from an in-ground pole to a free-standing one I can move around to mulch other spots.
This is last year in April. It will look like this soon, but I have 3x the daffodils and the tulips have multiplied a bit and I have gotten rid up most of the weeds...
I need to mark the spots where the existing tulips are (with cardboard pinned down with tent stakes) after the leaves are dying back so I know where to plant more between them this coming Fall.
The finches are starting to color up. I see slightly more gold on the males each day. Boy can those guys EAT! I have 2 tube feeders of Nyger seed and I have to refill them every day (about a qt/liter of seeds). I buy the stuff in 50# bags and fill up qt bottles I've saved and store them in the basement freezer. I order it from a local home project store, but sometimes it is available from Amazon too. The 50# cost $75 which is $1.50 per pound; a lot better than the $2 to $2.50 per pound the small bags cost in local stores.
This is from April last year. They aren't this gold yet, but will be soon. I can't wait to see them like this again. And it is good to know I'm helping them get there. I have no doubt that I have the healthiest, brightest goldfinches in my area!
It is hard to count them, as they flutter around and fuss over perches, but I probably have at least 2 dozen. I have about a dozen resident cardinals, a vague number of purple finches, a few woodpeckers, some doves, some titmice, some sparrows and and a few random other visitors at the black oil sunflower feeder. The goldfinches eat more weight in seed than all the birds eating the sunflower seeds.
I watch them using a target range spotter-scope on a tripod. That's a lot easier trying to hold binoculars in my trembley hands (DDT exposure as a teen, I suspect). I should buy a serious camera for taking pictures of the birds too.
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Quite a Day!
Most people keep regular hours waking and sleeping. I managed that for 35 years of regular office work, but since I retired in 2006, that went totally out the window. For example, I got up at 11 am Thursday and stayed up til 1 PM Friday. I did some yardwork in daylight and stayed on the computer from after dinner to 1 PM Friday and crashed for 4 hours sleep. Got up at 5PM, fed the Mews 1st and 2nd breakfast then let them out for the brief daylight left.
Stay with me here...
Made dinner at 8 PM. I had lots of "refrigerator-fodder" and a packaged 1/2" slice of uncooked ham. Tghat ham slice is large. I pulled out my 2 burned Lodge cast iron flat griddle and heated tht baby up for 15 minutes. Talk about sizzle!
Then I went to the basement and harvested a dozen leaves of the baby bok choy and celery I'm growing there. Destrung (destringed?) a dozen snow peas, cut strips of red and green bell peppers, sliced up a jalepeno pepper, sliced a 1/2 onion and 4 cremini mushrooms and went to work with the wok.
The celery chunks . peppers, and mushrooms went into the wok first. Followed by the onions, then the celery leaves, sliced bok choy, and shredded garlic and ginger. Then, before they were "almost crisp", I added a 1/4 cup cornstarch and chicken broth mix and let it bubble for slightly over a minute.
My friends, it was the most perfect stir-fry I have ever made!
I did not eat it with a salad,
I did not eat it with a side.
I just put the bowl on table
And I put it all inside!
Even the TV choices were great (I eat watching TV). There was a show about the Broadway hit 'Hamilton', a good Nature show, and MSNBC commentary about the days political events.
I NEEDED THAT! These last 2 weeks have been frustrating. And I haven't even resolved all the email issues yet. But the new computer is up and running except for that, my backup program is working, and I CAN get to each of my 3 email accounts by logging in and out for each one whenever I want to check. I'll solve that one soon.
Cavebear
Stay with me here...
Made dinner at 8 PM. I had lots of "refrigerator-fodder" and a packaged 1/2" slice of uncooked ham. Tghat ham slice is large. I pulled out my 2 burned Lodge cast iron flat griddle and heated tht baby up for 15 minutes. Talk about sizzle!
Then I went to the basement and harvested a dozen leaves of the baby bok choy and celery I'm growing there. Destrung (destringed?) a dozen snow peas, cut strips of red and green bell peppers, sliced up a jalepeno pepper, sliced a 1/2 onion and 4 cremini mushrooms and went to work with the wok.
The celery chunks . peppers, and mushrooms went into the wok first. Followed by the onions, then the celery leaves, sliced bok choy, and shredded garlic and ginger. Then, before they were "almost crisp", I added a 1/4 cup cornstarch and chicken broth mix and let it bubble for slightly over a minute.
My friends, it was the most perfect stir-fry I have ever made!
I did not eat it with a salad,
I did not eat it with a side.
I just put the bowl on table
And I put it all inside!
Even the TV choices were great (I eat watching TV). There was a show about the Broadway hit 'Hamilton', a good Nature show, and MSNBC commentary about the days political events.
I NEEDED THAT! These last 2 weeks have been frustrating. And I haven't even resolved all the email issues yet. But the new computer is up and running except for that, my backup program is working, and I CAN get to each of my 3 email accounts by logging in and out for each one whenever I want to check. I'll solve that one soon.
Cavebear
Friday, March 24, 2017
New Mac Computer
Well, the new Mac Mini arrived Wensday, but I was tired. I had to do errands most on yesterday, but got at it in the late afternoon. Macs have something called Migration assistant that helps you transfer important files from a Mac to a PC, a PC to a Mac, or a Mac to Mac (from new to old or old to new).
That sounds really great, but unless you have about every cable and/or adaptor in existence, it can be an adventure. I don't, and it was!
The most direct way of migrating from one Mac to another is too simply have them both up and running with an HDMI cable between them. Which requires 2 sets of monitors/keyboards/mouses, all of which I actually have!
But Mac Minis have only one HDMI port. My monitors plug into HDMI ports. But so does the recommended Mac to Mac. No amount of searching through my box of odd cables and adaptors would make that work.
I could have gone to a local store and bought the one adaptor I needed, but NOOOOOO, I had to make it work with what I had. Well, sometimes half the fun in life is the challenge...
And one thing I had was a brand new Western Digital (WD) 4Tb backup drive (my old Seagate 500Gb drive just wasn't able to backup all my files anymore) that I ordered at the same time as the new Mac.
So, I didn't have the right cables to go direct Mac to Mac. But the Mac Migration Assistant said it was perfectly happy using a Time Machine backup. So I set up the old Mac to the new WD backup disk and set it to backup the old Mac. Took 3 hours! It was an initial backup (copying everything).
I was just finishing a late dinner when the backup completed. I moved the WD backup and all the other cables to the new Mac and opened Migration Assistant there. I had to register the new Mac slightly (language, location, User ID, Password, etc. The user name and password set me back for a while. In spite of it being a new computer, somewhere, the Mac Universe knows who I am and disagreed with my name. I finally discovered that my old password on Capital letters and some numbers NOW required a lower case letter also. Got THAT straightened out, and went through a bunch of stuff about using the Cloud. Sorry, not yet for that for me.
They were insistent, so I had to go through a bunch of "Are you SURE?" questions. But I finally got to the NEW Mac Migration Assistant, and it searched for an external drive. Found it and started downloading files.
I was really worried at first. The progress bar stayed at 1% for 30 minutes. But then it suddenly progressed faster and only took another hour.
I amused myself during the wait by changing the water for my 2 Siamese Fighting fish (separate containers of course), doing a load of laundry, tossing toys to the Mews, and listening to MSNBC commentary in the background.
But even massive file transfers through slow cables do come to an end and the new Mac reported it had completed the file download. A quick check suggests that all my files are saved, are saved in familiar folders, and my Firefox and Safari browsers have my bookmarks. I checked iPhoto next for all my photos.
Its not the same. Nothing I couldn't figure out, but more on THAT soon as there are changes I don't like and may ask questions about to fellow Mac users.
Everything ELSE seems to work pretty much the same, but I checked iPhotos first as it matters more to my blogs than word or spreadsheet programs do.
The important thing is that I am up and running on a Mac with more memory, processing speed and backup. I understand the programs (generally, given some changes)
It doesn't solve my unhappiness with the transfer of my Verizon email (which I was utterly happy with) to AOL (which seems restrictive, user-unfriendly, and overflowing with ads). THAT is a problem to solve in a few days. I can LIVE with AOL for right now, just won't STAY with them for long. They want to "nickle and dime" me to death for every service to avoid what I don't want them to provide in the first place. And I have 3 email addresses (for which they charge a monthly fee each). And I can't simply switch from one to another as I could on Verizon, I have to log out and then back in each time.
But the migration is complete, my new computer runs faster, and I'm back on line. For today, that's is enough.
That sounds really great, but unless you have about every cable and/or adaptor in existence, it can be an adventure. I don't, and it was!
The most direct way of migrating from one Mac to another is too simply have them both up and running with an HDMI cable between them. Which requires 2 sets of monitors/keyboards/mouses, all of which I actually have!
But Mac Minis have only one HDMI port. My monitors plug into HDMI ports. But so does the recommended Mac to Mac. No amount of searching through my box of odd cables and adaptors would make that work.
I could have gone to a local store and bought the one adaptor I needed, but NOOOOOO, I had to make it work with what I had. Well, sometimes half the fun in life is the challenge...
And one thing I had was a brand new Western Digital (WD) 4Tb backup drive (my old Seagate 500Gb drive just wasn't able to backup all my files anymore) that I ordered at the same time as the new Mac.
So, I didn't have the right cables to go direct Mac to Mac. But the Mac Migration Assistant said it was perfectly happy using a Time Machine backup. So I set up the old Mac to the new WD backup disk and set it to backup the old Mac. Took 3 hours! It was an initial backup (copying everything).
I was just finishing a late dinner when the backup completed. I moved the WD backup and all the other cables to the new Mac and opened Migration Assistant there. I had to register the new Mac slightly (language, location, User ID, Password, etc. The user name and password set me back for a while. In spite of it being a new computer, somewhere, the Mac Universe knows who I am and disagreed with my name. I finally discovered that my old password on Capital letters and some numbers NOW required a lower case letter also. Got THAT straightened out, and went through a bunch of stuff about using the Cloud. Sorry, not yet for that for me.
They were insistent, so I had to go through a bunch of "Are you SURE?" questions. But I finally got to the NEW Mac Migration Assistant, and it searched for an external drive. Found it and started downloading files.
I was really worried at first. The progress bar stayed at 1% for 30 minutes. But then it suddenly progressed faster and only took another hour.
I amused myself during the wait by changing the water for my 2 Siamese Fighting fish (separate containers of course), doing a load of laundry, tossing toys to the Mews, and listening to MSNBC commentary in the background.
But even massive file transfers through slow cables do come to an end and the new Mac reported it had completed the file download. A quick check suggests that all my files are saved, are saved in familiar folders, and my Firefox and Safari browsers have my bookmarks. I checked iPhoto next for all my photos.
Its not the same. Nothing I couldn't figure out, but more on THAT soon as there are changes I don't like and may ask questions about to fellow Mac users.
Everything ELSE seems to work pretty much the same, but I checked iPhotos first as it matters more to my blogs than word or spreadsheet programs do.
The important thing is that I am up and running on a Mac with more memory, processing speed and backup. I understand the programs (generally, given some changes)
It doesn't solve my unhappiness with the transfer of my Verizon email (which I was utterly happy with) to AOL (which seems restrictive, user-unfriendly, and overflowing with ads). THAT is a problem to solve in a few days. I can LIVE with AOL for right now, just won't STAY with them for long. They want to "nickle and dime" me to death for every service to avoid what I don't want them to provide in the first place. And I have 3 email addresses (for which they charge a monthly fee each). And I can't simply switch from one to another as I could on Verizon, I have to log out and then back in each time.
But the migration is complete, my new computer runs faster, and I'm back on line. For today, that's is enough.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Planting Seeds
I've gotten behind my seed-planting schedule with the computer problems, but I made some major progress last evening. The delay shouldn't cause too much of a problem. My indoors tomatoes and peppers and leeks were planted on time and they are up and growing. And the unusual late cold would probably have killed the beets and peas I should have planted outside anyway.
The late indoors plantings were all of flowers and I got 7 flats of them planted. And since planting the seeds directly outdoors is scheduled for 4 weeks from now, all I have lost is 3 weeks of a headstart.
I'm trying something new this year. Most of my existing perennial flowers have died out over the past years, and to tell you the truth, perennials don't bloom for very long and you have the same flowers in the same colors in the same places for years.
So I'm trying a cottage garden. I bought a dozen packets of seeds of a few perennials and mostly self-sowing annuals. I planted 6 of each in cell-packs (in my own sifted starter soil I mixed last month), so I know I have some growing plants of each type. I'll plant the seedlings randomly in the old flowerbed along the fence.
And then, I will scatter most of the rest of the seeds around the bed randomly. I have already spread 3" of 50/50 compost and topsoil mix around, so the scattered seeds should have a good start. The indoors-grown seedlings will guarantee me of "something", and the scatterred direct-sown seeds may surprize me. I'm keeping some of each in case the direct-sowing fails.
Partly, I'm doing this because I've been too organized about my plantings for many years. It's not that I'm "formal", just rather geometrically-oriented and rather controlling. Oh wait, that's what "formal" is, isnt it? I want to force my hand on Nature. Well, let's see what Nature will do on its own. It is time to try a different approach!
For anyone interested, I have a real system for indoor seed-starting. To begin with, I have a metal shelving stand that I added lights to (Ooh, my English Teacher would scream. That should be "to which I added lights")
I mix my own starter soil from compost, peat, vermiculite, and perlite. I fill a large barrel with it.
I reuse 6 pack cels each year, but I soak them in the laundry tub with some bleach overnight and then rinse them. Then I add them to flats that hold water and add a mesh flat underneath for strength. One 6 pack cel is a 5 cel; I cut one out to make watering easier.
I have a plastic bin that holds a whole flat. I can just dump starter soil in and scrape off the excess without waste. The extra goes back in the starter soil trash can. So I have a flat of cel packs leveled with soil to plant in.
Most of the cottage garden seeds are surface-sprouters. They need light to germinate so they are just pressed lightly into the soil. A few 6 pack cels stacked together make a perfect presser. Others want 1/8" to as much as 1" depth. Well that's what fingers are for!
The surface-planted ones need light to germinate, so they get on the light stand. The others just get stacked up until the emerge and then they get their space on the stand. My basement stays at 64F, which is fine for most flowers. The few that want 70-75 get stacked on the upstairs rack. They grow better at 65F some they go back downstairs on emergence.
It's a real dance sometimes. But what is the purpose of a hobby but to take some work? I mean, if everytime you tossed a bowling ball any way and got a strike, who would bother to bowl? The purpose of a hobby is to focus some effort and get good at it.
I am hoping for some very interesting different flower garden this year and for the next few years.
The late indoors plantings were all of flowers and I got 7 flats of them planted. And since planting the seeds directly outdoors is scheduled for 4 weeks from now, all I have lost is 3 weeks of a headstart.
I'm trying something new this year. Most of my existing perennial flowers have died out over the past years, and to tell you the truth, perennials don't bloom for very long and you have the same flowers in the same colors in the same places for years.
So I'm trying a cottage garden. I bought a dozen packets of seeds of a few perennials and mostly self-sowing annuals. I planted 6 of each in cell-packs (in my own sifted starter soil I mixed last month), so I know I have some growing plants of each type. I'll plant the seedlings randomly in the old flowerbed along the fence.
And then, I will scatter most of the rest of the seeds around the bed randomly. I have already spread 3" of 50/50 compost and topsoil mix around, so the scattered seeds should have a good start. The indoors-grown seedlings will guarantee me of "something", and the scatterred direct-sown seeds may surprize me. I'm keeping some of each in case the direct-sowing fails.
Partly, I'm doing this because I've been too organized about my plantings for many years. It's not that I'm "formal", just rather geometrically-oriented and rather controlling. Oh wait, that's what "formal" is, isnt it? I want to force my hand on Nature. Well, let's see what Nature will do on its own. It is time to try a different approach!
For anyone interested, I have a real system for indoor seed-starting. To begin with, I have a metal shelving stand that I added lights to (Ooh, my English Teacher would scream. That should be "to which I added lights")
I reuse 6 pack cels each year, but I soak them in the laundry tub with some bleach overnight and then rinse them. Then I add them to flats that hold water and add a mesh flat underneath for strength. One 6 pack cel is a 5 cel; I cut one out to make watering easier.
I have a plastic bin that holds a whole flat. I can just dump starter soil in and scrape off the excess without waste. The extra goes back in the starter soil trash can. So I have a flat of cel packs leveled with soil to plant in.
Most of the cottage garden seeds are surface-sprouters. They need light to germinate so they are just pressed lightly into the soil. A few 6 pack cels stacked together make a perfect presser. Others want 1/8" to as much as 1" depth. Well that's what fingers are for!
The surface-planted ones need light to germinate, so they get on the light stand. The others just get stacked up until the emerge and then they get their space on the stand. My basement stays at 64F, which is fine for most flowers. The few that want 70-75 get stacked on the upstairs rack. They grow better at 65F some they go back downstairs on emergence.
It's a real dance sometimes. But what is the purpose of a hobby but to take some work? I mean, if everytime you tossed a bowling ball any way and got a strike, who would bother to bowl? The purpose of a hobby is to focus some effort and get good at it.
I am hoping for some very interesting different flower garden this year and for the next few years.
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
I Surrender
There are times when you make what seems to be a good decision and it just doesn't work.
I have struggled for almost 10 days now with the new Windows computer and I just can't make sense of it. And I was a Windows user for almost 20 years.
Nothing makes sense. Compared to my Mac, the Windows is very hard to organize, the file folders are hard to arrange, and I can't seem to control it much. Windows FIGHTS user control. I read that before I purchased it,and I hought I could force it to look the way I wanted, but my confidence was in error. I can't get used to the loss off control.
If you have Windows and are used to it, wonderful. I don't criticize in the least bit. Windows has one way of user management; Mac has another. I'm the Mac kind.
So, I'm selling the Windows computer I just bought.
Yes, it will cost me something. I paid $1,000 for it, I may be able to sell it for $600. It is not returnable. Sometimes you just make a mistake and have to bite the bullet.
I had several reasons to try a Windows again. Several computer sites said Windows was about as stable as Macs (and it has not crashed this week). Others said there were more apps. Others said more people used them. That seems to be correct.
I don't want to start a Windows vs Mac war here. I just know that Mac software is more intuitive to use and easier to manage and get around. I have more control over it.
I had 5 malware attacks in one day on Windows. I had 2 Mac attacks in 6 months. And my Mac software detected and deleted those. That may not last forever, but I appreciate it now.
So 'Im going to sell the new Windows computer for what I can get (and it has additional software I've downloaded). And buying a new Mac.
I hate to waste money. But I expect this Mac to last 6 years or more and who wants to fight with their computer. I'm going back to what I understand. Because I realized I am just not ON the computer (with Windows) much anymore.
I found a Mac Mini equal in Ram and memory etc to the Windows computer. It costs more, but I can accept that.
It will take 3 days to arrive, a couple days to migrate, and I should be up and working again then. The programs will be familiar, the files will stay, the photos will be accessible again, life will be normal.
I should have just done that to begin with. But like I said, sometimes you make mistakes and mistakes aren't free. I will be happier afterwards.
When you get down to it, that's what matters...
I have struggled for almost 10 days now with the new Windows computer and I just can't make sense of it. And I was a Windows user for almost 20 years.
Nothing makes sense. Compared to my Mac, the Windows is very hard to organize, the file folders are hard to arrange, and I can't seem to control it much. Windows FIGHTS user control. I read that before I purchased it,and I hought I could force it to look the way I wanted, but my confidence was in error. I can't get used to the loss off control.
If you have Windows and are used to it, wonderful. I don't criticize in the least bit. Windows has one way of user management; Mac has another. I'm the Mac kind.
So, I'm selling the Windows computer I just bought.
Yes, it will cost me something. I paid $1,000 for it, I may be able to sell it for $600. It is not returnable. Sometimes you just make a mistake and have to bite the bullet.
I had several reasons to try a Windows again. Several computer sites said Windows was about as stable as Macs (and it has not crashed this week). Others said there were more apps. Others said more people used them. That seems to be correct.
I don't want to start a Windows vs Mac war here. I just know that Mac software is more intuitive to use and easier to manage and get around. I have more control over it.
I had 5 malware attacks in one day on Windows. I had 2 Mac attacks in 6 months. And my Mac software detected and deleted those. That may not last forever, but I appreciate it now.
So 'Im going to sell the new Windows computer for what I can get (and it has additional software I've downloaded). And buying a new Mac.
I hate to waste money. But I expect this Mac to last 6 years or more and who wants to fight with their computer. I'm going back to what I understand. Because I realized I am just not ON the computer (with Windows) much anymore.
I found a Mac Mini equal in Ram and memory etc to the Windows computer. It costs more, but I can accept that.
It will take 3 days to arrive, a couple days to migrate, and I should be up and working again then. The programs will be familiar, the files will stay, the photos will be accessible again, life will be normal.
I should have just done that to begin with. But like I said, sometimes you make mistakes and mistakes aren't free. I will be happier afterwards.
When you get down to it, that's what matters...
Monday, March 20, 2017
Monday Humor
As long as I am copying files and deleting everything ABSOLUTELY not required, here is som more old humor.
Thoughts From The
Workplace...
Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job
done. Doing the job WRONG
fourteen times gives you
job security.
We put the "k" in
"kwality."
If at first you don't succeed, try management.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can
avoid altogether.
TEAMWORK means never having to take all the
blame yourself.
The beatings will continue until morale
improves.
Never underestimate the
power of very stupid people in large groups.
We waste time, so you don't have to.
A snooze button is a poor substitute for no
alarm clock at all.
When the going gets tough, the tough take a
coffee break.
INDECISION is the key to FLEXIBILITY.
Succeed in spite of management.
We waste more time by 8:00 in the morning than
other companies do all
day.
Work: It isn't just for sleeping anymore.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked
into jet engines.
I THINK THAT I KNOW THESE PEOPLE!
A programmer is someone who solves a problem
you didn't know you had in
a way you don't understand.
An auditor is someone who arrives after the
battle and bayonets all the
wounded.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his
umbrella when the sun is shining
and wants it back the
minute it begins to rain. (Mark Twain)
An economist is an expert who will know
tomorrow why the things he
predicted yesterday did
not happen today.
A statistician is someone who is good with
numbers but lacks the
personality to be an
accountant.
An actuary is someone who brings a fake bomb
on a plane, because that
decreases the chances that
there will be another bomb on the plane.
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word
document and calls it a
"brief."
A professor is one who talks in someone else's
sleep.
A consultant is someone who takes the watch
off your wrist and tells
you
the time. For a fee.Sunday, March 19, 2017
Sunday Humor
More stuff about to be lost...
In the
beginning there was the computer. And
God said
c:\Let
there be light!
Enter
user id.
c:\God
Enter
password.
c:\Omniscient
Password
incorrect.
c:\Omnipotent
Password
incorrect.
c:\Technocrat
And God
logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Sunday, March 1.
c:\Fiat
lux!
Bad
command or file name.
c:\Let
there be light!
Bad
command or file name.
c:\Create
light
Done
c:\Run
heaven and earth
And God
created Day and Night. And God saw there were 0 errors.
And God
logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Sunday, March 1.
And God
logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Monday, March 2.
c:\Let
there be firmament in the midst of water and light
Bad
command or file name.
c:\Create
firmament
Done.
c:\Run
firmament
And God
divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
And God
logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Monday, March 2.
And God
logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Tuesday, March 3.
c:\Let
the waters under heaven be gathered together unto one place
and let
the dry land appear and
Bad
command or file name.
Too many
characters in specification string.
c:\Create
dry_land
Done.
c:\Run
firmament
And God
divided the waters. And God saw there were 0 errors.
And God
logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Tuesday, March 3.
And God
logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Wednesday, March 4.
c:\Create
lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night
Bad
command or file name.
c:\Create
sun_moon_stars
Done
c:\Run
sun_moon_stars
And God
separated the light from the darkness.
The sun ruled over
The day
and the moon and stars ruled over the night.
And God saw there
Were 0
errors.
And God
logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Wednesday, March 4.
And God
logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Thursday, March 5.
c:\Create
fish
Done
c:\Create
fowl
Done
c:\Run
fish, fowl
And God
created the great sea monsters and every living creature
That
creepeth wherewith the waters swarmed after its kind and every
Winged
fowl after its kind. And God saw there were 0 errors.
And God
logged off at 12:02:00 AM, Thursday, March 5.
And God
logged on at 12:01:00 AM, Friday, March 6.
c:\Create
cattle
Done
c:\Create
creepy_things
Done
c:\Now let
us make man in our image
Bad
command or file name.
c:\Create
man
Done
c:\Be
fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it
and have
dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air
and over
every living thing that creepeth upon the earth
Bad
command or file name.
c:\Run
multiplication
Execution
terminated. 6 errors.
c:\Insert
breath
Done
c:\Run
multiplication
Execution
terminated. 5 errors.
c:\Move
man to Garden of Eden
Bad
command or file name.
Garden
of Eden not found in this directory.
c:\Create
Garden.edn
Done
c:\Move
man to Garden.edn
Done
c:\Run
multiplication
Execution
terminated. 4 errors.
c:\Copy
woman from man
Done
c:\Run
multiplication
Execution
terminated. 2 errors.
c:\Create
desire
Done
c:\Run
multiplication
And God
saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in Garden.edn
Warning:
No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
c:\Create
freewill
Done
c:\Run
freewill
And God
saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in Garden.edn
Warning:
No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
c:\Undo
desire
Desire
cannot be undone once freewill is created.
c:\Destroy
freewill
Freewill
is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
Enter
replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
c:\Help
Desire
cannot be undone once freewill is created.
Freewill
is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
Enter
replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
c:\Create
tree_of_knowledge
And God
saw man and woman being fruitful and multiplying in Garden.edn
Warning:
No time limit on this run. 1 errors.
c:\Create
good, evil
Done
c:\Activate
evil
And God
saw he had created shame.
Warning
system error in sector E95. Man and
woman not in Garden.edn. 1 errors.
c:\Scan
Garden.edn for man, woman
Search
failed.
c:\Delete
shame
Shame
cannot be deleted once evil has been activated.
c:\Destroy
freewill
Freewill
is an inaccessible file and cannot be destroyed.
Enter
replacement, cancel, or ask for help.
c:\Stop
Bad
command or file name.
c:\Break
c:\Break
c:\Break
ATTENTION
ALL USERS *** ATTENTION ALL USERS: COMPUTER GOING DOWN FOR REGULAR DAY OF
MAINTENANCE AND REST IN FIVE MINUTES. PLEASE LOG OFF.
c:\Create
new world
You have
exceeded your allocated file space. You must destroy old
Files
before new ones can be created.
c:\Destroy
earth
Destroy
earth: Please confirm.
c:\Destroy
earth confirmed
COMPUTER
DOWN *** COMPUTER DOWN. SERVICES WILL RESUME
SUNDAY, MARCH 8, AT 6:00 AM. YOU MUST SIGN OFF NOW.
And God
logged off at 11:59:59 PM, Friday, March 6.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Saturday Humor
As I am going through my doc files, I have found some old humor. I'm not going to keep them, but I will post them for some laughs.
First, From "actual"
US government employee performance evaluations:
1. Since my last report, this employee has
reached rock bottom and has started to dig.
2. I would not allow this
employee to breed.
3. This employee is really
not so much of a has-been but more of a definite won't-be.
4. Works well when under
constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.
5. When she opens her
mouth, it seems that it is only to change feet.
6. He would be out of his
depth in a parking lot puddle.
7. This young lady has
delusions of adequacy.
8. He sets low personal
standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
9. This employee is
depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
10. This employee should go
far, and the sooner he starts, the better.
11. Got a full six-pack but
lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together.
12. A gross ignoramus --
144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
13. He does not have
ulcers, but he is a carrier.
14. I would like to go
hunting with him sometime.
15. He has been working
with glue too much.
16. He would argue with a
signpost.
17. He brings a lot of joy
whenever he leaves the room.
18. When his IQ reaches 50,
he should sell.
19. If you see two people
talking, and one looks bored, he is the other one.
20. A photographic memory
but with the lens cover glued on.
21. A prime candidate for
natural de-selection.
22. Donated his brain to
science before he was done using it.
23. Gates are down, the
lights are flashing but the train is not coming.
24. Has two brains: one is
lost and the other is out looking for it.
25. If he were any more
stupid, he would have to be watered twice a week.
26. If you give him a penny
for his thoughts, you would get change.
27. If you stand close
enough to him, you can hear the ocean.
28. It is hard to believe
that he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm.
29. One neuron short of a
synapse.
30. Some drink from the
fountain of knowledge; he only gargled.
31. Takes him two hours to
watch 60 Minutes.
32. The wheel is turning, but the hamster is
dead.
Second,
Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way
to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can
buy cigarettes and candy bars at the front.
EVER WONDER ...
Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins
Lottery"?
Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
Why is it that doctors and lawyers call what they do
"practice"?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dish washing
liquid made with real lemons?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes?
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of
progress?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
Just some laughs as I delete old files getting back online...
Mark
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