My Technical Assistant alerted me to this problem.
It seems that some of the brand-new gadgets we buy that we connect to the computer...could be infected with viruses, trojans, etc.
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A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs; in other words, redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day, she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich, and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professor had to be the truth, and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends either because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened, then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?'
She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties, and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over.'
Her father asked her, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend Audrey who only has a 2.0? That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA, and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.'
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, 'That's a crazy idea! How would that be fair? I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. And she's done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!'
The father slowly smiled and said gently, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.'
Took the day off today so I get rambunctious. Took a couple hours to slowly raise the roof on the gazebo project. I used 6 tie-down straps I wire tied to a steel ring. Didn't use the winching capability of the tiedowns. Just slowly pulled more slack through and then a couple clicks to secure it.
I also went to the hardware store down the street and bought my screws and bolts to fasten the roof to the poles. I basically have to make several of the pieces into the shape I need to make it strong and look good when it's done. that shouldn't take over about another hour I suppose. I changed my mind about painting yet. I need to paint the underside also and the total job shouldn't take any more than will fit in the spray gun.
I was thinking about a weathervane...what I found previously was around $130 bucks. I just happened on this metal one for $30.00 after shipping charges!
Installing it may be yet another issue. But the cool thing is that we have a herd of Humming birds here daily so it all kind of fits in. This would also make the gazebo a possible location for the feeders. Waiting for this to arrive shouldn't delay my plans too much. I've got it figured out how to raise the roof now safely. I still need to paint it yet so there is some time left. I need to buy some automotive paint and paint the topside so I can spray it with my compressor and gun before it goes up. The underside can be done later.The color will be a dark green.
Started the Gazebo project today. I set the posts in concrete and should be able to raise the roof next week. Glad I had one less hour of daylight to do this. I'll probably use ratcheting tie downs to jack it up with. The concrete should be setup enough to get it in the air by then.
Was a nice day to dig 6 holes and mix concrete. While it won't be complete. I expect to be able to sit under it next week. After that, I'm going to setup some forms around and inside the poles to form a concrete ring. I haven't decided on the actual floor yet. I'm leaning on brick, or some preformed ornamental concreet like cobblestones or flag stone or something. However It turns out it needs to be bare-foot freindly.
The Hunt is on! Slim is sitting on his favorite box lid watching the finches on the feeder.
Slim Taking a shortcut between the bathroom and the laundry room to by-pass Lexxy
Happy The Sun is Finally out!
The cat lady says the cat is wheezing so $200+ later...
The vet gave Slim a checkup and he has no fever, eats normally, plays, chases birds...all is good. Because of abnormal noise in his lungs he wanted to to xrays. It apears that it looks like he has Pnuemonia in the upper lobes. The vet says besides that it could be from allergies, or even heartworm. Heartworms are not treatable like dogs apparently so you treat the symptom forever. Also a possibility of cancer, for which they would have to do a biopsy to tell.
He got a couple shots today, an antibiotic and a steroid. We also have pills for 2 weeks. But they want him back next week for follow-up....more x-rays.
Personally I think the cat has had this problem his entire life. He was abandoned and I fed him and he came in through an open window whenever he wanted to hang. He's roughly 9 years old now. Seems exactly the same as he always has to me. He has also been eating food we can only get at the vet for over 2 years or close to it. From what we were told it has an antibiotic in it which helps prevent the urinary blockages.
He also gets Cat-Lax for hairballs...he constantly cleans himself. Personally I have never heard him wheeze...just do the furball gag.
Business must be down and the vet doesn't need to give out suckers if they walk through the door.
Last week old faithful decided that it didn't want to let us hear what people were saying over the regular speaker on our handset. I usually just use the speakephone but now that and a headphone plugged into it is the only thing that works.
And of course the thing is off warranty and that model is not being produced anymore.
I called AT&T and they told me which handsets were compatible with the base unit. With a little searching up on EBAY I found a deal for a handset extention with charger and bought two of them. Since the Guy was in Ontario, Canada, it took about 10 days to get here.
Well worth the wait.
Now I have a new handset on my desk, the secretary has hers on her desk and the old one is in the bedroom. If mine is missing when I need it now...it's likely my fault....now.
Well Saturday turned out to be a great day to catch up on my sleep. I decided to forgo running chkdsk on my workstation and ran Spinrite instead...20 hours later it told me nothing was wrong with my hard drive. I just ran it for maintenance purposes not that anything is wrong. After a nice long nap I fired up my laptop.
Today was a day for tinkerin in the yard.
Spent the entire day building a 4' fence panel and sinking a post for it. A while back I had canablized one of my 8 foot panels and had spare parts. I was just missing a top board and two side boards. Now these boards also have grooves down the entire length that are about 3/4" wide and 1/2" deep.
So I fired up the table saw and ripped down a couple of boards I had to make the pieces. For the groove, my plan was to put a dado blade on the saw so it could cut out the groove in one pass. It turned out that the arbor for the blade was too short so that wasn't an option. I ended up just making several passes through the boards and chiseled out the stuff the blade didn't cut out. Lots of extra time.
Since I don't have a staple gun, It makes it also hard to assemble. But between the two of us and my handy dandy screw gun we were able to accomplish the impossible.
Now I'm ready to start laying out the gazebo (aka hot tub hut). We can actually look out the back door now and not see the alley. The panel on the right is at a 45 degree angle to the panel I just put up but is actually level across the top.