I went to turn my computer on the other day--the light went on on the boxy part but the TV part (which is what I like to call it, and my grandson laughs when I say it) wouldnt fire up. I called my daughter up north because I hadnt talked ot her in a while and asked her in passing; she said she was stumped but would come look at it when she came over this week for dinner. Well of course we had to visit first but afterward she got to twiddling with the computer, and darned if she didn't have it all runing in two second flat. It looks like my wifes cat (not MY cat--we have a deep mutual dislike, me and that beast) knocked the cord out.
Dont I feel silly!!!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
I am a geeniuss
I figgered that if I hit tab repeatedly I could get the little curser to get to the TITLE box, so yay for me. Sometimes an old dog can teach HIMSELF new tricks. Speaking of trix, I think I'll go have a bowl of cereal.
Monday, July 9, 2007
Well danged if this silly software isnt working. I cant make a title. Anyway, not much to report--I did stuff this weekend that my doc would not aprove of--had a beer, ate a steak, got absolutely no exersise--and enjoyed every minute of it. Ill write more later when i figure out how to fix this silly thing!!!
Friday, July 6, 2007
Lollygagging
That is one curious expression. It makes me think of someone trying to strangle a lollypop. Anyway, that's what I'm doing today. Not choking a sucker, but the actual meaning of the word--which is doing nothing. I'm ignorning the doc's advice today and grabbing a beer (or two) and some sun.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
What's the matter with kids today???
There's a man whose blog I happened upon when I started mine a while back. He thinks himself as a pretty smart fella, because he reads the words of OTHER smart fellas, and that makes HIM smart. His latest blog touts a study that proves beyond any doubt (resonable or otherwise) that the current generation is morally corrupt and beyond redemption.
Not surprising, this is nothing new--people have been yelling excited warnings about the decline of our youth since time imemorial. Me, I think it's a lot of bunk, as anyone who's around kids and young adults in the real world would be able to tell. Here are two liens of thinking on the subject.
Numero Uno:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
--Socrates, roundabout 400 B.C.
Nummer zwei:
"The kids are alright."
--The Who, 1969
Me, I tend to side with the latter, since the former philosophy has been whining about the uterly hopeless decline nof our youth long before Jesus was even a glint in God's eye. The guy that wrote this study, he doesnt see his granddaughter--a lovely gal with pink hair and earrings no where near her ears--spending Saturdays that she could be hanging at the mall, voluntering at a homeless shelter. He doesn't see the kid next door giving up his promising basketball future to study at Lyola to be a doctor. He didn't see, like I did, a Mexican kid in baggy pants helping a frazled single mother with three small kids and no free hands with her grocieries, when he didn't even work at that Safeway. The future of our planet is not screwed. We will all be okay. Anyone who cared enough aobut people to lift his nose out of a book for 2 secs and stop patting himself on the back for knowing more than everyone else would know that.
Not surprising, this is nothing new--people have been yelling excited warnings about the decline of our youth since time imemorial. Me, I think it's a lot of bunk, as anyone who's around kids and young adults in the real world would be able to tell. Here are two liens of thinking on the subject.
Numero Uno:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
--Socrates, roundabout 400 B.C.
Nummer zwei:
"The kids are alright."
--The Who, 1969
Me, I tend to side with the latter, since the former philosophy has been whining about the uterly hopeless decline nof our youth long before Jesus was even a glint in God's eye. The guy that wrote this study, he doesnt see his granddaughter--a lovely gal with pink hair and earrings no where near her ears--spending Saturdays that she could be hanging at the mall, voluntering at a homeless shelter. He doesn't see the kid next door giving up his promising basketball future to study at Lyola to be a doctor. He didn't see, like I did, a Mexican kid in baggy pants helping a frazled single mother with three small kids and no free hands with her grocieries, when he didn't even work at that Safeway. The future of our planet is not screwed. We will all be okay. Anyone who cared enough aobut people to lift his nose out of a book for 2 secs and stop patting himself on the back for knowing more than everyone else would know that.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Summer
There's nothing like working in the garden while listening to baseball on a beatup radio. The Cubs beat the Brewers. Are those guys going to get a world series in my life time? Doubt it. In my grandchilrens lifetime maybe. It would be nice; the underdogs should win every once in a while. Of course, its hard to think of a bunch of men that pull in millions of dollars a year as "underdogs."I can't think of many other jobs where you can lose half the time or more and not get fired lickety split. Maybe weatherman.
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