Posted on 11/26/2010 7:19:22 PM PST by LorgoInsuranceguy
I am starting a project and want to know if someone would like to help me do it. Once started we can develop a reset button for this economic structure.
Patchy clouds and COLD.
sion...If you let me know when you’re in town, I can adjust my schedule to be ready on a moment’s notice.
You can call me when you have a couple of free hours (erk?) and as long as my friend doesn’t need her car, I can meet you wherever you choose.
And in case you didn’t know it, you have mail.
Meh.
I’m OK.
Looking forward to my new computer and being able to save my docs on a slave. It has been a while since I looked forward to anything on a computer besides Mah Jhong and Spider Solitaire...
The rainy weather has caught me unawares, but I’m doing OK. Most days, no matter what, I just DEAL. It’s all I can do.
But thanks for asking!
The computer will go in the mail tomorrow, if all goes well. Bill will help me pack it.
DP wants to practice music, but my nose is running so hard I can’t sing right now.
Rain. Still. And cold to me! *shiver*
You have a reply. And don’t worry about your friend’s car, because I will have one for the whole trip. But I’ll know my schedule soon, except maybe for Sunday — it might already be in my work e-mail. (Which I should be able to get from home now but haven’t tested yet.)
Catch your nose and tell it to STOP! Got any Benedryl? That will take care of the sniffles and the congestion.
And thanks! The computer will come when it’s supposed to and not a moment sooner!!
Blargh on the weather, it deserves it!
And blargh on my nose, too. Achoo, snort honk.
I took a generic allergy pill, but I don’t know if it’s allergy or a cold. Either one could wipe out my voice, if things go badly. Last time we did a Christmas service, I sounded like George Thoroughgood, so I drank a thermos of hot broth and brandy, made it through, and completely blew out my voice ... it wasn’t back to normal until February.
That was the Christmas when I carried around a sign saying, “I’m not going to talk to you, so shut up!”
Well, we're praying for better than that for you. I know very well about "just dealing."
First I had heard of a new computer though. Good for the T-C family!
For a year or so I've had a spare sitting nearby. We rescued a company "recycle" and I installed Xubuntu Linux on it. No reason other than it was a working computer and somebody someday might need one. Our "computers for the indigent" program more or less ended years ago when one could no longer get Windows OSes for older machines and computer prices had fallen to where most could afford them.
But every time this slightly newer machine gets balky when booting I think... But these are Dell corporate boxes; easy (once open) to change the hardware, but big and heavy. I know nothing about shipping costs.
Xubuntu Linux is a lot like Windows, but with differences -- it's what I use at home and Xubuntu works well on older hardware.
Best of all it has a ton of free open-source programs. More games than you can imagine, OpenOffice, and lots of more esoteric tools such as Umbrello (you do not want to know about UML modeling!). GIMP graphics editor (all the power of Photoshop coupled with the world's worst user interface, until you learn your way around it). Of course, many of these also work on Windows and Macs.
But I blather.
The T-c family, having wisely chosen employment in the ultra-low-end retail industry, is in the Merry Christmas business this year. Can I send you some lentils and eggplant? Or just a recipe ... 7 PointsPlus for two cups!
Egad, sorry about that!
Just a recipe? I'm all ears.
Sorry, kids.
My son called and told me he got the gift I had mailed on Saturday, (I had ordered it from his place, but didn’t have my Member Number, so it had to be sent to me) then the ex-maintenance man called and asked how my trip was.
So...what did I miss?
As long as you don’t sound like Ol’ Leather Lungs, (Vaughn Monroe) TC, I’m good to listen!
I don’t like to post my needs in open forum, but sometimes, people (not naming names, sion, TC, fanfan, harmless) are more in tune to what I’m saying than I realize. And then I am blessed far more than I think I’m worthy of. But it IS the Season!!
And I’m not in a position to deny a giver, even though that’s what I prefer to be. Receiving is hard for me, but I also realize that sometimes in life, some people have to give and others have to receive. It’s humbling to be on the receiving end, because then I realize that what I have given has been a blessing that has come back around to me.
So thanks to all of you!!
And sometimes those who have received are in turn called to give.
And testimonials from people who claim they quit their jobs as surgeons and CEOs because they now make far more money selling vitamins or water purifiers.
“What goes around, comes around.”
“He who liveth by the sword shall perish by the sword.”
However you say it, it still comes down to “casting your bread upon the waters.”
Most of my life has been sharing my “wealth,” though I didn’t really see it that way at the time. I just felt that if I had something I didn’t need, and thought someone else could use, it was for me to give it to them. There was never any thought of “payback,” or “what will I get if I do this?” I had an abundance. Someone else had a need. It was equalized.
Today, I’m amazed that so much good is coming my way in the times and manner that is needed. God is Great!
(Who am I that should be so greatly blessed?)
Cold here. We’re still on track to leave Tuesday.
42 miles. Two hours. One near miss with a semi that would have been fatal if not for some quick reflexes on my part.
He tried to pass me on glare ice going under an over pass. My truck went sideways and I would have spun right back into him had I not dropped it into second gear and let the rear wheel drag the front end straight.
Screw this God’s forsaken State and its crappy weather...
Escaping Nyarlathotep by this slim of a margin only makes the final horror that much more poignant...
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