Today in the mail I received...

A CD along with an invitation to join Juno!!!  All I had to do was:

Load the software on my pc and I could be on the internet in no time!!! 

How exciting is that!!!!!!! 

I don't know how I could resist such an offer. The wonderful world of online can be mine just by loading software on to my pc.  I'm positively giddy with excitement over this, but not sure if I should really give it a try or not. 

Scary exciting this is.  Must think carefully and try to decide if I'm up to venturing into this whole new world. 

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1 Careful, T ... next they'll be sending you an AOL CD every 10 days..

Posted by: Rev. Paul at May 22, 2013 11:49 PM (DkimJ)

2 Well, I could create CD art... or use them for target practice.

Posted by: Teresa at May 23, 2013 08:50 AM (hJwgq)

3 Oh, my gosh! LOL!   Don't forget NetZero! 

Posted by: pam at May 23, 2013 09:18 AM (Wce/n)

4 Was it for dialup service?  Bwhahahahaha!

Posted by: diamond dave at May 23, 2013 04:04 PM (getU/)

5 LOL Pam - I hadn't forgotten them, but they came much later than AOL and Compuserve

Dave - no idea.  They sent a letter... I didn't read more than the opening.   The packaging all screamed 1995 AOL. 

Posted by: Teresa at May 23, 2013 06:54 PM (hJwgq)

6 The only place I would load that is on an enemies machine. You must remember there are more and more gullible people out. I think target practice is the way to go.

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Just in case you've never seen it, here are all the things a mom says in 24 hours condensed to 2 minutes 55 seconds.  Yes, I have said most all of them.  Sometimes even in a 24 hour period.  

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1 I'm pretty sure my mom said ALL those things in my 17 years. Then I enlisted in the Navy, and the Chief Petty Officer said them.

Posted by: Rev. Paul at May 13, 2013 03:02 PM (upyv2)

2 Lol. But I'm betting you paid better attention in the Navy. 

Posted by: Teresa at May 13, 2013 07:55 PM (hJwgq)

3 Of course! Mom never had a trip to the brig as back-up. :^)

Posted by: Rev. Paul at May 15, 2013 11:58 AM (upyv2)

4 This is very true Paul.  I always felt I might have had more traction with my son if I had been a Drill Instructor.  

Posted by: Teresa at May 16, 2013 10:12 AM (hJwgq)

5 I've said all those things.  The big one is, "no texting at the table". One she left off is, "We wear shirts at the table.  Come to my table fully clothed or don't come at all".  Obviously, I have all boys.  And thankfully, I haven't had to say that in a long while.  At some point, wash your hands and wear a shirt became 2nd nature.
When they were little, it was things like, 'We don't hang around in our underwear all day."  They hated getting dressed.  I was horrified I was going to have teenagers that hung around in boxers and nothing else.  Ugh.  That one took too... thank God.

Posted by: Bou at May 18, 2013 10:22 PM (k+xbT)

6 LOL - that must be a southern thing Bou.  I don't think I ever had to say it in my house.  Although I did have to rule that there would be no hats at the table.  

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Here are a couple of short ads that are my current favorites because they are so funny.  

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1 Love the two Spocks!  Didn't even know it was a commercial for cars til the third viewing...

Posted by: pam at May 10, 2013 06:15 AM (Wce/n)

2 The funny thing about the Audi - Spock commercial. I saw a comment about how this one blows away the Little Darth Vader commercial from VW... except VW owns Audi, so whoever is doing their commercials is quite excellent. LOL. 
Oh and over on youtube someone said - at the end when the self driving car pulls up, it really should have been George Takei getting out and walking in.  I have to admit, that would have made it perfect.  

Posted by: Teresa at May 10, 2013 08:59 AM (hJwgq)

3 That hand on the shoulder sleep move had me laughing so hard...

Posted by: vwbug at May 10, 2013 10:06 AM (FPOeI)

4 VW - me too. Me too. LOL. 

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This is the most cool thing ever.  

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Probably the best rendition of the National Anthem ever. Boston's TD Garden for the Bruin's game. Rene Rancourt, who is generally a bit too over the top for me, does the most incredible thing. He starts the anthem and then lets the 17,000+ crowd finish it. Not a dry eye in the house.

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1 I loved that video when I saw it!

Posted by: Bou at April 20, 2013 07:47 PM (k+xbT)

2 Yes, it was most excellent.

Posted by: Teresa at April 21, 2013 09:55 PM (hJwgq)

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After having a work network meltdown happen at the same time my work computer decided to develop a fatal flaw in the hard drive and completely crash, I finally managed to dig out from under all the mess. Things are back up and running again. Whew.

Being as I am conscientious, I had 2 sets of backup disks for my work computer... for all the good it did me. 

Microsoft can suck it. I tried to restore Windows 7 from my backup disks to a new SSD (that is a Solid State Drive). I wasn't able to clone the old hard drive because of the humongous flaw. I was getting "broken pipe" messages every time I tried. 

How stupid of me to want to get a smaller, significantly faster, hard drive. What was I thinking! Windows believes I should stick with huge, slow hard drives, even if I don't need them. 

GAH! 

Windows won't restore my valid paid for OS to the new drive because it's smaller than the original drive.

Therefore, I installed Ubuntu. I won't go with Windows again unless pushed to it. Ubuntu is working beautifully. 

However, I am still pissed off that I couldn't restore the basic OS to the new drive.  I paid for it!

The bastards.

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Last night I heard frogs croaking for the first time this season.  Maybe Spring really is here.  We'll see.  There is still snow in my front yard.  Not much but some. 

I'm ready for warm weather.

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1 It's been snowing steadily here since 8 am. We're done with winter for the season, but apparently it's not done with us.

Posted by: Rev. Paul at April 08, 2013 11:37 PM (DkimJ)

2 LOL - Paul I think you have to move a bit farther south to get summer

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Go watch the vid.  Incredible! 

I wish I had seen them when we were out in SF.  Wow!

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Saw this headline on one of my news feeds today...

Republican Bruce Rauner raises $1.3 million for possible Illinois governor bid

And I swear I thought it said "Bruce Banner"...

I'm wearing my contacts so it must be wishful thinking.  The Hulk in politics... oh yeah, that so works for me.

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I saw several mentions of Google's Doodle for Easter. Apparently it has sparked much outrage, but caused me to wonder...

Does anyone still use Google?

DuckDuckGo is a far superior and safer way to search the web. I haven't searched with Google in ages. 

Sheesh people - get with the times. Google is so yesterday.

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In very earthshaking news, it seems Justin Beiber has had his monkey seized.  'nuff said.

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Today was national backup day.  I had no idea.  But I suppose I should say, please backup your data. Then again I'd say that anyway.

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And that's about all I have for today. I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend.

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These are the funniest auto-corrects ever. Set down your drinks, grab a kleenex. You will laugh til you cry.

The 30 Most Hilarious Autocorrect Struggles Ever

Happy Friday.

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I was reading an article by information security expert Bruce Schneier that has caused a bit of a stir. For a few minutes twitter was hotly debating the merits and at least one podcast was released specifically to address his conclusions.

After reading it, I was more amused than anything else.

"If we security engineers do our job right, users will get their awareness training informally and organically, from their colleagues and friends."

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The calendar says it's Spring.  The snow on the ground outside says it's Winter. 

I don't care what the weather wants to do... it will be Spring. 

Because I say so. 

Ha. Like anyone ever listens to me.

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It was an anniversary weekend for my husband and I this last weekend. It was very nice indeed. Hard to believe it's been 34 years...  I can't quite wrap my head around that number.

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I saw this story on the Chicago Tribune

Chicago police officers, hotel doorman help rescue baby

We stay at the Talbott Hotel when we are in Chicago. It's a great place.  I've met the doorman Dwayne Neff. I think I need to give him an extra tip the next time I'm in town.

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There was a google drive outage this morning

It's amusing to see all the wailing and gnashing of teeth by people who expect utter perfection 24/7/365.  Why did they go with google drive in the first place?  Because they know their own systems are subject to failure and it would take far longer than a few hours to get that fixed. 

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Robots that do the chores***

I want one.  Especially if I could get it to cook for me.  Of course if it cleaned the dishes once I was done, that might be an acceptable start.

***minor warning... auto run video at the link - just in case you are somewhere you don't want it speaking out

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That's it for now.  Maybe more later if I find something else fun.

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1 Happy anniversary! We'll hit 33 yrs in May ... doesn't really seem possible, in some ways.

Posted by: Rev. Paul at March 18, 2013 03:07 PM (upyv2)

2 Happy Anniversary!!  We hit 20 in just a few months.. a good marriage is such a blessing; happy you two have that!

Posted by: Pam at March 18, 2013 05:15 PM (Wce/n)

3 Yay Pam and Paul!  LOL. Always glad to see people who have managed to be great for each other over the long haul. 

Posted by: Teresa at March 18, 2013 05:19 PM (hJwgq)

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Yes, the snow... it be melting. 

Ever since the storm last Friday, the daytime temps have been significantly above freezing.  Works for me.

Of course there is still plenty of snow on the ground and the entire meltdown will take some time (unless we get a rain storm).  We'll see how long until the majority of the grass is finally showing.  Right now the amount is zero... still all white with a number of inches to melt.

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Went walking with my regular camera on Sunday.  The problem is, I didn't take a single photo worth my time to do more than glance at and pass on by.  That's pretty sad.  I seem to have lost my touch.  Or whatever kind of touch I had at one time. Oh well.  There is always next weekend.

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And because I had nothing better to do, I joined App.net (which is apparently a less cluttered version of twitter).  Not sure if I like it, not sure if I'll stay.  We'll see.  In the meantime, if you are a member I have a link in the sidebar.

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Here's a cool little website you might enjoy.  Jeff Gamet was talking about this on the British Tech Big Show (which I listened to earlier today).  I may try this out tomorrow and see if it does more than make me want to scream.  We shall see.

Coffitivity: Make your office sound like a coffee shop

Just not sure the clash of coffee cups is what I need.  Hmmm...

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That's it for now.  Time to give my eyes a rest from the computer screen.

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I finally managed to make myself fix up my smugmug site where I have lots of my pictures from my "real" cameras (the Nikon DSLRs). 

One of the things that has been bugging me for a while was that I didn't like the way my site looked over there.  But, even with "easy" tools, it's not really easy at all to figure out how to fix things the way I want them.

Luckily I ran across a tutorial (that wasn't there the last time I looked).  Half of it was stuff I knew, but it was the rest that was exactly what I was looking for.  It's the SmugMug Tutorial by Ryan Oakley. 

The only thing he didn't cover was how I could get my "galleries" off the main page.  However, I was able to find a written tutorial in the FAQ covering that little bit. 

It still needs a few little tweaks.  One of them being a banner with some sort of name on it.  So far I'm not coming up with anything I like.  I could stick with my name, but that's kinda boring.  So I'll think a while longer on it. 

The other problem keeping me from using my DSLR instead of my iphone is that I want to change my photo workflow.   I have both Photoshop and Aperture.  I don't do much by way of serious "fixing" of pictures.  Aperture has been good enough since I started taking more pictures, but they have thrown the occasional curve at me that has caused me problems. 

The worst was when they updated their RAW conversion and it completely hosed my existing photos.  Very very irritating and it took a while to get it fixed.  That's about the point I gave up on photos from my good cameras. 

I'm seriously considering moving over to Photoshop and using Adobe Bridge to organize my photos.  But that would be a pretty steep learning curve just to do minor fixes. 

I continue to ponder.  Once I figure it out, I may even start taking pictures with my real camera again.  We'll see.

Update:  Well, I figured out a title and I have it up.  I may change it later... or not.  But now I feel as if I have the site done enough that it isn't unfinished looking. Yay!

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Airport observations. There's always something going on...

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Unbelievably slow security line. A girl didn't pull out her laptop. An elderly lady with no clue she needed to have liquids out.

Still had time for sandwich.

Some guy getting on the plane. Shedding stuff from his bag as he goes. His wife picks it up then stops in the aisle to give it all back to him. Had to duck out of the way while She slings crap around.  She's having a long winded conversation with him about whether a newspaper is "important" or not.  He claimed it was… alrighty then.  Now that we know, please sit down!

Why do people try to pull wheeled bags down the center airplane aisle? Yeah you flight attendants riding this flight, I'm talking about you. You should know better.  Especially if your bag keeps getting stuck!

Oh joyous day!  There is no one in the middle seat!!!

Two women in front of me with hair styles straight from the Oscars (aka rats nest updos). Wouldn't be surprised if small rodents jumped out of that mess

Bumpy start to flight. Now away from Chicago. I prefer Chicago. Oh well.

Crap. Lost one of my favorite earrings. *sigh* Probably when I took off my scarf to go through security.

Not sure why they serve drinks on this flight. It's so short it's hardly worth it...  Just getting to 10,000 ft is 1/3 of the flight.

Three men at the airport talking about fertility treatments and which local doc does what, how much it costs, and even one doc who does a "money back guarantee" depending on how things go. Wild.

Someone here has a wifi hotspot named"Angry Lawyer".

Ah the joys of winter travel. Before takeoff we needed wing de-icing. Just a precaution. That's okay they can be as cautious as they want. 

Why is it that some flights turn off the overhead lights on takeoff but others don't? This is a  question that wanders through my head as this plane leaves the ground with lights ablaze.

The flight from STL to MDW is 42 minutes. But some guy decided he must put his seat back all the way back just moments after leaving the ground.  I guess he really needs that 30 minutes of reclining. Sheesh. Luckily he is not in front of me. Even luckier, the seat didn't break and land on the person behind him. We were doing the steep climb after take off and he was not a small boy.

The woman next to me was a bit chatty when I sat down. Luckily she is sleeping now.  I'm too tired and it's too early in the day for me to want to talk. ~~ feeling curmudgeonly. 

Would pull out the headphones and listen to an audio book but the flight is too damned short. No point for the 15 min before I'd have to turn it off again.

Should have brought my moleskine notebook.  Didn't want to take up the space in my purse. But I could have put it in my carry-on. At least then I could write during the "no electronics" times. (the things I don't think of...)

I assume one day we'll be able to leave devices on.

Yep already descending. Amazing how fast this flight goes. Now if only I didn't have to get to the airport like 2 hours early, it would be most excellent.

5 youngish guys in suits riding the moving walkway at MDW.  Standing in a row facing the gates. Telling people walking by to slow down. They are not on my flight, thank goodness. I expect they will break out in song mid-flight wherever they are going. Heh.
 
Guy just left the plane carrying something that looked like a pizza warming carrier.

Another guy carrying his skateboard on his back. 

The question remains... Why do people try to roll suitcases down the airplane aisle?

Late leaving. Waiting for passengers from connecting flights. Must be nice. I've never had a flight wait for me.

*****

And arrived back home with no real problems.  Wonder how that happened.

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1 Compared to your usual tales, this was an uneventful flight. Still entertaining, though.

Posted by: Rev. Paul at March 03, 2013 12:45 PM (DkimJ)

2 I know - kinda makes me sad.  LOL.

Posted by: Teresa at March 03, 2013 12:50 PM (hJwgq)

3 I'm sorry your flight wasn't better than what sounds like a military troop transport. Yep, been on a lot of military cargo planes and they sound like they have as many amenities as civilian.

Posted by: Lemon Stand at March 03, 2013 01:33 PM (oIyXC)

4 Sorry, T, but I was smirking through most of this. 

And I also have never had a flight wait for me. Watched one flight pull away as we were sprinting towards the gate... after they said they were waiting for us. Then watched as they stopped to load our bags and take off.

Posted by: T1G at March 03, 2013 01:53 PM (gnQ9t)

5 LOL smirk away.  I laugh as I write it. To me it's all amusing unless someone delays a flight. 

Posted by: Teresa at March 03, 2013 03:51 PM (hJwgq)

6 I always take a sudoku book on with me - if I focus on those it keeps me from screaming  and helps tons on those fast flights.
I hate flying - but I love going places and I'm not going to let my fear/hatred of flying keep me from seeing the world.

Posted by: patti at March 03, 2013 07:52 PM (Ge36/)

7 LOL - Patti I have Sudoku on my iphone and love it.  I am not afraid of flying at all. I suppose I should be, but I'm not.  

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Not only did I get this year's cold which turned into an annoying "post viral" cough, I've been working like mad at work because we got a new internet line put in. This means lots of reconfiguration of various things and many late nights working on stuff so it doesn't cause problems during the day.   

There has been much hair tearing as I tried to figure out how to set up reverse DNS for this line (not sure why the provider isn't doing it, but so it is).  Finally got that one cracked after lots of reading along with trial and error (mostly error).  Once that was done, there were a number of other things that had to follow, but that was the prime stumbling block.  Glad it's figured out.

This means I haven't had time to take any pictures which is rather annoying.  But this weekend I hope to remedy the situation. 

It's time for the "Grand Midwest Tour".  Right now it looks as if the snow will be staying south (which works in my favor).  I will be headed to Chicago for a couple of nights to hang out with the kids.  Celebrating that my son got his official notice he graduated Summa Cum Laude, which is very cool. 

Then off to my friend Richmond's place for the Academy Awards party - always a fantastic time.

Then down to St. Louis for a couple of days to see my mom and sister before heading back home. 

It will be non-stop fun and games.  I'm just hoping the travel gods are in a good mood.  We'll see.

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After writing the last post, I started poking around on my Flickr site.   I have been dual posting to Flickr from Posterous all along (it's that thing I have about  "backing up" stuff).

All of my Posterous photos have gone to Flickr too along with the captions which is a very nice thing.  Therefore, I've decided to switch to Flickr and use it as I was using Posterous.

The one drawback... I can't find a way to change the background color on the main photostream page.  I wish I could change it to a dark color since photos look much better on a dark background (for the most part).  But, that's a small thing. 

I have created a badge for my sidebar.  Clicking any of the photos takes you directly to that photo.  Clicking the name link above takes you to the photostream.  I think this works for now. 

I already have the iphone app so I can post photos using that.  If that doesn't work for me, I can try using email posting (another feature they allow).  It will be trial and error at first.  Should be fun.

Now all I need to do is take some photos to  test the upload options.
 

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For pics head over to my Posterous site since I'm too lazy to repost here.

We didn't lose power, got about 2ft of snow which has drifted like mad so it's almost 4 ft in some places. My husband has been out plowing our driveway. It will be upward of 2 hours for him to finish it. 

I found via my twitter feed that we are under a driving ban until 4pm today. I knew it started yesterday but didn't realize it went so late.  I'm just hoping our driveway is clear by 4pm... wasn't even thinking of going anywhere. 

We still have coffee, wine, and food, so all is good.

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