Only 7 reasons, BillP?

I wonder why only 7?

I have lots. Maybe it's only my imagination, but I truly believe that Windows 7 actually LEARNS.

It auto logs me off any more when I click shut down. No more of clicking "log off" or "restart" depending upon what I am doing. "Log off" and I'm gone. No delay. No hemming and hawing. I'm gone. That's all she wrote.  I love it.

In fact, I simply love 7.

The only little complaint I have with Windows 7 is that there's no native email client. I don't like that.

I've tried everything. I mean EVERYTHING. Nothing else works. Nada. Not Windows Live, tho that would be sweet if it were desktop. It would truly be sweet. My second choice, and it would be first if it were desktop is Google.... (are you listening Google?)

As for anything else, I've tried 'em all. Nothing is even in the far reaching stage. de nada, por nada, NADA, NADA~~!

Well, I could load my old OLD office. But it's probly so full of holes that it's got moths, if it would load, which with Windows 7's cleanliness is doubtful.

And did I mention that 7 is clean? It's fast and slick as a whistle. MAN it's fast. I absolutely love it. Or did I say that?

I'm getting redundant. And 7's smooth. I've turned off quite a few of the showy desktop items, but I can't turn Aero off completely - uh uh. I love flipping my cursor over the desktop and watching the windows snap open, snap shut, over the desktop, and snap open. SUWEEEET,  slowly lay it over the taskbar and see all windows in thumbs ahh...but I'm slobbering.

Trust me (and I don't like people who say trust me) if you missed the chance to try this for free, you have my sympathy. You really do.

And so it is.

O....and Happy Birthday to me.   :-)  9.24.09  63

JJ

It Must Be Sunday....

......The cows are once more out and running like wild things - and we are once more getting our weekly exercise herding them back to pasture. This time they have been left without water. That is a terrible thing to do to an animal. We've connected the hoses for 500 or so feet and filled their container.

How can a man of God be that lazy? Not to feed nor water his helpless animals first? hmmm.. I must ponder on that for awhile. I confess to being bemused and ANGRY.

A PREACHER???


I'm very glad I saw no need to go to church to pray and so I stopped going at 18. I'm still very free to pray, thank God.

Meanness

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Delores left to be with Earl

It was very unexpected and it shocked us. It has been a very long, LONG time since last she saw him. We will miss her greatly. Even though she has been ill over the past two or three years, she never failed to have a warm " come IN! Come in! Come in and sit down! I was just fixing something to eat. Your timing is perfect", followed by a big hug and "what have you been doing, hon?"

She had bad times and sad times and missed her "Earl" but she loved to laugh about little things they'd done. She'd sniff a little, wipe a tear and then laugh. She'd ask me if I still miss Jim, and of course I'd say "yes, always". You never get over the hurt - Just like she and Earl.

We had the "remember whens" as in remembering when we'd gone scooty pootin' down to Troy to ride the kids' rides in the park across from the Troy Police station at 3:00 in the morning because we felt safe there. 5 or 6 grown women after work at 3:00AM riding the go-round and laughing like maniacs. We had fun, we did.

Well, it's enough to know that we had her in our lives and she'll remain a very big part of the rest of my life. She shaped my life. She was the most influential person I've ever known.

I never dreamed just how mean people can be - to their children, neighbors, spouses, and to people they've never met.

I saw, in the news, that a mother killed her week old baby by sawing off it's head. Voices told her to do it. She also did far worse that I won't mention here. Heaven help us.

A son shot to death his father and tells us he's crazy as he spelled out every step he is going to take in his Columbine twisted mind. He's crazy like a rabid fox. He also intended to kill students in his school, both boys and girls, because if he looked at either one, they'd know. Know what?
That he was crazy? or that he liked their looks or body? Who knows?

Men & women in Charleston, WV literally running over, with their vehicle, men who owed them money/drugs. Killed them for $300.00 or for drugs. What is the world coming to?

A father beat his year old child to death with his hands. Another father let his child die on the floor while he prayed for her diabetes riddled body to heal itself. They'd not been to the doctor because they don't believe in medicine and they did not know that she had diabetes. So she died of a very treatable illness.

I don't understand. Maybe, at 70, I am too old for this world. I didn't used to think that. In fact, I still don't realize that I am 70 unless things hurt, but that is neither here nor there. I simply don't understand this world I am in.

Delores &  Earl Morgan, together again.

Delores left to be with Earl

It was very unexpected and it shocked us. It has been a very long, LONG time since last she last saw him. We will miss her greatly. Even though she has been ill over the past two or three years, she never failed to have a warm " come IN! Come in! Come in and sit down! I was just fixing something to eat. Your timing is perfect", followed by a big hug and "what have you been doing, hon?"

She had bad times and sad times and missed her "Earl" but she loved to laugh about little things they'd done. She'd sniff a little, wipe a tear and then laugh. She'd ask me if I still miss Jim, and of course I'd say "yes, always". You never get over the hurt - Just like she and Earl.

We had the "remember whens" as in remembering when we'd gone scooty pootin' down to Troy to ride the kids' rides in the park across from the Troy Police station at 3:00 in the morning because we felt safe there. 5 or 6 grown women after work at 3:00AM riding the go-round and laughing like maniacs. We had fun, we did.

Well, it's enough to know that we had her in our lives and she'll remain a very big part of the rest of my life. She shaped my life. She was the most influential person I ever met.

Delores & Earl Morgan, together again.

It is Sunday and All is well.

On Thursday when I went to my Cancer Doc, he checked a few things in my nasal cavity, listened to a few of my complaints about my throat and then said he wanted to do an endoscopy. That is, he wanted to look down to my voice box by putting a small straw-like tube down thru my nose.

He sprayed thru my nose, down my throat and the liquid slid right down into my lungs. It felt as if I could not breathe very well.

A few minutes later, he deemed my throat well enough sedated to peer down into it. I felt as if he were the captain of a submarine peering thru the periscope and I was what he was looking at - which incidentally is quite right. :-)

He said, Holy Smokes! Your throat looks as if you have had radiation! Since I had not, he asked if I feel as if I am full of dry mucous and I said Yep. All the time. The roof of my mouth feels like cracked clay when I wake up and it's very uncomfortable. I told him that my eyes are always dry and the corners of my mouth always are cracked and my nose is also dry.

He asked if I have Sjögren's Syndrome and I said I'd never heard of it. So he wrote an order to test for it.

I really doubt I have anything other than dryness from some medication or other. He wrote me a prescription which increases the moisture in mucosa. My eyes are no longer dry, nor my mouth, throat nor nose. I am absolutely in HEAVEN. Whew. If you know someone who has had radiation and is suffering with the dryness, tell them to ask their doctor for a prescription to help relieve the dryness. There IS such a thing and it is called Pilocarpine HCL.
JJ

My exercise today.

I spent today rounding up cattle.

The neighbor neglected to put feed out for his cows so they decided to jump the fence and come visiting. Glad they didn't come to the garden - rather they headed straight to the tall, lush, green grass near the woods. Boy, I agreed with them that it DID look good.

I took my trusty flyswatter and headed toward them at an angle, making a loud SHAAA SHAAA noise. They totally disregarded it. They didn't disregard the flyswatter on their rear tho. They moved off in the general direction of home at a trot.

The general direction proved to be very general. They headed south, too. Fortunately my brother in law, Kenneth has a 4wheeler and he gently (and LOUDLY) headed them back to the gate. With not much further ado, they went back in.

Most exercise that I have had this summer.

3 hours later what did I see? The cattle back grazing. This time our neighbor, Kelley, came with a feed bucket full. The cows docilely trotted along behind her into their pen. All's well that ends well.

Tomorrow I see my cancer doctor for a 6 month checkup. Let's hope all's still well there, too.