The damned cold, what IS it? Why do we get these awful things and why, oh why do they hang around so long? What a bore, it has taken me completely out of action until today...and this was from last Tuesday, not this very last one, but the one before that. Awful. Anyway we are both better now and resuming our normal activity level, whatever that is. Why in this world of AIDS, Influenza, Polio, Smallpox etc do we still have the Common Cold? Why? Is it because it's the precursor to all the others? Or is it because the companies don't want to focus thier efforts on such a minor and common infection? Who knows, but I find it boring and annoying to say the least.
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I went into the shop today to check out the machines and be sure they were as normal as normal is in this on-line world. They passed muster sort of after I finished examining them with AdAware and CCleaner my two favorite utilities for keeping machines happy and healthy. I grew worried as I was too damned sick last Thursday to do anything useful so stayed away from the shop in deference to giving the damnable cold to anyone therein. So taday I worried a bit of what I would find. I did find some minor ad crap and the AdAware engine found them and cleaned them off as it does.
I highly recomend these two programs to be in your toolbox to keep your machine running as it should in this ever dangerous on-line world. Both are free, or at least have free editions that are evry effective and are easy to use.
Here are the URL's for them.
1. CCleaner: http://www.ccleaner.com/
2. AdAware: http://www.lavasoft.com/single/trialpay.php
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The dredge is done, it has pulled back to the main channel and we now have a greater depth under our dock than anytime in the recent past. It wasn't very disturbing except at night when the drone, at times, seemed to be loud enough to wake the dead. The dredging crew helped us move our boats back to the docks after they were finished with out cul-de-sac and all in all did a fabulous job. Hooray for them!
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The depression mounts, there's more bad news daily and while the US Legislature has voted to bail the auto makers Chrysler and General Motors out; the US Senate is busy making deals. We shall see what we see, the companies can always declare bankrupcy chapter this-or-that and that would give them lots of breathing room. Maybe it'd be better that way as having some beaurocrat in the government that I know will be a professional politician rather than an automotive specialist gives me little hope that it'll work.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Saturday, December 06, 2008
A Site For Sore Eyes
Try this site for a bit of non-family style entertainment, a Real Time Side Show!
http://www.adamsblock.com/
What is THIS? Well friends it is LIVE video with sound from a certain neighborhood in SF. To say "seedy side of town" is not to cover how actually terrible a location it is. Avoid at all costs...even in your car! Carjackings, robberies and mayhem of all sorts emanate from this place. It has been this way as long as I have had an affiliation with the wonderful city of San Francisco, California and I don't see any change these days worthy of mention. The denizens of this section of the SF forest are in dire straits and thier various needs can cause great personal calamity to the general public. BEWARE! And be wary at the same time. To view this from afar is a GOOD thing. Up close it is tragic, frightening and otherworldly all at once. I used to venture into this "hood" now and again because of my line of work at the time, it is very near City Hall and there was a large computer center therein. Parking was always a hasstle, especially at night and it forced people off onto certain streets in that all so familiar hunt. I've had bottles, 1/2 filled, empty and full thrown at me, my truck and can hear the echos of the tinkling glass shards as it bounces off the sidewalk. A hell of a place. Whores of all sorts, some with fancy business cards with rates on the other side of the card frequent the stop lights and corners. Pimps ride around with the ever loud Thumpa, thumpa, thump from their over speakered back seats. Bums ly idle on the sidewalks day and night, some with tins out to collect thier hard won alms, others just sleep it off. Broken glass, old newspapers, 1/2 drank beer bottles...a real San Francisco Post Card that you will never see in the shops in Union Square or Pier 39. This is The Underbelly.
See any police cars? Wait...and watch.
http://www.adamsblock.com/
What is THIS? Well friends it is LIVE video with sound from a certain neighborhood in SF. To say "seedy side of town" is not to cover how actually terrible a location it is. Avoid at all costs...even in your car! Carjackings, robberies and mayhem of all sorts emanate from this place. It has been this way as long as I have had an affiliation with the wonderful city of San Francisco, California and I don't see any change these days worthy of mention. The denizens of this section of the SF forest are in dire straits and thier various needs can cause great personal calamity to the general public. BEWARE! And be wary at the same time. To view this from afar is a GOOD thing. Up close it is tragic, frightening and otherworldly all at once. I used to venture into this "hood" now and again because of my line of work at the time, it is very near City Hall and there was a large computer center therein. Parking was always a hasstle, especially at night and it forced people off onto certain streets in that all so familiar hunt. I've had bottles, 1/2 filled, empty and full thrown at me, my truck and can hear the echos of the tinkling glass shards as it bounces off the sidewalk. A hell of a place. Whores of all sorts, some with fancy business cards with rates on the other side of the card frequent the stop lights and corners. Pimps ride around with the ever loud Thumpa, thumpa, thump from their over speakered back seats. Bums ly idle on the sidewalks day and night, some with tins out to collect thier hard won alms, others just sleep it off. Broken glass, old newspapers, 1/2 drank beer bottles...a real San Francisco Post Card that you will never see in the shops in Union Square or Pier 39. This is The Underbelly.
See any police cars? Wait...and watch.
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