Sixty-Seven, Hmmm...not a bad age as ages go. 2 years into Social Security for most of our fine older citizens and 5 for me as I chose to take my lower amount earlier. Why? Well darlings 'cause I thought I'd be long gone by now and wanted SOME of my money back anyhow. If I had the bucks I'd pay it all back and refile now instead, get more that way. Yes you CAN do that, it's rare but it can be done, look it up.
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Yesterday morning I went out the front door to water the north side and lo and behold! A PALM TREE NOTICE was hung quite prominently on our door handle. Yes, a genuine PALM TREE NOTICE. It stated in sucinct terms that our very fine, 45 foot tall California Fan Palm, Washingtonia filifera, was without doubt about to take out half the electrical service in Suisun City and needed to be gone ASAP at no expense to ourselves! Jezzz a B-Day PRESENT from PG&E (our power company)! Fantastic! Just last week we had gotten an estimate from a Tree Surgeon to take the tree down. He said it's be $2500! Well that's 300 dollars less than the estimate we got 16 years ago, whoopee! So we called the phone number given and about 2 minutes later the nice PG&E Palm Tree Terminator arrived. We looked over the Tree-Of-Doom, determined that yes, indeed...it certainly WOULD take out anything it fell on and soon a paper was properly signed and sealed. "Two to three weeks" was the answer to "When will this take place?", Wow! I've waited 16 years for this I can certainly wait another two to three weeks! Happy B-Day to me!
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So Big B-Day dinner today, daughter dearest Aud will attend I hope...the menu, all cooked by yours truely you understand is as follows:
Caprese (fresh tomato, mozzerella, basil...simple and delicious)
Eggplant Parmesan (fried eggplant rounds with sugo)
Coq Au Vin Bay Wolf Style (braised thighs and legs of chicken in red wine w/onions and mushrooms)
Vegetables (carrots, potatoes)
Chocolate Cake
Burp!
Yes sir! 67 years and going strong! Very cool indeed!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Why I Hate Microsoft...and I DO!
So many reasons; so few cusswords. Almost from Day One of the Windows era I have disliked then hated Microsoft. Opening the box to get out 40 3.5" diskettes for Windows 98 was hard; then there were 20 CD's with OS2 which was IBM but I blame Microsoft for! Nothing with Windows Anything was EVER easy either and if you made a mistake on anything you paid for it 10X over. Support was marginal in the beginning and downright hideous now. Intuitive? They don't know they meaning of the word.
I had to buy a group license for 3 machines for Win 7 because I wanted to be legal on the two I need it on...at 159 USD! The PRICE for One lousy copy of Windows 7 is absurd, that's why I opted for the license for 3. If I wanted a license for 4 I would have had to pay full price for at least ONE of them. It's enough to make you go into the world of cracks and Torrents for your Windows 7 "purchase". They just behave like a bad bully whose house you HAVE to go by just to leave your house.
And then there's the different 'versions" ie: Stunted, Almost an OS, Sort of OS, OS.
It just pisses me off to be so much out of control, they ARE the original Grinch That Stole Christmas and Scrouge mushed together. Got sued in Europe for the same shenanigans they do and get away with here in the US. FTC hardly takes a look at them these days though they used to. Rich company keeping Intel and AMD rich as well. It's a bitch.
Some moments of mirth have come our way lately, Audrey in Love is one of them...her boyfriend-the-drummer and the 5 pieces of chicken experience. You can make it up. Let's just say he has an appetite that is "Growing Boy" while being 39 years of age and 300 lbs of male human being. He is a hungry sort to say the least. She had 1 piece and He: 5. 2nds anyone? 3rds? "Yes", he says..."Please".
Then more: We have been and ARE among the notorious "Mystery Shoppers" of current lore...checking on the quality of the services you get at various retail establishments in our local area. It's NOT lucrative, pay is shit to be sure but often enough it is a fun experience that takes us out of the worksite (oops...house) and we explore what, for us, is largely unexplored. Today it was a restaurant, which one will remain unsaid, and was a very thorough examination of food, servers, managers, gardeners (yes!) and the space itself. Fun and worth the price of admission as the amount received was sufficient to pay for lunch-for-two. A free lunch followed by an hour of writing about it in trivial detail. Great fun! Tonight...well we do it again! Yes, again we go out to eat. We will report on it by iNet tomorrow and so it goes with our little lives in Suisun City. It's NOT France but we're making the most of our small miseries.
Bye for now kiddies! Burp!
I had to buy a group license for 3 machines for Win 7 because I wanted to be legal on the two I need it on...at 159 USD! The PRICE for One lousy copy of Windows 7 is absurd, that's why I opted for the license for 3. If I wanted a license for 4 I would have had to pay full price for at least ONE of them. It's enough to make you go into the world of cracks and Torrents for your Windows 7 "purchase". They just behave like a bad bully whose house you HAVE to go by just to leave your house.
And then there's the different 'versions" ie: Stunted, Almost an OS, Sort of OS, OS.
It just pisses me off to be so much out of control, they ARE the original Grinch That Stole Christmas and Scrouge mushed together. Got sued in Europe for the same shenanigans they do and get away with here in the US. FTC hardly takes a look at them these days though they used to. Rich company keeping Intel and AMD rich as well. It's a bitch.
Some moments of mirth have come our way lately, Audrey in Love is one of them...her boyfriend-the-drummer and the 5 pieces of chicken experience. You can make it up. Let's just say he has an appetite that is "Growing Boy" while being 39 years of age and 300 lbs of male human being. He is a hungry sort to say the least. She had 1 piece and He: 5. 2nds anyone? 3rds? "Yes", he says..."Please".
Then more: We have been and ARE among the notorious "Mystery Shoppers" of current lore...checking on the quality of the services you get at various retail establishments in our local area. It's NOT lucrative, pay is shit to be sure but often enough it is a fun experience that takes us out of the worksite (oops...house) and we explore what, for us, is largely unexplored. Today it was a restaurant, which one will remain unsaid, and was a very thorough examination of food, servers, managers, gardeners (yes!) and the space itself. Fun and worth the price of admission as the amount received was sufficient to pay for lunch-for-two. A free lunch followed by an hour of writing about it in trivial detail. Great fun! Tonight...well we do it again! Yes, again we go out to eat. We will report on it by iNet tomorrow and so it goes with our little lives in Suisun City. It's NOT France but we're making the most of our small miseries.
Bye for now kiddies! Burp!
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