Barry, Weird Al, and Mary

There is one person I've added to my Gratefulness List that is unique. I became acquainted with Barry Skalski on Facebook, but he's really a long time friend of the family, a lifetime friend of my son in law Charles Daly Jr, (the source of my Sanity as a virtue is overrated! quote. My son in law Charles Daly Jr is also creator of the my on line moniker Rev Mad Dog or revmaddog1948, which he created when I found my nick name from work, Mad Dog, was already taken on line.)
Barry inspired me to start tweeting by his example, and we've had several enlightening geek and political discussions, but Barry's biggest contribution to my life was proving to Mary, my wife, that Facebook and Twitter people are REAL!
Barry had several extra tickets to a Weird Al concert, so we took Barry up on the offer and sat next to Barry and his lovely wife Kim for the entire concert, irrefutably proving to a VERY skeptical Mary that Facebook people really exist. See the rest of this photo album for pictures of that night. We had a blast, and Mary was forever changed. (However, don't expect Mary to be opening a Facebook profile soon, not until you know where freezes over)

By the way, the man in the picture with Mary is the 
great Weird Al himself.

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Speeding up old computers

How to speed up an old computer:
Go into your control panel. Next go into improve performance. Do three things.
1Adjust appearance. Find & click the setting that says adjust the appearance for best performance.
2. Open & start disk clean up. I do this twice a day.
3. In advance tools, go to disk defragger and start. I do this twice a day.
I don't store pictures permanently on my computer. I store my pictures on 3 cloud devices, Picasa Web, Facebook, and Twitpic, and then delete them from the computer. However, if you don't do disk clean up, they're still there in the trash can file, so I do both.

To keep your cookies from overwhelming your old computer, just restart your computer. I do this whenever it starts to slow down or lock up. If it locks up, don't wait, just hold down the off-on button for 10 seconds or till it shuts off, then restart.I run 10, 20, even 30 tabs on a computer that is 6 years old. 

Another trick is to close unused high traffic tabs like Facebook if I'm done. 

Still another trick is to pin a tab (right click). It freezes the refresher. 

One more trick. With your browser you switch to text only. I did this for a really old computer, and it sped things up immensely, but no pictures.



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MORE INFO! The $100 gift card is for those who sign up for the hot spot w ifi feature that adds additional charges to your contract. On Verizon, the additional charges would be by the Gigabyte of data used, around $10. You can connect your old computer to the internet anywhere through the wi fi hot spot, if your old computer has wi fi. (Don't load videos including YouTube with this feature, which can get expensive if you stray away from doing business on your computer. Instead, down load videos when you have free wi fi.) Mary and I are going to use this feature in Indiana to stay connected to you guys (Midwestern slang for you all or y'all).

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iGoogle

iGoogle:

I love to start the day with this page on my computer. It gives me the weather, most of my favorite news sources, and I can rearrange it easily.
Hit the iGoogle link to see what I'm talking about. I use this page often enough that I'm going to put it first in my bookmarks. I haven't quite figured out how to get it to come up first in my browser, but I will. I like how I can rearrange the gadgets. I'll probable have to blog about the gadgets one at a time, but what I do like about this is I can arrange my favorite sources of news from top to bottom, with Huffington Post on top along with Wired. In the right column I have the time and date, and the time of all the countries who view my blog. In the center I have the weather of South Lyon.

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Cooking Veggies, geek stuff, random thoughts

Sunday, October 17, 2011 Mary's up early so we can go to the early service, 10:30, early for me, that is. Too many years on third shift. 
Eric (Mary's son) sent us a lot of veggies from his garden, squash, tomatoes, peppers, onions, and Mary brought me a nice wok from IKEA, $5, so I dusted off my cooking skills and made dinner. Cut an acorn squash in half, cooked it at 350 in the oven, boiled some red potatoes, and cooked peppers, an onion, and a tomato in the wok, then finished up with 3 scrambled eggs in the wok. Mary was happy. 
Mary's condo is caty corner from a Little Caesars, or about a hundred yards. Big square pizza for $7 plus $1 for garlic bread sticks. I cook there about twice a month. 
About politics: I won't vote for any candidate that is not strongly and actively pro life. I have voted for ANOTHER party if the candidate is pro life. I will support bipartisanship and compromise on financial issues. I will never compromise on LIFE. Best approach is to stay informed, stay constantly in prayer, and don't be afraid to let God lead. I went into a poll once determined to vote for Jimmy Carter, and felt compelled to vote for Ronnie while I was in there. Don't want to do a comparison here, for God will be the ultimate Judge of all Kings, but God's Spirit CAN direct in the polling booth. Politics wins. Statesmanship does the right thing, win or lose. Better to lose an election than God's favor. 
I just did a random check on Facebook search and found out my links are being shared, not just viewed. I am very grateful. Thank you. There were over 140 views of my blog on Friday. Most of the views came from Google searches, which indicates word of mouth is getting more draw than my posting. I've noticed a big upturn of viewing since Google brought out the new dynamic view which enables my friends to find other posts easier. Also had a turning point on my business. Made $10 from advertisement fees from Amazon, so I will actually get a check next month. I appreciate your prayers and encouragement. 


Random thoughts:
So far, I’m the oldest I’ve ever been! 
Horse lovers are STABLE people. 
DON'T MAKE ME VIOLATE MY PAROLE! 
My karma just ran over my dogma. 
STOP REPEAT OFFENDERS! Don't reelect them. 
Work is for people who don't know how to fish. 
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder -the mechanic 
YOU CAN'T SCARE ME! I have a two year old - mom 
hookd on fonics wurked four mee! 
Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself! 


Mike and Mary:

Mary didn't like my idea on how to keep the lid on the caramel coffee flavoring syrup from sticking... spray it with WD40 
Mary likes to watch the credits at the end of movies to see if there's any of her relatives listed. I do the same thing at the post office.
Sometimes I pretend to be normal. Mary replied: How's that working out for you?  



Notes from Management:

ME BOSS - YOU NOT! -management 
Beatings will continue until moral improves - management Please do not throw cigarette butts into urinals as this makes them soggy and hard to light! -management 
I’M THE BOSS!! my wife said I could be.. 


Chocolate:
Then God created chocolate, and God separated the Light from the Dark, and God Called it GOOD! 
If at first you don't succeed, have a piece of chocolate!
CHOCOLATE! It isn't just for breakfast any more! 
There's only one thing better than coffee or chocolate... coffee and chocolate together! 


The Beauty of Insanity:
CHAOS! PANIC! DISORDER! My work here is done. 
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out. 
My reality check just bounced.
The doc on The Gifted Man gets out his cell phone when he's talking to an unseen voice. Now why didn't I think of that? 
Out of my mind. Back in 5 minutes? 
DO NOT DISTURB! I'm disturbed enough.
Consciousness: the annoying time between naps. 
The Doc on The Gifted Man tv show is having difficulty appearing to be sane while talking to unseen voices. I could give him pointers.
I do all my own stunts.
What if the Hokey Pokey is really what it's all about?   
I'M SMILING! because I don't know what's going on. 

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