Comments (4) Make for early night tonight.
Had written a post and then hit a key that killed the browser. Not sure which one or why but did the job. Don’t feel up to rewriting it at present so am gonna close for the night and will try to recount last nights and todays excitements tomorrow. Till then…
Started out to go to Collinsville but instead headed to Gadsden and Poor Man’s Trade Day first. Bought some books and a couple of copper cannisters along with a pile of string and thread. Headed on to Goodwill and got a few more books, then to Apple A Day for something to drink and ate lunch at the gazabo by the water at the front of the parking lot. Rather pleasant place even with all the roads around. Left there and went toward Centre. Stopped at a yard sale and got ignored so left and stopped again at a Antique/junk place on 411. Cat found a few things and then we walked to a place next door that we had looked at before but had never been open. I saw a Delta jigsaw that the owner was asking $25 for and knew if it worked I wanted it. He came out and got a power cord and hooked it up. Worked quite well. Went in and looked at some other stuff he had and ended up with the jigsaw, a Makita 7 1/2 inch skill saw, a Craftsman router, a Craftsman biscuit joiner, a huge (minus one tap) tap and die set and some vases Cat wanted. Set me back a bit but less than just the tap and die set was worth. One of those right place, right time situations. From there went on into Centre and another junk store and got another load of books. Twas getting on to mid afternoon so headed back to Jacksonville and stopped at Smith and Hardwick and picked up some things for our Mom’s for Mothers Day. A couple of stops at grocery stores and a quick trip to the Dollar store at Lenlock and then home and supper finished off the remainder of the daylight hours. Been reading and decided to do the daily post and call it an early night, as we need to hit Flamingo to check on some books Lloyd said he was gonna bring in for us and then head to Calcis and then back to Weaver to do both Mothers Days tomorrow. So, till I type again… 😉
Started out to go to Collinsville but instead headed to Gadsden and Poor Man’s Trade Day first. Bought some books and a couple of copper cannisters along with a pile of string and thread. Headed on to Goodwill and got a few more books, then to Apple A Day for something to drink and ate lunch at the gazabo by the water at the front of the parking lot. Rather pleasant place even with all the roads around. Left there and went toward Centre. Stopped at a yard sale and got ignored so left and stopped again at a Antique/junk place on 411. Cat found a few things and then we walked to a place next door that we had looked at before but had never been open. I saw a Delta jigsaw that the owner was asking $25 for and knew if it worked I wanted it. He came out and got a power cord and hooked it up. Worked quite well. Went in and looked at some other stuff he had and ended up with the jigsaw, a Makita 7 1/2 inch skill saw, a Craftsman router, a Craftsman biscuit joiner, a huge (minus one tap) tap and die set and some vases Cat wanted. Set me back a bit but less than just the tap and die set was worth. One of those right place, right time situations. From there went on into Centre and another junk store and got another load of books. Twas getting on to mid afternoon so headed back to Jacksonville and stopped at Smith and Hardwick and picked up some things for our Mom’s for Mothers Day. A couple of stops at grocery stores and a quick trip to the Dollar store at Lenlock and then home and supper finished off the remainder of the daylight hours. Been reading and decided to do the daily post and call it an early night, as we need to hit Flamingo to check on some books Lloyd said he was gonna bring in for us and then head to Calcis and then back to Weaver to do both Mothers Days tomorrow. So, till I type again… 😉
Had downloaded Puppy Linux 4.00 and burned it to CD last night and booted it up to try it out this morning and am LOVING it! This is the fastest I have ever seen this machine run, and so far everything I have wanted to do just works. I moved my .mozilla folder over and have all of my tabs and passwords and bookmarks and it ALL JUST WORKS! Yea I know I’m not supposed to shout but I’m really liking this and it’s still running from cd, kinda. I told it to save my prefs and file and stuff to the hard drive and then rebooted and it came right back up, really fast too. CD out and it’s back to PCLOS with just a small file on the hard drive. Going to try it for a few days and see how it works long term. I’ve tried it several times over the years but there was always something that irritated me and drove me back to a distro that used KDE but though this isn’t quite what I am accustomed to it works, and is fairly easy to get around in and so far nothing has made me pull any hair out, which is a big +++.
Went out and about today, mailed off a bunch of stuff sold on e-bay, then went down and paid bills. Stopped by the Salvation Army and got a bunch of books then headed to Oxford to go by the library to see what they might have for sale, and they were gone. Library has moved but all the signs just said to go to the new location. No address. Weird. Will check online and see where they have moved to. So went to the mall to look for some cooking stuff but no joy there, so back north to Save-a-Lots and got some groceries and then came back home. Cooked supper, ate and I got to trying to modify a couple of Cue Cats. One would kill the keyboard and the other was different to all the ones that have mod instructions that I could find. Got some more of them around somewhere but can’t find them right now. So decided to do the days post and call it a night. Till tomorrow…
Had downloaded Puppy Linux 4.00 and burned it to CD last night and booted it up to try it out this morning and am LOVING it! This is the fastest I have ever seen this machine run, and so far everything I have wanted to do just works. I moved my .mozilla folder over and have all of my tabs and passwords and bookmarks and it ALL JUST WORKS! Yea I know I’m not supposed to shout but I’m really liking this and it’s still running from cd, kinda. I told it to save my prefs and file and stuff to the hard drive and then rebooted and it came right back up, really fast too. CD out and it’s back to PCLOS with just a small file on the hard drive. Going to try it for a few days and see how it works long term. I’ve tried it several times over the years but there was always something that irritated me and drove me back to a distro that used KDE but though this isn’t quite what I am accustomed to it works, and is fairly easy to get around in and so far nothing has made me pull any hair out, which is a big +++.
Went out and about today, mailed off a bunch of stuff sold on e-bay, then went down and paid bills. Stopped by the Salvation Army and got a bunch of books then headed to Oxford to go by the library to see what they might have for sale, and they were gone. Library has moved but all the signs just said to go to the new location. No address. Weird. Will check online and see where they have moved to. So went to the mall to look for some cooking stuff but no joy there, so back north to Save-a-Lots and got some groceries and then came back home. Cooked supper, ate and I got to trying to modify a couple of Cue Cats. One would kill the keyboard and the other was different to all the ones that have mod instructions that I could find. Got some more of them around somewhere but can’t find them right now. So decided to do the days post and call it a night. Till tomorrow…
Or updating or something. Earlier in the week had replaced a hard drive in Cat’s machine with a new one cause hers was showing errors. After replacing it and copying everything over to the new one got to looking at the one I took out. When in the machine it was showing up with 2 partitions, one about 4 gb and one about 152 gb, and when the computer was bought it was advertised as having a 160 gb drive. But when I got it out it stated on the drive it was a 120 gb drive. Looked it up online and the specs showed it as a 120 gb drive. Put it in my linux box this morning and it showed up with one partition of 4 gb and one of 111 gb with some free space left over. Not sure what they did but her computer is running a LOT faster with another drive in it than it was with this one. And after reformatting and installing PCLOS on it this computer is running fine. No errors showing up on the drive now either. Suspecting they used some kind of compression on it but who knows. Copied all the files from my home directory over to a backup directory on the new drive and moved the .mozilla folder to the home directory. Installed everything else from scratch. Just shut it down and added a CD burner that I had laying around. Already had a DVD burner. Have a 80 gb drive as extra storage. Gotta get the files in it moved over to my home directory and/or burned to backup CD’s, then clear that one off and use it as a website test/backup drive. Tis late and I am about done in, so gonna call it a night and start anew tomorrow. Till then…
Or updating or something. Earlier in the week had replaced a hard drive in Cat’s machine with a new one cause hers was showing errors. After replacing it and copying everything over to the new one got to looking at the one I took out. When in the machine it was showing up with 2 partitions, one about 4 gb and one about 152 gb, and when the computer was bought it was advertised as having a 160 gb drive. But when I got it out it stated on the drive it was a 120 gb drive. Looked it up online and the specs showed it as a 120 gb drive. Put it in my linux box this morning and it showed up with one partition of 4 gb and one of 111 gb with some free space left over. Not sure what they did but her computer is running a LOT faster with another drive in it than it was with this one. And after reformatting and installing PCLOS on it this computer is running fine. No errors showing up on the drive now either. Suspecting they used some kind of compression on it but who knows. Copied all the files from my home directory over to a backup directory on the new drive and moved the .mozilla folder to the home directory. Installed everything else from scratch. Just shut it down and added a CD burner that I had laying around. Already had a DVD burner. Have a 80 gb drive as extra storage. Gotta get the files in it moved over to my home directory and/or burned to backup CD’s, then clear that one off and use it as a website test/backup drive. Tis late and I am about done in, so gonna call it a night and start anew tomorrow. Till then…
Downloaded this last night and burned it this morning. Tried it out tonight and it looks pretty good. But it didn’t find the network connection for some reason and I was unable to find anything help wise without going online which without a network connection didn’t quite work for some reason. I figure it’s something simple but haven’t taken the time since I rebooted into PCLOS to figure out what was wrong. Another problem (for me) was that it is Gnome centric. Not that that is a bad thing but I seem to butt heads with Gnome every time I try it and this time was no exception. Will try again but for now the disk goes into the maybe someday stack…
Downloaded this last night and burned it this morning. Tried it out tonight and it looks pretty good. But it didn’t find the network connection for some reason and I was unable to find anything help wise without going online which without a network connection didn’t quite work for some reason. I figure it’s something simple but haven’t taken the time since I rebooted into PCLOS to figure out what was wrong. Another problem (for me) was that it is Gnome centric. Not that that is a bad thing but I seem to butt heads with Gnome every time I try it and this time was no exception. Will try again but for now the disk goes into the maybe someday stack…
Some better today but still not doing much. Went out for a while and took Cat to the dentist, then made a few stops and came back home. Ate supper and been on the couch reading since. Not planning on doing anything else tonight but maybe reading a few feeds and calling it a night. Not sure what tomorrow will bring till it gets here. Till then…
Some better today but still not doing much. Went out for a while and took Cat to the dentist, then made a few stops and came back home. Ate supper and been on the couch reading since. Not planning on doing anything else tonight but maybe reading a few feeds and calling it a night. Not sure what tomorrow will bring till it gets here. Till then…
FOTD: Taking Advantage of Starbucks’ Free WiFi
Video of 3 folks coming into a Starbuck’s with desktop computers and monitors to use the Free WiFi. Love the Windoze 95 on the one computer. Funny stuff! :LOL:
FOTD: Taking Advantage of Starbucks’ Free WiFi
Video of 3 folks coming into a Starbuck’s with desktop computers and monitors to use the Free WiFi. Love the Windoze 95 on the one computer. Funny stuff! :LOL:
Another do nothing day. Guess I am still paying for overdoing it on Friday and then going out and walking around too much Sunday. Think I am doing better today though. Starting to get to where I can string two thoughts together again. Gonna finish the night out with doing little but reading, and will try to get it in gear tomorrow. Till then…
Another do nothing day. Guess I am still paying for overdoing it on Friday and then going out and walking around too much Sunday. Think I am doing better today though. Starting to get to where I can string two thoughts together again. Gonna finish the night out with doing little but reading, and will try to get it in gear tomorrow. Till then…
Twas a Monday. But it’s almost over and I’m looking for tomorrow to be a better day. Hope to get more accomplished than I managed to today. Till then…
Twas a Monday. But it’s almost over and I’m looking for tomorrow to be a better day. Hope to get more accomplished than I managed to today. Till then…
Went to the trade days on 431 this morning and went into Flamingos to the book stall. Talked for a bit with Lloyd, the bookseller and then got to digging through boxes and the shelves and ended up with a fair number of interesting books. Talked to a few other folks there and then sat in the truck and ate some sandwich’s for lunch that Cat had fixed before we left this morning. After eating we walked across to Bill’s flea market and got a few more books from a vendor that was packing up for the day. Most everyone was doing or had done the same so we left and went to Gadsden to Apple A Day and got some more Ribose as I will finish my second bottle either tomorrow or the next day. From there went to the Gadsden Mall and walked around for a bit. Been a while since either of us had been in there. Few folks and even fewer buying anything. Left and came back home by way of Foodland, where they had a sale on country style ribs. Should never shop while hungry. 🙄 Got about 8 pounds. 😉 Came on home and started the charcoal and put the ribs and sauce in the 14″ dutch oven and about 9 pounds of potatoes in the 12″ one. Put the charcoal under and on them to cook and came in and fixed a cast iron bean pot of baked beans, honey, salsa, ketchup, pepper, dried onion and chives. When the potatoes were done put the bean pot on the coals the 12″ oven had been on and let it cook for about 30 minutes, stirring frequently to keep it from burning. Moved the coals back from the pot about 15 minutes into the cooking and let them simmer for the next 15. Was all done and quite tasty. Now we have cooked food for quite a few more meals. Froze about 2/3’s of the remaining ribs and will do likewise with about half of the potatoes. Don’t know what it is but there is something about cooking food in the dutch ovens on the charcoal verses using the oven that makes stuff taste completely different. I’ve done it in the oven but it just doesn’t taste the same. Guess its the coals against the cast iron that gives a different kind of heat. Or something. What ever it sure is good… 😉
Gonna call it a night. Till tomorrow…
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