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How Was Your Day?

Monday, July 26, 2010

It got crowded in heaven, so, for one day it was decided only to accept people who had really had a bad day on the day they died. St. Peter was standing at the pearly gates and said to the first man, “Tell me about the day you died.”

The man said, “Oh, it was awful. I was sure my wife was having an affair, so I came home early to catch her with him. I searched all over the apartment but couldn’t find him anywhere. So I went out onto the balcony, we live on the 25th floor, and found this man hanging over the edge by his fingertips. I went inside, got a hammer, and started hitting his hands. He fell, but landed in some bushes. So, I got the refrigerator and pushed it over the balcony and it crushed him. The strain of the act gave me a heart attack, and I died.”

St. Peter couldn’t deny that this was a pretty bad day, and since it was a crime of passion, he let the man in.

He then asked the next man in line about the day he died. “Well, sir, it was awful,” said the second man. “I was doing aerobics on the balcony of my 26th floor apartment when I twisted my ankle and slipped over the edge. I managed to grab the balcony of the apartment below, but some maniac came out and started pounding on my fingers with a hammer. Luckily I landed in some bushes. But, then the guy dropped a refrigerator on me!”

St. Peter chuckled, let him into heaven and decided he could really start to enjoy this job.

“Tell me about the day you died?”, he said to the third man in line.

“OK, picture this; I’m naked, hiding inside a refrigerator…”

Tagged: Jokes

Your Breakfast Is Ready Sir

Sunday, July 25, 2010

We got up early again today to go for a bike ride before it got too hot. We headed cross town to DD, so I could get some of their fabulous coffee. I headed inside while Donna walked next door to get the Sunday paper. For her I ordered one plain bagel toasted with butter on the side and a water to drink. I got a small coffee and a coffee cake muffin. By the time I had completed the transaction there was a person standing there handing me small bag with the toasted bagel. I sat at the table with Donna and we split up the paper and waited for the rest of the meal. And waited. After waiting a bit more, I went up to see what was taking so long to pour a coffee and take a muffin off the shelf. As I stood up and headed to the counter I heard Donna call my name. There was a tray sitting at the end of the counter with a water, a coffee and a muffin.

How long had it been there? Couldn’t have someone said, “Your breakfast is ready sir.”? We were the only people waiting for food…

The Emperor hasn’t moved all day.

Started down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 750
Tagged: Food, Rants

OE is Dead, Long Live Thunderbird

Saturday, July 24, 2010

The new laptop has Windows 7 and I like it pretty well and decided that it was time to try it on the desktop computer as I stumbled into a $50 legal copy of the program. I only had two real problems with the install, one there is no Outlook Express for Win7 (or its predecessor Vista), so I needed a different desktop email client.

I have been using Outlook Express for email at home for about as long as I have been using a computer. It has only been around since 1996, but it just seems like forever. I can’t remember what I used for email prior to OE, maybe Pegasus Mail (which according to Wikipedia has been around since 1990 and is still in use today), but it didn’t come up in my web search for a replacement. Thunderbird seemed to be the top pick, but folks complained of issues importing email from OE. To test it out, I downloaded, installed it and tried it out. Everything went smooth for me, so I learned how to export the new email data and how to restore it for after the the 7 install.

The second issue came about after I had installed Windows 7. My old sound card was no longer being supported and the last official drivers for it were for XP. There was a small speaker icon in the task tray with a bright red X through it. That would never do. Google searched turned up traces of possible drivers, but I had no luck locating them. Looks like I might have to buy a new sound card (like I did 7 years ago when I first got this PC.) I was sort of surprised by that development because I had downloaded Micrsoft’s Windows 7 Upgrade Adviser software and it didn’t flag that as an issue.

It did flag a couple other things, so I decided to try and get some drivers for those items to see if I needed anymore new hardware, because if it did I might just revert back to XP. Somehow, don’t ask because I don’t remember how, but while getting those drivers a box popped up with a list of attempted driver updates. The sound card was listed and and lo and behold it found a driver. I have sound.

Now comes the task of reloading all the programs I normally use, but I should be all finished by tomorrow.

Started down, went up, back down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 750
Tagged: Rants

Orange Sky

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Started up, went down, went up, back down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 748
Tagged: Misc Photos

Two Words

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The two words heard most often by Miata drivers from kids is, “Cool car.”

The two words heard most often by Miata drivers from little old ladies is, “Slow down!”

Started up, went down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 745
Tagged: Miatatude

One Small Post For A Man

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Sorry. I had this nice long post reminiscing about where I was when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon 41 years ago today, but I don’t have time. I wasted the evening watching a so intentionally bad buddy cop TV show that *is* actually funny, The Good Guys and a so intentionally over the top show about cars that you don’t actually learn anything useful from it, Top Gear.

Maybe I’ll write that moon landing post next year (because we all know how emotional a 42nd anniversary can be.)

Oh, never mind, I just found out the whole thing was a government sponsored hoax: Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked

Started up, went down, went up, back down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 743
Tagged: Cars

110,000 Words

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Here are six of the nine MMC cars that made the trip to Edgefield for breakfast today. I looks like the life-size statue of Strom Thurmond is orating around 110,000 words, perhaps recreating his famous filibuster, longest ever by a single senator at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length nonstop, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

As we arrived at the start point for the trip this morning the Emperor past the 110,000 milestone.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 739
Tagged: Cars, Miata Mileage, Miata Photos
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