What a Life

If it can go wrong it has starting with the snow storm, after that everything was down hill. I've been backing up files on the computer when the snow storm happened. AT first I didn't think much about it. I continued putting files and pictures on DVD's. I made up so many disks I thought I'd defrag the hard drives. That's when the power went out. Not all at once but a sputter where the computer tried to keep going. Then it went out for the next five days. The phone was out longer, 11 days with no internet. Didn't matter, computer crashed and wasn't coming back anytime soon.

Been working on the computer besides other things here. Had a problem with the power cables going to the drives. The connectors seem to get loose because of where the computer is, near the sliding glass door. It's a bit cooler in this space because of the glass. It's dual pane glass which help no letting the cold in but still it's cool here So, I cut all the power cables apart and soldered them together coming from the power supply getting rid of any loose cables connectors. Had to replace the ribbon cable going to two drives. That seem to help fix things also.

I've been running Spinrite 6.0 for days to recover data and refresh the surface. I got about 1% done over 4 days. That took out two blocks and recovered several other blocks. Before running this it would take 3 hours to boot up. Now it's booting up normal. Haven't tried to accessing the drive yet. I wasn't being seen by Windows but now it is so that's good. Don't want to loose 2+ years of photos. I've backed up most of the downloaded files. I had so much junk and I was running out of space.

Well, my blog space has a mind of it's own and changes type or goes off to another page while typing.

So have the cover on the computer to cut the noise down. Hopefully I won't have to get back inside.

Installed Novell's openSuSE Linux on the small computer but haven't figured out how to set up the internet yet. Getting closer I think, the network lights are coming on and the DSL modem sees the computer. I've been trying all sorts of combinations of of network IP numbers and addresses. Going to take a little more work.

Suns almost out. Going to the doctors but afterwards I'll be cutting up trees.

Snow tonight

Been cold out all day and some popcorn like snow came down around noon. Now it’s real snow and it’s covering every thing.

Watched the a skunk, Little Buddy and one of the female raccoons come on the porch earlier. If it keeps snowing like this I’m going to be stuck here a few days until the snow melts. It’s not coming down real hard right now and hasn’t all light. It’s just been real steady.

You call that a tax?

Some bone head thought he would try to get a tax on buying stock and derivatives but it’s so little it’s like buying a postage stamp for a million dollar sale. Then again everyone know that Washington insiders protect the rich. Why isn’t it more like 1% on stock purchases and 2% on derivatives and credit default swaps. All sales need to be registered so you can charge them for income tax. What I don’t understand is why there hasn’t been any taxes on these money making products. Even brokers take a cut why isn’t the government taking a cut for these sales? Why isn’t congress and senate up in arms after all we did have to bail these people out for the world mess they made.

Banks are putting up resistance to any changes or over sight, I wonder why. So they can have black market money to buy and sell things off the books. When I heard that weasel, senator Dodd laugh at how hard it is to make changes and get bills past with all the lobbyist in Washington. It’s hard to pass a bill when your on the take that’s for sure.

I heard a lecture about Black Market money and how it’s going to cause capitalism to fail. I listened to it and wondered how true it was. That Senator Dodd as the biggest obstacles to any bill that would make black market money.

What it takes is people with morals in Washington and not people only there to be on the take. They might call it campaign contributions but cash spends real well.

Cast on, Cast Off, Pin in, Pin Out! Way Out

Surgery is almost over. Got the cast off today and the pin pulled out all 2 1/2 inches of it. I feel so much freer now. I've felt stuck here unable to do anything. Hands still stiff and doesn't function so well but it's better then having that cast on and not being  able to do anything with my hand.

So nice to wash the hand. Skin is coming off like a wet old news paper. Hand is smaller from apathy. Going to have to work on getting things built up again. I have a Velcro cast now and need to go back to the doctor in a month. The best feeling so far was my hand under the warm water washing it. Such a difference then no washing for the last 6 weeks. Definitely a funky smell from the hand when the cast came off.

So, going to be typing  a lot to get my hand back in shape. I think it will be a while before I'm hammering or using power tools.

Tuesday....

Well today has started up okay. I'm tired but could stay awake. Don't feel depressed and not sure if I should trust my feelings right now but it sure does feel good. When you feel depressed for so long a change is very shocking so I'm suspicious of it.

Day light came up slow. The turkeys were here hunting down seeds. The sun wasn't showing yet and it was still a little dark out. Don't like the day light savings time. I'd rather have the time set and it would stay that way through the year.

Was reading about computer parts, some new products coming out. I like the idea of a hard drive with no moving parts. Flash memory hard drive that uses a fraction of the power of one with a motor and less heat too. Blu-Ray disk reader/writers have come down in price. New AMD 6 core CPU, CPU that fits in a quad core socket and takes advantage of the extra two CPU's. I'm lucky to have a one core. Maybe one day I'll have the money or someone will give me there old computer. I see video boards with lots of memory are $30 bucks. The price of hard drive seem to go up. 1T is about $100 dollars. There were down to almost $50 dollars. The USB drives are cheap also, that might be the way to go without a serieal interface.

Well time for a nice bowl of Oat meal. Then lets see how the day goes.

What going on

Worried. About me, my father, people close to me that I haven't heard from in a while. Been thinking about a relationship. That's usually shot if I'm doing something whee that takes up most of my time.

Saw the skin under the cast, the day the cast was removed and checked.

Just heard a speech Bush did about Geneva what ever part 3, about torture. I don't know what all the fuss is and the tour groups coming in. forgot what it's for except you don't torture people while holding them. I'm not my usual self, I'm in a lot of pain and that keeping me from talking or thinking properly. At times the pain pills aren't strong enough and other time too much.

To top off the day as I'm calling my father the nurse seemed to be fighting with him and said my father is slipping not sure what that means. Is he slipping holing on to my father, doing a one person rolling the person over. I'm sure if your a hospital you really would want two people turning a person like that. One person puts to much stress on the body. I know what I was rolled over or side to side I had two nurses and one spotter.

Out of all the nurses I had to deal with those to black women were the best nurses ever. When I moved here I was in the hospital for about a week. It also had a bad record to, it preceded them. I was watch the nurse give me a syringe. It was raining outside and the nurse wasn't going to give up when she's doing a perfect finger nail. The ones that look good but you couldn't pick up anything with.

What you say, your ready to work now?

So the republican are saying they want to work on the health care bill. After all the no’s since the beginning of the year now they are trying this, lets ask if we can help now that the bill is done. It’s not like they were busy or getting paid to put this health care package together, they were there physically. Maybe with such small mind, no takes up a lot of space. Then the republicans, the ditto machines repeat talking points over and over, that the sky is falling with this bill. You will live i fear because they are republicans and they perfected the stroke. This is something they have been working on for years. When you think about it, being a slacker because your rich republican with connections. The conservative slacker mantra is no taxes for the rich. At least they come up with good bumper stickers. Who could forget, “Slackers do it with spoons.” “College, I paid someone to attend for me.” That  frees up time for the spoon. Are they the Zombie wolf?

Greenspan, totally wrong

Turns out every thing Greenspan said was right was wrong and he was warned 10 years ago. All these so called economist got it all wrong. they said the market didn’t need to be regulated and wall street is telling Obama not to regulate the market, so nothing is going on.

Phil Gramm attacked Mrs. Born because she wanted to regulate derivatives market. Phil Gramm’s wife just happened to be working in that same market.

All the things that were put in place after the 30’s depression were taken out to let the market run free at Greenspan’s advice. When it all blew up, all he could say was their was a flaw in his thinking of the world. A flaw, is that all you can say after loosing trillions of dollars. Maybe you could cover that with your pocket change, Mr. Greenspan.

The person that warned of impending doom,  Mrs. Born from a unregulated market is saying people haven’t learned their lesson yet and this will happen again and again.

“Kill the liberals” the ego driven host screamed out.

The host screamed out, “I want to kill him,” “kill the man,” he is the slime of the earth liberal and I hate liberal. The crowd gathered closer cheering on the host. The host yelled, “We need to kill all liberal starting with this vulgar man, he’s a liberal.” “Someone grab a rope?” a voice cried out.” The host called out. “We will kill it right here and put a end to his liberal ways.” The crowd went crazy cheering the host. Yes they said, kill him. The crowd jumped man-x and put a hood over his head. They pushed him to the tree and threw the rope over the branch with the rope tied in a slip knot. The host yelled out sting him up standing safely on the stage looking down at his followers. The crowd did exactly what the host wanted and all pulled on the rope till he was high in the tree his body liberal body twitching and squirming. The crowd cheered. “Yes, death to the liberals,” the crowed screamed. The host yelled, “Death to the liberals,” again. The body stopped moving. The crowd went quiet. The host repeated himself, “death to the liberals.” The people were silent. A person in the crowd yelled out, “Why didn’t anyone stop us.” Another person yelled out in the crowd, “it’s not are fault, no one stopped us.” Ya,” another yelled, “we were only listening to him, and it’s his fault.” The crowd walked quietly away. The host was on the stage, “we need to kill the liberal,” he yelled out once more but no one was listening. The crowd with their heads hung down in shame were silent.

Some people use drugs, some people drink some do both until they find the new rush, power over others. Their egos take over it’s their new drug of choice, twisting truth to see how far people will follow the broken mans mind.

This was a first

Today was a first, all the female deer and the babies came up close to me.  There are 5 babies here and some teenaged deer and all the mothers. Having them come right up to me was something totally new. There’s still a couple that hang back a little. Sonny Boy is the only male here and he came up close but stood to the side. Not they are going through there pecking order without me standing out there with them. I’m not sure but I thing one tiny baby might be an orphan. I’m not sure why they are acting this way today unless they smell the bear that’s been around.

If it’s good for the country the republicans will hate it

Have you noticed that anything good for the country the republicans will hate it. If they get laws past it’s so some body could make short term gains. Phil Gramm who caused most all the banking and oil price problems got old laws on the book to end so the market could run wild again. The laws he removed were ones that were past after the “Great Depression.” They were to keep banks, investment banks, stock market traders all honest. So Phil Gram working with his wife got a few laws changed and you seen what happened, this big bailout. There was last years spike in oil prices also where the market was manipulated. The republicans were saying we need a completely unregulated market because it will regulate itself. Well, we know that’s not true. That’s like asking a thief not to steel, a fire bug not to light fires, a serial killer not to kill and a stock trader to be honest.

Now that insurance and health care reform is on the table the republicans hate it because it’s regulating monopolies to bring down prices. To keep them honest after all they don’t just sit on all the money they collect they are investors also but the thing is they never loose. If there investment tanks you make up the loss. Your rates for insurance goes up not only in health care but any insurance you have.

If you want to see evil at it’s finest look into Life Insurance. First of all you have to be dead to collect so life is the wrong name. The people that come out to sell you insurance policy will sound real wimpy and talk softly to you. They get what you pay for your life insurance for the first year and a percentage the following years. It’s funny how different companies will make big claims about there companies when basically they are all the same. Better service claim really get me, your dead, you don’t need any services. The way they make it sound is like a energy account to keep the lights on and someone will be there to answer the phone.

Back to what republicans hate and if they hate it then it has to be good for the country. When they were the majority they did what was for big business say passing laws that keep you from filling bankruptcy. Then credit card companies sent out millions of teaser cards to get you hooked. Once you maxed out your card or cards they raised the percentage rate you where charged on the card and if you had any late payments they could raise it even higher setting there rates to what a loan shark would charge. There were load shark laws but the republicans found ways around them like find a state that doesn’t have any limits on the percentage they can charge. The company could be located anywhere as long as they had a office in the state that permitted loan sharking called usury laws. The states catered to the credit card companies since it brought jobs to the states which before only had jobs like farming.

So when it comes to insurance reform where insurance companies can’t cancel you policy they said they would follow states laws which means they will keep canceling people policies when you put in a claim for some expensive life threatening illness like cancer. Of course they will keep taking you money right up to the date you are canceled without giving you any idea that you are going to be canceled but they knew it. So I guess they will be making a national law to make sure that insurance companies can never cancel a policy because of the way they testified in congress.

What would really please me to see happen is like what they did in Germany make a law that all insurance companies are nonprofit. That way the CEO’s won’t be walking away with millions of dollars a year in bonuses because of the amount of money they saved by canceling peoples policies.

France #1

With the debate over health care and insurance reform being beaten around the public I’ve been hearing all sorts of horror stories from the “Radical Republican Right” spreading lies because they didn’t do their home work and actually go to those countries they are making statements about. “Socialism” the republicans are claiming and a few democrats also most of which are very much uninformed and very uneducated also. Lets face it, insurance companies want to keep everything the same and keep there monopoly status. After the fear mongering and lies that were spread back in the 90’s about the single payer system where every one would get a health card and the government would pay for everything. No rejections, no denial of service, no cancelation of policy because you put in a claim, it sounded real good except for all the lies that the insurance companies spread spending millions to buy off republican to lie for them and buying ad time on TV and radio making it look like the health program would make you wait month for treatment and hold back treatment because it was to costly. Well they are using that same game plan except the republicans just want to be nasty and make Obama loose this bill to make him look bad even though this would be a good program for the country and hold down cost. The baffle them with statistics, pulling numbers out of the republican but but there are used to storing things in there butts like log cabins. Hey let me hear you fart? So you went to Washington and as a tight end but now are a wide receivers packed with special interest plucking. They have learned not to stash the cash in the freezer but places where the sun don’t shine and where no one would one to check.

What the Radical Republicans with there defeat anything even if it’s good for the country except when they got behind Bush and Chaney to start the Iraq war. Then again they were spreading fear, there will be terrorist here under every rock. Spy on your neighbors and turn everyone in where they go off to the secret prisons for years only to find out they were innocent and didn’t know anything. Now suffering from PTSD from the torture or what they called it, “enhanced talking.” So after all those lies for the last eight years and a lot more if you count on what they did while Clinton was president. Newts promise the screwing with America Contract. Before that it was the Regan era. What to buy some cocaine for missiles? That’s when a wing-nut from Texas sent guns money and missiles to Afghanistan to help create the Taliban and El Qaida. The mantra back then was to get rid of communist at any cost. Don’t look at what monsters your crating, remember republicans are short sided look what they did to the economy. Sort term gains with devastating end game.

So, are you believing the republicans lies brought to you again by the insurance industry?

The republicans have been slamming the UK’s health system but they are at #18 and we are at #36 according to the WHO. France is Number 1 according to the WHO. Funny how the places that the republicans say are so bad are better then here. People live longer and healthier then here. So all the lies they have been saying about other countries make the republicans here look like real dummies.

One Cookie fits All

So been trying to get two Windows Live Spaces going. I have both accounts made up using unique names and emails for each account. Then I tried using Windows Live Writer for both accounts. It works fine for one account, this one which I set up and have been building up posting pictures and blogs. The other account has been sitting there doing nothing for a while. I got the Windows Live series of programs when they first came out. I was using mostly Outlook Express for my mail program and got the notice they were doing to drop it and switch over to the new more secure Windows Live Mail. I still have my Microsoft Office Outlook set up and working with all my mail accounts. So, I installed the Windows Live Mail program and the other programs which turned out to be alright. The Gallery program can handle the amount of pictures I have where all the other so called great picture manager programs all crashed big time. Adobe’s proto manager program crapped out right off the bat and needs a bunch of things you need to do to keep it up to date which takes forever to scan your hard drive and make thumb nails. Now that I have one site or space working well and it looks good but I want to change a couple thing still, I decided to set up the Windows Live Writer program for the other “Space” I have. I signed in and was moving things around on the “Space'” and fired up the Windows Live Writer program and went to sign into a new account. Well, it doesn’t work. When you sign in and tell it to remember your computer it put a Cookie or something that says I’m hooked to this account. So trying to set up another account it goes to the first one you set up. No problems with Google Blogger. No problem with the ad-ones to set stuff to Picasa or Flickr or YouTube but getting it to understand that you have two Spaces with two different emails that you sign in with and the title of the Space is different from each other is impossible. When I tried to sign in after that now it wants me to sign on with one email account only. When you click sign on with different account it put the name you don’t want there even though you clicked on the other name. Click sign on with different name or account it goes in circle over and over trying to make you sign in with the name that won’t work for that Space. What’s real ironic is doing a blog entry on the site or Space there’s a line saying to download the Windows Live Writer program. Over all I like the Windows Live Series of Programs even for the minor problems which I can work around. The menus and permission things can be a bit confusing. All the extra junk you can stick on to your Space is a bit much. I’m not one to give out a lot of my personal information or post it on line. Other then that everything is good except for the problem I had to deal with, “SysFader” which many other people have that same problem. That effects IE 8 and the Windows Live Series of program causing them to crash when you open them, but what’s new with problems with Windows and Microsoft programs, it’s always something with them so that’s nothing new.

So I installed everything again

So far after deleting all the empty files in the internet temp directories, most labeled “bogus” with nothing in the files but took up space because of the name. That added up to around 75k per directory. I deleted the empty directories also. Then I downloaded Internet Explorer and Windows Live install program. I installed both. Took a while to go through all the tests and checks. Finally it seems to be working and no crashes yet after battling this problem for over a week. No message, SysFader can’t read memory address XXXXXXXX. No messages from the Windows Live programs yet either. Lets see how long this all lasts.

Finding BOGUS files

That's right bogus files in the internet temp directory. thousands of bogus files with nothing in them taking up space because the names take up space which adds up to over 75k per directory. I've been deleting these files and while there noticed that I tried to respond to a letter and it generated a bunch of bogus files and Windows live mail closed and sent a error message.

SysFader driving me crazy

What's up with Microsoft products? All the sudden last weekend it started. I turned on the computer and it started doing updates. So far it seems normal but then Internet Explorer started getting errors and the send error message to Microsoft popped up but this message had a debug button which I haven't seen before. Then another message came up, SysFader can't read memory and then a address. You click "OK" on that button and another SysFader message comes up, not a new one but over where the other message was. It sort of is doing a cascade the way it moves across the screen. You can get rid of that message until Internet Explorer is closed. Internet Explorer tries to recover instead of closing something new which I haven't seen before.

It's not only Internet Explorer that's having the problems, all the Windows Live Programs all have problems too. I can't use the mail program. When I start a reply the page goes black and a message comes up saying it was sorry that Windows Live Mail needs to close. I never seen that message and the way it's written either. Photo Gallery doesn't work. You open the program and it sits ther for a while then closes, no messages. Same thing with Windows Live Writer. At first I started to write something then it close. So I opened the program up and let it sit there for a while and it would close.

Windows Live Messenger is acting weird also. I've never seen the window turn black before. I just logged in. So far every things working. I leave it sign in and see it it craps out like everything else is doing.

Checking the web and Microsoft site there are some fixes which don't work. When I sign in using Firefox to any Microsoft site Firefox crashes which is a first for me. I used Google Chome to get some tips but it was flashing on one page. I don't know if this is just a Microsoft program or if this is effecting other programs. Was I just having one of those days with Firefox because it's running just fine now and I did download some Microsoft programs today

Paid Programming

What is paid programming? It’s crap they can’t sell without a long sales pitch where you get sucked in to what they are selling. They always have things like health secrets revealed. New system using the word system to suck you in. It’s got to be good, it’s a system. Ya right, it’s a system of getting your money from your pocket into their pockets. Some of the sales people have been band by the FCC for false claims, that shouldn’t be surprising.  Loose tons of weight without lifting a finger. Then they show a 400 pound woman and supposedly the same woman slender, as before and after pictures using their new secret system for weight loss. Then the small type goes flying by or a guy speed talking blurts out that that results may vary. Whether it’s a knife that will cut a car in half or weight loss or other miracle pill it’s all bad crap if it’s in a infomrcial, pain programming. You think if people could be making tons of money they would be doing it themselves instead of selling the secrets which is the money maker. Where they make their money because what they are selling may work but most likely your wasting you money if you think your going to buy a house for a couple dollars and turn around and be making millions with girls in skimpy bikinis hanging off you arms in just months. I like the one where the guy says you have to be all you can be with a vacuum pump masturbating machine. He’s smiling, his wife is smiling and they say Medicare will or may pay for it.

Why didn’t you care where the money came from for War?

During the Bush years there were silent voices asking how are you going to pay for this war. Republicans made people out as none patriotic if they didn’t support Bush’s Wars.

Now people are whining how are you going to pay for health care when they are going to be the ones benefiting from that health care.

When Bush wanted to privatize social security letting people invest in the stock market with it’s derivatives that fell flat. AIG an insurance company took the biggest bailout but people are forgetting what happened last year. The insurance company AIG couldn’t insure what it was selling. They figured, well no one has made a claim so we won’t put money aside for claims and take that money and invest it in over rated stocks.

Health care will cost less than bailing out AIG and be better for you not them. That’s why the monopolies are spending so much money to stay monopolies. 

Dick Army works for the bad guys

Listening to Dick speak about health care reform and all his lies he’s speeding. Remember he was the guy that exposed a CIA agent then hid behind the president not to be prosecuted. I thought it was a traitorous offence myself. Well, he’s against the people of the country like most good republican sucking up to monopolies and helping them to stay monopolies. There are a few others spreading lies also. The one that really got me that the radical right republican woman that can’t read. She was reading of a page or so she said on a radio show talking about death board. Palin is no better but she used her body to get places. You know she’s got a tan vagina now for her husband and who ever else she needs to persuade. “I can see Palin’s vagina from my porch.” The health care monopoly has pulled out all the stops spending millions to defeat the public health plan. They have been giving examples of Canadian and UK’s public health saying you get put on a list and it take months to see a doctor, which is completely false. No one there goes bankrupt over getting health care there. Unlike here where 3 out of 5 bankruptcies are caused by medical bills. Lets not forget what the financial industry did about bankruptcy during the Bush years, corporations can claim bankruptcy any time they want but people can’t. So banks and credit card companies flooded the markets with credit card giving them to anyone that could make their mark on a slip saying they will pay for what they bought.

What type of republican moron would say I want insurance companies to restrict service saying those tests aren’t worth it. That wants insurance companies to cancel there policy when they come down with a life threatening illness like cancer. That’s everything thee loudmouths are saying the public plan would do but they are already getting that and want to keep that type of service with all those restrictions. Dick wants you to keep everything the same and so do the monopolies called insurance companies.

Why isn’t anyone bringing up not for profit insurance companies. German did that, converted the for profit companies into not for profit companies with one law. That’s what we need here.

Palin is a looser, quitter, lier

Palin says the the health reform is going to make people sign up to die, what a lie. Then again she made her way from her looks and not her smarts.

The republicans in bed with the insurance companies want to do everything they can to keep prices high and health care for profit. The idea you can only insure healthy people only. Ironically many of the republicans in office couldn’t get insured felt on there own. Tax people pick up there high price. Chaney could get health insurance. He’s had 4 heart attacks, bypass surgery, pacemaker, drugs, everything to disqualify him from being insured.

We need a law to make all insurance companies to be nonprofit. As it is they only spend 28 cents of every dollar they bring in for health. They are also a investment companies and if they loose on a investment they will raise your rates which have nothing to do with your health. They set their profit amount and don’t take anything less.