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– I am back after what seems like two years without a computer. Actually, my PC died almost two weeks ago and I was left to fend for myself in this cruel world with only my tiny IPAD.
– I feared that everything on my hard-drive was lost forever. I had filled up my external hard-drive years ago and was too lazy to purchase another one, and too cheap to purchase a back-up program on the dreaded cloud, so I was facing the prospect of losing a couple years worth of pictures, all the chapters to my book I have been slowly writing, all my old blog posts that I had saved from my old blogs, a few years worth of tax returns, etc. etc. Â Thankfully the Docs at the PC hospital were able to save MOST OF the data and were able to transfer it onto a new hard-drive.
– I seem to have most everything………. but it is as if a bomb went off and everything is just tossed around everywhere on my new drive. It will take a few weeks of housecleaning to get things fully back to normal.
– Having no PC really sucked. I think I handled the news that I was permanently disabled better than the news that my PC might be terminal and that everything might be lost.
– I came in half-asleep one morning and sat down wondering why everything was dead…….and then looked down and saw the bare patch on the carpet where my PC tower sat for years.
– I still have no signs of Ebola. Just so you know that. I didn’t want you to worry since I used to be a Nurse and I knew a gal, who knew a gal, who knew a gal, who worked with a Doctor, that had a partner, that knew a guy, who had a Nurse, that once traveled through Liberia in 1974. Â I’m self-monitoring just to be on the safe side.
– My Dad spent time in Liberia when he was a “contractor” (Spy) for the “Government”. (CIA) Â I don’t think he has Ebola. I think he just looks that way every day now. He’s getting up there ya know.
– The kid and I are going to see a MLS Soccer Match on Saturday. It’s supposed to be 90 degrees. October 25th and still 90. I hate Texas weather!
– If you listen to the political ads on the TV here in Texas, you might get the idea that the Democratic candidates are the next coming of the Anti-Christ, while the Republican candidates sit at home with tin foil helmets on so that the alien space rays cannot infect their brains….any further.
– A friend posted a photo of something that I have to try in the next few weeks. A local Asian place is selling “Sushi Nachos”. Leave it to Texas to blend Tex-Mex and Asian to perfection.
– The baby has been staying with me a lot during the past couple weeks. She is spoiled rotten already, and I am just as much at fault as everyone else. The little gal is really squirmy and fidgety unless I hold her, then she is a perfect angel. I told her she has until she reaches 20 lbs, then I am sitting in HER lap all day long.
– The surgery on my head is on Halloween. How appropriate. A few days before, the daughter will turn me from Santa Claus into Walter White. (Bye Bye White Hair)
– I am pretty sure I have successfully trained the youngest cat like you would not believe. I tell her to “sit still and stare” and she does it, everytime without fail. I tell her to “Look disinterested and bored” and sure enough, like clockwork, she does. I tell her “You are getting verrrrryyyy sleeeeeppppy and you will sleep 20 hours today”….and she is dozing off before I finish the command. I need to get her on “Stupid Pet Tricks” on David Letterman.
– I have still been painting, but have not been able to post anything onto Etsy with my computer being dead and all. Now that I am back up, I will be posting the new paintings in the next couple days. Up to 68 sales for the year thus far.
– It’s supposed to be the time of year where I am winterizing the pool and covering it for the winter. Hard to do when it is still in the 90’s outside.
– Watched a great documentary on Netflix about the rock group RUSH. Great band that I have yet to see in person. Fell in love with their music while I was in High School. Hard to believe they only had one Top-40 hit here in the US. (New World Man) Â They finally made the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013, which was WAY overdue. Just typing this, I have the intro to “Tom Sawyer” cruising through my brain.
– There should be a device built into each new motor vehicle that will make the vehicle explode into a huge fireball if you drive more than 20 mph UNDER the posted speed limit for more than 5 miles on a two-lane road where no one can pass you. Just sayin. A few scorched patches on the concrete might make the slowpokes speed the Hell up!
– My Sleep Number is 45, not that you care. Saw a commercial for the Sleep Number bed where one spouse was a 60 and one was a 25. 25! Good Lord! I would be sagging through to the floor!
– Those sushi nachos sure do sound good. Though in Texas, I fear they might just be sushi  with Queso cheese sauce on top………
– I do NOT watch any of the singing competition shows on TV. Just out of curiosity, my wife pulled up the names of all the past winners of “The Voice”. I have not heard of any of them, and have sure not heard any of them on the radio.
– When I go into the surgical place next week for the Skin Cancer operation, I am going to cough loudly and then tell the Nurses that I was in Bolivia recently. (2010) Â I bet most of them will be so geographically-challenged that they will think Bolivia is in Africa.
– The kid has no clue what he wants to do with his life, even though he graduates in 7 months. He is really good at Geography and I think he would make a great Geography teacher. He thinks that being around “snot-nosed kids” all day long might lead him to want to put his head in an oven.
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