STILL Waiting On The Snow…

Sometimes (well, most times) I think these weather persons on tv haven’t a clue. But then I realize that what they say will probably happen DOES happen over Seattle way. We might as well be in a completely foreign weather area. Wind storm did come through yesterday and we did lose the power for about 2 hours. SWMBO and I started up a couple of our bottled gas lamps (bright little suckers!) and read for awhile. Was nice. Power finally came back on and mostly stayed on for the rest of the night. Flickered a couple of times enough to reset the MediaServer (which I really have to get a UPS for!).

Not much else going on. Still waiting on the Snow that’s supposed to fall around here tonight and tomorrow. Phil & I went out to the property today and cut another truckbed full of wood for him. Was nice out there.

Listening to the news lately one has to wonder What The Hell Is Wrong With Those UAW Assholes?! Guess them saying that they’d do anything to help the current financial crisis get better was a load of crap. This not being willing to take a pay cut to help their companies out really sucks. What they’ve done for me is make me decide that I will never (I really mean never) buy another car from any of the "Big 3" nor any vehicle where the UAW is involved. The Toyota Tundra is looking pretty good. I think everyone ought to let the UAW and the "Big 3" know how much this sucks. I really hope they do not get the bailout funds. But it looks like Prez Bush is going to approve the "loan" anyway. Dickhead.

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Hey! Just looked out the window and it’s actually snowing our there. Cool. Now to see how much we get. SWMBO wants enough to fall that they’ll cancel church tomorrow but not enough to stop her from singing in the Christmas show in the same building tomorrow evening. ???

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Big Three Bailout?

Why don’t they call it what it will be? "Big Three Give-Out" will be more like it. I’m not sure how I feel about this one. One the one hand I’m totally against it. I think if the "Big 3" didn’t pay their workers so much and gave us a product we wanted to buy at a price we could afford they’d do better financially. On the other hand: if we don’t "Give-Out" them then all the suppliers (and suppliers of suppliers) on down the chain could go bankrupt and out of business.

The other thing is: They (The Big 3) say they’ll pay us back. How? If they’re not making money where will the money come from to pay us back? They’ll either raise their prices; in which case we’re giving them the money to pay us back. Or they’ll lower their prices and give everyone that buys a vehicle from them a ’discount’; in which case they still won’t be making enough money to stay in business.

And the last thing about it is: the spokespersons for the Big 3, while talking to Congress, said they’d start making more hybrid type vehicles and vehicles that have much better gas mileage. What! If they can, then why haven’t they? Why did they wait for an "emergency" before doing all this?

Not much going on around here lately. Weather’s been crappy even though it’s been mostly sunny. Too cold for me.

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SWMBO and I went to see "Quantum Of Solace" at the Galaxy Theater last Friday morning. We were the only two in the theater! Cool. Movie was pretty good except the action sequences seemed to move too fast. Maybe I’m just getting old. I really do like Daniel Craig as Bond though. I think he’s the best Bond there’s been (and I’ve seen them all). We made the mistake of buying 2 soda’s and a bucket of popcorn: $17.00! That’s more than it cost the two of us to get in! Damn! Time to switch to my winter coat! :grin:

Saturday I took Phil & Matt out to the property to cut a truckload of wood for Phil. Was fun and it really wasn’t too bad weatherwise. Phil, whose 76 years old, mentioned (in our talks) that he really liked the Star Trek Movie he saw a few years ago. I mentioned that I had all of them and he was welcome to come over sometime and we’d start watching them. He was flabbergasted that there was more than the one!

Finally sat down and made myself a schedule of ’classes’ for the things I want to learn. Looks good. Now if I can just get off my ass enough to actually follow the schedule I may learn something. My big problem, being semi-retired, is that I have no idea what I’m going to do until I do it. IF I do it. So I don’t get anything done. I’m hoping to change that.

Did spend most of last evening working on the MediaServer. Again. That new video card came in; ATI. Damn! I just could not get the installation program to recognize the video card no matter what I tried. Even got online with the MS site and tried all their suggestions. Couldn’t get back to a simple VGA video driver. Wound up completely reinstalling Windows XP (Again!) and still couldn’t get the installation program to recognize the new video card. So I wound up reinstalling the old video card and driver. And, wouldn’t you know it, it works great. Damn! All I can figure is that the previous two video drivers didn’t completely uninstall and it was conflicting with the driver for the card which would make the screen go blank or freeze up. All I know is that I’m damned sick and tired of playing with this thing!

Snow in the forecast for Saturday. Maybe I’ll go to the property…


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