Just saw "Beat the Devil" with Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lolabrigida and so many other fine performers! I saw it many years ago and had forgotten much of it except for the line of the "Arab Inquisitor:"
"We of this country have had four thousand years experience in asking questions...and getting answers."
Oh yeah, I definitely need a moment of cute. I just made the mistake of looking at the national and local news online. Bad news, more bad news, and oh yeah, here's more bad news. Arrgh. Must go bang head against wall.
Actually I'll go sew, always makes me feel better.
Good idea, Susan! Speaking of things that make one feel better (even very small things). You know that stupid egg timer that windoze uses to tell you to wait? I've been irritated at it for years. So while waiting for something to download, looked around the control panel, and changed the wait/working icon to a little red drum with drumsticks that beat furiously. I laugh every time it come up. . . . Also changed the "music" for windoze sign on and off. Now signs on with a ring (like old phones), and off with a TaDa!! Helps, it does.
Ah! Mystery explained. When I clicked on "Newer post" last night and posted my firsties, with a note about Obama's healthcare town hall for seniors on the Web this moring, the link actually took me to Cat's 7:05 p.m. post -- not to the midnight new thread. So I now have the single, lonelycomment on that thread.
Yup, the little things matter. I can't remember who said it, but, "It is easier to sit upon a mountain than upon a tack". The reverse is also true. Sometimes the little pleasures are the sweetest.
Love the TaDa! Made me laugh. Now the drum would have me putting my fist through the monitor. Good thing they give you choices. ;)
The new modem doesn't work either. Which suggests there's something wrong with the compuer slot. The computer only has four slots, and two are for a different type of card. Plus, you can't put a modem in the bottem slot because a tether sticking up from the bottom of the computer interferes with something on the bottom of the modem (both modems). So there's just the one slot that should be usable but apparently isn't. Hence, no fax modem on this computer.
I've checked Web fax services. Found one as cheap as $6/mo. But is it worth even that? How many of the people I am likely to deal with actually do faxes these days? I've encountered eexactly one over the past several years, and she wasn't a client.
Another consideration is that the reason a got a second telephone line a quarter-century ago was for the modem. One reason I've kept it is that I can do conference calls without tieing up the main line. But I do have a cell phone these days. And while a 2-hour call would run over my basic allotment of minutes, it would probably still come out cheaper than the second land line.
Following up on yesterday's thread, I'm also trying -- perhaps not as seriously as I could be -- to lose weight. Looks like I've maybe dropped a couple of pounds. My immediate goal is toshed about 8 pounds, which would bring me back to where I've mostly been fro the past 15 years or so. If I manage the stick-to-it-iveness, I'd like to do another 15 pounds after that. That would bring me back to the weight at which I got out of the army, which is my bess guesstimate at my ideal weight.
I hear you Susan. I don't know what to think about all the bad news this week. So sad about Helen Thomas making her remark; I'm sure she knew better. While I feel that the current Israeli gov't is way out of line, I do have sympathy for how the Jewish people came to be in Palestine after the Holocaust and the "second Holocaust" that occurred when some tried to go back to Poland and elsewhere and were killed by people there. At the same time I want to read something about how on Earth thinking people at the end of WWII could ignore the fact, when giving Palestine to the People of Israel, that people were already living there!!! HALLO!! I honestly don't think this could have been well thought out at the time. Whomever decided to let this happen is largely to blame for the troubles now. Who were they, and have they ever been held accountable? Anyone know of a good book to read on the subject?
Yeah. I enjoy playing with the cursor set. Win95 had an entire set that was cute little gray mousies. IIRC there's a whole Music set. I also change my color scheme and desktop wallpaper fairly frequently. *shrug* I'm easily entertained.
It is to laugh. My sister sent me a recipe I requested for chocolate, chocolate-chip cookies. At the end it says "bake 10 minutes, or until lightly browned". IT'S A CHOCOLATE COOKIE! How would you know if it's "lightly browned". It's brown all over all the time!!! >:o
Funny about the tada. I have that set for the Windows on sound.
There are sound schemes and color schemes and all encompassing "themes," which can be pretty wild. I recall a jungle one on Win95, donno if it survived to XP, with waterfalls and parrots and all kinds of neat stuff.
listener, I'm very vague on the point. Can only tell you it was the Brits to the best of my recollection. They were also in charge of Iraq around the same time, and the Transjordan, which I *think* is now the country of Jordan. But, doubtless others here have more on the ball than do I and can answer your question properly.
On a related subject, I highly recommend Bitter Lemons (http://www.bitterlemons.com), which is a news and commentary service run jointly and with scrupulous even handedness, by Israelis and Palestinians.
The second link down on the left hand side. Jeff talks to a distinguished environmentalist about the oil spill.
I'm feeling very stupid and helpless about this. I can't spell his name, and I can't figure out how to manipulate the screenreader/browser to move character by character to see how it's spelled. Nor can I select, copy and paste. My talking browser is pretty well kaputt, alas. I'm going to have to come back into the real world and get serious about learning to use Window-eyes in combination with Fire Fox. BLECK! The talking browser was soooooooooooo much easier and more convenient to use!
Thanks, Cat! Hubby says it was the UN's decision, and that of a very ailing FDR. FDR even met with Palestinians, at the time, and told them he's a Zionist! I know it was a different world then, but STILL! *There were people already living there!* The Jews were killed in Poland by people who didn't want to give them back the houses they had left behind when they left. Did they get away with it? Did anyone care? I must find a book on this.
I could stand to lose five to ten pounds. I certainly do not want to become overweight, and so realize that it's important to stay on top of the situation. On the other hand, most of my clothes fit just fine, and in general I'm not terribly motivated actually to *do* anything about it. Of course, I'm not terribly motivated actually to *do* much of anything about anything any more.
Susan and listener, absolutely. All the news is bad. I try not to listen to it, or to ignore it if it's on the Tele. I'm much more interested in my books.
Oh, Cat, just having five or ten pounds to lose sounds wonderful to me. I've got to struggle my way through getting rid of 40 of them.
I do feel a teeny-tiny bit better tonight, as I was able to find a Fat Lady Bathing Suit in a size 18 that looks much better on me. However, it looks just like a street dress because I'm so short. I thought about shortening it until I lifted up the skirt a little to look in the dressing room mirror. Um, nope! The longer I spare the public the sight of these legs the more merciful it will be.
I secretly hope some lifeguard stops me and challenges me for wearing a "dress" in the pool. Hope I have somebody around to take a quick picture of his face when I whip up my skirt and he thinks that he's getting flashed by a crazy little old lady in those few seconds before he realizes it really *is* a bathing suit. Of course I might get thrown out for embarrassing him. O:-)
Susan, I didn't mean to make light of your difficulties! If anything, I'm very grateful not (yet) to have hit that middle aged spread Aunt Patty used to teasingly warn me about when I was in my twenties and slim and trim. Like I say, overweight would be awkward and uncomfortable given my physical limitations.
My mother is seriously overweight, so I do understand how uncomfortable and frustrating the condition is. But, you're still smiling, and that's half the battle.
Sizes are funny. Or maybe it's sizing that's funny. Sometimes an item labeled as a smaller size fits Mum better than one labeled as a larger size. It depends, I think, on the manufacturer and the quality of the workmanship.
Speaking of cute, I'm downloading a book that people have been raving about for months at Library Thing, Wesley The Owl. Apparently it's the true story of a baby barn owl and the young biologist who rescued him. Sis was enthusiastic when I told her about it, so she'll probably read it too, once she gets a new IPod. Her current one is just about done for. It will probably be a while before I can get to this new book too. I have a lot of books on the to be read pile, including one called Time Travel by a scientist...can't remember his name just now...discussing the possibilities of time travel. This one's in the nature of research for "World Enough and Time." But before getting to that, I want to finish Double Indemnity It's a good story, and I want to finish it, only I keep falling asleep.
Nah, I didn't take it that you were making light of it. It's just that I'm really freaked out about being this heavy. I weigh 30 pounds more than when I delivered my middle son!
Actually I by-passed middle aged spread about 20 pounds ago.
Still, I'll find a way to get it off. Once before when I tried to quit smoking I went back to it because I was gaining weight so fast. Of course then I was overweight *and* a smoker. This time I was determined to get free of the nicodemon even if I got as big as a house. (My son doesn't say "big as a house", he says "wow! he ( or she) is really housin' it!")
So I'm housin' it, but I'm also an ex-smoker. May take me a while to get back to my normal size, but I will do it.
Howard is certainly a moment of cute (says the crushie, lol!) and he's first, too!!
ReplyDeleteJust saw "Beat the Devil" with Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lolabrigida and so many other fine performers! I saw it many years ago and had forgotten much of it except for the line of the "Arab Inquisitor:"
ReplyDelete"We of this country have had four thousand years experience in asking questions...and getting answers."
Lots of good humor--a parody of film noir.
Oh yeah, I definitely need a moment of cute. I just made the mistake of looking at the national and local news online. Bad news, more bad news, and oh yeah, here's more bad news. Arrgh. Must go bang head against wall.
ReplyDeleteActually I'll go sew, always makes me feel better.
Good idea, Susan! Speaking of things that make one feel better (even very small things). You know that stupid egg timer that windoze uses to tell you to wait? I've been irritated at it for years. So while waiting for something to download, looked around the control panel, and changed the wait/working icon to a little red drum with drumsticks that beat furiously. I laugh every time it come up. . . . Also changed the "music" for windoze sign on and off. Now signs on with a ring (like old phones), and off with a TaDa!! Helps, it does.
ReplyDeleteAh! Mystery explained. When I clicked on "Newer post" last night and posted my firsties, with a note about Obama's healthcare town hall for seniors on the Web this moring, the link actually took me to Cat's 7:05 p.m. post -- not to the midnight new thread. So I now have the single, lonelycomment on that thread.
ReplyDeleteYup, the little things matter. I can't remember who said it, but, "It is easier to sit upon a mountain than upon a tack". The reverse is also true. Sometimes the little pleasures are the sweetest.
ReplyDeleteLove the TaDa! Made me laugh. Now the drum would have me putting my fist through the monitor. Good thing they give you choices. ;)
Well, there's also a nice ivory colored metronome. . . .
ReplyDeleteWell every thread needs a firsties, Bill. Thanks fer doin' your duty. . . .
ReplyDeleteThe new modem doesn't work either. Which suggests there's something wrong with the compuer slot. The computer only has four slots, and two are for a different type of card. Plus, you can't put a modem in the bottem slot because a tether sticking up from the bottom of the computer interferes with something on the bottom of the modem (both modems). So there's just the one slot that should be usable but apparently isn't. Hence, no fax modem on this computer.
ReplyDeleteI've checked Web fax services. Found one as cheap as $6/mo. But is it worth even that? How many of the people I am likely to deal with actually do faxes these days? I've encountered eexactly one over the past several years, and she wasn't a client.
Another consideration is that the reason a got a second telephone line a quarter-century ago was for the modem. One reason I've kept it is that I can do conference calls without tieing up the main line. But I do have a cell phone these days. And while a 2-hour call would run over my basic allotment of minutes, it would probably still come out cheaper than the second land line.
Hmmm.
Alan, I think we should give you the job of working out the national budget.
ReplyDelete(Think of Dave's helpful friend in the movie DAVE. LOL!)
Following up on yesterday's thread, I'm also trying -- perhaps not as seriously as I could be -- to lose weight. Looks like I've maybe dropped a couple of pounds. My immediate goal is toshed about 8 pounds, which would bring me back to where I've mostly been fro the past 15 years or so. If I manage the stick-to-it-iveness, I'd like to do another 15 pounds after that. That would bring me back to the weight at which I got out of the army, which is my bess guesstimate at my ideal weight.
ReplyDeleteAll good luck, blessings Bill.
ReplyDeleteI foresee a day when you tell us you made it and we respond
YOU HAVE THE WILLPOWER! :-)
I hear you Susan. I don't know what to think about all the bad news this week.
ReplyDeleteSo sad about Helen Thomas making her remark; I'm sure she knew better.
While I feel that the current Israeli gov't is way out of line, I do have sympathy for how the Jewish people came to be in Palestine after the Holocaust and the "second Holocaust" that occurred when some tried to go back to Poland and elsewhere and were killed by people there.
At the same time I want to read something about how on Earth thinking people at the end of WWII could ignore the fact, when giving Palestine to the People of Israel, that people were already living there!!! HALLO!! I honestly don't think this could have been well thought out at the time. Whomever decided to let this happen is largely to blame for the troubles now. Who were they, and have they ever been held accountable? Anyone know of a good book to read on the subject?
Yeah. I enjoy playing with the cursor set. Win95 had an entire set that was cute little gray mousies. IIRC there's a whole Music set. I also change my color scheme and desktop wallpaper fairly frequently. *shrug* I'm easily entertained.
ReplyDeleteIt is to laugh. My sister sent me a recipe I requested for chocolate, chocolate-chip cookies. At the end it says "bake 10 minutes, or until lightly browned". IT'S A CHOCOLATE COOKIE! How would you know if it's "lightly browned". It's brown all over all the time!!! >:o
ReplyDeleteUmm, that mess at the end is supposed to be a "Yell" face.
ReplyDelete>:o
:-[
Funny about the tada. I have that set for the Windows on sound.
ReplyDeleteThere are sound schemes and color schemes and all encompassing "themes," which can be pretty wild. I recall a jungle one on Win95, donno if it survived to XP, with waterfalls and parrots and all kinds of neat stuff.
listener, I'm very vague on the point. Can only tell you it was the Brits to the best of my recollection. They were also in charge of Iraq around the same time, and the Transjordan, which I *think* is now the country of Jordan. But, doubtless others here have more on the ball than do I and can answer your question properly.
ReplyDeleteOn a related subject, I highly recommend Bitter Lemons (http://www.bitterlemons.com), which is a news and commentary service run jointly and with scrupulous even handedness, by Israelis and Palestinians.
Youre right! LOL!
ReplyDelete(They're done when they're not shiny anymore. )
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/
ReplyDeleteThe second link down on the left hand side. Jeff talks to a distinguished environmentalist about the oil spill.
I'm feeling very stupid and helpless about this. I can't spell his name, and I can't figure out how to manipulate the screenreader/browser to move character by character to see how it's spelled. Nor can I select, copy and paste. My talking browser is pretty well kaputt, alas. I'm going to have to come back into the real world and get serious about learning to use Window-eyes in combination with Fire Fox. BLECK! The talking browser was soooooooooooo much easier and more convenient to use!
Thanks, Cat! Hubby says it was the UN's decision, and that of a very ailing FDR. FDR even met with Palestinians, at the time, and told them he's a Zionist! I know it was a different world then, but STILL! *There were people already living there!* The Jews were killed in Poland by people who didn't want to give them back the houses they had left behind when they left. Did they get away with it? Did anyone care? I must find a book on this.
ReplyDeleteI could stand to lose five to ten pounds. I certainly do not want to become overweight, and so realize that it's important to stay on top of the situation. On the other hand, most of my clothes fit just fine, and in general I'm not terribly motivated actually to *do* anything about it. Of course, I'm not terribly motivated actually to *do* much of anything about anything any more.
ReplyDeleteSusan and listener, absolutely. All the news is bad. I try not to listen to it, or to ignore it if it's on the Tele. I'm much more interested in my books.
BTW sorry for gumming up the works with my Beach Boys post last night. It's just so cute, I wanted to share it...
ReplyDeleteHope this link works...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwAHT0HV6KM
Oh, Cat, just having five or ten pounds to lose sounds wonderful to me. I've got to struggle my way through getting rid of 40 of them.
ReplyDeleteI do feel a teeny-tiny bit better tonight, as I was able to find a Fat Lady Bathing Suit in a size 18 that looks much better on me. However, it looks just like a street dress because I'm so short. I thought about shortening it until I lifted up the skirt a little to look in the dressing room mirror. Um, nope! The longer I spare the public the sight of these legs the more merciful it will be.
I secretly hope some lifeguard stops me and challenges me for wearing a "dress" in the pool. Hope I have somebody around to take a quick picture of his face when I whip up my skirt and he thinks that he's getting flashed by a crazy little old lady in those few seconds before he realizes it really *is* a bathing suit. Of course I might get thrown out for embarrassing him.
O:-)
Susan, I didn't mean to make light of your difficulties! If anything, I'm very grateful not (yet) to have hit that middle aged spread Aunt Patty used to teasingly warn me about when I was in my twenties and slim and trim. Like I say, overweight would be awkward and uncomfortable given my physical limitations.
ReplyDeleteMy mother is seriously overweight, so I do understand how uncomfortable and frustrating the condition is. But, you're still smiling, and that's half the battle.
Sizes are funny. Or maybe it's sizing that's funny. Sometimes an item labeled as a smaller size fits Mum better than one labeled as a larger size. It depends, I think, on the manufacturer and the quality of the workmanship.
Speaking of cute, I'm downloading a book that people have been raving about for months at Library Thing, Wesley The Owl. Apparently it's the true story of a baby barn owl and the young biologist who rescued him. Sis was enthusiastic when I told her about it, so she'll probably read it too, once she gets a new IPod. Her current one is just about done for. It will probably be a while before I can get to this new book too. I have a lot of books on the to be read pile, including one called Time Travel by a scientist...can't remember his name just now...discussing the possibilities of time travel. This one's in the nature of research for "World Enough and Time." But before getting to that, I want to finish Double Indemnity It's a good story, and I want to finish it, only I keep falling asleep.
ReplyDeleteNah, I didn't take it that you were making light of it. It's just that I'm really freaked out about being this heavy. I weigh 30 pounds more than when I delivered my middle son!
ReplyDeleteActually I by-passed middle aged spread about 20 pounds ago.
Still, I'll find a way to get it off. Once before when I tried to quit smoking I went back to it because I was gaining weight so fast. Of course then I was overweight *and* a smoker. This time I was determined to get free of the nicodemon even if I got as big as a house. (My son doesn't say "big as a house", he says "wow! he ( or she) is really housin' it!")
So I'm housin' it, but I'm also an ex-smoker. May take me a while to get back to my normal size, but I will do it.