What's under your lip/in your nose right now? - Part 2

[rothenbj]

waho, that's not a ditch, it's a cavern!. Plug up the one end and you have a pond! You could do laps in your front yard.

Yeah, I hear you on fires out of control. A while back when mom was somewhere in her 80s she was burning in a barrel on the back of her property. It was a dry period and it got away from her. She had all these evergreens on the back of the property on fire and a few acres behind the house. She managed to make the front page of the newspaper and a visit from Smokey the Bear.

I don't think there were any financial repercussions, perhaps because of her age, but it was the last time she ever used the barrel.

 

[The Rebel]

Well that's something at least. Might as well throw a few bucks at the lottery too seeing as luck usually runs in threes. Have a good weekend all. I'm headed to Lake Michigan in search of King Salmon for my freezer.

 

[hittman]

Good luck on your fishing trip. I actually have a couple tickets that I need to check. I've never won anything, not even a dollar, on powerball or mega.

 

[Waho]

My lottery pool at work hit for 10k one time a few years back. After taxes and splitting it so many ways I ended up pocketing 40 bucks and change.

 

[hittman]

Well that's better than a kick in the shorts.

 

[rothenbj]

Boy did I get myself into a project. I mentioned to her that she should update her PC to Win 10 because it might solve some of the problems she was experiencing. I stopped by her place on my way home Friday and the last update she did to Win 8 was back in April. The machine was just about paralyzed. I brought it home with me and after I couple hours I judged on a scale of 0 to10 it rated about a -5. I wasn't sure if it would ever get straightened out.

I'm working on about 20 hours now and finally Win 8.1 is installing. I'm just hoping this goes clean, I'll check for any potential driver issues and work on Win 10 maybe Sunday. If this all works out, I'll be overjoyed.

 

[hittman]

Roth you're giving me Vietnam flashbacks of times I've reformatted hard drives on our computers in the past. The last time we were having issues that were hard drive related I just bought a hard drive that came with Acronis true image and it made a mirror copy on the new drive in about an hour and solved our issues.

 

[Stubby]

I was in the neighborhood and thought I would check into the other side of the tracks. My only advice is get a Mac. I am advising that with a

Ettan white safely tucked away

 

[hittman]

It's good to hear from you stubby. I saw your post in the other thread and thought you might stop in.

We are a family of iPhone and iPad users but I haven't made the switch to Mac yet. The kids get MacBook Air computers thru the high school and we just bought my oldest a 13" air for college. I'm considering going to a Mac next time we're able to afford a new home computer.

 

[rothenbj]

Hi Stubby, nice to see you pop in, but I'm going to forgo your suggestion. The only way I invest in Apple is at the grocery store and in the stock market. It's a personal thing.

A big day today, crossed over the 100,000 Cigarettes NOT Smoked mark!

It took a while, but it feels good.

 

[rothenbj]

Hit, it might be a long time before you see Mac in the business world, just warning.

 

[hittman]

Yeah I don't think I'll see it at work. However it might be fun to learn about it at home.

 

[rothenbj]

Giznato ready to ride-

 

[hittman]

We dropped off my oldest daughter at college today. Just got home.

 

[rothenbj]

A new stage of life begins. How was she when you left?

 

[hittman]

She was fine. She had a meeting at seven to go to. However my wife teared up and has been crying on and off since we left. I will miss her but know it's time for her to go and be her own person. I just can't wait to see how she turns out. She's one great kid and I think she'll be a great adult too.

 

[rothenbj]

Your daughter will probably adjust faster than your wife.

 

[hittman]

I think you're right. From what I've heard so far it sounds like my daughter is doing fine and having a good time.

 

[rothenbj]

I found the first 30 seconds, as my parents pulled away, to be the worst. Then I had to dry my eyes before I crossed the basketball courts on my way to the dorms. That was the extent of my "leaving the nest". Can't recall ever even feeling homesick after that, just that initial "fear of flying".

 

[hittman]

My daughter signed up for a creative minds group and is volunteering and going to meetings this weekend so they are keeping her busy. Classes start on Monday.