sheepdog

Yes, Stephen King. King of weirdness for sure. I do love his books though. But I'm like you, I have really wondered why/how he writes such strange stuff. I think if ever there was a celebrity I could meet if given a chance, it would be him. Like to know what a person was like in real life with a mind so strange to do the kind of writing he does.

We really have our wires crossed, you finally come dragging back in about the time I get lightening struck and can't get online to argue with you. Man, we really have to get our act together. Glad your back anyway! It can be rather boring around here without you.

A week ago today, lightening ran in on my computer and modem and toasted them. The very next morning, we got lightening struck again, this time it took out my telephone. I got my computer in the shop right away, we have a good guy here that works on computers and he's reasonable and fast too. My computer was ready to go friday evening. But then I had to deal with the phone company. I have DSL from my local phone company. This was just early thursday afternoon, but they told me if I was in a hurry to get a modem, I would have to pay an extra $22 shipping and they would OVERNIGHT it to me, but I wouldn't get it until MONDAY!!!! 4 damn days to get an overnight????? I tried everything, even asked them to see if a service man had one on him I could go and pick up and no, they couldn't do that, so I asked if they had any shops where I could pick one up, and they had 2, one didn't answer the phone and the other was over 60 miles away, but I didn't care so we made a flying trip to get there before they closed and got another modem. Thought I had it whipped, but then when I hooked everything up my modem wouldn't stay connected to the internet. 2 more days of fighting with the phone company and 2 trips by servicemen and now I am more or less back to speed. Needless to say it has been a very aggrivating and expensive week.

OMG!!! What is this younger generation coming to??? At your age you shouldn't even know what being Bi is let alone wonder if you are!Back up a little, be a kid, have fun, and don't worry about this kind of stuff.

Oh man, don't even think about wasting any more time on a jerk like this guy! He wanted to hurt you by dumping you and then going out with your friend, and now he's trying to do it again by hurting her to make her hate you too. This is a no win situation. Forget him.

Men may come and go in your life, but a good friend is hard to come by. A boy friend that most likely will be temporary in your life isn't worth loosing a good friend over. Forget the dude your friend likes, if she still cares about him. Try going out with this other guy that obviously does like you. Forget about pining over things you can't have. If you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one your with!

I like it better the way it is now. The topic list on the new one is harder to find the forum you want to read as it seems to all run together, just a long list on a white background.

I'm sure that the title topic isn't something you expect to see in the automotive section. But the other day I heard a little short news blurp about how law inforcement is going to stop using the Ford Crown Vitoria's and switch to a Chrysler car, didn't catch the exact model. The police have used the old Crown Vickies for many many years. They are a great old car, solid and great stability, with a real power house for an engine. They have a real long life expectancy too. Personally, I think it's a conspiracy. Ford didn't take any of their government bail out money. Ford didn't need the government money. They ran the company well, produced a good reliable product and managed their business well. Chrysler didn't. Had to have the government bail them out. It almost seems like our government doesn't like the free enterprise system and is punishing Ford for doing a good job and not playing suck up to the government. Anway, I think it stinks.

Can you burn up a computer? The terrible heat wave we have been having has the fan in my computer really humming in the afternoon. Since it is too hot outside to do anything physical, I try to spend the afternoons and hotest part of the day inside, on the computer, answering emails and placing ads. But the last couple days it's worried me a little bit as you can just hear the little fan screaming. It was so bad yesterday, I actually decided to shut the computer completely down.

I haven't had the oppertunity to play any of the newer, complex, graphics rich computer games, they look awsome, but I just don't have the time, and they can be rather adictive, so I'm almost afraid to try. I do really like Zuma though, and unfortunatly I have found it to be rather adictive too. I like to "goof off" for a few minutes occasionally and play it. Ok, well, maybe not occasionally. More like every day. It's sort of like taking a work break, play a level or two of Zuma. Problem is once you start it's hard to quit playing. My first computer game was Red Neck Rampage of course. With a name like that I had to try it! It's fun, but I didn't even reinstall it in my new computer. The other problem is you can get a lot of money tied up in computer games. As for board games, I always did like Monopoly.

Well glad to see you here. Tell us a little about yourself, your interests, where on planet earth you are, all that sort of stuff. We have people here from all over, you never know, your neighbor might be a member here!Welcome to Knowldegesutra.

Well of course your welcome! Glad to have you. Like to see lots of new folks, or just any folks who have been gone awhile and finally find their way back here. Just jump right in and happy posting!

Ok, I need some help here. I've had this camera for several years that will take short videos, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do anything with them once I figure out how to download and save them. I managed to figure out how to save them today, and find where they were saved to, yesterday I thought I lost the file after download. I have Windows Movie Maker to work with. I did figure out how to cut off the last little bit of the video where I messed up and didn't get the camera to stop filming in time, but now I just can't figure out how to loose the audio part of the video. I really don't need to record all those pesky dogs yapping in the back ground. I could find the audio part but not how to remove it, when I tried to delete it by moving the arrows back, it removed the video and the audio too. The other problem is I can seem to get them to send in an email. I tried today and one looked like it was sent, but then I got a failed message. I'm thinking the files are too big? But I have no idea how to fix that either. I tired the save file to email option, but since I don't use outlook, it wouldn't work with hotmail. Boy, this is going to be a real brain strain! I hate learning new stuff.

I just checked. I'm the only one that has started topics in this forum since Dec. of last year. That's 8 months folks. We may have to change the name of this forum to sheepdog's ramblings or something. Shame, cause it's one of my favorite subjects, gardening that is. Ya'll ought to get away from your computers and crummy dating relationships and try some gardening! So, to ramble on. Yesterday began my seed harvesting of my flower bed. This will be continued until after the first killing frost this fall, so it will be a major project. I just hope it goes better than last year, when I almost didn't get enough seed to plant it back. I'm not sure what happened, the flower heads just seemed to rot away without making seed. I didn't get a whole lot yesterday, some zinna's and my red and orange cosmos are seeding. The regular cosmos hasn't started blooming yet, it's a bit slow and seems to like cooler weather, but it fills in the bed nicely when the zinnias wilt down from the fungus that seems to blight them every year. I also planted a tub full of a different variety of zinnias, Candy Cane and I got some seen from them yesterday too. They are pretty with vary colored flowers, but I've had a hard time keeping them watered, they wilt unless you water them nearly every day. Another new flower for me this year is Sean Connery Cosmos. I think I'm really going to like them, they have the nice fern like folage, and pretty light purple flowers that look more like carnation blooms than the usual larger few petaled regular cosmos. I just hope they aren't both hybreds so the seed is good. I thought my flower bed was toast early this season. Dang Billy Goat bulldozed his way threw the fence and wrecked hell and havoc on my flowers. He topped off every single sun flower plant. I had gotten 2 odd varieties of sunflower, Lemon Queen and Autum beauty, along with the regular Mamoth Russian, I had just enough of the seed to get a good seed start for next year, until that damn goat got to them. I was really ticked off over that one. I took the Billy home to his owner, (he was just on loan) and we put up 2 strands of hot wire on the goats side of the flower bed. That sure fixed 'em. Goats didn't even go back in that pasture for several days, I guess they got stung real good! And fortunatly, my sunflowers all made new flower heads, so it looks like I'll get my seed anyway. The new varieties are really pretty, I'll try to get some pictures of them later on. My other problem with the bed this year was my own stupid fault. I have always layed a soaker hose down the length of the bed right after I seed it, but this year I forgot to put in the soaker hose. Now the past 2 years, I never had to use it, but this year after nearly drowing in rain all spring, when the rain stopped, it STOPPED. It just dried up to nothing. Now I have to hand water the bed every few days, which is a major pain. The plants are too tall now to try to get the hose in with out mashing a bunch of them. Hopefully I can get some pictures for my next rambling.

R.I.P.Rest in pieces that is!Finally got the pesty varmit. No squirrel soup, we tried to feed him to our Mini Schnauzer, in the hopes that she would develope a taste for squirrel meat, she had a lot of fun carrying it around and chomping on it, but that was all. I'm just afraid there was more than one though.

I agree, I think raising the debt ceiling is a really dumb idea. It is common sense that a person is to live within their means. Why doesn't the government get this? Why do they think they can just spend and spend? You are right, the government just has 2 ways of making money. But I don't think it's the making of money that is the problem. They just need to stop SPENDING what they are taking in on not only stupid government projects, but regulatory agencies that hamper business and make it difficult to actually have a business in this country. I speak from personal experience of course. I mean seriously, when there are so many problems in our country and they are threatening to starve off old people and children, in the grand scheme of things, just how important is it for the government to spend millions of dollars to maintaine a buracracy of idiots who come here to count the number of dog turds I have in my kennel pens?

I really like the new TV show, Haven. It is based on a book by Steven King, about who killed the Colorado Kid. When the show first came on I headed real quick for the library to see if I could get the book, and amazingly enough our little local library had it. The thing that has me curious is that it is a really short book, just a thin thing, so unlike the usual thick volumes that Steven King normally writes. There is no way a TV series could suck very many episodes out of that one little book. But all the shows have been really just like normal freaky/weird Steven King writings. What I am wondering about is if King is actually helping with the TV show too? It sure seems like he might be, the episodes are definatly the type of strange things King would come up with.

Unfortunatly for the NASA employees, it isn't going to work that way. Many were layed off a few months back, and I am not sure of the exact number, but I think it is something like 9,000 that are going to be layed off all toether. They will I'm sure, continue their reasearch and development employees for what ever project they have coming next, but anyone connected to the shuttle program is a gonner. I certainly understand the need for budget cuts and controls on government spending, but I wish they would take it from somewhere else.

Glad to help with a little input. To me, it's good to see you truely interested in learning to do a very good job and do your best. I do have another tip. Nearly everyone has some type of idiosyncrasy about how things should be done in their home and they are going to want you to do things their way. This could be anything from hospital corners when you make up the bed, to coordinating the clothes in the closet. There may be a better or faster or easyier way to do something, but if they want you to do things a certain way, make sure you follow their instructions. My own personal fettish is the way my cast iron skillets are washed. I have yet to find a housekeeper who will do it my way. And if they are not properly washed, they stick like crazy and are difficult to use. I think I may of once done a tutorial about washing cast iron skillets here at Xisto. But every housekeeper I've ever had insists on doing it their way, and they all seem to think they know best. I can't tell you how many times I've heard, "well, that's the way I wash mine" when they mess up one of my skillets. This comment is usually followed by, "I don't use my cast iron skillets, because they stick" Duh. Yet they won't listen to me and wash them in a way that prevents them from sticking. Funny skillet story. I told one housekeeper that I didn't want her to put my skillets in the sink in dish water. So one day I walked into the kitchen while she was working, and she was standing over the sink with the skillet raised up over the sink and was splashing soapy water up onto the skillet. I couldn't believe that one. I caught another housekeeper washing the skillet in the sink and when I told her about it she insisted that it was ok because there wasn't soap in the water anymore, saying, "see, look it doesn't bubble anymore." Just because the water isn't bubbly doens't mean the soap is not there anymore. I can't believe she thought the soap would magicly dissapear after it was put in the water. Anyway good luck with your job.

I had an interesting thought today, wonder if anybody has heard any word about a particular subject. It seems our congressmen are trying to scare us into allowing them to once again raise the debt ceiling by claiming that they won't be able to pay social security, medicare, and our soldiers. But has anybody heard, what about the congressmen? Are THEY going to get their paychecks?????? And on this subject, one of the things that really annoys me, as far as social security goes, WE are the ones who paid in on it. It's not the government giving old folks money. It's the government giving the money it took away from people to start with back to them. Yet they make it sound like its a freaking welfare program or something. Totally pissed me off. If they hadn't played around with the money that was paid into Social Security in the first place we wouldn't be having this problem.

Today the space shuttle made it?s final landing in Cape Canaveral. I am sad to see such a long and beneficial program come to an end. I guess it wouldn?t be so bad, but they, NASA, have nothing coming up in the near future to take it?s place. For the people in the international space station, all future deliveries will now be made by Russian Soyuz spacecraft. I also feel bad for the thousands of people that are going to loose their jobs. Even during the best of times, there can?t be that many job openings for rocket scientists. And with the unemployment rate like it is now, those over educated people are going to have a real tough time. Especially since they have grown accustom to the good pay and great benefits that come with government jobs. They would be pretty discouraged to end up flipping burgers at McDonalds. A lot of those people there have been working for the shuttle program for over 20 years. The program itself has been running for 30 years. I do find it interesting, and actually, quite hopeful, that NASA seems to believe that the private sector will take over some of the space agencies duties. Privately owned rockets are in our near future it seems, though frankly, I can?t imagine what sort of government BS red tape you would have to go threw to get a license to shoot rockets into space, it?s pretty bad just having a license to have a dog kennel. Companies such as Boing and SpaceX are expected to vamp up their manned space flight programs. At least that way there might be some job opportunities for the former NASA employees. And hopefully, if things work out, the private sector investors might create even more jobs and opportunities in the future.I suppose there are those who would say that with our budget deficit and other financial trouble we face in this country, cutting out the shuttle program is a good thing. I just can?t bring myself to agree with that though. So much of the technology we have today is due to the space/shuttle program, like getting all those satellites in orbit that have modernized our communications so drastically in the past few decades. Keep in mind, I am old enough to remember party line telephones. Heck, even telephone poles are becoming a thing of the past as we go to underground cables or just satellites. But I also grew up in the age of Star Trek. After years of watching Kirk and Spoc go where no man has gone before, it just seems natural, or normal to accept space travel to an awful lot of us. Many of us don?t consider it science fiction, we consider it science future!

Oh good golly, what are you waiting for, a written invatation???? Go for it and do it quick before she decides you are just dense or gay. And welcome to Xisto!

Hey, great idea! I'd like one for the end of the kennel building window, to replace the big fan I have now. I wouldn't have to groom anymore, just suck the hair right off those dogs! LOL

Ha Ha. But it's nice to see a newbie with a sense of humor. But see, when you get old, your brain gets old too. It's like the top drawer, you want to stuff everything in there cause it's the easiest to reach, but pretty soon it gets so full it gets harder and harder to stuff stuff in. My brain is like that, filled with years and years of clutter. Anything new blows my mind.