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That was funny. I never thought of birthdays quite like that before. Picking up steam to "hit" 70 comes from all the sighing (over lost past years) during our 60's!!! sigh!!! God bless everyone.

Congratulations on a job well done!!! God bless everyone.

Here is an interesting story of one person making a huge difference in our community. His vision to reuse building parts, lumber, windows, cabinets, sinks, tubs, etc has saved a lot of older materials from going to the dump. Also saves money for those of us who want old stuff to fix up old houses. Every community needs something like this. I wish the story had the photos of the unique building, especially the variety of windows styles, that was in the Oregonian paper. ReBuilding Center This next link is to our Metro government's recycling info page that has many good links of what we can recyc

Happy Birthday from me too. May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and wealth. God bless everyone.

Thank You very much for that list to help us remember the good things in life. I needed it today, to just think about better days and times. And now I need some of that hot chocolate, and chocolate chip chocolate cookies. And anything else chocolate I can get my hands on!!! It has been one of those miserable days where things went wrong early, before my coffee, before my breakfast, and I was barely awake but on my feet heading for the coffee pot. I hate arguments so early that I don't even know what is going on!!! So lots of chocolate needed today. I would add a purring (Siamese) cat to th

robroy, I am sorry about my usuage of it hurting yours, or anyones', feelings, just wanted to mention how I was raised. I think that is exactly the problem, those outside of the true Scottish people, have heard/used/been trained to use Scotch instead of Scot. There was no disrespect intended, and I apologize for any implied by my post. I was just giving my point of reference as to how I was taught, and backed it up with my dictionary version. Absolutely no disrespect was intended. And I am sorry for any hurt it caused. God bless everyone.

Very interesting thread! I love this board where it is ok to sidetrack a thread to such interesting stuff. I have a good ole Irish stew heritage mix of Irish, Scotch, (my Merriam-Webster dictionary gives Scotch as the plural form for people of Scotland, and Scot as the singular form, which is what I was taught at home and school), English, German, and French, and perhaps some American Indian though we can't prove that for sure. A term that isn't heard so much nowadays with all the celebrate diversity politically correct talk, is American melting pot. I love that term for it is truly what most

You mentioned you have Spybot, and Adaware, but do you also have a good updated antivirus and firewall, one of each? Have you scanned with your antivirus, or done any online ones? Here is a link to a sticky thread on G4's Tech Support board, that has all kinds of good stuff, including online free antivirus scans to see if you are infected with anything. G4 Tech Support board sticky thread of software links Did this problem start after you added or removed anything? Updated something, changed out hardware, downloaded something? Or it just started out of the blue? Have you tried system restore

Happy Birthday Dr V. May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and wealth. God bless everyone.

Hi everyone, bozodog, that was a gorgeous sunset picture!!! Thanks. We have had some more wild weather. Had to shut down computer so fast the other day I don't even know if I logged out of the two boards I was on. Seems to take fforever to click out of several windows, shut it off, and unplug computer and phone line, with lightning flying around head and a torrential downpour hitting the place. I HATE thunderstorms!!! And we had it easy, with a half inch of rain in a few minutes, compared to some of the metro area that got over an inch of water in 15 to 20 minutes which caused mudslides, and

Sounds so true of our American corporate life!!! HaHa! God bless everyone.

Happy Birthday from me too. May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and wealth. God bless everyone.

Finally, a computer manual diagram that makes sense!!! HaHa!!! God bless everyone.

Amen to that. God bless everyone.

Crosses...for deceased accident victims. Stay safe folks, don't drink and drive or ride with those who do, especially on this holiday weekend. God bless everyone.

I cannot believe how low the Trail Blazers pro basketball outfit can act, yet they keep trying to break old low records, both on court, and off, for team and office!!! This story is about the office side of their bad act. I can't even begin to think of how bad it would be to work for this bad management team. I hope someone sues the heck out of them someday. Blazers' deeds speak louder than words I would like to have billionaire Paul Allen, of Microsoft fame and fortune, (who went into a fake bankruptcy on the Rose Garden Arena, that left taxpayers, and investors stuck holding the bag for his

Liz, I just wonder about your tornado sirens, and guys step in with your mechanical expertise please, but it might be a open contact, or short, that is possibly setting it off. Perhaps as the wind blows, or water seeps in, or a bug crosses its path, or bird doodoo hits it, or something gone bad back in the control panel. I think they should look at the electical part of it besides the radio frequency thing. I know my hubby has had to solve intermittant fire alarm problems over the years, and I remember him talking that sort of lanquage as to what caused them either at the fire alarm panel, or

DrV, Wow!!! Very well said!!! That was in essence describing a message board family! Also shows that all relationships, even chance short encounters, are part of the woven tapestry of our lives. I think it was Will Rogers that said, "A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet". If we let down our guards and let others in, then we too can adopt that as our life slogan. Mac, I think making a life plan is a great idea, just don't set it in concrete. Let it evolve as you go along. As for writing the books, go for it. Though how you will keep them straight while writing them simultaneously is be

You are welcome folks. Sorry about the misspellings...I wish we could edit our titles when we make mistakes on them!!! God bless everyone.

I just Googled for Bill's water bill, it is down almost to the bottom of this article about his paintings. Bill Gates 65, 000 sq ft home's paintings and water bill Now I would have heart failure paying that bill, and imagine how big the other utility bills are too. I would like to have a million or several myself, but not to spend on huge houses like that. To each his own way I guess. God bless everyone.

I am in the process of clearing off some stuff on my desk, so here are a few things I thought people might be interested in, especially Liz, as she is a gardener. This nursery is one of my favorites. Miller Nurseries in Canandaigua, New York. They say if it grows there for them it should survive elsewhere, and their tree and plant guarantee is for 1 year. My absolute favorite plum is from them (so that is the page I am linking to, Ha), everyone around here watches my trees with eager eyes for ripe fruit. The plums are huge (bigger even then the egg carton the paper catalog displays them in), a

This article from the New York Times News Service, was in our Oregonian a couple of weeks ago, but I only took the time today to try to find it online, didn't want to purchase it, so here is the free version via Google, on Forest Conservation's Portal. The article states that the Japanese have lots of categories in which to put their recycling materials, from 10 to 44, depending on location. The people with only 10, also have a 27 page book listing 518 items. I hate to think how much space and time all this would take. And talk about peer pressure, the kids of today here have nothing to worry

Fresh Doughnuts!!! Yum Yum!!! May I have a sugar doughnut, and a mug of coffee, please? Thanks!! Sitting in front of an air conditioner this afternoon, as temperatures climb to the low to mid 90's today, same predicted for tomorrow. I am not even acclimatized (is that a word?) to the high 70's yet, let alone the 90's. after all the cold rainy days we've had. I think that is why I was so groggy yesterday as this heat wave started, "only" 84 yesterday. The high temperatures in the desert SW are sure moving up to the NW. Luckily the high should break down and let some marine air come in off the

This is several years old, but U.S. News mentioned it again this issue, so here is the link. Bill Gates huge estate complex I wonder if he and his family are happy there? God bless everyone.

Oooops! I should have checked to see if anyone else had this story on the board before I posted my thread on it a few minutes ago. Sorry about that. Isn't there enough for people, and companies, to worry about without a new type of computer attack out there? A trojan encrypts your stuff taking it hostage, then extorts money to return it, but do they also steal all the id info while they are at it? I agree with Liz, use a file cabinet for private stuff. I think any important work on computer should be regularly backed up to cd, then you could at least recover it to use on a clean computer until