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

Gee Liz, I'm shivering cold just thinking about your wind chill back there. Nope we didn't get much damage here, at least not that I heard about. A few trees down around the area. Lots of heavy downpours and hail, and lightning and thunder, especially Friday. Once, while I was fixing supper Fri. (on a stainless steel stove ) I had the hair on my head and arms standing straight up, yet only saw a bit of lightning, but had the most beautiful rainbows against an ugly black sky to the east of us. The cat sure was upset, and her hair doing the same thing as mine, making her look twice her normal

Well we had abit of wild (for here) weather yesterday afternoon and evening, and again earlier today. I had the computer unplugged (phone line to it too) just to be safe. I think that is the end of wild stuff, and back to just rain tonight and tomorrow, and then some nice weather for the week ahead. I'm glad you liked the accent trees link Liz. I love redbuds, and wish I had planted one years ago. I have a beautiful Cherokee Chief Dogwood, and japanese maples etc, but need another small shade tree for front yard. Maybe I should still try for it? Take care everyone, especially with all the wil

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

Congratulations jimras on doing the SP2, and I hope you will get the bugs out soon. I don't have any info on the issues you are having. Sorry. Liz, here is my method of doing a url link. Bring up the site/page you want to link to, go to the address bar of that page showing the url, right click on the url, click copy. Then on the thread you are posting it on, left click the http grey box at the top of reply. (here it is above the words Open Tags.) That will bring up a little box. Now you need to use your backspace key to get rid of the "http", so box is empty. So now paste in your url by righ

I was checking the AccuWeather site earlier today, along with our local tv and Nt'l weather forecasters about our having possible thunderstorm today and tomorrow. I also checked the U.S. weather map there, and it does look like you folks are in for a miserable storm. Winds and heavy wet snow do not bode well for trees and power lines. Stay safe folks. An Earth Day backlash??? AccuWeather Spring Snow Storm Oh and since I can't view handplane's picture of the shadblow (serviceberry tree), though I can see the mother nature one, (I will never understand why some things work and some don't for me!

I agree with you Marty, about the arrogance of those who push their stuff as the cure to end all cures for every problem however unrelated to the original thread's subject. As if switching to their stuff would actually fix the original problem of whatever the thread is about. I see Dumb Terminal going after them on that issue, over at G4, once in awhile. That's good, but I wish the mods would step in when people start pushing Firefox, or Linux, or Avg, or Avast, etc. on a thread about IE or Windows or Norton problems etc. It is off topic, does no good, and often sidetracks the thread so that

I am not to keen on Google (bots) getting all the thread/post info on message boards either Marty. But they do it whether we use Google or not. For instance the little bots travel all through message boards looking for new stuff to update Google, so that people searching for something can find whatever we have said about it. I can see good coming from it, for instance when I want an answer to something I Google for it and often it is in a message board thread so the collective intelligence helps us all solve tech or whatever problems. But it unnerves me to do a search of my screen names and s

Island ( Kodiak Island, Alaska) God bless everyone.

Thanks for the warning Echobay. Norton Antivirus had a good sized update both yesterday and today. So I figured the bad guys were getting more active. Here is a link to the Symantec/Norton list of current bad dudes. Click on any one of them to get more info, including removal tools if available. Seems like some are just continuing to mutate. (Like the scum who devise such evil garbage.) Symantec Security Response Yes I keep telling my hubby, don't just click on attachments (or anything else!) willynilly. And leave the email on our isp's webmail service, we don't need it on Outlook, in our com

Bin. God bless everyone.

Hi folks, Sitting back resting from another round of basement work, and enjoying my orange juice, but need to thaw some more out. I get cravings for oj every few weeks, must need the Vitamin C? Made some progress on the junk sorting today. Can now see the far wall of that room, can't get to it yet but I will. Thankfully all the spiders I've found down there so far are dead ones. I sure hate spiders. Was bitten when I was a kid and nearly died from a black widow spider bite, so ever since then I don't want anything to do with spiders ever!!! There was a nice note to "Back Fence" (one of the

Yes settlement sounds like our beginings here, neighborhood sounds like our feelings of closeness, and family does too. Village is nice, but similar to other places. And we don't want to be an impersonal big city, and though we have traits of a small town, I really think we are more of a community. Community would indicate our continued closeness, yet not limit us expanding in size. God bless everyone.

Hello everyone, Anybody want to have a glass of orange juice with me? I thought maybe some oj would revive my tired muscles. I spent several hours today sorting out junk out of one corner of one room in the basement. I admit I am a terrible packrat, but have been trying recently to learn to let go of stuff. By the way, a tip to anyone contemplating such a job, do not I repeat do not drink two pots of coffee and decide to work in a basement that has no bathroom. I sure got a lot of stair stepping exercise today!!! Why did I ever want to save so many little boxes for Christmas gifts? I had bo

Gee that sounds better than our leftovers from last night. (beef roast with noodles/onions). I fixed breaded chicken legs in my Flavor Wave machine the other day, and also made a nice potato salad for the first time in months. More soup like chilly weather though than potato salad time. Oh well, there was a sale on eggs and hubby got way to many so I needed to use some up, and it was either make egg salad or use in my potato salad. For an update on my trojans/scans/cookie deletion etc. go over to Liz's thread about Spyware Blaster. I am almost to tired from stress to repeat much of it. I w

Thank You All so very much for all the information. I will start in tomorrow, with getting the ones mentioned. To tired tonight. And I am so glad to hear they work with Norton without problems. Phewww! Big relief. I did a free Trend Micro Housecall scan awhile ago. Came up clean. Wow!!! I was sure happy over that. Took me over an hour on dialup to download it, and only about 15 minutes to do scan. I was so nervous, figuring it would find some thing else piggybacking on the trojans. But it came out clean. If I hadn't been so tired and stressed, I would have jumped up and down. Plus I had to

I guess I had better get this Spyware Blaster program. I got hit with 2 trojans (ByteVerify) last night, that Norton quarantined, and then it blocked another one of them coming at me. Though why it didn't block the first 2 I have no idea since it was up to date and those are older trojans. Grrrr!!! Anyhow I opened a US News magazine link I hadn't used for along time in my favorites, (had G4 open too), went to a link to an article and as it was half loaded, I got slammed with these trojan alerts from Norton. Sure scared me nearly out of my socks. Norton did it's thing to quarantine them, tho

Hello folks, I think I will have a huge mug of coffee, while I chat with you. JSKY, what a huge project, wow! But it will be worth it in the long run. 1st benefit I see is you are now free of the sound of bouncing basketballs (and noisy players) at all hours of day and night. And 2nd, you are adding to the value of your property in getting rid of the next door ball court, and in all the improvements you are planning to do to it. 3rd, of course is all the exercise. 4th, that good ole quality time of working together with your spouse as Liz mentioned. HaHaHa. Though you might be luckier with yo

Unsinkable...Titanic shape was unsinkable until this day 93 years ago... God bless everyone.

I am so sorry about your grandma being so sick. I will pray for her. Be sure to give her lots of hugs, and tell her you love her. A person never regrets, after a person dies, all the hugs given a loved one, only that they didn't give them hugs or tell someone how much they mean to them. My Mom always said that funerals were the wrong time to tell how much a person meant to each one there, and the flowers should have been given to the person before they died. I think she was right. So love your grandma, as I am sure she loves you. And she will probably tell you to go on your trip and enjoy yo

Thanks folks for the information. I sure hope it doesn't get any scarier out there for us all, though I have a feeling it will keep going on unfortunately. It seems to me that the more bad stuff there is out there, and even being aware that we can't stop them trying to get us, it still boils down to doing as much as you can to stay safe. So I guess the message is keep your antivirus, firewall, antispyware, and Windows, etc up to date And learn to surf safe, don't just doodle around a page with your mouse clicking whatever it lands on. Also do mouse hovers to see where a link will take you. Th

Thanks for your headsup alert. I couldn't get your links to work though. So here is a link to the main Symantec Security Response list. Click on any of the ones listed for more information, including removal instructions if available. Symantec Security Response list As for the public keyboards/mice etc, it is the same as anything else others use, dirty and full of germs. The dirtiest place in a bathroom is the door handle I have heard. Same with store door handles/ push bars. Any phone that people use, public or private, is a major germ factory. So it's either be paranoid scared of touching

Welcome to the boards, looking forward to hearing about your trip when you get back. Have a good time on your trip, but stay safe too. God bless everyone.

I think I'll have a Dr Pepper, if the cafe' has any. Has anyone tried the new flavors of Dr Pepper? I have seen them advertised, but haven't remembered to look for them in the store. Maybe when it gets warmer. I love that story about your folks and the cds, Liz. I think they are ahead of my hubby and I though. I am so far behind the times that the only cd player I have is on this computer. Our car is so old, 1990, that it doesn't even have a tape deck, let alone a cd player. As for dvds, a ministry sent me a free one, but I figure that's not enough of a reason to go out and buy a player just

Welcome Jamaicaman, to the best boards around. I hope you enjoy spending time here. Check out the cafe' for good food, good coffee, and good friends to gab with. We are a friendly bunch, so wherever you want to add a post or thread, feel free to just jump right in. God bless everyone.