Share your day November 2013

I saw a wonderful episode of The Twilight Zone the other night called "The Hunt".

An old man and his dog were walking along a fence line that had never been there before. They walk and walk until they reach a gate where a man claiming to be The Gatekeeper informs the old man he can enter but his dog cannot. Supposedly this is Saint Peter at the gates of Heaven.

The old man refuses to part from his dog and continues down the path to another gate where the REAL St. Peter finds him and welcomes them both.

 

Took a Thanksgiving day walk today by my lonesome, and came across this deer, munching on the fall foliage...

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Very sad, but touching story about the animals, TWH. They know when they've lost one of their buddies; they mourn like we do. :(

I remember that Twilight Zone episode, Phil, and I agree...I've love to meet my lost pets when I go wherever I'm going.:confused: :)

Beautiful picture, Seabreeze...the woods is so peaceful; I love the quiet, and being out in nature, too.
 
Your picture was wonderful, SB. Can't believe you were able to get close enough for the shot w/o it darting off.

My Thanksgiving at my children's dad's home was very nice, but some drama presented itself which I'll post later....interesting. And it had nothing whatsoever to do with me. I left to drive home earlier than I normally would, always worrying about that night driving -- it comes all too soon these days. Great food, and so nice to be with loved ones (ex and his family are part of my extended family. Our divorce was sooo long ago!)

Due to the drama, I got a later start home than I felt comfortable with. I didn't get to deliver the tons of food I brought home for my daughter and SIL, home bound w/a flu bug. I felt so bad for them missing out, so I will gladly drive across town shortly and deliver it. Otherwise, I wouldn't leave home. Too many sales crazed people out there.
 
TWH...What happened with the deer, was it able to be salvaged? Sorry if I missed an update on it. I know you are upset about finding a deer that had been wounded and died in your pasture, but try not to be too hard on the hunter. A wounded deer can go for a very long time and run through brush and over fences when their adrenalin is up. They will also lay down in a thicket of brush making it impossible to see them. It is very hard track them as they go in all directions quickly, but most hunters when they realize they've wounded one will earnestly try to track it. With three shots it sounds as though the hunter knew he hit him, and was trying to bring him down on the run. It was an unlucky shot all around. Hopefully, the meat will be salvageable, and some good will come from it.

SeaBreeze: The deer must be used to humans passing through in order for you to get such a great close up shot...A nice Thanksgiving remembrance.

Today I blew leaves for four hours and can barely move now, even my hair hurts, and my fingers are stiff from gripping the blower. I got about 80 percent of the back done, and if I can still move tomorrow maybe I can finish it. Then I can start on the front and behind the buildings. The trees were especially generous with their bounty of leaves this year.
 
TWH..A good ending.glad the deer was put to good use. If that had been on my doorstep it would have been in the freezer in a blink. I've gotten to prefer venison over beef when it comes to making chili, stews, breakfast sausage and burgers...nice lean meat. Not sure we will get one this year as brother isn't here to help clean it and it's hard for us to handle it. I do all the butchering, and that's a chore, but well worth it..
 
Wish I had someone to kick my butt and tell me to get off of it today. My brain is trying to convince my body to get out and get busy on the leaves. After 4 hours of that yesterday, the body is winning the argument. Hubby is no help, he's such an enabler...okay, okay..here I go!

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Roomie inherited an HP Pavilion desktop computer from her nephew and is all giddy and begging me to set it up.

Now here's the problem - it was manufactured (or at least introduced) in 2001. That's almost 13 years ago, which in computer-time is like 13,000 years.

It's a 1 ghz processor (most today are over 3), it has 512mb max memory (although it's too slow so far to ascertain that it doesn't in fact have the standard 128mb) and it's running Windows ME.

My laptop's monitor is larger than what came with this thing.

I tried to update Explorer, just to have something to download Firefox with. I waited an hour for the update to take, only to have the system freeze up. Cold-start, wait, wait, wait ... then tried to download Firefox, which told me my system does not meet the minimum requirements.

Oh, this is going to be a fun evening ... :rolleyes:
 
SifuPhil said:
Roomie inherited an HP Pavilion desktop computer from her nephew and is all giddy and begging me to set it up.

Now here's the problem - it was manufactured (or at least introduced) in 2001. That's almost 13 years ago, which in computer-time is like 13,000 years.

It's a 1 ghz processor (most today are over 3), it has 512mb max memory (although it's too slow so far to ascertain that it doesn't in fact have the standard 128mb) and it's running Windows ME.

My laptop's monitor is larger than what came with this thing.

I tried to update Explorer, just to have something to download Firefox with. I waited an hour for the update to take, only to have the system freeze up. Cold-start, wait, wait, wait ... then tried to download Firefox, which told me my system does not meet the minimum requirements.

Oh, this is going to be a fun evening ... :rolleyes:
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Thx, bud, sorry for your stressful evening and we all know it will be one. But thx for the comparison of 14,000 yrs (tho true) that gave me a real lol, so needed. I'm in pain, another thread coming up.
 
You're lucky Phil: You will eventually be able to convince roomie that the task is impossible.

I have a friend with Vista on a laptop, who, at my insistence finally bought an external HDD for backups. Windows backups fail with an "access denied" message and a long number. No indication what caused the problem or to what access in denied. Nothing in the logs. Oh joy ...... :(

I'm looking for a reliable Windows backup program; if I can't find one, I'll write one using AutoIT to handle his task specifically. That will be fun too ..... ;)
 
dbeyat45 said:
You're lucky Phil: You will eventually be able to convince roomie that the task is impossible.

I have a friend with Vista on a laptop, who, at my insistence finally bought an external HDD for backups. Windows backups fail with an "access denied" message and a long number. No indication what caused the problem or to what access in denied. Nothing in the logs. Oh joy ...... :(

I'm looking for a reliable Windows backup program; if I can't find one, I'll write one using AutoIT to handle his task specifically. That will be fun too ..... ;)
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I think she just wants it to play games, but even at that I don't think she'll be able to play some of the Facebook ones that she loves so much - I just don't think the processor and the memory will be able to handle them. It's already a chore for my laptop.

I also saw that the standard HD for that model is something like 40Gb, and a quick look at her program list shows a ton of stuff I'd have to get rid of to free up some space.

If I had the money I'd just buy her a new one. Maybe Santa will hear my plea ...

Maybe if we all switched over to Linux our problems would be solved, eh? :D
 
Didn't get to work on the leaves yesterday as it turned out to be too windy for blowing them...oh, darn!

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow, is my motto..well, it's tomorrow and no excuses apparent, there's no wind, just a still aching body from two days ago...oh, darn!
 
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